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What an incredibly pointless thing to argue about. I think we all knew what he meant and, this being a specialist forum, we benefit from using shorthand in spee
by scarejunba 7y ago
What an incredibly pointless thing to argue about. I think we all knew what he meant and, this being a specialist forum, we benefit from using shorthand in speech that is a lossy representation of ideas to those not initiated.
I hate to have to create this conversation fork but I really wish people wouldn't make comments like this. They're so low signal.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI disagree - I think reducing anyone who doesn’t happen to program to being ‘non-technical’, with the implication that they don't know what they're talking about, is insidious.
- scarejunba 7y agoIt's clear he means "Scientists who don't want too much input into the engineering decisions". You're reading an implication of competency where there is none.