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How did they not name this Dine?!
by sicromoft 6y ago
How did they not name this Dine?!
- nom 6y agoLet's wine and dine them all :D
- deepstack 6y agoWho though emulation can be so delico.us.
- dkdbejwi383 6y agoI wine 'em and dine 'em, but I don't let them tell me what to do.
- IceyEC 6y agoOr Mine!
- m12k 6y agoRunning Darwin on Linux - Dar-ling. Plus nobody dreams of being the sidekick. But yeah, it would have been clever - I'm still disappointed that PyQT isn't called QTPy.
- TheUndead96 6y agoIn my mind it is now QTPy until the end of time
- mkl 6y ago"Qt" is pronounced "cute", not "cue tee". That's why it's PyQt, not PyQT or QTPy.
- interfixus 6y agoAccording to me, and according to my professionel coder friends who work with the thing daily, it's cue tee. Same way Tcl isn't tickle, PNG isn't ping, and LaTeX only grumplingly and with quite some self discipline on our side manages to remain la TECH. These jokes were marginally entertaining 30 years ago, tired by the turn of the century, and way past expiry today.
- lightdot 6y agoWell, it really depends on when were these jokes introduced to someone... They can hardly be marginally entertaining to someone 30 years ago if the person in question wasn't even born then! :) But they can most certainly be marginally entertaining to this person today!
- dylan604 6y agoI wasn't born when people started pronouncing Houston St in New York as "House-ton" or Rodeo Dr as "RoDayO", yet that's the accepted pronunciation so that's what gets used.
- jkaplowitz 6y agoWell, Houston St in New York is actually named after a person who called pronounced it "House-ton", not after the same Sam Houston as Houston, TX. This was the street's namesake, using an alternate spelling of the last name (spelling was in general less standardized back then): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Houstoun_(lawyer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Houstoun_(lawyer) So, no joke involved in that case.
- balnaphone 6y agoNote for Brits and Canadians: "house-ton" is not how you pronounce Houston St in New York, it's "how-stun" (IPA /ˈhaʊstən/). In constrast, Houston TX sounds like "hew-stun" run together (IPA /ˈhjuːstən/).
- jkaplowitz 6y agoAh right, wasn't thinking of the Canadian "ou" diphthong or British vowels. Thanks for adding the IPA.
- wbl 6y agoPronouncing LaTeX like the material is pretty common in the math world; id say up to half of Berkeley math when I was there.
- fnord123 6y agoPronouncing Qt as Cute is like pronouncing gif as jif. Maybe someone 'officially' says it's correct but basically no one does it and if they do, everything secretly judges them.
- enedil 6y agoI do and I don't hear cue-tee almost ever
- dylan604 6y agoI don't trust people that do not pronounce it as jif. If you can't bother to learn the correct pronunciation, how can you be trusted to do other things correctly?
- DerDangDerDang 6y agoHow do you pronounce png? (no googling!)
- whelming_wave 6y ago“ping”, it’s in the spec ;)
- TheKarateKid 6y agoHorrible decision imo, since ping can easily be confused with the networking action and there’s no way an “i” could be easily assumed from just seeing “png”.
- dividedbyzero 6y agoBut in practice I think it is pronounced cutie, because pretty much nobody cares enough to learn enough Qt lore to know better, and cutie apparently is the most intuitive choice. At any rate, I've never heard anyone pronounce it cute, including people who develop with Qt.
- hugodahl 6y agoWhat can't be solved by software (or marketing?), someone will solve with hardware[0]! [0]: http://adafruit.com/qtpy http://adafruit.com/qtpy
- azangru 6y agoDine is not an emulator?