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| DATE | 2020-07-13 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: CNN 7/3/20: Twitter and JPMorgan are
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with any luck twitter will be like Compuserve in 6 months and they won't
matter any more.
Word do matter and the name Twitter itself is designed to create
careless, emotionally changed communication, and result in flame wars
that make money for them
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 08:18:23AM -0400, mayer ilovitz wrote:
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> https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/tech/twitter-jpmorgan-slave-master-coding/index.html
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> Twitter and JPMorgan are removing 'master,' 'slave' and 'blacklist'
> from their code
>
> By Julia Horowitz , CNN
> Business
>
> Updated 8:47 AM ET, Fri July 3, 2020London (CNN Business)The
> language of computing is changing in the wake
> of the death of George Floyd.
>
> Twitter is dropping the terms "master," "slave" and "blacklist" from
> its code after two engineers l_obbied for the use of _more inclusive _programming
> language_. America's biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase (JPM ),
> is taking similar steps.
> "Words matter," Michael Montano, the head of Twitter's engineering
> team, said in a tweet on Thursday
> . "We
> are committed to adopting inclusive language in our code,
> configuration, documentation and beyond."
> "Master" and "slave" refer to one process in the code that controls
> another, while "blacklist" describes a list of items that are
> automatically blocked, such as forbidden IP addresses.
> In the face of a cultural reckoning, it turns out massive
> corporations can move fast and fix things
> At Twitter (TWTR ),
> "master" and "slave" will become "leader" and "follower" or
> "primary" and "replica," while "blacklist" will become "denylist."
> Debate over the language used by engineering teams has been
> amplified in recent weeks by the Black Lives Matter movement, which
> is forcing companies to reckon with discrimination
> and the treatment of Black employees following Floyd's death.
> JPMorgan Chase will also remove "master," "slave," and "blacklist"
> from its internal materials and code. The news was first reported by
> Reuters and the BBC.
> The effort at Twitter was spearheaded by engineers Regynald Augustin
> and Kevin Oliver.
> Augustin, who is Black, tweeted
>
> that he was inspired to push for changes after an email went to the
> engineering team with the line "automatic slave rekick."
> "Seeing it was infuriating," he said. "I've been used to seeing the
> word 'slave' throughout my [computer science] education but this was
> different."
> The list of words that will start to be swapped out — which Twitter
> said is not exhaustive — also includes "grandfathered," which will
> become "legacy status," and "dummy value," which will become
> "placeholder value" or "sample value."
>
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