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Re:Redis 4.0 by dboreham on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:26AM (#14770514)
True, but it has also been common practice for at least 20 years in the US to not use the term slave. Source: I worked on replication since 1996 and we were asked to use "supplier" and "consumer" at that time. Actually I've been surprised to see slave making a come back recently. Wondered if people hadn't received the memo or perhaps were outside the US cultural influence.
Re:Redis 4.0 by vidarh on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:15PM (#14770942)
Worked with US teams most of my career (since '95 or so) and never had any of them complain about master/slave nomenclature in any of the software we used. I suspect that rather than being "common practice in the US", it's been common in whatever niche you work in or whatever part of the US, or even just in the specific companies.

Of course it might be I who've worked in such a bubble too, but given the number of people here who seem to find it annoying that people are even suggesting not using it, I'm inclined to believe the use of master/slave has remained more common that you think.

Re:Redis 4.0 by pepve on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:39AM (#14770621)
"outside the US cultural influence"

Where is this magical place you speak of?

Re:Redis 4.0 by Ralfp on Friday July 14, 2017 @06:10PM (#14773616)
Eastern Europe sees discussions like this being done by the "bored westerners" and finding it great fuel for right. When Django was moving away from "blacklists", the general attitude was to mock it, or keep quiet about it:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev...

Re:Redis 4.0 by inopinatus on Friday July 14, 2017 @06:52PM (#14773845)
There are other ways to offend someone from Eastern Europe, or more generally almost any country. It's not unusual for some painful recent history to be still a raw nerve.

Slavery is a significant topic in the US. It was a prelude to the civil war; it was abolished within recent memory; and the echoes of racist sentiment still affect the lives of millions: people alive today remember segregation, and both casual and systematic discrimination against African-Americans continue to occur.

This is not a big deal in Poland, which has no such extensive recent history with slavery.

But - for example - in 2015 the Russian ambassador in Warsaw was excoriated in public and summoned to the foreign ministry for his remarks partly blaming Polish policy in the 1930s for contributing to the start of WW2 and the subsequent death of millions of Poles. Now that was a raw nerve.

A different standard does not mean the absence of standards. People who fail to see that, and then mock others, are simply demonstrating a lack of self-awareness.

Re:Redis 4.0 by Ralfp on Friday July 14, 2017 @07:07PM (#14773928)
>A different standard does not mean the absence of standards.

But that was the point I was arguing for. That US standard is not everyone's standard.

Re:Redis 4.0 by inopinatus on Friday July 14, 2017 @07:13PM (#14773959)
Then we are in agreement. My remark was not a rebuttal to yours.