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Hmm, is this some sort of Meta I’m missing? It feels strange to mix so many cultural ‘suggestions’ with a database product. > Listen willingly to holy reading.
by ThalesX 4y ago
Hmm, is this some sort of Meta I’m missing? It feels strange to mix so many cultural ‘suggestions’ with a database product.
> Listen willingly to holy reading.
> Devote yourself frequently to prayer.
> Daily in your prayers, with tears and sighs, confess your past sins to God, and amend them for the future.
Anyway, sqlite is a good product and I don’t even mind all that much to have a code of Ethics associated to it, just not a thing you see often.
- ticviking 4y agoThe point is that the other codes of conduct often embed other particular cultural suggestions and assumptions, but since they are those of your own you don't notice them as jarringly as those of medieval Christendom.
- ThalesX 4y ago> but since they are those of your own you don't notice them as jarringly Why would you assume this about me and not take at face value that I really believe you don't find these often in the wild. It's just my personal experience that I haven't seen these out in the wild all that much (I can't think of an example), and it was surprising to me.
- CRConrad 4y ago> It's just my personal experience that I haven't seen these out in the wild all that much What, OSS project codes of conduct?!? Weird; how the heck does one miss that whole phenomenon? There has been lots of controversy around (some of) them in much of online media about computing over the last few years, including huge threads of heated discussion here on HN.
- astrange 4y agoI don’t think that is the point. I do think everyone takes it as the point though.
- SubjectToChange 4y agoA Muslim coworker of mine once wrote a program that would log a prayer during startup. It was always fun when that block of text would randomly show up in one place or another.
- ThalesX 4y agoI can see how something limited in scope, accepted by the team could be fun and quirky but what if every coworker started writing little scripts with their own beliefs popping up in one place or another?
- dementiapatie 4y agoThe Slack channels would finally be interesting
- zoomablemind 4y ago> "... No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish." > "...[the developers] view The Rule as their promise to all SQLite users of how the developers are expected to behave. This is a one-way promise, or covenant. " This speaks of the Founder and his team. Evangelism this is not, but an invitation to learn of the principles they pledge to adhere to. I trust their sincerity, I trust the efforts they put into the products they shared.
- ThalesX 4y ago> This speaks of the Founder and his team. Evangelism this is not, but an invitation to learn of the principles they pledge to adhere to. I'm not sure that I claimed it's evangelism. For me personally it really did it's job of 'invitation to learn...' because I learned. I was surprised. This is probably not going to change my interaction with the product in any significant way, but it does make me wonder if 'ethical' reasons will in the future affect the technical decisions. > I trust their sincerity, I trust the efforts they put into the products they shared. Me too! They haven't given me any reason not to.
- ohCh6zos 4y agoA Code of Conduct was forced on them by dictate, so they did the right thing and made the process transparently absurd while also complying. Edit: The unspoken part of the demand was a 'progressive' CoC.
- astrange 4y agoI don’t think it’s meant to be absurd and I do think he actually believes it.