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> what are the most unfortunate technology or startup names my fellow HN'ers have encountered? A few years back there was a Github OSS project by an Asian deve
by piaste 4y ago
> what are the most unfortunate technology or startup names my fellow HN'ers have encountered?
A few years back there was a Github OSS project by an Asian developer who couldn't speak English at all - I think it was a Ruby or Node utility library of some kind.
I don't remember the exact details anymore, but he intended to call it something like 'childlike' or 'so simple a child can use it' - unfortunately the machine translator he used interpreted the input phrase in his language as 'one that likes children'.
So he was very, very confused at the loud community reaction when he made a post announcing the 0.1 release of his new 'pedophile' library.