I use two spaces after every sentence, and I’m 23. It’s not a personal quirk either, it was just normal formatting in the American public schools I attended. (By the way, anyone who points out that this very post uses single spaces after a full stop should know that LessWrong messes with formatting. I typed double spaces; it’s just not displaying as written.)
By the way, anyone who points out that this very post uses single spaces after a full stop should know that LessWrong messes with formatting. I typed double spaces; it’s just not displaying as written.
This isn’t a specifically LessWrong thing. Web browsers do that to text—they ignore spaces at the beginning of a paragraph and also between words.
Hungarian notation in a random bitcoin file I opened: coins.cpp
if (!fZero) {
nLastUsedByte = b + 1;
nNonzeroBytes++;
}
See the letters preceding each variable? Those tell you what type of variable they are. Here I suspect “f” is for float and “n” is for “integer”. This is not a common style for programming, and especially this kind of it (“systems hungarian”) is associated with Microsoft.
That part matches though doesn’t it, given that SN’s code used hungarian notation and otherwise seemed to be a bit old school?
You don’t mean reverse polish notation? There are other signs of age too, like using two spaces after a full stop.
I use two spaces after every sentence, and I’m 23. It’s not a personal quirk either, it was just normal formatting in the American public schools I attended. (By the way, anyone who points out that this very post uses single spaces after a full stop should know that LessWrong messes with formatting. I typed double spaces; it’s just not displaying as written.)
Same. Well, 24.
This isn’t a specifically LessWrong thing. Web browsers do that to text—they ignore spaces at the beginning of a paragraph and also between words.
Actually, there is something specific to LW: view source and you’ll see that it is the server and not just the browser that is doing it.
Hungarian notation in a random bitcoin file I opened: coins.cpp
See the letters preceding each variable? Those tell you what type of variable they are. Here I suspect “f” is for float and “n” is for “integer”. This is not a common style for programming, and especially this kind of it (“systems hungarian”) is associated with Microsoft.
I see, thanks.
I got the part about Hungarian notation from Gavin’s quote here. Hungarian notation is a thing in programming.
Sounds like both systems acquired their names in similar ways (founder / proponent from a particular national origin).