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Now that everybody's remote, I think there's an important conversation about respecting the reader's time that needs to happen. 1) Brevity. 2) Get your termin
by Pxtl 6y ago
Now that everybody's remote, I think there's an important conversation about respecting the reader's time that needs to happen.
1) Brevity.
2) Get your terminology perfect. Asynchronous "who's on first" sucks.
3) When discussing anything on the web, start with a hyperlink. I can't see your screen, I can't scroll or inspect your screenshots. Expecting the reader to hunt down the resource that you had one ctrl-C, ctrl-V away is rude.
- cutemonster 6y ago> Asynchronous "who's on first" What does that mean? "On first"?
- frosted-flakes 6y ago"Who's on First" is a well-known comedy skit about baseball. Who is on first base, What is on second, and I Don't Know is on third. https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg
- digitalsushi 6y agoThank you for explaining that. I speak English as a first language and it parsed perfectly well without knowing this reference, and to that end, parsed perfectly incorrectly.
- Pxtl 6y agoI just mean the repeated loops of miscommunication based on the fundamental misunderstanding of a single word. "Who's on first?" is a comedy sketch where two men are discussing a man named "who" and various other people with misleading names. I've run into many times where a person has said a similar but distinct term - like they said "repo" when they mean "branch" and then burn 5 minutes of time while two people are confused by the fact that nothing the other person says makes sense. It feels like the latency-time of writing makes shaking this mess out take 5X longer than spoken conversation.,
- cutemonster 6y agoOk now I get it. Async Who's on first could take a whole month I suspect