Re:Talk like a systems engineer: Yaks all the way down
by Flameeyes on Saturday April 30, 2022 @06:17AM
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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.)
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.)