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It comes off as click bait. Personally I have no issue just figured I would relay my impulsive "news aggregation junkie" thoughts. "STUPID: A mnemonic for gre
by chrismarlow9 3y ago
It comes off as click bait.
Personally I have no issue just figured I would relay my impulsive "news aggregation junkie" thoughts.
"STUPID: A mnemonic for great code" might be less impulse triggering and be more forthright. But you have to bring them in somehow so meh.
- happytoexplain 3y agoBefore these two comments, I would have assumed most people know before clicking that it's an acronym that derives humor from the contrast between "smart" and "stupid". Maybe periods would help?
- jeremy_wiebe 3y agoFWIW: My hunch when I read the title was that it would be about “overly smart” programmers who tended to write code that was too dense/tricky to be maintainable by anyone but themselves. Hence smart programmers writing “stupid” (aka unmaintainable/inscrutable) code.
- chrismarlow9 3y agoMaybe. I don't feel strange for assigning the precedence of a word over an acronym at 6 letters when the context comes into play.