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Meh, saying "five people would have been fired!" is too hyperbolic for my tastes. If you click through to this other HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
by cooper12 9y ago
Meh, saying "five people would have been fired!" is too hyperbolic for my tastes. If you click through to this other HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14671047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14671047), you'll notice they don't use proper typographic emdashes (typewriter dashes `--` instead of `—`) and they have a black diamond where their asterism [0] or some other mark would have gone. However, you don't see me commenting there to derail the discussion away from the fascinating topic of these creatures' breathing. In the same way, this is just a minor aspect of the WWDC presentation and isn't such a big deal necessitating people to have been fired for.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography)
- coldtea 9y ago>However, you don't see me commenting there to derail the discussion away from the fascinating topic of these creatures' breathing. Only in this post's case, the quality of the typography WAS the topic under discussion.
- cooper12 9y agoMy point is that it's such a minor aspect of an otherwise edifying talk on photography. Certainly not something to demand firings for.