Ask HN: What buzzwords or expressions do you dislike the most?
I always hear people say “I’ll talk to you offline” during meetings, but logically it never made sense to me.
"Synergy": Management uses this word a lot, often to appear not clueless (or helpless) of how business processes work
"Techie": Too broad a term to describe anyone. From a rich kid with lots of gadgets to a world renowned authority on a subject.
"20 years of experience between us" or "Combined 20 years of experience in xx Technology": When 10 kids are running a startup after working two years part time during college.
"head count" when used by mid-level managers, who want to look cool, instead of word "position" or "open position". Annoys me when I hear: "We have 3 open head-counts" - we are not cattle, we are people.
Cloud - hate this world even after all these years
Senior Developer - a rank that can be anything from 3 years to 10 years experience
This is one of my favourite clips from Silicon Valley TV show, it is very relevant to this topic.
No, just because I have a small tech business does not mean I have a start up. We actually make things that people buy, develop cool (in my opinion) technology, have interesting unique customers AND are commercially profitable.
"In Schumpeter's vision of capitalism, innovative entry by entrepreneurs was the disruptive force that sustained economic growth, even as it destroyed the value of established companies and laborers that enjoyed some degree of monopoly power."
IP when used to mean Intellectual Property and Internet Protocol.
There are more examples of this that I can't think of right now. Acronyms should be defined the first time you use them and should never change meaning for the rest of the conversation.
"Resources" to talk about people/skills/talent
"Cloud" when used by management
"Cyber security" (Yeh)
"Steal the IP" (it gained traction at one point)
Personas - we have to recreate product material for the different personas (before it was for departments, postions, industry, etc..)
I realize I'm being pedantic here but for some reason I still don't like it!
- Solutioning
- Learning as a noun, as in "these are some good learnings"
- Most things mentioned in Weird Al's brilliant lampoon of Judy Blue Eyes using corporate-speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
Some guy with name "X" expressing personal opinions as "Xology" :p
Your asking to tips or suggestions not fucking hacks.
Artisan Hand Crafted * to table etc
any adjective food
More on topic is web bullshit generator [0]. When you need a good verb adjective and noun all in one.
private cloud
machine learning becomes a buzzword;
Well, even DevOps has become one...
"Organic Cotton"