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Did you feel there were not enough projects out there already named carbon? Jesus, at least change the name. Carbon is [already a thing](https://github.com/gra
by fake-name 8y ago
Did you feel there were not enough projects out there already named carbon?
Jesus, at least change the name. Carbon is [already a thing](https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon).
- tazard 8y agoTo me Carbon makes sense, since it's like a 'carbon copy' of the code. Most project names are not unique words. And I for one have a hard time picking names for projects. Just curious, but what would you think would be a better name for this project?
- fake-name 8y agoAnything, as long as it has < 100 google results. At least, plonk the project name into the github search, and see if there are existing projects using exactly that name. I found at least EIGHT other projects with more then 100 stars already named "carbon". At least one of them is VERY widely used (carbon, which is the time-series backend for graphite). Basically, you're actively making life harder for users when you decide to name-collide with existing active projects.
- marmaduke 8y agoIt would be interesting if Google providing away to search for unlikely phrases. Maybe their data structures would allow some sort of direct enumeration based on inverse tf-idf.
- jwilk 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619342