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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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311 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.278s | source
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thiht ◴[12 Dec 25 08:45 UTC] No.46242147[source]▶
Is fun not allowed anymore? In the past 3 days I've seen posts and comments on HN saying that:

- everything in interfaces should be useful, decorative icons are bad

- presentation slides should not use animations

- now fun name are forbidden too apparently

What the fuck?

> No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name

Do you want to enter the discussion on how physicists named quarks?

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1. em500 ◴[12 Dec 25 08:59 UTC] No.46242214[source]▶
- Almost everything on blogs and HN are opinions, so don't take things things too seriously

- Fun and humour are subjective, and a substantial part derives from novelty and subvertin expectations. It's hard to make something fun for an audience that has already seen such dozens of times.

- The audience('s background and expectations) is diverse and varies with time. So what's considered "fun" is audience specific and often cyclical.