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For the confused: CD = Continuous Delivery, not Compact Disc.

Mods: Perhaps edit the title?

I felt like the CD = continuous delivery was obvious. But perhaps I've spent to much time on Dev Ops. Maybe simply saying CI/CD would be sufficient.

Obvious to me too, but people doing CI, even a basic implementation like compiling, are still a minority of developers.

Not entirely obvious to me. I mean, we are talking about Yahoo! and I remember when I used to get those AOL CDs in the mail on a weekly basis.

When I read "CI/CD", I think "Corporate Identity / Corporate Design", which is just as confusing, if not more so... :-?

CI yes, CD no - in my mind CD is pretty much fixed to compact disc for eternity.

When I first read the title I thought "oh, Yahoo must have had some cool automatic system to burn CDs that is probably so old and pointless that they are opensourcing it now as part of their mothballing". I was fairly disappointed to see it's Yet Another CI Tool.

Haha, I had exactly this...

I confess I read it as Compact Disk. This made me curious enough to read the post, which I probably wouldn't have bothered to do otherwise. It was interesting though.

Agreed, but I don't see an option to update/edit the title. Do I need to have more karma points for that?

No, you pretty much have to wait for the mods to notice it.

HN needs a better mechanism to highlight posts for the mods.

I think that mechanism is to write an email to hn@ycombinator.com

IMO let's not waste the mods time with this, I feel that 99.9% of the visitors would associate the term CD with continuous dilevery and not compact disc

I never even read "Continuous Delivery" before today, so no, that does not seem like the case.

This is genuinely interesting to me, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425660

I just hope Digital Versatile Delivery doesn't become a popular phrase in the future.

Introducing: Design Validation & Delivery.

You're welcome. ;).

why would someone think it was "compact disc"? even if a hn reader was somehow completely ignorant of continuous delivery, the context and usage should be a guide.

Honestly - I don't think most people would confuse this unless they're still on dialup

*Edit: sorry, my comment was intended as humour but was actually a bit negative

Sorry for chiming in late, had to wait for someone to get off the phone before I could dial in.

Joking aside, I did think CD was a Compact Disc, but that's probably because I grew up with CDs and still have them hanging around the house.

Then I thought it could be to do with changing directory for a split second.

Please don't be sorry! I'm genuinely surprised that several people experience a different association with the acronym with relation to technology and open sourcing 'things' especially in the HN space. I grew up with CDs, however as I mentioned in another comment I haven't used or had the means to use optical media in over a decade nor do I see optical media present at work or with friends so it's quite interesting to me, I'm not convinced that I'm in some sort of 'bubble' but more that perhaps that it could be something like a generational association. If you don't mind me asking, in the name of science - what age bracket do you fall under? I'm 30 or there abouts and for me I think optical media became something irrelevant or perhaps irreverent in my technical / cultural experiences in around the time of 2006-2008 and continuous delivery / integration became a valuable focus of product delivery and technical engineering at around 2010 and something that I've been experienced since around 2011ish.

I think you've hit something quite relevant here. While compact discs aren't something I deal with daily anymore, I've never been directly involved in continuous delivery. So I feel that it's because I haven't overwritten the acronym as of yet with a more relevant context.

I think it's just industry terminology for someone not in that exact space.

I'm 34 by the way.

I'm genuinely surprised about this too. 5 minutes ago I would have been certain CD = "Continuous Delivery" with any group of developers, even more so HN. It makes me wonder what other assumptions I'm making or things I'm taking for granted.

40ish. I still use DVDs almost every week: buying (mostly pre 2005) movies and rip them to my Plex for viewing.

I initially thought it was a story about some obscure compact disc pressing/inventory management system that Yahoo apparently had lying around because big corps have strange stuff in their basements. I mean, it's pretty common to see curiosity/historic articles on HN. 35 years of age ;-)

Are physical CDs still a thing?

No, hipsters are only just upgrading to tapes.

Heh, first thing that sprung to mind was what.tape, I hear it's the new big thing. Seriously though - there's no good reason for anyone to embrace standard cassette tapes, vinyl I understand - not because of any audio quality based arguments which are easily debunked but because the large format tactile experience of the physical and visual experience of the playing a large rotating medium with friends can be quite compelling. </endtangent>

More now that what.cd is gone.

They're still big in classical music. And, yes, classical music is still a thing too! ;-)

Jazz too, because of the older audience still buying physical goods.

Worship music as well (think churches).

I was kind of thinking the same thing, the last time I had a computer or laptop with an optical drive must have been something like 8+ years ago and even then I can't remember using it for years.

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