@Bret: I could have sworn your degree was in linguistics

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On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com>wrote:

> It sounds to me like people who have degrees in computer science came up
> with the ~1 thing. My degree is in mathematics, so that makes me a lot more
> conservative about adding new forms of notation.
>
> Maybe we should use -0 to indicate when there is also a lack of commitment?
>
> Bret
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Simon Stewart 
> <simon.m.stew...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Željko Filipin
>> <zeljko.fili...@wa-research.ch> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Not sure I understand "~1". I thought it was +0. But then I still use
>> >> paper for my todo list, so I am old-fashioned.
>> >
>> > I think I saw ~1 on selenium-dev list.
>>
>> That's what we do: +1, -1 and ~1. I think I prefer ~1 to +0 since it
>> indicates a commitment and I can just total up the symbols rather than
>> the numbers, but that's a rationalization :)
>>
>> Simon
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