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Eh. Every field has its jargon. Techies who mock business lingo live in exceedingly fragile glass houses.
by bguthrie 14y ago
Eh. Every field has its jargon. Techies who mock business lingo live in exceedingly fragile glass houses.
- gnaritas 14y agoTechie jargon is generally meant to enhance communication, while biz jargon is meant to baffle the listener with bullshit. Huge difference.
- stingraycharles 14y agoI think you're confusing biz jargon with marketing. Tech jargon suffers from marketing too; it's just that we're used to so much more "meaningful" jargon that we see that the bullshit ratio is actually pretty low. The same can be said about business jargon, it's just that we don't hear the meaningful jargon a lot. Want to guess how much meaningful tech jargon the average MBA hears? Probably not a lot more than we hear about his world.
- darkxanthos 14y agoA great example is "cloud" or "web scale" etc.
- blhack 14y agoWeb scale is a bizdev marketing term. Cloud means stored online instead of locally.
- pinchyfingers 14y ago"growth hacking"
- path411 14y agoThese actually have true meanings as Tech jargon. Biz/Marketing love to abuse buzzwords though.
- gcr 14y agoI don't consider confusing the potential customer to be honest marketing.
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- unimpressive 14y agoWant to come build a distributed social cloud web app with me using node? The real problem is when the meaning of a word or phrase becomes so broad that it conveys no information, or gets swamped by overuse and becomes a buzzword.
- 46Bit 14y agoDo you mind if I adopt that as my standard way of making people leave me alone?
- unimpressive 14y agoNo. Not at all. I think it's too shallow for anyone to be fooled by it though.
- cmelbye 14y agoI personally think that sentence is just as bad as the business jargon sentence.
- catshirt 14y agoi realize it wasn't their intention, but that's because it is business jargon.
- unimpressive 14y agoHonestly, I was making fun of HN more than I was "hackers". I don't think any of the words I used there, besides maybe "web", are in any version of the jargon file.[0] [0]: Then again, I haven't seen an "updated" jargon file in a long time. I don't even know what the new jargon is.
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- rahoulb 14y agoThat's because you're not a biz person. I've had business types say exactly the same to me about tech jargon.
- yxhuvud 14y agoYou do not work at a telco do you? There are so many abbreviations floating around that it sometimes is very hard to figure out if it is business bullshit or not.
- randomafrican 14y agoYou know what's worse than field specific jargon ? Company specific jargon.