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Re:Reasons to avoid code comments by drewcoo on Saturday July 13, 2013 @05:28AM (#6037119)
Good grief. SOME NUMBER blah blah RELIGIOUS ISSUE.

So I have trouble with any article that starts with SOME NUMBER because that's about as lazy as starting with a definition. It's bad discourse.

And I don't understand how RELIGIOUS ISSUE belongs on HN. In this case it's comments, but it could as easily have been favorite language, editor, or any general dogma.

Those are my "2 reasons to avoid the contentious but vapid article".

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Re:Reasons to avoid code comments by sublimit on Saturday July 13, 2013 @07:33AM (#6037310)
These sort of articles are definitely the worst part of HN. Take some common practice, invent dumb rules against it just to be contrarian, publish and get people fighting against each other.
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Re:Reasons to avoid code comments by pauloortins on Saturday July 13, 2013 @11:43AM (#6037763)
It isn't to be contrarian. Discuss things like that, make new good practices born. It was the same with goto, singleton pattern and other things.
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