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Re:Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database buil... by replwoacause on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:47PM (#35954948)
What’s up with the name? A ‘dolt’ is a stupid person, at least in the English language.
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Re:Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database buil... by pjm331 on Monday May 15, 2023 @07:17PM (#35955832)
“git” is also a stupid person - and dolt is git for data
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Re:Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database buil... by melx on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @06:11AM (#35959750)
My mate used to say "git" to say something is fine/good (to him).
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Re:Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database buil... by DemocracyFTW2 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:47PM (#35966826)
That's just the British pronunciation of 'perfect'.
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Re:Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database buil... by melx on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:00AM (#35972798)
Yes, but English wasn't our first language back then (in ~2005).
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Re:Show HN: Sortabase, a collaborative, visual database buil... by sl-dolt on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:25PM (#35957435)
We're trying to reclaim the word
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