All lot of it is, without exageration, more at the
Put the proper side inside the cup
level of clarity: in other words just moving the “everybody should know this” element around rather than concretely just coming out and clarifying the bit that in the programmer’s mind is “obvious”.
If you’re specialised enough it can be really hard to tell what’s obvious. Like, you don’t want to do “grab the mouse, which is one of your computer peripherals” either. Or at least, I worry about doing something like that, and coming across as a dick.
All lot of it is, without exageration, more at the
level of clarity: in other words just moving the “everybody should know this” element around rather than concretely just coming out and clarifying the bit that in the programmer’s mind is “obvious”.
If you’re specialised enough it can be really hard to tell what’s obvious. Like, you don’t want to do “grab the mouse, which is one of your computer peripherals” either. Or at least, I worry about doing something like that, and coming across as a dick.
Relevant XKCD.