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For everything I write, I write for a particular reader; his name is Igor,
he's been with the company for a week, he's on third shift with nobody to
talk to but the documents. If it isn't explained in the documentation, a
supv gets a 4am wakeup call.
John Posada
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non-technical. I have it taped to my monitor. Robert Louis Stevenson said
it:
"Write so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood."
I try to put myself in the place of the reader and write from their
perspective. I assume that the reader is a reasonably well-educated person
but not an expert in the current subject matter. Therefore I try to explain
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