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Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by dreamweapon on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:07AM (#9009602)
Seriously are $250,000 signing bonuses and 60% pay increases common in the valley. What level employee is this for.

The kind that use proper spelling and punctuation, perhaps?

Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by DontBeADick on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:11AM (#9009628)
> The kind that use proper spelling and punctuation, perhaps?

Don't you mean "the kind who use proper spelling"?

If you're going to correct someone, at least get it right.

Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by mikeash on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:17AM (#9009664)
Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by dreamweapon on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:10PM (#9010003)
Don't you mean "the kind who use proper spelling"?

No. Both "who" and "that" may be used to anchor relative clauses with human antecedents. To quote [1]:

Most writers use 'that' and 'which' as the relative pronouns for inanimate objects, and who as the relative pronoun for humans. This widespread habit has led to the mistaken belief that using that in reference to humans is an error. In fact, while most editors prefer who for people, there is no rule saying we can’t use that, and that has been widely used in reference to people for many centuries.

In other words, my original sentence was perfectly grammatical, and in regard to the original commenter's presentation skills -- and their correlation to his employability and salary potential -- I was simply stating the obvious. But this being HN, I've been downvoted and/or flamed at least 8 times for it.

[1] http://grammarist.com/usage/that-who/

Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by cgh on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:53PM (#9010367)
Both the Associated Press Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style recommend spelling out numbers less than nine and ninety-nine, respectively.
Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by sp332 on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:15PM (#9010535)
That's just a style recommendation. It doesn't mean that doing it the other way is wrong.
Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by dreamweapon on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:24PM (#9010597)
Which is, of course, hardly a comparable proscription.

Nor is it widely adhered to, in colloquial usage.

Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by pswilson14 on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:10AM (#9009622)
Right, because no talented engineer has ever spoken anything less than perfect english.
Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by dreamweapon on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:41PM (#9010270)
That's not what I was saying. Nor is it implied by what I was saying.