If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

[wavefunction@mastodon.sdf.org]

@bloor tshirts printed.

[missconstrue@mefi.social]

@robinadams @bloor I emailed her to tell her I was telling stories about her on the fedi, and she said that I forgot the important bit: she subsequently had it added as a title on her card and CV. Heh. So many of us at the edge of the dot com wave had really weird titles / job descriptions as we tried to figure out how far we could push boundaries before the money people would get cranky.

As it turns out, they didn't give a rat's patoot what we were doing, as long as we were working 80 hour weeks for the carrot of stock options.

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@dragonfrog @bloor Ooooh, the 1990s scuzzy vs sexy wars.

[tazpoltorak@fosstodon.org]

@bloor How do you think I pronounce Power BI?

[saustrup@mstdn.dk]

@bloor It's always Dennis.

[cleopatro@masto.es]

@macosas Y yo que no puedo soportar decir así SQL. Para mí siempre será S Q L

[simonk88@nerdculture.de]

@bloor
The name of the predecessor to SQL was SEQUEL

[anctreat5358@mindly.social]

@mrrmot @countablenewt @greem @bloor If you're like me and came from a Microsoft software development background, you might wonder about the proliferations of "sharps". The world replied "Those are hashtags!"

[v_perjorative@mastodon.org.uk]

@bloor my preference is for Squirrel and Dunce.

[anctreat5358@mindly.social]

@kevinrenskers @bloor @ekuber You're showing your Mario game lineage.

[daswarkeinhuhn@netzkae.se]

@bloor@bloor.tw it's Denise.

[jaeniemc@mastodon.online]

@bloor I’ve always called SQL “squiggle”

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@AncTreat5358 @mrrmot @countablenewt @greem @bloor Used for hashtags but on their own they are just hashes. (Sharp in music is a different sign.)

[mich181189@nerdculture.de]

@lumiukko @bloor I notice “Sequel” is more common among users of Microsoft SQL Server

To the point I weirdly refer to that product as “Sequel Server” but say S Q L for pretty much any other use

[b_age@troet.cafe]

@bloor as a british aristocrat i firmly demand 'Esquirel' as the required pronounciation.

[pixel@redpixels.social]

@bloor Hey Dennis, what is the IP for this domain?

[chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net]

@praetor @bloor probably a similar place to where a job agency once pronounced it "tee cee pip" to me ‍️

[binford2k@hachyderm.io]

@bloor that would make sense because it’s always DNS, DNS the Menace.

[chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net]

@ValerioKristain cheating and crypto retrieval, what a combination

[jan@social.eden.one]

@bloor The sequel to Dennis, the Menace is labelled DNS, the SQL for a reason.