Programmer Humor

When I first heard someone say SCSI out loud describing the drives in a server, I responded with, "No, they're actually high-end drives."

suddenly it all makes sense.

Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don't normally make. It didn't work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?

And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL

I really dislike the trend of made up pronunciations. I can accept that gnome is with an audible g since that makes more sense than a silent g, but nginx can be at best similar to engine-x, but even then it's more like the n in dnd rather than en.

It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove

Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.

I went for n-ginx too. I've known for a while that it's actually n-gin-x but have to think carefully to not revert back.

I called it n-jinx once. felt embarrassed for myself as soon as I said it.

called it engine-x ever since.

You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X

It sounds way cooler that way

It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.

One time I was getting estimates for server software for an embedded device I had made. In a teleconference, I told one company that our prototype server ran on nginx. They emailed us an estimate saying we had to switch our embedded system to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, and put the server on Microsoft's cloud, because "Engine X is not an enterprise web server."