[dnautics]

a very unfortunate name. There's a long un-known, part of the population that very likely has a genetic aversion to the stuff. It's a really strong aversion. And it may be up to 5% of the population, if you believe 23andMe.

http://ihatecilantro.com/

[tcdowney]

Seriously?

While I don't think the name is great, who cares.

[Hovertruck]

No offense but I don't see how that matters at all in this context.

[dnautics]

because if someone said, hey go to this site "trycilantro" to help find jobs - I would immediately have an aversion to it and the likelihood of me going there would be lower. I would also have an aversion to try helping out on that site.

You've lost ~10% of your client base right there.

[jacalata]

Wow, that increased from 5% to 10% in half an hour! Or are you suggesting either that cilantro aversion is higher among tech workers, or that people who don't dislike cilantro will also be put off by the name?

I think if Wii and iPad can get past those names then this'll be fine.

[dnautics]

5% on one side, 5% on the other side (presumably independent varibables, but minus a little bit to account for overlap hence ~10% not 10%). "client base" was the wrong turn of phrase, should have said "traffic potential". I don't really know what I'm talking about, so I could have done the math wrong.

[maroonblazer]

And I don't use Python because I hate snakes.

[mVChr]

And I don't because I hate British humor (so much that I refuse to add the second 'u').

[jh3]

> "There's a long un-known, part of the population..."

Shouldn't matter much if they are unknown, right? :)

[dsschnau]

I thought that was exactly the point of the name? Some people would really enjoy working at company x, some wouldn't. Just like cilantro..

[jb55]

I am one of those people. The worst part of eating out at restaurants is finding out at the last moment that they put cilantro on everything, making it inedible. It might as well be called tryratpoison.com.

The site is not as unpleasant as cilantro so I will overlook it for now.

[rubiquity]

How can you possibly hate cilantro? It's smells so incredibly fresh and amazing, plus you can get more than you can eat before it goes bad for like 49 cents at any grocery store.

[jb55]

It's genetic. It has a very unpleasent soap-like taste. Even if there's a little bit it tastes like someone put a bar of soap in your meal.

[eseehausen]

There is a genetic predisposition toward finding it terrible. That's like asking a colorblind person "how can you mix up red and green; they're totally different?"

[rubiquity]

Interesting.

[rickhanlonii]

Because, to him, it tastes like soap.

> In the largest genome-wide association study of cilantro preference to date, 23andMe scientists compared genetic data from more than 25,000 individuals with European ancestry who declared whether they liked the taste of fresh cilantro or whether they thought cilantro had a soapy taste. We found that people with the AA genotype at rs7107418 had higher odds of perceiving a soapy taste in cilantro and higher odds of disliking the herb compared to those with the AG genotype, and people with the GG genotype had lower odds of perceiving a soapy taste or disliking cilantro. This SNP is close to a number of genes coding for olfactory receptors, one of which (OR6A2) is involved in detecting certain chemical compounds called aldehydes that are key components of cilantro aroma.

https://www.23andme.com/about/factoid/cilantro/

[antonioevans]

that's ridiculous.