Ask HN: What are the best acronyms that programmers should know?

#1

Post by andkon » Wed, May 10, 2017, 9:27 PM UTC

I just discovered YAGNI — "You aren't gonna need it" — and facepalmed at all the time I would've saved if I'd really internalized that lesson sooner. Apparently, it's a frequent enough problem that it's now an acronym.

What else should I be liberally referring to as I try to improve my practices?

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#2

Post by beamatronic » Wed, May 10, 2017, 9:36 PM UTC

FUBAR, WTF, SOL, SSDD, STFU, FML

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#3

Post by deliriousferret » Wed, May 10, 2017, 9:55 PM UTC

KISS: Keep it simple stupid

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#4

Post by laynetrain » Wed, May 10, 2017, 10:02 PM UTC

DRY

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#5

Post by tmaly » Wed, May 10, 2017, 10:05 PM UTC

RTFM

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Post by savethefuture » Wed, May 10, 2017, 10:08 PM UTC

REPL, SOLID, DRY, CQRS

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#7

Post by tedmiston » Wed, May 10, 2017, 11:53 PM UTC

The various stack acronyms such as LAMP and MEAN.

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#8

Post by kojeovo » Thu, May 11, 2017, 12:32 AM UTC

PEBKAC

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#9

Post by boyter » Thu, May 11, 2017, 1:16 AM UTC

CAP

Consistency Availability Performance. At scale, pick any two.

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#10

Post by biksnep » Thu, May 11, 2017, 1:42 AM UTC

boyter wrote: post #9

CAP Consistency Availability Performance. At scale, pick any two.

Partition tolerance?