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A comment on Ask HN: Preferred word to describe “Unnecessarily complainsome grumpy person”?.

Re:Ask HN: Preferred word to describe “Unnecessarily complai... by liveduo on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:54AM (#34063808)
From wikipedia:

Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name git (which means "unpleasant person" in British English slang): "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."

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Re:Ask HN: Preferred word to describe “Unnecessarily complai... by ihatepython on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:29AM (#34064451)
He should have chosen 'Freax', it's a much better name
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