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Programming language bites its tongue to be more inclusive 50 Shades of Python
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I did a website for the Black Mothers' Breastfeeding Association -- not that website, a different one for their weekly club meetings -- a non-profit that helps educate moms about the benefits of breastfeeding. One of the admin options on my site is to review the list IP's that have been blacklisted, and to allow entering IP's that should go on a whitelist site. While working on this, I became quite conscious of the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" and how our language, even in tech, can have racist undertones. I changed the names to "disallow" and "allow".
Marc
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That's all very PC, but another sysadmin will pull his hairs out trying to blacklist a slave IP address.
Parent/worker, primary/replica, leader/follower... Just when we had some consistent terminology in tech 
And what happened to parent/child, or is that offensive to orphans?
Personally, I've never ever thought of black and whitelisting as something having to do with black or white people, but with the colors black and white (like on a chessboard).
I just recently learned that I can't say "negro" because apparently the whole race now has a negative connotation
Meanwhile, rappers and Samuel L. Jackson are throwing the N-word (not "negro") around like PC doesn't apply to those who it applies to.
If somebody says cheese, tulip, mill, wooden shoe, dike, pothead, or bicycle one more type I'm going to be SO offended!
Why can't we be more like pandas? They're black, white and Asian... 
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Sander Rossel wrote: If somebody says cheese, tulip, mill, wooden shoe, dike, pothead, or bicycle one more time I'm going to be SO offended!
Oh, I'm certain we can come up with much more derogatory terms than those, if we really try... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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That's the point, negro, blacklisting and slave aren't derogatory terms.
A negro, as I understand it, is a black person, like caucasian is white.
Blacklisting has absolutely nothing to do with black people.
The term slave is not tied to a certain skin color or race, people of all races have been enslaved in the past (and all of them have been slavers as well!).
But somehow people have taken these words as personal offenses.
Sure, if I say "hey negro, better blacklist your ass from this neighborhood or I'm going to make you my slave", that's pretty offensive (but replace "negro" with "caucasian" and it's still offensive).
But it's the context that matters.
I sure hope no person is going to be offended when I say "I better blacklist this spammer's IP address on this slave computer."
However, currently, people ARE going to be offended and that's just really stretching it and really takes the meaning out of "offended"
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It's the Red Queen's Race. As long as there're ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) 's who want to use membership in a group as a way to insult people, every new intended as inclusive/positive/etc term for the group will lose its lustre as the 's use it as an insult.
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-- Sarah Hoyt
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Many people want to act "offended"; among other things, it's a form of virtue signalling.
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Sander Rossel wrote:
If somebody says cheese, tulip, mill, wooden shoe, dike, pothead, or bicycle one more type I'm going to be SO offended!
I live in Holland, Michigan, and every spring we have the Tulip Time Festival, which involves the most stereotypical Dutch stuff, such as dressing up in 1800s Dutch outfits (with the wooden shoes, of course), doing klompen dancing, and of course lots of tulips. Apparently when they made the festival, they wanted to celebrate their Dutch heritage and didn't really know how, so they ended up taking the most stereotypical Dutch things.
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Kaladin wrote: so they ended up taking the most stereotypical Dutch things
Hookers and weed?
Sounds fun though.
I do see a lot of tulips in spring/summer and we do have some old windmills here and there, and of course there's the cheese, but I rarely see people in old Dutch outfits (although I know they still do that at markets that I never visit) or wooden shoes (at least not how they're always portrayed).
Bicycles and weed are the Netherlands of the 21st century though!
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Marc Clifton wrote: While working on this, I became quite conscious of the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" and how our language, even in tech, can have racist undertones. I changed the names to "disallow" and "allow".
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They only have "racist overtones" if you want them to.
Black has always been associated with bad or evil, LONG before racism was a thing.
They could use "parent" and "child", but I'm sure that will trigger some child labor activist somewhere.
As far as I'm concerned, writing code has no skin (black or otherwise) in the political correctness game.
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Changing words for change sake is bad. However if better words can be more suitable and "old" words merely used for legacy purposes, I'm okay with it.
Point in Master/Slave to Parent/Worker. (In our case changed to Primary/Secondary)
Taking the words as is: can the slave component do some functions without the Master's permission? If the answer is No - then i think the terms can be justified.
However if the Slave has some self auto-actions, it is not a slave.
Can a worker work without a parent?
A daughter board does not work without a motherboard. If it could, it might be better named to reflect that it can self function and/or extend.
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Checked C is an open, collaborative project led by Microsoft Research aimed to extend the C language so programmers can write more reliable programs free of errors such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts. "Check this out!"
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New research finds that showing compassion to subordinates almost always pays off, especially when combined with the enforcement of clear goals and benchmarks. "It's nice to be nice to the nice"
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"Compassion" and "enforcement" don't often go well together in the same sentence. AKA "tough love"??? 
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A M*A*S*H reference! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I’m glad someone got it! 
TTFN - Kent
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Imagine a world where everyone can build apps regardless of their coding experience. Okay, that’s a little scary. But regardless of the worst case scenarios playing out in the minds of developers everywhere, low-code/no-code tools are rapidly becoming a reality. Didn't we see this movie already?
Like 4GL times?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Imagine a world where everyone can build apps regardless of their coding experience.
And that world, sadly, is now. And yes it's scary. And it doesn't require low-code or no-code tools.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Are Excel function writers not coders/programmers?
HR, accounts, and so on.
Excel allowed for a large section of calculation functions to be shifted from a programmer, closer to the daily worker.
Just had this yesterday from an HR doing some spreadsheet, and comes over saying the first thing "I'm not a programmer, could you help with this spreadsheet i'm trying to put together?"
Look at the file, and wow, some nice calulcations. If's and stuff. That is programming. even just =C1 + C2 is programming. Drag'n'Drop or not.
But like history, programmers still needed for some more complex vb work.
Low Code and No code is another term that sounds new but its actions have been like many technical changes of the last 50 years.
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We're fast coming up on the 33rd anniversary of the initial release of MS Excel which came out on Sept 30, 1985.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Only if had a Mac.
Windows users had to continue with MS MultiPlan and MS Chart until Nov of 1987
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C++17 added support for parallel algorithms to the standard library, to help programs take advantage of parallel execution for improved performance. MSVC first added experimental support for some algorithms in 15.5, and the experimental tag was removed in 15.7. "Everything, all at once"
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The EU has voted on copyright reform (again), with members of European Parliament this time voting in favor of the extremely controversial Articles 11 and 13. I'd have a quote from Friedrich Hayek here, but I'm still waiting for him to email permission
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The next update to Windows 10, due to be released in October, will be smarter about how it frees up disk space and cleans up temporary files. That should save the hackers some time
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