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In the late 90's, early 2000's, they aggressively tried to intimidate each and everyone using the letter T for any marketing purposes.
I was surprised Apple didn't crack down harder on non-Apple iTech. That was legitimately confusing.
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I know HN is super minimalistic but I’d love a way to indent quotes considering how often we do it here
I'm not against that but what is wrong with using a carrot? It works well.
Depends on how you, um, use the carrot. I'd recommend eating it, but there are many other ways it could bring joy.
In the context of quoting, using a caret (this symbol: ^) is not common, with the exception of saying THIS^.
The ">" symbol is officially known as the "greater-than sign"[1]. That's the one you probably meant.
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> It doesn’t indent I just use a carrot and make it italics, easy to see. Though it should be: > "It doesn’t indent" • https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/titles-italics-or-quot... • https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14876/use-quotat...
Isn't it nicer once it's indented though? https://imgur.com/a/LR0Otpb I'm pretty sure this is the reason people try to use code blocks for quotes—because they want it indented.
That’s not what happens on mobile.
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Isn't it nicer once it's indented though? https://imgur.com/a/LR0Otpb I'm pretty sure this is the reason people try to use code blocks for quotes—because they want it indented.
It may do that on the web, on a desktop machine. That’s not what happens on mobile.
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...clearly we're not going to agree on this. Yes, I indent code, but—while I've never thought about this before—I actually think using carrots could work equally well! I'd add one carrot per ident level to the start of every line. Back to quotes, for multiple paragraphs, I just add a ">" to the start of each paragraph.
I totally agree with you, but FYI they're called "carets". Much as I like the idea of carrots in comments :-)
This is incredibly ridiculous. If a color can be owned by a trademark, what’s to prevent a particular audio frequency being trademarked, or a particular temperature, or a particular luminosity? What if my construction company trademarked “8 meters” — could I go and sue everyone who builds 8-meter-high buildings from then on? Good on Lemonade for fighting it. But something is really wrong with the world when claims li…
Is it too hard to use another color? The reason for trademarks is simple: branding. Since there are a near infinite number of colors available (for example: #e21088 should be different enough to not violate trademark), different groups can claim colors of their own (if they wish to trademark a certain color). Catch-phrases, simple words ("Taste the Rainbow" or "They're more than Good, they're Great"), or even names (…
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> Sparkfun: So we really only have two options, ship them back [the multimeters, to China] or have them destroyed. I wonder if they would consider the idea of painting them in a different colour...
Given that they were destined to be sold for $15 a pop, and already assembled ready to go, I very much doubt that this would have been economically workable. Even sourcing a paint that would adhere to the plastic body of the device would be a huge headache.