Silicon Valley Watcher - at the intersection of technology and m. The Original Hacker's Dictionary. [This file, jargon.txt, was maintained on MIT-AI for many years, before being published by Guy Steele and others as the Hacker's Dictionary.
Many years after the original book went out of print, Eric Raymond picked it up, updated it and republished it as the New Hacker's Dictionary. Unfortunately, in the process, he essentially destroyed what held it together, in various ways: first, by changing its emphasis from Lisp-based to UNIX-based (blithely ignoring the distinctly anti-UNIX aspects of the LISP culture celebrated in the original); second, by watering down what was otherwise the fairly undiluted record of a single cultural group through this kind of mixing; and third, by adding in all sorts of terms which are "jargon" only in the sense that they're technical. This page, however, is pretty much the original, snarfed from MIT-AI around 1988. -- jpd.] Verb doubling: a standard construction is to double a verb and use i as a comment on what the implied subject does. Silicon Valley San Jose Business Journal: Local Business News. Future Trends: Top 10 Consumer Trends for 2010.
Ruthless Capitalism: No longer in fashion, according to TrendWatching.com Rather than looking at macroeconomic trends, however, we are going to pick up on the work of our friends Reinier and co at the appropriately name TrendWatching.com, who have just published their 10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2010.
The first trend is particularly fascinating for the the EconomyWatch.com community I suspect: Business As Unusual. The TrendWatching team state that ruthless capitalism went out of fashion way before the crisis hit. It may have gone out of fashion with the (wo)man in the street/ middle class/ Main Street, but it certainly hasn't gone out of fashion with Wall Street. As we have said, Goldman execs are preparing for the coming revolution - by buying guns to defend themselves.