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Re:Rethinking office space by pc86 on Friday February 27, 2015 @04:31PM (#9121487)
For what it’s worth, I live on the east coast, am not particularly keyed in to the Silicon Valley world like most HN readers, and knew (assumed) immediately that MTV = Mountain View based on the context of the article and the comment. I think it’s pretty obvious given the overall context here.
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Re:Rethinking office space by TaylorAlexander on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:06PM (#9121665)
For what it's worth, I live in Sunnyvale just next to Mountain View and I have never seen or heard this abbreviation used. I thought "I work at Google in MTV" described some internal Google department, and it wasn't until I saw "commute to MTV from SF" that it clicked.
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Re:Rethinking office space by slantedview on Friday February 27, 2015 @07:22PM (#9122216)
Agree. Lived in Mountain View (mtnv?) for a few years. Never saw the MTV acronym. Maybe it's a google thing?
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Re:Rethinking office space by atarian on Friday February 27, 2015 @06:10PM (#9121961)
I've lived in Santa Clara for 3 years and I've never seen Mountain View referred to as MTV.
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Re:Rethinking office space by shortsleeves on Friday February 27, 2015 @10:14PM (#9122644)
it's also the abbreviation used on the coaches going from San Francisco to "MTV"
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