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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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330 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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patrickmay ◴[11 Dec 25 21:43 UTC] No.46237598[source]▶
I asked to have LaTeX installed at one site, several years ago. The first Google results were eye-opening.
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dhosek ◴[11 Dec 25 22:52 UTC] No.46238458[source]▶
I had a student in one of my LaTeX classes back in the 90s who had a “I lust for latex” T-shirt.
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1. rconti ◴[12 Dec 25 01:10 UTC] No.46239701[source]▶
Honestly, I'm not sure which interpretation is more concerning.