Developer advocate, full-stack engineer, startup co-founder & CTO, bringing 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley, including at Google and Yahoo!. Public speaker.
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I don't have a network of black developer friends with whom I can discuss whether this is an issue with
No worries, that would be too small and too localized of a sample anyway.
I've looked at the comments here and on Twitter. All back developers I've seen either didn't give a damn on the alleged connotations of the word "master",
or...
If renaming something will help remove the discomfort of some of those people, then we are being more inclusive.
... what if on the contrary, this whole discussion is unnecessary and actually makes black developers more uncomfortable than the word itself (which AFAICT wasn't a problem before)?
Developer advocate, full-stack engineer, startup co-founder & CTO, bringing 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley, including at Google and Yahoo!. Public speaker.
Location
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UC Santa Cruz Extension
Work
Developer Advocate at Weaviate, the open-source semantic search engine
No worries, that would be too small and too localized of a sample anyway.
I've looked at the comments here and on Twitter. All back developers I've seen either didn't give a damn on the alleged connotations of the word "master",
or...
... what if on the contrary, this whole discussion is unnecessary and actually makes black developers more uncomfortable than the word itself (which AFAICT wasn't a problem before)?
....should have read the rest of the thread twitter.com/Speedkicks/status/1272...
I have. I'm quoting that tweet as an argument that some black developers have been made uncomfortable by the change.