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It's "baitish-feeling at first", just missing the tailing "and here's what happened" --- but --- at this point I think this style is just starting to become assimilated into general "unintended" blogging/writing style..

The other day, I saw some Medium post titled "Functional programming will make you happier". I was furious and about to blast some diatribe on the increasingly infantile-inanity-inflation-in-headlines but looking at the post, the author seemed genuine in taking the troubles to work out their thoughts to the reader, so I refrained.. tilting at windmills, increasingly people are simply growing up with these sorts of titles and develop a primal instinct for what gets attention and clicks --- aka, reads.




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