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Re:Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs by kbenson on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:03PM (#18667742)
> Alternate between vowels and consonants, look for the resulting string in various search engines, the first one that gets no results is the new name.

I'm pretty sure the quote was originally talking about function, variable and data structure naming, in which Google may or may not be help. Really, I've always found naming problems in that are more to do with correctly predicting the future, since the most egregious problems I encounter are when something that used to be named at least passably has changed over time to be very confusingly, if not outright misleadingly, named.

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Re:Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs by PavlovsCat on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:21PM (#18667871)
If you don't know what to name a variable, name it something like _whatisthisreplacemelater_ so if you ever come up with a good name, you can easily replace it. What could go wrong, right? Just an easy fix for later today..
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