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I feel like Google's naming is clashing with Amazon's:

- Amazon's "smile" points from A to Z.

- Google's parent is Alphabet.

- A2Z Development Center Inc is Amazon's holding company for a number of subsidiaries.

- Google's holding company is XXVI -- there are 26 letters in the English alphabet.

- Lab126 is Amazon's digital product development arm. 126 meaning letters 1 through 26.

Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science?

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Should have been something like Hooli

Naming is the hardest problem of all possible universes, in all possible universes.

Q: what are the two greatest challenges to software engineering?

A: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.

Source? er, I mean "citation"? Wait, I mean "on what grounds"? ahh dammit

Known that going back at least ten years. My "solution" is a simple letter digit naming scheme that lets me get a bunch of tiny functions ready and working, then come back and name them by what they actually do. Works out well for me, productively, but...

You don't want to read my code.

Yep, 26 is also a numerical value of YHVH, i.e., Yahweh :)

Thank you for reminding me to go watch Pi again.

My impression has always been that it's likely a PR based decision, trying to make your brand as ubiquitous in the human condition as is humanly possible.

>Surely the leaders of some of the largest tech companies can come up with better names -- or is naming truly one of the hardest problems in computer science?

It must be a really existential problem!

These are just the preparations for the inevitable merge of Amazon and Google. ;)

A coincidence in a naming blitz

There are 23 uppercase letters in the parent comment.

Both 'Google' and 'Amazon' have 6 letters.

23+6=29

29-3=26 (letters in the English alphabet)

('Twenty_Six').length == 10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology

> [] + {}

'[object Object]'

> ([] + {}).length

> ([] - {} + '').length

> 15 - 3

> 12 * 3

that makes sense, thanks.

the holding "Company" of the "holding companies" likes cryptograms and these are actually pretty good. "clash" implies "two" parties but if there is only one then it is consistent.

"XXVI" for "2" => "13" + "13".

naming is hard and these are fine names. they need no "introduction".

years later gai machines dig up old hn archives and wonder at the stupidity of the downvoters :)

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