@bartholin @sjw @xue @matrix
$8 looks nicer, cleaner, but yeah, it makes less sense than 8$. Just like how MM/DD/YYYY is kinda stupid.

@sjw @xue @matrix @bartholin
Sure, but how is that useful exactly? Cause you're still reading the number just the same regardless. I'm not aware of a situation where you read a number denoting a sum of money any different than any other number.
Also, if $8 is better, why don't we see the same with measurements of length, weight etc?

@xue @sjw @matrix @bartholin
Because dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd doesn't carry the exact same information?

Just pick a logical order of increasing or decreasing granularity of your units. That's all I'd want from this clusterfuck. I feel like plucking my hair out when I see americans do dates like: big-thing/smallest-thing/biggest-thing.
Makes as much sense to me, as if I measured a road as: 15 feet, 5 inches and 20 miles.

@Alex @sjw @bartholin @matrix @xue
I think we should convert the date in number of seconds since an arbitrary date, and then convert that number in binary.

@xue @sjw @matrix @bartholin @Alex
We used to do that in school. Don't really remember when I stopped. I've only seen dd/mm/yyyy in the real world where I live.

@xue @sjw @matrix @bartholin
The delay in perceiving your required info is negligible.

@sjw @matrix
The meme might be in English, but it doesn't mean it was made by a native English speaker. It could have been made by someone that is not fluent enough to understand how currency symbols work in English. So they'll just default to the style native to their own country.

@sjw @matrix
I could be wrong of course, but for small mistakes like that, or doing DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY my default assumption is always that it's not someone fluent in English.