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The name is taken https://impala.apache.org/ https://impala.apache.org/ . Both are "distributed and scalable".

by ysleepy 9y ago

LaPrometheus 9y ago
This is typical Google/DeepMind ignorance. The rest of the world is non-exist.
- jwilbs 9y ago
  Ignorance, or arrogance? I find it hard to believe that devs at the caliber Google employs are ignorant of existing software, especially when it's in the same (or related) domain.
- krisives 9y ago
  I believe it started with Golang, where Go was already an existing language by a hobbyist - granted nobody was using it kinda lame to steal his name.
  - visarga 9y ago
    Go was taken by ancient China before that.
    - nielsbot 9y ago
      maybe the game itself but the name is derived from Japanese, fairly recently
  - nl 9y ago
    While I agree with the other two, I remember when Golang came out and no one except the author of the other Go language had ever heard of it.
- CardenB 9y ago
  First Flume and now this. Flume is a map reduce framework at google and it is also the same name as a product by apache.
tanilama 9y ago
There are like 10 projects called themselves Aurora. Naming clash is nothing new, and can someone really claim a word or phrase as taken?
- akvadrako 9y ago
  It doesn't matter if you "claim" it, but it's still confusing and harder to search for.
trengrj 9y ago
I'm starting to this we need namespaces for open source projects so we could refer to deep-learning:impala and database:impala. The java reverse domain name notation does handle this to a degree but I feel something could be done in this area to make the naming issue easier.
visarga 9y ago
"Impala" != "IMPALA", and the domain is very different: "distributed database" vs "RL agent with game zoo", nobody's going to meet one in the same space as the other, to create confusion.
- nl 9y ago
  Err, I worked in a place that was using Spark-SQL (which is an Apache Impala competitor) and was doing deep learning (if not RL).

The name is taken https://impala.apache.org/ https://impala.apache.org/ . Both are "distributed and scalable".

LaPrometheus 9y ago

This is typical Google/DeepMind ignorance. The rest of the world is non-exist.

jwilbs 9y ago
Ignorance, or arrogance? I find it hard to believe that devs at the caliber Google employs are ignorant of existing software, especially when it's in the same (or related) domain.
krisives 9y ago
I believe it started with Golang, where Go was already an existing language by a hobbyist - granted nobody was using it kinda lame to steal his name.
- visarga 9y ago
  Go was taken by ancient China before that.
  - nielsbot 9y ago
    maybe the game itself but the name is derived from Japanese, fairly recently
- nl 9y ago
  While I agree with the other two, I remember when Golang came out and no one except the author of the other Go language had ever heard of it.
CardenB 9y ago
First Flume and now this. Flume is a map reduce framework at google and it is also the same name as a product by apache.

tanilama 9y ago

There are like 10 projects called themselves Aurora. Naming clash is nothing new, and can someone really claim a word or phrase as taken?

akvadrako 9y ago
It doesn't matter if you "claim" it, but it's still confusing and harder to search for.

trengrj 9y ago

I'm starting to this we need namespaces for open source projects so we could refer to deep-learning:impala and database:impala. The java reverse domain name notation does handle this to a degree but I feel something could be done in this area to make the naming issue easier.

visarga 9y ago

"Impala" != "IMPALA", and the domain is very different: "distributed database" vs "RL agent with game zoo", nobody's going to meet one in the same space as the other, to create confusion.

nl 9y ago
Err, I worked in a place that was using Spark-SQL (which is an Apache Impala competitor) and was doing deep learning (if not RL).