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Comment by canes123456 | Hacker News Reader

There a tons of name conflicts for things that are more popular than the gopher protocol. If the creators wanted to avoid this they need to pick a unique name.

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My pet peeve is Atom the protocol and Atom the text editor. They're obscuring a format and a protocol that's much more important for the web than another text editor is, and they're doing the world a disfavor as a result.

Even worse is when Justin Timberlake did that song "Cry Me A River", when there was already an excellent song by the same name. It just obscures the existing song, and does the world a disservice.

Pretty rude way to disagree with someone. I'd appreciate any criticism, but not sure what I'm supposed to do with this comment, other than feeling bad.

I'm getting the impression that he wasn't actually telling you to "cry him a river".

perhaps, have a laugh?

And I've been using Atom as my default username on local Linux installs since 2001. So now I invoke my user installed editor as

   /home/atom/opt/Atom/bin/atom

And to check it's running? NP! Just use `ps -eF|grep -i atom`

We need more letters

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