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Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.
by svisser 9y ago
Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.
- fredsir 9y agoDanish too.
- dep_b 9y agoGreat match for Flickr!
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- 0x006A 9y agoits for images on the internet - are you sure it's not a good match? Joke aside, Pik is also Spades in German. Since its a compression library and it looks like Jan Wassenberg works at the the Zurich office, it might also be some food, in line with the other work they have been doing: brotli, butteraugli, brunsli, guetzli
- colinbartlett 9y agoOh... (NSFW) https://www.google.com/search?q=pik+meaning+dutch https://www.google.com/search?q=pik+meaning+dutch
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoGood for porn images.
- corobo 9y agoWell that is how new tech is often proven
- maxxxxx 9y agoIn one company we named projects after mountains in the alps. One was called "Wank" until a few months later an English intern told us that maybe we should change this.
- amelius 9y agoIs it pronounced as "pic"? In that case, I don't see the problem.
- lucb1e 9y agoFor what it's worth, my girlfriend and I laugh out loud whenever we drive past the Fagotstreet nearby. Most names are poorly chosen by this standard, given the diversity of existing languages.
- sofaofthedamned 9y agoI failed my Geography exams when I was a teenager due to using the real island of 'Twatt' as an example in my work. Not that I cared. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt,_Orkney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt,_Orkney There is also a Minge Lane I used to drive past each day in a previous job. Always gave me a chuckle, being a Brit.