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Debouncing is established terminology in UI and other event-handling stuff at this point, and has been for a decade. It's a bit too late to complain. Language e
by Sharlin 1y ago
Debouncing is established terminology in UI and other event-handling stuff at this point, and has been for a decade. It's a bit too late to complain. Language evolves and not all new uses of words are good analogies.
- em3rgent0rdr 1y agoYeah. It is not too uncommon for terms to refer to how things were done in the past or in another context. For example, we still "dial" a number on our phone even though rotary phones are no longer used...for other examples see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misnomer#Older_name_retained https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misnomer#Older_name_retained
- kazinator 1y agoThat's the same context (making a call to a phone number) with a different implementation.
- kazinator 1y ago> for a decade Whoa!