Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work.

Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by jforrest on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @12:32PM (#4069336)

Does it matter? "Regular" people won't pick up on the reference to git, but it's still a nice short domain name, easy to spell and pronounce, and git is a slang spelling for get. I think the name works well.

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Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by jordanmessina on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @12:41PM (#4069380)

Git is also British slang for stupid. Like all Torvalds' software, he names it after himself :)

I think you're right. It's a good domain name and "regular" people won't pick up on the reference and won't really care regardless.

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Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by gmac on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @01:26PM (#4069665)

Git is also British slang for stupid.

In my book, not exactly. It's more like the mildest possible term of abuse. You could generally get away with calling someone a git to their face and in front of their grandmother. Assuming they'd done something tricksy or cheeky or grumpy.

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Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by whit537 on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @12:38PM (#4069366)

What he said. :-)

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