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311 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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keybored ◴[11 Dec 25 22:30 UTC] No.46238197[source]▶

> The cognitive tax

> Every obscure name is a transaction cost levied on every developer who encounters it.

It’s not a mental burden, it’s a cognitive tax. Moreover it’s a transaction cost? Levied on people? Which loads their RAM?

Where’s the simple everyday English?

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1. keybored ◴[11 Dec 25 22:37 UTC] No.46238282[source]▶

Anyway. We used MongoDB for a good while.

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools