tidiness

I'm just a bit obsessive about tidiness. Born from working on the C2 wiki, I guess.

It's not just tidiness. There's also a valid privacy concern.

Things like food / cooking, regularity, hygiene, tidiness, and just getting on with things.

Build up its strength, the authors suggest, with small but regular exercises, like tidiness and good posture. Dont try to tame every bad habit at once.

I guess I've always been a little bit "obsessed" about the tidiness of my repositories.

The worst part for me is having four friggin' variations of the same rule, quadrupling my loc, and making a mess of the tidiness of it all.

, as I have a certain need for digital tidiness. I'm now considering abandoning the feature after these posts.

I can only sit in amazement as I read this thread, watching seemingly smart people advocating throwing away history for the sake of tidiness. It's maddening.

I don’t have a good answer beyond some weird sense of aesthetic tidiness. I have a dash of wanting to compulsively organize things, so having the old account bothers me irrationally.

Other than geometric tidiness I see no point in your comment. In fact, it ignores the denial of service impact that an epidemic has on a national health service, and plays down how it advocates for a population culling.

I looked, and guess what: Not only did the mods close it out of some insane sense of tidiness, and not only did they hide it from normal viewing; they apparently deleted it entirely. All our writing, all the good comments, all the voting: gone forever, without warning or apparent recourse.

The tidiness of URLs is therefore of almost zero concern to major online publishers, but accurate analytics is, which is why UTM tracking is so popular.

It does look neater, and it's the only enforceable equilibrium given the variety of approaches people take to tidiness. But I'd never made the connection, that it may be a form of signalling - our company is modern and doesn't need all the gubbins to process paper.

People shouldn't worry about tidiness, which, like shaving and personal grooming, isn't intrinsically very important. Ditto spending money on extra cars, expensive clothes and holidays, live sporting events, doing up houses, school fees, etc.

As long as you don't confuse mental energy for physical energy and tidiness for entropy in the literal sense, then the analogy works surprisingly well.

But a few decades ago, cities like DC and Philly were much more diverse and interesting than they are now, at the cost of diminished safety and tidiness, of course. Back in the 1980s, DC especially used to sport a warren of one-off ma and pa hole-in-the-wall shops packed into low rent enclaves found all round the city.

But, it is usually a bad idea to go around tidying up code for the sake of tidiness. Also, think about this: if the original code is really unclear, then what confidence do you have that you understand it well enough to rewrite it correctly; if the code is clear enough to be easily rewritten, then why does it need to be changed?

And when in 2004 after my insistence to hire a girl on the dev team in my then company the workplace become much more civil, the language somewhat tamer, the general tidiness of the rooms increased and because she was awesome slow and steady coder the quality of the shipped code increased a lot.

I’m fine with having family “team cleans”: it’s a positive shared experience, and I can’t protest instilling discipline for tidiness either - I just draw the line at “tidy your room” as overstepping a crucial boundary that arbitrarily encroaches on our autonomy. By analogy, it’s like if my parents forced me to use a particular desktop wallpaper image on my computer, or restricting what I wore on weekends without a better reasoned argument than “because I said so”.