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> For example, “==” is used at Stripe to mean you’re in agreement Is this normal? I have never heard this before.
by throwaway2016a 9y ago
> For example, “==” is used at Stripe to mean you’re in agreement
Is this normal? I have never heard this before.
- theparanoid 9y agoIt's dumb. If you agree just say it. Every time I've seen corporate speak, which this is, I want to kill it. Your company isn't smarter than a thousand years of English usage.
- bluetwo 9y agoIs this better or worse than people who start lists with "0"?
- soneca 9y agoThis is not about corporate speak, but about social group speak. I am sure you use words and terms on your own social groups that could be expressed with an old english word.
- andrewflnr 9y agoAside from what soneca said, putting forward English as some sort of standard for excellence is hilarious. Your company probably is smarter than a thousand years of haphazardly agglomerated syntax, vocabulary, and spelling.
- p4lindromica 9y agohave you never used an emoticon or an abbreviation in IM before? To me this is as innocuous as replying "ack" to someone.
- OJFord 9y agoI came back to comments to ask that too. I wondered if it meant on IM, or as a sort of placard used in stand-ups like there was a post about recently using pseudo sign language for some reason. I suppose it's a character shorter than 'ack', but no different to 'OK' - and arguably slightly confusing given the use of '+1' for agreement, to me '==' seems like it should mean 'meh, I feel neutrally about this'.
- th0raway 9y agoInstead of text in an email, imagine it as a slack reacji. It'd be no different than +1 or shipit in github.
- kyle-rb 9y agoI've never seen that before. I feel like a better example is "!=" for not equal to, which I see, and use myself often.
- typon 9y agoI'm not a stripe, but I definitely ==