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GitHub, fuck your name change

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Re: GitHub, fuck your name change

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EDIT: For comparison: * "Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers" (5hrs ago, 110 points, 30 comments) -> rank 2 * this post (2hrs ago, 1000 points, 500 comments) -> rank 20 Why is this post being penalized? Too many black folks commenting and up voting? (/s) ----- Amazingly well written. I'm going to say some things. You'd guess wrongly if you infer that I'm bitter - since I'm personally very lucky. Having been b…

I understand your anger, but that piece of advice was meant for the kind of people that CAN afford a vacation after a startup failure. Is something wrong with that? If you can afford a vacation, you take it. If you can't, you don't.

I myself have a failed startup that I ran in 2018-2019. Could I afford a vacation afterwards? Nope. Can I afford another entrepreneurial run now? Nope. Am I bitter about it? Nope.

Also, you mention "incredible disconnectedness from the plight of even regular people by the world's tech bubbles", but then you talk about starting a STARTUP. Regular people don't start companies.

Re: GitHub, fuck your name change

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I still get very annoyed with the name change every time I encounter it. I have a bunch of poorly written scripts that occasionally break with repos that have a main branch, so I have to fix these scripts I’ve written like 8 years ago

Re: GitHub, fuck your name change

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> Black representation in tech is truly abysmal.

I guess the author is talking about a Western country? There are plenty of countries where another color is dominant across all sectors (not just tech). For example, brown in Asian countries, black in African countries. I don't hear any complaints about that.

If the OP is saying that people of minority race are discriminated, that is a different and valid point. But blindly saying that there should be more people of minority race (which would make them the majority, not the minority) in every sector, doesn't make any sense.

Re: GitHub, fuck your name change

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post #33

> So while the tech community was rushing around, trying to do their best impression of a black square post on Insta I remember thinking, “oh for fucks sake, they’ve completely missed the point”. Why? They forgot to talk to people who are actually members of the black community. In practice, big techs don't care about POC, they care about mobs. "Inclusive" words is just what make mobs happy and it's cheaper to do tha…

Is “person of color” an okay thing to say in US? It really rubs me the wrong way (as a non-native English speaker).

To me it’s kinda like calling people with long noses “people of nose size”.

Re: GitHub, fuck your name change

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EDIT: For comparison: * "Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers" (5hrs ago, 110 points, 30 comments) -> rank 2 * this post (2hrs ago, 1000 points, 500 comments) -> rank 20 Why is this post being penalized? Too many black folks commenting and up voting? (/s) ----- Amazingly well written. I'm going to say some things. You'd guess wrongly if you infer that I'm bitter - since I'm personally very lucky. Having been b…

> How the fuck does one TAKE A VACATION after your startup fails?!

That's hilarious.

But hey, you could technically do that in France without swimming in money: you legally can keep your position in a company on-hold while creating a startup, for 1-2 years (3 if you do tricks with your right to a sabbatical year). If it fails after that, you just go back to work. [0]

The holidays you might have saved before leaving are deferred until you join again, so you can literally have paid holidays after your project fails.

[0] https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2382

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