Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by josephjrobison on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:39PM
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Should have been something like Hooli
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by tpeo on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:33PM
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Naming is the hardest problem of all possible universes, in all possible universes.
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by thrownblown on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:00PM
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Q: what are the two greatest challenges to software engineering?
A: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by athom on Saturday September 02, 2017 @12:36AM
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Known that going back at least ten years. My "solution" is a simple letter digit naming scheme that lets me get a bunch of tiny functions ready and working, then come back and name them by what they actually do. Works out well for me, productively, but...
You don't want to read my code.
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by ccvannorman on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:13PM
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Source? er, I mean "citation"? Wait, I mean "on what grounds"? ahh dammit
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by goptimize on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:22PM
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Yep, 26 is also a numerical value of YHVH, i.e., Yahweh :)
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by SuperPaintMan on Saturday September 02, 2017 @02:08AM
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Thank you for reminding me to go watch Pi again.
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by LMYahooTFY on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:05AM
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My impression has always been that it's likely a PR based decision, trying to make your brand as ubiquitous in the human condition as is humanly possible.
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by baybal2 on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:46AM
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>Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science?
It must be a really existential problem!
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by Dunedan on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:02PM
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These are just the preparations for the inevitable merge of Amazon and Google. ;)
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by ronilan on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:35PM
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A coincidence in a naming blitz
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by drewmol on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:27AM
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There are 23 uppercase letters in the parent comment.
Both 'Google' and 'Amazon' have 6 letters.
23+6=29
29-3=26 (letters in the English alphabet)
('Twenty_Six').length == 10
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by noway421 on Saturday September 02, 2017 @07:29AM
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> [] + {}
'[object Object]'
> ([] + {}).length
15
> ([] - {} + '').length
3
> 15 - 3
12
> 12 * 3
26
that makes sense, thanks.
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by tasty-fajita on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:34PM
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the holding "Company" of the "holding companies" likes cryptograms and these are actually pretty good. "clash" implies "two" parties but if there is only one then it is consistent.
"XXVI" for "2" => "13" + "13".
naming is hard and these are fine names. they need no "introduction".
Re:Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company
by tasty-fajita on Sunday September 03, 2017 @12:03AM
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years later gai machines dig up old hn archives and wonder at the stupidity of the downvoters :)
- Amazon's "smile" points from A to Z.
- Google's parent is Alphabet.
- A2Z Development Center Inc is Amazon's holding company for a number of subsidiaries.
- Google's holding company is XXVI -- there are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
- Lab126 is Amazon's digital product development arm. 126 meaning letters 1 through 26.
Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science?