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Would it be possible to stop using aXXb nomenclature within the titles? Some of us aren't hip enough to know what all of them mean.
by DougN7 6mo ago
Would it be possible to stop using aXXb nomenclature within the titles? Some of us aren't hip enough to know what all of them mean.
- bearsyankees 6mo agoapologies, just a vc firm
- tomhow 6mo agoThe guidelines require using the same title on HN as is on the original post.
- tptacek 6mo agoEven when the author submits? :)
- tomhow 6mo agoYes... unless we think it's fine to tailor a title to activate a particular reaction from the HN audience :)
- bearsyankees 6mo agooh apologies, thanks for the reminder
- beambot 6mo agoAndreessen-Horowitz, who most people (and they themselves) refer to as a16z and have the eponymous domain name (a16z.com). They're one of the top VC firms on the planet -- exceedingly relevant to HN audiences and commonly discussed here.
- DougN7 6mo agoI'll be honest - I was thinking authorization (a11n?) - so I didn't read it closely enough. But despite that, and being on HN from almost the beginning (with a different account I lost the password to), I still didn't know what a16z was, though I do recognize Andreessen-Horowitz.
- Semaphor 6mo agoOpposite for me, I've seen a16z tons of time on HN, and also the domain where sometimes, but the full name would have meant nothing to me.
- rectang 6mo agoI didn't either. This is an ancient debate that can never be resolved completely, though — because the articles that HN submissions point to don't follow a style guide and there are always assumptions about audience priors. Best to just resolve it and move on.
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- krisoft 6mo ago> you'd rather say Andreessen-Horowitz, which is just as arbitrary as a16z Yes. I know Andreessen-Horowitz and I don’t know a16z. Reading the title i thought it will be about the cryptography serialisation specification. Turns out i was mixing it up with ASN.1. > Their website is literally a16z.com I hear now. Before this if pressed i would have guessed that they probably have a website indeed. If you would have twisted my arm my guess would have been andersenhorovitz.com (yup, with the typos. I learned the correct spelling today from your comment.) > exceedingly relevant for the HN audience We contain multitudes.
- operatingthetan 6mo agoThey just want to sound technical.
- PenguinCoder 6mo ago> Yes. I know Andreessen-Horowitz and I don’t know a16z. So the world needs to adapt to your knowledge instead of you learning to adapt to a often used, and well-known moniker?
- ok123456 6mo agoSorry, I come here for hacker content.