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I think there's more going on than condescending gotchas here. I see the whole genre as fairly tongue-in-cheek enumerations of pitfalls that, all too often, are
by ubermonkey 9y ago
I think there's more going on than condescending gotchas here. I see the whole genre as fairly tongue-in-cheek enumerations of pitfalls that, all too often, are baked into projects as unexamined assumptions.
When we read them, we have the opportunity to check our own assumptions -- about the subject at hand (today, CSVs) and also (hopefully!) about other subjects we may encounter later.
- emodendroket 9y agoI just don't know what thought process I'm supposed to go through when someone tells me writing `sep=,` in a CSV is horrible but doesn't offer any alternative way of fixing the problem that solves.
- ubermonkey 9y agoMaybe the title scheme is throwing you off. I read these as "a list of things people have assumed about X that, on the surface, seem true but absolutely won't be 100% of the time." IOW, examine your assumptions, and protect yourself from your unexamined biases and assumptions. No?
- emodendroket 9y agoAt best, I'm now aware that there's some situation where I should avoid it, but I have no idea why, what the situation is, or what options I have.