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Why are you using a leading 0s for all your years? It makes things less clear and is an odd pretension. Also, this > massed formations with spears, which cont
by mmanfrin 6y ago
Why are you using a leading 0s for all your years? It makes things less clear and is an odd pretension.
Also, this
> massed formations with spears, which continued to be the dominant battlefield technology until the Gatling and Maxim guns in the late 01800s (CE)
is absolutely not true at all.
- kragen 6y agohttps://blog.longnow.org/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/ https://blog.longnow.org/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-dig... > It’s nerdy fun, but it has a serious point, too. As…Stewart Brand points out: the present moment used to be the unimaginable future. If you object to "odd pretensions", what the hell are you doing posting on a site called "Hacker News"? Take that conformist bullshit back to someplace it's welcome, like high school or prison. Leave us hackers alone and spare us your worthless lowbrow dismissals. Your comment has literally no content other than to disparage me for doing something unusual, purely because it's unusual. (A contradiction without an argument doesn't count as content.) That kind of thing should absolutely not be tolerated on Hacker News.
- Cyph0n 6y agoSo you’re using this confusing 5-digit notation to help clarify things for historians ~8000 years from now?
- uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 6y agoYear := clarifying-digit digit+ era clarifying-digit := 0 digit := [0-9] era := b?ce|ad
- pjmlp 6y agoAssuming that they can even read this.....
- notahacker 6y agoThe Long Now blog seems to suggest it's more about reminding devs in the 9990s that if they don't store dates as 5 digit integers they might have a millennium bug! Feels like the futurist version of expressing your deity's name as G-d.
- benibela 6y agoBut it makes it very encouraging to store them as 16 bit integers
- ALittleLight 6y agoHe clearly wrote that he's doing it to put the scale of history into perspective for the reader. You're free to believe it's a good or bad notation, but I don't see what it adds to be hostile to a person for their unusual notation.
- kragen 6y agoNo, it's just a bit of thought-provoking fun! It also has the advantage of really pissing off the kind of mindless conformists who beat up gay people, hackers, and anybody else who seems "odd" or "queer". There's literally nothing in my comment or in the page it links to about clarifying things for historians. That would be stupid.
- canadianfella 6y agoBeating up gay people is the same as calling out your weird bullshit.
- natch 6y agoIt’s supposed to encourage long term thinking. Although I’ve always wondered why in that case it’s just one more zero. Maybe they could spare 2 or 3; have some optimism about the future! I guess it’s just a shibboleth, if I’m using that word right.
- wombatmobile 6y agoA shibboleth is a long established custom. I think the word you are looking for here is fetish, or aspiration.
- kragen 6y agoIt's sort of like the opposite of a shibboleth. It's a sibboleth! If you say it, you get stabbed!
- StavrosK 6y ago> Why are you using a leading 0s for all your years? They're octal.
- tjbiddle 6y agoRead this comment yesterday, and by chance came across a website this morning that also uses the 5-digit notation. Example: https://longbets.org/362/ https://longbets.org/362/ (Edit: See the <title>)