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Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by analognoise on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:19PM (#29948189)
Just letting you know, it's also the name of a pretty well known gardening/farming implement that humanity has been using for thousands of years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spade

Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by gota on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:45PM (#29948444)
It's worth knowing that the name you chose for something is used in something (midly) related - being aware let's you disambiguate if/when the need arises. I was not suggesting a name change.

That said - please don't turn HN into reddit. Joke chains detract and distract from the topic

Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by analognoise on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:16PM (#29949267)
I consider it meta commentary at some point - nobody can show off anything without hearing of unrelated, obscure projects.

I was hoping the sarcasm would lead to some larger discussion of naming collisions. The sarcasm was to simply point out that this name already has a tremendous naming collision, with a farming implement we've been using for thousands of years - you can't get any more ridiculous than that.

I think when it comes to naming collisions, we should call a spade a spade, after all...

Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by slightknack on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:33PM (#29948346)
Just letting you know, it's also the name of a pretty well-known suit of cards present in decks of playing cards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spades_(suit)

Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by DaltonCoffee on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:45PM (#29948436)
Just letting you know Ace of Spades is a great motorhead song.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(song)

Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by kroltan on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:20PM (#29948792)
Just letting you know Ace of Spades was really cool voxel-based shooter game that was later remade in a terrible commercial version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(video_game)

(And of course, it has modern community ports https://www.buildandshoot.com/)

Re:Show HN: Spade, A simple programming language with a TUI IDE by sparkie on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:20PM (#29948791)
Just letting you know, it's also a very derogatory racist term.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spade