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I'd never hire a software engineer who tried to make major disruptive changes to play meaningless language games and score social status points.

• threeseed 3y ago
  It may be meaningless to you. But it's not meaningless to other people. Now you can choose not to care about their opinion and be dismissive of their integrity by claiming it's only for social status. But you're never going to hire the best engineers if that's the approach you take. I've worked with some of the very best in the industry and never seen anyone do great things by being intolerant of people.
  • tomjen3 3y ago
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    • threeseed 3y ago
      You don't speak for everyone in the technology industry. And you don't get to choose what everyone will or should do. Therefore you really need to be tolerant of people's different versions of "truth" and assume that they are acting in good faith.
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      • tomjen3 3y ago
        >Therefore you really need to be tolerant of people's different versions of "truth" and assume that they are acting in good faith. Only a total fool would assume something is true you know not to be true.
  • bitcharmer 3y ago
    > I've worked with some of the very best in the industry and never seen anyone do great things by being intolerant of people Same here. It's my 23rd year as a software engineer and I'm lucky to be a part of this crowd. Tonnes of tolerant, talented, brilliant people. Being tolerant doesn't however doesn't mean we like being subjected to bullshit like the master -> main change.
    • abenga 3y ago
      It's just writing a shorter word. Why does it bug you so much. Unless you want to make bigger changes to society to counter the effects of racism instead? Cause we'd like that.
      • bitcharmer 3y ago
        It bugs me because no one asked about this and it's purely virtue signalling. Not only that, it implies that black people are unable to contextualise vocabulary.
        • abenga 3y ago
          What would you have people do instead that is actually helping and not virtue signaling?
          • bitcharmer 3y ago
            There's already plenty of affirmative action being taken. We have black history month everywhere now, minorities are getting much better representation in the media. Please don't pretend nothing positive is happening and we have to change master to main at all cost or all hope is lost. Also, this is predominantly American problem but it's shoved down our throats here in Europe like our "wealth" was built on the back of slaves. I'm Polish, can you imagine how ridiculous this is becoming from our perspective?
  • tticvs 3y ago
    If you try to bend over backwards to appease the whims of every group of people you'll never accomplish anything. A good engineer realizes this, and prioritizes accordingly. It's a core competency of the job. Not pushing back on master -> main is a sign that an engineer will not make good decisions on the job. Also this has nothing to do with "intolerance" and your framing of it this way is a classic manipulation tactic: "You wouldn't want to be intolerant would you?"
    • tomlockwood 3y ago
      I think you're saying it would appease someone, so I think the logical next question for you is why it'd be so hard for you?
      • tticvs 3y ago
        Adopting Christianity as the official company religion would also "appease someone". Why would that be so hard for you? It's just words after all.
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• olddustytrail 3y ago
  You don't know how to change the main branch name in git? You shouldn't be in charge of hiring anyone.