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…and “GIF” is supposed to be pronounced “JIFF” …and “npm” doesn’t really stand for “Node Package Manager” sigh

wlesieutre 12y ago
From wikipedia: Contrary to the belief of many, "npm" is not in fact an abbreviation for "Node Package Manager." It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for "npm is not an acronym." (If it was "ninaa", then it would be an acronym, and thus incorrectly named.) So the author named it npm for node package manager, then wanted to sound clever so he said it doesn't stand for that? He could just as easily called it "aslkdjghasjklg" and said it's an abbreviated version of "aslkdjghasjklg is not an acronym. And that would still be dumb. It's like inventing a device to produce collimated beams of light, and then naming it "laser" for "laser is not an acronym" when everyone knows what it actually means.
- naturalethic 12y ago
  Maybe you need to get your satire detector checked?
  - wlesieutre 12y ago
    Wikipedia is not really a place for satire.
JohnTHaller 12y ago
Everyone I've ever met pronounces it jif as in the peanut butter as that's what the creator intended and disseminated way back when.
- wlesieutre 12y ago
  I've never met anyone who pronounces it that way; we all use a hard g like "graphics." I'm curious if this differs regionally like most pronunciations, or if it's spread in different patterns because it's mainly said online.
  - JohnTHaller 12y ago
    I went to college at Binghamton in upstate New York in the 90s when I first heard it said. And the mantra was "choosy developers choose GIF" based off the catchy "choosy moms choose JIF" (peanut butter) advertisements that were popular here in the US at the time. And it was just 'developers' not designers at the time since the web was so new and people talked about as web development, not design. I never heard it with a hard G until years later, mostly from younger web designers.

From wikipedia: Contrary to the belief of many, "npm" is not in fact an abbreviation for "Node Package Manager." It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for "npm is not an acronym." (If it was "ninaa", then it would be an acronym, and thus incorrectly named.) So the author named it npm for node package manager, then wanted to sound clever so he said it doesn't stand for that? He could just as easily called it "aslkdjghasjklg" and said it's an abbreviated version of "aslkdjghasjklg is not an acronym. And that would still be dumb. It's like inventing a device to produce collimated beams of light, and then naming it "laser" for "laser is not an acronym" when everyone knows what it actually means.

naturalethic 12y ago
Maybe you need to get your satire detector checked?
- wlesieutre 12y ago
  Wikipedia is not really a place for satire.

JohnTHaller 12y ago

Everyone I've ever met pronounces it jif as in the peanut butter as that's what the creator intended and disseminated way back when.

wlesieutre 12y ago
I've never met anyone who pronounces it that way; we all use a hard g like "graphics." I'm curious if this differs regionally like most pronunciations, or if it's spread in different patterns because it's mainly said online.
- JohnTHaller 12y ago
  I went to college at Binghamton in upstate New York in the 90s when I first heard it said. And the mantra was "choosy developers choose GIF" based off the catchy "choosy moms choose JIF" (peanut butter) advertisements that were popular here in the US at the time. And it was just 'developers' not designers at the time since the web was so new and people talked about as web development, not design. I never heard it with a hard G until years later, mostly from younger web designers.