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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . These changes will go into effect on October 1.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. Accounting?

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