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   by peter_hilton 11y ago

   > "text_correction_by_editor" might convey a lot more info then "edit" In the talk I explain that this is a real example, from software for a publishing company in the Netherlands. The 'editor' is the person
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   by peter_hilton 11y ago

   > my worst habit it just trying to use words with the same number of characters for different variables so they align Yes, you have worse problems than ambiguous abbreviations :) That doesn't make the abbreviations okay, though.
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   by peter_hilton 11y ago

   > the advice either has little value or doesn't really apply to programming When I give this talk, I make this clear. I agree. The point is that there's a lot more good advice from writers over the fine details of prose than th
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   by peter_hilton 11y ago

   > An important rule is missing here: variables should be named with their scope in mind True, but I have plenty of slides in my presentation without adding more :) The 'small scope rule' is more of a situation when you can get
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   by peter_hilton 11y ago

   What’s not on the slide, but which I say during the talk, is that I’m making an analogy here between ‘Don’t use passive voice’ (English) and ‘use noun phrases for class names’ (object-oriented programming). Both are kinds of grammatical gui
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