The Single Letter Variable Syndrome

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Content t X 1 3.475 10:08 rJokes Posted by uboinger 62 13h If I had a nickel for every time I didn't know what was going on... I'd be like "why do I keep getting all these fucking nickels?" 30.2k J 342 Share BEST COMMENTS Penguator432 8h Nickel appears "Where'd this nickel come from?" Another appears "Where'd THIS nickel come from?" Third nickel appears, cycle repeats indefinitely, eventually realize that there's a hole in my pocket Reply 4 1.8k J Add a comment

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Listen, when someone questions why you use i and j for loop counters, there's only one valid response: IT'S THE LAW. It's like asking why we drink coffee or hate meetings that could've been emails. Some traditions in programming aren't meant to be questioned—they're sacred knowledge passed down from the ancient CS gods. Using foo and bar as placeholder names, tabs vs spaces, and i , j , k for nested loops... these are the unwritten commandments that separate the true believers from the heretics. Sure, you could use descriptive variable names like index or counter , but then your fellow devs might think you're some kind of revolutionary anarchist. And nobody wants that kind of reputation in the office.

Ah yes, the JavaScript ecosystem's finest moment: people literally typing npm i malware and hitting enter. The package is 9 years old, hasn't been updated since, and somehow still claims 12 victims weekly. This is why we can't have nice things in the npm registry. Some dev probably thought "surely nobody would be dumb enough to install something LITERALLY called malware" and yet here we are, with a steady heartbeat on that download graph. Those 12 weekly downloads are either security researchers, extremely curious cats with disposable VMs, or the same intern who keeps running rm -rf / "just to see what happens."

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