What if you're lazy enough to write a program that automatically inserts the boilerplate, but also bored enough to embed a steganographic message into the whitespace, and browse HN as though you were still typing it all out by hand?
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ah that's that banality of evil i've heard so much about
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Why would your hero programmer have to be a guy?
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indeed code smart, not cleverhttps://twitter.com/complexifire/status/1116766364214202370 …
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Larry Wall pointed out quite some time ago that laziness is one of the Three Virtues of great programmers. (the other two are impatience and hubris)
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yes, i was a Perl coder in 1995 ideas don't compete in the marketplace by us refraining from restating them because somebody already has stated them or always stating them in the same form as that person
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Near-agree, but that's only 90%. Other 10% is from the ones who are so lazy they manage to use grafted-on functional & dynamic features to coerce 100s of unrelated routines into callers of a single cryptic meta-func that's brilliant for the ~6mos they/we remember the mental model
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