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...39;m also painfully aware that small amends to our mental model > could improve the lives of many people. Every little bit counts. AOL. As an *English* speaker (as in "not American"), I also see "master" as - not exactly reverential - but as a leader (or a youngster - the diminutive of Mister). And reading the link against it, almost the first post I read was an African American saying that a lot of this was totally irrelevant to him, and was a lot of white people speaking on his behalf without actually bothering to ask him what *he* wanted. If changing terminology mak...

I don't mind the slight diminution in my hearing faculties that accrues each time I have a call come in while I'm talking from (I think I have this straight) the ADSI tone, but yesterday one of my callers asked me, "You OK?" after it sounded, so it must be at least minimally audible to the other party. Any way...

Hi, When we moved to GitHub a few months ago, we used without more consideration the "master" convention to name our development branch. On SVN it used to be just "trunk". This naming is unfortunate <https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html#rfc.section.1.1> as it can hurt some contributors