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The fact that degrees are either a Bachelor's or Master's isn't inclusive language to women. Isn't that obvious?
Its true that I've always thought bachelor to be a strange title.
But I’ll see many tools breaking or bugs surfacing because they can’t find the master branch.
One repository I used didn’t have a “master” branch but a “Master” branch. That was annoying.
Git doesn’t have a concept of a main branch. Maybe we will get that now as a result of GitHub’s change.
I don‘t mind renaming the default branch. But I’ll see many tools breaking or bugs surfacing because they can’t find the master branch. One repository I used didn’t have a “master” branch but a “Master” branch. That was annoying. Git doesn’t have a concept of a main branch. Maybe we will get that now as a result of GitHub’s change.
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I didn't try to make a slippery slope argument. I just want to know if someone considers that title unpleasant, and if so what the alternative could be (not Main of Science obviously).
This could be an awesomely fun sub-thread. Here's my ideas to get things started: How about 'Science Wizard'? ' The Science ' 'Expert of Science' What have the rest of you got? :)
What's a good synonym for mastery? How can you describe someone who has mastered something? Expert, OK. What else?
I'm having trouble understanding why this was flagged. It covers a major change to tool many (most?) developers use including time and reasoning. It's straight to the point, doesn't seem to seem to have much fluff, and isn't really trained with author's option / ideology. Surely much worse and off topic political articles reach the front page without being mass flagged. On a random note, I've had vouch for flagged ar…
Personally, I have mixed feelings about it. I'm tired of these threads too but to express no opinion is to allow others to drive the direction of changes that affect our industry.
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Its true that I've always thought bachelor to be a strange title.
The term "bachelor" in the context of education came from the Latin "baccalaureate", a word which we still use today. Master comes from "magister" which means teacher.
The fact that this change affects only new repos is not reassuring. There are tons of tutorials, scripts and other stuff out there relying on the default naming ("upstream" is the other branch name that is frequently used). Git is already complex enough, especially for beginners.
Also, other git hosting services (and git itself) still use "master" as the default branch name, which will create even more confusion.
You can continue to pretend otherwise, but this is an ideological infiltration into a supposedly rational field. Downvotes or not I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
It is my experience that people that call themselves rational are some of the least rational people.
A) Own shortcomings and lack of healthy self-doubt.
B) That life is 100% subjective. There is no objective authority to be found.
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This could be an awesomely fun sub-thread. Here's my ideas to get things started: How about 'Science Wizard'? ' The Science ' 'Expert of Science' What have the rest of you got? :)
There's really three titles, right? Bachelor, master and doctor. To me, the first was always the weirdest if the bunch, and if we're renaming things, maybe we could confer the hierarchy of the titles? What's a good synonym for mastery? How can you describe someone who has mastered something? Expert, OK. What else?
How about something like "Practitioner" instead of Bachelors, "Expert" instead of Masters, and stick with Doctorate for the PhD?
We could stop using the sex/porn industry and reduce the human trafficking epidemic in some countries, or completely stop buying from companies that manufacture in horrible conditions.. or change computer idioms and debate until we're blue.