"performant" Performs well how exactly? I've gotten over the fact that "it's not a word". This is how new (useless) words enter the lexicon.
Poll: What Internet slang are you most annoyed by?
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#22YOLO.
That's an easy one to fix as adults. We just start using it badly.
"Don't text and drive. YOLO."
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#23Hack
Hack is often used in the sense: Well it wasn't intended to work that way, but it does, it's a workaround, or "hack".
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#24yolo
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#25The only thing that drives me irrationally bonkers is the increasing use of "loosing" instead of "losing", even here on HN ( https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=loosing ). Mostly because I cannot comprehend how anyone can not know how to spell "losing". However, this isn't slang.
You cannot comprehend? Goose. Rose. I can see how writing "loose" instead of "lose" happens, especially for non-native speakers.
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#26The slang (or is it a meme?) that I feel has totally run its course is "Said nobody, ever" and its many variants. We get it, you are very clever for saying something positive and then inverting it into snark. Bravo.
"Said nobody, ever" is simply the new version of the mid-90s' use of "not."
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#27"epic" - this. The use of the word epic makes me want to loose my mind. lol. "This burrito is so epic it should've been in Beowulf," said nobody ever. tl;dr stop using that word! Besides—ahem—epic overuse of the word 'epic,' my most loathed turn of phrase is 'The X that is Y'. For example, "the failure that is Microsoft". Stop saying this, nerds! You're not being clever!
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#28The only thing that drives me irrationally bonkers is the increasing use of "loosing" instead of "losing", even here on HN ( https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=loosing ). Mostly because I cannot comprehend how anyone can not know how to spell "losing". However, this isn't slang.
You cannot comprehend? Goose. Rose. I can see how writing "loose" instead of "lose" happens, especially for non-native speakers.
Even if you are a native speaker, typos happen.
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#29Hack
Hack is often used in the sense: Well it wasn't intended to work that way, but it does, it's a workaround, or "hack".
Yes, but that's probably not what calciphus meant: the problem is that now apparently anyone doing a startup creating some random web application (using their tools pretty much exactly as intended) or whatever and making (or dreaming of making, anyway) lots of money qualifies as a "hacker". So sad that it's been commercialized like this.
Just look at "Hacker" News. Thats not hacker news, that's YC marketing.
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#30"broken"
Could be worse: "borken"