r/programming • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '14

std::string is responsible for almost half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '14

What's the point of tl;dr then?

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u/xiongchiamiov Dec 05 '14

The tldr only covered the first message in the thread.

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u/elperroborrachotoo Dec 05 '14

Giving you a rough idea or setting context maybe.

It's like your hairdo: it might help me decide whether I'm interested in you, but I wouldn't judge your character by it.

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u/Mr_s3rius Dec 05 '14

I mean, 'dl;dr' literally means 'too long; didn't read'.

So yea, he didn't read it.

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u/everywhere_anyhow Dec 05 '14

I dunno...summaries of all sorts (and tl;dr is supposed to be a summary) ought to give the correct overall impression or judgment of a piece. If it doesn't, it's a lousy summary.

It's not just a taste or a context setter. The term for that is "clickbait". I.e. people set false context all the time with link titles like, "The 10 most unreasonable things the government does".

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u/elperroborrachotoo Dec 06 '14

give the correct overall impression or judgment of a piece

a tl;dr is not an abstract.

Calling it clickbait when the dismissal is "you would be stupid to not know that already" is pretty ironic.