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jmyeettoday at 1:03 AM3 repliesview on HN

Two mild criticisms:

1. Don't call your project "shitty". At best it's juvenile humor. At worst, it's going to make adoption within companies difficult for literally no reason; and

2. You don't need a two letter command. I'm sorry but you're not that special. Your tool should instead denote its purpose with its name. In this case something like "sterm" or "stty" would do that perfectly without being verbose.


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kelnostoday at 1:09 AM

> At best it's juvenile humor.

I thought it was quite clever, and was surprised I hadn't thought of it (given the prevalence of "tty" puns like kitty and ghostty).

But I'm a 14 year old boy living in a 45 year old body, so I can't get enough juvenile humor. A friend of mine with similar taste in humor once said, "if I ever stop finding this stuff funny, put me in the ground", and I still wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment.

(For example: whenever I need a quick scratch file to put some text in, I call it "shits", because then I can type "cat shits" and giggle inside my head. I'm also have cats, so I deal with cat shits daily.)

> You don't need a two letter command. I'm sorry but you're not that special.

This I agree with, though perhaps in a politer way.

Regardless, though... live and let live? The existence of this doesn't harm you an any way, and your judgey moralizing is a bit much.

Rohansitoday at 1:15 AM

> At worst, it's going to make adoption within companies difficult for literally no reason

I wouldn't want to work somewhere like that. Trying to pretend that people don't swear is just dumb. It's not even offensive.

compiler-develtoday at 1:14 AM

shitty is a perfectly cromulent name.