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Yes, we have mandatory linter rules which won’t let us check in code that contains the word “whitelist” or “blacklist” or “master” because they are somehow raci
by Dig1t 2y ago
Yes, we have mandatory linter rules which won’t let us check in code that contains the word “whitelist” or “blacklist” or “master” because they are somehow racist.
I work at the biggest tech company, which employs hundreds of thousands of people and these rules are applied across all codebases.
This stuff is widespread across big companies and the government.
- freejazz 2y agoThat's just your organization, I meant "all of IT" when I said "all of IT". There are posters here acting as if there is a singular entity in charge of IT, that forces this rule on everyone. I don't see what consequence it is that your particular organization prefers to do things its own way. It's a completely different proposition from pretending like the word is banned outright for everyone, by someone.
- rurp 2y agoThere's a pretty big difference between a private company pandering to progressives by banning a few words versus the federal government suddenly declaring that many different words and concepts are banned. These NSF flags are just one case out of many, similar changes are being rushed out across every federal department. I agree that the word bans at your company are stupid, but the govt changes are a whole other level of bad.