@matrix @matrix why do so many people put the dollar sign on the wrong side of the number?

The education system has failed us

@sjw @matrix
That's how it's done in some European nations.

@alyx @sjw @matrix
in most except english

@xue @sjw @alyx @matrix "Hello, I would like to pay dollar eight, please" statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged.

@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.

@alyx @bartholin @sjw @matrix
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.