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Heck of a fallback when you don’t know a word, isn’t it? Here’s my guess:
It’s 4am.
You’re the programmer responsible for building the spellcheck database. Deadline is this morning at 8am. Because you’ve spent the last three months developing your Grand Theft Auto skills, there’s a assload of words missing.
Writing code to handle unknown terms is not an option: you’ve run out of time. You’re jacked up on Mountain Dew and Skittles, and feeling the greasy pepperoni pizza starting to work its way downward. You must come up with a solution. Now.
Simplest solution is just to pick a default suggestion.
Hmmmm.
Where’s the dictionary? You know, the paper kind that Luddites use? Let’s just drop it on the floor, see where it opens, and randomly jab our finger at a word. That’ll be the default.
Heck of a fallback when you don’t know a word, isn’t it? Here’s my guess:
It’s 4am.
You’re the programmer responsible for building the spellcheck database. Deadline is this morning at 8am. Because you’ve spent the last three months developing your Grand Theft Auto skills, there’s a assload of words missing.
Writing code to handle unknown terms is not an option: you’ve run out of time. You’re jacked up on Mountain Dew and Skittles, and feeling the greasy pepperoni pizza starting to work its way downward. You must come up with a solution. Now.
Simplest solution is just to pick a default suggestion.
Hmmmm.
Where’s the dictionary? You know, the paper kind that Luddites use? Let’s just drop it on the floor, see where it opens, and randomly jab our finger at a word. That’ll be the default.
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