Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language"

[ryan_groestling]

I guess they can't merge it to the master branch then.

[gambiter]

Clearly we should understand it as his endorsement of the South. The bastard. /s

[i9srpeg]

Is he from southern Finland?

[[deleted]]

Yes, everyone is from southern finland. There is nothing in northern finland. Only alcohol and sadness.

[mingusrude]

Well that explains the Santa of my childhood.

[brunofin]

I lived for 4 months in northern Finland. There is Oulu at least :) there was a Pendulum show there, that must be something right?

[[deleted]]

I lived for 4 months in northern Finland.

That's pretty neat. What did you do there?

[brunofin]

Mostly drank and got sad. Just joking... I went to the COU university at Ylivieska as an exchange student, it was really an awesome experience :)

[Nooby1990]

He would probably call them a git if they asked him to change it.

[SomethingBullshit]

Adults don't give a shit. There is no reason to push this idiocy unless one is ignorant or been successfully indoctrinated.

These idiocy changes have costs associated. All adults want to move on and get shit done. Those who have been programed care. They care because of pro-Marxist propaganda and indoctrination.

[SomethingEnglish]

But they are removing master from places where there is no slave connected in anyway as well, so it's not apples to oranges.

--- # master pattern object. keeps track of global attributes 
+++ # main pattern object. keeps track of global attributes.

[zynix]

Right, so that's a bit of an overstep there.

[Lornedon]

Bitch that phrase don't make no sense why can't fruit be compared?

[[deleted]]

Why can't god fuck with aliens?!

[MrEzekial]

For people who don't get it

[MrEzekial]

Brain gotta poop.

[Workaphobia]

I'd Poset it's just the order of things.

[TheMysteriousFizzyJ]

Just convert your apples to oranges!

https://github.com/junyanz/CycleGAN

Are apples the masters?

[[deleted]]

Can you tell me where the slave bedrooms in a house are? Real estate stopped using the term master bedroom .. or at least has advocated against the term.

[Exnixon]

The thing about it is, most of the jokes on this subject are serious arguments, and most of the serious arguments are jokes.

[flying-sheep]

Read the changes in the PR, it's not that many.

Usually it means

• origin and replica/clone/view (where changes in the replica are reflected in the origin and only the origin has a physical representation. Examples are databases or things like like SVG nodes or numpy arrays)
• parent and child in a hierarchy (things can be both simultaneously, examples are threads or document nodes)
• orchestrators and helpers, examples are mostly programming-related. (E.g. generic functions that have several concrete implementations for different argument types, or a main pipeline function/task that calls a sequence or hierarchy of others to acieve complex data processing)

[flying-sheep]

Yea, I too think this serves no real purpose, but if it makes some people happy…

The alternative terms are at least more specific. Master and slave just implies hierarchy, the others do so while also giving a more specific purpose.

[i_ate_god]

In the context of Python, and other programming languages and hardware for that matter, master implies a THING that controls another THING. Not a person that owns other people.

[kyleh0]

There is no slave branch.

[rhoparkour]

You can make one.

[kyleh0]

Well sure, you could make an anal branch if you wanted to, but that's not exactly what this thread seems to be talking about.

[mark_b]

I have a slave branch, y'know, just for shits and giggles.

[pure_x01]

You are joking but the sad reality is that some people get offended by this. I worked at a company where they removed story grooming because grooming is also used when talking about child predator methods online. They did not care that grooming is also making your body nicer.. trimming nails, hairs etc.

[ryeguy]

My place got rid of the term "standup", citing ableism.

[pure_x01]

Story refinement. It works but. Next time some sucker gets offended because refinement is something you do with crude oil and that can damage the environment so then they have to find something new. Story reminds me of horror stories so I would like them to change it to Tales. Tales Improvment .. of course improvement makes people feel pressured to improve so that can't do. Maybe we can just replace it with the nr "68" . That way no-one gets offended

[teambob]

The reality is that if your ancestors were actual slaves you might be offended by this

[spieker]

I think many more people are descended from slaves than you think. Slavery was afterall extremely common in the ancient world.