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Context- someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEI hiring
Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it’s an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can “git blame” and point to a human and it’s awful. But it’s the testing, the Cl/CD, the A/B testing, the metered rollouts, an oh shit button to roll it back, the code coverage, the static analysis tools, the code reviews, the organizational health, and on and on 1/3
It’s always one line of code but it’s NEVER one person. Implying inclusion policies caused a bug is simplistic, reductive, and racist. Engineering is a team sport. Inclusion makes for good teams. Good engineering practices makes for good software. Engineering practices failed to find a bug multiple times, regardless of the seniority of the human who checked that code in. Solving the larger system thinking SDLC matters more than the null pointer check. 2/3
This isn’t a “git gud C++ is hard” issue and it damn well isn’t an DEI one. 3/3
@shanselman The amount of lines I didn't write I'd be responsible for... 
If `git blame` was a reliable source of truth, no refactoring should be done.
However, I've weirdly recently seen a lot of this DEI-blaming. Is this the latest right-wing strategy? Think they were saying that for the secret service as well for recent events...
DEI and ESG have both become the boogeyman for an unhinged anti-democracy movement, funded by billionaires.
Gets blamed for everything nowadays. It's an effort to roll back 20th century progress.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/media/secret-service-agents-women-trump-shooting/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/21/dei-language-conservatives-baltimore
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/10/bill-ackman-end-dei-industry/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-campaign-against-dei
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/woke-capital-vivek-ramaswamy-esg-capitalism-finance/
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/woke-capitalism-esg-investing-republicans-mike-pence.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/politics/dark-money-fga-ashcroft-invs/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/22/rightwing-war-on-woke-capitalism-industry-interests
@Npars01 @jesper @shanselman Not just 20th / 21st century progress. These Christofascists want to roll back the Enlightenment and return to 17th century radical Calvinism.