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Re:Names should be cute, not descriptive by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:26AM (#34321615)
I have the opposite problem as a recent new hire: when "cute" project names show up in a conversation, it signals something company-specific I need to learn about. When descriptive project names are used (especially if the projects are using really generic one or two word names like "routing-service"), it is harder to realize that people are talking about an implementation of a concept rather than a well-known concept.
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Re:Names should be cute, not descriptive by mattigames on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:13AM (#34323619)
This is basically by fast the best argument to use cute names over some main components, and by "main" I mean when there are few of them, less than a dozen or so.

An old name made of well-known technical words can easily suggest a level of complexity much smaller than what it has evolved into and therefore developers -specially new devs- should look it up instead of assuming what it does based on potentially misleading namings.

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Re:Names should be cute, not descriptive by leeches on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:02AM (#34324181)
Solved with company name or product name prefixes, like “discord-routing-service”
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Re:Names should be cute, not descriptive by ghostpepper on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @11:35AM (#34327430)
except nobody at discord would ever call it "discord routing service" in a conversation with other discord employees
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Re:Names should be cute, not descriptive by sirsinsalot on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:19PM (#34330058)
Handily, DRS and other D-prefix acronyms are easy to spot, hear, use and map to useful names.
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Re:Names should be cute, not descriptive by hooverd on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:24AM (#34326193)
What's not to understand about the account-provider-router-service? It's key to the business-data-sync service. We're working on a new account-provider-aggregator to replace it though.
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Re:Names should be cute, not descriptive by atom_arranger on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:32AM (#34335722)
I tend to jump to the opposite conclusion. If a name is cute I assume it’s something open source, named for marketing or SEO. If a name is descriptive I assume it’s probably internal.
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