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Just FYI the zero-padded date thing is incredibly distracting and weird. (Yes I know there’s some “foundation” pushing this, but still).
by School-Cotton 5y ago
Just FYI the zero-padded date thing is incredibly distracting and weird. (Yes I know there’s some “foundation” pushing this, but still).
- kragen 5y agoYou say that as if it's a bad thing.
- 01acheru 5y agoIt is totally useless to zero pad a date in a sentence, it is human to human communication. BTW it is also useless in any other scenario.
- School-Cotton 5y agoIt makes your post come off as an ad for this foundation that 99.9% of people don’t care about and that has nothing to do with the topic being discussed; it’s as if I inserted [DRINK MORE COCA-COLA] into random parts of my comment. Yes, distracting from your main point by intentionally attracting attention to something completely unrelated is bad.
- kragen 5y agoPeople who are looking for an excuse to give others grief for harmlessly violating social conventions probably should not be posting on a site named "Hacker News"—after all, hackers have always been weird, think of Turing. In any case they are not capable of engaging with my substantive points, should I have any, so I'm not losing anything by discomforting them. And it's good to know who those griefers are before that becomes a life-or-death question, as it eventually was for Turing, Swartz, Assange, and so many others.
- nate_meurer 5y agoTo be consistent, you should pad the other numbers you use too. Like money amounts. And I think you should pad dates out to eight digits, just to be safe.
- kragen 5y agoI think I'll also pad out your name, Nate______.
- nate_meurer 5y agoOk that's funny. Thank you for not padding me with zeros.
- kragen 5y agoThat would be inhumane.
- missingrib 5y agoWhat foundation?
- School-Cotton 5y agoThe Long Now Foundation