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Re:Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' by xellisx on Friday July 03, 2020 @06:28PM (#23728182)
Yeah, the amount of energy arguing about not changing the terminology; which can be changed to better reflect what it is, is mind boggling.

I can understand arguing what terminology should be used instead. Those arguments tend to be way more civil discussions and don't last long, and a way better set of terminology is set.

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Re:Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' by acdha on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:28PM (#23728543)
Yeah, that’s a much better conversation because it often flushed out that the same terms were being used for things which weren’t quite the same (hot failover, read-replica, etc.) and someone who has more experience with one tool won’t think a different one works the same way.
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Re:Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' by lr4444lr on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:38AM (#23738547)
What energy? It's not like we're hosting rallies or founding political parties on this.
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