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Google will remove the usage of “blacklist” in Chrome and it spurred some discussions. I’m a bit surprised to see a lot of people laughed at it. I support this move. Here is my reasoning:

Assume you’re a developer, if you start writing a new project today and need this allow/block functionality, would you use the terms “whitelist/blacklist”?

If the answer is yes, I think you’re being too insensitive.

If the answer is no, then the difference comes down to the migration cost: whether the preference to terms other than “blacklist” overweight the cost of changing codes. We should respect a piece of working software. So I won’t judge companies that don’t replace “blacklist” as a term since I’m not in the position to evaluate the migration cost of a project I don’t know, which could be really big. For the same reason, you shouldn’t judge a project that replaces “blacklist” since you probably don’t know their migration cost as well.

前一阵子发现了Office Ladies这个podcast，就顺便和xw开始重看The Office。这个剧还是我们12年刚来美国开始用Netflix的时候看的，开头几集还不太适应觉得怎么这么奇怪，后来看进去了就觉得超好看。第七季Steve Carell离开我们十分震惊，感觉这个剧怎么能没有Michael Scott呢，就停下了。后来过了好几年我才补了一下后两季。

这几个月在家隔离，倒也没binge watch，就吃饭的时候看一看The Office，但还是很快就超过Office Ladies的进度了。昨天刚刚看完了。时隔多年，这次看能get到的梗多了一些，有时候也会感叹这个剧好多段子还真是很政治不正确，现在的喜剧都不太敢搞了。第一次看的时候我对Holly印象特别特别好，这次倒没有那么强的感觉了，只是还是感觉她和Michael是soul mate。另外这次看的时候知道了Michael会离开，有了心理准备，于是更欣赏后面两季一些，觉得他们能找来一系列的人把后面两季撑下来也挺不容易的。

这些年看了这么多喜剧，The Office还是我心中的No. 1。