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I hate it when people use TLAs without defining them.
by mattnewport 8y ago
I hate it when people use TLAs without defining them.
- mifreewil 8y agoHTML has an <abbr> tag - please use it.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThat takes effort though, and people use TLAs to reduce effort.
- tlasAsEffort 8y agoNo, people use TLAs to increase exclusivity, and seem smarter than they are by creating artificial outsiders.
- regulation_d 8y agoIsn't it great that TLA is a TLA and FLA is a TLA, but FLA is not an FLA?
- anotherevan 8y agoDon't forget ELTAs. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ETLA https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ETLA
- dandare 8y agoETLA :p
- anonlapwarmer 8y agoDitto. Head-scratching, elitist jingoisms tend to signal an antipattern of business theater. Plainspeak > newspeak.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoTranslation look ahead buffers? That brings back a lot of memories from my computer architecture course.
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- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoIs that not tlb?
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoHmmm, that actually makes much more sense.
- black-tea 8y agoMe too. It seems like every other week people will be spouting some three-letter acronym that you've never heard of. This forces you to ask what it means, and they will always look at you like "what? You don't even know?"
- pleasecalllater 8y agoThis is a good indicator of a team I don't to work with.
- quickthrower2 8y agoIf you work in ICT, it's unavoidable.
- netsharc 8y agoI added "what_the_fuck_are_okrs_craig" to the end of the URL in the hopes he gets the message when he looks in his 404 logs...
- majewsky 8y agoAre there people who do this?
- _asummers 8y agoI look at 404s (and other errors) in prod. Helps find front end bugs and any malicious requests. A 404 should be exceedingly rare in a mature application (depending on the application of course and users' ability to create AND delete data) so it's often a useful metric for figuring out if something's wrong. I don't usually tail the logs and use monitoring instead, but same effect. After a certain scale, I imagine this becomes harder to do and requires different tooling.
- netsharc 8y agoAdmittedly I'm grumpy today. I sometimes do this "404 trolling" to yell at people.
- Quarrelsome 8y agothe knowledge of this has made me happy. :) Thanks.
- chii 8y agounless you keep spamming it to make up a significant amount of logs for the site, i doubt anyone would notice...
- theandrewbailey 8y agoIt might be useful to include a link so people from here can spam it. Like this: http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/29/okrs-arent-going-to-fix-your-communication/what_the_fuck_are_okrs_craig http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/29/okrs-arent-going-to...
- spxcxlxxs 8y agoI feel like everyone missed the joke
- falsedan 8y agono jokes on HN, this is serious mum
- eplanit 8y agoThey're in the same bucket as those who use light gray text on a white background.