Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)
On 6/7/2014 12:21 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Its all the fault of people texting on their cell phones and the like! Too much work to write proper English words. Amirite? On those things, it *is* work! Even I've started giving up on proper grammar/capitalization/punctuation/spelling when texting (Not my normal comms choice, but I have a couple siblings that are of everything must be in SMS form age). Oh well, at least we're not still entering text on number pads. I used to work on a WAP/WPL site (anyone remember those? anyone even *used* those? ;) ) Entering text was bad enough, but entering test-server URLs? Ugh. I never understood why the last Smash Bros game copied that cell phone text interface *intentionally*.
Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)
On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 04:21:15 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:27:35 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 6/4/14, 3:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ Andrei This is offtopic, but why are people obsessed with writing English acronyms? I always have to lookup the meaning and then I'm polluting my head with acronyms. Is there any difference in time/convenience between writing Interviewee here. Ask me anything Between Interviewee. AMA? :-( Its all the fault of people texting on their cell phones and the like! Too much work to write proper English words. Amirite? You should see it in the rail industry - it's all TLAs. -=mike=-
Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)
On 2014-06-07 06:21, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Its all the fault of people texting on their cell phones and the like! Too much work to write proper English words. Amirite? I'm not so sure about that. English is full of shortenings which is proper English: do not - don't, you are - you're. Then, at least in the USA, abbreviations are common as well. CIA, NYPD and so on. Even the name of the country is an abbreviation :) -- /Jacob Carlborg
Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)
On 6/4/14, 3:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ Andrei This is offtopic, but why are people obsessed with writing English acronyms? I always have to lookup the meaning and then I'm polluting my head with acronyms. Is there any difference in time/convenience between writing Interviewee here. Ask me anything Between Interviewee. AMA? :-(
Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)
On 6/6/14, 5:25 PM, Tourist wrote: On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:27:35 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 6/4/14, 3:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ Andrei This is offtopic, but why are people obsessed with writing English acronyms? I always have to lookup the meaning and then I'm polluting my head with acronyms. Is there any difference in time/convenience between writing Interviewee here. Ask me anything Between Interviewee. AMA? :-( AMA is kinda reddit thing. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_hhvm_team_a_c_and_d/ Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks!
Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)
On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:27:35 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 6/4/14, 3:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ Andrei This is offtopic, but why are people obsessed with writing English acronyms? I always have to lookup the meaning and then I'm polluting my head with acronyms. Is there any difference in time/convenience between writing Interviewee here. Ask me anything Between Interviewee. AMA? :-( AMA is kinda reddit thing. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_hhvm_team_a_c_and_d/
Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)
On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 20:27:45 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 6/6/14, 5:25 PM, Tourist wrote: On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:27:35 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: AMA is kinda reddit thing. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_hhvm_team_a_c_and_d/ Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks! What gets me is that there are two acronyms to learn. IAMA = I Am A AMA = Ask Me Anything So: I'm doing an IAMA, AMA. For a while, I thought people were just lazy and AMA was just the 'am a part.
Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)
On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:27:35 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 6/4/14, 3:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ Andrei This is offtopic, but why are people obsessed with writing English acronyms? I always have to lookup the meaning and then I'm polluting my head with acronyms. Is there any difference in time/convenience between writing Interviewee here. Ask me anything Between Interviewee. AMA? :-( Its all the fault of people texting on their cell phones and the like! Too much work to write proper English words. Amirite?
