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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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this discussion also turned up on postfix a few weeks ago.
It is newspeak... it is all newspeak..
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:13:25AM -0400, mayer ilovitz wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >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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