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Places where levity does not fit

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Chris Martin
Mar 22, 2018
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It has been about a year since I wrote the Stack Overflow answer that I later turned into the blog post Elephant variable reassignment. I got a lot of mixed feedback on that writing. Most importantly to me, Julie absolutely hated it. It took me far too long to come around to seeing why people described it as "mocking" and "bullying," but I think I can f…

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