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Please save the acronyms for repeated uses of a long name. It helps the rest if us to understand what the hell you're talking about.
by rags2riches 3y ago
Please save the acronyms for repeated uses of a long name. It helps the rest if us to understand what the hell you're talking about.
- gordon_freeman 3y agoBB = Breaking Bad, BCS = Better Call Saul
- mvdtnz 3y agoHacker Newsers do this on purpose. Many believe that the fewer people that understand what they're saying, the smarter they will look.
- jader201 3y agoWhy waste time say lot word when few word do trick.
- throwbadubadu 3y agoOften don't.
- selcuka 3y ago> Hacker Newsers do this on purpose. Did you mean HNers?
- voisin 3y agoAssume incompetence before malice.
- voisin 3y ago100x this. I am used to reading the traditional “write it in full once with a definition” for further use, eg. Breaking Bad (“BB”), but find lots of people on Hacker News just assume that everyone knows the acronym and several times a week find I have to search for a definition. It impedes understanding for what?