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Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by jstummbillig »

dgellow wrote: post #5

The text uses the words "culture", "human history", and "the world/our world". But reading the list of sources included, it seems to mean "the English culture" of US + UK. That's a bit of a shame IMHO.

I would be very interested to hear about important omissions due to that bias.

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by mumblemumble »

dgellow wrote: post #5

The text uses the words "culture", "human history", and "the world/our world". But reading the list of sources included, it seems to mean "the English culture" of US + UK. That's a bit of a shame IMHO.

I am assuming, based on the fact that it's a project by an American company, that this is largely being done by functionally monolingual English speakers. I wouldn't want them to attempt to speak for other cultures. And I wouldn't want to shame them for not attempting to speak for others.

It's a bit unfortunate that they use the word "human" so expansively when the scope is so limited, it's true. But it's a new project, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that that's meant to reflect the project's aspirations. Even if the reality, after only a few short months, doesn't quite achieve it. Tech culture is supposed to value iteration, and accept that things won't necessarily get it all right on the very first try.

A more constructive way to make sure other cultures are reflected would be to say, "Hey, this is a great idea. But looks like you're only covering Anglophone sources right now. Can we help by contributing additional sources?"

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by zurfer »

mumblemumble wrote: post #13
dgellow wrote: post #5

The text uses the words "culture", "human history", and "the world/our world". But reading the list of sources included, it seems to mean "the English culture" of US + UK. That's a bit of a shame IMHO.

I am assuming, based on the fact that it's a project by an American company, that this is largely being done by functionally monolingual English speakers. I wouldn't want them to attempt to speak for other cultures. And I wouldn't want to shame them for not attempting to speak for others. It's a bit unfortunate that they use the word "human" so expansively when the scope is so limited, it's true. But it's a new proje…

exactly, and one don't even need to comment on HN, but can just open an issue or even better a pull request ;)

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by cyphar »

zurfer wrote: post #14
mumblemumble wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am assuming, based on the fact that it's a project by an American company, that this is largely being done by functionally monolingual English speakers. I wouldn't want them to attempt to speak for other cultures. And I wouldn't want to shame them for not attempting to speak for others. It's a bit unfortunate that they use the word "human" so expansively when the scope is so limited, it's true. But it's a new proje…

exactly, and one don't even need to comment on HN, but can just open an issue or even better a pull request ;)

It's a bit late for that -- the archive snapshot has already been created and stored.

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by raziel2p »

vnxli wrote: post #4

How often are tech trees used in software development/ project management? I’m leading a hardware development project and I made a tech tree for my team- but I had only ever seen them in video games. Would love some professional examples

Could you elaborate on how you made a tech tree for a development team/project? I'm struggling to imagine how that would look.

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by talideon »

dgellow wrote: post #5

The text uses the words "culture", "human history", and "the world/our world". But reading the list of sources included, it seems to mean "the English culture" of US + UK. That's a bit of a shame IMHO.

Given there are other README files covering a number of other major languages, I think you might be a little harsh. That file is really only meant to cover the Anglophone world and even then is only an initial compilation.
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