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kridsdale1yesterday at 4:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

At Meta, when this mass push for the rename happened across the industry, a few people spent nearly the full year just shepherding the renaming of master to main, and white box/black box to allowlist/blocklist.

This let them claim huge diff counts and major contributions to DEI and get promos.


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yokoprimeyesterday at 6:28 PM

This is why diffs / LoC is a terrible metric. It shows nothing other than a willingness to push large changesets upstream.

jihadjihadyesterday at 5:00 PM

Same at my org at the time, blacklist was nixed, no matter how many times the question, "What color is ink on a page?" was brought up.

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tucnakyesterday at 4:58 PM

They measure LoC contributions at FB?