I know I'm a bit old fashioned about correct use of TLDs. But. Is this for Indians to swap their skills or not? If not, the domain is very misleading.
"skill swappin'", perhaps?
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#32I know I'm a bit old fashioned about correct use of TLDs. But. Is this for Indians to swap their skills or not? If not, the domain is very misleading.
" skill swappin' ", perhaps?
I'm sure there's an aesthetic argument. But I think there's a stronger correctness and not-misleading-ness argument.
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#33Awesome job, bang on target, no bullshit, good luck!
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#34Something I would really like to see here is use of gender-specific pronoun "he" or "she" instead of "they". Yes, the language has changed so that "they" is acceptable as gender-neutral singular, but it's still regularly jarring, and when the information is or can conveniently be there (you can very easily collect it—male, female or unspecified) it makes it much more pleasant to read.
The language has changed? Singular "they" has been used in English since at least the 15th century.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
" skill swappin' ", perhaps?
I'm sure there's an aesthetic argument. But I think there's a stronger correctness and not-misleading-ness argument.
Where is the 'correct use of TLDs' documented? I hope you never come across URL shortening services, like goo.gl, or bit.ly or you'll really get confused.
Do you run afandian.com? You should change it to afandian.co.uk because that's really not a commercial website and by your logic, you're misleading people by using incorrect usage of the TLD system.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know how we would go about doing it? (That's not a snarky Q - I genuinely don't know!). I too would love to but I'm unsure as to how to reliably do it - and in the mean time gender-neutral was a safer bet.
You can try to avoid it grammatically. @person is looking for help with PHP. In return, @person can help with CSS. I like this because it means each sentence is meaningful out of context and can be separately indexed, searched, etc.
I feel this would be the best way forward.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have plans to make it work without a Twitter account?
Not currently, no. Twitter seems like the perfect way to allow people using the site to connect and get learning.
I really, really like the idea. However, I neither have nor want a Twitter account. Would it really be difficult to allow people to use the site without a Twitter account?
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#38Awesome. It's a site-idea I have myself been toying with but never gone with. Maybe you can extend the scope of your site beyond programming-related topics? For example, I'd be interested in exchanging driving lessons for programming tutoring.
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#39Nice one. Would be better if folks asking for help could be made to (or optionally) be a bit more specific about the sort of help they're after.
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#40Something I would really like to see here is use of gender-specific pronoun "he" or "she" instead of "they". Yes, the language has changed so that "they" is acceptable as gender-neutral singular, but it's still regularly jarring, and when the information is or can conveniently be there (you can very easily collect it—male, female or unspecified) it makes it much more pleasant to read.
The language has changed? Singular "they" has been used in English since at least the 15th century.
Exactly. Educated English writers, including Shakespeare, have been using "they" as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun since Middle English. I believe there's even evidence of this in Old English.
It's only been in the past century that proscriptionist grammarians have dreamed up this pedantic rule and sought to eliminate English's sole gender-neutral singular pronoun. But since educated writers and common folk alike have been using "they" as a singular pronoun for centuries before these neo-grammarians dreamed up their rule, it's a hopeless and utterly useless quest.