[jedberg]

Please make sure you read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17402427

It explains why this is linguistically bad. Basically, a billion people on this planet don't distinguish between the l and r sounds, so for 1/6 of the planet, these names are identical.

[Gigablah]

Native Chinese speaker here. That post is comically wrong. For one thing, you don't pronounce either "file" or "fire" like "filer" or "firer" -- isn't English amazing ;) -- so there's no L/R sound in the first place for us to supposedly confuse.