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Considered harmful considered harmful. Everything considered harmful. Harmful considered RESTful.
by Propen 11y ago
Considered harmful considered harmful.
Everything considered harmful.
Harmful considered RESTful.
- ddalex 11y agoEverybody now writes a "considered harmful" article. I think it's the coder-hipsterish thing to do now. If you don't like it, don't use it.
- nine_k 11y agoWe need to buckle the trend and write more 'considered beneficial' posts! Partially this is already happening with <whatever>-awesome curated Github repos.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoNow? The "considered harmful" essay is probably one of the most important early contributions to the field of computer science.
- ssebastianj 11y agoEverytime I read the "considered harmful" phrase, I ask myself "Considered harmful, by whom?"
- leeoniya 11y agodid you miss? > PS: Obligatory appendix: "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful. [1] [1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
- bitwarrior 11y agoPretty much at a point where I immediately disregard "considered harmful" posts. Majority of the time its hyperbole and clickbait.
- myderpyaccount 11y agoI often wonder half amused, "What Would Dijkstra Do?", every time I see the phrase referenced. It's almost like harmful has lost meaning because of the complexity of the systems of which to it refers. Everything modern is ridiculously complex, even if it looks simple. You can't state that a single thing in a complex system is harmful without forcing yourself to re-evaluate the entire construction of the rest of the system, in which case you can either (A) determine that there is no alternative solution, or (B) the system must be altered in some other way (in which case now multiple things are equivalently harmful. Since (B) happens so frequently, this means many parts of every system are harmful precisely because the system isn't perfect yet (and every part can be minorly adjusted so long as other parts of the system are adjusted - and this latter part is never discussed (probably because the complexity involved is actually complex and someone else would be like 'dude, that's also harmful - your solution has side effects'))). If it was easy to implement new things people would do that instead of complaining. There's a good reason things are the way they are and not some other way.
- ominous 11y agowiki article on the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone There was a small discussion on the issue previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844117
- thaumaturgy 11y ago"Maybe if I use that famous phrase from the title of a famous document, people will take my sloppy draft more seriously."
- snarfy 11y agoArg. I hate the phrase. Unless you are Dijkstra you don't get to use it, IMO. Make up your own phrase. If your article is so profound and insightful your phrase will become the new jargon.
- dllthomas 11y agoEven Dijkstra didn't use it - the title was added by the editor.