alt Hacker NewsI'm sorry but this is such a stupid name. Where did the author get this name from?
Why would I say that in front of any female colleage or any non-technical layman? We already have a name for this and it is a "popup".
Which sounds better?
"Remove this popup" or "Remove this dickover"
Be honest.
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Cockbrand • today at 1:37 AM
> "Remove this popup" or "Remove this dickover"
> Be honest.
The latter definitely is the more honest answer.
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joeypickles • today at 5:20 AM
I agree, it’s dumb. I never call those things popovers (is that a regional term?) so the whole time the word was a bit jarring. Also, at first I thought this was a riff on combovers, and imagined some weird male Medusa creature with a thinning head of dicks, and it was so disappointing when that turned out to be wrong.
I agree, but being mildly offensive is kind of the point: makes it more memorable, and clearly differentiated from “popup” which is too broad and has many valid uses in an interface. Dickovers never have a valid reason to exist.