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Look, I get that edgy names are fun, but I'm happy that I will never have to use this tool for work, and I pity the fool who has to explain why "unfuck" was needed to solve a real problem.



The Fuck[1] is a handy tool that I use daily in the office.

Is fsck something you'd avoid because of its name, or is the single letter change enough to make it safe?

[1] https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck


Fsck stands for file system check


Thanks for giving me an idea: I'll name each of my project I don't want to be used in professional setting with outrageous names for Americans. Btw Coq will be soon free to use for another project.


(Un)fortunately, it should be recognized that the name of the tool has an impact on what people will want to use. I think it's deliberately obtuse to ignore that certain workplaces just don't accept language like this.

But you go ahead and name your projects whatever foul names you can think of. It will never come back to bite you, I promise.


If your goal is to get usage in those types of workplaces sure otherwise it's obtuse to cater to them not the other way around. Even if you're not sure if you'll ever want it to go into such a place it's not like you can't rebrand your own project (unless you chose to not own it in which case it's not your concern anymore).


I’m going to write a personal budgeting app and call it <redacted for pearl-clutching Americans> (an archaic word for miser/pennypincher, roughly homophonous but etymologically unrelated to an extremely offensive slur)


There are people who get upset that Chancellor Merkel is leading Germany because they sincerely believe she is the granddaughter of Hitler, when there is a coincidental resemblance at best.

Those people who get upset with the synonym for “stingy person” because it sounds like the slur are the equivalent but for linguistics.

I didn’t even write it (to accommodate them) yet they still find my racy joke controversial.




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