I need your help.
Apr. 6th, 2006 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mangosteenI desire to re-route the connotations of a word, and its usage.
I despise the verb-form of the word "architect", specifically when it's used by some computer-industry Howard Roark wannabe* who wants to talk up their network/software/system design, because they are so far up themselves that they got the full text of The Fountainhead tatooed on the insides of their eyelids.
If I hear someone "architected" a solution, I figure one of two things has happened.
1) It's a random design that they want to talk up because they know it's pretty boring otherwise.
2) It's a design that's looks pretty and was done without any consideration of reality.
Assignment: Picture yourself in a meeting where someone says that they "architected a solution". Assume no political ramifications for mockery of said person. How would you correct their usage?
*Such a thing to aspire to. Eugh.
I despise the verb-form of the word "architect", specifically when it's used by some computer-industry Howard Roark wannabe* who wants to talk up their network/software/system design, because they are so far up themselves that they got the full text of The Fountainhead tatooed on the insides of their eyelids.
If I hear someone "architected" a solution, I figure one of two things has happened.
1) It's a random design that they want to talk up because they know it's pretty boring otherwise.
2) It's a design that's looks pretty and was done without any consideration of reality.
Assignment: Picture yourself in a meeting where someone says that they "architected a solution". Assume no political ramifications for mockery of said person. How would you correct their usage?
*Such a thing to aspire to. Eugh.
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Date: 2006-04-06 06:22 pm (UTC)