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Just letting you know SPADE is the name of pretty well known algorithm for frequent sequence mining https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Data_Mining_Algorithms_In_R

• analognoise 5y ago
  Just letting you know, it's also the name of a pretty well known gardening/farming implement that humanity has been using for thousands of years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade
  • slightknack 5y ago
    Just letting you know, it's also the name of a pretty well-known suit of cards present in decks of playing cards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spades_(suit) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spades_(suit)
    • DaltonCoffee 5y ago
      Just letting you know Ace of Spades is a great motorhead song. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(song) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(song)
      • kroltan 5y ago
        Just letting you know Ace of Spades was really cool voxel-based shooter game that was later remade in a terrible commercial version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(video_game) (And of course, it has modern community ports https://www.buildandshoot.com/ https://www.buildandshoot.com/)
    • sparkie 5y ago
      Just letting you know, it's also a very derogatory racist term. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spade https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spade
  • gota 5y ago
    It's worth knowing that the name you chose for something is used in something (midly) related - being aware let's you disambiguate if/when the need arises. I was not suggesting a name change. That said - please don't turn HN into reddit. Joke chains detract and distract from the topic
    • analognoise 5y ago
      I consider it meta commentary at some point - nobody can show off anything without hearing of unrelated, obscure projects. I was hoping the sarcasm would lead to some larger discussion of naming collisions. The sarcasm was to simply point out that this name already has a tremendous naming collision, with a farming implement we've been using for thousands of years - you can't get any more ridiculous than that. I think when it comes to naming collisions, we should call a spade a spade, after all...
  • rizky05 5y ago