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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 07:28:09 JST Paul Cantrell

   The main thing I’m learning from this poll is that words do not actually have meanings

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 07:42:50 JST Paul Cantrell

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     DEVELOPERS: We need technical jargon because it is precise and it allows us to communicate!

     ALSO DEVELOPERS: We do not agree on the meanings of even the most common words…ever, basically

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 08:22:40 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • ashwin

     @ashwin
     Well, see the poll results.

     Or if that’s not satisfying, oh…”port”

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     ashwin (ashwin@union.place)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 08:22:41 JST ashwin

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     @inthehands

     Hmm...please give an example of a developer jargon term that is very, very ambiguous.

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     Jesse Morris (aubilenon@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 08:27:16 JST Jesse Morris

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     @inthehands “Words are useless, especially sentences. They don't stand for anything. How could they explain how I feel?" - Madonna but obvs written by Björk

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     ashwin (ashwin@union.place)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 11:11:57 JST ashwin

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     • jonathankoren

     @jonathankoren @inthehands

     There's no law against misuse of words.

     Some fools not understanding a word doesn't mean that the word itself has no clearly defined meaning.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 11:11:57 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • ashwin

     @ashwin @jonathankoren
     And that seems to end the issue, until that terrible day when you spend 20 minutes talking to a linguist and realizing that the fools using words is they very thing that •gives• them meaning.

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     jonathankoren (jonathankoren@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 11:11:58 JST jonathankoren

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     • ashwin

     @ashwin @inthehands I have worked at a place — a household name even — where “grandfather the data” meant to “reprocess all the old data”, which is the *exact opposite* of what “grandfathering” something means

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 08:05:27 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Simeon.__proto__

     @dotproto
     My very hot take: almost none of the things people call “requirements” in software projects are actually requirements. Goals, desires, constraints, tradeoffs, wishes, and notions…yes. Requirements…rarely.

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     Simeon.__proto__ (dotproto@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 08:05:28 JST Simeon.__proto__

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     @inthehands Excuse me, what does the this design doc mean by "required"?