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Comment by temporarely

2 years ago

Well, this is hacker news, so a generous reading of the comment is that it is being mapped to semantics most of us here fully grok, and not as a general audience rewording for accounting.

Just because someone knows how to build a website doesn't mean they know anything about discrete electronics. I'd wager the majority of this audience doesn't. It's mostly software people.

  • I've seen it used frequently in the context of data pipelines and stream-processing applications, which is even more applicable to the subject.