alt Hacker NewsSoooo it's fine to name all your variables slurs then? Like, yes, hyperbolic, but the contention was that the SWE community is overwhelming cis while het dudes from the US and we were making it unwelcoming to anyone else.
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I haven't met anyone who is actually uncomfortable with the term "master," only people concerned about what others might think of them. It's not really being inclusive; it's just signaling inclusivity. Surely the time would be better spent, I don't know, volunteering to tutor underprivileged students or something? Or just living your damn life.
> Soooo it's fine to name all your variables slurs then?
Except that never happened. It's fantasy.
What did happen was words like "black hat" and "white hat" got re-classified as hateful language.
I'm actually surprised the conference was spared by the mob.
> it's fine to name all your variables slurs then?
Hyperbole. Renaming “master” directories was a total circlejerk endeavor by the same crowd that came up with Latinx.