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Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
Now that the dust has settled from the acquisition, has the culture held up? How's morale, work life balance, growth opportunity, etc.?
- yucky 5y agoIs Github still the type of place that changes your branch names from master to main, (for your own good of course) and bans usage of the word "meritocracy" so as not to hurt people's feelings?
- ecf 5y ago> changes your branch names from master to main It’s a trivial name change, stay mad.
- dogleash 5y ago>It’s a trivial name change Tell that to a decade of tooling, training and documentation. I don't necessarily have a problem with the change, but I wish people would quit telling me it's nothing. It's not the end of the world or anything, but next time someone who's trying to coast by with the least git knowledge possible (90% of the office) needs help because of this, or is just frustrated that there's another complication they have to remember should I tell them it's "a trivial name change"? I might as well say "it's just a directed acyclic graph of revisions." That's also technically true, but I might as well tell them to go fuck themselves. [1] [1] http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/ http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/
- alexk307 5y agoIf you can't undertake renaming a branch, or tolerate being forced to learn how to rename a branch, then I'm not sure if you really belong in the technical field of software.
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- yucky 5y agoAnd what is the argument for forcing that change? Master has nothing to do with slavery, so what is the argument?
- yucky 5y agoIf it was trivial, then it was unnecessary. And yet...
- alexk307 5y agoThey didn't change anything retroactively, calm down or host your own git server.
- sg47 5y agoIs America the kind of place that bans slavery and bans usage of the n-word so as not to hurt people's feelings?
- rdelpret 5y agoIs this blind?
- spdebbarma 5y agoIs the Blind the only acceptable place to have this discussion?