tchaffee

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by tchaffee 6y ago
The master terminology in Git is very likely historically tied to the master/slave metaphor, originally from bitkeeper. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The media is most likely getting it right. The history points to the master terminology in Git being tied to the master/slave metaphor from bitkeeper. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-Ma
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> You want to rewrite parts the language because a few people are offended? No I don't. I want to use the word denylist instead of blacklist. So do other people and companies. Other words have gone in and out of fashion without rewr
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I'll add that to my list of reasons for removing master/slave from technical terminology. Thank you.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
How about translation? Living in a foreign country I possibly find it useful more often than the average person. Machine generated subtitles on YouTube is another example. I find those useful even in my native tongue, especially when watchi
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Why does replacing a handful of offensive terms with more accurate words require "restructuring the entire English language"? Unless you can make a case for that, the logical conclusion is that those handful of words will go out o
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> restructuring the entire English language That's a strawman. No one is restructuring the entire English language. There is a small list of words used in technology that companies are changing to more accurate words. "denyli
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by tchaffee 6y ago
That's fair to consider. However, we should also consider usage over time and popularity and the origins of what made the usage so much more popular at specific points in history. The origins of a rarely used word are far less interest
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> You've made the massive leap that the words blacklist/whitelist are microaggressions. It isn't a massive leap. Kermit A. Crawford, Ph.D talks about these specific terms and that they are microagressions in this presentat
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> without real evidence it causes harm to people Here is evidence that microagressions cause psychological harm: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/174569161982749... . It's easy to find more
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> That's precisely why I'm saying you're generalizing entire races No, your question was "how do you know first hand that any of these people care?" I know that any of these people care, and first hand, becau
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> I think this refutes the idea that the metaphorical associations of the word “black” come from associations with race It would be far more accurate to say this refutes the idea that the original metaphorical associations of the word
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> First - how do you know first hand that any of these people care? Because I talked to them and they told me. > Why would it be a 1:1 correspondence that simply being a certain ethnicity means you hold a certain opinion? Where was t
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The word black and its etymology has nothing to do with race?
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It sure was convenient that both "black" in English and "niger" in Latin meant "evil" during times of dehumanizing and enslaving others based on the color of their skin. Basic knowledge of the English language
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Take away the historical context of the words and how do you know which list is the denylist and which list is the allowlist? "blacklist" first started becoming popular during widespread slavery of Africans for European colonies.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Using black to mean evil or bad in a modern workplace is a microagression and is racist. Microagressions are well studied and the evidence points to it resulting psychological damage [1] [2]. The term "blacklist" started more freq
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by tchaffee 6y ago
This was useful, although too basic for me. I would love to see you add many more exercises.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Already addressed in my original comment: If you can't even stop using black to mean negative in the workplace and substitute it with more accurate words - the new words are clearer - then you likely are not prepared for the real work
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> It's worth noting that "blacklist" is awful because it's origins are in British history, > The connection to dark-skinned folks is accidental through the science of optics. Both of these are an oversimplification
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Why would anyone be offended by blacklist? Because of its etymology and history [1] for starters: n. also black-list, black list, “list of persons who have incurred suspicion,” 1610s, from black (adj.), here indicative of di
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by tchaffee 6y ago
My QA team sends me URLs and screenshots sometimes. Often the first thing I look for on a screenshot is the URL.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Changing from blacklist and whitelist to blocklist and allowlist is one of the many small things we can do that makes our black colleagues feel seen, heard, and welcome in our workplaces. I support it. No one thinks changing language is eno
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I went back to coding after going into IT management, then teaching English in a foreign country, being an IT architect with loads of responsibility at a company with massive IT infrastructure, owning my own web agency, and finally being CT
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Late response, but in case you are still looking I don't think I have enough experience just yet to talk about my workflow. For the moment, I'm mostly fine with just running my entire notebook. And yes, my program is "scatter
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Lately, using Jupyter notebooks. It's a paradigm change, and pretty close to what I would imagine Donald Knuth had in mind with literate programming. Just for example, being able to see the shape of variables and having that output sta
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> There is a real opportunity for you to learn here though. That comes off as condescending. You assume I don't already have a set of well thought out values around debt that I am quite happy with. It's not that difficult. I ju
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Analogies are like jokes. If you have to explain them... I stand by my original observation. It's a poor analogy.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Canceling the travel wouldn't have helped who? For sure it would have helped the people they owe money to. Just because my own finances can't be saved doesn't mean it's vacation time and screw my lenders. So no, I cannot
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Bad analogy. Why are they going on holidays when they are going to lose their house? Cancel the travel and pay the mortgage.

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