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If you're too stuck up to appreciate a funny pun, don't use the software. No one's holding a gun to your head. Or you could relax, not everything needs to be "s

If you're too stuck up to appreciate a funny pun, don't use the software. No one's holding a gun to your head. Or you could relax, not everything needs to be "serious business".

wruza 3y ago
No one's holding a gun to your head Good luck explaining a less-techy client at your job that fck-nat, fsck (which was originally just "fuck", afaik) and so on are fine puns and no one's holding a gun to their head either. I feel similar about recursive acronyms. These are funny-ish when you're in your mom jokes phase, but then someone asks you what that means and sometimes you can see their "what a bunch of creeps" reaction when you try to explain. Not surprising that people try to avoid that "we can use FCK for our SHT instances in CRP network" nonsense.
isityouyesitsme 3y ago
While not really being one who cares personally about the example here, I would not give a tool a name that I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it. That would make me a jerk, no matter how funny or whimsical I may find it. Even when poking fun at myself, I choose names of projects carefully. It's pretty easy to not be a jerk, at least in this way.
- gosub100 3y ago
  Would you be ok if this tool was named sensibly, but was developed in brainfuck?
  - isityouyesitsme 3y ago
    Well, what I'm not ok doing is arguing silly points steeped in what-about-isms. There are far more entertaining ways to waste time.
- diggan 3y ago
  > I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it How could you possibly know this, where do you draw the line? For something people, "Hacker News" is surely offensive because "hacker" is generally thought of as a negative term (Yes, I know our meaning, others generally don't). GitHub could also be offensive to some, "git" after all is as much of a swear-word as "fck".
  - gosub100 3y ago
    An early-90s textbook I read about encryption said that some people were disgusted hearing the word 'decrypt' for the first time because a crypt is a place where dead bodies were stored. They suggested (to those offended) to use the word cipher instead ;)
  - isityouyesitsme 3y ago
    The context is that I replied to a comment where one knows.

If you're too stuck up to appreciate a funny pun, don't use the software. No one's holding a gun to your head. Or you could relax, not everything needs to be "serious business".

wruza 3y ago

No one's holding a gun to your head Good luck explaining a less-techy client at your job that fck-nat, fsck (which was originally just "fuck", afaik) and so on are fine puns and no one's holding a gun to their head either. I feel similar about recursive acronyms. These are funny-ish when you're in your mom jokes phase, but then someone asks you what that means and sometimes you can see their "what a bunch of creeps" reaction when you try to explain. Not surprising that people try to avoid that "we can use FCK for our SHT instances in CRP network" nonsense.

isityouyesitsme 3y ago

While not really being one who cares personally about the example here, I would not give a tool a name that I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it. That would make me a jerk, no matter how funny or whimsical I may find it. Even when poking fun at myself, I choose names of projects carefully. It's pretty easy to not be a jerk, at least in this way.

gosub100 3y ago
Would you be ok if this tool was named sensibly, but was developed in brainfuck?
- isityouyesitsme 3y ago
  Well, what I'm not ok doing is arguing silly points steeped in what-about-isms. There are far more entertaining ways to waste time.
diggan 3y ago
> I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it How could you possibly know this, where do you draw the line? For something people, "Hacker News" is surely offensive because "hacker" is generally thought of as a negative term (Yes, I know our meaning, others generally don't). GitHub could also be offensive to some, "git" after all is as much of a swear-word as "fck".
- gosub100 3y ago
  An early-90s textbook I read about encryption said that some people were disgusted hearing the word 'decrypt' for the first time because a crypt is a place where dead bodies were stored. They suggested (to those offended) to use the word cipher instead ;)
- isityouyesitsme 3y ago
  The context is that I replied to a comment where one knows.