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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by jachee on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:53PM (#17929944)
> Our goodness and values show in our worldly actions.

So, how hard would it be to

    sed -ri 's/slave/receiver/g; s/master/sender/g' redis_source/
...to make this product better for more people and take nothing away from it? That would be a "worldly action" to show some goodness.
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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by platinumrad on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:54PM (#17929952)
A huge diff that doesn't mean anything is a nontrivial cost. Documentation would also have to be changed and articles would have to be updated.

Deprecating something, even terminology, should not be done lightly.

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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by aiven on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:05PM (#17930407)
this is how voting works tho
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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by meowface on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:26PM (#17930535)
In practice, but not on paper. HN guidelines forbid that sort of voting behavior.
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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by grzm on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:39PM (#17930614)
There is no guideline on HN forbidding down voting for disagreement. 'dang as recently as a month ago reiterated this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666145

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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by meowface on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:49PM (#17930670)
Ah sorry, not sure where I got that idea from, then. I may've been confused by various subreddit mods establishing rules along the lines of "the downvote is not a disagree button".
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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by dang on Friday September 07, 2018 @05:18AM (#17932896)
Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574021
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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by jachee on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:04PM (#17930039)
Sometimes the right thing is nontrivial.
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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by platinumrad on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:13PM (#17930090)
Maybe. I'm undecided on the issue of changing existing instances of "master-slave", but I would definitely use something else in a greenfield project.

You're getting downvotes not (just) due to disagreements but because your first comment was incorrect (it's not just a sed command) and your second was unproductive.

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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by Turing_Machine on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:06PM (#17930047)
Standing up to thought-policing bullies is a worldly action that shows goodness, IMO.
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