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Or, you know, you could just not name your things master/slave and outright mention you do not take contributions if you do not care about doing that right eith
by sascha_sl 6y ago
Or, you know, you could just not name your things master/slave and outright mention you do not take contributions if you do not care about doing that right either?
- xxs 6y agonext would be the red-black trees or some utter nonsense.
- bendergarcia 6y agoCan you speak to the historical racism or slavery associated with the name red black trees? I’m genuinely curious as I don’t know the history.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoLynching black people and hanging them from trees where their red blood ran. "Red black tree" reduces that history to a mere three words and should really be changed. That may sound preposterous, but it's making the same claim as the rest of the moral panic over names in tech.
- bendergarcia 6y agoAccording to Wikipedia it’s because of the printing capabilities in the 70s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree#Histo...
- gilbetron 6y agoLiterally read a post about some terminology that used red/green in them, and how that was biased against the colorblind. Not that some interface used the colors red/green, but merely the terminology used the words. As a red/green colorblind person ... words fail me at the stupidity of that.
- xxs 6y agored/green is commonly attributed to testing - usually the interface has red and green, though. I just dont get how people get offended over such stuff, like err... "Mains in computer engineering"