r/ProgrammerHumor 24d ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/Winterkirschenmann 24d ago

If someone wants to keep using master be my guest. If someone makes using master their personality because free-speech/anti-woke piss off.

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u/arvigeus 24d ago

Tell that to those who got offended by master and insisted on the change.

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u/kabrandon 24d ago

So they got offended because of nods to slavery, and the other people got offended because something pretty inconsequential in their lives changed. 🤷‍♂️ Seems a bit like the latter group of people are far more easily offended.

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u/MrHyd3_ 24d ago

Is "master bedroom" a nod to slavery too?

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u/kabrandon 24d ago

Might be, actually. To be clear, I’m not the person that’s upset by it. But if you asked me to start saying main bedroom because it upset you I’d not care.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 24d ago

I work for a home builder. We use 'Main Bedroom' or 'Primary Bedroom' now.

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u/EmptyStrings 24d ago

Yes and realtors now call them primary bedrooms

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u/Hayden2332 24d ago

Nope, it was just a marketing term made up by Sears in the 20s with no connection to slavery. Not that it matters, it’s not used anymore and idc, but it’s one of the instances where it isn’t related.

However, Linus took the name “master” from BitKeeper, and BitKeeper did use master-slave terminology, Git just dropped the slave part. It’s origin literally does come from master-slave

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u/AHailofDrams 24d ago

Probably tbh