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by ars 3355 days ago
Was anyone else distracted by the lack of apostrophes?

I guess semantically they aren't necessary since there is no missing information but for some reason I found it distracting anyway.

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Because it is an extract of the original page. This is the correct link, including the apostrophes.. http://warpspire.com/posts/pixels-dont-care
Yes. I stopped reading after two paragraphs because of the hiccups it caused in my parser.
And yet I didn't even notice the punctuation was missing until you mentioned it, since I enjoyed the story.
I found the swearing more distracting, but then I'm apparently old-fashioned...

Rgds

Damon

Please don't sign your comments on Hacker News. It's against the site guidelines, and ultimately clutters the page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I honestly thought it was a joke about being old fashioned.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I like to sign to remind myself I'm replying to a fellow human, so NOT signing will make me feel uncomfortable!

Maybe I should stop replying...

I didnt even notice.