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Hacker Writing Style
- wccrawford 15y agoIt's also getting quite common so see just: /flame I can only imagine that's coming from the html-style metadata they are showing in these exactly, but made a lot easier to type for non-hackers. I rather like it myself, even.
- vog 15y agoTo me, that plain "/flame" at the beginning of a line looks more like a pseudo-IRC. Note that IRC is still common among lots of hackers. Other IRC-related statements might be: /me is angry|happy|whatever /join ... any maybe others. Those aren't used very often, though.
- wccrawford 15y agoActually, I see it at the end. Example: I totally love what you did there. /sarcasm At the beginning, I'd definitely agree with you.
- pluies_public 15y agoBut then, you can't tell whether the sarcasm was intended from the very beginning of the message or merely the last sentence/paragraph.
- epochwolf 15y agoI prefer this method in irc </sarcasm>
- adambyrtek 15y agoThis might be related to the fact that some broken web applications blindly remove angle brackets instead of properly escaping them.
- danohuiginn 15y agostill surprisingly accurate, despite being a decade or so out-of-date.
- pnathan 15y agoI have found that hacker/programmer writing style tends to be grammatically correct and with complete sentences, as a rule of thumb.
- obiterdictum 15y agoAs far as I remember, the distinction between "typesetter" quotation and "logical" quotation appears in computerized typesetting. In traditional paper typesetting, a quote was kerned together with a period (or a comma) into a single character, so that quote is above, not before or after the period.
- imd 15y agoI don't know about that. Neither old books I've seen nor TeX do that.
- obiterdictum 15y agoDisclaimer: I don't have a citation for this, I just remember it mentioned a few times, so I may very well be wrong.
- JohnnyBrown 15y ago> It may well be that future historians of literature will see in it a revival of the great tradition of personal letters as art. Ah what might have been ...
- th0ma5 15y agoI recently watched David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose, and given his history in semantic research, and I would equate his style with these ideas. I don't know if this concept of a hacker writing style is a new phenomenon, but more a bi-product of mathematical aspects of language understanding.