5 ms·
I had to open the article to understand what it was about. The initialism is ambiguous; I thought someone might be trying to shorten GitHub Copilot and was curi
by grammarxcore 3y ago
I had to open the article to understand what it was about. The initialism is ambiguous; I thought someone might be trying to shorten GitHub Copilot and was curious to see how the team behind it was optimizing its speed. I would have been much more enlightened.
If you’re attempting to share something with an audience not steeped in your jargon, it’s usually better practice to lead with the full then shorten later.
- kzrdude 3y agoOne could use the less accurate title "Making haskell faster at emitting code" I guess! However, don't we have to accept sometimes that the title does not tell the full story, it's just half a sentence after all, it's not even a summary, it's the heading?
- whateveracct 3y agoThis is HN. Headlines are full of jargon - it's an expectation for a diverse technical forum.
- shadowgovt 3y agoHaskell is not necessarily popular enough to consider its jargon common knowledge. As the headline doesn't mention Haskell, it's understandable that people might not have enough context to make a guess at this TLA.