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No code is better than no code

by legulere 10y ago

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jessaustin 10y ago
That seems logically problematic. Perhaps "no code is as good as no code"? [EDIT:] wow!
- akavi 10y ago
  Those seem the same to me, but the parent's is pithier. What's the difference in your eyes?
  - jessaustin 10y ago
    In parent's formulation, the phrase "no code" acts as a polyseme, carrying slightly different meanings each time it appears. It seemed like an attempt at word play, which I thought could be improved by pitting that interpretation against another strictly monosemous one that would be tautological once the ">" relation was changed to ">=". However it seems I've been overruled.
- jonahx 10y ago
  It's perfectly logical -- the same words can have different meanings in different contexts (here, the phrase "no code" has two meanings). Un-epigramming it, you'd have something like: "No code snippet exists that is as good as the complete absence of code"
- lorenzhs 10y ago
  No, your parser mismatched. Let me rephrase the GP: there does not exist any code that is better than not having any code at all. ∄ code c : c > ε (where the empty word ε represents no code and a>b means that code a is better than code b)
- ashark 10y ago
  (There is) no code (that) is better than no code Should make the play on words clearer, while also ruining it.
  - pbreit 10y ago
    Is that like: "The best code is the code not written"?
cloverich 10y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite UI books: "The best interface is no interface"
- collyw 10y ago
  Going off on a tangent here, but my favorite is "the only intuitive interface known to man is the nipple. All else is learned behavior."
  - rileymat2 10y ago
    It is a fun quote, but to add some annoying pedantry http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/23/225349120/to-succeed-at-breast-feeding-most-new-moms-could-use-help http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/23/22534912... Three days after giving birth, 92 percent of the new mothers said they were having problems breast-feeding.
Ezhik 10y ago
I love how so much stuff that people rely on JS for can actually be done with CSS alone.

No code is better than no code

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jessaustin 10y ago

That seems logically problematic. Perhaps "no code is as good as no code"? [EDIT:] wow!

akavi 10y ago
Those seem the same to me, but the parent's is pithier. What's the difference in your eyes?
- jessaustin 10y ago
  In parent's formulation, the phrase "no code" acts as a polyseme, carrying slightly different meanings each time it appears. It seemed like an attempt at word play, which I thought could be improved by pitting that interpretation against another strictly monosemous one that would be tautological once the ">" relation was changed to ">=". However it seems I've been overruled.
jonahx 10y ago
It's perfectly logical -- the same words can have different meanings in different contexts (here, the phrase "no code" has two meanings). Un-epigramming it, you'd have something like: "No code snippet exists that is as good as the complete absence of code"
lorenzhs 10y ago
No, your parser mismatched. Let me rephrase the GP: there does not exist any code that is better than not having any code at all. ∄ code c : c > ε (where the empty word ε represents no code and a>b means that code a is better than code b)
ashark 10y ago
(There is) no code (that) is better than no code Should make the play on words clearer, while also ruining it.
- pbreit 10y ago
  Is that like: "The best code is the code not written"?

cloverich 10y ago

Reminds me of one of my favorite UI books: "The best interface is no interface"

collyw 10y ago
Going off on a tangent here, but my favorite is "the only intuitive interface known to man is the nipple. All else is learned behavior."
- rileymat2 10y ago
  It is a fun quote, but to add some annoying pedantry http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/23/225349120/to-succeed-at-breast-feeding-most-new-moms-could-use-help http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/23/22534912... Three days after giving birth, 92 percent of the new mothers said they were having problems breast-feeding.

Ezhik 10y ago

I love how so much stuff that people rely on JS for can actually be done with CSS alone.