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Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by bodyfour »

arakawa wrote: post #38
reustle wrote: post #28

Am I the only one who hates how some projects are named like this?

The thing that struck me is that there are no one letter commands in UNIX (that I can remember off the top of my head). Not sure if there's any reason for this besides namespace scarcity -- only 26 one-letter commands you can have! It feels pretty arbitrary, I guess, to decide that Twitter is special enough that it gets to be one of the 26.

"w" is standard on most UNIX machines,

At one time, "f" was a link to "finger" on many machines, but I think that's mostly died out now.

And of course there's "X", although you usually don't run that yourself at the command line unless you're debugging something.

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by chernevik »

gilrain wrote: post #19
jimmy2times wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love the name (though I'm sure many would consider it sexist).

(because it is)

No, it isn't. I'm not a big fan of dictionaries but they must serve when basic English literacy fails, so here:

"titter: to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle, snicker"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/titter

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by Mohnican »

gilrain wrote: post #26
jsprinkles wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate on why? It's an honest question, because I genuinely don't understand why. Good to see the 'ole downvote-without-discussion at work, too. I understand sexism to be about discriminating based on gender. Does it also mean "naming software a body part a certain gender happens to have?" If I name my software "penis", or "testicle" (a great name for a tongue-in-cheek test suite) am I going to be accused…

It's not my job to teach you Sexism 101, so I'll be brief. It reinforces to the minority of women in tech that they will be routinely otherized by their colleagues.

You are seriously delusional if you believe that naming an application after a biological name on the human body is "sexism". You really need to go back to "Sexism 101" if you've messed up this badly.

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by Mohnican »

talentdeficit wrote: post #39
jsprinkles wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll ignore the pointless first statement just as you ignored several of my questions. If you don't want people questioning your opinions, don't share them publicly. How, exactly, does the choice of name minimize women? If a woman wrote 'clit', would you say the same thing? If a woman wrote 'dong', would we call her sexist? I understand the problem, but we're really throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. An e…

you can't fix sexism (or racism, or classism) by pretending they don't exist. this isn't the venue for a debate on the topic, but you can read up on male privilege if you'd like to know more

Male privilege is a myth.

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by uptown »

pudquick wrote: post #29
jsprinkles wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll ignore the pointless first statement just as you ignored several of my questions. If you don't want people questioning your opinions, don't share them publicly. How, exactly, does the choice of name minimize women? If a woman wrote 'clit', would you say the same thing? If a woman wrote 'dong', would we call her sexist? I understand the problem, but we're really throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. An e…

With a universe of possible ASCII combinations to choose from - just because a particular iteration is witty, it does not automatically exclude it from offending one or more groups of people (whatever the reasoning). If you want widespread adoption of your tool, your best bet is to try to offend as few groups as possible.

"If you want widespread adoption of your tool, your best bet is to try to offend as few groups as possible."

I don't agree with this at all. Sometimes things are successful for the very fact that they're divisive. If your priority is to not offend anyone, you run the risk of being forgotten by everyone.

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by apike »

> Unfollow everyone you follow who doesn't follow you back

> t leaders | xargs t unfollow

This is an interesting way to circumvent the Twitter API guidelines - the above feature is disallowed and will get your key revoked. However, since each t user has their own key, enforcing this is implausible other than by throttling the rate at which you can unfollow people.

To be clear, I don't support people trying to do this in the first place, but it's a clever hack nonetheless.

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by darkstar999 »

apike wrote: post #47

> Unfollow everyone you follow who doesn't follow you back > t leaders | xargs t unfollow This is an interesting way to circumvent the Twitter API guidelines - the above feature is disallowed and will get your key revoked. However, since each t user has their own key, enforcing this is implausible other than by throttling the rate at which you can unfollow people. To be clear, I don't support people trying to do this…

Why is this bad? It sounds like a great way to clean up. (I don't use twitter much)
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