How BugHerd came back from the brink • Hacker News Board

Re: How BugHerd came back from the brink

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Post by 1123581321 » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

LeonM wrote: post #19

jessaustin wrote: post #5

That name seems easy to mispronounce.

I'm not a native English speaker, can you explain? I mean, I can see how it would be a problem if you were to mispronounce the 'g' as a 't', but a g and t differ enough that I can't imagine that happening. Or is there another mispronunciation that I'm missing here?

If you don’t enunciate the h it sounds like “buggered,” which has a few potential meanings. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Buggered

Re: How BugHerd came back from the brink

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Post by borski » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 2:20 PM UTC

toast76 wrote: post #10

EdwardDiego wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an Australian company, I'd wager it's a deliberate choice :) Probably toned it down from "Yeahitsfuckedmate.com"

Surprisingly accurate :)

Haha, I miss you Alan.

Re: How BugHerd came back from the brink

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Post by hople_ul » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

LeonM wrote: post #19

jessaustin wrote: post #5

That name seems easy to mispronounce.

I'm not a native English speaker, can you explain? I mean, I can see how it would be a problem if you were to mispronounce the 'g' as a 't', but a g and t differ enough that I can't imagine that happening. Or is there another mispronunciation that I'm missing here?

I'm guessing OP had in mind "buggered" — i.e., to be sodomized.

Re: How BugHerd came back from the brink

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Post by evolve2k » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 9:01 PM UTC

1123581321 wrote: post #21

LeonM wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a native English speaker, can you explain? I mean, I can see how it would be a problem if you were to mispronounce the 'g' as a 't', but a g and t differ enough that I can't imagine that happening. Or is there another mispronunciation that I'm missing here?

If you don’t enunciate the h it sounds like “buggered,” which has a few potential meanings. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Buggered

In Australia buggered colloquially just means “broken and tired”.

The toaster is buggered (broken). We’ve had meetings all day and I’m buggered (tired)

Re: How BugHerd came back from the brink

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Post by toast76 » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 9:53 PM UTC

hople_ul wrote: post #23

LeonM wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a native English speaker, can you explain? I mean, I can see how it would be a problem if you were to mispronounce the 'g' as a 't', but a g and t differ enough that I can't imagine that happening. Or is there another mispronunciation that I'm missing here?

I'm guessing OP had in mind "buggered" — i.e., to be sodomized.

Errr... no... just no.

Re: How BugHerd came back from the brink

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Post by toast76 » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 10:04 PM UTC

Hitton wrote: post #17

I don't understand business much but it looks it was really nice of them to return the money to investors. They could just let the investors bear the brunt of their bad investment without giving a damn.

As majority owners, we certainly could have continued to run the company indefinitely as a "lifestyle business" (and there's not much anyone could have done about it). But my belief is that if you take investment you have a responsibility to those investors to return their capital come hell or high water.

At the time, we didn't entirely know whether there were still growth opportunities or what else we could try if we kept going. But we knew we wanted to keep trying. Some of our investors wanted out, and we gave them (and all the other investors) the opportunity to sell their shares back to us. It means everyone who wanted it got their money back (which for an investor is not actually a very good outcome, but better than $0), and we got to keep the company. I'm appreciative of them allowing us to do it.

Re: How BugHerd came back from the brink

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Post by jessaustin » Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 11:05 PM UTC

toast76 wrote: post #25

hople_ul wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing OP had in mind "buggered" — i.e., to be sodomized.

Errr... no... just no.

Words have meanings. Some words have multiple meanings, but many people will think of the most common meaning when encountering a word outside of any context that would imply otherwise.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Buggered

Please don't take this as a criticism! I think it's great that this firm has such an adventurous name.