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How long does it take you to write a sentence?

Sometimes a lot. Because what I'm really doing in my head then is the design work (writing a sentence actually helps with that) - the work that's actually necessary to write the code well.

When I read something saying "writing thoughtful comments is too much work" I really read this as "thinking about the code you write is too much work, it's better to write whatever crap that first comes to mind".

Twice the time it takes you to write half a sentence.

Hard disagree. You still need to think of the sentence to write the first half.

Beg to differ. I consider the time taken to think and write as the aggregate time to write the sentence.

You've had to think of the design whether you write the sentence or not.

Invoke gauge theory to set the floor from which we measure, so that the tautology always holds.

I don't understand what this means.

Well people keep picking arbitrary starting points in the coordinate system. I'm saying for any arbitrarily picked starting point in the coordinate system, the time taken is always twice that of getting from the arbitrarily picked starting point to the halfway mark.

A tautology is a tautology.

How long is a piece of string?

You're not a very effective communicator.

I'm glad we're on the same page.

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