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to me it's not a deeply-seeded reason, it's just when I hear cutesy-sounding names I just don't take them seriously. They sound like the latest, hipster thing t

to me it's not a deeply-seeded reason, it's just when I hear cutesy-sounding names I just don't take them seriously. They sound like the latest, hipster thing that's going to be in-bloom for a (figurative) week or two until the next cutesy thing steals everyone's attention. Even the language Pony has a mildly off-putting name (to me) despite hearing people rave about it. Couch DB ? What the hell does that mean ? I admit it's a bias of mine and I could be losing out on learning amazing tools. But even non-profit, standardized languages and tools still have a brand name and image.

WhitneyLand 10y ago
See your point, but maybe there's a middle ground between hipster and bug like?
huehehue 10y ago
Ah yes, let's not forget the solid branding behind some of Adobe's work: https://pig.apache.org/ https://pig.apache.org/ https://hive.apache.org/ https://hive.apache.org/ (Look at the anguish in this creature's face) http://hadoop.apache.org/ http://hadoop.apache.org/
- SilasX 10y ago
  Wait, is hive supposed to look like some elephant-bee hybrid?
  - lallysingh 10y ago
    I thought it was a bee mid-sneeze.
  - r00fus 10y ago
    It's supposed to be related to hadoop, right?
- anoother 10y ago
  s/Adobe/Apache ?
  - huehehue 10y ago
    Too late to edit :/
SilasX 10y ago
I know that was rhetorical, but Couch is connotationally neutral AFAIK, and comes from "cluster of unreliable commodity hardware".[1] At least, it's miles ahead of Cockroach or Rust or even Mongo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchDB#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchDB#History
- digler999 10y ago
  I agree that it's more neutral, if not random-sounding without knowing it's an acronym. JBOD is another neutral acronym. I'm not marketing guru, but maybe cockroach could have been more palatable by calling it "RCH, some call it roach, because it was named after its persistence" ?

WhitneyLand 10y ago

See your point, but maybe there's a middle ground between hipster and bug like?

huehehue 10y ago

Ah yes, let's not forget the solid branding behind some of Adobe's work: https://pig.apache.org/ https://pig.apache.org/ https://hive.apache.org/ https://hive.apache.org/ (Look at the anguish in this creature's face) http://hadoop.apache.org/ http://hadoop.apache.org/

SilasX 10y ago
Wait, is hive supposed to look like some elephant-bee hybrid?
- lallysingh 10y ago
  I thought it was a bee mid-sneeze.
- r00fus 10y ago
  It's supposed to be related to hadoop, right?
anoother 10y ago
s/Adobe/Apache ?
- huehehue 10y ago
  Too late to edit :/

SilasX 10y ago

I know that was rhetorical, but Couch is connotationally neutral AFAIK, and comes from "cluster of unreliable commodity hardware".[1] At least, it's miles ahead of Cockroach or Rust or even Mongo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchDB#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchDB#History

digler999 10y ago
I agree that it's more neutral, if not random-sounding without knowing it's an acronym. JBOD is another neutral acronym. I'm not marketing guru, but maybe cockroach could have been more palatable by calling it "RCH, some call it roach, because it was named after its persistence" ?