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There's that classic double joke about fad technology names being gibberish and hapless tech recruiters: "I typically ask recruiters to point out which of thes
by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
There's that classic double joke about fad technology names being gibberish and hapless tech recruiters:
"I typically ask recruiters to point out which of these are pokemon" https://imgur.com/gallery/r0SEEoh https://imgur.com/gallery/r0SEEoh
- grawprog 6y agoHmmm that onyx one almost had me, was gonna say it's both a pokemon and a language...but the Pokemon's spelled Onix.
- PAPPPmAc 6y agoAt the time that was doing the rounds (2015 or so) someone expanded it into a "Pokemon or Big Data" quiz game, which is startlingly difficult: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/ https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
- dilippkumar 6y agoThis is fantastic. You should submit this as a post on HN - it deserves its own thread :)
- boogies 6y agoI’ll steal that karma: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpixelastic.github.io%2Fpokemonorbigdata%2F https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpixelastic.github.io...
- creata 6y agoI thought that was extremely easy, but only because the Pokemon didn't go past Generation 3. Flink sounds a whole lot like Klink, a Pokemon from Generation 5.
- codetrotter 6y ago> only because the Pokemon didn't go past Generation 3 That's about two generations too many for me to be able to know :P
- grawprog 6y agoYeah...the first one's pretty much burned permanently in my mind forever, I can recognize most of the second ones, but after that I don't really know them.
- 0_____0 6y agoi can easily understand and accept the idea of an infinite gender spectrum and associated naming conventions but there are ONLY 150(+1) pokémon and nothing anyone says will change my mind
- BlueTemplar 6y agoDamn, got the first one wrong : > ADABAS was NoSQL from a time when there was no SQL. The technology now is owned by Software AG. "Software AG: We're not sure what we do either." Damn, I seem to get only half of them right, not better than random chance ! EDIT : Ok, 59% correct. (Eventually you get a 'victory' screen.)
- saagarjha 6y agoIt's easy if you know your Pokémon well. It's really hard if you kinda know names because many of them have lookalike names ;)
- evad3r 6y agoI've seen many people saying "Onyx was the Pokemon, not the language" and I have to resist the urge to reply in all caps going "IT'S SPELT ONIX NOT ONYX"
- toast0 6y agoThe trick is that a lot of Pokémon names make good tech names. Metapod would be a great name for a perl documentation suite, or a container orchestration tool. And that makes caterpie a questionable, but valid, name for a partial container orchestration tool; and maybe butterfree could be containers evolved. Onix is clearly a unix-like or linux distribution that's shaped around some software with first letter O (Opera? OpenOffice? I dunno), in addition to a Pokémon.
- t0astbread 6y agoOnix is shaped around Operator Framework. It's all containers.
- xenophonf 6y agoMetaPOD is a thing: https://metacpan.org/pod/MetaPOD https://metacpan.org/pod/MetaPOD
- Izkata 6y agoVulpix could be something to do with pictures.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoFarfetch could be a database library.
- k_sze 6y agoThere's also this: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/ https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
- ASalazarMX 6y agoI failed this miserably last year. Now I got 93% correct. I blame the quarantine and all the publicity Pokémon has done.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoEkans belonged after Python.