Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet

Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by svisser on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:52PM (#14840872)

Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by maxxxxx on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:21PM (#14841199)

In one company we named projects after mountains in the alps. One was called "Wank" until a few months later an English intern told us that maybe we should change this.

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by 0x006A on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:01PM (#14840977)

its for images on the internet - are you sure it's not a good match?

Joke aside, Pik is also Spades in German. Since its a compression library and it looks like Jan Wassenberg works at the the Zurich office, it might also be some food, in line with the other work they have been doing: brotli, butteraugli, brunsli, guetzli

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by colinbartlett on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:02PM (#14840989)

Oh... (NSFW) https://www.google.com/search?q=pik+meaning+dutch

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by forgot-my-pw on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:14PM (#14841116)

Good for porn images.

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by corobo on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:29PM (#14841278)

Well that is how new tech is often proven

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by fredsir on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:54PM (#14840894)

Danish too.

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by lucb1e on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:11PM (#14841655)

For what it's worth, my girlfriend and I laugh out loud whenever we drive past the Fagotstreet nearby.

Most names are poorly chosen by this standard, given the diversity of existing languages.

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by sofaofthedamned on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:49PM (#14842007)

I failed my Geography exams when I was a teenager due to using the real island of 'Twatt' as an example in my work. Not that I cared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt,_Orkney

There is also a Minge Lane I used to drive past each day in a previous job. Always gave me a chuckle, being a Brit.

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by dep_b on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:56PM (#14840922)

Great match for Flickr!

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by amelius on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:30PM (#14841280)

Is it pronounced as "pic"? In that case, I don't see the problem.

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