Tesseract is now Crossfilter

#1

Post by mynameisraj » Mon, Mar 26, 2012, 11:45 PM UTC

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

#2

Post by scw » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 12:00 AM UTC

Presumably this is to prevent naming collision with the existing Tesseract, an OCR engine. Its generally worth searching "my new awesome name" "software" prior to picking a name.

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

#3

Post by dudus » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 12:02 AM UTC

scw wrote: post #2

Presumably this is to prevent naming collision with the existing Tesseract, an OCR engine. Its generally worth searching "my new awesome name" "software" prior to picking a name.

Agreed, the first time I read about Tesseract/Crossfilter on HN a couple weeks ago I clicked the link thinking it was a new version of the OCR. Just to find out it was a completely unrelated project.

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

#4

Post by Maxious » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 1:09 AM UTC

Much better name and not just because of the naming collision. Tesseract was really smart but you had to have a dictionary and know the company is Square to get it. Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds.

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

#5

Post by psykotic » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 1:11 AM UTC

Maxious wrote: post #4

Much better name and not just because of the naming collision. Tesseract was really smart but you had to have a dictionary and know the company is Square to get it. Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds.

> Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds.

You apparently misread the name. That can't be a good sign. :)

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

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Post by benatkin » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 2:23 AM UTC

scw wrote: post #2

Presumably this is to prevent naming collision with the existing Tesseract, an OCR engine. Its generally worth searching "my new awesome name" "software" prior to picking a name.

Well, it didn't hurt the project much to ship it first and worry about the name later. Also I remember reading somewhere that one of the creators was aware of the OCR engine but didn't anticipate it being a problem. So googling wouldn't have helped.

Here's the issue: https://github.com/square/crossfilter/issues/1

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

#7

Post by benatkin » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 2:26 AM UTC

It also seems to have gained solid Node.js support.

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

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Post by NyxWulf » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 2:29 AM UTC

From a branding point of view I like this name much better. It's much easier to communicate, two simple words with obvious spellings. If I say hey you should checkout Crossfilter, they can easily look that up. With Tesseract, not so much. Crossfilter is also suggestive of what it does, and the name helps to reinforce what it's for. Overall, very large improvement, imo.

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

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Post by swah » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:10 AM UTC

psykotic wrote: post #5

Maxious wrote: post #4

Much better name and not just because of the naming collision. Tesseract was really smart but you had to have a dictionary and know the company is Square to get it. Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds.

> Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds. You apparently misread the name. That can't be a good sign. :)

Gamer alert!

Re: Tesseract is now Crossfilter

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Post by Maxious » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 5:41 AM UTC

psykotic wrote: post #5

Maxious wrote: post #4

Much better name and not just because of the naming collision. Tesseract was really smart but you had to have a dictionary and know the company is Square to get it. Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds.

> Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds. You apparently misread the name. That can't be a good sign. :)

Oops, can I blame it on autocorrect ;)