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0 pointsrurounijones13y ago0 comments

If someone asks me a programming question then I always answer it in the simplest, shortest method possible unless I already know they are at a good skill level.

I think the farmer can reasonably expect a layman to understand most of the things related to feeding pigs.

I, on the other hand, have no expectation that a layman would understand pointers, lambdas or any of the other lovely complicated things that even answering simple questions COULD entail if we went into details or expanded around the question.

[EDIT: Apologies it this comes off as arrogant or elitist or something, not intended.]

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hazelcough13y ago

Yeah I can definitely see how jargon prevents that level of conversation. There's definitely a false analogy in my original statement--there's plenty of jargon in farming and raising pigs as well, but I personally do know a decent amount on the topic so I'm not really a layman in the conversation that I had imagined in my head.

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