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Yeah, my pre-coffee brain definitely did not parse that headline correctly. The HN headline is pretty faithful to the original article's, but the article's hea
by BonesJustice 8y ago
Yeah, my pre-coffee brain definitely did not parse that headline correctly. The HN headline is pretty faithful to the original article's, but the article's headline is poorly worded.
- pavel_lishin 8y agotbh, this is one of the reasons I hate anything but the plain ol' dash with spaces around it.
- BonesJustice 8y agoI don't mind a proper em dash (w/ width equal to full height of the font), which is what the original headline had. Somehow it got changed to an en dash in the HN headline, which has only half that width. Unfortunately, there are annoying inconsistencies in how different software selects an 'appropriate' dash, so I agree: better to avoid them.