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In the service of trying to be clear and not confuse anyone they actually create things that are confusing and obtuse. Some technical people get past this stag
by kristopolous 3y ago
In the service of trying to be clear and not confuse anyone they actually create things that are confusing and obtuse.
Some technical people get past this stage and realize the flaw while others clutch onto it as a virtue and double down.
Also, it's usually done sloppily. They'll mix in the imprecise with precise and you'll scratch your head trying to find what this particular documents special definition of a word is because you assume that they're trying to be excessively formal and must not just mean something informally when in fact they do.
Other times they'll just toss something in like "observer functoid" and assume that you know what they think it must mean.
It's just bad writing. In my head I just visualize a green college aged kid writing it thinking this is the big league. When you peal back the jargon curtain you invariably find it's just a couple basic ideas all dolled up strutting down an 8 1/2 x 11 catwalk in a word pageantry.