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I've noticed this amongst the newer "careerist" sort of software developer who is stumbling into the field for money, as opposed to the obsessive computer geek of yesteryear, who practiced it as a hobby. This character archetype is a transplant, say, less than five years ago from another, often non-technical discipline, and was taught or learned from overly simplistic materials that decry systems programming, or netw…
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This happens when your terms are underspecified: someone says “Netflix’s servers are struggling under load” and while people in similar efforts know that basically just equivalent to “something is wrong” and the whole conversation is basically esoteric to most people outside a few specialized teams, these other people jump to conclusions and start having conversations based on their own experience having to do with what is (to them) related (and usually fashionable, because that is how most smaller players figure out how to do things).