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Commonly used idioms in the tech industry

5 Commonly Used Idioms in the Tech Industry.
Bikeshedding, rubber ducking, dog fooding, bus factors, yak shaving…what the heck are my colleagues even saying?

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Eventually I think these will become as commonplace, and as known outside of tech, as things like “debugging”, “motherboard”, and “CPU”.

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ohm

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I’ve heard marketing people talk about eating their own dog food. If they ment that they wanted to test the marketing strategy on themselves or actually eat dog food, I’m not sure. :wink:

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