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No, umami is a basic taste. Why can't people be more creative with finding good names? Salt? X? Yes, Apple is a terrible name too, but at least it was historic

No, umami is a basic taste. Why can't people be more creative with finding good names? Salt? X? Yes, Apple is a terrible name too, but at least it was historically called Apple Computers and only changed once they had a huge brand already.

rathish_g 2y ago
Urchin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_(software) Urchin Software Corp. was acquired by Google in April 2005, forming Google Analytics
- tnolet 2y ago
  yeah, funky how 20 years later the UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) query param is still the defacto standard tracking tag.
  - kevindamm 2y ago
    There was debate on the team back in ~2009 over changing the query params -- when you estimate how much bandwidth and disk is consumed per day at the scale of Analytics, just for the difference of a character or two on a handful of query params -- even well over a decade ago, it really was astounding. The migration would never be total, though, because more than a few users had copied the analytics script to their CDN or were in some way depending on a local fork of it. Some backwards compatibility would need to be maintained, perhaps for as long as the product exists. For this and other reasons, changing the params (and supporting both, indefinitely) wasn't pursued.
SethMurphy 2y ago
Urchin, the software name of the precursor to GA, has an umami flavor. I find the naming quite clever and easy to remember.
- knowknow 2y ago
  Are you remembering the name because you’re remembering the tool or just the flavor? I don’t think hijacking a well known term makes it memorable.
  - SethMurphy 2y ago
    I recognize the reference because of the tool. I remember the name because it's simple. The flavor itself is irrelevant in my thought process.
satvikpendem 2y ago
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

rathish_g 2y ago

Urchin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urchin_(software) Urchin Software Corp. was acquired by Google in April 2005, forming Google Analytics

tnolet 2y ago
yeah, funky how 20 years later the UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) query param is still the defacto standard tracking tag.
- kevindamm 2y ago
  There was debate on the team back in ~2009 over changing the query params -- when you estimate how much bandwidth and disk is consumed per day at the scale of Analytics, just for the difference of a character or two on a handful of query params -- even well over a decade ago, it really was astounding. The migration would never be total, though, because more than a few users had copied the analytics script to their CDN or were in some way depending on a local fork of it. Some backwards compatibility would need to be maintained, perhaps for as long as the product exists. For this and other reasons, changing the params (and supporting both, indefinitely) wasn't pursued.

SethMurphy 2y ago

Urchin, the software name of the precursor to GA, has an umami flavor. I find the naming quite clever and easy to remember.

knowknow 2y ago
Are you remembering the name because you’re remembering the tool or just the flavor? I don’t think hijacking a well known term makes it memorable.
- SethMurphy 2y ago
  I recognize the reference because of the tool. I remember the name because it's simple. The flavor itself is irrelevant in my thought process.

satvikpendem 2y ago

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html