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MVP as in Most Valuable Player.
by quadrature 9y ago
MVP as in Most Valuable Player.
- jacquesm 9y agoMost people would read that abbreviation as 'Minimum Viable Product' in the HN context.
- monkmartinez 9y agoNot me, I totally understood what he meant due to the context. The reality is that "Minimum Viable Product" was hijacked from the MVP of sports.
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- jacquesm 9y agoI'm not into sports (unless I'm doing something myself :) ), so I never heard it used like that before.
- esrauch 9y agoIts a pretty common Americanism that is disconnected from sports in my experience, I suspect the average American would recognize it as "something/someone that is contributing a lot", and only a tiny percentage would even recognize "minimum viable product" spelled out.
- smcl 9y agoOr outside the US - "MVP" seems to come from US sports terminology which are still relatively niche in the rest of the world (compared to Football anyway, and I reckon there's a large amount of people who don't even care about sports)
- beanpainter 9y agoHeh, there's a painting company that parks their van along Kezar Drive in SF with the name/logo "MVP", which they intend to be read as Most Valuable Painter. It always makes me think of the scene in an old episode of Mr Bean where he paints a room by putting a firecracker in a paint can.