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by tlringer 1894 days ago
Can you explain the Git thing? It keeps coming up but I've never heard of an English word "git." I looked it up and it seems it exists, but is it common? I've lived in this country for 30 years and have never heard it in a nib-technical context.
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thu2111 1894 days ago
It is British English and very common in the UK. That's why Linus claims he "named it after himself". Means bastard or horrid person, basically.

Oddly enough, British people don't go around demanding git be renamed. We know how to handle words having multiple meanings.

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tlringer 1894 days ago
Yeah, but sexual words in particular lead to harassment of women by strangers. I'd love to fix society so that this becomes false, but it's not how society currently works.

I'll keep that in mind though if I work with folks in the UK at some point.

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thu2111 1894 days ago
You realise men get harassed by strangers too? All the time, about stupid shit, and rare is the day that anything is done about it.

It's really quite self centred to create new problems for the entire world because of a taxi driver. Think about how many people will now have to double search for things, or change scripts, or waste time because they didn't realise new tool=old tool. It's a huge new technical debt being created here. Coq is software, it's been around for many years, so the old name will never die. People will be dealing with half baked renames and duplications forever.

Immature people will find ways to be immature and annoying no matter what - the difference between adults and children is we're supposed to be able to deal with it and keep things in proportion. That doesn't seem to be happening here and it's a pity.

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tlringer 1894 days ago
I do not believe you are engaging in good faith, given that I just explained to you very clearly and concisely that this is not just about me.
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thu2111 1893 days ago
And yet your demands have contributed to that decision.

Please don't accuse others of "not engaging in good faith" when they just outlined to you the rational basis for their viewpoints. It's just an ad-hominem insult. My engagement is in entirely good faith: I think you (and others making these demands) are refusing to consider the impact of your demands on other people, externalizing costs unnecessarily and generally acting in anti-social ways, whilst claiming the exact opposite.

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tlringer 1892 days ago
I didn't demand anything. I contributed my story to a decision that I along with the rest of the community will make democratically.
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