20 Fancy Acronyms Programmers should know?

Do you read blogs on Internet? Do you understand what TL;DR or ITT means, Well I didn't, not until last year. Internet is full of acronyms. Techies, programmers, developers and bloggers has developed a lot more fancy acronyms than you can think of. If you participate or read articles on sites like Reddit, Hacker news or StackOverFlow, you will see extensive use of these mysterious acronyms. If you don't know meanings of acronyms like TL;DR, AFAIK, PSA, YSK or TIL, there is good chance that you will lost in conversation and comments. So when I come across this list of acronyms, I thought to share it with you guys. This list contains lots of popular acronyms, which is been used by many bloggers around internet and community web-sites like Reddit, Hacker News, DZone and StackOverFlow. Next time, you encounter a fancy acronym, you might not need to Google, to know its meaning and then go back to the thread to read further. By the way, if you know any other fancy Internet acronyms, popular among programmers, web developers and bloggers, then feel free to share with us. Acronyms are not arranged in any particular order but in my preference of their usage. By the way, there are a lot of acronyms in use on reddit, so this is just a list of some of the main ones you'll see.





TL;DR means "Too long; Didn't read"



IMO/IMHO means "In my opinion" and "In my humble/honest opinion", respectively



AFAIK means "As far as I know"



NSFW means "Not safe for work"



IIRC means "If I recall correctly"



TIL means "Today I learned"



PSA means "Public service announcement"



NSFL means "Not safe for life" (gory or gross content)



YSK means "You should know"



AMA means "Ask me anything"



CMV means "Change my view"



DAE means "Does anybody else" or "Does anyone else"



ELI5 means "Explain like I'm 5 (years old)"



FTFY means "Fixed that for you"



IAMA means "I am a"



IANAD means "I am not a doctor"



IANAL means "I am not a lawyer"



ITT means "In this thread"



MRW/MFW means "My reaction when" and "My face when", respectively



OP means "Original poster" (the person who started the thread)





That's all on this list of fancy acronyms guys, its already got too long then you want it ideally. Don't worry, you will start picking them by yourself, once you get familiar. Don't forget to share any new fancy acronyms, which you have learned or coined for technical community.

Source:http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2014/06/20-fancy-acronyms-programmers-should.html