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"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Words and names CAN hurt.
For as much as you and all of the other people replying to your post (thread?) got picked on growing up and in school, I would think that you would be a little more sensitive to the fact.
Maybe the person wanting the change is more sensitive to the fact than you are.
I have a daughter who is mentally retarded, as are many, many other people around the world. She could do nothing about the way she was born. People are also born with cerebral palsy or deformed limbs, or injured in accidents. ("gimps").
To turn the description of a medical condition into a joke in the lounge is puerile.
You folks are better than that. 
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It's a f*ckin acronym. Only triggerable liberal snowflakes bring it up or care.
When I was in school, if people picked on you, you learned to handle it (in whatever way you deemed to be appropriate).
Slow Eddie wrote: I would think that you would be a little more sensitive to the fact.
You must be new here...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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agreed, My brother is a Down's person. HE is mentally retarded. My Dad had polio could not walk without some canes. HE was a gimpy person. He never asked for anything and I guarantee he would not have taken any offense to this at all. I just don't understand people.
On a further note. You can make ANYTHING offensive if you want too. Holy Elephanting Sh!# We have made the word Elephant offensive inside this group here.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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What the Elephant.
Some people need a swift (fill in the blank)
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Seems you have lived under a Rock.
Microsoft has changed lots of products names just to fit the current trend.
For example, Office 365 was once called Office Live and the domain still exists (live.com) and it's been used by what used to be called Office Online Apps.
A long time ago, a friend of mine developed a quasi game for NeXT computer. As you might not know, all applications in the NeXT and all it's descendants (macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, etc) are really a Unix folder with the extension *.app and inside you'll find several executables which are simple chmod 755 files.
Long story short, he crated the Nap.app which would a screen saver like system which would allow you to fly above the clouds, like in a dream.
Several friends of mine tested it and wanted a port to Windows 3.11, so he worked hard to change everything from Objetive C into C++. Regardless to say, he had no sleep for like 10 days, just to have something working in Win32. Rendering on Windows was horrendous and he decided to code using a DOS lib which triggered full screen and draw directly into the hardware using CGA or VGA. The end result was waay worse than in the NeXT but the market was waaaay bigger, kinda like today doing things for iOS on Obj-C or Swift or going the Electron route for Android.
In the end, the Application was still named Nap.app but installed itself into a NAPAPP folder and inside there was the NAP.EXE executable, which behaved like a DOS program.
When he started testing everybody complained that the name sounded like NAPALM and NAP.EXE sounded like a gas chamber (you know they make you sleep before they EXEcute you. Ironically you could run the program with just NAP, but still people complained.
He then realized that you could the name the program folder NAP.APP as DOS allows extensions on names, but when he made the change, people start confusing the installed folder with a document and tried to open it on Windows Notepad or WordPro, to a very big error.
So he decided to change the name to WLKINCLD after the 1995 Movie "A Walk in the Clouds". Nobody got the reference but that's when Windows 95 got Long File names so he packaged everything with InstallShield and changed the name (again) to "Your Walk in the Clouds" so it can appear that way on the Start Menu and on c:\Program Files and promptly got a 20th Century Lawyer "cease and desist". Bummer.
By that time and having spent 5 years working on his dream, that's when I met him. I suggesting calling the thing "DreamSaver" and turning it into a Windows 95 screensaver, but apparently it would have meant recoding the whole thing, and the domain name was already in use.
In the end the guy became a Linux fan and converted the whole thing to OpenGL and released it as a XScreenSaver for Linux and then he did work on GNOME Screensaver. Don't remember the name that GNOME gave to his contribution, but it was definitely not called Nap.
So that's a long story, of how you can endlessly cycle through a name and never quite get it.
Or you can just call your app Whats.app and the rest is history.
modified 29-Aug-19 13:59pm.
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You completely missed the point. It's not the mere fact that they're changing the name, it's the REASON.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I think we should speed up the implementation process of the now long needed sarcicon.
Please answer with a link on your best sarcicon proposal... the best one (I chose, after all, Internet is not a democracy) will be officialy put as a request in subs and sugs.
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I have no clue what you are talking aboot.
I'd rather be phishing!
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All will be made clear in the fullness of time.
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So why not wait until after "the fullness of time" to ask for improvement suggestions?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I did not ask for improvement suggestions. Or was your message intended for someone else?
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Hmm.
• The point of the OP was to ask for improvement suggestions to something almost no-one knows anything about.
• Someone quite rightly replied that he did not know what the OP was about.
• You said wait and see.
Have I missed anything, there?
I'm only asking because I'm wondering what kind of person would reply to me as you did.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you read Rage's first sentence it is clear he is asking for suggestions for a sarcicon: a sarcasm icon, as referred to elsewhere today. And as I replied to the person who did not understand what was going on: all will be revealed some time soon.
Mark_Wallace wrote: So why not wait until after "the fullness of time" to ask for improvement suggestions?.
I did not ask for "improvement suggestions", which is why I was confused by your question.
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Hmm. My mistake.
I didn't read the first "c" as a hard C, so I assumed it was just another of the many tech "innovations" that I've never heard of (and quite possibly don't want to).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh yes, the new (pronounced "sarseecon") framework.
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Yes but that is enjoyable ... on a nice battered code with chips.
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Your post missed a sarcicon.
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How about this: Sarc
or this Sarc
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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</fe> for irony.
</sarc> for sarcasm.
(They only appear as closing to not ruin the effect.)
Or simply the interrobang: ‽
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I believe the international standard for sarcasm is : 🙃 Upside-Down Face Emoji[^]
Let's stick to the the standards here. 🙃
modified 27-Aug-19 9:09am.
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I would never use an exclamation to hint irony or sarcasm!
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