Phrases in computing that might need retiring
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Phrases in computing that might need retiring
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Re: Phrases in computing that might need retiring
#2> "Agile: Nope, this one’s in the bin, I’m afraid. It used to mean “not waterfall” and now means “waterfall with a status meeting every day and an internal demo every two weeks”. We have to find a new way to discuss the idea that maybe we focus on the working software and not on the organisational bureaucracy…"
Yup. :-(
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#3Perhaps "API" could be added to this list. I've been jobhunting this week, and first I heard recruiters use "API" to refer to what I'd call a "service", then heard other quite senior developers do the same thing.
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#4So victims of either gratuitous overuse, or complete disregard for the original meaning of the term.
For instance, "agile" is rapidly becoming "just another way for management to track time and set OKRs". "DevOps" seems to be now "when a sysadmin is capable of writing infrastructure orchestration code".
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#5So victims of either gratuitous overuse, or complete disregard for the original meaning of the term. For instance, "agile" is rapidly becoming "just another way for management to track time and set OKRs". "DevOps" seems to be now "when a sysadmin is capable of writing infrastructure orchestration code".
DevOps engineering seems to mean "engineer who knows Java AND yaml"
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#6thats it?
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#7If this were a comment on HN, I would give it one of my rare downvotes. It's dismissive and negative without any compensating value or positivity. Maybe suggestions of terms to use?
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#8Strong disagree on "technical debt"
Rather, the entire world is built on it and there's some level of acceptance required, but we definitely need a shorthand phrase for "we're doing something stupid that will save us time now and make us hate ourselves a year from now"
Edit: thinking on it, also "devops". It's really job title for "sysadmin but paid and owned by the software department to keep ITs fingers out of everyone's shit" but with a flashy name that sounds important so mgmt will agree to it. It's meaningless to us but it's a hyper-important industry term that saves us all a lot of suffering. It also must necessarily remain vague such that mgmt won't understand it and know to deny the posting. It's sorta like how snapchat used an obfuscated UI to keep parents out.
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#9Strong disagree on "technical debt" Rather, the entire world is built on it and there's some level of acceptance required, but we definitely need a shorthand phrase for "we're doing something stupid that will save us time now and make us hate ourselves a year from now" Edit: thinking on it, also "devops". It's really job title for "sysadmin but paid and owned by the software department to keep ITs fingers out of ever…
It's called a short-sighted decision.
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#10Sinister used to mean left handed. "A shambles" used to mean a slaughterhouse. Sanction used to mean allow, now it means not allow. It is fine for words to change meaning, even to their own opposite. Natural language has done that forever.
Edit: you're all right, sanction has both meanings.