Thank you. I have been a software dev a long time. More than 30 years. I did not know what this acronym stood for. I read the article and the article it linked to. Neither spent half a sentence explaining what the acronym means.
Join me in my War On Acronyms! (WOA) They are opaque, a form of in-group signaling, and the number of collisions is ridiculous. They hinder the flow of information much more than they facilitate it.
Agreed! One of my managers is the worst about this, spouting off acronyms without ever defining them or aware of who is in the room listening so to speak, and most terribly, not even knowing what they expand to at times either.
Thank you. I have been a software dev a long time. More than 30 years. I did not know what this acronym stood for. I read the article and the article it linked to. Neither spent half a sentence explaining what the acronym means.
It actually means sysadmin.
Thank you! I wish people would define acronyms more.
Join me in my War On Acronyms! (WOA) They are opaque, a form of in-group signaling, and the number of collisions is ridiculous. They hinder the flow of information much more than they facilitate it.
Agreed! One of my managers is the worst about this, spouting off acronyms without ever defining them or aware of who is in the room listening so to speak, and most terribly, not even knowing what they expand to at times either.
Agreed. Neither the subject article nor the one it linked to defined this acronym, leaving the reader to guess.
initialisms*
TLAs and eTLAs.
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