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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.

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> 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 ;)

The context is that I replied to a comment where one knows.

Would you be ok if this tool was named sensibly, but was developed in brainfuck?

Well, what I'm not ok doing is arguing silly points steeped in what-about-isms. There are far more entertaining ways to waste time.

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