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This writing style is useful for beginners. Imagine a reader who's not already an expert, who isn't familiar with the decades worth of back and forth discourse
by minimuffins 7y ago
This writing style is useful for beginners. Imagine a reader who's not already an expert, who isn't familiar with the decades worth of back and forth discourse about tradeoffs between performance and maintainability. He provides some context and history and tells a little story. Tech writing needs more of that.
Half a million seems like a good guess for how much the company would have lost paying developers and architects to re-design and re-implement the system, buy new hardware, new licenses for their third party software and the revenue they would miss out on by doing all that unnecessary work instead of building a profitable new feature.
- jmilloy 7y ago> This writing style is useful for beginners. The most useful writing, for both beginner and expert audiences, puts the most important content first, with supporting details later. Dispersing the lede late in the article serves the author/advertisers, not the audience, and is independent of whether the content contains context for beginners or a narrative style.