Comment by IncRnd
5 years ago
It's a quibble to say that the undefined term CRDT is part of the lede or the the lede itself, since people who do not know the meaning of the acrynym need to read a significant part of the story to be told the definition.
That can be seen by glancing at the comments on this page.
I disagree that it is a quibble. Not having context is different than being strung along to increase engagement metrics. I didn't know what CRDT was either, but I spent 10-15 seconds searching it and then read the rest of the post, which I thought was otherwise extremely well done. I actually subscribed to Joseph's RSS feed because I was so pleased with the quality of the writing on the blog. I do agree that engaging in this sort of disagreement on HN is low-yield, however.