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Here's a comment left on a forum by this Dorian person: https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/preserved-barsi-light-railway-india-kitson.38359/#post-702

by sktrdie 13y ago

Here's a comment left on a forum by this Dorian person: https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/preserved-barsi-light-railway-india-kitson.38359/#post-702441 https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/preserved-bars... Satoshi's punctuation style with the double-space after the dot is a distinctive feature of his writing, used in both the official Bitcoin publication and on forum posts. Looking at the HTML source of that review, you can notice this exact punctuation style.

gnaritas 13y ago
Pretty much anyone who learned how to write in the age of typewriters double spaces after a period, this is not a unique trait for anyone in their mid 30's or up. Hell I still do it, it's deeply ingrained.
- Crito 13y ago
  As far as I know, many public school typing classes still teach double-spaces. It isn't until you get to things like classes in journalism tracks at universities that the concept is dispensed with.
  - pkfrank 13y ago
    This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I recognize the historical origin (typewriters), but I was taught this way and I'm "only" 24.
    - dragonwriter 13y ago
      > This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I don't. Every style guide I've seen has recommended against it in any medium that is going to be presented in non-fixed-width type, and IME its a lot less distracting to have single-space-after-sentence-ending-punctuation in a fixed-width font than double-space-after in a proportional font, so I've pretty much abandoned the practice entirely except in very narrow circumstances (e.g., I'll usually still do it in source code comments.) I think I first started adopting this practice around 1990 (about the same time I was finishing high school.)
    - anigbrowl 13y ago
      I don't. Horrible habit. I wrote a good number of macros to strip the superfluous spaces from text I want to read back in the days of fixed-width fonts. However it's so common that I don't think it's useful as an identifier - miuch better to look for SIPs.
    - Crito 13y ago
      I use double spaces because it is a harmless habit that typesetting systems correct when it isn't appropriate. In fixed-width code, it looks better imho, so I continue to use it there. Since typesetting systems remove it anyway though, there isn't any reason to do it when using them.
citricsquid 13y ago
This is a very common Americanism, double spacing after periods is something I see more than single spacing. I would be more surprised if a 50s American didn't double space after periods. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/...
- BU_student 13y ago
  You should read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103480 Manjoo was wrong.
runeks 13y ago
This post: https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/preserved-barsi-light-railway-india-kitson.38359/#post-720604 https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/preserved-bars... doesn't look like anything posted by "satoshi" on bitcointalk.org: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=show... I could never imagine the real Satoshi not capitalizing his I's and the first letter of every sentence. At least I've never seen him do that in other writings, even on forums like bitcointalk.org.

by sktrdie 13y ago

gnaritas 13y ago

Pretty much anyone who learned how to write in the age of typewriters double spaces after a period, this is not a unique trait for anyone in their mid 30's or up. Hell I still do it, it's deeply ingrained.

Crito 13y ago
As far as I know, many public school typing classes still teach double-spaces. It isn't until you get to things like classes in journalism tracks at universities that the concept is dispensed with.
- pkfrank 13y ago
  This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I recognize the historical origin (typewriters), but I was taught this way and I'm "only" 24.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I don't. Every style guide I've seen has recommended against it in any medium that is going to be presented in non-fixed-width type, and IME its a lot less distracting to have single-space-after-sentence-ending-punctuation in a fixed-width font than double-space-after in a proportional font, so I've pretty much abandoned the practice entirely except in very narrow circumstances (e.g., I'll usually still do it in source code comments.) I think I first started adopting this practice around 1990 (about the same time I was finishing high school.)
  - anigbrowl 13y ago
    I don't. Horrible habit. I wrote a good number of macros to strip the superfluous spaces from text I want to read back in the days of fixed-width fonts. However it's so common that I don't think it's useful as an identifier - miuch better to look for SIPs.
  - Crito 13y ago
    I use double spaces because it is a harmless habit that typesetting systems correct when it isn't appropriate. In fixed-width code, it looks better imho, so I continue to use it there. Since typesetting systems remove it anyway though, there isn't any reason to do it when using them.

citricsquid 13y ago

This is a very common Americanism, double spacing after periods is something I see more than single spacing. I would be more surprised if a 50s American didn't double space after periods. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/...

BU_student 13y ago
You should read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103480 Manjoo was wrong.

runeks 13y ago

This post: https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/preserved-barsi-light-railway-india-kitson.38359/#post-720604 https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/preserved-bars... doesn't look like anything posted by "satoshi" on bitcointalk.org: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=show... I could never imagine the real Satoshi not capitalizing his I's and the first letter of every sentence. At least I've never seen him do that in other writings, even on forums like bitcointalk.org.