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0 pointsyzzxy11y ago0 comments

I'm not arguing they will not be able to tell the difference... I'm arguing it will cause confusion at some point, and maybe that's a negative externality of naming this product "Lambda." Nobody said "lose a generation of CS students."

And, as I've noticed in the past, searching for "y combinator" + any language name will often keep useful results away until you finally block this site. I'm not sure if this is still comprehensively true, but it seemed so to me at one point. So there is a very real impact on search results that can happen.

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ashr11y ago

I hear there is a river named Amazon in Southern Hemisphere and there are people landing in Seattle for river expeditions.

yzzxyOP11y ago

Yes, but that river does not sell software to run an online store. That's about as close to Amazon.com as AWS Lambda is to a Lambda function.

If you tried to sell ecommerce software under the name Amazon, you would get a cease-and-desist very quickly.

codezero11y ago

I was being overly sarcastic there, sorry about that. I just don't think this will ever be a problem for people, if anything Amazon adopting it may help people learn more about it, all the same, I guess it could go either way, I'll quiz some candidates in a few years to see if they ran into Lambda as a stumbling point :)

duaneb11y ago

I can't believe people reuse names and phrases either!!

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