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A cool tool with an unfortunate name. I'm not going to send a link to datafart.com/mygraph to someone with whom I only have a professional relationship.

paulrosenzweig 14y ago
This wasn't really intended to share graphs. In addition to the name, each graph is deleted after 10 minutes.
- Scramblejams 14y ago
  A neat utility. The short-lived nature of the graphs doesn't bother me at all. But with that name I couldn't even recommend it to a number of people I can think of in my professional circle.
  - st0p 14y ago
    Well, then those people have no sense of humor. When people don't have any sense of humor, I'd rather not work with them. So I'm not seeing any problem here.
    - dkokelley 14y ago
      Not all of us can be so selective with people we work with.
      - st0p 14y ago
        Why not?
        Scramblejams 14y ago
        You're being facile. "Why not?" Because, for example, if you decide you really want to work with frickin' lasers, that may be more important to you than working at a place where clowns are appreciated in all their glory.
    - Permit 14y ago
      >So I'm not seeing any problem here. I suppose if the target audience of this application is "st0p", then you'd be correct. The rest of us don't necessarily get the luxury of choosing what sort of sense of humor our employers have.
      - st0p 14y ago
        Hmmmm. Dunno. If you have baisc experience and a proper grasp of programming and live in the westeren world, you might not know beforehand if an employer had humor, but you can still choose your employer.
        Wilya 14y ago
        If by "basic experience of programming", you mean 10+ years of experience or a Stanford/MIT/Berkeley degree, and by "western world" you mean Silicon Valley (and a few other very select areas, all of them within the US), yeah, I agree. Outside that, the number of decent opportunities you'll get as a developer will be too low for you to be picky.
    - jtheory 14y ago
      I dunno -- most who know me would say I have a sense of humor, but that doesn't mean I think the word "fart" is funny in and of itself, or expect anyone around me to either, beyond my 3-year-old. I'm also occasionally aware of how others build their concept of me. If someone had known me for years and I recommended this service, I can't imagine it would make any difference. If we'd had only incidental interactions, this could easily remain the first thing that pops into their head when they think of me in the future. I worked once in the same company as a talented designer who told a hilarious but quite scatalogical story at lunch one day. That's still the main thing that pops into my head when I think of him. I don't know that it'd stop me from recommending or hiring him, but it remains a significant part of how he's defined in my head. I'm not sure if this makes me seem like a wet blanket, or overparanoid -- my real point is that I have quite a few different filters, and for most parts of my professional life "fart" doesn't make it past at all.
    - anigbrowl 14y ago
      That's like suggesting someone is illiterate because they no longer care to read books written for small children. Of course, if that's all you're capable of reading, those people must seem pretty stupid.
    - wtracy 14y ago
      There's a world of difference between having no sense of humor, and simply not sharing your sense of humor.
    - pfortuny 14y ago
      Dont' confuse sense of humor with being keen on laughing at brown jokes. Humor for a grown-up person, in an abstract situation (like with professional colleagues) is very difficult to attain. You can perfectly be unpolite trying to be humorous with this kind of joke. The easy joke is not necessarily polite and is usually unintelligent: so it is a way of telling the other part "look, laugh at this silly thing" when actually one ought to be able to say "look, laugh at this intelligent joke".
aaronpk 14y ago
Good point. I'd probably take a screenshot with Skitch and send that. Then it would last longer than 10 minutes too.
syassami 14y ago
just pronounce it "dataf-art"
bobbydavid 14y ago
The name immediately made me think of German. I checked, and DatenFahrt.com is still available.
- hxseven 14y ago
  That actually makes sense in German, it means something like "data ride". But as I saw it first I didn't notice the similarity to the German words. I somehow thought it's a reference to South Park ;)

paulrosenzweig 14y ago

This wasn't really intended to share graphs. In addition to the name, each graph is deleted after 10 minutes.

Scramblejams 14y ago
A neat utility. The short-lived nature of the graphs doesn't bother me at all. But with that name I couldn't even recommend it to a number of people I can think of in my professional circle.
- st0p 14y ago
  Well, then those people have no sense of humor. When people don't have any sense of humor, I'd rather not work with them. So I'm not seeing any problem here.
  - dkokelley 14y ago
    Not all of us can be so selective with people we work with.
    - st0p 14y ago
      Why not?
      - Scramblejams 14y ago
        You're being facile. "Why not?" Because, for example, if you decide you really want to work with frickin' lasers, that may be more important to you than working at a place where clowns are appreciated in all their glory.
  - Permit 14y ago
    >So I'm not seeing any problem here. I suppose if the target audience of this application is "st0p", then you'd be correct. The rest of us don't necessarily get the luxury of choosing what sort of sense of humor our employers have.
    - st0p 14y ago
      Hmmmm. Dunno. If you have baisc experience and a proper grasp of programming and live in the westeren world, you might not know beforehand if an employer had humor, but you can still choose your employer.
      - Wilya 14y ago
        If by "basic experience of programming", you mean 10+ years of experience or a Stanford/MIT/Berkeley degree, and by "western world" you mean Silicon Valley (and a few other very select areas, all of them within the US), yeah, I agree. Outside that, the number of decent opportunities you'll get as a developer will be too low for you to be picky.
  - jtheory 14y ago
    I dunno -- most who know me would say I have a sense of humor, but that doesn't mean I think the word "fart" is funny in and of itself, or expect anyone around me to either, beyond my 3-year-old. I'm also occasionally aware of how others build their concept of me. If someone had known me for years and I recommended this service, I can't imagine it would make any difference. If we'd had only incidental interactions, this could easily remain the first thing that pops into their head when they think of me in the future. I worked once in the same company as a talented designer who told a hilarious but quite scatalogical story at lunch one day. That's still the main thing that pops into my head when I think of him. I don't know that it'd stop me from recommending or hiring him, but it remains a significant part of how he's defined in my head. I'm not sure if this makes me seem like a wet blanket, or overparanoid -- my real point is that I have quite a few different filters, and for most parts of my professional life "fart" doesn't make it past at all.
  - anigbrowl 14y ago
    That's like suggesting someone is illiterate because they no longer care to read books written for small children. Of course, if that's all you're capable of reading, those people must seem pretty stupid.
  - wtracy 14y ago
    There's a world of difference between having no sense of humor, and simply not sharing your sense of humor.
  - pfortuny 14y ago
    Dont' confuse sense of humor with being keen on laughing at brown jokes. Humor for a grown-up person, in an abstract situation (like with professional colleagues) is very difficult to attain. You can perfectly be unpolite trying to be humorous with this kind of joke. The easy joke is not necessarily polite and is usually unintelligent: so it is a way of telling the other part "look, laugh at this silly thing" when actually one ought to be able to say "look, laugh at this intelligent joke".

aaronpk 14y ago

Good point. I'd probably take a screenshot with Skitch and send that. Then it would last longer than 10 minutes too.

syassami 14y ago

just pronounce it "dataf-art"

bobbydavid 14y ago

The name immediately made me think of German. I checked, and DatenFahrt.com is still available.

hxseven 14y ago
That actually makes sense in German, it means something like "data ride". But as I saw it first I didn't notice the similarity to the German words. I somehow thought it's a reference to South Park ;)