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> because it somehow sexual (not being a native english speaker, I fail to spot the innuendo). In the US, DD is a cup size for a brassiere, and thus indirectly
by korethr 7y ago
> because it somehow sexual (not being a native english speaker, I fail to spot the innuendo).
In the US, DD is a cup size for a brassiere, and thus indirectly refers to breast size on women. DD for sometime has been considered to be an uncommonly large breast size for a woman, especially a woman of otherwise more common proportions. DDD, being the next cup size up for reasons I don't understand (instead of cup sizes going E, F, etc), would therefore imply a woman even bustier than the supposedly uncommonly-busty DD-breasted woman.
Yes, I think it's silly, too. Human mammary tissue has exactly fuck all to do with programming.
- monksy 7y agoThat's an unreasonably huge leap for the audience to make that connection.
- zaphirplane 7y agoI wonder if the d3js project is next in the firing line
- monksy 7y agoCan we just cancel javascript?
- hoistbypetard 7y agoCan the letters "JS" be conflated with some other concept that offends someone who is inclined to make a stink on twitter and has a lot of followers? It could happen... Unfortunately we'd probably just rename it something less offensive like ECMAScript.
- erik_seaberg 7y ago“Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases …”
- Mirioron 7y agoAs somebody else pointed or, that's the explanation Sarah Mei gave on Twitter in the past.[0] The tweet about them discovering "3D" is on point. [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1073251153360482304 https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahmei/status/10732511533604823...
- monksy 7y agoShe's not going to care about that.
- natmaka 7y ago"DDD" seems unacceptable, however "CoC" is. Go figure. http://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Diversity-and-Inclusion-at-Events-and-Conferences-Kasia-Rachuta-Medium.pdf http://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
- enriquto 7y agoif at least they were consistent bullshitters, but their stuff is mostly random
- Khaine 7y agoBut in most of the world, DD Cup size is followed by E Cup, not DDD. Like most SJWs they taken an American-centric view of the world, which is apparently bad when others do it, but acceptable when they do it. I'm so sick of this cancel culture bullshit. Didn't they learn about sticks and stones as a kid? Honestly, so many people these days need to eat some concrete to harden the fuck up.
- soyiuz 7y ago"SJWs" "need to eat some concrete"? You sound like a wannabe skinhead teen. Your veiled calls to violence should have nothing to do with / have no place in coding culture.
- Khaine 7y agoThis is a great example of SJWism. Your amerocentric view of the world assumes that because we speak the same language we have the same culture. We do not. In my culture, telling someone to eat concrete is not taken literally. Its not a call to violence. Its a way of telling someone they need to increase their mental fortitude, that being upset because someone said something you didn't like is not a productive way to go through life.
- soyiuz 7y agoI am not American. And the meaning of the English language does not change with your culture, which, I might add, does not get transmitted in writing. I am responding to your words only. Eat concrete is crass and violent. You can hand wave all you want. Try conversing without ad hominem labels and insinuations.
- type0 7y agoSurely, one obvious way to fix this, is that we need to start a petition for changing the name of dd utility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) what a shitshow that would be