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Re:The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company by GuB-42 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:17PM (#27201281)
As I said in a downvoted post, I disagree. The post is a technical writing with an emphasis on setting up an environment for a single person.

For a technical writing, I would treat it like code, use the most accurate word possible, and here it is "me".

Even more confusing since by looking at the company website, there is more than one person involved. For example "When we use a third-party library, we pull its source directly into the firmware's source tree" implies that someone else has access to the repository when it doesn't seem to be the case.

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Re:The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company by dmingod666 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:39PM (#27202735)
It's not a court hearing where things have to be accurate or you're lying.

We generally is understood to be - me + project/company because the person and the project are not the same thing. Code bases do not get updated to reflect me/we grammer as people come in and leave.

Also technically a company is an artificial person, even a single person project can be we.

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