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Our industry does itself a huge disfavour with these gimmicky terms. When you can substitute your buzzword of the day with a traditional word that everyone will
by tensor 2y ago
Our industry does itself a huge disfavour with these gimmicky terms. When you can substitute your buzzword of the day with a traditional word that everyone will instantly understand, well, this is where buzzword bingo criticisms come from. :-(
- x3haloed 2y agoBlame sales and marketing
- ben_w 2y agoBuzzword bingo is where you yell "bullshit!" in the middle of the meeting once you get a winning set, right? My sister was playing that 20 years ago, and she's in car sales. It's probably every industry that has this sort of nonsense.
- miki123211 2y agoI disagree. Collaborative is a very overloaded term, it's everything from Git to Google Docs to screen sharing to multiple people accessing one app at the same time via remote access. Multiplayer is a term that usually refers to a very specific mode of collaboration, where multiple people can work on one project, on their own computers, with their own cursors, at the same time, with all changes instantly synchronized between participants. Google Docs is both collaborative and multiplayer. Git is definitely collaborative, but not multiplayer, same goes for sending patches over mailing lists..
- tensor 2y agoRealtime collaborative _thing_. It's super clear. Trying to steal a term already used to mean other things, namely playing video games with more than one person, is a terrible idea. You have words already that mean what you want, and everyone understands them. Google docs is a realtime collaborative word processor. Git is a collaborative source control system. If you told me that Multi is a realtime collaborative editor then I'd instantly understand. But trying to say that my OS needs to be multiplayer is just confusing buzzword bingo.
- mardifoufs 2y agoAny new term can be qualified to be a buzzword just because it's... new. I don't see the argument.