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Off topic, but the "considered harmful" titling meme annoys me. Dijkstra gets a pass, but it's now become a passive, cliched, content-free, overused way to say you disagree with something.


My first reaction upon reading the title was thinking of the essay "Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful[1].

[1]: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

And the quality of this article just proves the point, I think.


logging in to upvote parent. to me, tc has lost its journalistic credibility a while ago.


>tc has lost its journalistic credibility a while ago.

Around the time it was founded, I'd say




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