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You keep complaining about indulging! What's wrong with indulging in something every once in while?
If your indulging hurts others, then it is something worth complaining about.
"main" does seem like an objectively better word to use. The definition fits better in almost every use case. May seem like a silly gesture to some, but imagine feeling an emotional trigger every time you had to use a basic tool for your job. That'd piss me off.
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If your indulging hurts others, then it is something worth complaining about.
I don't exactly understand how you're hurt by this, but fair enough. Utilitarianism is a philosophical framework. It's not for me, but based on your comments you might be into it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
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If your indulging hurts others, then it is something worth complaining about.
I see no supporting argument for “replacing master with main at GitHub hurts others”; is it somewhere in this thread and I wasn’t able to see it unassisted? If not, we would benefit from you typing it up.
Meanwhile slavery still exists in Libya. I don't mind renaming it but it feels like a token action without any real weight.
So yes, this is a token action meant to appease those that are never truly appeased due to their rapid movement of goalposts.
Why is there a lot of presence of these virtue-signaling SJW types in tech?
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...because this is slacktivism lite. Rather than addressing actual issues facing african-americans today, we're engaging in silly naming changes that will have zero impact on 99.9% (optimistically) them ...because I don't want to be paying the externalities (workflow changes, having to keep up with the new "correct" naming) caused by a game of "who can be the most woke" between a vocal minority of progressives
Your first bullet is an argument against this change as being suboptimal. That there's a more optimally utilitarian use of the resources, which I get. The thing I don't get about this argument is that nothing Github (or any of us except for some weirdos) does is optimally utilitarian. They have a cartoon mascot! They don't _need_ that. You're not upset that they pay someone to draw Octocat, why be upset about this? Y…
>A vendor changing something like this is par for the course, right? Why such an extreme reaction?
I'd be similarly pissed off if an upstream API provider suddenly decided to change all their identifier names for stylistic purposes. eg. the CTO woke up one day and decided that all of their API endpoints should be changed from camel case to snake case.
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I see no supporting argument for “replacing master with main at GitHub hurts others”; is it somewhere in this thread and I wasn’t able to see it unassisted? If not, we would benefit from you typing it up.
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