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armchairhackertoday at 10:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

    This principle applies to the following:

    - User documentation
    - Specifications
    - Code comments
    - Any text on a user interface
    - Any email longer than one line
Not blog posts or comments. Ironic

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layer8today at 2:05 PM

If you read closely, you’ll see that there is no claim that this would be an exhaustive list rather than an exemplifying one, and the principle itself unambiguously states “anything”.

taffydavidtoday at 10:57 AM

Damn, I guess I didn't read it closely enough

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