Re:Boring Problems Need Attention Too
by jkingsbery on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:18PM
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This is an excellent answer. The original post, insinuating that engineers are demonstrating "engineering mediocrity" or not "correct," is lazy for not understanding why this problem is ill-defined.
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Re:Boring Problems Need Attention Too
by horsawlarway on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:29PM
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Absolutely.
The irony is that his title is correct - Boring problems need attention.
But the content is jarringly wrong - The lack of attention didn't lie with the engineers of these companies, but with the author themselves.
For ~1600 words, they could have very easily tried to count it and quickly realized that the answers they got weren't wrong - the question was lazy and lacking attention.
Do you mean dictionary words?
Compound words?
Whitespace separated tokens?
What about stand alone text that isn't a word (ex - page numbers? Title numbers?)
Words that the author invented?
Words use non-traditional-spacing or grammar?(and maybe a missing space)
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But nope, it's those damn lazy engineers!