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I'll be dead on the outside eventually as Grim Death's grasping claw squeezes the life out of me. Please, my time on earth is precious and I would rather spend

I'll be dead on the outside eventually as Grim Death's grasping claw squeezes the life out of me. Please, my time on earth is precious and I would rather spend it with my loved ones in preference to skimming over forced references.

Ar-Curunir 10y ago
Oh yeah, that 0.5s you lost while reading that totally ruined your day, enough to make you waste even more time to comment on it. It's an informal blog, I read the same reference, thought, "must be some joke I've missed", and got on with reading the rest of the blog.
- falsedan 10y ago
  Will you lie on your deathbed recalling all the times you spend reading forced memes and thinking, "… for teh win!!1"? That blog is informal in style but not in content; it's a professional blog by a Mozilla employee. I don't feel like it respects its audiences' time, which is sadly the norm for software-related technical writing. Whings won't get better by saying nothing, and asking people to improve is never a waste of time (if done nicely). Related: Normalization of deviance in software: how broken practices become standard[0] [0]: http://danluu.com/wat/ http://danluu.com/wat/
  - falsedan 10y ago
    *Things (whoops)
usrusr 10y ago
Is it a reference? If it is I did not get it, but I also did not miss it at all because I felt that it was quite clearly established as a shorthand for "improvements in the state of the art of writing software in general and specifically browsers, accumulated over the past two decades, which I don't want to describe here in detail, trust me that they exist or not, your choice" on first use. That shorthand was a considerable reading speedup for me, reference or not (if it is a reference, depending on what it references it might make reading slower for those who do get it - maybe I was just lucky?).

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I'll be dead on the outside eventually as Grim Death's grasping claw squeezes the life out of me. Please, my time on earth is precious and I would rather spend

by falsedan 10y ago

Ar-Curunir 10y ago
Oh yeah, that 0.5s you lost while reading that totally ruined your day, enough to make you waste even more time to comment on it. It's an informal blog, I read the same reference, thought, "must be some joke I've missed", and got on with reading the rest of the blog.
- falsedan 10y ago
  Will you lie on your deathbed recalling all the times you spend reading forced memes and thinking, "… for teh win!!1"? That blog is informal in style but not in content; it's a professional blog by a Mozilla employee. I don't feel like it respects its audiences' time, which is sadly the norm for software-related technical writing. Whings won't get better by saying nothing, and asking people to improve is never a waste of time (if done nicely). Related: Normalization of deviance in software: how broken practices become standard[0] [0]: http://danluu.com/wat/ http://danluu.com/wat/
  - falsedan 10y ago
    *Things (whoops)
usrusr 10y ago
Is it a reference? If it is I did not get it, but I also did not miss it at all because I felt that it was quite clearly established as a shorthand for "improvements in the state of the art of writing software in general and specifically browsers, accumulated over the past two decades, which I don't want to describe here in detail, trust me that they exist or not, your choice" on first use. That shorthand was a considerable reading speedup for me, reference or not (if it is a reference, depending on what it references it might make reading slower for those who do get it - maybe I was just lucky?).