What product, etc. do you think is snake oil?
What product, etc. do you think is snake oil?
Any program/seminar/book that sells you success without factoring in luck...which is pretty much all of them.
Brave browser. See many discussions here for details why.
For me it’s slack. I don’t get why it’s so popular and why people love it. It’s just another chat app to me.
All the ideology based practices in software engineering. TDD, xtreme programming, pair programming, BDD etc.
This comment is going to rile up many, but I haven't found anyone to show me even a half-ass scientific study to show that any of these things make anything better.
Blockchain/distributed finance.
Actively managed funds (hedge/mutual)
i think any software that only highlights its benefits is inherently deceptive. i have to go and figure out the fundamentals and see if i can surmise the tradeoffs.
one top of mind example is event streaming like kafka. sure it has benefits but as soon as start using streams like a WAL and turn your application into a database with ACID guarantees you’re going to blanket regret going with event streaming. you might call that user error but enterprise support won’t tell you stop using it that way
Everyone thinks options trading/advisory services/trading roooms are snake oil.
Turmeric. Drinking dollops of paint doesn't make much sense healthwise.
Almost any "NextGen" "cybersecurity" product
Any place that advertises pay to pitch events
