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Oh come on
Oh come on
Posted Mar 10, 2005 13:13 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)In reply to: Oh come on by arafel
Parent article: A big setback on software patents
Oh come on, people are different in different parts of the world. You gotta live with that, mkay? Difference is not all about superiority or inferiority, so what's the problem with pointing out that e.g. some folks use little-endian dates, and some write them in middle-endian order?
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Oh come on
Posted Mar 10, 2005 13:33 UTC (Thu) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]
Pointing out that we use different date formats - fine, no problem. I don't pretend to understand why the US style is used, but as long as someone tells me what format a date is in, no problem.
This is entirely different from claiming that European developers tend to sneer at American developers, which is inaccurate and somewhat insulting. I suppose it might have been intended as a joke, but it kind of missed the mark if that's the case.