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What is Flat V8? This isn't a problem isolated with your website, but it seems to be almost impossible to get a clear description of a product from any website
by robmcm 10y ago
What is Flat V8?
This isn't a problem isolated with your website, but it seems to be almost impossible to get a clear description of a product from any website other than Wikipedia these days.
Currently I'm assuming it's either a non carbonated vegetable juice, or some kind of horizontally scaled node implementation.
- robmcm 10y agoOK, from the non blog site: > Use the easiest tool to create sheet music collaboratively V8 is just version 8, nothing to do with JavaScript engines :)
- rannoup 10y agoYou're right, the blog need to be updated :) you're not the first one to highlight the "V8" misunderstanding. Will definitely call the 9 "V9.0" :)
- mason55 10y agoYou misunderstand. For V9 it won't matter, there's only confusion because "V8" already evokes other meaning. I don't think "V9" has the same issues.
- js2 10y agoJust using lower-cased v8 would've eliminated much confusion.
- na85 10y agoIt's been a trend for a while, now. Instead of using something that is intuitive like "gcc" for GNU Compiler Collection, everyone just picks a random word that is only slightly a propos and then calls their product by that obscure name. I'm going to launch a Web app using monads-as-a-service built with docker and emscripten and deployed via packmule.io that will translate all these stupid names to actually-useful definitions. I'll call it Language.
- Brendinooo 10y agoI'm guessing you wouldn't name a computer company "Apple", a search engine "Google", or a shopping site "Amazon"? gcc isn't particularly intuitive anyways; you have to learn what the acronym is, then you have to learn what another acronym is, and then after you learn what a recursive acronym is, you realize you have to research further to understand what it means...
- na85 10y agoYou're mistaking the ease of comprehension with the ease of recall. Do you think I'll remember what Flat is in 8 months? Nope. You can bet the first time I learned about GCC I remembered what it stood for, though. Same goes for things like ALSA. That is a descriptive name that's easy to pronounce. Meanwhile I'm trying to remember the difference between Square, Stripe, and Box. One of them is a payment processor and which one is it again? The difference with Apple and Google is that they have massive advertising budgets to overcome that obstacle.
- paublyrne 10y agoWell Flat is a musical reference in this case so it's not far out. This is also a blog post rather than a press release as such.
- yitchelle 10y agoI actually thought one of the car manufacturers had released a evolutionary version of the V8 car engines...
- elorant 10y agoI though it was some variation of Google's V8 JavaScript engine.
- Mahn 10y agoHow to read half the posts that make it to the frontpage on HN: 1. Click on the link on HN. 2. Click on the logo/header of the page to go to their main site. If that fails, remove "blog." from the url. 3. Read what the thing actually is about. 4. Go back to the original link and read it (or alternatively just ignore it and comment about the thing itself on HN).
- davidgerard 10y agoEven that doesn't work in this case ...
- gierschv 10y agoThanks for the feedback, we changed the link of the logo + signup links to the homepage ;-)
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- gierschv 10y agoThanks for the comment, we added an intro to this blog post: > For those who don't know Flat (https://flat.io https://flat.io), welcome and here is a quick recap for you. We launched our startup on January 2015. We developed a collaborative platform for composing and editing music scores. Our product is designed for musicians from all around the world, but also for music teachers who can use it with their classes. We aim at changing the way you can learn, teach and make music today. Our answer is Flat and this is the story of the release of the 8th version of our platform. Moreover we have plans to rework our blog ;-)
- sitkack 10y ago> Flat is a collaborative platform for composing and editing music scores.
- importantbrian 10y agoThis is why I almost always check the comments on HN before reading the article. A shocking number of times I can figure out what the article is about faster reading the HN comments than I can from reading the article. Do schools not teach the old thesis, body, conclusion method anymore?
- VOYD 10y agoActually, I thought their website did a great job describing what the product was, especially compared to all the magical node/js* sites out there.