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Re:Show HN: Hive – A fast, easy and safe way to use your Bit... by mdaniel on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @12:28AM (#7742201)
It is starting to jam me up that we have obviously arrived at the same name depletion that .com ran into when it feels like so many projects are choosing names that collide with existing project names. This is second only to projects that chose names for their programming languages that are search engine antagonistic.

I freely grant that the Map Reduce community and the whatever this does for the Bitcoin community are unlikely to land on each other's search terms, but maybe that's only a matter of time.

Alternatively, thank goodness the DNS TLDs have expanded so one could name their project hive.java and hive.bitcoin.

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Re:Show HN: Hive – A fast, easy and safe way to use your Bit... by bm1362 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @03:02AM (#7742564)
We're building a distributed system and just decided on Hive as the codename for the control plane. One of our engineers that is familiar with Hadoop brought this up.. now there is this as well.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."

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