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I feel like Google's naming is clashing with Amazon's: - Amazon's "smile" points from A to Z. - Google's parent is Alphabet. - A2Z Development Center Inc is

I feel like Google's naming is clashing with Amazon's: - Amazon's "smile" points from A to Z. - Google's parent is Alphabet. - A2Z Development Center Inc is Amazon's holding company for a number of subsidiaries. - Google's holding company is XXVI -- there are 26 letters in the English alphabet. - Lab126 is Amazon's digital product development arm. 126 meaning letters 1 through 26. Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science?

goptimize 9y ago
Yep, 26 is also a numerical value of YHVH, i.e., Yahweh :)
- SuperPaintMan 9y ago
  Thank you for reminding me to go watch Pi again.
tasty-fajita 9y ago
the holding "Company" of the "holding companies" likes cryptograms and these are actually pretty good. "clash" implies "two" parties but if there is only one then it is consistent. "XXVI" for "2" => "13" + "13". naming is hard and these are fine names. they need no "introduction".
- tasty-fajita 9y ago
  years later gai machines dig up old hn archives and wonder at the stupidity of the downvoters :)
josephjrobison 9y ago
Should have been something like Hooli
- iamatroll_ama 9y ago
  Pied Piper!
tpeo 9y ago
Naming is the hardest problem of all possible universes, in all possible universes.
- thrownblown 9y ago
  Q: what are the two greatest challenges to software engineering? A: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.
  - thrownblown 9y ago
    ya'll need to learn how to take a joke. i suggest Comedy Night: http://store.steampowered.com/app/665360/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/665360/
- ccvannorman 9y ago
  Source? er, I mean "citation"? Wait, I mean "on what grounds"? ahh dammit
- athom 9y ago
  Known that going back at least ten years. My "solution" is a simple letter digit naming scheme that lets me get a bunch of tiny functions ready and working, then come back and name them by what they actually do. Works out well for me, productively, but... You don't want to read my code.
ronilan 9y ago
A coincidence in a naming blitz
drewmol 9y ago
There are 23 uppercase letters in the parent comment. Both 'Google' and 'Amazon' have 6 letters. 23+6=29 29-3=26 (letters in the English alphabet) ('Twenty_Six').length == 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
- noway421 9y ago
  > [] + {} '[object Object]' > ([] + {}).length 15 > ([] - {} + '').length 3 > 15 - 3 12 > 12 * 3 26 that makes sense, thanks.
baybal2 9y ago
>Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science? It must be a really existential problem!
LMYahooTFY 9y ago
My impression has always been that it's likely a PR based decision, trying to make your brand as ubiquitous in the human condition as is humanly possible.
Dunedan 9y ago
These are just the preparations for the inevitable merge of Amazon and Google. ;)

goptimize 9y ago

Yep, 26 is also a numerical value of YHVH, i.e., Yahweh :)

SuperPaintMan 9y ago
Thank you for reminding me to go watch Pi again.

tasty-fajita 9y ago

the holding "Company" of the "holding companies" likes cryptograms and these are actually pretty good. "clash" implies "two" parties but if there is only one then it is consistent. "XXVI" for "2" => "13" + "13". naming is hard and these are fine names. they need no "introduction".

tasty-fajita 9y ago
years later gai machines dig up old hn archives and wonder at the stupidity of the downvoters :)

josephjrobison 9y ago

Should have been something like Hooli

iamatroll_ama 9y ago
Pied Piper!

tpeo 9y ago

Naming is the hardest problem of all possible universes, in all possible universes.

thrownblown 9y ago
Q: what are the two greatest challenges to software engineering? A: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.
- thrownblown 9y ago
  ya'll need to learn how to take a joke. i suggest Comedy Night: http://store.steampowered.com/app/665360/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/665360/
ccvannorman 9y ago
Source? er, I mean "citation"? Wait, I mean "on what grounds"? ahh dammit
athom 9y ago
Known that going back at least ten years. My "solution" is a simple letter digit naming scheme that lets me get a bunch of tiny functions ready and working, then come back and name them by what they actually do. Works out well for me, productively, but... You don't want to read my code.

ronilan 9y ago

A coincidence in a naming blitz

drewmol 9y ago

There are 23 uppercase letters in the parent comment. Both 'Google' and 'Amazon' have 6 letters. 23+6=29 29-3=26 (letters in the English alphabet) ('Twenty_Six').length == 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology

noway421 9y ago
> [] + {} '[object Object]' > ([] + {}).length 15 > ([] - {} + '').length 3 > 15 - 3 12 > 12 * 3 26 that makes sense, thanks.

baybal2 9y ago

>Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science? It must be a really existential problem!

LMYahooTFY 9y ago

My impression has always been that it's likely a PR based decision, trying to make your brand as ubiquitous in the human condition as is humanly possible.

Dunedan 9y ago

These are just the preparations for the inevitable merge of Amazon and Google. ;)