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Reading variables is hard.


Ironically if I were writing code I would've been much more verbose, like offersPrivateOffice, canWorkFromHome etc.


I think it's a learned skill. Reading academic papers is impossible without it. Perhaps a happy medium would be two or three letter acronyms.


And so much of reading variables is about context.


It would have been much much better to just use the first letters, like A for Android, P for private office, H for working from home.




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