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"why don't you just" is called out in Evan's "The hard parts of open source" [0] talk. He goes into some of the reasons it's a bad phrase and some of the probl
by TheDong 6y ago
"why don't you just" is called out in Evan's "The hard parts of open source" [0] talk.
He goes into some of the reasons it's a bad phrase and some of the problems behind it. I'd recommend the talk.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA
- a1369209993 6y agoWell, "why not just..." is only bad if it's rhetorical; sometimes it's a genuine question: "why not just?"; there usually is a reason, and it's important to find out what that reason is, rather than repeat someone else's mistakes.