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Who controls glibc?

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 8, 2018 6:48 UTC (Tue) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Who controls glibc? by spacemachine
Parent article: Who controls glibc?

> With genuine all due respect, this is exactly the sort of convoluted logic that leads projects to eventual demise. Designing documentation for exceedingly rare situations is inefficient design. [...] Even further, most people wouldn't even realize this is a joke about abortion.

It's difficult then to see why you're expending so much effort arguing in favour of a frankly terrible joke which would not be enlightening to 'most people'. Even with 'most people' ruled out of the audience, you'd further have to rule out the people who were already aware of the proposed legislation: it doesn't help to 'raise awareness' if you're only hitting a limited echo chamber.

If you don't want to design for corner cases, take it out (it just isn't helpful), and replace it with an explicit statement which clearly informs the reader, makes a well-argued position, and suggests how to take action. That's so clear and unambiguous that anyone will be able to follow.

Oh, and removing it also has the benefit of not raising negative reactions in others. Be it because people are offended by the discussion, or because they've had personal experience and it brings only an unexpected and unwelcome reminder, somewhere it has no place appearing and adds no value.


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