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GitHub, fuck your name change
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#962If any of these intellectually-challenged persons have main's degrees, they should have them revoked back down unmarried male person's degrees.
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Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#963If any of these intellectually-challenged persons have main's degrees, they should have them revoked back down unmarried male person's degrees.
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Former U.S. Olympic coach Payton Jordan of California set a world record (30.89 seconds) in the M80 age group in the 200-meter dash at the USATF National Mains Championships in 1997 in San Jose, California.
"Jack of all trades, main of none."
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#965My problem is that this is an American company trying to impose their culture to us. There are a lot of developers from China and India whom Github didn't even consider asking. Question is why should "we" who face far worse challenges than the Blacks in US be asked to change the name. That is what doesn't make sense to me. The idea imposition happens just because we are a poor country and nothing else. I am sure 20 y…
What is the problem for you about the name change?
"Ah, its just a name change" I have been hearing this since I was born from the west to impose their culture onto us.
And let me tell you whats worse. People like you who think they are doing good supporting it.
Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#966My problem is that this is an American company trying to impose their culture to us. There are a lot of developers from China and India whom Github didn't even consider asking. Question is why should "we" who face far worse challenges than the Blacks in US be asked to change the name. That is what doesn't make sense to me. The idea imposition happens just because we are a poor country and nothing else. I am sure 20 y…
Why is the change of the name of the default branch such a hardship for you? Also how do you quantify far worse challenges? Are you treated worse relative to your other country people?
Far worse challenges. How about impoverishment? I am still stumbled how Github has managed to make a fool out of Americans. I thought at the very least these first world country people are educated enough to not fall for propaganda
Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#967Someone "finds" an inane pattern.
They tell everyone else.
The trick is that by being told and because the human mind likes to make associations suddenly some of the listeners see it too.
And then we find ourselves in this odd state of affairs.
Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#968I want to share my own reactions to the name change since this is a really interesting topic. For context, I'm an African American, so many of my ancestors were slaves. - The first time it occurred to me that "master" in this context could offend anyone was when GitHub changed the name (and broke my workflow). - My immediate reaction was, "this change is by white people for white people," where "white" means anyone w…
Where does this line of reasoning end? Should we rename "master's degrees" even though there is no "slave" in this context (just like there is no slave branch in git)? I think it's important for students to take a deep breath and remember to reflect upon racism. For context, I'm Finnish and many of my ancestors were sold as slaves as well.
> For context, I'm Finnish and many of my ancestors were sold as slaves as well.
Just wanted to point out there's a huge difference here. Black communities in America very much live with the legacy, and remanifestation (I recommend reading The Color of Law), of slavery in their everyday lives. At one point in US history, nearly 10% of american identified as KKK members. Do you think all of them suddenly disappeared.
There's also huge legacies in our academia. Just a couple decades ago sociology was essentially the study of eugenics in our own country while anthropology was the study of eugenics in other countries. Even commonly used terms in statistics (e.g. regression to the mean) root from the study of eugenics. There's been much scholarship dedicated to clearly tracing these roots and a constant theme of antiblackness
PBS has a great history documentary called "American Experience: The Eugenics Crusade" that I'd highly recommend if you wanna start to dig at the heels of how deeply rooted this is in our culture
Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#969I'm with GitHub on this one.
Re: GitHub, fuck your name change
#970I want to share my own reactions to the name change since this is a really interesting topic. For context, I'm an African American, so many of my ancestors were slaves. - The first time it occurred to me that "master" in this context could offend anyone was when GitHub changed the name (and broke my workflow). - My immediate reaction was, "this change is by white people for white people," where "white" means anyone w…
It's extremely disappointing to see that the primary reaction on HN to this terminology chain is to bemoan the minor inconvenience of having to type fewer letters or run a replace-all on your scripts. Oh god, the horror. It's almost like people on HN have never used a text replacement tool before. A "master recording" is the immutable "official recording" and is the source from which all copies are made, but the "mas…
> Given that the "master" in historic VCS programs (like Bitkeeper) is explicitly based on master/slave terminology, that git deliberately picked the term to maintain continuity of context with other VCS systems...
While some VCS programs may have used master/slave (I think maybe CVS did?), BitKeeper did not.
The (likely) basis for the belief that BitKeeper use master/slave and git followed them, the GNOME mailing list post[0] that reignited this discussion in 2019, was retracted the next year[1].
I wrote a summary of the history[2] for Git Rev News, the git developers newsletter. In short, the usage didn't come from BitKeeper, and was intended to mean 'master copy'.
After the article was published, Aaron Kushner from BitKeeper reached out and gave me some more history on the usage of 'slave repository' in that one particular spot in BitKeeper[3]: it was a presentation for a client that was already using master/slave terminology and so the same terms were used in the presentation.
0: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
1: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2020-June...
2: https://git.github.io/rev_news/2020/07/29/edition-65/
3: https://twitter.com/AndrewArdill/status/1350537333292949505