[HN Gopher] Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
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Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
Author : DanBC
Score : 58 points
Date : 2023-09-21 07:28 UTC (15 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (service-manual.nhs.uk)
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| sings wrote:
| The separate page on punctuation is interesting. They recommend
| against using curly apostrophes, although they do not give a
| rationale for this choice.
|
| That page doesn't follow its own advice. It recommends against
| contracting "you have", but goes on to do so later in the page.
| Contradictions are always a bit funny on a style guide because of
| the imperative voice.
| angrymouse wrote:
| Im sure the team would welcome issues and pull requests on
| GitHub
| toddmorey wrote:
| This is good guidance except they get the date format wrong.
|
| (Teasing. I've always thought the US MM/DD/YYYY format makes
| absolutely no sense. Why don't the units go small, bigger,
| biggest? Why do we continue to put up with that?)
| mulmen wrote:
| DD/MM/YYYY also makes no sense because it doesn't sort
| lexicographically and each component is big endian but the
| overall date is little endian.
|
| Only YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS makes sense. Choose your sepators.
| kevinventullo wrote:
| I prefer YYYY-MM-DD format because alphabetical order
| corresponds to chronological order.
| fsckboy wrote:
| i invented my own which i find easier or at least more useful
| to read, and a requirement is it does sort properly:
| YYYYMMmonDD
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| today is 202309sep21
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| because i use it for filenames, i don't put in extra
| punctuation, there are enough cues in the format as is. To
| really see it, imagine scanning a list of files with
| different dates
|
| it will still collate properly mixed with languages other
| than english
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| NeoTar wrote:
| I think if you are writing for a single-language audience (as
| here), then the best format is to write the month in full as
| they advise (6 August 2018), because it will totally avoid
| ambiguity.
| browningstreet wrote:
| I usually know what month it is. I often have no idea what day
| it is. Anchoring date format in month first gives me a warm-
| fuzzy that allays anxiety when I'm punched in the gut by the
| mysterious "day of month" detail. I usually need to know
| today's date more often than I need historical ones.
|
| None of this helps with organizing photo libraries, legal
| documents and video archives.
|
| /s but maybe not...
| avmich wrote:
| Dates like 2023-09-21 looks like a pretty good approach,
| except, apparently, when communicating with Kazakhstan-related
| peers.
| lemming wrote:
| It's wild to me how prevalent and yet how poorly understood
| dyscalculia is. It's around 6% in the Caucasian population, which
| pretty much guarantees one kid has it in every classroom. And
| yet, there's very little good info on what actually works when
| teaching affected kids (source: my daughter has it), especially
| compared to the enormous well oiled machine that swings into
| action when a kid is diagnosed with dyslexia. I get that dyslexia
| is worse because you have to be able to read to learn anything,
| but it's frustrating.
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