Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches
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Bugs are common in the software world, and I use a bug
as my avatar image. Sometimes, we may see features, and perhaps you remember that old car by volkswagen, which is not a bug, but a beetle.
Now comes the next competitor.
Cockroaches.
Yes.Could you imagine to name your greatest newest latest product after such a beast?
CockroachDB does.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
Could you imagine to name your greatest newest latest product after such a beast?
CockroachDB does.
Cockroaches' main claim to fame is being near-indestructible by all kinds of shit from climatic conditions and starvation to various poisons and radiation. Makes sense for such a product.
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@LaoC said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
Makes sense for such a product.
: "Look at all the 
I can put in this thing!"
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@dcon And it even finds food in it...
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I'll take CockroachDB — for the reasons @LaoC pointed out above — as a name over CouchDB any day. (no idea about the actual databases)
Now where did I put $data?
Have you checked under the cushions?
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Btw, there is a funny story by the polish writer Slawomir Mrozek, about some civil servants playing "cockroach roulette" while they pretend to do overtime during night shifts.
They shut off the lights shortly, the cockroaches come out, switch it on again, and now everyone quickly bets just a few cents on a cockroach. Winner is the guy who bet on the cockroach which disappeared fastest.
End of the story is when one of those guys lost all his things, and called pest-control. No more night shifts done anymore.So, with CockroachDB, how does that game work?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
So, with CockroachDB, how does that game work?
Monks of the Invariant Invertebrate clan play the game of switching the datacenter off and on, betting on how long it will take to recover. The monk who loses all his things calls the Java Master who reimplements the clustering in Oracle
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@BernieTheBernie said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
Bugs are common in the software world, and I use a bug
as my avatar image. Sometimes, we may see features, and perhaps you remember that old car by volkswagen, which is not a bug, but a beetle.Heresy. In America, the single country with the most Beetles, they were probably called Bugs more often than Beetles. This was not their formal name (just as Bernie is probably not on your birth certificate, but Bernard or something else).
It would not even surprise me if there was a time or two that they were called Bugs in their advertisements, since that was their common name.
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@jinpa said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
@BernieTheBernie said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
Bugs are common in the software world, and I use a bug
as my avatar image. Sometimes, we may see features, and perhaps you remember that old car by volkswagen, which is not a bug, but a beetle.Heresy. In America, the single country with the most Beetles, they were probably called Bugs more often than Beetles. This was not their formal name (just as Bernie is probably not on your birth certificate, but Bernard or something else).
It would not even surprise me if there was a time or two that they were called Bugs in their advertisements, since that was their common name.
If you can't trust Hollywood, who can you trust?
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One cannot have a topic on beetles without being reminded of:
There is a story, possibly apocryphal, of the distinguished British biologist, J.B.S. Haldane, who found himself in the company of a group of theologians. On being asked what one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation, Haldane is said to have answered, “An inordinate fondness for beetles.”
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@jinpa said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
In America, ... they were probably called Bugs more often than Beetles.
Their "official" german name was "Käfer" which means "beetle".
And I do not know for a car /or motorbike to be officially named "Kakerlake" (cockroach). Though I remember an italian motorbike being called "Vespa" (wasp).
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@BernieTheBernie said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
@jinpa said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
In America, ... they were probably called Bugs more often than Beetles.
Their "official" german name was "Käfer" which means "beetle".
Or "bug" in Murrican.
The NYT seems to have invented the term "beetle" that was much later adopted in Germany and only almost three decades later did Volkswagen start calling them that. When the nickname was coined, the official name was "KdF-Wagen" which was understandably less popular after the war, even among people who will happily use a TLA for "truck" in common parlance.And I do not know for a car /or motorbike to be officially named "Kakerlake" (cockroach).
Dunno how "official" that one is, probably just like the Beetle though:
1931 Ford Roadster "Cockroach" - Polished Not Restored
Historical artifacts and works of art shouldn't be messed with. This 1931 Ford Roadster built by Jim Cooper in the early sixties, was lovingly resuscitated.
Though I remember an italian motorbike being called "Vespa" (wasp).
There's also the "Surron Ultra Bee" and a Caterpillar branded motorbike. The Citroën nicknamed "Centipede" is even more obscure though.
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@LaoC said in Bugs, Beetles, and Cockroaches:
The Citroën nicknamed "Centipede" is even more obscure though.
TIL.
The pictures and description in the article don't make it obvious, but it had 11 wheels, the last one being the truck tyre being tested (and for which the whole thing was built), which is inside the back, as can be briefly seen on this old video. It's also not clear from the article, but it apparently weighted 9 tons (probably because it carried two engines, and could apply a load of 3 tons on the tyre being tested?), which I guess explains why it needed so many wheels.
I'm amused that (as explained by the video) the whole thing was built from standard parts, which meant it was road-worthy. And apparently, it was used on regular roads for some time, until speed limits on normal roads became too restrictive and forced it to be used on test circuits only.
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