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Naming your product after dumb internet memes is a great way to make me not want to use them. Don’t get me wrong, from first look it seems like a perfectly fin

by OskarS 7y ago

Naming your product after dumb internet memes is a great way to make me not want to use them. Don’t get me wrong, from first look it seems like a perfectly fine product, but the name is atrocious.

hajhatten 7y ago
Comments like these make me not want to read them. Don’t get me wrong, from first look it seems like a perfectly fine comment, but the attitude is atrocious.
- nindalf 7y ago
  Evaluating others projects with Gordon Ramsay’s attitude is common on HN. These folks must assume that they’re “telling it like it is”.
noselasd 7y ago
For the uninitiated, which meme is this ?
- Sekhmet 7y ago
  https://m.imgur.com/gallery/HPTS0YK https://m.imgur.com/gallery/HPTS0YK
- toby- 7y ago
  It's part of DoggoLingo[0], a meme-filled Internet lexicon (or... something). It's all in good fun, and I don't understand why anybody could be upset by it. Sure, he could've called this "SmallTCP" and been bland, but decided to inject some (silly) humour. Plenty of other projects are similarly named.[1] It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoggoLingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoggoLingo [1]: https://github.com/aras-p/smol-v https://github.com/aras-p/smol-v [2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent [3]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen
  - NikkiA 7y ago
    > It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research. popularized by the simpsons, at least cromulent was a valid english word before the episode, I don't think embiggen was.
    - toby- 7y ago
      I don't think that's true. I can find no reference to "cromulent" existing pre-Simpsons, and every source explicitly says it was coined by David Cohen for an episode. From Wiktionary: "A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism coined by American television writer David X. Cohen for 'Lisa the Iconoclast', a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons." From Merriam-Webster: "It is safe to say that The Simpsons has contributed a great deal to the English language. One famous example is cromulent, which was coined specifically for the 1996 episode 'Lisa the Iconoclast'."
  - taneq 7y ago
    While we're at it, the arrangement of spikes on a Stegosaurus' tail is called a thagomizer, after a Far Side cartoon. And it's actually referred to as such by real live paleontologists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#Etymology
ignaloidas 7y ago
This is dumb. Many products have dumb names, we just got accustomed to them, i.e. git. If you are hating only on this specific meme - I present you SmolV - the leading(and only?) SpirV compressor. If you aren't going to use good things because of naming, then you deserve to only use bad things.
zaptheimpaler 7y ago
It's not a product, and if you don't want to use it - don't :)

by OskarS 7y ago

Naming your product after dumb internet memes is a great way to make me not want to use them. Don’t get me wrong, from first look it seems like a perfectly fine product, but the name is atrocious.

hajhatten 7y ago

Comments like these make me not want to read them. Don’t get me wrong, from first look it seems like a perfectly fine comment, but the attitude is atrocious.

nindalf 7y ago
Evaluating others projects with Gordon Ramsay’s attitude is common on HN. These folks must assume that they’re “telling it like it is”.

noselasd 7y ago

For the uninitiated, which meme is this ?

Sekhmet 7y ago
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/HPTS0YK https://m.imgur.com/gallery/HPTS0YK
toby- 7y ago
It's part of DoggoLingo[0], a meme-filled Internet lexicon (or... something). It's all in good fun, and I don't understand why anybody could be upset by it. Sure, he could've called this "SmallTCP" and been bland, but decided to inject some (silly) humour. Plenty of other projects are similarly named.[1] It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoggoLingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoggoLingo [1]: https://github.com/aras-p/smol-v https://github.com/aras-p/smol-v [2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent [3]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen
- NikkiA 7y ago
  > It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research. popularized by the simpsons, at least cromulent was a valid english word before the episode, I don't think embiggen was.
  - toby- 7y ago
    I don't think that's true. I can find no reference to "cromulent" existing pre-Simpsons, and every source explicitly says it was coined by David Cohen for an episode. From Wiktionary: "A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism coined by American television writer David X. Cohen for 'Lisa the Iconoclast', a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons." From Merriam-Webster: "It is safe to say that The Simpsons has contributed a great deal to the English language. One famous example is cromulent, which was coined specifically for the 1996 episode 'Lisa the Iconoclast'."
- taneq 7y ago
  While we're at it, the arrangement of spikes on a Stegosaurus' tail is called a thagomizer, after a Far Side cartoon. And it's actually referred to as such by real live paleontologists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#Etymology

ignaloidas 7y ago

This is dumb. Many products have dumb names, we just got accustomed to them, i.e. git. If you are hating only on this specific meme - I present you SmolV - the leading(and only?) SpirV compressor. If you aren't going to use good things because of naming, then you deserve to only use bad things.

zaptheimpaler 7y ago

It's not a product, and if you don't want to use it - don't :)