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Maybe the city planning commission that decides how many apartments can be built, shouldn't be stocked with current property owners whose wealth is tied to the artificially low supply of apartments in SF? Just a thought.

I agree that you should never use 1 character loop counters, but a lot of the lazy programmers out there don't agree. They've never had to do maintenance programming (or heaven forbid make old code actually work/bugfree/do something new) that has the following variable names:

i ii iii j ij jj ji jjj jij jjj

One letter loop counters and their ilk are always a bad idea. But saying so angers so many people because they can't possibly ever be wrong.

On naming 14 years ago

If you use i, you're a bad programmer. You can't search for the variable name, you can't make sure it is used correctly everywhere. You're a bad person.

On naming 14 years ago

Seriously, he suggests using i as a variable? I couldn't take him seriously after that.