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That's what happens when someone wants to look/sound smart, but actually isn't - lots of jargon, piled like spaghetti, impossible to follow. Actual smart peopl
by bufferoverflow 9y ago
That's what happens when someone wants to look/sound smart, but actually isn't - lots of jargon, piled like spaghetti, impossible to follow.
Actual smart people are generally effective at explaining complex things succinctly and in simple terms.
- andybak 9y agoA bit harsh. He might be busy rather than a charlatan. I often err on the hand-wavey side when I don't have time to do the topic any justice. It was just a HN comment after all.
- ansible 9y agoYes. Though effective communication involves knowing who you are speaking too. I have a mental model about the typical HN reader. So, for example, I would not bother explaining the term 'container' in the context of application deployment. Even for devops who don't use containers, just hanging around here providers plenty of exposure to that concept. But in this case...
- pavel_lishin 9y agoIt sounds like a lot of it is social circles. It's hard to explain social circles without using internal shorthand.