[Cialug] Nakamoto: Double Spacer

[David Champion]

Yes, I am. I'm and old guy too.

I learned to type on a Royal manual typewriter in the early 80's and used
to put two spaces after a period. I got over that, though.

-dc


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:00 PM, <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:

> Are you call me OLD just because I put two spaces after a period?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:52 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Nakamoto: Double Spacer
>
> Double spacing after a period is "an old guy thing". For old guys that
> learned to type on a typewriter.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So apparently they found Bitcoin's inventor.  The mysterious developer
> > calling himself Satoshi Nakamoto is actually named... Satoshi Nakamoto.
> >
> > And he's an old guy.  You can tell because he double spaces after
> periods?
> > Is that an old guy thing?
> >
> > That's what it says in this article:
> > http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html
> >
> > There's a very interesting (to me) part of the article about, uh, I
> > guess you'd call it signature analysis or something.  They inferred
> > facts about the guy from the way he wrote code and emails.  Reverse
> > Polish notation, double spacing, messiness, etc.
> >
> > It's a good article.  I imagine Wired is eating their heart out on not
> > getting this scoop.
> >
> > --
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