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more important not to confuse it with the bird, which will kill you.

People should really invest effort in creating unique names for their tools. Case in point a popular git gui client is called "fork". As in git fork named after the git command. Doing troubleshoot googles for that software is a frickin nightmare.

Try living in the C# ecosystem and figuring out how to migrate from entity framework 6 on .NET 4.8 to entity framework core 3 without switching to .NET 6 or .NET core.

There’s only so many single-word .io, .app, and .ai domains left, and the trend to “tumblr”ize words has fallen out of fashion.

I like that a few video games are multi-words (e.g. Oxygen Not Included) and use a common abbreviation, (ONI) that is google-able - for instance "oni tutorial" is pretty good, or "oxygen not included tutorial" is a sure thing. Maybe more software needs to have more words in the name.

Maybe not a great example, as there is already a game called Oni, thus illustrating the original point of difficulty in finding original names.

Fashion or not, there's a clear advantage to tumblrize words to create names. The name is still recognizable with the association you're looking for, but the spelling is unique and easy to search for.

Almost as bad as the tool by google simply called 'repo', used to manage git repos... Imagine the confusions and difficulties of googling for troubleshooting.

Another case in point: postgrest - a clever play on postgres and rest.

Now try searching for any issue about it or even documentation about it in Google. All results are about postgres.

Even something as popular as rust the language has to compete against solutions to prevent the actual rusting and the game and the movie.

Sometimes I wish most software were given a uuid as a name. Life would be much easier.

That's a bad choice (like go), but you can't expect people to find a unique name. It's best to avoid frequent words, names of popular things, and names in the same domain, for your project's visibility, but the dictionary isn't big enough for all the projects in the world. Github alone has over 200 million repositories.

That should only be an issue if projects have to be named with a preexisting word. But that practice will basically always end up conflicting with the existing meaning of the world. IMO the best names are words which previously didn't exists at all.

Several years ago someone had a bright idea to name a game "N". And then someone decided to call a game console "switch" which made troubleshooting network problems (with this console) hilariously nightmarish.

Issue body: Instructions were unclear, tried to run repo and was instead killed by a bird.

And the bird has the lowest frequency song of all birds

Who doesn’t love colorful five foot tall murder chicken/emus? I keep trying to convince my wife that we should get some but she inexplicably objects.

I saw one few years ago near Melbourne with friends at the nature park and it's unblinking state at me was very, very unsettling. I did not f*ck around with it even though friends were encouraging me to peg it. That hook on the leg is deadly looking...

Can you define "peg" in this circumstance ? Because if your friends wanted you to have sex with the male bird, these people are not your friends.

From UrbanDictionary:

> Australian slang, meaning to throw an object very hard and fast. Generally an object small enough to fit in one hand.

That makes much more sense, in the UK “peg it” means running away, which seemed like entirely rationale advice.

Sorry to say, but your friends sound like nuffies.

MIGHT kill you, if it has its babies with it. But lets hope they don't get a load of Jet Li movies to practice with.

instructions unclear, installed the BIRD Internet Routing Daemon.

isn’t it a plant?

It's basically a dinosaur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary

From what I understand, all birds are basically dinosaurs.

Yes, but this one looks like one, in the sense of "show a picture to someone who doesn't know about them and they will not believe that this is a real animal alive today".

>Some New Guinea Highlands societies capture cassowary chicks and raise them as semi-tame poultry

emphasis on the semi!

for a simple overview, see also: https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/save-the-cassowary/evolu...

It shares its name with the cassowary plum - a poisonous fruit that cassowary bird can happily eat, having adapted alongside it.

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