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I would love software developers stopping their use of names of real things for their software apps. It is so confusing. It is like they have material world en
by Htsthbjig 12y ago
I would love software developers stopping their use of names of real things for their software apps. It is so confusing.
It is like they have material world envy or something.
Graphite is already something very common. It makes it hard for people to search in a search engine, and in headlines like this it confuses the hell out of normal people.
I graph lots of things using graphite powder.
- nodata 12y agoCould you give us a few examples of a better name?
- monista 12y agoGraphit, Graf(f)it, Grapheme, Graphol (graph-all), Graspit(e), Graphograph (as in tool to graph a graph :)
- tvmalsv 12y agoThat's kind of how a lot of new products are named, in and out of tech. It can be difficult to create a new word that's agreeable in the way it sounds, and preferably carries a little meaning tied to the product. The search engine issue is a very real problem, I agree. Like in the early days of the Go programming language. Eventually the indexes got better, especially if you gave a little more context to the search (ie. "http client libraries for go"). And, of course, learning early on that it was going to be a known problem so I started using golang in my searches.
- rytis 12y agoIt is quite difficult to come up with a good catchy name that has no meaning in the real world, and yet is easy to memorize. Having said that, I agree with you (and don't understand why people were down-voting, you make a perfectly valid point?). I had real trouble a while back searching how to use "chef knife" and how to write "chef recipes".