Re:On Redis master-slave terminology
by dragonwriter on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:15PM
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> The hierarchy of "parent" and "child", at least, is used for terminology in other fields, e.g. euphemistically in psychology, for relationships that fit a particular behavior pattern, even when the participants aren't actually related.
That's metaphor, but not really euphemism.
> However, if what you say is your firm belief, then you surely wouldn't mind `"dominatrix"-"submissive" databases` or `"torturer"-"victim" databases`?
First, I'd have no problems if they actually communicated useful information by way of metaphor, but I can't immediately see any way those examples would.
Second, do you really want, in the course of arguing that describing a relationship of total control between different programs or other inanimate systems as a master-slave relationship is offensive, to suggest that consensual BDSM relationships are analogous to both actual slavery and torture in the offensiveness of having descriptions of other things refer to them?
That's metaphor, but not really euphemism.
> However, if what you say is your firm belief, then you surely wouldn't mind `"dominatrix"-"submissive" databases` or `"torturer"-"victim" databases`?
First, I'd have no problems if they actually communicated useful information by way of metaphor, but I can't immediately see any way those examples would.
Second, do you really want, in the course of arguing that describing a relationship of total control between different programs or other inanimate systems as a master-slave relationship is offensive, to suggest that consensual BDSM relationships are analogous to both actual slavery and torture in the offensiveness of having descriptions of other things refer to them?