14 points | by ingve 13 hours ago
8 comments
I saw this in my feed reader this morning and my first thought was "How do you get a Urinary Tract Infection in an OS?"
Same here, at first I thought Gruber was using it ironically since he doesn't seem very fond of his own creation. But no, it really is "UTI."
A dirty pipe
There was an article in the top page yesterday complaining about acronyms. I can see its point now because UTI means something else in my family.
Related:
Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811339
I was married to a Registered Nurse. Enough said.
Who here remembers when MCI was myocardial infarction?
It became MI after, well, you know ...
Despite having nothing common with I thought about the same.
I still hate it for needing a two line feeds to get a newline.
But yeah, while I didn't encounter any encoding problems with md it would help somewhat for everyone to expect Unicode.
I saw this in my feed reader this morning and my first thought was "How do you get a Urinary Tract Infection in an OS?"
Same here, at first I thought Gruber was using it ironically since he doesn't seem very fond of his own creation. But no, it really is "UTI."
A dirty pipe
There was an article in the top page yesterday complaining about acronyms. I can see its point now because UTI means something else in my family.
Related:
Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811339
I was married to a Registered Nurse. Enough said.
Who here remembers when MCI was myocardial infarction?
It became MI after, well, you know ...
Despite having nothing common with I thought about the same.
I still hate it for needing a two line feeds to get a newline.
But yeah, while I didn't encounter any encoding problems with md it would help somewhat for everyone to expect Unicode.