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Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

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I have a dream... that one day people will name their projects with names that don't exist on google yet. If you search for PEP now you'll find python enhancement proposals, and the "Philippine Entertainment Portal" and the stock code for PepsiCo.

It's like these companies can't hire marketing reps to establish a brand image that's new

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#92
post #9

I have a dream... that one day people will name their projects with names that don't exist on google yet. If you search for PEP now you'll find python enhancement proposals, and the "Philippine Entertainment Portal" and the stock code for PepsiCo.

I have a dream that dang will automate flagging and removing the inevitable inane comments about name uniqueness every time someone posts a project on HN.

Once you end up investigating an issue with something that namesquats another thing you'll understand.

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#93
post #19
post #9

I have a dream... that one day people will name their projects with names that don't exist on google yet. If you search for PEP now you'll find python enhancement proposals, and the "Philippine Entertainment Portal" and the stock code for PepsiCo.

We need to find an actionable suggestion. Maybe projects can have a long name and a nick name? To make everyone happy, and of course, to be useful for everyone.

pePDF? Seems relatively unused compared to pep.

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#94
post #9

I have a dream... that one day people will name their projects with names that don't exist on google yet. If you search for PEP now you'll find python enhancement proposals, and the "Philippine Entertainment Portal" and the stock code for PepsiCo.

In previous times, I worked for a company that had the acronym AAPL. I kept getting the stock quotes for Apple every time I browse the company's intranet.

I once had to google something about the Thread protocol. Impossible. I think I haven't seen a worse name for a tech project.

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#95
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post #50

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Simple solution: 379dd864b16eaca3ce94c15a6bdfcc73™

Not sure I follow. Are you saying that by trademarking the fingerprint you can prevent SEO abuse? The problem with any SEO mitigation is that the 128 bit string is intended for SEO. If you make a cool new thing then I blog about it I want to use your 128 bit string and you want me to use it too! So how do you prevent someone else from putting it on a linkfarm? I don't think trademark helps there.

If your page has 100 of these 128 bit strings in them then it's even clearer that its a link farm page that can be downranked

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#96
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I wish that once people do name their project, they would assign it a 128-bit random number in lower case hex, and include that number on any web page that they would like people searching for their project to find. That way once I know that say PEP the PDF editor exists and find its 128-bit number (let's say that is 379dd864b16eaca3ce94c15a6bdfcc73), at least I can subsequently toss a +379dd864b16eaca3ce94c15a6bdfcc…

I too dream of content addressable web.

https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/websites-on-ipfs/single-page-web...

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#97

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I have a dream that dang will automate flagging and removing the inevitable inane comments about name uniqueness every time someone posts a project on HN.

Once you end up investigating an issue with something that namesquats another thing you'll understand.

Yes, having only been doing this twenty years, I'm unlikely to be versed in doing that.

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#98

A GUI app for manually crafting PDFs is one thing, but a library instead would enable countless developers to create software capable of producing PDF deliverables as output, possibly improving the accessibility situation too. I would gladly sponsor the development of a reliable library that allows to programmatically produce compliant, accessible tagged PDFs with arbitrary layout[0], correctly printable and viewable…

reliabrary

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#100
post #44

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PEP is also "Politically exposed person" in anti money launcering circles, and often the lists we get are PDFs. Seems like PEP is used for more things too :)

Also Python Enhancement Proposal

that was already pointed out upthread from you
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