rickbad68 · HackerTrans

A case sensitive filesystem doesn't require you to hit shift either if you just call the directory "programs". Also, there are many ways to save your pinky from moving the huge distance to the shift-key other than an arbitrary restriction on all file names in the file system..

rickbad68

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It sounds to me like the author had a severe anxiety attack for the first time. And just throwing out a wild guess that they possibly had recently experimented with ayahuasca or some other form of DMT.

rickbad68

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In other words, a rewrite is never actually that. There should be a better word we use for this, like 'replacement'

rickbad68

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This seems such a weird study. Names are important, but not so much as what is being named. In one sense, names become easy given a properly abstracted design. Further, it’s not names so much that are paramount to program comprehension, but more the quality of the design. With a bad design that doesn’t properly separate concerns it won’t be possible to come up with good names because functions/data structures will represent multiple concerns. Any time names are controversial it probably indicates a design problem, even for unique/complex abstractions, there is usually a name which everyone agrees is the perfect name for a thing..

rickbad68

há 5 anosdiscuss

This example is not good for talking about naming as there is no proper design which would have a function like this. In any proper design there would always be a separate function for each of the concerns.

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