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ESRogs comments on Amanda Knox Redux: is Satoshi Nakamoto the real Satoshi Nakamoto? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ESRogs 07 March 2014 01:20:49AM 3 points [-]

Dorian Nakamoto is old

That part matches though doesn't it, given that SN's code used hungarian notation and otherwise seemed to be a bit old school?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 07 March 2014 01:46:19AM 3 points [-]

That part matches though doesn't it, given that SN's code used hungarian notation and otherwise seemed to be a bit old school?

You don't mean reverse polish notation? There are other signs of age too, like using two spaces after a full stop.

Comment author: jkaufman 14 March 2014 08:33:58PM *  4 points [-]

Hungarian notation in a random bitcoin file I opened: coins.cpp

if (!fZero) {
nLastUsedByte = b + 1;
nNonzeroBytes++;
}

See the letters preceding each variable? Those tell you what type of variable they are. Here I suspect "f" is for float and "n" is for "integer". This is not a common style for programming, and especially this kind of it ("systems hungarian") is associated with Microsoft.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 14 March 2014 08:38:35PM 1 point [-]

I see, thanks.

Comment author: JTHM 07 March 2014 02:41:22AM *  4 points [-]

I use two spaces after every sentence, and I'm 23. It's not a personal quirk either, it was just normal formatting in the American public schools I attended. (By the way, anyone who points out that this very post uses single spaces after a full stop should know that LessWrong messes with formatting. I typed double spaces; it's just not displaying as written.)

Comment author: CellBioGuy 07 March 2014 05:12:25AM 3 points [-]

I use two spaces after every sentence, and I'm 23.

Same. Well, 24.

Comment author: CronoDAS 07 March 2014 08:28:58AM 1 point [-]

By the way, anyone who points out that this very post uses single spaces after a full stop should know that LessWrong messes with formatting. I typed double spaces; it's just not displaying as written.

This isn't a specifically LessWrong thing. Web browsers do that to text - they ignore spaces at the beginning of a paragraph and also between words.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 07 March 2014 04:40:04PM 3 points [-]

Actually, there is something specific to LW: view source and you'll see that it is the server and not just the browser that is doing it.

Comment author: ESRogs 07 March 2014 02:12:02AM *  2 points [-]

I got the part about Hungarian notation from Gavin's quote here. Hungarian notation is a thing in programming.

Sounds like both systems acquired their names in similar ways (founder / proponent from a particular national origin).

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