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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
    22d
    Posting, because Root just went through the same, LOL: https://devrant.com/rants/19215658/...
  • 6
    22d
    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.
  • 4
    22d
    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... .
  • 3
    22d
    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
    22d
    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?
  • 4
    22d
    @cprn you are a legend! That‘s what those morons deserve! 😂
  • 2
    22d
    @retoor The German furiously writing down something on his notebook (an actual book made of paper) while staring at you.

    🙃
  • 5
    21d
    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
    21d
    @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
    21d
    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
    21d
    @D-4got10-01 not wanting to open that can of worms but how is the slave the one with the power in bdsm? 😂
  • 2
    21d
    @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
    21d
    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
  • 2
    21d
    @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!
  • 3
    21d
    @D-4got10-01 The probably blamed @cprn since he left and can't defend himself

    @Lesnflare is the notebook black?
  • 3
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    @BordedDev You might be right. The best scapegoat is the one that can't defend himself.

    @Lensflare a hilariously failed attempt at pinging you just one comment above.

    /* Those pesky typos... */

    @retoor I've got just the right comic for you regarding that idea of rewriting CNU Core Utilities in Rust:

    https://commitstrip.com/en/2017/... .
  • 1
    21d
    @retoor Found this video 'Ubuntu's Rust GNU Utils Replacement 17x Slower & Buggy' purely by accident, too. I'm sure you've already seen it, though.

    https://youtu.be/kIEqpFI43no .
  • 1
    21d
    @Lensflare choosing your battle I see AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    That main master bullshit is symbolic posturing for them to pretend they care about anything but profit.

    It's also symbolic posturing for you to rebel against it when you're sucking your boss cock every other day of the year.
  • 2
    4d
    @D-4got10-01 Fuck it! If this shit ever happens to me again, I'm going to argue that this is a consensual master-slave relationship and that kink-shaming my software's BDSM affinity offends me.
  • 2
    4d
    @cprn Sounds like a perfectly valid argument to me.

    WTF is wrong w/ those people that when 'they' see 'master' _immediately_ they go 'oh noes! black people && slavery'. Fucking oversensitive snowflakes, probably...
  • 3
    4d
    @retoor It went through CI, but didn't deploy past staging. Tests stopped working, conflicts with external services, etc. But the PR was accepted, yes. BTW, the "master" branch prevailed, because he only wanted changes in the code. 😆

    And as hinted in the post, it was just the straw that broke my back. I was the last "old employee" after a merger. There was nothing for me left to do unless I wanted to work with their system, which I didn't. It was a perfect example of "when holding a hammer, everything is a nail", but with microservices. When I started working there they were struggling with 18 (not a typo) requests a second, and it didn't scale, so all their attempts at magically fixing everything by "moving to the cloud" failed miserably. I replaced one service with a local shell script on every server, and throughput went from 18 to 100+ before hitting another bottleneck. I stopped fixing their stupidity after that, because I was told I'm "breaking the architecture".
  • 2
    4d
    @D-4got10-01 Yeah, it just happened again ~yesterday. Ubuntu servers died at my friend's office, because Rust supposedly drop-in replacement for `date` wasn't a replacement at all. 🤷‍♂️
  • 4
    4d
    @cprn actually, 18 requests per second, if i test my projects properly that are based on SQLite (with it's locking and such) and do use locust for it, i get also such performance. And actually, 18 requests a second is not nothing at all :) I have a lot of fun with locust. Random tip: use AI to investigate your project and generate based on that a locust file. It will end up with a file that does registration proper, login, tests that are probably more frequently used more frequently executed and everything. It's great for performance optimalization. Not that you requested for advise but I personally got very happy from the by AI generated locust benchmark and it's realism. My social platform locust calls votings 3 times more than commenting, and commenting twice as much as posting, and so on, sometimes a user registers, and so on.
  • 1
    3d
    @retoor Well, 18 requests per second for a service that handled payments for (then) 40k online shops wasn't good. I just checked, and they didn't improve since. They upped the number of shops to 150k, but their website still states:

    > Platform capable of processing more than 100 transactions per second.

    Which isn't true, BTW – it's 100 rps – *requests*. Each transaction (happy path) takes 4 requests. The header above that statement says: “High transaction volume”. It's not.

    Our old system (from before the merger, the one that was still generating ~30% of income) could handle up to 300 rps, and that was already slow, so we were in the process of writing a new one.

    The new one (prototype) could handle at least 6k rps. I say "at least" because that hit the limit of our testing tools. My educated guess is it'd handle up to 10k easily, and we'd have to scale after that (yes, it was a single server). And still, I wouldn't call it a high rps. A moderate one at best.
  • 2
    3d
    @cprn Always a shame when good software in the bin because of mental dejects
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