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Paul Graham has a million and a third followers on Twitter. He's what you'd call "off-mainstream." Andreesen is off-off-mainstream. RMS, on the other hand, is p
by metagame 5y ago
Paul Graham has a million and a third followers on Twitter. He's what you'd call "off-mainstream." Andreesen is off-off-mainstream. RMS, on the other hand, is pretty niche, unfortunately. The world would be a lot better if their positions were reversed.
0.016̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅% of the world's population is following Graham on twitter.com, which is a lot of people!
(Edited s/0.00016̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅%/0.016̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅%; forgot to move the decimal. Thanks, shric.)
- shric 5y agoYou're off by a factor of 100. It's 0.016% or approximately 1 in 6000 people.
- metagame 5y agoAh, yeah, did the conversion wrong.
- jpster 5y agoWhat’s RMS?
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- metagame 5y agoRichard Matthew Stallman. He was the catalyst for the free software movement.
- mkr-hn 5y agoRoot Mean Square. It's a math thing that comes up in audio processing. edit: this is a joke in theme with the discussion of relative obscurity.
- simlevesque 5y agoHe's that guy. He did almost everything except the kernel
- dang 5y agoPlease don't zalgo.
- metagame 5y agoIt isn't Zalgo (Zalgo is abusive use of Unicode symbols, not for their intended purpose). It's using a unicode symbol (combining overline) for its intended purpose, repeating decimals.[1][2] Is there a better, built-in Arc md way of displaying a repeating decimal? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overline
- pvg 5y agoIs there a better Since 2005, the accepted internet convention[1] has been 'repeating of course' [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4&t=71s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4&t=71s
- sillysaurusx 5y agoYou may be on an OS that renders the overline in a not-annoying way. On MacOS, here's what we see: https://i.imgur.com/c90WOgO.png https://i.imgur.com/c90WOgO.png I can imagine that this wasn't your intent, and maybe it shows up differently on Windows or Linux. If so, you might want to say so. (If it was your intent for it to look like that, though, then I agree it's the pedantic equivalent of Zalgo.)
- metagame 5y agoIt renders as-expected on NetBSD, Linux and Haiku. If you check the linked Overline Wikipedia page, «Overline (markup)» and «Overline (character)» look near-equivalent. I see what may have been the problem, though. It looks like somewhere in the process the overline was duplicated. Probably an issue with my IME (I've been working on it for a while now, but it's still got a few quirks). Does this (6̅) look right to OS X users?
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