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My favorite oddly confusing idiom is POC. I say that sometimes and people go "Wait, what?" "Proof of Concept." "Ohhhh..."
by philipov 5y ago
My favorite oddly confusing idiom is POC. I say that sometimes and people go "Wait, what?"
"Proof of Concept."
"Ohhhh..."
- leo_bloom 5y agoMy team has the same reaction when someone references our CoC.
- shapefrog 5y agoI have a short enough attention span that after the P and O my brain has already assigned the dialogue 'Piece of Shit' to the conversation. Sometimes its awkward, sometimes it is fitting.
- ishjoh 5y agoIt can be a hard habit to break that association. I work with different ecommerce clients and many folks refer to their stores payment systems as POS - point of sale, took a while to unlearn what I had always known POS to mean.
- count 5y agoHeh, it helps that most point of sale systems are also pieces of shit.
- romanhn 5y agoNot that odd, since it's a common acronym for a variety of contexts. Point of Contact, Person of Color, etc.
- commandlinefan 5y ago> Proof of Concept I had the misfortune earlier in my career of working for a total megalomaniac chair-flipper. One time he described some fairly vague product concept and I said, "ok, let me put together a proof of concept". He blew his stack and said, "no, I don't want a proof of concept I want a working product!"
- pcthrowaway 5y agoPoS is a good one also. In retail and restaurants it means 'point of sale', but also the systems and software behind the sale, which often translate a lot of business logic and and CRM-type stuff. Of course if you're developing one and you mention the PoS POC you could end up in hot water.