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> master Like three times I've had to figure out what is wrong with my git repo because Xcode switched the default branch from 'master' -> 'main'. Tutorials ev

> master Like three times I've had to figure out what is wrong with my git repo because Xcode switched the default branch from 'master' -> 'main'. Tutorials everywhere no longer work, etc. We've managed to add even more pointless but required knowledge to programming. Ironically it's the newbies who suffer the most. ------------ A few days ago in the AsciiDoc mailing list – there was an effort to try to find a new word for "whitespace" (obviously the "white" comes from paper, how you even think of race in this context baffles me).

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- hedora 6y ago
  “green list and red list” Clearly, you love environmentalists, but hate commies. Try again. You can call it “gray space” now that everything is low contrast gray on gray. (Black on white and white on black were apparently also offensive color schemes.)
Master_Odin 6y ago
The AsciiDoc example is an interesting one as I've not seen really any discussion about "whitespace" as offensive and cannot really find anything. Add onto the fact that stuff like wikipedia also still refers to it as whitespace as so it does seem like they're going to define their own term for AsciiDoc that'll be at odds with broader community and just begs for newbie confusion.
Glide 6y ago
We had a politician say "amen and awomen” not too long ago. And he’s ordained in some fashion. We all want off this crazy ride.
- ncallaway 6y ago
  It was a joke. It's so weird for me to see people complaining about hypersensitivity get so up in arms about a pun. I just find it so hilariously hypocritical for the crowds that constantly complain about the over-policing of speech to find a light-hearted pun to be so dastardly offensive. To each their own I guess, but a simple pun doesn't feel like the biggest threat we face...
  - dane-pgp 6y ago
    It's weird for me to imagine people who would be outraged about a joke that played on, for example, a racial stereotype, using "It was a joke." as a defence. Perhaps you're not such a person, and are not speaking on behalf of such people, but I think that saying "It was a joke." doesn't really address the issue that some people's offensive speech is being silenced, while others' is being celebrated.
    - ncallaway 6y ago
      I think some jokes can be offensive and other jokes can be not offensive at all. I think that's a subjective call that we all make on a case by case basis. I think people are well within their rights to tell jokes, and I think others are well within their rights to criticize jokes that they find offensive. I think if people want to play in the marketplace of ideas, they should wear a helmet because nothing says the marketplace of ideas has to be welcome to any given idea. If you tell a joke, then don't be surprised when people react to your joke. I also didn't see _any_ criticism that the pastor's joke was offensive. I didn't see any public figures indicating that they were offended by the joke. I just saw people calling him insane, a moron, and an idiot for not knowing that "amen" didn't refer to a singular male person.
      - dane-pgp 6y ago
        > I also didn't see _any_ criticism that the pastor's joke was offensive. As the article[0] that you linked in another comment made clear in its title: "Some were offended". (Strangely the headline of the article is different from the title, but I think the title is still accurate). [0] https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article248266055.html https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the...
        ncallaway 6y ago
        While the article's HTML title does claim some were "offended", neither the headline nor the body of the article included the word "offended", or "offense". There's not a single quote or statement in that article from a person saying that they found it offensive. I need a source slightly stronger than the title element of an article that is entirely unsupported to be convinced that there were people offended. All that being said, I would take more seriously the concerns of someone who was deeply religious that said they found it offensive to make a flippant joke during a prayer than I would the concerns of people who called him a moron for not getting the joke. I still haven't seen anyone say they were offended by the joke, though.
dane-pgp 6y ago
“In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words -- in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/553001-it-s-a-beautiful-thing-the-destruction-of-words-of-course https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/553001-it-s-a-beautiful-thi...
oneeyedpigeon 6y ago
The fact that main is 33% shorter and more descriptive should be argument enough for it to be the new default, regardless of any issues surrounding sensitivity. You should be able to still set the default to whatever you want if xcode is at all sensible.

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hedora 6y ago
“green list and red list” Clearly, you love environmentalists, but hate commies. Try again. You can call it “gray space” now that everything is low contrast gray on gray. (Black on white and white on black were apparently also offensive color schemes.)

Master_Odin 6y ago

The AsciiDoc example is an interesting one as I've not seen really any discussion about "whitespace" as offensive and cannot really find anything. Add onto the fact that stuff like wikipedia also still refers to it as whitespace as so it does seem like they're going to define their own term for AsciiDoc that'll be at odds with broader community and just begs for newbie confusion.

Glide 6y ago

We had a politician say "amen and awomen” not too long ago. And he’s ordained in some fashion. We all want off this crazy ride.

ncallaway 6y ago
It was a joke. It's so weird for me to see people complaining about hypersensitivity get so up in arms about a pun. I just find it so hilariously hypocritical for the crowds that constantly complain about the over-policing of speech to find a light-hearted pun to be so dastardly offensive. To each their own I guess, but a simple pun doesn't feel like the biggest threat we face...
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  It's weird for me to imagine people who would be outraged about a joke that played on, for example, a racial stereotype, using "It was a joke." as a defence. Perhaps you're not such a person, and are not speaking on behalf of such people, but I think that saying "It was a joke." doesn't really address the issue that some people's offensive speech is being silenced, while others' is being celebrated.
  - ncallaway 6y ago
    I think some jokes can be offensive and other jokes can be not offensive at all. I think that's a subjective call that we all make on a case by case basis. I think people are well within their rights to tell jokes, and I think others are well within their rights to criticize jokes that they find offensive. I think if people want to play in the marketplace of ideas, they should wear a helmet because nothing says the marketplace of ideas has to be welcome to any given idea. If you tell a joke, then don't be surprised when people react to your joke. I also didn't see _any_ criticism that the pastor's joke was offensive. I didn't see any public figures indicating that they were offended by the joke. I just saw people calling him insane, a moron, and an idiot for not knowing that "amen" didn't refer to a singular male person.
    - dane-pgp 6y ago
      > I also didn't see _any_ criticism that the pastor's joke was offensive. As the article[0] that you linked in another comment made clear in its title: "Some were offended". (Strangely the headline of the article is different from the title, but I think the title is still accurate). [0] https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article248266055.html https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the...
      - ncallaway 6y ago
        While the article's HTML title does claim some were "offended", neither the headline nor the body of the article included the word "offended", or "offense". There's not a single quote or statement in that article from a person saying that they found it offensive. I need a source slightly stronger than the title element of an article that is entirely unsupported to be convinced that there were people offended. All that being said, I would take more seriously the concerns of someone who was deeply religious that said they found it offensive to make a flippant joke during a prayer than I would the concerns of people who called him a moron for not getting the joke. I still haven't seen anyone say they were offended by the joke, though.

dane-pgp 6y ago

“In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words -- in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/553001-it-s-a-beautiful-thing-the-destruction-of-words-of-course https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/553001-it-s-a-beautiful-thi...

oneeyedpigeon 6y ago

The fact that main is 33% shorter and more descriptive should be argument enough for it to be the new default, regardless of any issues surrounding sensitivity. You should be able to still set the default to whatever you want if xcode is at all sensible.