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His name is Dan ...
by Void_ 9y ago
His name is Dan ...
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- novium 9y agoStill not a reason to assume things here.
- kupiakos 9y agoShould just default to the singular they then.
- jwandborg 9y agoMy fault. I'm more comfortable with regular expressions than the English language.
- eradicatethots 9y agoIs it just me or is none of this a big deal?
- Moter8 9y agoPeople don't first go to the user profile to look for a name. dangero seems like a random nick
- zbentley 9y agodangero . . . us?
- dan1234 9y agoDan could be short for Danielle or Danika or…
- jen729w 9y agoPeople always assume I’m “Jen”, female, which is often enlightening. They’re my initials.
- jwandborg 9y ago- I did not read their username. - I did not click through to their profile. The cause for both of these is that my mobile HN experience is horrible for me (a lazy person). I spent a few seconds looking for a word to replace "She/He", when none came to mind I fell back to a regular expression[1]. As iaml pointed out[2] (along with others) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they is the proper solution to this issue, and I will try to remember that in the future. --- [1] as we so often do in our daily lives. [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489652 --- In my second attempt at comedy today, Trying to perform the error-prone art of interpreting genders based on usernames, the best I came up with for you is /^\0_$/ Feedback welcome, this is my first attempt at matching null in a regular expression. I'll explain the joke, so that no-one feels left out: I interpret name "Void" as gender "null", then carry the underscore over, using artistic license, to make the regex more interesting.