I looked at this a few years ago and it seemed to be a graveyard of toy implementations and personal blogs.
Project Gemini
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#42Gemini was so much fun during lockdown - I loved the distraction of a new simple protocol, and the challenge of writing a gui client for it. Can't say I'm surprised that it hasn't taken the world by storm, but it's still a cozy part of the Internet.
I completely missed out on this :'(
Re: Project Gemini
#43Why is everything named Gemini these days?
Google renamed Bard to Gemini last year. Side note: Google's "Gemini" product name is way overloaded. They have like 6 different things that you can buy/use that are named that.
Re: Project Gemini
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton
“There are only two hard things in computer science. Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.”
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors"
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#45Why do programmers have so little imagination when it comes to names? It should almost never be the case that project names conflict
Why single out programmers? Name collisions happen in constantly, across every single industry.
It turns out that there really aren't that many possible project names before you get into the made-up "that sounds stupid" words.
Re: Project Gemini
#46From what I remember about the name, it's derived from NASA space programs. Where Gopher is Mercury, Web is Apollo and Gemini is in between. Gemini is a new internet protocol which: - Is heavier than gopher - Is lighter than the web - Will not replace either - Strives for maximum power to weight ratio - Takes user privacy very seriously
I wonder how discovery and search work if it’s just a bunch of linked documents? Do search engines exist outside of Gemini and link into it?
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#47I looked at this a few years ago and it seemed to be a graveyard of toy implementations and personal blogs.
Isn't that what it's meant to be?
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#48Why do programmers have so little imagination when it comes to names? It should almost never be the case that project names conflict
> It should almost never be the case that project names conflict
Sure, if you want projects to have the same naming strategy as Chinese Amazon Marketplace vendors.
Away from that, significance in naming begins to cluster quite quickly.
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#49I have got only two annoyance on Gemini, lack of inline links and _font styling_, and they are by design (https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi#44-questions-about-t...)
It's fine for something like HN, but I heavily rely on named links and emphasis on all my blogs and is a dealbreaker.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ask Google, this project predates the LLM.
Back when I was a Googler, I used to play a little game where I would think of a random word and then check if there was a Google internal project code named for it. It was a bit hard finding stuff that wasn't some system or project, and often there would be multiple ones. I actually found one that I thought would be a nice name and reserved the go link for it, but naming anything after it never panned out, when I fi…
I reserved go/poop years ago, but the ability to name a project with that name is diminishing