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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by dflock on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:45PM (#22377930)
You might want to re-think that name: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dolt

> A mental retard who is clueless not only about current events, but also has the IQ level of a rock. "Dolt" may be the most sophisticated insult in the English language. Dolts commonly populate such stereotypes as jocks, nerds, fruits, bookworms, and dorks.

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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by vharuck on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:53PM (#22377979)
It's probably intentional, because "git" is also an insult to imply somebody's dumb.
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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by dflock on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:58PM (#22378017)
True, but the name `git` came from the open source SCM tool, written by Linus for the Linux source code - and now everyone is sort of stuck with that name. This is a commercial product, deciding on a name for themselves.
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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by dflock on Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:25PM (#22379922)
Also, at least in British English, calling someone a git doesn't mean "dumb" it means "mean/nasty/malicious".
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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by zachmu on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:06PM (#22378079)
It's paying homage to how git was named:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming

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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by dflock on Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:23PM (#22379914)
True, but the name `git` came from the open source SCM tool, written by Linus for the Linux source code - and now everyone is sort of stuck with that name. This is a commercial product, deciding on a name for themselves.
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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by Someone on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:11PM (#22378676)
I was thinking of https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt (nice story about Tesler at Apple, by the way) and hence, reading it that way :-)
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