The original conversation about this was buried @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823279 the fact that the majority of comments were in support of rejecting this rather obvious improvement was shocking.
Its also extremely worrying that the thread was buried (as I half expect this will be) and having a discussion about this topic is somewhere between censored and frowned upon on Hacker News.
I have always avoided commenting around the topic of lack of diversity in tech and tried to quietly 'do the right thing', however this is a problem that is becoming visibly worse over the time and one that makes me pretty ashamed of the industry I work in.
The upside is that something as public as this helps remind people that this is a big problem and can hopefully be a catalyst for positive changes.
This is only an obvious improvement if you share certain ideas with the committer: ideas about equality and how grammatical gender relates to it. Those ideas are by no means universal; why should dissent be shocking?
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The original conversation about this was buried @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823279 the fact that the majority of comments were in support of rejecting this rather obvious improvement was shocking.
Its also extremely worrying that the thread was buried (as I half expect this will be) and having a discussion about this topic is somewhere between censored and frowned upon on Hacker News.
I have always avoided commenting around the topic of lack of diversity in tech and tried to quietly 'do the right thing', however this is a problem that is becoming visibly worse over the time and one that makes me pretty ashamed of the industry I work in.
The upside is that something as public as this helps remind people that this is a big problem and can hopefully be a catalyst for positive changes.
This is only an obvious improvement if you share certain ideas with the committer: ideas about equality and how grammatical gender relates to it. Those ideas are by no means universal; why should dissent be shocking?