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You're not alone. There are certain words that will evoke an emotional reaction in people, and projects would be wise to avoid them. Even if an author thinks a
by kbd 9y ago
You're not alone. There are certain words that will evoke an emotional reaction in people, and projects would be wise to avoid them.
Even if an author thinks a name like AIDS.app, murder.js, syphilis.io, represents the nature of the project well, I'd advise him to change it.
Same thing happened with the "Nimrod" programming language. "But it means a great hunter!" No, people hated the name every time it came up and its author eventually renamed it to Nim.
- tomcam 9y agoThanks for letting me know I'm not totally irrational. And your point reminds me of the product named Ayds[1] that was introduced right as the name of an increasingly well-known disease called GRIDS had been re-designated AIDS. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds