¹ Thanks to the work of @bandlersbanter, @AshleyRindsberg, @EllaTravelsLove and @shlomitlir, there's growing awareness of coordinated ideological takeover of Wikipedia's Israel/Palestine coverage after Oct. 7
So I decided to measure its extent and the results are extraordinary🧵
@soccerdhg Fatalities per miles driven is a better metric of road safety (though every metric is flawed). By this standard, Israel is around the OECD median.
@soccerdhg Morality rates per population are not the best metric. They are significantly influenced by how much people drive. And most per-capita statistics for Israel are misleadingly low, due to the high birth rate. Children don't drive.
@KevlinHenney Implementation inheritance, and deep inheritance hierarchies more generally. I think the whole industry went through a learning process about this.
@johnFneuhaus@mattfahrner@tottinge Bad identifier names don't break your code any more than bad comments do. And they don't get magically updated when they're out of date. They can actually be harder than comments to keep updated, because other code depends on them.
@johnFneuhaus@mattfahrner@tottinge Someone who doesn't update comments when they're out of date also won't update names of variables, functions, classes and files when they're out of date.