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This is incoherent. Is the ask the item being requested, or is it a demand? Neither of these are how it's used in the article, either.

Which mostly goes to show that it's not a word with a definition as we think of it -- it's a word that displays familiarity with the tech scene and is used as a social signal.




It's not incoherent, it's an idiom.


My project is a paradigm too.

http://dilbert.com/fast/1991-11-03/




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