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Discussion on: How software can be racist (and what you can do to stop it)

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David Sullenbarger • Edited

old guy here: we never saw it as race related or anything even remotely related to that stuff, it was used for it's unambiguous meaning (notice how hard they are to replace in some use cases?)

However, now that I've been exposed to the idea, I can't get it out of my head and agree that it needs to change (but it still annoys me a little)

(also, hello neighbor!)

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Rene Padillo 🇵🇭 • Edited

agree. for me this is just the works of politics being integrated in software development.
being PC does not solve anything with what we are doing as developers.

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David Sullenbarger • Edited

No, it doesn't solve anything related to developing software but developer's live on the same planet as everyone else and why die on this hill? It's not even an interesting hill to us (as developers).

Copyrighting a freaking API is a much more interesting hill. One that I'd be thrilled for the chance to fight Oracle to the death over :-)