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Phrases for the dustbin: - Considered harmful - Unreasonable effectiveness - Root of all evil
by osigurdson 3y ago
Phrases for the dustbin:
- Considered harmful
- Unreasonable effectiveness
- Root of all evil
- _Microft 3y agoThe title is alluding to an old article called „The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“ by physicist Eugene Wigner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
- balder1991 3y agoAnd "considered harmful" was popularized by the Dijkstra’s article "GOTO Statement Considered Harmful".
- ASalazarMX 3y agoMost people recognize the reference, it's a very overused reference, hence PCs complaint.
- WithinReason 3y agoI think at this point everyone knows that.
- PotatoPancakes 3y agoRelevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- CaptainNegative 3y agoI think at this point everyone's seen this comic.
- Jverse 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
- itsboring 3y agoI’d like to add the phrase “solved problem”.
- modernpink 3y ago* is all you need
- osigurdson 3y agoAnother one that is starting to get on my nerves (though not really in the same category as the above) is "first world problem". Person A states they have some kind of problem and person B says "tisk, tisk, first world problems" in order to attenuate whatever problem person A has. If person B is currently living in the 3rd world under 3rd world conditions, fine, otherwise stop cheaply leveraging the poor in order to win arguments.
- the_optimist 3y agoEach representing failures of prose to appropriately characterize multi-dimensional performance into simplistic concepts of good and evil.
- xeonmc 3y agoThe unreasonable effectiveness of considered harmful essays is all you need
- kwertyoowiyop 3y agoWhat we talk about when we talk about…