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alias_neo on March 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: go-nbd – A Pure Go NBD Server and Client

Did nobody else learn to spell out an acronym the first time it's used?

I had heard of it, but I had to read "NBD" far too many times in that repo before I saw what it stood for.

LouisSayers on March 30, 2023 | [–]

I've always thought of it as common courtesy. It's super frustrating when you're reading something and thinking "great, but wtf are you actually going on about?"

naikrovek on March 29, 2023 | [–]

no one knows how to write or how to use hypertext properly anymore and it drives me nuts.

asciii on March 30, 2023 | [–]

Here I was thinking it's go "no big deal" server and client

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