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Re:Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names by majormajor on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:09PM (#28064936)
> (with lots of warnings around it so that it sticks out and is addressed hopefully in some next convenient cycle)

How do you expect to address it when there isn't a single obvious "right" that everyone will have the same intuition on?

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Re:Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names by derjdoj on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:03PM (#28065608)
For instance, as in the article, provide the examples so that the users have more heads-up as in what is actually happening.

Long term, you might deprecate it and solve the problem with more intuitive abstraction.

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