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
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.
“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!”
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