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Yeah? I don't see evidence that every two years a new word gets brigaded in source code. Do you have examples of projects this has been happening to? If not, th

• luckylion 6y ago
  You're right, master/slave and the new blacklist/whitelist demands did not have two years between them, not even this post is two years old.
  • Pfhreak 6y ago
    Both of those have been discussions for much longer than two years. There's at least a decade of discussions around those two examples. Edit: closer to two decades - in 2003 LA asked electronics manufacturers not to use the language. Presumably this was first discussed by the community. In the mid aughts, Microsoft was using allowlist/deny list. So, hardly a recent phenomena, and certainly not every two years. Yes, some projects have been faster or slower to adopt replacements for these terms, which is why you have seen a few discussions in the past few weeks on HN.