cargo-cultism

This is not done because of timing attacks, it's done because of cargo-cultism and laziness.

It is considered cargo-cultism mostly because none of the languages ever have any scientific data to support decisions on various syntax choices.

The places where innovation comes from are going to be places that believe in the future, are open to experimentation and risk, and reason from first principles instead of cargo-cultism.

This isn't to say that I preferred the big-corp work over the startup work--ultimately, I see them as two sides of the same coin of corporate cargo-cultism.

It's possible that this is necessary here (on older versions of wget), or that using '--no-check-certificate' is a bit of a cargo-cultism by the author (who learned to use it, but doesn't know why and when usage makes sense).

Considering there's an entire academic discipline of programming theory I strongly disagree with the description of language design as "cargo-cultism".

I don't buy into this "people are best in teams" cargo-cultism that's actually an excuse to buy shitty, cheap office space.

Cargo-cultism is the duplication of the appearance of functioning systems or structures in a context where they are nonfunctional or incorrectly functional.

Now, I freelance and make art about "corporate cargo-cultism".

"yuk, windows, not touching that", and at the risk of offending some, it's snobbery and cargo-cultism.

Okay, now I'm going to ding you because you didn't write it using the same mindset you'd use when writing a large application tailored towards a specific domain and given a detailed set of constraints." Maybe we should call this sort of cargo-cultism Schroedinger interviews.

Considering there's an entire academic discipline of programming theory I strongly disagree with the description of language design as "cargo-cultism".

I don't buy into this "people are best in teams" cargo-cultism that's actually an excuse to buy shitty, cheap office space.

Now, I freelance and make art about "corporate cargo-cultism".

"yuk, windows, not touching that", and at the risk of offending some, it's snobbery and cargo-cultism.

Cargo-cultism is the duplication of the appearance of functioning systems or structures in a context where they are nonfunctional or incorrectly functional.