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Why the 'Git'? Linus: I‘m an egotistical bastard...

24 pointsby tvvocoldalmost 10 years ago

3 comments

nindalfalmost 10 years ago
I think this submission is related to yesterday&#x27;s discussion on Github&#x27;s banning of the word &quot;retard&quot;. Some people pointed out that git is a &quot;bad word&quot; and they should censor projects that use the word, such as <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;git&#x2F;git" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;git&#x2F;git</a><p>The word as its used today means a person who is “pig headed, thinks they are always correct, argumentative”. The original meaning was &quot;a person of illegitimate parentage&quot;. If we applied Github&#x27;s logic to this, it is clear that people born out of wedlock feel unwelcome in the open source community.
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Yhippaalmost 10 years ago
As an aside Google Translate has come a long way. I was able to figure out what people were saying despite never learned any Mandarin ever.
ngoldbaumalmost 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve never seen qinghuai.org. It seems to be a Chinese-language HN. Is that correct?
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