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Hive mind for developers: What marketing terminology do you find most enraging? Which buzzwords are the biggest turnoffs?

I'll start:

Accelerate innovation
End-to-end
Best practices
The developer experience

There are valid reasons to use all of these, but 90% of the time... nope.

If I get enough response to this, I'm thinking of turning into a listicle of "N Buzzwords That Developers Hate."

Overheard: “Say what you will about Mordor but at least it was walkable.”

This link could be useful:

"Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden’s Laptop"

techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-

Death comes for every man, but that doesn't mean you have to make it easy for the bastard. These are the men who, despite whatever terrible things they may have done in life, earned a place in our hearts with their amazingly badass deaths. cracked.com/article_16822_7-hi

"The first-of-its-kind permit came with strings attached, however: The mythical creature must be provided ample exposure to sunlight, moonbeams and rainbows and have its horn polished at least once a month with a soft cloth." apnews.com/article/oddities-ca

Either I should be proud of this, or I should get a life.

But then, I don't know from where I'd download it.

While France is renowned for its pains au chocolat and croissants, Lyon has a long-standing tradition of tucking into wine and offal at breakfast.
bbc.com/travel/article/2022113

The world's biggest collection of obsolete sounds and disappearing sounds - remixed and reimagined by artists all over the world. citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-s

To understanding how forgetting can be useful, it's important to first recognise that a memory is never simply strong or weak. Rather, the ease with which you can summon up a memory (its retrieval strength) is different from how fully represented it is in your mind (its storage strength). bbc.com/future/article/2022112

Although this Victorian-era idea may now sound ridiculous, it was not a frivolous investigation. This vortex theory had a lot to recommend it.
quantamagazine.org/why-mathema

The predatory nature of data collection is spiking demand for data privacy protection in the customer experience. Will companies step back from spying for profit in order to gain more customers? informationweek.com/big-data/h

New Redis Stack Is Stuffed With Dozens of New Features

Whether you are a long-time developer or you are just getting started, Redis Stack represents the latest innovations we have to offer.
redis.com/blog/introducing-red

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