Why We Chose Redshift

Re:Why We Chose Redshift by edwintorok on Friday March 27, 2015 @02:29PM (#9278185)

The title should say 'Amazon Redshift'. At first I thought its going to be about redshift vs f.lux: http://jonls.dk/redshift/

Edit: Why the downvote? redshift (and flux) exist since before 2010, whereas Amazon Redshift got introduced just in 2012. I think it is reasonable to assume that someone who has never heard of Amazon Redshift would think of the open source project first (that exists in various distributions as packages), and not the Amazon service.

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by untog on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:10PM (#9278409)

If we took a poll I suspect the majority would be thinking of the Amazon service - I know I was. The date the projects were introduced isn't necessarily relevant.

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by O____________O on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:23PM (#9278479)

The UI colorizer is what I thought of immediately, too.

If we took a poll I suspect the majority would be thinking of the Amazon service

That's just personal projection, and is as irrelevant as an argument beginning with, "I think most people would agree that..."

Personally, regardless of Amazon vs UI hack, I'm really tired of ambiguous naming in tech projects.

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by chc on Friday March 27, 2015 @04:22PM (#9278757)

I'm much more tired of comments on ambiguous naming. There are at least two other people in my city who have my name, and many more who share either my first or last name. Somehow life goes on and this is not a topic of major controversy. But when two pieces of software have similar names, people just can't resist commenting endlessly and upvoting this content-free bikeshedding at the expense of actual discussion.

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by O____________O on Friday March 27, 2015 @11:09PM (#9280344)

There are at least two other people in my city who have my name

I'm presented with information to parse about technology topics daily. Sometimes, I have to search for them and have all sorts of name collisions.

I never, ever search for information about you.

people just can't resist commenting endlessly and upvoting this content-free bikeshedding at the expense of actual discussion

One man's bike shedding is another thousand men's irritating trend. Personally, I very rarely see anyone called out for the trendy names and awful, buzzword-laden non-descriptions that infest projects.

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by jakobegger on Friday March 27, 2015 @05:03PM (#9278979)

Yes! Especially when people use an existing word like 'redshift' as their product name. (It seems to be a popular choice! I remember there also was this astronomy software for the Mac called Redshift.)

Of course, it gets even more ridiculous as the words get more common, eg see recent discussions about 'Paper' or 'Layout'

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by ajkjk on Saturday March 28, 2015 @01:00AM (#9280566)

It's not 'just' personal projection, nor irrelevant, if accurate. Obviously you'd have to run the experiment to find out for sure, but it's not meaningless to contribute "I would expect anyone I know to think of Amazon's Redshift first". For someone who doesn't know that others feel the opposite definition is the 'default', it might be useful to find out.

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by cheshire137 on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:27PM (#9278499)

Same here, since I was recently using Redshift on an Ubuntu laptop after coming from F.lux on my Mac. Never heard of Amazon Redshift.

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by meritt on Friday March 27, 2015 @05:35PM (#9279172)

Because why would a company make a blog post on what color adjuster their company uses, and if they did, why would anyone care?

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by Crito on Friday March 27, 2015 @06:21PM (#9279422)

Far weirder things have been blogged about before.

Not to mention that if you are not already familiar with the company, you probably would not know what sort of blog it was just by looking at what was presented on the HN frontpage. Could have been some random joe-schmoes blog.

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by argonaut on Friday March 27, 2015 @06:45PM (#9279533)

FWIW, I didn't downvote you but you're also kind of hijacking the discussion (especially since this comment is the top comment and it really shouldn't be).

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by gurkendoktor on Saturday March 28, 2015 @02:25AM (#9280672)

But what can the grandparent poster do? It would be better if a mod could rename the post and delete this subthread.

(I also came here expecting to read something about the f.lux competitor :) )

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Re:Why We Chose Redshift by argonaut on Thursday April 02, 2015 @07:49PM (#9313845)

He/she can downvote the post. Which is the point.

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