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by nissimk 4083 days ago
I forgot the other one: "epic." I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but it really disturbs me. It's just too serious sounding, like it's presumptuous to declare any component of your program as "epic" before it is done. I can think of very few software systems or components that I would refer to as epic.

Are you writing the story of the flood? Is it the oddysey, the iliad, the history of your people? No, it's just some crappy new feature that's going to take your team a few months to complete. That is totally not epic.