Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
d00ery@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThe master in master branch is, I’d assume, from the idea of Master copy which refers to the original of something, eg a recording, drawing, etc. www.collinsdictionary.com/…/master-copy
I’m not hugely tied to the word and things change … So meh.
meekah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
While I agree with your assumption, I think main is less vague. Master can be interpreted several ways, including an offensive one. So while I agree with other commenter in that it’s unnecessary to go back and change things retroactively, but just setting the default branch name for new repos in your version control to main is a fair thing to ask IMO.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Is the code going to be offended? If so it’s probably already offended by it’s likely very bad code quality and lack of maintenance and repair.
meekah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not the code, but some of your coworkers might potentially be offended.
Also good job with the ad hominem.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
obviously the code wont be offended, i was just shitposting.
As for the code quality, it’s not adhom, it’s literally just true. Go ask any seasoned programmer, any senior dev, or any junior dev, they’ll tell you it’s all dogshit, except for the one pet project they have that hasn’t ballooned into a mess yet.
And if you need proof, go load a website, tell me how clean and responsive it is. Surely it has no issues, and works on a cross platform standard. Oh wait it doesn’t, surely that’s do to a feature difference right? What’s that? Spoofing the user agent fixes it? Hmm.
ultramaven@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
When I start “whipping up” the pull requests, I’ll make sure to “rape” your suggestions
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s offensive too. Proper terminology is “con/noncon”