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But why quote the name? "gruseom wrote a comment to which tptacek replied" is no different from "Daniel did this and Thomas did that". Is it? If you don't evalu
by gruseom 14y ago
But why quote the name? "gruseom wrote a comment to which tptacek replied" is no different from "Daniel did this and Thomas did that". Is it? If you don't evaluate the names, you end up talking about the names themselves.
(Not being pedantic, just curious.)
- tptacek 14y agoBecause some people on HN have names that are ambiguous in sentence context. "gruseom" and "tptacek" aren't ambiguous; "the" and "noonespecial" are.
- gruseom 14y agoAhhhhh, I get it now. Yes, ambiguity is an issue. My son used to play an FPS that used scrolling text to report on what actions were happening. If you shot a player named, say, "gruseom", the scrolling text would read: You killed gruseom. One day I noticed that some wag had picked the username "yourownmotherhowcouldyou". Edit: You're basically using ' the way that @ migrated into general usage from Twitter. But the Lisp ' is so burned into my memory that it was surprisingly hard to see that. I do prefer your ' to @; it's not as heavy.
- saraid216 14y agoGlancing at submissions on the front page at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Lightning https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Lightning https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=appscript https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=appscript It doesn't help that people sometimes capitalize usernames when they put them at the beginning of a sentence. /shrug