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As someone who was a bit obsessed with Hamlet as a teen, it's hillarious that they named this Polonius. Polonius is Ophelia's father in the play, and they proba
by seanhunter 3y ago
As someone who was a bit obsessed with Hamlet as a teen, it's hillarious that they named this Polonius. Polonius is Ophelia's father in the play, and they probably named it because of his famous line:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
He's a tragic but somewhat foolish figure, prone to fretting and offering kind of annoyingly obvious advice of which the above is an example.
- coderedart 3y agoWhat does dulling the husbandry mean in this context?
- seanhunter 3y agoHe's giving the advice to his son who is about to go off to university. What he's saying is if you get accustomed to borrowing you will lose your ability to budget properly.
- cjbgkagh 3y agoManagement and conservation of resources
- speed_spread 3y agoShakespeare was advocating for RAII?
- paulddraper 3y agoLosing full control of your finances
- Yoric 3y agoYes, if you look at the Polonius repo, this quote is featured prominently :)
- drexlspivey 3y agoFunny that this comment was made by yet another Hamlet character
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- Yoric 3y agoAlas, poor me!
- garyrob 3y agoIt may be obvious, but it's still worth stating! I loaned $1000 to a friend in my 20's, and ended up losing both the friendship and the money (though one was not wholly causal of the other).
- FpUser 3y agoI believe this is type of BS pushed by people with the agenda. What kind of friend you are (talking about real friends, not drinking buddies) if you let your friend sink. My friend loaned me $3000 cash when I was at the vet and my dog needed an urgent surgery. And I paid him back and he did not loose money and we did not loose friendship. And later on when I started to make good money I sometimes loaned to friends. One could not pay me back but we did not loose friendship either as he simply had circumstances beyond his control. I just told him consider it a gift.
- lolinder 3y agoWhat sort of agenda do you imagine people have? That you had a good experience with a friendly loan doesn't discount the bad experiences of thousands of people who did lose their friendships. We've given money to friends on multiple occasions to pay for medical bills, groceries, and the like, but every time I've entered a reciprocal business arrangement with friends or family (be that a loan or a paid work arrangement), I've regretted it immensely.
- FpUser 3y agoEveryone's situation is different. The fact that you've regretted it means zilch for somebody else. Maybe it is you an the type of friends / family you have. I helped my daughter few times and did not think one second about it. No regrets. You can not and should not generalize a particular situation.
- vacuity 3y agoYou're also generalizing though. The point is that either outcome could happen and you should be mindful of that. If you specifically never have an issue like that, good for you! But other people have been burned, and it's not any more valid for you to dismiss their experience.
- rob74 3y agoThanks for the explanation! But if his advice is to completely forego borrowing and lending, it's a bit counterintuitive to use his name for the borrow checker? OTOH, the borrow checker can certainly be described as "prone to fretting and offering kind of annoyingly obvious advice", so maybe it's appropriate after all?
- vore 3y agoWe love ironic names :)
- bradleyjg 3y agoGiven the context, it’s always funny to see these things played straight—-to thine own self be true tattoos and the like.
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