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hoop: – "masterkey" is not okay. Please replace all instances of "master" immediately #WeValueInclusivity

cprn: – Just to clarify, "master" in this context is standard (as in "master key" in databases). It's not intended to be offensive. Replacing could affect functionality. Call to talk more?

hoop: – STOP overthinking, just change it. I DON’T CARE, JUST DO WHAT I SAY. #DoItForTheCulture

cprn: – Got it. You want me to replace every instance of "master" in the codebase, including comments and variable names. Just confirming?

hoop: – YES. NO EXCEPTIONS. #MoveForward

PR Update: Replacing all instances of "master" as requested. Please, verify before accepting.

hoop: – Perfect. Now we’re on the right track. 👏

After 2 failed attempts at explaining, I blindly replaced all instances of "master" with "boss", and hand-delivered my letter of resignation. I left them with "complied with your request, have fun figuring it out". It was 2 years ago, and I was the last coder who knew that system after a big merger.

rant

woke hoop

so long and thanks for all the fish

ai century
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  • 5
    19h
    Posting, because Root just went through the same, LOL: https://devrant.com/rants/19215658/...
  • 6
    19h
    Also, I just checked. Their stocks dropped by 18% two weeks after I left. 😂 That system was bringing 30%+ of income, and after the merger they gave all the power over it to their own, very incompetent ~25yo CTO.
  • 3
    10h
    I wonder... the hoop will most likely never accept the responsibility for that, will shift the blame onto another person instead... just a thought.

    Also, the internals of a codebase should never be subjected to this propaganda, as that's something general public won't see.

    /* Or should never see under normal circumstances. */

    Anyway, situations like this always remind me of the 'Feminist Whore' from 'Dead Island'.

    https://eurogamer.net/dead-island-d... .
  • 2
    10h
    What is your worth anyway there if there is time for such shit. Also, I feel sad for the people who think about slavery when they hear the name 'master'. It totally do not notice the word.

    I assume that was not the only reason you left.

    I found the idea to change from master to main a sign of incompetency, how much things would've broken it? On top of that, it's like batletasted C (gnu) apps replacing with Rust. Real incompetency. Especially these days with our 'all software contains bugs'-attitude. Good luck.

    Btw, did it actually change? No right? Maybe at github? My git is always still master, and molodetz advises to make main the default branch in the docs after creating a repository. But that's it I guess. Git is unchanged? Or does a rainbow fork exist?
  • 2
    10h
    On the subject, i was making fun to a (and about a) German coworker (on a new place I worked) during a break and one of the HR's looked at me like: "Oooh, i let it slip because you're new, but else..". My god, like if a German is a minority. If we can't make fun of the Germans anymore, what to do with them?
  • 2
    9h
    @cprn you are a legend! That‘s what those morons deserve! 😂
  • 0
    9h
    @retoor The German furiously writing down something on his notebook (an actual book made of paper) while staring at you.

    🙃
  • 4
    8h
    Yup. Whenever I have to change the jumper setting on my ancient E-IDE drive from Slave to Master I think to myself 'yay - slave liberation'.

    /s

    /* FFS. */
  • 3
    8h
    @D-4got10-01 to be fair, "slave" has only one meaning in any context.
    So I’d be willing to accept not using it.

    But "master" does literally mean someone who is very proficient in some field.

    "master" can only be associated with slavery in a very narrow context and this context is not the default one. So everyone that claims that master is racist, is a fuckwit.
  • 2
    8h
    That's true.

    What's also true is that the slave in the BDSM world it the one who has the power.

    So, all in all, this *new movement of 'let's change the inappropriate words because the world is a marshmallow' is just retarded && should die already.
  • 2
    7h
    @D-4got10-01 not wanting to open that can of worms but how is the slave the one with the power in bdsm? 😂
  • 2
    6h
    @Lensflare Interestingly enough I learned about it myself solely by watching that one episode of 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' - S03E15 - Lady Heather's Box.

    https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview... .
  • 0
    6h
    I love white wingers lmao of all the thing they could whine about they decide the "master" controversy is outrageous, not the fact you're being stolen by your boss, abused by the state and fucked in the ass by a bunch of billionaires. No no, master
  • 0
    5h
    @antigermanist well at least this is something that we can do something against.
    We realize that banning master is idiotic and we speak up about it. We call those out who are idiots.
    Unlike you obedient cunt who bends over and gladly deletes any occurrence of master because the boss says that it’s racist.
    Congrats, dumbass!
  • 0
    1h
    @D-4got10-01 The probably blamed @cprn since he left and can't defend himself

    @Lesnflare is the notebook black?
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