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blowski | 1 year ago

This is true of all famous essays. People remove the nuance included in the body and over-apply the title without really understanding it.

For example "Goto considered harmful". I remember working with a very good programmer who'd used a "goto", and a much less senior one[1] rejected their PR by linking to the article.

[1] I'm ashamed to say it was me, a long time ago.

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ffsm8|1 year ago

That's precisely why I love to only comment things with questions, i.e. "isn't go-to considered harmful? Is this really the best way?".

It gives the person making the change the opportunity to give context for their decision - and either change or spell out their reasoning for it, potentially giving me an opportunity to learn from them.

Another good benefit is that it doesn't "attack" the PR author in the "non-violent communication" way

blowski|1 year ago

Doesn't that seem a bit passive aggressive? See what I did there?