When product names aren't properly workshopped:

> I’m founder and CEO of a company called DoltHub. We’re a fifteen person startup that spent the last eight years building Dolt...

"dolt" is a synonym for "idiot".

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timsehn 2 hours ago | parent [-]

https://docs.dolthub.com/other/faq#why-is-it-called-dolt-are...

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sgbeal 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> https://docs.dolthub.com/other/faq#why-is-it-called-dolt-are...

Noting that "git" was an obscure term in US English before Linus popularized it. "dolt" is already in most native English speakers' vocabularies.

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JohnFen 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It wasn't that obscure in the US before Linus used it, although perhaps its use was regional? I certainly heard it frequently. "git" still means "asshole" in my mind first, and I have to recontextualize that default every time to think of in terms of the version control system.

I have the same problem with "POS". Every time I see of hear that, "point of sale" isn't the thing that pops into my mind first.

	▲	sgbeal 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> It wasn't that obscure in the US before Linus used it, although perhaps its use was regional? That may well be the case. i'd never heard it in any of my years in Nevada, Arkansas, or Texas, and left the States ten years before git (SCM) was a thing. It's certainly possible that it is/was regional and/or became a household word after 1997. Even so... IMO you're doing yourself and your product a disservice by continuing that naming pattern. > I have the same problem with "POS". Agreed entirely :).