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Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale by jb1991 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:29AM (#24845872)
> Back in my day, everybody knew “no Markdown around town” and “don’t code in an IDE after Labour Day”

what the heck do those phrases mean?

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Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale by martinleslie on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:15AM (#24846080)
They're references to old fashioned sartorial etiquette: https://sartorialnotes.com/2016/09/02/never-wear-brown-in-to... and https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/why-americans-don-t-we...
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Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale by theaeolist on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:44AM (#24845940)
No idea. According to Google these phrases only appear in this blog post. A strange kind of common knowledge.
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