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Oh yeah, that 0.5s you lost while reading that totally ruined your day, enough to make you waste even more time to comment on it.

It's an informal blog, I read the same reference, thought, "must be some joke I've missed", and got on with reading the rest of the blog.




Will you lie on your deathbed recalling all the times you spend reading forced memes and thinking, "… for teh win!!1"?

That blog is informal in style but not in content; it's a professional blog by a Mozilla employee. I don't feel like it respects its audiences' time, which is sadly the norm for software-related technical writing. Whings won't get better by saying nothing, and asking people to improve is never a waste of time (if done nicely).

Related: Normalization of deviance in software: how broken practices become standard[0]

[0]: http://danluu.com/wat/


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