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This is probably being brought up due to the Bropages post from yesterday which resulted in hundreds of comments stating that a rubygem with the simple name of
by res0nat0r 13y ago
This is probably being brought up due to the Bropages post from yesterday which resulted in hundreds of comments stating that a rubygem with the simple name of 'bro' is somehow going to totally devastate the fragile psyche of all women in IT.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121268
- lstamour 13y agoUgh, as a guy, that whole thread was silly. I got the joke, saw they were erring on the side of "dude" rather than "immature jerk" and stopped reading. What stopped me from contributing was that I couldn't find an easy way to cut examples out of a man page. Although it does occur to me belatedly that a grep for "<command> -" would probably do it for many commands. Or maybe there's another standard syntax that could be used. It also reminded me of that tool that could explain a command by annotating a given example. Hmm, maybe the sexist name debate stopped me from contributing more than I'd thought. That said, it was because the debate didn't interest me -- it wasn't relevant enough to the original subject matter, I felt.
- belorn 13y agoRelated, one can now not use the Swedish name for "bridge" in projects. Bridge being a common technical term is the same exact 3 letter "bro", and will likely call down the storm if used. My dream of bridging man pages and info manuals crushed.