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mtrycz2 | 3 years ago

It's a common problem on HN to have too little context. Even in the tech space, there is so many subdomains, that it's easy to get confused. It also doesn't help that often (not in this case, tho) writers assume you already know what they are talking about.

A couple of words of context (or maybe a "category tag"?) would be so much helpful, most of the time.

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msla|3 years ago

That, and the re-use of abbreviations.

Like VM for example: Is it Virtual Memory, Virtual Machine, or Virtual Machine? Distinguishing Virtual Memory from the other two is easy, but is a Virtual Machine a bytecode interpreter like the JVM or a hypervisor like IBM's VM or Xen? You might well have to think hard about the VM settings you use for a VM that runs on a VM.

Sharlin|3 years ago

Just append the word "fonts" to the title.