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This sort of reply seems so ludicrous to me. It's a bug. How can you guys use the net, knowing what spider-related metaphors lie hidden in its tangled web?
by knome 9y ago
This sort of reply seems so ludicrous to me. It's a bug. How can you guys use the net, knowing what spider-related metaphors lie hidden in its tangled web?
- swsieber 9y agoEasy. It has deeper roots in the internet for me than in insects. You know, multiple definitions. Cockroach on the other hand is very strongly associated with insects and disgust. I do think it interferes with adoption. I don't think it'll kill it though.
- JusticeJuice 9y agoI think the name's actually pretty good at selling it's key value, particularly to business people / management. "It's called cockroach db - because it'll survive anything"
- ryanmarsh 9y agoI stepped on a cockroach last night. Seemed pretty fragile to me.
- Can_Not 9y agoThe colony in your wall endured zero downtime.
- nilved 9y agoThat connotation seems obvious but I didn't pick up on it until months after I heard about CockroachDB. For one, a minority of people who know about cockroaches know about their resilience. For two, people who _do_ know that still know that cockroaches are disgusting. The reptile brain is going to react with revulsion even if the higher brain finds the metaphor.
- Can_Not 9y agoFor me, I've overlooked it because by the name I assumed it was meant to be a "worse mongoDB". I've found out recently it's more like Postgre.
- nl 9y agoThe reptile brain is going to react with revulsion As someone who knows someone who is very scared of reptiles but had a pet cockroach the irony of this statement amuses me greatly.
- ryanmarsh 9y agoIt's not called the World Wide Puss Filled Spider Bite, it's called the World Wide Web, I honestly never thought of the spider connotation till you mentioned it.
- _pmf_ 9y agoTo be fair, in Ye Olden Days, web crawlers[0] were called spiders. [0] Of course, web crawlers are no longer called web crawlers, either