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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by korethr on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:49PM (#21487203)
> because it somehow sexual (not being a native english speaker, I fail to spot the innuendo).

In the US, DD is a cup size for a brassiere, and thus indirectly refers to breast size on women. DD for sometime has been considered to be an uncommonly large breast size for a woman, especially a woman of otherwise more common proportions. DDD, being the next cup size up for reasons I don't understand (instead of cup sizes going E, F, etc), would therefore imply a woman even bustier than the supposedly uncommonly-busty DD-breasted woman.

Yes, I think it's silly, too. Human mammary tissue has exactly fuck all to do with programming.

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by natmaka on Saturday November 09, 2019 @06:33AM (#21490906)
"DDD" seems unacceptable, however "CoC" is. Go figure.

http://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by enriquto on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:04AM (#21491274)
if at least they were consistent bullshitters, but their stuff is mostly random
Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by monksy on Friday November 08, 2019 @05:43PM (#21487699)
That's an unreasonably huge leap for the audience to make that connection.
Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Mirioron on Saturday November 09, 2019 @02:12AM (#21490120)
As somebody else pointed or, that's the explanation Sarah Mei gave on Twitter in the past.[0] The tweet about them discovering "3D" is on point.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahmei/status/10732511533604823...

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by monksy on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:09PM (#21495447)
She's not going to care about that.
Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by zaphirplane on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:03PM (#21487842)
I wonder if the d3js project is next in the firing line
Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by monksy on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:01PM (#21488323)
Can we just cancel javascript?
Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by hoistbypetard on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:11PM (#21489083)
Can the letters "JS" be conflated with some other concept that offends someone who is inclined to make a stink on twitter and has a lot of followers? It could happen...

Unfortunately we'd probably just rename it something less offensive like ECMAScript.

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by erik_seaberg on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:15PM (#21495479)
“Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases …”
Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by type0 on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:58AM (#21491241)
Surely, one obvious way to fix this, is that we need to start a petition for changing the name of dd utility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)

what a shitshow that would be

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Khaine on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:27AM (#21491117)
But in most of the world, DD Cup size is followed by E Cup, not DDD. Like most SJWs they taken an American-centric view of the world, which is apparently bad when others do it, but acceptable when they do it.

I'm so sick of this cancel culture bullshit. Didn't they learn about sticks and stones as a kid? Honestly, so many people these days need to eat some concrete to harden the fuck up.

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by soyiuz on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:14PM (#21496365)
"SJWs" "need to eat some concrete"? You sound like a wannabe skinhead teen. Your veiled calls to violence should have nothing to do with / have no place in coding culture.
Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Khaine on Sunday November 10, 2019 @08:58AM (#21497955)
This is a great example of SJWism.

Your amerocentric view of the world assumes that because we speak the same language we have the same culture. We do not. In my culture, telling someone to eat concrete is not taken literally. Its not a call to violence. Its a way of telling someone they need to increase their mental fortitude, that being upset because someone said something you didn't like is not a productive way to go through life.

Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by soyiuz on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:37PM (#21538017)
I am not American. And the meaning of the English language does not change with your culture, which, I might add, does not get transmitted in writing. I am responding to your words only. Eat concrete is crass and violent. You can hand wave all you want. Try conversing without ad hominem labels and insinuations.