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I don't really get all the whining about the name, I even kind of like it. It fits well with their narrative. Besides, they could've called it PoopDB and I sti

I don't really get all the whining about the name, I even kind of like it. It fits well with their narrative. Besides, they could've called it PoopDB and I still would use it if it survived a nuclear blast and had joins. I couldn't care less about the name. But apparently I'm in a minority...?

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simoncion 11y ago
> I don't really get all the whining about the name... Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with all the hand-wringing. Dunno if it's a generational thing, or just a peculiarity of this particular echo chamber. [0] None of folks at the jobs that I've worked cared about the name of a tool as long as it was good. [0] I do take comfort in the fact that the hand-wringing is a tiny slice of all of the conversation attached to the submission.
skoczymroczny 11y ago
I think it's more about the senior management and people like marketing, who aren't technical. That could go well: "Yeah so we're ditching MS SQL Server Pro and instead will go with Cockroach from now on"
- gizzlon 11y ago
  Can you just call it something else internally? It's not like any of those people know what databases do and do not exist. Maybe CR, CRDB or like someone here suggested, RoachDB.
matt4077 11y ago
It's an excellent name! It's telling a story, it's memorable, evocative. I think people complaining are all complaining on other people's behalf, i. e. they think others are going to be offended/put off/etc. It's like that test where men were shown pictures of women and asked to (a) pick the one they thought was the most beautiful and (b) guess which one others would pick most often. Result: they pick the girl-next-door for (a) but think others will all go for the pornstar-look.
srean 11y ago
> if it survived a nuclear blast and had join[t]s That would be Keith Richards and cockroaches (sorry had to). So two names are up for grabs for the competition.
rpgmaker 11y ago
It's an awful name but I guess they'll eventually rebrand.

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simoncion 11y ago

> I don't really get all the whining about the name... Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with all the hand-wringing. Dunno if it's a generational thing, or just a peculiarity of this particular echo chamber. [0] None of folks at the jobs that I've worked cared about the name of a tool as long as it was good. [0] I do take comfort in the fact that the hand-wringing is a tiny slice of all of the conversation attached to the submission.

skoczymroczny 11y ago

I think it's more about the senior management and people like marketing, who aren't technical. That could go well: "Yeah so we're ditching MS SQL Server Pro and instead will go with Cockroach from now on"

gizzlon 11y ago
Can you just call it something else internally? It's not like any of those people know what databases do and do not exist. Maybe CR, CRDB or like someone here suggested, RoachDB.

matt4077 11y ago

It's an excellent name! It's telling a story, it's memorable, evocative. I think people complaining are all complaining on other people's behalf, i. e. they think others are going to be offended/put off/etc. It's like that test where men were shown pictures of women and asked to (a) pick the one they thought was the most beautiful and (b) guess which one others would pick most often. Result: they pick the girl-next-door for (a) but think others will all go for the pornstar-look.

srean 11y ago

> if it survived a nuclear blast and had join[t]s That would be Keith Richards and cockroaches (sorry had to). So two names are up for grabs for the competition.

rpgmaker 11y ago

It's an awful name but I guess they'll eventually rebrand.