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In Commentary on 15 January 2010 tagged with 2 comments

Here’s Jonathan Chait talking like a programmer:

In any case, as Robert Solow suggests, reducing the incentive for talented people to enter finance might be a feature, not a bug.

I’m going to be on the lookout for more examples of this.


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I used that same feature/bug phrase at home recently, then had to explain it to my wife. Doh!

Posted by Stan Taylor on 15 January 2010 @ 2pm

I’m not sure it fits your criteria, but here’s one from a recent Supreme Court, where the justices gently rib a professor for his use of the term “orthogonal” http://volokh.com/2010/01/11/orthogonal-ooh/

It’s not really a CS term, but like “random” meaning “bad”, its use as a wider a metaphor seems to me to have come from geek culture.

Posted by danny o'brien on 16 January 2010 @ 4am

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