Capitalization Conventions
This cluster revolves around discussions and critiques of capitalization usage in Hacker News comments, posts, titles, code, and writing styles, including preferences for lowercase, all caps, or standard conventions.
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What's up with these guys not using capital letters?
Side question but what's up with all the capitalization?
Starting with shunning conventional capitalization....
In fairness, capitalization matters.
Perhaps because it's all caps? I can see no other justification :)
Capitalization makes a surprising amount of difference here...
WHAT ABOUT ALL CAPS? GOOD? BAD?
Why do you not use capital letters in the typical way?
Why are so many of those words capitalised...
What’s with all the capital letters?