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microcolonel
on May 27, 2017
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A new Linux kernel source code cross-referencer in...
Name collisions really should be getting less common, not more, given how easy it is to search things today.
pmorici
on May 27, 2017
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There are only so many words in the language.
microcolonel
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If by so many, you mean more than 170,000 in active use, plus all the puns, plays on words, or portmanteaus which don't qualify as words but can easily be the name of a software project.
lmitchell
on May 27, 2017
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And there are 10 million Github repos out there!
So yeah... we're running out. ;)
kerneldeveloper
on May 27, 2017
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Maybe we have to concatenate some words and create a new word which doesn't exist in English dictionary to get a unique project name :)
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