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| ▲ | krisoft 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > you'd rather say Andreessen-Horowitz, which is just as arbitrary as a16z Yes. I know Andreessen-Horowitz and I don’t know a16z. Reading the title i thought it will be about the cryptography serialisation specification. Turns out i was mixing it up with ASN.1. > Their website is literally a16z.com I hear now. Before this if pressed i would have guessed that they probably have a website indeed. If you would have twisted my arm my guess would have been andersenhorovitz.com (yup, with the typos. I learned the correct spelling today from your comment.) > exceedingly relevant for the HN audience We contain multitudes. |
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| ▲ | PenguinCoder 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Yes. I know Andreessen-Horowitz and I don’t know a16z. So the world needs to adapt to your knowledge instead of you learning to adapt to a often used, and well-known moniker? | |
| ▲ | operatingthetan 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They just want to sound technical. |
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| ▲ | ok123456 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sorry, I come here for hacker content. |
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| ▲ | DougN7 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I'll be honest - I was thinking authorization (a11n?) - so I didn't read it closely enough. But despite that, and being on HN from almost the beginning (with a different account I lost the password to), I still didn't know what a16z was, though I do recognize Andreessen-Horowitz. |
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| ▲ | Semaphor 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Opposite for me, I've seen a16z tons of time on HN, and also the domain where sometimes, but the full name would have meant nothing to me. | |
| ▲ | rectang 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I didn't either. This is an ancient debate that can never be resolved completely, though — because the articles that HN submissions point to don't follow a style guide and there are always assumptions about audience priors. Best to just resolve it and move on. | |
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