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A comment on Cargo Cult Management.

Re:Cargo Cult Management by michael_dorfman on Sunday June 21, 2009 @03:17PM (#667670)
Eric Lippert wrote an article a while back about "Cargo Cult Programmers" (http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/03/01/82168.a...)

It would appear to be a meme that can be applied to almost anything...

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Re:Cargo Cult Management by bdr on Sunday June 21, 2009 @09:50PM (#668078)
Some writers, when faced with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a cliche". Now they have two problems.
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Re:Cargo Cult Management by stcredzero on Sunday June 21, 2009 @11:10PM (#668161)
Some writers, when faced with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a cliche". Now they have two problems.

Is that "Cargo Cult Writing?"

Is this "Cargo Cult Meta-commenting?"

Nope, it's Cargo Cult Recursion. (Which is the application of the "Cargo Cult" metaphor by imitating the surface details of other such applications. We keep using those words. I do not think they mean what we think they mean.)

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