476: Plausibly Viable
Accidental Tech Podcast
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How to Name Your Files Automatically
Use spaces to separate words. Don't use hyphens or underscores computers don't need those things And you'll be like how am I ever going to tab something with the complete space in it? All these things are possible. There's no reason there should be a bunch of little snakes tying your words together. Use capitalization if you want to feel like you're cool or whatever but please do not put dates and other things that are in files submitted as part of the file name. Think about what kind of information is being sent into this system, because we all have our own unique data sets which will get corrupted over time.
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