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by dasil003 4795 days ago
There must be one of those standard quippy hacker "laws" about the usefulness of new conceptual term being directly correlated to the rate that it will be diluted into meaninglessness in the hands of progressively declining foodchain of marketing goons.
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How about this: once your term has a conference dedicated to it, it has crossed the line from useful term to useless marketing buzzword.