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larrik on Jan 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a ...

HN comments don't respect whitespace as typed when displaying them.

(' ' one space vs. ' ' two spaces)

An effect of HTML, I'm sure. When I edit the post, the 2 spaces between the second set of quotes is indeed still there.

stcredzero on Jan 14, 2011 [–]

For the sake of consistency, HN should render -- as an actual dash.

apotheon on Jan 14, 2011 | [–]

. . . except in code.

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