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Re:Amazon Genomics CLI by apaprocki on Saturday August 21, 2021 @02:15AM (#28254679)
Is there data behind that claim? The Bloomberg Terminal uses up to four and they are not strictly acronyms — sure, WEI is “World Economic Indices”, but TOP is “Top News” and OMON is “Options Monitor”. Four opens up a much wider range of possibilities in English if you don’t strictly use acronyms because there’s a wealth of short words and abbreviations that are super memorable.
Re:Amazon Genomics CLI by aaauaucuggaa on Saturday August 21, 2021 @03:24AM (#28254982)
a few examples that come to mind: EC2, EMR, ECR, EKS, RDS, EBS, DMS, ECS, VPC, SSS (S3), SNS, SES, IAM,
Re:Amazon Genomics CLI by saurik on Saturday August 21, 2021 @09:52AM (#28257029)
How does this list show these are easier to remember than ones with four characters?
Re:Amazon Genomics CLI by singlow on Saturday August 21, 2021 @10:12AM (#28257156)
The claim was that amazon prefers 3 letters, so the list supports that claim.
Re:Amazon Genomics CLI by LilBytes on Saturday August 21, 2021 @03:34AM (#28255020)
And of course, AWS.