Comment by fragmede
2 years ago
This community's favorite thing is to complain about something that's ill defined. A post about BGP without saying it's the border gateway protocol will have its comments go off on a stupid tangent of if an HN reader should be expected to know what BGP is. (seriously people, go Google the term and don't demand everyone spoon-feed your intellectual midgetry!) Thus, an explanation that Yandex is Russian Google is to try and head off that derail. Of course, now we're having this discussion instead, so it seems like we can't win.
Even if I've heard the name Yandex before, it's a good reminder of what it is.
I don't think it's a good explanation. If I had no idea what Yandex is, the title would make me think it is a Google subsidiary to evade sanctions or something.
“#1 search engine in Russia”. Done and done.
but what is 'search engine'? /scnr
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Nevermind. I was wrong. Asking someone to write out an acronym is too much.
HN as a community still expects itself to have a niche audience and isn't ready to deal with how large it actually is yet. Knowing acronyms like that in this context is thought to be table stakes for participation from most people.
What you're asking from them is still a bit much right now.
Nevermind. I was wrong :)
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I don't think Yandex is an acronym...
Yes, the context of my comment was lost when I edited it. For clarity, I wasn't claiming that Yandex was an acroynm.