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0 pointsgogopuppygogo4y ago0 comments

Cockroach is the worst brand for a database ever.

Even Croach would be a massive branding improvement.

This is similar to how gimp is a terrible brand.

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It’s no coincidence - the names for Cockroach and GIMP were coined by the same person https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Kimball_(computer_pr...

fshr4y ago

Well that explains a lot. Imagine the success of all his work had it had better branding.

toomanybeersies4y ago

Let's add Git and Kafka to that list.

meesterdude4y ago

I mean... the WORST? For me Mongo takes the cake, but oracle is up there too.

zdragnar4y ago

Really? Oracle actually makes a lot of sense to me for a database name (in the 'source of truth' sense, not in the prophet sense).

Mongo, on the other hand, has definitely always had the racist/ablist slur as the first connotation for me.

whatshisface4y ago

I've learned almost all the slurs I know from comments or media sources complaining about them. It's the only place they're used in polite society.

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jjazwiecki4y ago

I always thought it was a reference to valuable stuff picked from trash, which I understood to be slang from sanitation workers, but apparently that's local to the NYC area.

Traubenfuchs4y ago

I don't know about other languages, but in German "Mongo" is pretty much a forbidden word as it is derogative descriptor for people with down syndrom and other visible defects, especially movement defects.

goatinaboat4y ago

In the UK that would be "mong", for us Mongo is the planet Ming The Merciless is from.

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