A trendy name for marketing tricks meant to make a product spread fast. Half clever, half mildly illegal pop-up.
His growth hack was emailing everyone in your contacts without asking. Growth: up. Trust: gone.
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rustacean_420
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Code so tangled that pulling one thread breaks three unrelated features. Nobody wrote it on purpose; it accreted over years.
Touched the date formatter and somehow logged every user out. Spaghetti code.
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Someone who reads everything and posts nothing. The silent majority of every online community.
10,000 lurkers, 3 posters, and all 3 posters are arguing with each other.
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