ad-hoc

You aren't grabbing a conference room with a colleague for some ad-hoc white-boarding to hash something out.

That all sounds way more ad-hoc than I mean it.

Analysts spend their lives in Periscope, doing ad-hoc analyses, putting together dashboards to share to external clients, and displaying KPIs to entire companies.

That's an interesting perspective, but I'm not sure how well such ad-hoc communities can deal with important life events.

Great to know that we can now use this to put it in our analytics dashboards to help w/ ad-hoc analysis.

However, both of these abstractions tend to lead to the ad-hoc creation of more complexity and more details to remember, while having no clearly delineated way to be self-describing.

I work for one of the biggest companies out there & absolutely everything is split into ad-hoc ~7 man teams that have essentially absolute power over that project.

Or, I could find me integrated into some kind of ad-hoc P2P network [WebRTC] that is far exceeding my planned investment in resources and which's use might not converge with my intentions.) The actual chance of doing so correlates with the learning curve of the language used.

Vendors having to come up with an actually secure remote update procedure (rather than ad-hoc secret protocols and "factory passwords")?

What sounds most interesting to me is that it seems to be kinda "dialect-oriented" -- meaning that to use it idiomatically, you should get used to writing tiny parsers (with provided toolbox) for small ad-hoc DSLs.