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Define: "Bleeding edge"
What HR thinks it means:
Technology that is so new it has a high risk of being unreliable.
What it actually means:
"Software we bought because it looked cool, which currently has zero documentation and breaks daily."
Use it in a meeting:
"We adopted a bleeding edge Javascript framework that was completely abandoned by its creator three days after we pushed it to production."
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