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WLB: Work-life balance YOE: Years of experience Are you aware that the first time you use an acronym you're supposed to define it? They're not even used in th

WLB: Work-life balance YOE: Years of experience Are you aware that the first time you use an acronym you're supposed to define it? They're not even used in the article. I'm not a native speaker so I'm used to have to stop to look up words, but it makes reading the comment much slower, especially when it's acronyms that are used so little they don't even show up in search results.

tester756 4y ago
>especially when it's acronyms that are used so little they don't even show up in search results. Hmm, I've binged and googled "YOE meaning" and both showed me site with those definitions as 2nd result Acronym Definition YOE Year of Entry YOE Years of Experience YOE Year of Exchange (Australia and Japan) YOE Youth Organic Environmental (UK) YOE Yeshivat Olam Echad YOE Youth Orchestral Experience (South Africa)
ZephyrBlu 4y ago
They're both common acronyms that have been around a long time. Both of them are also on the first page of results when I google for the acronyms, so I don't know where you were looking.
still_grokking 4y ago
> Are you aware that the first time you use an acronym you're supposed to define it? Tell this all the people who use abbreviations and acronyms in source code. Of course there is no place of "first time" use in code as one does not read code linearly. So abbreviations and acronyms in code are bad. Very bad. Most of the time you can't even look up the stuff someone made just up to save a few key strokes (which is irrelevant as there is code suggestion even in command line editors these days). Using abbreviations and acronyms in code makes it cryptic. Always. (The only legitimate place to use abbreviations and acronyms is imho some highly domain specific sub-language where all the domain experts know all the abbreviations and acronyms, and only those domain experts works on this code part.)
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bumbledraven 4y ago
Is it really necessary to define acronyms that an LLM can easily explain? https://sharegpt.com/c/b0IJEzZ https://sharegpt.com/c/b0IJEzZ : > Q: In the following text, what do "WLB" and "YOE" refer to? [paste contents of GP] > A (GPT-4): In the given text, "WLB" refers to "Work-Life Balance," which is the equilibrium between one's professional and personal life. "YOE" refers to "Years of Experience," a common metric used to quantify the amount of time someone has spent working in a particular field or role.
- steine65 4y ago
  Probably, yes. Is it more efficient for the single poster to write out a few extra words, or for the hundreds of readers to go to Google or AI to help them interpret the letters? I work in accounting, an industry that throws out work-life balance into daily conversations, and i still didn't recognize it.
noman-land 4y ago
Thank you.

tester756 4y ago

>especially when it's acronyms that are used so little they don't even show up in search results. Hmm, I've binged and googled "YOE meaning" and both showed me site with those definitions as 2nd result Acronym Definition YOE Year of Entry YOE Years of Experience YOE Year of Exchange (Australia and Japan) YOE Youth Organic Environmental (UK) YOE Yeshivat Olam Echad YOE Youth Orchestral Experience (South Africa)

ZephyrBlu 4y ago

They're both common acronyms that have been around a long time. Both of them are also on the first page of results when I google for the acronyms, so I don't know where you were looking.

still_grokking 4y ago

> Are you aware that the first time you use an acronym you're supposed to define it? Tell this all the people who use abbreviations and acronyms in source code. Of course there is no place of "first time" use in code as one does not read code linearly. So abbreviations and acronyms in code are bad. Very bad. Most of the time you can't even look up the stuff someone made just up to save a few key strokes (which is irrelevant as there is code suggestion even in command line editors these days). Using abbreviations and acronyms in code makes it cryptic. Always. (The only legitimate place to use abbreviations and acronyms is imho some highly domain specific sub-language where all the domain experts know all the abbreviations and acronyms, and only those domain experts works on this code part.)

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bumbledraven 4y ago

Is it really necessary to define acronyms that an LLM can easily explain? https://sharegpt.com/c/b0IJEzZ https://sharegpt.com/c/b0IJEzZ : > Q: In the following text, what do "WLB" and "YOE" refer to? [paste contents of GP] > A (GPT-4): In the given text, "WLB" refers to "Work-Life Balance," which is the equilibrium between one's professional and personal life. "YOE" refers to "Years of Experience," a common metric used to quantify the amount of time someone has spent working in a particular field or role.

steine65 4y ago
Probably, yes. Is it more efficient for the single poster to write out a few extra words, or for the hundreds of readers to go to Google or AI to help them interpret the letters? I work in accounting, an industry that throws out work-life balance into daily conversations, and i still didn't recognize it.

noman-land 4y ago

Thank you.