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awesome_dudelast Friday at 7:59 AM3 repliesview on HN

A friend of mine once told me - learning a new field is all about learning the language of that field


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jiggawattslast Friday at 9:25 AM

What they hear:

"Exorcise the lattice hoard to siphon the new incarnation."

What we said:

"Purge the web cache to download the new version."

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macintuxlast Friday at 11:23 AM

A friend of mine asked me why we have such precise terminology in IT; I asked her why English has so many different words for "chair".

erulast Friday at 8:29 AM

That's a big part of it, but far from everything.

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