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"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." (Phil Karlton) Amusing that along with this, there are two articles about caches on the front page of HN right now.
Remember when .NET came out? Everything was .NET. As a result, no-one really had any idea what .NET actually was. Eventually we figured out it was "Microsoft's Java". Windows also went through a phase in which seemingly everything was Windows.
"We put the dot in dot-com" - ??? - I think they got scared that they were starting to lose relevancy in the internet age. It turned out that Sun hardware was a poor choice if you really wanted to scale.
Remember when .NET came out? Everything was .NET. As a result, no-one really had any idea what .NET actually was. Eventually we figured out it was "Microsoft's Java". Windows also went through a phase in which seemingly everything was Windows.
However, none of it holds a candle to IBM's mania for making everything "Websphere."
Apple needs to have the marketing people who come up with California-based macOS names sort this out. If they solved the cat naming crisis then surely they can clean up this mess.
The repetition is the marketing.
Apple needs to have the marketing people who come up with California-based macOS names sort this out. If they solved the cat naming crisis then surely they can clean up this mess.
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." (Phil Karlton) Amusing that along with this, there are two articles about caches on the front page of HN right now.
But they can both be solved by adding another layer of indirection.