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Slightly off-topic, the article was fine except for one nitbit... I wonder what the author, "hilariously" making one sorting function print "<val> sent to gula
by axiosgunnar 5y ago
Slightly off-topic, the article was fine except for one nitbit...
I wonder what the author, "hilariously" making one sorting function print "<val> sent to gulag" and calling it "stalin-sort", would think of "hitler-sort" which prints "<val> burned in oven"?
Please don't normalize mass-murderers, even for memes.
- axiosgunnar 5y agoIf you downvote, you must write what is wrong with that statement.
- karaterobot 5y agoIt's an obvious joke, the point of which is that the Stalin Sort is destructive and doesn't actually get you what you want, and you'd never want to use it.
- googlryas 5y agoI think OP gets the joke and is just saying it is in poor taste. Is it particularly different than their example of Hitler-sort burning stuff in an oven on failure? Or Columbine-sort, where the 15 coolest numbers get shot and then the rest of the numbers can get sorted.
- karaterobot 5y agoBut if the point is to mock the concept, how would it be considered normalizing anything?
- googlryas 5y agoI disagree that the point was to mock stalinism. It used Stalinism to joke about this type of sorting, but that doesn't mean it was mocking Stalinism.