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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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330 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.637s | source
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rini17 ◴[11 Dec 25 18:23 UTC] No.46234991[source]▶
That glorious day when I explained to my boss what wiki is and that we should have one internally, he fired "viki" into google, with smoothly honed muscle memory clicked first result..and got full screen of poon.
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1. Kuraj ◴[11 Dec 25 18:33 UTC] No.46235122[source]▶
At least you weren't the guy hitting a wall when trying to get a testing library integrated because it was named Testacular
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2. Tade0 ◴[11 Dec 25 18:40 UTC] No.46235219[source]▶
Back in college we had an old program used to analyse oscilloscope data named ANAL.
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3. breezykoi ◴[11 Dec 25 18:46 UTC] No.46235324[source]▶
At school we called our module analsyn for syntactic analyser. Good times.
4. madcaptenor ◴[11 Dec 25 19:02 UTC] No.46235603[source]▶
I studied analytic combinatorics in grad school. Had to be sure not to abbreviate it to "anal comb".