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What do you mean?
by andruby 5y ago
What do you mean?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- jaclaz 5y agoMy guess is that replacing the two [1] with a : the end result would have been the same.
- posterboy 5y agoI wouldn't suppose that's meant to be taken personal. It would be highly pretentious, I think you agree, if it were a normative standard. That's not the case, so it seems they got carried away in trying to be witty
- michaelcampbell 5y agoIt's a personal peeve, but I find the footnote style of putting in links, rather than inline like the web was intended, to be not only hard to read, but quite pretentious. These are comments on some web resource, not research papers.
- jarenmf 5y agoI don't see how it can be pretentious. Usually, I do it to avoid disturbing the flow of text reading.
- michaelcampbell 5y agoTo each their own I guess. But from another thread today, I'd much rather read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955514 than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955106 I guess there's no accounting for taste. (Or, perhaps meta: I'd much rather read [1] than [2]. Too much bouncing around; I'm not even sure if it's worse when the text is large compared to the research paper citations, or small. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955514 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955106 )
- vidarh 5y agoFor my part I much prefer your second variant here, especially when the URL has a long path or query string.
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoHN doesn't allow inline links like the web intended. So you either get footnote style or the raw link text (possibly with non-human-interpretable query parameters), and either way is hard to read and interrupts the flow of the text.