I freely admit that this is not a popular opinion on hackernews. But as a very disadvantaged and underprivileged person I am rather uninspired by the equality of outcome movements that are wofting over silicone valley, and I highly doubt that the actions described in TFA are accurate.
> I don't write code to get harassed about my use of master/slave vs primary/replica. I just write code.
If all you're there to do is write code, then why even have an opinion on master/slave vs. primary/replica? Caring which is chosen is the opposite of "just coding", so if people prefer primary/replica—which many people do—just change it and get on with the coding. Fighting against it is a complete waste of time. If you spend your time arguing about it, then your claims of "I just write code" are suspect.
I shouldn't have to go and change code based on political crap- they come for slave now, what do they come for next.
the goalposts are ever moving. Fuck all that.
Also, despite the downvotes I think these kinds of dissent against popular opinion need to be shared. I'm sick of pandering to the liberal agenda. I'm not right wing and I respect everybody but there's far too much focus on women and minorities. -- like I said before nobody gave a fuck when I was from a white trash background. I got a job because I was the best that applied for the position, I worked hard for that, damn hard.- I certainly didn't get any help because I was white. I didn't even get a job in my country to begin with- so I was just as disadvantaged as any other migrant at the time.
I'm also very surprised (and a bit suspicious) that this post was "dead" -- I was about to post the article myself before googling it, and discovering it here. I don't understand why this has been flag-brigaded. This article is absolutely on-topic for Hacker News.
Before saying this is just one side of the story, ask yourself why nobody questioned Zach Holman's post that narrated his firing from GitHub. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11299310
From _my_ personal perspective githubs "inclusivity" has caused me to run a personal gitlab server.
I don't write code to get harassed about my use of master/slave vs primary/replica. I just write code.
I wrote a very poorly edited piece on why I thought this way: https://blog.dijit.sh/moving-away-from-github
I freely admit that this is not a popular opinion on hackernews. But as a very disadvantaged and underprivileged person I am rather uninspired by the equality of outcome movements that are wofting over silicone valley, and I highly doubt that the actions described in TFA are accurate.