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The next great thing will be a post titled: "Please: stop with 'please' titles"
by augusto_hp 14y ago
The next great thing will be a post titled: "Please: stop with 'please' titles"
- BurritoAlPastor 14y ago"Please" considered harmful?
- augusto_hp 14y agoIn a series of posts that uses it to self-promotion? IMHO yes.
- sarenji 14y agoIt was a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful Namely -- Frank Rubin published a criticism of Dijkstra's letter in the March 1987 CACM where it appeared under the title 'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful. The May 1987 CACM printed further replies, both for and against, under the title '"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?. Dijkstra's own response to this controversy was titled On a Somewhat Disappointing Correspondence. :-)
- augusto_hp 14y agoMy (really) bad! Shame on me.
- sukuriant 14y agoAnd then the next day, we'll be surrounded by posts about the first time a person used the word 'please', and why another person continues to use please, and another post encouraging the use of please more often... And HackerNews will have been successfully trolled again.