Re:CRDTs are the future
by KirinDave on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:37PM
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I don't understand why you think that writing on a very technical subject needs to build you a ladder to climb on as a prerequisite. There is a link to a very high quality talk right at the top of the article for folks who wanted to dive deeper that specifically makes that effort.
I found the article quite good, and if you had genuinely been motivated to engage with the content you could have highlighted the acronym and searched for it.
There is a wealth of good info for "CRDTs" that comes up on the first page of Google, Bing or DDG.
Does the acronym actually illuminate what they are or how they function? I submit to you that it probably doesn't.
Re:CRDTs are the future
by rhizome on Monday September 28, 2020 @07:43PM
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There are practices for informative writing that have been developed over decades and decades that recommend, among other things, defining initialisms on first use.
Re:CRDTs are the future
by KirinDave on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:13AM
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I read hundreds of pages of such writing a week and I can assure you that if this is a practice, it is not well observed by academics or engineers in the field.
I found the article quite good, and if you had genuinely been motivated to engage with the content you could have highlighted the acronym and searched for it. There is a wealth of good info for "CRDTs" that comes up on the first page of Google, Bing or DDG.
Does the acronym actually illuminate what they are or how they function? I submit to you that it probably doesn't.