I don't know why, but most tech companies are horrible at naming products.

thisislife2 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At least with CPUs, I believe the the retail product names are deliberately confusing by design so that you as a consumer get confused (and mislead) into buying older models, whose sales tend to stagnate when newer models are released. (Newer models are of course, obscenely priced to differentiate them). A somewhat aware tech consumer what like to buy the latest affordable model they can. But if you can't easily identify the latest model or the next best one after it, they will often end up purchasing some older model with similar name.

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agos 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

you know, there are two hard problems in computer science...

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mcny 6 hours ago | parent [-]

For today's lucky ten thousand, the joke is that

> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, off-by-one errors.

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tmtvl 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I thought there were 3 difficult problems: naming things, cache invalidation, , and off by one errors. concurrency

	▲	chamomeal an hour ago \| parent [-]
		the concurrency twist got a laugh out of me, I've seen this joke a zillion times but never the concurrency bit

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baklazan 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why do people say that, when the number one hardest problem is making good abstractions?

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latexr 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because it’s a “famous” (in our circles) quote. You might prefer this one:

> There’s two hard problems in computer science: We only have one joke and it's not funny.

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myrmidon 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There are at least one more joke:

"There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't."

Personally I prefer the cache invalidation one.

	▲	latexr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> "There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't." I like the continuation (which requires knowledge of the original): “And those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3”.

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ncruces 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Names abstract things.

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latexr 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You explained one thing but introduced another needing explanation.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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knorker 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is too forgiving of intel in this case. It has a name. They just don't use it. "Sockets Supported: FCLGA2011". It's not like this is poorly named. It's not even true.