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Yes, Wayland is pretty good. https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/wayland-middlesex-ma/rankings/ https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/wayland-middlesex-ma/ra..

Yes, Wayland is pretty good. https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/wayland-middlesex-ma/rankings/ https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/wayland-middlesex-ma/ra... Unfortunately the whole Linux display thing has rather confounded searches about the town. Any open source contributors who live here are probably mildly annoyed. Why don't then name projects the way Amazon sellers name products, with a semi-random agglomeration of letters instead of taking a perfectly sensible name that is already in use. Would you call your display driver brooklyn?

arcanemachiner 3y ago
I propose a committee that allocates sets of random letters on a first-come-first-serve basis. That way, we will not suffer the undue burden of having multiple names for things. The name of this committee shall be 'mvphjguq'. Not only is the name unlikely to collide with any existing place names, it is nigh unpronounceable! And because it is only 8 letters long, it is easy to remember, while also having a 1 in 26^8 chance of having a collision with another randomly generated value (although we can check for collisions before dispensing new names).
- jakedata 3y ago
  Are you serious or doubling down on my -3 so far sarcasm? Hacker News hates sarcasm.
  - arcanemachiner 3y ago
    Not serious, but you definitely out-sarcasm'ed me.
fifteen1506 3y ago
We used to have cool names like gaim or something. Then stupid trademarks started going after names whose substrings matched the trademark and no-one wanting to avoid a heartattack chose again original names.
zzdzz 3y ago
Sorry, where along the Amazon can I find these sellers? It’s a pretty long river.
acomjean 3y ago
I asked in a older post why all these tools are named after Massachusetts towns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162597
kaba0 3y ago
It was literally named that way because the guy who created it had the enlightening idea for the protocol on that very road. We only have so many easily pronounceable, short syllable-combinations, if all we do is moan about that, that’s not really useful.. there are bad names, like completely unsearchable, or copying the name of an alternative project in a very similar niche. But otherwise, free game.

arcanemachiner 3y ago

I propose a committee that allocates sets of random letters on a first-come-first-serve basis. That way, we will not suffer the undue burden of having multiple names for things. The name of this committee shall be 'mvphjguq'. Not only is the name unlikely to collide with any existing place names, it is nigh unpronounceable! And because it is only 8 letters long, it is easy to remember, while also having a 1 in 26^8 chance of having a collision with another randomly generated value (although we can check for collisions before dispensing new names).

jakedata 3y ago
Are you serious or doubling down on my -3 so far sarcasm? Hacker News hates sarcasm.
- arcanemachiner 3y ago
  Not serious, but you definitely out-sarcasm'ed me.

fifteen1506 3y ago

We used to have cool names like gaim or something. Then stupid trademarks started going after names whose substrings matched the trademark and no-one wanting to avoid a heartattack chose again original names.

zzdzz 3y ago

Sorry, where along the Amazon can I find these sellers? It’s a pretty long river.

acomjean 3y ago

I asked in a older post why all these tools are named after Massachusetts towns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162597

kaba0 3y ago

It was literally named that way because the guy who created it had the enlightening idea for the protocol on that very road. We only have so many easily pronounceable, short syllable-combinations, if all we do is moan about that, that’s not really useful.. there are bad names, like completely unsearchable, or copying the name of an alternative project in a very similar niche. But otherwise, free game.