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The article-title-rewriting thing has actually made this sound _more_ clickbaity. The original title prepends the word "how" which is much better.
by randrews 6y ago
The article-title-rewriting thing has actually made this sound _more_ clickbaity. The original title prepends the word "how" which is much better.
- qznc 6y ago(author here) Initially my draft had the title "CMake and the Diamond". When the article was finished, I decided to make it more clickbaity because I'm not Paul Graham or Scott Alexander. Rumors are that words like "How to" and "You" make it look more interesting. I weakened it intentionally by adding the "can" because I don't claim that this approach is the one best solution.
- randrews 6y agoI think the article title is fine, I'm saying that the HN thing that removes numbers and "how to" and so on (to prevent clickbait titles) has done the opposite here. :)