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@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.
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@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?
mm/dd/yyyy is useful when you are a farmer and need to know when to sow or plow
@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.
i personally like dd/month in roman numerals/year
but computers took that from us
@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.
but it was nice and intelligible in all european languages
@xue @sjw @matrix @bartholin
The delay in perceiving your required info is negligible.
