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Stop being obtuse. Human communication is more nuanced that formal programming language. The context in which you say something is just as important as the cont
by learc83 10y ago
Stop being obtuse. Human communication is more nuanced that formal programming language. The context in which you say something is just as important as the content.
It is very easy imply something and push a specific agenda without technically lying.
What if I take out an add that says:
"elif regularly participates on hacker news--a forum for computer programmers and 'hackers', and he is a programmer who can create malicious programs. The libraries he uses support multiple languages, like Chinese and Russian, giving him the capability to make it look like these programs were created by foreigners."
I'm just describing your capabilities. But the way I said it implies to non-experts that your actually writing malicious code, because they lack the context to understand what they're reading.
They don't understand that all programmers have the capability to create malicious programs. And most importantly, just like the readers of Wikileaks commentary, they don't realize that supporting Unicode is very common, and it's necessary if you want to parse text written in it. It's not a specialized capability that you'd only want if you intended to write in Russian or Chinese.