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croeslast Monday at 5:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

Then google the names and look what comes up.

Without additional search terms you get the wrong results.

A word that is already used in computer is a bad name.

And with AI it won’t get better. Ambiguity is a source of confusion and mistakes.

By your logic pull/push/main are also great names.

One main purpose of a name is distinguishability.


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treexslast Monday at 6:28 PM

If you google Cursor they dominate the whole first page

Surely they have a chance of doing it again with Origin

skeledrewyesterday at 4:26 AM

> Without additional search terms you get the wrong results.

Until the entity becomes popular enough, like I just searched for "stripe" and all visible results were about the payment company.