anyone have any favorite examples of one-word variable or method names that have caused this for you? (where you type it over and over and eventually you start to question if it's really a word at all)
In college (undergrad and grad school) I did a lot of graphics programming and color lost all meaning on many occasions. It wasn't the whole variable name (well, typically, maybe on occasion but not normally) but often things like BackgroundColor or ForegroundColor and so on. On many busy coding days at some point I'd just see this word scattered about the screen and have to convince myself that it was in fact the correct word and used correctly and spelled correctly (though perhaps British English speakers would disagree on the spelling).
I haven't experienced it in quite a while, though. And I don't do any graphics programming anymore anyways so when that word shows up in my code it's usually in the very minimal bit of GUI programming I touch anymore. I'm not sure any other word ever gave me quite as much trouble.
At $WORK the word "leverage" is used as a verb so frequently, usually with no meaning other than "use", that it begins to sound like noise. A sort of grunt that must be periodically uttered, from time to time, to indicate the speaker is a member of the glorious tribe of passionate, devoted $WORK employees, like a radio callsign periodically interrupting a transmission to assure the listener of the station's identity. What scraps of meaning it still clung to -- even as a buzzword -- began to fade.
I have resolved to assiduously use "use" when I mean "use".
Damn, that's a shame. Leverage deserves much better treatment than that. It's an amazing concept. "To use" has some interesting points to it as well, but eh...
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anyone have any favorite examples of one-word variable or method names that have caused this for you? (where you type it over and over and eventually you start to question if it's really a word at all)
In college (undergrad and grad school) I did a lot of graphics programming and color lost all meaning on many occasions. It wasn't the whole variable name (well, typically, maybe on occasion but not normally) but often things like BackgroundColor or ForegroundColor and so on. On many busy coding days at some point I'd just see this word scattered about the screen and have to convince myself that it was in fact the correct word and used correctly and spelled correctly (though perhaps British English speakers would disagree on the spelling).
I haven't experienced it in quite a while, though. And I don't do any graphics programming anymore anyways so when that word shows up in my code it's usually in the very minimal bit of GUI programming I touch anymore. I'm not sure any other word ever gave me quite as much trouble.
At $WORK the word "leverage" is used as a verb so frequently, usually with no meaning other than "use", that it begins to sound like noise. A sort of grunt that must be periodically uttered, from time to time, to indicate the speaker is a member of the glorious tribe of passionate, devoted $WORK employees, like a radio callsign periodically interrupting a transmission to assure the listener of the station's identity. What scraps of meaning it still clung to -- even as a buzzword -- began to fade.
I have resolved to assiduously use "use" when I mean "use".
Damn, that's a shame. Leverage deserves much better treatment than that. It's an amazing concept. "To use" has some interesting points to it as well, but eh...
Leverage is the new utilize. "Use" for PHBs.
Oh my god yes. I had a Jasper Report I was working on once that had totals, subtotals, totals of those subtotals...
Suddenly I just froze wondering "wtf is a total?!"
Roads. Ro-ads. Row-ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT3vOCWA-J0
The word "lunch" does it for me within five repetitions or so.
I don't have this problem with variables or method names, but the type "double" does this to me.
Thunk in Redux. Thunk, thunk, thunk. It's just an onomatopoeia for me at this point.