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by jholman 2016 days ago
The version I've evolved, for teaching students why I care about style:

You need to communicate clearly with a number of coworkers, the most important of whom is future-nerdponx. Sometimes future-nerdponx is smarter than you, and sometimes future-nerdponx is dumber than you, but either way they know where you live, and their misery is your misery.