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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer by Kalium on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:16AM (#20124688)
I once worked with a brilliant engineer. He was from Hong Kong. He struggled to express his ideas in English. We tended to let him show us in code instead.

Sometimes this worked. Sometimes it really, really didn't. It also meant we had a very difficult time discussing larger architectural questions with him or giving him useful feedback on his code.

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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer by ben_w on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:00PM (#20126590)
I’ve recently had a similar problem, only in my case I’m the foreigner who can’t speak the local language. It’s fine except in meetings.

Junior dev me: meetings are a waste of time.

Senior dev me: meetings are the steering wheel, the developers are the engine (https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/utility-fun...)

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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer by agumonkey on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:22AM (#20124769)
Well that's half cultural, I meant in a context of shared native tongue. Now international work does create lots of hurdles because you can't translate things above casual smalltalk. I guess that's where maths could help.
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