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  • I don’t remember every detail but what I do remember is the wave starting with pre-elon Twitter devs announcing their changes and it started with web services that had master/slave terminology. Some of the new terms did make more sense, but some were clearly stretches. And twitter being based out of SF probably has put forth the effort to hire maybe 5 to 6 black people over it’s entire existence, so it felt especially shallow to me at the time. Hence the comment. Obviously there’s some assumptions there about twitters hiring practice but…I really don’t think I’m wrong, there’s definitely a cultural issue out there in the bay.










  • uncouple9831@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzWe're going backwards
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    20 hours ago

    It’s short for string, a data type in pretty much every programming language which traditionally is a length followed by a sequence of characters. Another storage approach used by C is to make strings just the sequence of characters with a 0 value on the end. However this approach was an optimization for 1960s technology which had aged into being a pain in the ass by 1961.