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I've been thinking about titles, and it's hard to make a good one that doesn't look like a total cliché. "X considered harmful", "an opinionated guide to X", some kind of joke or reference, what could be a collection of tags (X, Y and Z), "things I have learned doing X", etc.



I specifically clicked on this topic because of the word “opinionated”. As I already know how to use xargs, I was curious what kind of non-conventional or controversial opinion the author might have.


As I've said to a sibling comment, I don't think it's a bad title, and "an opinionated guide to X" is one of the better cliché for titles that I see (the worst being the journalist that feels like they have to make a joke).


In this case a less cliche/click-baity title could simply be:

"A Response to Xargs Criticism"


I think this title is fine, it's mostly that after spending some time on Hacker News all the titles start to look the same.




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