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What if your readers are those same corporate drones? Not everyone has the luxury of only ever interacting with Real Developers(tm).

• UIUC_06 4y ago
  Ah. Then you have to use their language. It signals that you're one of them.
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  • scubbo 4y ago
    Unfortunately, that is sometimes optimal. Regardless: I suggest you check the sibling thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805016), where we explore more relevant considerations - not just "what group are you masquerading as?", but also "does the use of this jargon result in fuzzy thinking or poor structure independent of the actual words used?" (/u/munificent suggests yes, I suggest that they're often correlated but there's not necessarily a causal link - cutting out those phrases will not _in itself_ result in better-considered, clearer, more-meaningful communication)