Twitter to stop using programming racially-charged programming terms like ‘master’ and ‘blacklist’

Engineers at Twitter successfully petition company to stop using racially-charged programming terms like ‘master’ and ‘blacklist’ Twitter will change references in code and official documents Engineers lobbied Twitter to stop using terms like ‘master’ and ‘slave’ The terms are commonly used to described certain programming processes Terms like ‘grandfathered’ and ‘man hours’ were also altered … Read more