@dang: title's off; the blog post is titled "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth."

The how is operative, I think, since it changes the title from being about the process of how Google determines a name when it's there, to being about Google acting as some kind of rogue despot that goes around naming bodies of water.

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Jordan-117 3 hours ago | parent [-]

For a website focused on the latest and most sophisticated tech, I'm continually surprised at how clunky and "dumb" the various post title filters here are.

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igleria 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I have a law of nature for this:

The Spanish proverb “en casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo” (literally: "in the blacksmith's house, a wooden knife") means that the things you would most expect someone to have or fix are often missing or neglected in their own home or life

	▲	pbhjpbhj an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In UK English we have "the cobbler's children have no shoes", which seems similar. I always thought it was a statement about poverty, but online sources say it's about not applying one's expertise to one's own situation. I'm not sure I agree with that interpretation.