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Already mentioned here before: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128

• oconnor663 7y ago
  It's like every time anyone writes anything about CockroachDB, the top comment has to be "yeah but the name tho..."
  • lallysingh 7y ago
    They should change the name! It's a terrible name and it's cost them an inestimable amount of users.
    • jchanimal 7y ago
      They should change the name to “Clockroach” considering they lose correctness guarantees when the clock drifts beyond a preconfigured uncertainty window.
    • laresistance 7y ago
      They who place shallow attributes above merit, deserve neither.
      • lallysingh 7y ago
        If they gave it a stupid name, why would they be any smarter in the development of the system itself? The name clearly indicates a lack of wisdom. First impressions matter.
        • laresistance 7y ago
          First impressions matter mostly to those who are influenced by them. Many scams have been successful because of exactly that. A stupid name might do well on search engines for example (as in, those names could be easily searched) Furthermore I don't really consider the name to be stupid. I don't quite really know of many other ways of succinctly highlighting resilience as a property in a name.