19. “Good student” mentality can be so deeply wired. There’s a voice in my head tsking me for going off-topic. Off-topic. On Twitter. 
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A polarizing example of this is the meme language used by the early devs at
@makerdao. I lock my gems into a cup (CDP) to draw Dai, but if the spot (price) of the gems (Ether) drops below the mat, someone can bite my cup and take my gems.Show this thread -
The jury’s out on whether this language aids or obstructs understanding, net. It becomes natural after a degree of practice, but is a big barrier to entry. What I like most about it is that its monosyllabic-ness. Maybe that’s the Chinese in me.
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32. To be more succinct about this point: bilingual people have a head start on being metasystematic https://twitter.com/levity/status/1207009909306351616?s=21 …https://twitter.com/levity/status/1207009909306351616 …
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33. The concept of parallax is useful here. It’s a generalization of “adding dimensionality.” Even if it’s not a “proper” dimension, a second point of view is useful. https://twitter.com/levity/status/1090329907819761664?s=21 …https://twitter.com/levity/status/1090329907819761664 …
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34. Unit testing creates parallax, because it requires the programmer to show the code’s behavior explicitly, in addition to having an internal model of why it works. It’s no guarantee of correctness, but two “eyes” are better than one.
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