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"sysadmin" for mainly C work? #62

Closed ghost closed 10 years ago

ghost commented 10 years ago

Hi, I stumbled across osrc.dfm.io and I'm surprised I'm classified as "sysadmin". Is this a bug? With pretty much 75% C work and mainly push activities it should be kind of obvious my main occupation is C hacking, not system administration.

Aaron1011 commented 10 years ago

@JonasT: osrc classifies users with C contributions as "sysadmin". See https://github.com/dfm/osrc/blob/master/osrc/languages.json

ali1234 commented 10 years ago

Why though? It doesn't make any sense. "Sysadmin" should be given to users with mainly shell scripting.

ghost commented 10 years ago

The most common naming for C coders I heard is "C hackers". I never heard of anyone speaking of C coders as "sysadmins" unless they actually were system administrators and not C coders.

dfm commented 10 years ago

Please submit a pull request with your preferred terminology. I'll be happy to accept it.

ghost commented 10 years ago

Is there a way we could have some sort of poll on this?

My recommendation would be C hacker, but I'm not even a native English speaker and never worked in a large company with a notable amount of coders, so I'm probably not the right person to ask :)

Senjai commented 10 years ago

I don't understand why people take this so seriously. It's just a fun app.. On Jan 23, 2014 8:27 AM, "JonasT" notifications@github.com wrote:

Is there a way we could have some sort of poll on this?

My recommendation would be C hacker, but I'm not even a native English speaker and never worked in a large company with a notable amount of coders, so I'm probably not the right person to ask :)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/dfm/osrc/issues/62#issuecomment-33140149 .

KonradIT commented 10 years ago

@jonast Why not C expert, or Coder?

ghost commented 10 years ago

I believe the idea was to have a funny note to it, e.g. C++ coders being corporate slaves, FORTRAN old-school hackers etc... maybe it would make sense to come up with something similar. I just wan't aware of any common connection between C coding and system administration, hence I suggested a change. (if that is a common connection, I suggest keeping everything the way it is!)

I am aware of C being slightly more hacker-ish in that it requires quite some lowlevel thinking and can do some fabulous stuff with pointer arithmetics which have dedicated language constructs in higher level languages which may seem nicer and "cleaner" to many - therefore my proposed C hacker for that lowlevel, to some arcane vibe. But since FORTRAN already uses hackers.. maybe some variation would be nice. I'm not sure what to suggest though.

If you toss out the funny notes, C expert/C coder seems fine :)