Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by larve 1415 days ago
Yes, it’s a hard skill to learn, and … it’s why I ask so many questions / make sure we have the same context.

Very often in software engineering, people use abstract words that have been overloaded with meanings in many different ways, and it can be easy to think the other person is suggesting something completely different. I love using diagrams because they remove a lot of the “words”.