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> please write out all acronyms the first time you use them Like any other writing, it's just about knowing your audience. I mean, are you really going to wri
by jxf 11y ago
> please write out all acronyms the first time you use them
Like any other writing, it's just about knowing your audience.
I mean, are you really going to write "HN (Hacker News)", "YC (Y Combinator)", "HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol)", etc. every single time you use those in a comment here?
- strommen 11y agoOh come on. WCF is pretty obscure. .NET is pretty unknown to many HN readers, and even within .NET WCF is not very widely used.
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- bunderbunder 11y agoBits of every domain are obscure to someone. But it seems to me that the only domain for which use of acronyms in article titles ever seems to provoke this level of irritation is Microsoft's. Makes me suspect that this particular debate is really just a proxy for a different argument altogether.
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- ilitirit 11y ago> WCF is pretty obscure Is this really the case? I've been using it since it's inception (never used "Indigo" in production). At the time it was a godsend because our company was moving to a SOA (ahh... the dark ages) using Oracle Fusion Middleware, and judging by the job postings over the years I suspect many other non-Java/Oracle houses also adopted WCF. I did not realize it was considered an obscure technology.
- WDCDev 11y agoWCF has quite a bit of adoption in the .NET community. I am currently working on a major WCF project that uses TCP streaming and named pipes. This is the third project I have worked on that uses WCF, and I have been working on the .NET platform since Beta.
- recursive 11y agoI recall getting a pretty negative reaction on Hacker News for not knowing what GHC meant.