Causes of termination at bart3r's company last month:
- Bob unzip a Python package.
- Dennis suggested we hire a "penetration tester".
- Mrs. Fraulein was caught browsing "Jew Tube".
- Helen used an essential software product from a "Pentaho"company for more than three years. Mr. Flanders was so disturbed he bought that company and renamed it "Itachi Vantara".
- Raul was using "Zope" to build our Intranet, until our Purity squad learned it was an insult in Spanish.
- David boasted about installing "OpenSIS" at his university.
- Susan was reported for surreptitous use of "ClamAV".
I also recommend terminating Derek for using "Google". It's not in the blacklist, but it just sounds obscene.
Among some the term beaver is suggestive, or even offensive. Think Thelma & Louise; "Damn! I hate that! I hate being called a beaver! Don't you?"
It's a particularly lowbrow bit of slang and not something that worried me when I recently mentioned the name dbeaver in a professional context, although I am aware of it. It pleases me that I spend my time among people that are either ignorant of this matter or are happy to pretend they are.
Thanks for that. Time to add "Bad Golf My Way" to the rewatch queue, it was a favorite childhood movie of mine.
I guess a followup question for those who've been talking about this tool with colleagues, do you just casually call it "beaver" or the full "dee-beaver"? I want to call it "dee-bee beaver" but there's a missing b...
- Bob unzip a Python package.
- Dennis suggested we hire a "penetration tester".
- Mrs. Fraulein was caught browsing "Jew Tube".
- Helen used an essential software product from a "Pentaho"company for more than three years. Mr. Flanders was so disturbed he bought that company and renamed it "Itachi Vantara".
- Raul was using "Zope" to build our Intranet, until our Purity squad learned it was an insult in Spanish.
- David boasted about installing "OpenSIS" at his university.
- Susan was reported for surreptitous use of "ClamAV".
I also recommend terminating Derek for using "Google". It's not in the blacklist, but it just sounds obscene.