[PAPPPmAc]

There's that classic double joke about fad technology names being gibberish and hapless tech recruiters:

"I typically ask recruiters to point out which of these are pokemon" https://imgur.com/gallery/r0SEEoh

[toast0]

The trick is that a lot of Pokémon names make good tech names. Metapod would be a great name for a perl documentation suite, or a container orchestration tool. And that makes caterpie a questionable, but valid, name for a partial container orchestration tool; and maybe butterfree could be containers evolved.

Onix is clearly a unix-like or linux distribution that's shaped around some software with first letter O (Opera? OpenOffice? I dunno), in addition to a Pokémon.

[xenophonf]

MetaPOD is a thing:

https://metacpan.org/pod/MetaPOD

[t0astbread]

Onix is shaped around Operator Framework. It's all containers.

[Izkata]

Vulpix could be something to do with pictures.

[ASalazarMX]

Farfetch could be a database library.

[grawprog]

Hmmm that onyx one almost had me, was gonna say it's both a pokemon and a language...but the Pokemon's spelled Onix.

[PAPPPmAc]

At the time that was doing the rounds (2015 or so) someone expanded it into a "Pokemon or Big Data" quiz game, which is startlingly difficult: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

[creata]

I thought that was extremely easy, but only because the Pokemon didn't go past Generation 3. Flink sounds a whole lot like Klink, a Pokemon from Generation 5.

[codetrotter]

> only because the Pokemon didn't go past Generation 3

That's about two generations too many for me to be able to know :P

[grawprog]

Yeah...the first one's pretty much burned permanently in my mind forever, I can recognize most of the second ones, but after that I don't really know them.

[0_____0]

i can easily understand and accept the idea of an infinite gender spectrum and associated naming conventions but there are ONLY 150(+1) pokémon and nothing anyone says will change my mind

[dilippkumar]

This is fantastic. You should submit this as a post on HN - it deserves its own thread :)

[boogies]

I’ll steal that karma:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpixelastic.github.io...

[saagarjha]

It's easy if you know your Pokémon well. It's really hard if you kinda know names because many of them have lookalike names ;)

[BlueTemplar]

Damn, got the first one wrong :

> ADABAS was NoSQL from a time when there was no SQL. The technology now is owned by Software AG. "Software AG: We're not sure what we do either."

Damn, I seem to get only half of them right, not better than random chance ! EDIT : Ok, 59% correct. (Eventually you get a 'victory' screen.)

[evad3r]

I've seen many people saying "Onyx was the Pokemon, not the language" and I have to resist the urge to reply in all caps going "IT'S SPELT ONIX NOT ONYX"

[k_sze]

There's also this: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

[ASalazarMX]

I failed this miserably last year. Now I got 93% correct. I blame the quarantine and all the publicity Pokémon has done.

[ASalazarMX]

Ekans belonged after Python.