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You keep complaining about indulging! What's wrong with indulging in something every once in while?
by _never_k 6y ago
You keep complaining about indulging! What's wrong with indulging in something every once in while?
- protomyth 6y agoIf your indulging hurts others, then it is something worth complaining about.
- _never_k 6y agoI don't exactly understand how you're hurt by this, but fair enough. Utilitarianism is a philosophical framework. It's not for me, but based on your comments you might be into it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
- protomyth 6y agoI am not.
- floatingatoll 6y agoI see no supporting argument for “replacing master with main at GitHub hurts others”; is it somewhere in this thread and I wasn’t able to see it unassisted? If not, we would benefit from you typing it up.
- protomyth 6y agogo to the top of this thread chain
- floatingatoll 6y agoI reviewed your initial post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500764 and I was unable to parse out of your objections why you think that this change hurts others. Could you summarize?
- username90 6y agoInconsistent naming standards hurts everyone. Now some repositories will have master branches while others will have them named something else, it makes things harder to work with. If every developer spends just a minute wondering where the main branch is before realizing the new naming standards, that is still a lifetimes worth of time lost due to this change.
- protomyth 6y agoOk, here is my objection. I'm saying that it won't help people at all. It is an indulgence to make Microsoft feel like they are doing something positive when it will not materially improve lives. It would be fine if it just made them feel good as people's mental health is an important thing that too many ignore. But, this will suck attention away from people who are actually doing things that will help people. The world has only so much time to pay attention, and that time is valuable. Microsoft is just adding to the noise. They are bringing homemade cupcakes to a food bank and making the national news.