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I understand it was probably meant tongue in cheek. Still, very unfortunate naming.

by wukerplank 8y ago

jazoom 8y ago
Just be thankful it was this project and not the upcoming face detector mentioned at the bottom of the readme.
- no_identd 8y ago
  Perhaps he'll call that "Crosshair".
briandear 8y ago
Why? It’s actually a pretty accurate name given what the library does: identifies things — “targets.” It feels like people have gotten way too sensitive these days. It’s either hyper-political correctness, pontification over “microaggressions” or just generally turning every single thing into some kind of conspiracy of capitalism. It’s exhausting to keep up with everything about which to be outraged or offended. Everyone is supposed to be so serious all the time, especially in the computer community. What ever happened to not taking ourselves so damned seriously all the time? It wasn’t long ago that Thoughtbot changed the name of FactoryGirl to FactoryBot because apparently the name of a ruby factory library was potentially offensive. Everything seems to require trigger warnings these days — including an image recognition library aptly named Sniper. It seems like liberal white men are leading the charge to out do each other as to how offended they are about the most trivial things. This community used to be fun, now it just seems perpetually on the verge of busting into tears at the slightest hint of something not perfectly saccharine and sterile. We are making mountains out of molehills.
- _nothing 8y ago
  Speaking of pontification and making mountains out of molehills, your response currently has more text than all the other replies combined. No one here is "offended" by the name and you're the only one who seems "triggered", somehow connecting the reaction to liberal white men being offended by trivialities. People are merely considering the implications of the name, which is a mature and reasonable thing to do. You're free to argue for its benignity and many of us would agree with you, but when you get up on a soapbox against "political correctness" (which has nothing to do with this), you're going to get a lot of eye rolls.

I understand it was probably meant tongue in cheek. Still, very unfortunate naming.

jazoom 8y ago

Just be thankful it was this project and not the upcoming face detector mentioned at the bottom of the readme.

no_identd 8y ago
Perhaps he'll call that "Crosshair".

briandear 8y ago

Why? It’s actually a pretty accurate name given what the library does: identifies things — “targets.” It feels like people have gotten way too sensitive these days. It’s either hyper-political correctness, pontification over “microaggressions” or just generally turning every single thing into some kind of conspiracy of capitalism. It’s exhausting to keep up with everything about which to be outraged or offended. Everyone is supposed to be so serious all the time, especially in the computer community. What ever happened to not taking ourselves so damned seriously all the time? It wasn’t long ago that Thoughtbot changed the name of FactoryGirl to FactoryBot because apparently the name of a ruby factory library was potentially offensive. Everything seems to require trigger warnings these days — including an image recognition library aptly named Sniper. It seems like liberal white men are leading the charge to out do each other as to how offended they are about the most trivial things. This community used to be fun, now it just seems perpetually on the verge of busting into tears at the slightest hint of something not perfectly saccharine and sterile. We are making mountains out of molehills.

_nothing 8y ago
Speaking of pontification and making mountains out of molehills, your response currently has more text than all the other replies combined. No one here is "offended" by the name and you're the only one who seems "triggered", somehow connecting the reaction to liberal white men being offended by trivialities. People are merely considering the implications of the name, which is a mature and reasonable thing to do. You're free to argue for its benignity and many of us would agree with you, but when you get up on a soapbox against "political correctness" (which has nothing to do with this), you're going to get a lot of eye rolls.