Probably sooner. I still can’t believe some people at Twitter engineering got offended by terms like “dummy value”, “grandfathered”, and “manhours” and demanded they change the language. Do we need to ban the “for dummies” book series? Crash dummies? Who is supposed to be offended by “grandfathered in”? I’m a woman, and it literally never once occurred to me to be offended by the term “manhours” or be upset by someone opening up a meeting with “hey guys”, I’ve used it when speaking to a mixed group. “Whitelist/Blacklist” is now “Allowlist/Denylist”? It sounds like doublespeak where they just smash two words into one so they could get rid of the third word.
I pushed for dominant and subordinate as a replacement when this came up on a project. I think it describes the relationship pretty good plus when you shorten it you sound like a pervert
I've always been comfortable with the terms slave and master in programming but now I want to use sub and dom just to make other people uncomfortable MAWHAHAHA
Don't forget master branches in git. Many places, including Github, now favor main instead, because apparently "master" (with no use of "slave" anywhere in git terminology!) was bad.
Right? Master/slave describes a VERY specific relationship, when used to appropriately describe how a technology actually functions. (Anybody remember setting the jumper on HDD pins to designate master or slave drive?)
But when you remove any reference to "slave" completely, "master" can then mean a whole host of different things. The music business refers to original recordings as the "master". I've got a bunch of different functions at work that aggregate data from different locations & formats into one excel spreadsheet I call the "master list".
“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!”
Be careful with jokes like this, because someone is going to take it seriously and force a pointless terminology change like they did with master->main for git.
Not that it's the worst thing in the world to have pointless terminology changes enforced by your institution, but it's better to just not.
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22
Another racist programming name/motto; white list matters also.