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Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by djakjxnanjak on Friday May 31, 2019 @02:26PM (#20063641)
Maybe your colleagues perceive that they are being asked to study a bunch of off-topic material. Is reading RFC 2119 really the most productive use of their time?
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Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by dabraham1248 on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:11AM (#20082719)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 is 664 words, including links, author's contact info, headers/footers, etc.

Also it's basically "what that word means in English".

I don't think it takes that long to study.

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Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by thrower123 on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:43PM (#20066100)
If they can't be bothered to read and comprehend the two pages of RFC 2119, preferably in an hour or less, it raises grave doubts about their capacity to operate in a technical capacity. We kinda have to do a shitload of reading and understanding to know how things work - at least that is what I find myself doing most of my time.
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