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that people fail to hear the content of your message. By analogy, if I miscommunicate badly enough that I've said factually incorrect things, no amount of "well what I meant was-" absolves me of my responsibility to be accurate. Emotional content is no different. 4/4
If you adopt this policy when you have 100,000 Twitter followers, you will never be allowed to say anything because everything is wrong.
I feel bad now about starting this thread. I see your point that having so many followers makes satisfying everyone impossible. Please accept my apologies.
There's a difference between being blunt and being mean. "Programmers don't build software as though they understand the full power of a modern CPU" is I believe a distillation of your main point, without needing to imply "most programmers are incompetent"... 1/
... however with a more careful rereading of your original post, I think I was wrong about that being your main point. A better distillation is "we as an industry ARE systemically incompetent and that has massive implications." And that's much harder to say in a non-blunt way 2/
The part that confused that for me was the clearly-made-up "99.9%" figure, and that derailed from your more insightful point that it blinds how we THINK about software. And that had me bucket that as "being a jerk" rather than "unclear example". Apologies. 3/
FWIW, either way your point is correct. And I certainly don't think you should not say things for fear of responses, that doesn't scale. My general point was that emotional responses can have more than zero weight in considering how one constructs messages, and that's ok too. 4/4
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