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jducoeur ([personal profile] jducoeur) wrote2014-10-28 05:17 pm
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Desnowflakification

Noun: the act of taking a piece of code that was originally crafted as its own little special snowflake, and making it instead work like the rest of the system now does.

(What? Yes, it's simply a special case of refactoring. But you have to admit that it's evocative of the point...)

[identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com 2014-10-28 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed!

I thought this was going to be about people--as in, that moment when someone realizes that they are not that special snowflake (or perhaps that everyone is one) and matures accordingly.

Which is kinda similar...

[identity profile] calygrey.livejournal.com 2014-10-31 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, does this work on people too?!