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by beamatronic 3324 days ago
To me, cockroaches are such an unbelievably negative association that I don't think I could get over the name and work with this product, because I wouldn't want to be saying cockroach all the time.

Same thing if your database was called BedBug.
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jhall1468 3324 days ago
> I don't think I could get over the name and work with this product

That puts everyone competing with you at a HUGE competitive advantage. Making technical decisions based on the name of a product is the worst type of decision making.

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BenjiWiebe 3324 days ago
To me, cockroaches aren't disgusting. And yes, I have used an outhouse in a 3rd world country where cockroaches were swarming up and out... But they just don't disgust me.
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