Readit NewsEdit: GH could also be in for liability claims should the original owner re-appear (at least in general, if not this particular case), and would need to check identity of the involved parties and whatnot, which is going to be very costly.
(This is true for performance and optimisation is general: fast enough is good enough.)
This is a genuine case of survivorship bias in action.
I guarantee you that there are people not using Clang or writing, let's say, C++ because of slow compile times. You just never hear about how much they hate using them, because those people no longer are using them.
(I love it when my attempt to RTFM is defeated by my being too stupid to find the FM in the first place ;)
> Great systems also have advice. There's no universally accepted name for this feature. Sometimes it's called hooks, or filters, or aspect-oriented programming. As far as I know, Lisp had it first, and it's called advice in Lisp. Advice is a mini-framework that provides before, around, and after hooks by which you can programmatically modify the behavior of some action or function call in the system. Not all advice systems are created equal. The more scope that is given to an advice system — that is, the more reach it has in the system it's advising — the more powerful the parent system will be.
A better approach is to use the less loaded "have you considered doing X here?".
If you find yourself needing to demand others not take offense at your questions, you might wish to try a different approach.
A "Why[...]" question asks for why.
Assuming that "Why didn't you just do X?" isn't really just a disingenuous way to say, "you're an idiot; do it this way instead", then you should ask for what you want and ask the why question, not the yes-or-no question. In the case that it is a disingenuous question, then that's something that's covered adequately by #5. Suggesting the avoidance of sarcasm is already broadly applicable enough to cover using questions when you really mean to make a statement. (Which is not specific to code reviews—it's as obnoxious in real life.)
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That led me to conclude that nobody asked those things.
Let me put it this way, do you really think that, in the three months since this person disappeared, out of the dozens of people who have a far closer relationship to him than you do and a far greater personal stake in his wellbeing, that you are really the first person to consider whether something might have happened—to the point that you're comfortable to grandstand with a public indictment about how "sad" their behavior is?
You are the worst kind of person. Fuck you.