Jayson_Virissimo comments on Amanda Knox Redux: is Satoshi Nakamoto the real Satoshi Nakamoto?

[Jayson_Virissimo]

That part matches though doesn’t it, given that SN’s code used hungarian notation and otherwise seemed to be a bit old school?

You don’t mean reverse polish notation? There are other signs of age too, like using two spaces after a full stop.

[jefftk]

Hungarian notation in a random bitcoin file I opened: coins.cpp

if (!fZero) {
  nLastUsedByte = b + 1;
  nNonzeroBytes++;
}

See the letters preceding each variable? Those tell you what type of variable they are. Here I suspect “f” is for float and “n” is for “integer”. This is not a common style for programming, and especially this kind of it (“systems hungarian”) is associated with Microsoft.

[Jayson_Virissimo]

I see, thanks.

[JTHM]

I use two spaces after every sentence, and I’m 23. It’s not a personal quirk either, it was just normal formatting in the American public schools I attended. (By the way, anyone who points out that this very post uses single spaces after a full stop should know that LessWrong messes with formatting. I typed double spaces; it’s just not displaying as written.)

[CellBioGuy]

I use two spaces after every sentence, and I’m 23.

Same. Well, 24.

[CronoDAS]

By the way, anyone who points out that this very post uses single spaces after a full stop should know that LessWrong messes with formatting. I typed double spaces; it’s just not displaying as written.

This isn’t a specifically LessWrong thing. Web browsers do that to text—they ignore spaces at the beginning of a paragraph and also between words.

[Douglas_Knight]

Actually, there is something specific to LW: view source and you’ll see that it is the server and not just the browser that is doing it.

[ESRogs]

I got the part about Hungarian notation from Gavin’s quote here. Hungarian notation is a thing in programming.

Sounds like both systems acquired their names in similar ways (founder /​ proponent from a particular national origin).