S***e of Master/S***e is the S-word of Technology

Bruce H. Cottman, Ph.D.

Jul 13, 2020·2 min read

Client/server has been around for over 30 years. It took my daughter to ask questions for me to realize how objectionable is the word s***e. I think it is infeasible to eliminate master/s***e from all the past media. However, going forward, can we use some other term? How about master/naster or how about master/minion. For my self-awareness, I list some of the technology I use that uses the term, and technology does not use the term s***e.

S*****y is not only in our past, and it is present with us now.

Some of the technology I use that does NOT use the term s***e

• Twitter
• Python, starting v3.8 — https://bugs.python.org/issue34605
• streamlit documentation; I did not check all the 3rd party articles written about streamlit;
• swift.org;
• pytorch.org

Some of the technology I use that does NOT use the term s***e

• Twitter
• Python, starting v3.8 — https://bugs.python.org/issue34605
• streamlit documentation; I did not check all the 3rd party articles written about streamlit;
• swift.org;
• pytorch.org

Twitter banned the S-word.

Some of the technology I use that does USE the term s***e

I think the following mixed bag of tools, technologies, brand names, and companies, inherited the term s***e from client/server;

1. client/server
2. www.gnu.org
3. apache.org
4. spark.apache.org
5. tensorflow.org
6. any Publish/Subscribe
7. git;
8. GitHub
9. Docker;
10. Ubuntu;
11. JetBrains
12. Linux — s***e is a command;
13. gcc — s***e is an option;
14. any DevOps tool;
15. AWS;
16. Azure;
17. GCS;
18. PaperSpace;
19. LinkedIn- example — https://www.linkedin.com/company/slave-productions/about/
20. kaggle — https://www.kaggle.com/topslave
21. Master/s***e architecture pervasive term used in deep learning
22. almost all presentations and articles I generated for distributed computing;
23. golang.org
24. robotics — master/s***e servos
25. tensorflow.org
26. discuss.pytorch.org
27. Hadoop — https://occopus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial-bigdata-ai.html
28. Nvidia
29. Intel
30. Zoom
31. Motorola
32. Oracle

Of all the possible substitutions of s***e, we prefer minion. The meaning and use of minion is clear in English. Minions are little-yellow drones that need a master to tell them what to do. If left to their own, they wander of mission. and get into trouble.

There are more entities in the technology world that use the term s***e than don't. In the crowd I run-in we were not aware. We are now. We will use the master/minion from now on.