Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”

Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by asymmetric on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:07AM (#14736026)

Unrelated, but how come you've chosen to use the `xe` pronoun?

I couldn't find any mention of it in Zbigniew's blog.

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by philh on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:30PM (#14737976)

I've sometimes used it (or ve) in the past, because there's no good gender-neutral pronoun and I don't like to assume. (This is partly a politeness thing and partly an accuracy thing.)

Occasionally when I would do so, people would get confrontational about it, so I mostly stopped. But now that means I sometimes waste time trying to find someone's gender even though that's totally irrelevant, and/or try to work around needing a pronoun at all, and/or use "they" even though I don't like it. None of these solutions is great.

(Btw, I don't parse you as confrontational. Comments like yours wouldn't have bothered me.)

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by Nadya on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:53AM (#14736457)

From what I can tell, they use it for everyone.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785977

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665518

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580113

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14553959

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by jwilk on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:46AM (#14736397)

FWIW, "Zbigniew" is a male forename.

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