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I'm sure you'll clean up your phrasing (since you're getting downvoted for some reason) but could I ask, is this something you really first thought of when you

I'm sure you'll clean up your phrasing (since you're getting downvoted for some reason) but could I ask, is this something you really first thought of when you heard the name? Is it UK slang? I've never heard it. I don't think you should be downvoted for the info (even though it doesn't actually apply, they will keep the name for their commercial stuff) as it's news to me.

bravura 10y ago
I was aware of the slang term "docking" in Canada and the United States. I believe it is a commonly accepted term in the gay community. See, e.g. http://www.thebody.com/h/docking-and-HIV-transmission-risk.html http://www.thebody.com/h/docking-and-HIV-transmission-risk.h...
- logicallee 10y ago
  but you're not my parent poster...and you didn't actually answer the question about whether it had negative connotations. (specifically, the term "docker" doesn't appear on that page in that form.) I am asking whether it's the first thing my parent poster, or anyone, would first think of, for example if the project were named "wanker".
  - DonHopkins 10y ago
    Here in Amsterdam it has positive connotations in the gay community. I just want to get a Docker t-shirt before they all run out.
    - logicallee 10y ago
      Oh, so you weren't being sarcastic. (The comment I originally replied to, where you call it great, actually sounds very sarcastic/mean.) Anyway that is pretty obscure. Thanks for the info, I guess.
nailer 10y ago
Living here, I don't think this use is common in the UK at all.
- ChristianGeek 10y ago
  But "moby" is rhyming slang for "sick" (as in not healthy)! Appropriate in this case? Hopefully not.
  - nailer 10y ago
    There's less obscure examples: - nonce (infosec) - paedophile - gyp (node) - offensive nickname for gypsies.
    - DonHopkins 10y ago
      And then there's mongo, gimp and git. I've just always assumed "docker" was in the same vein. Now they have to deal with the even more obvious connotations of "moby". Out of the frying pan and into the fire! Well, at least "docker" isn't transitioning to "scissorer".
      - nailer 10y ago
        What does mongo mean? I just assumed the meaning from skating / surfing.
        DonHopkins 10y ago
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-nFSUXcuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-nFSUXcuM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo#Other_uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo#Other_uses https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-22286 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-22286
DonHopkins 10y ago
Of course it was the first thing I thought of when I originally heard the name -- what else could it possibly mean? I assume they changed the name because somebody finally pointed out the first definition of docker on urbandictionary. But what was so dirty about my phrasing, other than saying the name of the project itself? (And it's only a myth that it's dirty, unless you never bathe.) Shouldn't any mention of that name be flagged, not just my message? Leave it to the prudes to shoot the messenger... ;)
- jacquesm 10y ago
  > Leave it to the prudes to shoot the messenger... ;) Or maybe just because it is off-topic?
  - logicallee 10y ago
    The phrasing (as of when I write this comment, still within OP's edit window) can use work, but how's it off-topic? This article is about a name change and nothing but a name change. But OP is Dutch - nobody, even from the general gay community (not specifically Holland), replied saying it's the first thing they thought of. OP, you really made it sound like it's something as well-known as the word wanker - whereas it's extremely obscure. If I'm in charge of the docker project, the gay dutch community is much too obscure for me to change the name because of. - EDIT: jacquesm, I read your reply to this comment and we simply disagree. Their phrasing can use work, but the information is clearly 100% on-topic if it's genuinely the first thing they thought of when they heard it, and if they phrased it more neutrally. If a project were called "wanker" would you call it off-topic to discuss the UD definition on an article about its name? in reply to the call for speculation phrased "Why change the name? All the books and posts reference the name Docker."? EDIT2: this thread is becoming boring but as for the opposite of sarcasm,the opposite of /s are the three letters "srs", maybe in parentheses.
    - jacquesm 10y ago
      Off-topic: something that does not have to do anything with the subject at hand, in this case, Docker, the company producing software, software in general and so on as well as rebranding or changing the name of open source companies. What GP's associations with the name are doesn't really matter and as far as I can see did not have any influence because they are keeping the name so that is certainly not why they are changing their open source projects to be moved under a new brand.
petercooper 10y ago
I'm familiar with it, but somehow jumping to it whenever hearing about "Docker" is akin to thinking of AIDS when one hears about "hearing aids" or anal in Google Analytics - it doesn't seem like a problem unless someone decides to over-read.
- DonHopkins 10y ago
  Who ever said it was a problem? I just want the t-shirt.

bravura 10y ago

I was aware of the slang term "docking" in Canada and the United States. I believe it is a commonly accepted term in the gay community. See, e.g. http://www.thebody.com/h/docking-and-HIV-transmission-risk.html http://www.thebody.com/h/docking-and-HIV-transmission-risk.h...

logicallee 10y ago
but you're not my parent poster...and you didn't actually answer the question about whether it had negative connotations. (specifically, the term "docker" doesn't appear on that page in that form.) I am asking whether it's the first thing my parent poster, or anyone, would first think of, for example if the project were named "wanker".
- DonHopkins 10y ago
  Here in Amsterdam it has positive connotations in the gay community. I just want to get a Docker t-shirt before they all run out.
  - logicallee 10y ago
    Oh, so you weren't being sarcastic. (The comment I originally replied to, where you call it great, actually sounds very sarcastic/mean.) Anyway that is pretty obscure. Thanks for the info, I guess.

nailer 10y ago

Living here, I don't think this use is common in the UK at all.

ChristianGeek 10y ago
But "moby" is rhyming slang for "sick" (as in not healthy)! Appropriate in this case? Hopefully not.
- nailer 10y ago
  There's less obscure examples: - nonce (infosec) - paedophile - gyp (node) - offensive nickname for gypsies.
  - DonHopkins 10y ago
    And then there's mongo, gimp and git. I've just always assumed "docker" was in the same vein. Now they have to deal with the even more obvious connotations of "moby". Out of the frying pan and into the fire! Well, at least "docker" isn't transitioning to "scissorer".
    - nailer 10y ago
      What does mongo mean? I just assumed the meaning from skating / surfing.
      - DonHopkins 10y ago
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-nFSUXcuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-nFSUXcuM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo#Other_uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo#Other_uses https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-22286 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-22286

DonHopkins 10y ago

Of course it was the first thing I thought of when I originally heard the name -- what else could it possibly mean? I assume they changed the name because somebody finally pointed out the first definition of docker on urbandictionary. But what was so dirty about my phrasing, other than saying the name of the project itself? (And it's only a myth that it's dirty, unless you never bathe.) Shouldn't any mention of that name be flagged, not just my message? Leave it to the prudes to shoot the messenger... ;)

jacquesm 10y ago
> Leave it to the prudes to shoot the messenger... ;) Or maybe just because it is off-topic?
- logicallee 10y ago
  The phrasing (as of when I write this comment, still within OP's edit window) can use work, but how's it off-topic? This article is about a name change and nothing but a name change. But OP is Dutch - nobody, even from the general gay community (not specifically Holland), replied saying it's the first thing they thought of. OP, you really made it sound like it's something as well-known as the word wanker - whereas it's extremely obscure. If I'm in charge of the docker project, the gay dutch community is much too obscure for me to change the name because of. - EDIT: jacquesm, I read your reply to this comment and we simply disagree. Their phrasing can use work, but the information is clearly 100% on-topic if it's genuinely the first thing they thought of when they heard it, and if they phrased it more neutrally. If a project were called "wanker" would you call it off-topic to discuss the UD definition on an article about its name? in reply to the call for speculation phrased "Why change the name? All the books and posts reference the name Docker."? EDIT2: this thread is becoming boring but as for the opposite of sarcasm,the opposite of /s are the three letters "srs", maybe in parentheses.
  - jacquesm 10y ago
    Off-topic: something that does not have to do anything with the subject at hand, in this case, Docker, the company producing software, software in general and so on as well as rebranding or changing the name of open source companies. What GP's associations with the name are doesn't really matter and as far as I can see did not have any influence because they are keeping the name so that is certainly not why they are changing their open source projects to be moved under a new brand.

petercooper 10y ago

I'm familiar with it, but somehow jumping to it whenever hearing about "Docker" is akin to thinking of AIDS when one hears about "hearing aids" or anal in Google Analytics - it doesn't seem like a problem unless someone decides to over-read.

DonHopkins 10y ago
Who ever said it was a problem? I just want the t-shirt.