My experience on HN is that there exists a small minority of users who might shout you down, but I've never seen or heard of a user being banned for discussing something like this in good faith.
I've seen it claimed, without substantiation, that anyone who argues against the fashionable position can't possibly be doing so "in good faith" - because the unfashionable position itself is declared to be a bad faith position.
Yes, it is. I can't say anything about being "more readable" but English is presumably "more readable" than isiXhosa for you. Reading is a skill that has to be learnt and practised. You were not born with the ability to read English or infix notation, you just got used to them.
While interesting, I can't see why any programmer would assume half of these ever. Why would anyone go out of their way to restrict place names to be in the "usual character set of the country"?
No one would go out of their way to, but it's pretty common to have these cases break because no one's ever bothered to test them. On screen keyboards don't have characters no one will ever type, fonts don't have characters no one will ever display, sorting and string manipulations may not bother to handle accented characters correctly if there will never be accented characters, etc.
No one actively thinks "I'm going to intentionally omit solid unicode support"; we just don't bother with it until we feel there's a good reason to, and by then it's often too late.
Data validation - you want to make sure your users are entering addresses correctly, and catch errors early (say, at checkout) rather than result in a negative experience (say, a missed delivery or returned package).
You may also want to make sure your customers have entered their full address, rather than a short form that cannot be used (see: "123 Fake St", without any markers for city, county, country, etc) - and doing so necessarily requires some structured understanding of addresses... which comes with all the pitfalls of assumptions.
There are also uses for addresses that aren't necessarily about delivering a physical item to said address - for example determining the correct taxes to charge a customer based on zip code (some zip codes do not map to a physical area, therefore are not useful for determining taxation).
There are lots of perfectly understandable reasons why programmers would assume the format of an address.
To be fair, ordering takeaway was just an example used in the article. I actually enjoy cooking, so it really wouldn't make me happier to order. I also like polishing my shoes and some things like that. But I hate ironing my shirts and cleaning the toilet.
I used to incorporate cleaning into my home workout routine as well. I knew I couldn't be the only one! A "rest" for me was sweeping the floor. Now I go to the gym because bodyweight isn't enough any more but I haven't found a good way to keep my floors clean because I hate doing that too.
By "100% clean" do you mean no flicker, ie. they use the more expensive components? I invested in Philips LED bulbs about a year ago and honestly I can't fault them at all. I consider myself to be sensitive to things like flickering. It doesn't usually give me a headache, but it will make me notice it to the point of distracting me. I was so happy to find that the Philips LEDs were almost just like old-fashioned bulbs (instant on, no flicker, warmer colour), but with virtually no heat output and vastly reduced power consumption.
Yes 100% free of flicker. I actually measured modulation technically speaking so even brightness modulation of a small amount would have been picked up.
That is seriously annoying. Not only do they flicker, they are slightly blue as well. I have mistaken an Audi for an emergency vehicle in my rear view mirror on multiple occasions. I am sure that this is their plan. Such lights should be outlawed.
I've found the colour to be too close to emergency-vehicle blue as well, particularly if the car behind hits a bump and momentarily brings their headlights into my mirrors, it's almost exactly like the flash of emergency lights. I shouldn't have to be second-guessing whether there's an emergency vehicle behind me, I should be following my first instinct which is to ensure I'm not obstructing traffic. Not clearing out of the way for an Audi pulling a tonne to rocket past me.
Now I have found that some mirrors on cars and even motorcycles can distort the reflected light to give blue points. combine with polarizing glasses and it becomes even more difficult to find the exact cause.
now if viewing straight on without another element to distort the light, like polarized lenses; I would be interested if the reflector built into the headlamp assembly can cause an issue.
