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It’s not about trying to impress others
by dgellow 2mo ago
It’s not about trying to impress others
- shuwix 2mo agoDumb people want to impress by using words others might not understand. Smart people want others to understand them. In early days of Internet, it was a domain of smart people. And native English speakers have no problem communicating with people from Ex-Comecon countries with vey little English knowledge.
- ncruces 2mo agoOh, but it is. It's long READMEs with 3 punchlines per paragraph for a project best described has "I found these 4 thingies, all of them had compromises, so I told Claude: merge the 4, no compromises!" And every issue, every PR you open, about every small improvement or new feature, is the same.
- dgellow 2mo agoI learned a new term for that earlier today, I believe your falling for the goomba fallacy: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy