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Engineering blogger's love of parroting the titles of famous papers/articles (unreasonable effectiveness..., all you need is..., ... Considered harmful, etc) has always been lightly annoying to me

>>gipp+(OP)
It’s just not that common for the same person to have serious engineering chops and writing abilities.

>>gipp+(OP)
With software engineering, every single thing in the 2010s had "syntactic sugar" and "sane defaults". I still get a slight blood pressure spike whenever someone uses either of those terms.

>>jorvi+S4
I guess those are overused but at least they have some meaning. "Unreasonable Effectiveness..." is essentially pure meaninglessness.

>>jorvi+S4
"modern"

>>joe_th+d6
It was meaningful in the original paper.

>>gipp+(OP)
All you need is for the unreasonable effectiveness of snowclones to be considered harmful.

>>jorvi+S4
Fine. "The unreasonable effectiveness of syntactic sugar considered harmful: all you need is sane defaults."

Now, in comparison, nothing in this thread is going to annoy you!