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Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct... by Hammershaft on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:13AM (#30916482)
> 01984

interesting that you include the zero; is this a commitment to some kind of longtermism? Would you call 700bc 00700bc?

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Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct... by darrenf on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:32AM (#30916593)
I can't speak for @kragen, but I recognise the format from the Long Now Foundation: https://longnow.org/
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Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct... by pnut on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:34AM (#30918183)
Quote a lot of inconvenience and hubris for the astronomically slim chance anyone will be reading these comments in 8,000 years, and even in the case someone does, it's at best what, considerate?
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Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct... by euroderf on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:36AM (#30917704)
Invalid octal constant.
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Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct... by kragen on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:49AM (#30917787)
True, 'b' and 'c' are not valid octal digits.
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Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct... by euroderf on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:01AM (#30918402)
was thinking more of the original, 01984
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