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Yes, it's a parody. They got many heat and attention for it.
Sure, but the names are real.
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Sure, but the names are real.
Yes, and? Not everyone changed their name after WW2. Not every name is as burnend as the commonly known big evils. Point is many did change their names and people with burnend names receive some discrimination for their names.
Neither "commonly known", nor "evil"?
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> Some people just work so had to get offended by an acronym [...] That's nothing compared to German law: You won't see a single license plate there that has the numbers 18, 28 or 88 on it. Although numbers like 318 or 288 would be fine ...
Swedish license plates (currently in the form of "ABC 12E" are screened for 3-letter combos like "CIA", "KGB", "KKK" and of course "KUK". Such plates are not issued.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgisch_kenteken#%22Verboden%...
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> But other cases (CockroachDB is one) And GIMP. Some people just work so hard to get offended by an acronym that happens to also be an almost-unknown slang, that they created a fork called Glimpse. That project declares that the name alone prevented adoption by thousands of companies and universities. If this is true, we should expect Glimpse adoption to skyrocket immediately.
> Some people just work so had to get offended by an acronym [...] That's nothing compared to German law: You won't see a single license plate there that has the numbers 18, 28 or 88 on it. Although numbers like 318 or 288 would be fine ...
For example, DBX-2399 or something.
Anyway, apparently they just rotate through the first triplet in a completely mechnical fashion... so you go from DBX to DBY to DBZ to DCA, yadda, yadda...
Logical consequence? At some point, license plates were made that started with WTF. And of course somebody took offense, called the DMV and complained, and it caused a big brouhaha. I'm thinking "are you freaking kidding me?" Talk about a "WTF moment".
https://www.wxii12.com/article/potentially-offensive-license...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
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I believe it is still in active development and they refuse to change the name for some odd reason. It’s like if kdenlive was named “Weinstein” wouldn’t you want to change it?
I mean, I get it. I truly do, but part of me hates this idea of names being "burned". This name is a direct link to the person, and he should not be immortalised like that. But other cases (CockroachDB is one) I think people go overboard with getting offended at names. Names typically have power when we only associate them with a single thing. If we have many things with similar names then one of them being terrible,…
Feature comparison of file systems -- no other file system has all the features of ReiserFS or Reiser4: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
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> But other cases (CockroachDB is one) I think people go overboard with getting offended at names. But with this name there is a 0.1% chance in any enterprise setting that managers would accept usage of such a DB. At least as long as it's not as mainstream as maybe Redis or MongoDB. (If something is popular enough, the name is to be accepted)
I mean, MongoDB has a pretty unfortunate name depending on where you are from... https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/mongo/ Didn't seem to get in it's way too much.