GitHub, fuck your name change
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GitHub, fuck your name change
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Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#2yeah it sounds like github went overboard on fake 2020 sensitivism and forgot to turn off the machine after biden was elected
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#3This will be flagged and [dead]ed in 3, 2, 1, ...
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#4I feel like this topic has been discussed a lot already, but I think it's important to keep pushing back against useless wasted man-hours like this effort is.
I live in a country that was almost entirely enslaved by foreigners for ~700 years. I've discussed this rename with dozens of engineers in my country. Without exception, every single one of them thinks it's completely ridiculous. We need to keep voicing these thoughts so that decision-makers in large companies have a chance to hear us and realize that they should focus on more useful issues instead.
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#5This is a topic I feel cannot be openly discussed on HN (and basically everywhere else), sadly.
I switched from Github to Gitlab after this change. Political correctness is a great way to know that a company has the completely wrong focus and will be unable to innovate and create good products.
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#7That's exactly what I think about that topic.
Master branch is the master record. Nothing more or less.
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#8I like main better
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#9I just want to add a link to this[0] post here as a counterpoint for why changing language _can_ matter.
The author seems to imply that the name change is all about being non-offensive to some people. Since the author doesn't find the language offensive, they conclude that name change is only political correctness or virtue signalling and a hollow gesture. I do not agree with that. Language and words are very powerful in how we perceive the world. A changing vocabulary is part of cultural change.
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#10> Last summer an(other) unarmed black man was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [...] So, what was tech’s big song and dance? Let’s remove offensive terminology from our collective lexicon. There were several casualties, white/blacklist are examples of words deemed to be too offensive to use.
In my memory this started way before the recent BLM protests - around the time CoC (Code of Conduct) was being introduced.