Github is preparing to overhaul coding terminology that has long been criticized for being racially insensitive, the company’s chief executive said. Github, the Microsoft-owned developer platform, is ...
More often than not, the tech industry likes to position itself as a neutral industry where race, class, gender, and sexual orientation don't influence the decision-makers. But we know that is a ...
As employees at tech companies join the movement against racial injustice, some are calling attention to the language of the industry itself. The head of Microsoft's GitHub, the web's biggest site for ...
Github is going to overhaul coding terminology that has long been criticized for being racially insensitive, according to the company’s chief executive. The Microsoft-owned developer platform is ...
Twitter and JPMorgan are phasing out “racial” terms from their programming code, including “master,” “slave,” “whitelist” and “blacklist,” according to recent reports. On Thursday, CNET reported that ...
GitHub is working on replacing terms that might be perceived as references to slavery with more neutral terms, according to reports. The Microsoft-owned coding platform will replace terms such as ...
Raleigh technology company Red Hat said Tuesday that it would take measures to remove contentious terms like “master/slave” from its source code and other areas, in an effort to make its products more ...
Twitter has become the latest company to reveal it will replace coding terms such as "slave" and "master" for more inclusive terminology. The social media giant detailed the changes in a Twitter ...
Many surgical coding mistakes result from misinterpretation of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) wording. When the CPT editorial panel works on a code description, significant time is spent ...