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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Computers use both big endian and little endian and it doesn't seem to matter much. Yet humans should switch their entire number system?
E: this guy can't grasp the concept that left-to-right is arbitrary, which is really ironic given his point. Ok so in arabic it's exactly how this guy wants it, except no, the universally correct reading direction is left-to-right and arabic does it backwards just to be quirky🙄, and humans, just like programs, flip a bit to read it left-to-right, where it's the opposite of how you should be reading it! of course.
reminded me of this
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@amasad. Apr 22Silicon Valley will rediscover Islam:
The argument would be stronger (not strong, but stronger) if he could point to an existing numbering system that is little-endian and somehow show it's better