Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Go, Scala, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Common Lisp
Résumé/CV: https://macrolet.net/data/main.pdf
Email: olof plus hn at macrolet dot net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olof-joachim-frahm-6b27b2275
Lately I'm working on a variety of pieces, predominantly backend, including leveraging the Go compiler toolchain for source code transformation, but also a Scala-based graph traversal DSL.
From how I've been reading these interactions the last one isn't actually all that up to discussion. That's exactly what's been annoying me about it. If it were, then yes, exactly like you described it would be a sensible next level after the "please do X". And for most people I'd indeed (correctly) understand it that way, just not, as the parent described, from some particular backgrounds.
Oh, but actually, maybe that's the case, I'll pay more attention to the reaction if someone "doesn't like" to.
> It's a common social technique among adults with authority to frame requests as a question
Is that somehow locale specific? I've never had people ask me to do something like that until I had interactions with US-based folks.
Personally I find it very odd to phrase it like that and it basically achieves the complete opposite of that intent (so I've to actively ignore it and read it as the actual assignment that it was meant as).
Lately I'm working on a variety of pieces, predominantly backend, including leveraging the Go compiler toolchain for source code transformation, but also a Scala-based graph traversal DSL.