Comment by small_mind | Hacker News Reader

Comment by small_mind | Hacker News Reader

The writing style of this article strikes a tone that seems overly eager to place an eloquent vocabulary on display.

  Hey guys! Look at all the
  big, big words I can use!

  Don’t I sound smart???

Seriously. It’s like they wrote, and proof read the original draft, then performed a search/replace for any polysyllabic synonym they could opportunistically inject.

Why do they need to sound smart? Is it really because they know they’ve got nothing to say? Is this an SAT reading comprehension test?

You could sum up the sentiment with an anaology to paraphrase the concept: “defensive programming is no replacement for accomplished programming skill” (to borrow a concept comparable to investing)

Big words, small mind.

This comment breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Could you please not create accounts to break the guidelines with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Or, he has over a long time tricked himself into thinking in that language style and otherwise has trouble (or at least no desire for) expressing himself otherwise.

I might be taking bait here. I guess I take umbradge at the post I am replying to because it has insults in it, which is not so pleasant. Maybe it's just the hypocrisy, as its language is also verbose. To paraphrase:

> The writing style of this article strikes a tone that seems overly eager to place an eloquent vocabulary on display.

"This article uses too many big words"

> You could sum up the sentiment with an anaology to paraphrase the concept: “defensive programming is no replacement for accomplished programming skill” (to borrow a concept comparable to investing)

"You could sum up his article as: 'following best practices won't replace programming skill'"

You might argue that paraphrasing like I have detracts meaning but I'm sure the original author of the article would say that too.

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