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Scott Ringwelski
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Scott Ringwelski's personal blog at sgringwe.com covers startups and programming. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Stop saying "just" (2019)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this blog's 2019 post "Please just stop saying just", which argues that the word "just" is a trap in software and technical discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Stop saying "just" (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-03
What Hacker News says?
"just".[1] AI-powered bots can generate a flood of reports of "potentially malicious" code. No company could possibly keep up. Effective DDOS attack on security. Not even the NIST can keep up. https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/02/cve_pileup_nvd_missed... 1 https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just...
Comment linking /2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just.html
on “Microsoft apologizes for removing VSCode Material Theme extension”Submitted Stop saying "just" (2019) as a story · 216 points
HN discussionAnd all of the parameter types, e.g. btVector3 needs to become a new non-sdk specific name. > It could require a bit of creativity and some work but <...> Honestly, you can stop there. This is why it's not done - the value is small, it requires creativity and work and... > just be a one-time rename per function name + structure name + field name. https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just... . In t…
Comment linking /2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just.html
on “Someone dropped the source code for Far Cry 1 on archive.org”Submitted Serverless Use Cases at Startups as a story · 7 points
HN discussion“Just” is a four letter word and a trap our industry repeatedly falls into. https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just
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on “Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub”Submitted Please just stop saying "just" as a story · 1 points
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