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jwecker
4056 days ago
Fun fact- Nimrod means mighty hunter. The negative connotation came from early Bugs Bunny cartoons where he applies the name sarcastically to Elmer Fudd.
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evilduck
4056 days ago
Kind of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod
There's definitely a much older negative connotation than the Bugs Bunny usage.
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jessaustin
4056 days ago
You don't like big waterfall projects like the Tower of Babel? You must be one of those microservices people... b^)
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sigzero
4056 days ago
Also a very cool future sentinel in the X-Men comics.
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Dewie3
4056 days ago
The voices of American programmers are loud and many.
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platz
4055 days ago
At least we still have Coq
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There's definitely a much older negative connotation than the Bugs Bunny usage.