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- AM, PM To be consistent with Material Design, use all-caps, no periods, and a space before. Recommended: 9:00 AM I'm gonna be snarky and say to just use 24
by baxuz 6y ago
- AM, PM
To be consistent with Material Design, use all-caps, no periods, and a space before.
Recommended: 9:00 AM
I'm gonna be snarky and say to just use 24h time in developer documentation.
- APIs; not API's
This isn't a style decision. It's basic grammar
- authN, authZ
Don't use. Instead, use authentication or authorization.
But i18n and a11y is fine it seems?
-manmade, man made
Avoid using gendered terms. Instead use a word like artificial, manufactured, or synthetic.
"Man" refers to a person, or specifically an individual of the human species in this context.
-master
Use with caution. Never use in conjunction with slave.
Finally, a rational decision.
- hef19898 6y agoHow dare you? What's next, the metric system?
- azalemeth 6y agoOne thing that particularly annoyed me about their en-gb vs en-us spelling example was "tonne" vs "ton". They are different! I do wonder if America will _ever_ make the switch to the metric system. The French managed it in 1799; backwards Britain had mostly managed it by 1972; and yet working with US engineers means that I occasionally find myself converting units like slugs or "circular mils" into SI units for FEM modelling. Wolfram alpha is a godsend. I just really, really hate the US unit system with a passion!
- ghaff 6y agoAs someone who is pretty indifferent about metric and US customary units on a day to day basis, the one area as a onetime mechanical engineer I think is pretty annoying is US mass/force units in engineering calculations.
- nerdkid93 6y agoTechnically, America is metric in that our units are based on metric units now. So 1 yard is defined as 0.9144 meter and 1 pound (avoirdupois) is 0.45359237 kg[0]. 0: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.pdf https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.p...
- baxuz 6y agoFor developer docs as a bare minimum.
- AndrewDucker 6y agoReplacing "Man" with "Person" definitely feels more inclusive, and costs nothing. And using the same word to mean "Half of the human race" and "All of the human race" definitely feels like one of those things where the other half are going to feel like they're not full members...
- gugagore 6y agoI prefer to acknowledge that tradeoffs are inherent, and that there is some cost to e.g. replacing "man" with "person", and that the benefit (inclusivity) is worth the cost (breaking "backwards compatibility", upsetting some people) and hopefully the risk (these kinds of changes may not really grow inclusivity in a material way, and may take attention away from more substantial and radical efforts).
- AndrewDucker 6y agoWho is actively upset by this? I understand some people don't like change, but if changing "man" to "person" upsets someone then it rather feels like they don't like sharing.
- zo1 6y agoProbably no one really "minds" or is "upset" about this. As if they are now upset that their gender or race is now being slighted by the fact that we don't want to use male words for common-day things. What we are upset about is that this is being "forced" on people (Soon, watch. Probably already happening in schools, though). And likewise, that it's being done under the guise of some sort of greater-good when it seems rather petty and won't really change the day to day issues facing women and black people. We're also upset that this is effectively taking a step in the opposite direction to real equality. Additionally, I could care less that we stop using "man" and "white" etc. What does bother me is that there is this nagging feeling that this is being done purposefully to upset certain groups (which we can then turn around and say "look, see, they don't like their white/male power being dismantled, they are race/sex-ist and look how much we're defeating sex/race-ism!").
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- kewrkewm53 6y agoAs an European I find use of AM and PM anywhere at all offensive. It's a symbol of American imperialism. Google should immediately update this style guide and promote the use of international standards as default.
- baxuz 6y agoHah. But seriously — I really find it offensive how many apps and features, especially those coming from Google are hardcoded to use °F, AM/PM, DD/MM/YYYY, weekdays starting on Sundays, and imperial measurement units. I have all my devices set to British English, since I can't deal with broken Croatian translations, but I'm trying to get away from these ass-backwards formats that only 4% of the world's population uses. Sadly, that 4% is responsible for almost all of the media and core software we consume, so I guess we're stuck with it.
- kevincox 6y agoSeriously. The Google Search console is hardcoded to display graphs with the time axis like 4/3/21 4/8/21 4/13/21 and I always need to stare at them a while to tell what sort of timeframe I am looking at. The same issue is present on so many Google products. Groups is especially bad because I find an old message with a date like 3/12/8 and have absolutely no idea when it is from.
- blackshaw 6y ago> DD/MM/YYYY Did you mean to write MM/DD/YYYY?
- baxuz 5y agoYes. It's so wrong that I can't even write it properly.
- nmfisher 6y agoI find MM/DD/YYYY offensive, not because it's American, but because it's so damn illogical.
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