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A comment on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test. Parent comment

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by scott_s on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:16PM (#12704103)
I think "okay" looks better than "OK".
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by dboreham on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:45PM (#12704326)
But it is ...wrong. OK originated as an abbreviation so why spell out the pronunciation of the letters? Makes no sense to me.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:05PM (#12704468)
Because the connection to a 180-year-old fad for misspelling "all correct" is so obscure and non-obvious that it was lost long ago? Do you think we should be capitalizing LASER, too?
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