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it's really amazing how in IT we always recycle the same ten names... in the last three years, "gemini" refers (at least) to: - gemini protocol, the smolnet co

by __void 3y ago

it's really amazing how in IT we always recycle the same ten names... in the last three years, "gemini" refers (at least) to: - gemini protocol, the smolnet companion (gemini://geminiprotocol.net/ - https://geminiprotocol.net/ https://geminiprotocol.net/) - gemini somethingcoin somethingcrypto (I will never link it) - gemini google's ML/AI (here we are)

madmaniak 3y ago
It is on purpose to have an excuse of wiping out search results for interesting piece of technology. The same was with serverless which became "serverless".
xyzzy_plugh 3y ago
Naming things is one of the two hardest problems in computer science, after all.
- gmuslera 3y ago
  Caching and off-by one errors are the other.
- Casteil 3y ago
  I don't even want to think about how much time I've wasted mulling over release names.
Maxion 3y ago
There's gemini the crypto exchange.
Zpalmtree 3y ago
yes crypto is so evil even linking to it would be unethical
- cdelsolar 3y ago
  lol
PurpleRamen 3y ago
This is not limited to IT. After all, there are far more things to be named, than we have usable words to use.
OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Google is so big a player that they don’t even need to check if the name has already been applied to a technology. As soon as they apply it to their product name, that will become the main association for the term. And as fond as some are of the Gemini protocol, it never got widely known outside of HN/Lobster circles.
- beardog 3y ago
  They didn't even check if Go was taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)