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> Kubernetes, frequently abbreviated “K8s” because there are 8 letters between K and S I'll be damned. I thought it was because the end kind of sounded like "8
by jackconsidine 4y ago
> Kubernetes, frequently abbreviated “K8s” because there are 8 letters between K and S
I'll be damned. I thought it was because the end kind of sounded like "8-es"
- deathanatos 4y agoSame as i18n (internationalization) and l10n (localization).
- cmehdy 4y agoa11y for accessibility also (and perhaps "ally" too?), but is a bit ironic given that screen readers wouldn't be making much sense out of that one.
- paxys 4y agoAnd a16z. It's a pretty common silicon valley convention. I was even asked to implement this in an interview once.
- temp_praneshp 4y agoha, me too, 4-5 years ago!
- M3L0NM4N 4y agoI wish I had that as an interview question.
- Majestic121 4y agoWhat is a16z ? A google search only returns references to Andreessen Horowitz
- bogota 4y agoNot sure if you are joking but that is what it means
- stevefan1999 4y agoso you are asked to build the best ARM CPU in the world?
- davewritescode 4y agoXML-Canonicalization is xml-c14n too!
- adolph 4y ago* According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. By 1985, colleagues who found Jan's name unpronounceable often referred to him verbally as "S12n" (ess-twelve-en).* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
- nazka 4y agoYou are not alone! I didn’t know