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bsimpson 5 days ago

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joshmanders 5 days ago | parent [-]

> You should pick a different name.

Can we please stop telling people to change their names because something else exists with a similar name?

If we take this stance seriously, then Google would have to change their name as San Diego Colab has existed for a year before Jupyter was created, therefore existed before Google Colab.

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benatkin 4 days ago | parent [-]

These comments don't solve the annoyance of false assumptions on HN, because they often contain a false assumption of their own.

Google didn't have the same issue with confusion because of San Diego Colab that colab.sh will have if they keep their name and get popular. That's because San Diego Colab wasn't nearly as well known as Google Colab is now.

So I can say "Can we please stop" to your comment, and I'm sure you can find something with my comment and get in a loop of "can we please stop".

	▲	joshmanders 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		And then when this project explodes and becomes as well known as Electron is eclipsing Google Colab (I never heard of it until today) then your argument is invalid. And you're right, we can keep getting into this loops, so lets nip it in the bud where it all begins and shocker, not tell people to change the name of their stuff because something else exists with a similar name but completely unrelated.