Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by frostwarrior 1386 days ago
I don't think that (2) is OP's fault.

Look the words up in a dictionary. It's ok not to know and to learn but you shouldn't expect everyone to adapt to your lack of knowledge.

2 comments

A dictionary probably won't give you a useful definition for most of those terms. They're jargon.

But then again I would add (3) they're just buzzwords that don't actually tell you anything...

Perhaps not HA, but 'fault tolerant' and 'extensible' are pretty apt.
....explain it like I'm 5 years old?
If everyone wrote software to be used by 5 years old without any interest in looking up things they don't understand (yet) themselves, we'd never move the field forward.
AutoHotKey is not normally aimed at developers but highly skilled administrators. If you target your advertising at this market you would likely get more traction.

Moving the field of software development is about solving more problems for people without putting a large learning curve in their way.

Yes some aspects will always require expertise but that is not an advantage.

Dictionary is good for learning words.