On 06/02/2015 11:58 AM, craig mcmillan wrote:
not being from a slavery oppressed minority i'm not in a position to
offer an opinion on the experience of the use of 'slave' in CS
terminology, and the definition of 'minion' doesn't seem overly more
empowering
however :
dom / sub
is more fun and a little bit cheeky
:c
Ah. The nightclub scene is more salient; so Berlin is your favourite
city? What if the roles reverse; how does that map to mesos, clustering
or parallel efforts? For humorous reasons, I like
Mommy --> daddy so as to promote females to participate in mesos?
I say all of this, as my grandfather, who later on in life became
a pharmacist and drug store owner, was a slave in his youth. I find it
none offense. The only thing I find offense is those not willing to
fight to overcome their circumstances. As an over educated person, I
find the entire historical education experienced much more offending
than something that has existed in every culture that is more than a few
hundred years old. For me, obtaining education and then social status,
from elites, is an ugly process. Now, here in the USA, we
have graduates in debt up to there eyes and often no jobs. You want to
address a social-ill, why not just get rid of "tenure" and put the
pedantics on the same hire-fire master-slave relationship graduates are
under? The past is just that; the past, learn from it and move on. Take
actions about TODAY and tomorrow. Stop wallowing in the self pitty of
what other did hundreds or thousands of years ago!
WE still have wage-slaves, sex-slaves and many forms of human traffic
that are or are very, very close to slavery. Try to show your
independence, as part of a military collective; commander-slave.
How about elite-slave? politician-slave? Ivy_league--community_college
for names?
As a solution, why don't we make these relationships 'user defined
variables'? Surely that would be great fun and prepare us for
supporting languages such as Haskell in a fun and ambitious function
sort of way? [1]
James
[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1o/botworld_a_cellular_automaton_for_studying/
