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For fuck's sake, call it cryptocurrency. The default suffix for "crypto" is "graphy."
by ohazi 7y ago
For fuck's sake, call it cryptocurrency. The default suffix for "crypto" is "graphy."
- EthanHeilman 7y agocrypto means cryptanalysis =)
- ganstyles 7y agoRespectfully, language evolves over time and words change all the time, sometimes fairly quickly. The prevailing use of crypto right now is in the context of cryptocurrency. I'm not particularly thrilled with it, but I don't want to sound like a curmudgeon just because I'm set in my ways.
- hprotagonist 7y agodescriptivism is not some unstoppable force; it’s a social argument we work out in the public sphere. pushback is normal and beneficial.
- HenryBemis 7y ago(test message)(please ignore just trying out something) 0123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
- elevenoh 7y agoI'd say the conical suffix reference - like all else in lang. - is dynamic & arrived at by rough consensus. And the long term trend is for folks to search (and perhaps say) cryptocurrency more than cryptography: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F01ld0,%2Fm%2F0vpj4_b https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F01l...
- ryanlol 7y agoIf “crypto” is “cryptocurrency”, is “cryptocurrency” actually “cryptocurrencycurrency”?
- choward 7y agoThis is why I hate shortened variable names.
- bdcravens 7y agoTo be fair though we are in an industry that loves to take words and redefine them. Just look at a package manifest for a typical project - Rails, cucumber, express, capybara, express, puppeteer, electron, etc. You could probably “npm/gem install (random noun)” and it’ll work.
- emilibellot 7y agosdasa