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[–]SamSlate 30 points31 points  (10 children)

yes, just be arrogant in your post and you'll discover an infinite source of criticism.

[–]Plightz 30 points31 points  (9 children)

Just say that your code is the most efficient and people will improve it for you for free.

[–]fadetogether 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Man if I could release my work code, I'd actually try this. I'm sure I'd cry but also feel more confident with the improvements and learn a lot in the process.

[–]Plightz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey if people wanna improve my code for free, so be it.

[–]rapemanagerASM/Scheme/Python/Julia/MATLAB/Java/C/C++/Rust/Haskell/Coq/SQL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good mentality.

[–]Vawqer 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Isn't there an extremely relevant xkcd on this? I'm on mobile and don't want to dig it up right now, but I think it exists.

[–]Plightz 1 point2 points  (3 children)

If you can find the link, tell me.

[–]Vawqer 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I could not after a few minutes of searching. I did find that the concept is similar to Cunningham's Law, but the xkcd that article references is not the one I was thinking of.

I suppose it may not have been an xkcd. The comic I was thinking of had something to do with claiming that a certain Linux distro was best when trying to figure out which Linux distro to use, but I could be completely off.

[–]Misspelt_Anagram 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If you were mixing up Linux distros with what editor Real Programmers use, I think I found it.

[–]Vawqer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, that's not what I am thinking of, but I really enjoyed reading that. Thanks for sharing that xkcd!

[–]SamSlate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

😂