I totally agree with you, but I'm deeply amused that you didn't define the term yourself!
This is a pet peeve of mine, for real, especially with PR releases that sometimes hit the top of HN. Sometimes you'll see a post about "Updates from Widgetizer" and then it just talks about the features, assuming everyone already knows what Widgetizer is. It's kind of crazy. The writers are missing out on a lot of conversion by not doing a "by the way, ADB is the Amazon Debug Bridge, a tool that lets you..." and then people go "Wow, I didn't know that existed," and go investigate.
I didn’t know what it was until someone posted a reply to my comment. I don’t have an Android device and I can’t be bothered to fill in the obvious gaps the author left when the thing isn’t of immediate consequence to me.
It wasn’t intentional, but one could argue by my not defining the term I helped it really sink in for people how annoying it is, heh.
This is a pet peeve of mine, for real, especially with PR releases that sometimes hit the top of HN. Sometimes you'll see a post about "Updates from Widgetizer" and then it just talks about the features, assuming everyone already knows what Widgetizer is. It's kind of crazy. The writers are missing out on a lot of conversion by not doing a "by the way, ADB is the Amazon Debug Bridge, a tool that lets you..." and then people go "Wow, I didn't know that existed," and go investigate.