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Agreed. I grew up in a roach-infested apartment and hearing the name as an adult gives me creeps.

by temp43 6y ago

microtherion 6y ago
But so does "IBM", for computer professionals who came of age in a certain era…
- temp43 6y ago
  Oh really? I'm still quite young so I may not have heard of that. Curious to learn more tho.
  - reificator 6y ago
    It's mostly a joke. Mostly...
  - zdragnar 6y ago
    There used to be a somewhat common phrase "nobody gets fired for buying IBM", implying that, while less than good, their products were at least a safe choice. Maybe it's just the changing of the generations, or proliferation of SaaS and AWS etc, but I haven't heard the phrase used in probably 10 or 15 years. That in itself is probably an indication of where they are at more than anything. Edit: Safe choice for the purchasing manager. The poor sods who had to deal with it, on the other hand...
  - Tsiklon 6y ago
    I've encountered plenty of sysadmins who either wince or get visibly angry at the mere mention of "Lotus Notes"
    - skissane 6y ago
      Notes is actually a really cool idea. A cross-platform rapid application development environment with a built-in replicated document-oriented database. I guess it is just a pity that there were some flaws in the execution, plus it got shoehorned as an email system rather than emphasising its full potential.
  - microtherion 6y ago
    Those of us who entered the field in the 1980s expected to face a future of writing COBOL for some IBM compatible computer, wearing a tie. Whatever hardships life had in store for me, I'm grateful that none of these three came to pass.
nextaccountic 6y ago
A counterpoint: my home has a roach infestation and I killed two today and... I must say I love this name. When I think about cockroaches the first thing that comes to mind is that they will surely outlive us. I don't want my data storage to be pretty, I want it to survive hardware failures and outlast pretty much everything.

Agreed. I grew up in a roach-infested apartment and hearing the name as an adult gives me creeps.

by temp43 6y ago

Agreed. I grew up in a roach-infested apartment and hearing the name as an adult gives me creeps.

microtherion 6y ago

But so does "IBM", for computer professionals who came of age in a certain era…

temp43 6y ago
Oh really? I'm still quite young so I may not have heard of that. Curious to learn more tho.
- reificator 6y ago
  It's mostly a joke. Mostly...
- zdragnar 6y ago
  There used to be a somewhat common phrase "nobody gets fired for buying IBM", implying that, while less than good, their products were at least a safe choice. Maybe it's just the changing of the generations, or proliferation of SaaS and AWS etc, but I haven't heard the phrase used in probably 10 or 15 years. That in itself is probably an indication of where they are at more than anything. Edit: Safe choice for the purchasing manager. The poor sods who had to deal with it, on the other hand...
- Tsiklon 6y ago
  I've encountered plenty of sysadmins who either wince or get visibly angry at the mere mention of "Lotus Notes"
  - skissane 6y ago
    Notes is actually a really cool idea. A cross-platform rapid application development environment with a built-in replicated document-oriented database. I guess it is just a pity that there were some flaws in the execution, plus it got shoehorned as an email system rather than emphasising its full potential.
- microtherion 6y ago
  Those of us who entered the field in the 1980s expected to face a future of writing COBOL for some IBM compatible computer, wearing a tie. Whatever hardships life had in store for me, I'm grateful that none of these three came to pass.

nextaccountic 6y ago

A counterpoint: my home has a roach infestation and I killed two today and... I must say I love this name. When I think about cockroaches the first thing that comes to mind is that they will surely outlive us. I don't want my data storage to be pretty, I want it to survive hardware failures and outlast pretty much everything.