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| DATE | 2020-07-13 |
| FROM | mayer ilovitz
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: CNN 7/3/20: Twitter and JPMorgan are
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except JPMorgan Chase is doing the same stupidity.
Ruben Safir wrote:
> 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
>
>
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> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 08:18:23AM -0400, mayer ilovitz wrote:
>> https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/tech/twitter-jpmorgan-slave-master-coding/index.html
>>
>>
>> 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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