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what's up with all the renaming? Sounds like a nightmare for the codebase & services or do the eng team just keep the old name internally?
by kwu777 5y ago
what's up with all the renaming? Sounds like a nightmare for the codebase & services or do the eng team just keep the old name internally?
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoProgrammers rarely change codebase names when corporate names change - it has a huge cost for almost no benefit. That's why so many of Apple's Objective-C class names start with NS - which is for NextStep, the company Apple acquired in the mid 90s.
- baybal2 5y agoI would say I find a patter of meaningless name changes much more prevalent in "enterprise software" circles.
- willcipriano 5y agoFind and replace wouldn't be that bad with 'Square' I feel like, I don't think you use the word 'Square' too often while programming, if the company was named ';' or 'def' then id just find another job.
- brockwhittaker 5y agoit's never as easy as find-and-replace :)
- iso8859-1 5y agoYou use square all the time if doing linear algebra or geometry. ;)