Hacker News with Generative AI: Naming Conventions

"Data" Sucks (johnscolaro.xyz)
One of the two hard things about programming is naming things, and as programmers we spend a fair bit of time thinking about what we name different 'things'.
Programming, Naming Conventions
13 points by JohnScolaro 10 days ago | 8 comments
Bristling at 'Gulf of Mexico' name change on maps, Mexico says might sue Google (apnews.com)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her government wouldn’t rule out filing a civil lawsuit against Google if it maintains its stance of calling the stretch of sea between northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States the “Gulf of America.”
Mexico, Geography, Lawsuits, Google, Naming Conventions
13 points by c420 47 days ago | 4 comments
Gulf of America name change in the U.S. (google)
In the U.S., the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.”
Geography, United States, Naming Conventions, Government
31 points by jnd0 50 days ago | 56 comments
How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008) (googleblog.com)
Google Earth, Mapping, Naming Conventions
52 points by doener 63 days ago | 10 comments
A made-up name is better than no name (mbuffett.com)
In working on Chessbook recently, I often found myself referring to (position, move) pairs. Specifically positions that are stored as EPDs, and moves that are stored in San notation.
Chess, Programming, Naming Conventions
62 points by marcusbuffett 122 days ago | 80 comments
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Naming Integers (ziglang.org)
Lately my Zig code has started to look like this in all my projects:
Programming Languages, Zig, Code Style, Naming Conventions
15 points by ingve 147 days ago | 14 comments
Apple's naming conventions are a mess (medium.com)
I’ve reworked Apple’s whole naming system to be way more consistent and logical. Ditching the inconsistent pre/postfixes like “Max”, “Air”, “SE”, “Plus” and “Studio” to make everything cleaner and easier to follow.
Apple, Naming Conventions, Design, User Experience, Technology
17 points by cashy 173 days ago | 35 comments
Matt Mullenweg trying to change /r/Wordpress to /r/WordPress (reddit.com)
Howdy mods, I have confirmation from u/spez that if the mods here send a request to him, they can capitalize the P. Can we fix this together? It's been years!
Reddit, Community Management, Subreddits, Naming Conventions
25 points by rob 179 days ago | 12 comments
Against Names (steveklabnik.com)
Language, Naming Conventions, Philosophy
56 points by thunderbong 230 days ago | 24 comments
Boaty McBoatface (wikipedia.org)
Internet Culture, Humor, Naming Conventions
34 points by doener 355 days ago | 20 comments