Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by nostrademons » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:06 PM UTC

rossdavidh wrote: post #3

Or GNAAM, pronounced like 'nam, the way some Americans refer to the Vietnam war. If G -> A (for Alphabet), then it's NAAAM

Or MAAAN, which has more of a ring to it.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by eunos » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

Kick out Netflix. MAGA

Tell your Silicon Valley friends that you work at MAGA

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by pedalpete » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

MAGMA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon).

I've never understood why Netflix was equated with the bigger companies. It's market cap is $300B the others (excluding Facebook) are all above $1T, and Facebook/Meta has a chance of breaking the $1T in the next year.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by dyeje » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:30 PM UTC

pedalpete wrote: post #13

MAGMA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon). I've never understood why Netflix was equated with the bigger companies. It's market cap is $300B the others (excluding Facebook) are all above $1T, and Facebook/Meta has a chance of breaking the $1T in the next year.

Mostly because of their compensation I think.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by monksy » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

short12 wrote: post #7

Or just ignore the name change like people did with the Sears tower or miller park

I'm reporting you for false info. The Sears tower's name never changed.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by Armisael16 » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

rektide wrote: post #9

short12 wrote: post #7

Or just ignore the name change like people did with the Sears tower or miller park

Or DCA airport, maybe "National" if you insist. Or perhaps more close to home here: Alphabet.

DCA and National are more-or-less interchangable. It's Reagan that's the own-of-towner one.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by lukehutch » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

Kind of a silly question when we're not saying FAANA rather than FAANG.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by 908B64B197 » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:40 PM UTC

An ESL speaker once used "FAGMAN".

We chuckled.

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by corysama » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:40 PM UTC

If we go with MAANG, can I pronounce it like "mange"?

Re: Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga?

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Post by ijlx » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:40 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #10

bin_bash wrote: post #5

GAMMA—kick out Netflix and put in Microsoft

The M is already Microsoft. I'm partial to calling the Netflix-less tech industry "MAGA", because they're the ones actually making America great again. Also Google is actually Alphabet, so it'd really be like MAMA or something.

The M is Meta - Microsoft isn't in FAANG