If you did it right, your tool or service will exist for decades to come, if you have the option to not call it something fsck, fwkc, fck, etc. it's worth exercising that option.
If you're too stuck up to appreciate a funny pun, don't use the software. No one's holding a gun to your head. Or you could relax, not everything needs to be "serious business".
While not really being one who cares personally about the example here, I would not give a tool a name that I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it. That would make me a jerk, no matter how funny or whimsical I may find it.
Even when poking fun at myself, I choose names of projects carefully. It's pretty easy to not be a jerk, at least in this way.
> I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it
How could you possibly know this, where do you draw the line?
For something people, "Hacker News" is surely offensive because "hacker" is generally thought of as a negative term (Yes, I know our meaning, others generally don't).
GitHub could also be offensive to some, "git" after all is as much of a swear-word as "fck".
An early-90s textbook I read about encryption said that some people were disgusted hearing the word 'decrypt' for the first time because a crypt is a place where dead bodies were stored. They suggested (to those offended) to use the word cipher instead ;)
Good luck explaining a less-techy client at your job that fck-nat, fsck (which was originally just "fuck", afaik) and so on are fine puns and no one's holding a gun to their head either. I feel similar about recursive acronyms. These are funny-ish when you're in your mom jokes phase, but then someone asks you what that means and sometimes you can see their "what a bunch of creeps" reaction when you try to explain. Not surprising that people try to avoid that "we can use FCK for our SHT instances in CRP network" nonsense.
The name of 'Git' (the source control system) is literally a derogatory term. I think you overestimate the value or prevalence of decorum. you should also google the relationship between the number of uses of the word "fuck" in code comments with code quality. There's been several papers on it.
In many countries c*nt is one of the more terrible swearwords could imagine. In Ireland it's friendly banter. d*ckhead can be either a term of endearment amongst (close) friends, or an insult in Australia, and worse in other countries.
In many, if not most, non American countries, f*ck just doesn't cut the mustard when swearing.
Heck, in the UK, they have a major high street brand called FCUK.
Here's the thing: there is no reason not to keep pointing out that these are just bad names. And by pointing that out every time, someone might just pay attention and give their tool a better name in the future, because they took heed and decided against calling their tool "cwnt" in favour of calling it "check-wnat". And you will never know it could have been called the "oh stop being so thin skinned" cwnt.
And as a bonus, folks don't have to guess at what it does, the name tells you. Imagine if fsck had just been called checkfs... it would have been both a better name and would have saved a lot of askubuntu/superuser/etc posts.
I am not, I just don’t get why some people are so profanity oriented in naming things. Personally, it doesn’t offend me, but it ridicules them in my eyes, and stops me from talking about it around people. If that’s what they want, okay. If that’s not what they want, they can use this subthread as a feedback. How would they know if no one spoke?
Also, I find your reaction thin skinned-ish as well. Why throw stop commands if you ought to not care? Cause it’s ridiculous? Well, we have more in common than you think then.
> Also, I find your reaction thin skinned-ish as well. Why throw stop commands if you ought to not care?
Oh really. You're the one who can't shut up about some app that used to be named f*ck but was renamed some 30+ years ago still grinds your gears.
It's an (ancient) light hearted joke, please just drop it.
I care about the state of the world, and I find it deeply depressing people run around being prude like we're some kind of Christian middle ages society.
