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1. vira28 · 1790620566 · focus · HN ↗

   For folks who don’t know, CJ was the president of product and technology at Cloudflare for 6 months and CJ left them and joined MongoDB.

   1. jankyxenon · 1790620861 · focus · HN ↗

      Cloudflare didn’t join MongoDB, did they?

      1. vira28 · 1790620922 · focus · HN ↗

         My bad on the phrasing. CJ joined MongoDB. The modern gender pronouns are confusing.

         1. sophacles · 1790629080 · focus · HN ↗

            People have been using "they" as a gender neutral singular pronoun for 600 years. I doubt you're old enough to find this confusing.

            1. srggsegg · 1790630506 · focus · HN ↗

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               1. JumpCrisscross · 1790634114 · focus · HN ↗

                  > if you hear "they are foreign" you don't think its multiple people?

                  This is almost never ambiguous within context. I blame the outrage on illiteracy. If you don't read a lot, even a simple turn of phrase or grammatical ambiguity could be anxiety inducing.

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