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Again I complain on the irritating habit of non-descriptive naming of files. book.pdf Really? I'm saving the file for a later review and this name will guaran

Again I complain on the irritating habit of non-descriptive naming of files. book.pdf Really? I'm saving the file for a later review and this name will guarantee I either completely lose the file or will spend more time than necessary to locate it. The other option is to rename the file on saving, which is some work which needs to be performed by each user, instead of being done just once on the source. I think this is just impolite. Here's a proper name you can copy-paste: Mike_Rosulek_-_The_Joy_Of_Cryptography_(draft_2021-01-03).pdf PS: The short-link-for-verbal-sharing problem is solved via a symbolic link.

mavelikara 5y ago
Also, avoid resume.pdf for similar reasons.
ASalazarMX 5y ago
Your observation is very valid, that's one of my pet peeves too, but renaming the file before saving it is also very easy. Your observation, while helpful, feels excessively negative.
- ZoomZoomZoom 5y ago
  The only negative adjectives I used were "irritating" and "impolite". The first one is strictly my feelings, and if you don't share them, I can only congratulate you on your self-restrain. The second one is just my opinion, I could explain why I think so, but I don't think it's that big of a deal to waste time on further discussions. Just please, keep file naming in mind if you can. No one will come to any harm if you won't, though, so I guess it's not that important. On the second thought, one part of my job is preparing products for the final consumption, so this attention to minutiae is probably a professional deformation.
  - pkage 5y ago
    Using negative adjectives is not the only way to be negative.
    - ZoomZoomZoom 5y ago
      I don't know what standards you hold me to. I don't know how can you point at what you perceive as an issue and not be negative besides not speaking at all.
jimmygrapes 5y ago
I know there are a ton of pitfalls with spaces in filenames, but surely this is not one of the cases where it would apply? Unless your file save dialog replaces spaces for some reason, in which case even %20 is about as readable as _ to me.

mavelikara 5y ago

Also, avoid resume.pdf for similar reasons.

ASalazarMX 5y ago

Your observation is very valid, that's one of my pet peeves too, but renaming the file before saving it is also very easy. Your observation, while helpful, feels excessively negative.

ZoomZoomZoom 5y ago
The only negative adjectives I used were "irritating" and "impolite". The first one is strictly my feelings, and if you don't share them, I can only congratulate you on your self-restrain. The second one is just my opinion, I could explain why I think so, but I don't think it's that big of a deal to waste time on further discussions. Just please, keep file naming in mind if you can. No one will come to any harm if you won't, though, so I guess it's not that important. On the second thought, one part of my job is preparing products for the final consumption, so this attention to minutiae is probably a professional deformation.
- pkage 5y ago
  Using negative adjectives is not the only way to be negative.
  - ZoomZoomZoom 5y ago
    I don't know what standards you hold me to. I don't know how can you point at what you perceive as an issue and not be negative besides not speaking at all.

jimmygrapes 5y ago

I know there are a ton of pitfalls with spaces in filenames, but surely this is not one of the cases where it would apply? Unless your file save dialog replaces spaces for some reason, in which case even %20 is about as readable as _ to me.