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Ask HN: What Are Your Programming Pet Peeves?

I think my biggest programming pet peeve is people shooting down my long variable names. I don't make all my variable names long. IMO, I make them all long enough, and I hate when people tell me to shorten them, as those names are often some of the things I've thought the hardest about in my PR.Consider these two names: car_to_base_new_car_from base_car What's the difference? Do they...

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Re:Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:00PM (#21358125)
Ditto. I found it awful.
Re:String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:25PM (#21209660)
the whole time I just kept thinking, "but... when they put up their money in 2002 it was invested right?? The charity got something more like $2880? why aren't they telling us!?"