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by eddigo 3261 days ago
If you're a competent programmer who uses these terms and phrases, then indignation is not an unreasonable reaction.

However, I think it's a completely valid article if you've ever experienced the interactions between an unproductive programmer and their non-technical manager. I've witnessed this dance every week for the past 3 years. The programmer in this case has used every one of those phrases except "platform independent".
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piyush_soni 3261 days ago
The thing is, you just can't detect a programmer is bullshitting by just hearing those terms - thus making it a misleading article. There are all sorts of programmers out there - those who use these terms and work a lot (on those things), those who don't use them but still work on them, those who use these terms but don't actually work satisfactorily, and those who neither use these terms nor work. Correlation is not causation here is what I want to say.
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draw_down 3260 days ago
Sure, I totally believe it. But it doesn't sound like the problem there is that the manager is asking the wrong questions.
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