Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub
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From _my_ personal perspective githubs "inclusivity" has caused me to run a personal gitlab server.
I don't write code to get harassed about my use of master/slave vs primary/replica. I just write code.
I wrote a very poorly edited piece on why I thought this way: https://blog.dijit.sh/moving-away-from-github
I freely admit that this is not a popular opinion on hackernews. But as a very disadvantaged and underprivileged person I am rather uninspired by the equality of outcome movements that are wofting over silicone valley, and I highly doubt that the actions described in TFA are accurate.
If all you're there to do is write code, then why even have an opinion on master/slave vs. primary/replica? Caring which is chosen is the opposite of "just coding", so if people prefer primary/replica—which many people do—just change it and get on with the coding. Fighting against it is a complete waste of time. If you spend your time arguing about it, then your claims of "I just write code" are suspect.
the goalposts are ever moving. Fuck all that.
Also, despite the downvotes I think these kinds of dissent against popular opinion need to be shared. I'm sick of pandering to the liberal agenda. I'm not right wing and I respect everybody but there's far too much focus on women and minorities. -- like I said before nobody gave a fuck when I was from a white trash background. I got a job because I was the best that applied for the position, I worked hard for that, damn hard.- I certainly didn't get any help because I was white. I didn't even get a job in my country to begin with- so I was just as disadvantaged as any other migrant at the time.
I'm also very surprised (and a bit suspicious) that this post was "dead" -- I was about to post the article myself before googling it, and discovering it here. I don't understand why this has been flag-brigaded. This article is absolutely on-topic for Hacker News.
The original submission is alive and well (530+ points, 360+ comments, and made immune to flagging by dang, per his comment):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703661
Nothing suspicious at all, to my eye.
My sense is that, in this post, we are getting one of many, many sides of this story.