Comment by yakshaving_jgt
2 years ago
I'm assuming just about everyone is aware of the meaning of the word.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shite
Kind of depressing that people find this amusing.
2 years ago
I'm assuming just about everyone is aware of the meaning of the word.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shite
Kind of depressing that people find this amusing.
This remark prompted me to go rewatch (make sure you have headphones on)...
this bit of fry and laurie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVe3fTL1cPM
this bit by atkinson and cleese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGFz9gt0-Fc
and this bit by atkinson alone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7OxTxAvvLw
made my day :)
Oh do one mate quit griping and get with it!
I suggest a SFW rename to "connery"
You might want to look that up in French, but replace the 'y' with 'ie'...
It's sad because it's not hard to pick a name for a project that isn't a swear word.
I once had a gig someplace where the tradition was to name Hamming Distance 1 away from swear words. Best of both worlds?
Could you please expound on why you believe that to be depressing?
Sure. It's not the coarse language that I object to — it's the lazy, juvenile humour. It's similar to penisJS[0] — a software analogue to children defacing the chairs in their school classrooms with drawings of genitalia.
I think it's a pretty bad look for the industry.
Not to say there shouldn't be humour — there should be more humour. Personally, my most popular software projects are purely comedic, and they're also a little more coarse than this.
To put it another way: I'd prefer the software humour to be a little more Sean Lock and a little less Beavis and Butt-Head.
[0]: https://github.com/edankwan/penis.js/
I hear you. Thank you for sharing your thinking. All I will say is, from where I stand, it is all working as intended; the code and the phraseology :)