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Double Negative

I clicked the unsubscribe button on an email from a charity I gave to long ago and was taken to the following page.

The sentence “Uncheck the box for any communication you no longer wish to receive.” is pretty ugly. Rather than simply state “Check the box for any communication you wish to receive.” The writer choose the double plus ungood method.

I came across this once before on a project that made me lose what little respect I had for the developer who wrote it.

if (!notChecked) {
}

If you are doing things this way you are doing it wrong.

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