Programmer Humor

Like sex, an operating system is better when it's free

I changed the $ in bash to § because fuck capitalism, keep your currency out of my free software

And !

Sounds pretty close to grope or grab.

I'm gonna tie you too the radiator, and grep you in the mouth for decades, and decades, and decades!

Has there been “slave” anywhere for a while? The last time I can think is PATA, which is ancient by now.

It seems like most (all?) uses of “master” these days are in the sense of a “master copy”, which doesn’t really have a “master/slave” dynamic to it.

And I’m so glad, and my boomer coworkers still complain

Yeah, I've heard. I've always associated the terms with dom/sub play, not slavery.

I get the reasoning as to why, but it seems odd to me that the IT terms were fixated on, but not the engineering terms; "master" and "slave" are still the accepted terms in the context of hydraulic systems, for example.

It's also generally accepted that "retard" and "retarded" are generally acceptable terms when used in an engineering context. If we can accept that some terms are accepted in the a technical context, it seems inconsistent not to apply the same thinking to IT terminology.

Just more stuff to keep us bickering with each other so we don't look up and realize where all the real problems are coming from, imo.

I use main instead of master on git, but what's the substitute to slave? Especially in master/slave setups like you have 1 processor controlling a bunch of measuring equipment for example.

My worst search was "How to kill orphaned child" I didn't even think about how it sounded until I saw it typed out in the search box lol

If the parent was waiting on the child, it is notified of the exit status and the child dies immediately. ~ man exit(3)