I already have a `q`, and frankly it's useful to me, so this piece of software will never be called `q` on any of my systems.
I suspect a lot of people have locked up all the single-letter aliases too, and I believe almost all of them would have the same position.
There's other tools for doing DNS diagnostics that are already installed on every system in the world. If I learn this one, I will have to take responsibility for maintaining the fact that I have to give it another name, and distribute that to other systems -- I won't be able to use this tool in a script, because I'll have to make sure the name is configurable for everyone else just like me.
Now I will not even give this software a chance because all of that seems so obvious to me, and the cuteness of the name such a display of fetishism (which usually detracts from quality in my experience) has me starting with an extremely low opinion and I haven't even made it to the github page yet. This software would have to be really good to overcome that. Is it?
I anticipate that being the big problem with choosing such a high-value single-letter name for something with such a narrow use-case. It just seems smarter to learn the tools that are already there. Heck, "c" can do everything and it doesn't even have the gall to do this; I think "cc" is a much better name, and whilst there are still a fair number of two-letter combinations that aren't used, I think I probably compile more C programs than do DNS diagnostics so maybe three or more letters would be better (if you buy the idea that huffman-coding your names is a good idea-- and I do)
bejelentkezni|3 years ago
geocar|3 years ago
I suspect a lot of people have locked up all the single-letter aliases too, and I believe almost all of them would have the same position.
There's other tools for doing DNS diagnostics that are already installed on every system in the world. If I learn this one, I will have to take responsibility for maintaining the fact that I have to give it another name, and distribute that to other systems -- I won't be able to use this tool in a script, because I'll have to make sure the name is configurable for everyone else just like me.
Now I will not even give this software a chance because all of that seems so obvious to me, and the cuteness of the name such a display of fetishism (which usually detracts from quality in my experience) has me starting with an extremely low opinion and I haven't even made it to the github page yet. This software would have to be really good to overcome that. Is it?
I anticipate that being the big problem with choosing such a high-value single-letter name for something with such a narrow use-case. It just seems smarter to learn the tools that are already there. Heck, "c" can do everything and it doesn't even have the gall to do this; I think "cc" is a much better name, and whilst there are still a fair number of two-letter combinations that aren't used, I think I probably compile more C programs than do DNS diagnostics so maybe three or more letters would be better (if you buy the idea that huffman-coding your names is a good idea-- and I do)
CorrodeXY|3 years ago
Call it qdns?