Some things

Better living through biologically-inspired optimization

Words I wish could be removed from the Intarweb's vocabulary

Like Abe Simpson writing a rambling letter to the local newspaper, I find myself writing this list of words and phrases I would never like to see used again on the Internets.

  • Web 2.0
  • Mashup
  • Beta (when used to mean "we're going to imply that our product or service is fit for a particular purpose and aggressively encourage you to use it but not take responsibility for when it fucks up")
  • Long tail
  • Don't Repeat Yourself
  • Convention over Configuration
  • Model-View-Controller
  • Object-relational impedance mismatch
  • "Hey guys, check out my new half-baked Python web framework!"
  • Blogosphere
  • Folksonomy
  • Services-oriented architecture [1]
  • "Rails for --"
  • Pinko marketing
  • Enterprise anything
  • XML configuration file

[1] I still don't know what the fuck this is.

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