Jargon and I

September 01, 2022

 TL;DR: Oxford has Dictionary of Computer Science. Go get it!

Dependency injection? You mean taking parameters?

I want to cry when I read this tweet.

I was quite famous with my ability to understand the un-understandable (is this even a word?) but now I’m having a hard time understanding anything!

I also have a hard time explaining what I’m thinking about.

For example, these days, I’m having trouble communicating with someone. I think it relates with my mirroring skills, so when I’m faced with someone smart, I could be humble and express my idea more clearly, but when faced with someone who is not a good communicator, I become one as well. This is definitely not helping me, right?

I think since my school time I always have difficulties with remembering formula, property, law, or anything related to name. I can’t remember lots of formula, I just remember how to derive it and remember the base formula (usually the simplest one). When I was in elementary school, I was obsessed with latin name of animals and plants, (gnetum gnemon, anyone?) and I’ll bring this cheat sheet that I created everywhere trying my best to remember it (and of course, only gnetum gnemon stucked).

That was also why I almost didn’t graduate high school because of physics exam. Mind you, deriving formula takes time!!

And don’t start with political jargon. Ugh!

I remember in one of the meetings, I explain to do this and that, and then someone says, so you mean like blue green deployment? I was like “yeah, exactly”. I have never heard of blue green deployment. He could tricked me and says that it was black pink deployment and I would just forget it right away!

Blue green deployment, canary deployment, similar concept with little differences. I think that’s why I have hard time remembering them, sometimes the difference between one another is too unimportant (or unnoticeable) to me that I just completely ignore the whole thing.

No, I don’t say that it’s completely bad. If everyone that you’re talking to understand what you’re talking about, of course saying stuff in jargon will save us some time. And I’m so pro on it.

It’s just so many people using jargon to appear smarter than they are (or I think they are), so I don’t want to be that person and ugh, I even have difficulty remembering my own children’s names, please don’t judge me!


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