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Re:Tips for reviewing code you don’t like by bryanrasmussen on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:24PM (#20385883)
"could you please" reads a lot like "clean your shit up" whereas please without the preceding could you registers as polite to my eyes.
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Re:Tips for reviewing code you don’t like by ghostpepper on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:58PM (#20386697)
IMHO, the equivalence you propose is definitely not spelled out in the semantics of English so you really need to be reading a lot of sarcasm into the sentence to make that leap.
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Re:Tips for reviewing code you don’t like by bryanrasmussen on Monday July 08, 2019 @05:13PM (#20386815)
I believe that's what I said.
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