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You know, if its a list of one item, its not really a list, so there is no need to pretend to footnote. This silly over-use of citation markup when it is compl
by tsunamifury 12y ago
You know, if its a list of one item, its not really a list, so there is no need to pretend to footnote. This silly over-use of citation markup when it is completely unneeded adds to the smarmy faux-studiousness of comments on HN.
Just say Apr 2004, according to Wikipedia, was a long time ago. Don't pretend to use extra markup, don't imply a list of citations where there isn't one, and don't make a sentence for a human look like its been formatted for a computer.
- pessimizer 12y agoIf you're so concerned about the waste of space represented by two "[1]"s, why'd you waste so much space typing this? >if its a list of one item, its not really a list unless you're a programmer.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoYes. If you're a programmer, even lists with zero elements shouldn't bother you.