[prolepunk]

^ Typical HN comment.

I'm sorry I'm making fun of you, but I just can't help myself as this happens all the time -- somebody comes up with a reasonable idea, and then the next commenter takes it so widely out of proportion, willing to re-engineer the whole society just to marginally improve his own comfort.

[khgvljhkb]

This is something I ponder every month, when I have to enter hours into a timesheet with decimal time...

[cp9]

not to mention this is a 200 year old idea that was a terrible idea then and hasn't gotten any better since