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by razeonex 1787 days ago
I'm not particularly fan of one person coining a term and have everybody agree on that, I think every team should create its own glossary of terms and always compare against different authors that may have gone deeper analyzing a given topic. There are some terminology that makes sense for some contexts and other that simply not. It may make sense for me to call something in a certain way because my team understands and we all have agree on what are we referring to, instead of having someone to tell us how to call things.

I really like this kind of epistemological analysis on tech terms, specially those that we use all the time and that we think we understand, but mainly for going deeper on a topic and analyze.

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Great point. If we name things, we should understand what the name means, and just as important, what it doesnt mean. We all know naming is difficult, which brings to mind the old joke -

"what are the 2 hardest things in technology?"

"Cache invalidation, naming, and off by one errors"