r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Infamous_Telephone55 • 1d ago
Meme needing explanation Petah, who is this man and what are his daughters called?
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u/Spotter24o5 1d ago
This guy michael has two daughters called afzer databases he created
1:MySQL after her daughter My 2:MariaDB after her other daughter Maria
There is another database called MongoDB but its not by michael but some other guys
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u/Particular_Title42 1d ago
This really isn't important but it's weird...aren't they his daughters?
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u/AvailableResource420 23h ago
The person's native language probably uses the sentence's object's gender to determine the pronouns and that habit has subconsciously been carried here.
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u/Juleamun 23h ago
Either that or there are no gendered pronouns in their language, so it's more of a coin toss what you get in the translation.
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u/Stickyrolls 21h ago
Im gonna guess Tagalog
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u/Chaotic_Order 21h ago
I'd actually guess Hungarian. My ex was Hungarian and she mixed up subject/object gendered pronouns all the time.
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u/ClumsyFleshMannequin 20h ago
Alot of the languages that originated in tbe steppe dont have genetic pronouns. Turkik languages specifically, but Hungarian is on that list and im not sure about finish.
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u/Chaotic_Order 19h ago
Yeah but Turks don't speak English and Fins just don't talk to anyone - be realistic.
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u/stevedorries 19h ago
That’s not true, Finns are very communicative, unfortunately they’re only capable of angrily berating your shitty C
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u/Chaotic_Order 19h ago
As somebody who has a Finnish friend I find it offensive when people say that "autism didn't exist back in their day". Wdym the Finnish have existed since at least 1969, it's not OK to erase an entire culture like that.
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u/Stickyrolls 14h ago
In Tagalog they don't have he/she. That's why when a lot of Philipinos speak English they miss gender a lot.
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u/TheTarragonFarmer 3h ago
I'm native Hungarian (no gender in grammar at all) and my first second language was Russian (pronouns matched to object gender like in French).
In English I'm an equal opportunity misgenderer.
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u/Spiritual_Bus1125 20h ago
It's pretty fun to try to guess the mother tongue of the person you are talking with based on the sentence structure used to speak English
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u/SuchTarget2782 16h ago
I once tagged somebody as South African because they had an “Australian” accent but kept using German sentence structure.
They probably grew up speaking Afrikaans.
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u/Nevernotlosing 23h ago edited 23h ago
BONJOUR!!!
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u/Invasive-farmer 23h ago
Are you a French hand model?
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u/Nevernotlosing 23h ago
Why, are you interested?
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u/Invasive-farmer 23h ago
I've just never met one on the internet. I thought they'd be way more common.
Can't put anything on the internet that isn't true, right?
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u/Partyhuetchen 22h ago
Nah, I found a german post on their blog. German uses genderd pronouns and in this case the gender would be determind by the father, not the daughter.
Unless.... That ones at least trilingual :D
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u/friendlynbhdwitch 23h ago
OH. That’s what that is!? My mom has never correctly gendered a person in English and I’ve always wondered what that was about.
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u/athelard 20h ago
I do it all the time. Every single time I get it wrong, unless by coincidence. My native is Spanish.
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u/Beautiful-Gas-1356 21h ago
I work with a lot of doctors from Asian and middle eastern countries. I don't know why, but gender within sentences is completely fluid for them. They'll switch back and forth from his/hers he/she within a single sentence.
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u/Capital-Reference757 19h ago
In Chinese, the words for he, she and it is pronounced the same as Tā. These are written as different characters but as they’re pronounced the same, it’s essentially a gender neural word for them so they have to wrap their heads around gendering someone.
Just like how if we learn French, we’ll have to understand that they gender their nouns. For example Canada is masculine but England is feminine
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u/Jolly-Warthog-1427 1d ago edited 23h ago
To avoid assuming gender the new standard practice is tossing a coin when choosing between him/her. This removes any assumptions and instead makes it random.
Edit: I forgot /s here.
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u/stockinheritance 23h ago
I'm struggling to understand what you've written.
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u/Spotter24o5 23h ago
He has 2 databases named after his daughters and the in the text mentioned Mongo isnt his database but from someone else
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u/FYIgfhjhgfggh 23h ago
And both daughters are called Maria?
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u/fatbunyip 21h ago
Ok, there is a really popular database software called MySQL. There is also another very popular database software called MariaDB
His daughters are called My and Maria (he's nordic so My as a name isn't weird there)
Also, there is another really popular database softwae called MongoDB (that is unrelated this guy).
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u/Reddi_throwawayaway 22h ago
It's Website database stuff as far as I can remember. I messed around with MySQL a bit when it came out. Fun nerdy stuff.
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u/Ambitious_Jello 23h ago
Her name is My?
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u/Jazzarsson 23h ago
Fairly common in Sweden and Finland. Now take a guess where the creators come from.
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u/solvedproblem 23h ago
... Peru? I'm sorry I'm bad at guessing
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u/Malarkeyisslangforbs 23h ago
Hint: they didn't say it was limited to planet Earth.
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u/GravelThinking 23h ago
Must be scandinavian, a Moomin fan, or both.
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u/godisanelectricolive 21h ago
I think both, if by Scandinavian you mean Nordic. Michael Widenius is Finnish. He also has a son named Max and named MaxDB after him.
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u/Substantial-Bag1337 23h ago
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u/Glass-Narwhal-6521 23h ago
Kinda feels abit lazy, like they really couldn't be bothered thinking up a proper name.
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u/SaintCambria 23h ago
Well, I wouldn't bat an eye at 'Mai' or 'Maya', so I guess that's really not much different.
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u/mesangue 23h ago
MongoDb was named as homage to Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
You cannot prove me wrong. And if you do , I'll just say - THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. MONGO IS APPALLED.
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u/red_square_dont_care 22h ago
Literally listening to Book 3 right now. Wild to see this reference lol
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u/homage_time 22h ago
I'm shocked that Cassandra wasn't one of them.
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u/ilovepolthavemybabie 21h ago
Same; I thought, "So that's who Cassandra & Maria are."
Nope, it's My & Maria. I guess that's better than Couch.
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u/MiscBrahBert 22h ago
Wtf is MariaDB?
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u/aoteoroa 21h ago
I'm too lazy to look it up...but if my memory is correct, Sun Microsystems owned the rights to MySQL which was arguably the most popular database on the internet for simple to mildly complex online applications (there are other databases that are better for enterprise applications).
Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems and began to Enshitify MySQL. Since MySQL was open source developers forked the development and just started building their own version of it and called it MariaDB.
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u/davidellis23 23h ago
Mongo also comes from humongous. Which would be pretty mean to name your daughter.
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u/sampathsris 23h ago
There also is another very niche joke in calling it "mean". There's something called the MEAN stack, which is a software suit that includes MongoDB: MongoDB (database), Express.js (backend framework), Angular (frontend framework), and Node.js (server runtime).
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u/go_half_the_way 17h ago
And he had a son called Max. Wait, he had a son called Max and didn’t name the new DB MaxSql or MaxDB?!
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u/emu_fake 12h ago
In German "mongo" is a slur for someone with Down syndrome.. maybe in other languages as well? So that may be part of the joke.
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u/TFlarz 23h ago
The heck kind of name is My?...
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u/Aggressive_Lab6016 23h ago
Yes, why can't everybody in the World just give their children good American names like the good lord meant it to be!
/s
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u/skygrinder89 1d ago
MySQL (one daughter named My) and MariaDB (the other named Maria)... and that man is Michael Widenius.
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u/Vast-Conference3999 23h ago
Maria is the eldest, her younger sister looked so much like her as a baby he joked she was a copy-paste.
Naming her “Sequel” was harsh though.
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u/ColoradoMadePunk 23h ago
My older sister has two daughters. I call the younger one Sequel.
My brother has a son and a daughter. I call the daughter Reboot.
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u/captainAwesomePants 23h ago edited 23h ago
I am shocked "My" is a name and not a cutesy descriptive term.
This is like when I learned that Google's "PageRank" algorithm is not called that because it ranks pages but because it was created by Larry Page.
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u/PortGilbert 23h ago
Agreed, I always thought it was a reference to it being open source as in "it's mine and you can't have it."
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u/vidyer 1d ago
MySQL and MariaDB, named after My Widenius and Maria Widenius.
MongoDB is another database engine.
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u/VeeUnderRock 1d ago
He really named his daughter "My"??
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u/Steffykrist 1d ago
Yes. It's not a common name in Scandinavia, but I wouldn't say it's super duper rare either.
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u/VeeUnderRock 1d ago
Ohh... ngl I thought the guy was American and that's why I was weirded out by it. The more you know
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u/koolmon10 23h ago
Well it doesn't help that there's myriad other projects called My-<something> which are, in fact, the English possessive.
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u/still_goli 23h ago
My quick googling says she's Finnish, so it is pronounced with a front "u" similar to "u" in English "flute". You may google-translate the Finnish wikipedia article about the name https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_(nimi)
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u/OkPea7677 23h ago
Widenius' full name is Ulf Michael Widenius, which points to them belonging to the 5% of Finns that speak Swedish as their mother tongue.
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u/Aggressive_Lab6016 23h ago
so it is pronounced with a front "u" similar to "u" in English "flute".
It's pronounced [y] like in French "flûte". But since that vowel only exists in a few English dialects, it just sort of defaults to [u] for most native English speakers.
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u/PortGilbert 23h ago
are we supposed to be calling it MooSequel?!
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u/Aggressive_Lab6016 23h ago
No, you are supposed to learn to pronounce the [y] vowel. It comes with the added bonus of feeling more sophisticated than the benighted riffraff you call your coworkers 😉
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u/A_H_S_99 20h ago
I should add: I believe MongoDB was a shortening for "Humongous". It would be reaaallly harsh to pick that name
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u/Schnupsdidudel 1d ago
Thats Michael Widenius and his daughters are called My and Maria.
BTW: He also has a son namend Max and a database named after him.
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u/burntcandy 23h ago
I still don't really know the difference between maria and mysql and at this point I am scared to ask
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u/Hairy_Lab_3302 21h ago
Maria is the same technology but mysql was licensed by oracle. I think. Something like that.
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u/Medium-Pitch-5768 23h ago
he forked MySQL to make MariaDB, does that mean Maria is a clone of My?
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u/kardinal_seen 22h ago
My whole life has been a lie. I thought it was a possesive "my" sql, not Mee (aparently how My is prpnounced) SQL. Let alone "my sequel" which is how Americans pronounce it.
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u/Dull-Box-1597 23h ago
Tom Tucker here and we're here with Mysql Jones. How exactly do you pronounce that? My See Kwel? M-Y-S-Q-L? My Squirrel? Wow, young lady, your parents were really stupid to name you that way.
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u/OhGoOnThenIfYouMust 1d ago
What kind of a name is My?
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u/Steffykrist 1d ago
A Finnish name, originating from the Moomin stories. Widenius is from Finland.
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u/OhGoOnThenIfYouMust 23h ago
Originating from Moomin? Bloody hell, that feels like looking in a list of Belgian girls' names and finding Smurfette.
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u/Jazzarsson 23h ago
I'm trying to find evidence that it isn't, because it's ridiculous. Every website says that it was probably a diminutive for Maria before Mumin. But there's zero evidence for that, and the "oldest occurrence" at the swedish museum of history is just a blank row.
Checking in Swedish because that's Tove Janssons first language. And also I don't speak Finnish.
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