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But even the mods acknowledge this! Here you have it, straight from the mouth of the beast: https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ https://blog
by enriquto 3y ago
But even the mods acknowledge this! Here you have it, straight from the mouth of the beast:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
They explain why they deleted the most appreciated question ever in Stack Overflow, and how they magnanimously let you look at a few scraps of the answers (but not to all, these are DELETED!), and why we can't, after all, have nice things.
> Does this effect have a name?
If I wasn't against ad-hominems, and to avoid giving undue credit, I'd propose to call this effect "Jeff Atwooding". As in, the cool answer by Thurston on contributing to mathematics has been jeff atwooded recently.
- bee_rider 3y agoBut it should be noted that the question in the blog post—share a bit of programming jargon you’ve made up—is not a good question for a Q/A site. It is a “fun to play with” social media engagement question, more suited for Reddit. The question on the original post seems more grey-area. It isn’t really a math question that can be answered in a math-y way, but it is the sort of thing that some folks might benefit from seeing anyway…