Dumb tech terminology question: is CAGR a commonly-used term when talking about information growth and storage? Or is it a case of the doc author thinking they're being clever but not spelling out acronyms?
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Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 1:46:47 pm PDT #19692 of 25501
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javachik - Mar 20, 2012 2:27:19 pm PDT #19693 of 25501
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I don't think of it as "tech"? We used it all the time in marketing to financial services industry at Oracle, and in that setting a definition wasn't provided.
Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 2:41:16 pm PDT #19694 of 25501
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This is very much in a context of information wrangling, storage, and scalability, and nothing to do with the financial industry. Which is why I went "Buh?" and googled the term.
javachik - Mar 20, 2012 2:42:23 pm PDT #19695 of 25501
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Yeah, they totally need to spell that one out for the reader.
Dana - Mar 20, 2012 2:45:14 pm PDT #19696 of 25501
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It's not a term I know, if that counts for anything.
Or is it a case of the doc author thinking they're being clever but not spelling out acronyms?
Don't they always?
Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 2:49:04 pm PDT #19697 of 25501
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THIS IS WHY THEY NEED TO HIRE ME. Plus I just won buzzword bingo after reading two sentences in this document.
DCJensen - Mar 20, 2012 4:35:22 pm PDT #19698 of 25501
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In Journalism school, they taught us to always spell out the first usage of any acronym. I wish that were the case for things that are to be read by people with a wide variety of experience.
Steph L. - Mar 20, 2012 4:42:59 pm PDT #19699 of 25501
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In Journalism school, they taught us to always spell out the first usage of any acronym.
We always do that. In large part it's because we have un-American readers, and acronyms/abbreviations aren't the same in other languages (e.g., "AIDS" is "SIDA" in Spanish, and "HIV" is "VIH").
Typo Boy - Mar 20, 2012 4:56:40 pm PDT #19700 of 25501
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Also many acronyms are acronyms for more than one term. In my recent book the same acronym stood for a technical terms I was using and a union I was writing about. Since neither term was used much, I skipped acronyms for both. Otherwise I would have use the acronyym for the term I used most.
Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 5:22:29 pm PDT #19701 of 25501
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In Journalism school, they taught us to always spell out the first usage of any acronym.
That's what is SUPPOSED to be done in the tech industry. But I have found that many people creating documentation like to throw around acronyms and assume that everyone knows what they stand for. Like a team I worked with that was genuinely surprised to find out that most users didn't automatically parse "Commerce Server Staging" when they read "CSS".