François Chollet on Twitter: "In programming, *what you name things* (arguments, variables...) is the first layer of documentation about what they represent and how they should be used. Use names that actually mean something, not single letters (unless that letter is already a well-established convention)"

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1. rafi‏ @rafaelshai Jan 29
  Replying to @fchollet
  
  One time in my systems programming class I was helping someone debug and saw that all of his functions were named things like ‘DoesThis()’ and ‘DoesThat()’. Hardest debug ever
  
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1. Daniel Schildt‏ @autiomaa Jan 29
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  x, y, z coordinates might make sense for 2D/3D measurement variables, but most of other names clearly benefit from more clear naming conventions.
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1. Andrzej Białecki‏ @Kaszanas Jan 29
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  When looking up information on algorithms most people when they put their code together they just i, j, a, b, c, d. And it's so annoying to read.
  
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1. Ties van Rozendaal‏ @tivaro Jan 29
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  @gsautiere approves
  
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1. Erg ‏ @KrzemoweEcho Jan 29
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  convince the vi (and ed ? ) users to that...
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1. jonspelledwithoutanh‏ @jonwithno_h Jan 29
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  This is why I take a paragraph to explain what a variable does, then re.sub('\s','_') and use that as the variable name.
  
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1. Thomas Guiot‏ @ThomasGuiot Jan 29
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  I had a colleague who gave cartoon characters names to his variables. With a number at the end. That he incremented from time to time for a new variable. And used the same logic for variables in other functions, but of course for unrelated function-specific variables. a nightmare
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1. zubairahmed_ai‏ @zubairahmed_ai Jan 29
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  101 principle of Software Engineering along with others like OOP, SOLID etc but sadly it needs to be taught to newcomers in this field who are starting in AI directly without a SE background. Framework Design Guidelines and Clean Code by @unclebobmartin are two great books for it
  
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