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GDC normally takes place in SFO
by andrewmunsell 7y ago
GDC normally takes place in SFO
- freepor 7y agoSFO is an airport, not a city.
- sneak 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
- baddox 7y agoThose things do exist of course, but in 9 years of living here I don’t think I’ve ever heard the city referred to as “SFO.”
- np_tedious 7y agoDo many places do this? PDX / Portland is the only example I can think of offhand
- sneak 7y agoMany people who sysadmin machines/networks/routers in disparate places name them after their closest major/international three-letter airport code. I have a bunch of boxes named 'ewr{1,2,3}', 'sfo{1,2,3}', et c. You will frequently see this in traceroutes, for router hostnames. Some people use the meta-airport-codes (e.g. NYC instead of JFK/LGA) too.
- samatman 7y agoDFW for Dallas-Fort Worth is common Ed: "The ATL" for Atlanta is also a thing
- ajdlinux 7y agoMy rather small and unknown city, Canberra, is not regularly referred to as CBR in verbal conversation, but it's been adopted as part of the city's tourism brand.
- baddox 7y agoIn Springfield and St. Louis, MO we often referred to the cities by their airport codes SGF and STL. But those are both more plausible abbreviations in their own right than SFO.
- detaro 7y agoFrom what I see, it's less something done by people living somewhere but by people from elsewhere, e.g. when discussing travel plans.
- Jeaye 7y agoParent is right. I've been in and around the SF Bay Area for about a decade and SFO is _only_ ever, unambiguously, the airport.
- Animats 7y agoAlso, SFO, the airport, is not even in the city of San Francisco. It's about ten miles south, in San Bruno. Not close to GDC, which is in downtown SF.
- geerlingguy 7y agoMost people outside of San Francisco would know that you mean 'San Francisco' when you say SFO, though. Same as I think of Seattle when I see SEA, Dallas when I see DFW, St. Louis for STL, etc. Inside the city that's not always the case, but even when you're abbreviating sports teams and the like, it's common to use the airport code to refer to the city name if they match up so well.
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- zadokshi 7y agoAre you sure about that? These acronyms don’t have the same meaning when I read them. It’s pretty American to think like that.
- jfkebwjsbx 7y agoI have no clue about any of the acronyms yet I recognize all the names.
- boulos 7y agoGeographically, but it actually is under the jurisdiction of the city and the Mayor of San Francisco who appoints the Airport Commission [1]. [1] https://www.flysfo.com/about-sfo/airport-commission/city-charter https://www.flysfo.com/about-sfo/airport-commission/city-cha...
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- jcims 7y agoI love the little tangent you’ve created here. It’s textbook HN. I wonder if there’s a word for it.
- bentcorner 7y agoI've heard "rathole" to describe taking a meeting off topic.
- jcims 7y agoThat's it! They remind me of old school bubble chambers used in particle accelerators. Momentum carrying things mostly in one direction, but every now and again something just coils inward until it runs out of energy. https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/a1380122/800wm/A1380122-Subatomic_particle_tracks.jpg https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/a1380122/800wm/A1380122...