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I'd thank you for not making HN a worse place by bikeshedding. You may not care about this project, but some people here do.
by jessaustin 6y ago
I'd thank you for not making HN a worse place by bikeshedding. You may not care about this project, but some people here do.
- bitwize 6y agoIt's not bikeshedding. The open source community has opened its eyes to how poor a job of inclusivity it's done, and one of the changes that resulted was a social taboo against names and terminology that serve as microaggressions, including "master", "slave", "blacklist", "cop", and "gimp". Given the context in which "gash" is often used in ordinary language, it's reasonable to at least question its use as a project name.
- jessaustin 6y agoNo reasonable person thinks "woman" when she encounters the word "gash". I'd wager there are fairly few unreasonable people who think that, but of course it only takes one to kick off a spriraling pointless bikeshedding thread. It's good that we've got this inanity flagged to the bottom, but when I commented it was at the top.