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Why? This is precisely what it's been called like for decades, to call it something else would introduce unnecessary confusion.
by p7IDD243 9y ago
Why? This is precisely what it's been called like for decades, to call it something else would introduce unnecessary confusion.
- dboreham 9y ago<sigh> this is the third time I've seen this come up on HN. Because for some people the word "slave" has bad connotations. Therefore it is a cultural norm in the USA not to use the word slave, even though as you say it has been in common usage in engineering (e.g. Master/Slave flip-flop going back to the 1950s). To use the word shows cultural insensitivity in some cultures. Like you I had not come across this issue when I landed as a fresh immigrant in California in 1996 to work on replication, but it only took a few minutes for someone to explain it to me and we carried on saying "supplier/consumer" or "origin/destination" for the subsequent 2 decades without trouble..
- stevekemp 9y agoThis is a timely reminder that the USA is not the center of the universe, Antirez is Italian.
- apple4ever 9y agoThose people should get over it. Master/Slave denotes a relationship. It can be bad if its a relationship between humans, but good its between servers.