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Comment by santoshalper | Hacker News Reader

I have observed over the years the IT/Tech tends to attract a lot of incredibly literal, grumpy people who do not like it when people take liberties with language.

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It is also a difference in culture, americans tends to praise themselfs for every small things as a big achievement. In other countries one would not even consider this as an achievement, just a standard iteration to explore.

For me as well the first content is strange, that "I've invented subscription". It is basically just applying an existing pattern from not-so-much-different other field?

indeed amazon prime is the same, gym subscription is the same etc etc. Not sure what justifies the "no one ever done it"

It is an easy, lazy response that doesn't require much thought, and gets internet points anyway. I'm just glad HN offers a way to collapse threads because so many comments result in massive flame wars about trivial matters like syntax and word choice.

Luckily it’s easy to spot people who intentionally take the least charitable interpretation of a statement.

They hide behind “precision”, which is the other person’s fault when really they lack communication (griper’s fault).

It might be because software lives and dies on the precision of language.

It also stems from a laziness to consider where a person is coming from, other than literal reading of text. Brains become callused, or worse slightly autistic, where only precision matters.

You just have to ask yourself who is responsible when lack of precision leads to bad outcomes. If it isn't you, then meeting the other person halfway by increasing your level of precision helps.

The emotional labor of having to be fully responsible for precision is under-appreciated. That burden is where the grumpiness comes from.

It also makes for excruciatingly tedious conversation.

I found the same thing to be true back when I invented the car. It’s incredibly annoying and takes away from the conversation.

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