Controversial Glossary
Browse 7 controversial terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
7 Controversial Terms
- Blitzscaling
- Blitzscaling is a growth strategy for startups that prioritizes speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty, deliberately accepting high burn rates...
- Founder Mode
- A management approach where a founder stays deeply involved in the company's details and decision-making rather than delegating to professional managers....
- Monorepo
- A single version control repository containing multiple projects or services. Google, Meta, and Microsoft use monorepos containing billions of lines. Whether...
- Open Floor Plan
- An office design without private offices or cubicle walls, intended to foster collaboration but scientifically shown to reduce face-to-face interaction by 70%...
- ORM
- Object-Relational Mapping — a technique that lets you interact with a database using your programming language's objects instead of raw SQL. Beloved by those...
- Singleton
- A Singleton is a creational design pattern that restricts a class to exactly one instance and provides a global point of access to it. No matter how many times...
- Training Data
- The dataset used to teach a machine learning model. The quality, size, and representativeness of training data fundamentally determine a model's capabilities...
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