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04/02/2011

“Say what you mean.” — Bar Colby

Filed under: Academic,Pop Culture,Tech — admin @ 6:46 am

Attention well paid experts in your own field: when you say something is “kind of,” “kind of like,” or “like” you’re often carrying absolutely no added meaning — please don’t say it! Or at the very least please refrain from using it three times in the same sentence. It makes you sound very inarticulate or dare I say stupid.

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I mean, I was like furious, and you know, I mean I was like looking this over and I was like is he saying anything? He really doesn’t seem to be saying a single thing. Really? Really. Really. I was like, really? Really??

For example the following passage: “You know, it’s like when I saw people using [NOUN] with [NOUN] like with [NOUN,] they would have to write up a lot of like glue code, like a lot of just kind of redundant, the same thing over and over again and I was like, oh, let’s just get rid of that so they can write like I’m really — It’s actually kind of similar in the sense that this lets you maintain your [ADJECTIVE] state, whereas, [NOUN] will reshuffle the UI to match that state. One of the cool things you can do is you can say like just kind of reducing the kind of junk code you have to write that kind of obscures your intent”

can better read as follows:

“I saw people using [NOUN], [NOUN] and [NOUN] all written with glue code, so redundant. I cut all that while still managing to maintain [ADJECTIVE] state. One cool thing you can do is remove any junk code which obscures your intent.”

And yes, I obfuscated the descriptive terms because it really doesn’t matter who keeps doing this, just please cut it out!!

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