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by Flameeyes 1517 days ago
Yup, though nobody I worked with saw it that way anymore.

There's a significant drift in its meaning, and there's also dissonance between different areas in the same industry. That's why I wanted to define how this jargon ends up used by me and my peers, and provide a reference point.

(There's a bigger point about value judgement -- I tried not to give too much negative or positive connotations to the whole yak situation, because I don't believe there's an objective mode for it.)