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Why do people incessantly complain about this? It's by far the lowest brow complaint I've ever seen about anything - "some hypothetical person might not be able

Why do people incessantly complain about this? It's by far the lowest brow complaint I've ever seen about anything - "some hypothetical person might not be able to Google". Note they're never complaining on their own behalf because they have the OP's link. So it's a case of "won't someone please think of the poor Googler". In 20 years of googling there is only one project I had a hard time googling (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/390016.808445 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/390016.808445). It does not happen.

lovelyviking 5y ago
>Why do people incessantly complain about this? May be because number of those names grows and it's becoming overwhelming? >"some hypothetical person" It's not hypothetical person I constantly stumble on strange names and frequently in context where I do not care how it is called as long as I know what function it performs (even approximately). And strange names appear more and more and the main question I have usually: What is it? What it does?. The same happens with web sites for new products. With all great slogans like "It will improve your productivity" and similar sentences I am not interested to read it's lacking one mention of what it actually does and what it's all about. Thus the idea to use prefix-Name format in descriptions. What do you think about that idea? Would it improve educational function? Would it be easier to understand then searching for the term?
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zem 5y ago
I remember having trouble googling for examples of Nice and Clean code back when I was interested in those languages, because even adding "programming" and similar to the mix wasn't really helpful. but that was also a while ago, google has gotten better at contextual keywords since.
- throwaway81523 5y ago
  * https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nice+programming+language https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nice+programming+language * https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clean+programming+language https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clean+programming+language Both get language pages on the first hit past the ads.
  - zem 5y ago
    yes, but (a) that is now; the languages themselves had their heyday when search engines were a lot less good, and (b) it wasn't finding the language homepage itself that was hard, it was finding third party pages with code examples, blog posts etc.
    - tubby12345 5y ago
      >yes, but (a) that is now As far as I can tell the complaint is being made now, not 10 years ago. But maybe I'm wrong and actually I've woken up in the past - please let me know if that's the case.
jonathanstrange 5y ago
It can matter. One thing that is hard to impossible to Google is Alonzo Church's early 1970s paper on an hyperintensional logic he called LSD.
- tubby12345 5y ago
  https://www.google.com/search?q=Alonzo+Church+Logic+of+Sense+and+Denotation https://www.google.com/search?q=Alonzo+Church+Logic+of+Sense... Took me exactly two searches - one to figure out what lsd stood for (which I'm sure you knew, so you wouldn't have the same issue) and then one more to pull up the paper.

lovelyviking 5y ago

>Why do people incessantly complain about this? May be because number of those names grows and it's becoming overwhelming? >"some hypothetical person" It's not hypothetical person I constantly stumble on strange names and frequently in context where I do not care how it is called as long as I know what function it performs (even approximately). And strange names appear more and more and the main question I have usually: What is it? What it does?. The same happens with web sites for new products. With all great slogans like "It will improve your productivity" and similar sentences I am not interested to read it's lacking one mention of what it actually does and what it's all about. Thus the idea to use prefix-Name format in descriptions. What do you think about that idea? Would it improve educational function? Would it be easier to understand then searching for the term?

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zem 5y ago

I remember having trouble googling for examples of Nice and Clean code back when I was interested in those languages, because even adding "programming" and similar to the mix wasn't really helpful. but that was also a while ago, google has gotten better at contextual keywords since.

throwaway81523 5y ago
* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nice+programming+language https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nice+programming+language * https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clean+programming+language https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clean+programming+language Both get language pages on the first hit past the ads.
- zem 5y ago
  yes, but (a) that is now; the languages themselves had their heyday when search engines were a lot less good, and (b) it wasn't finding the language homepage itself that was hard, it was finding third party pages with code examples, blog posts etc.
  - tubby12345 5y ago
    >yes, but (a) that is now As far as I can tell the complaint is being made now, not 10 years ago. But maybe I'm wrong and actually I've woken up in the past - please let me know if that's the case.

jonathanstrange 5y ago

It can matter. One thing that is hard to impossible to Google is Alonzo Church's early 1970s paper on an hyperintensional logic he called LSD.

tubby12345 5y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=Alonzo+Church+Logic+of+Sense+and+Denotation https://www.google.com/search?q=Alonzo+Church+Logic+of+Sense... Took me exactly two searches - one to figure out what lsd stood for (which I'm sure you knew, so you wouldn't have the same issue) and then one more to pull up the paper.