saying democracy doesn't obviously doesn't mean I'd desire something worse. What gave you that idea?
A pure democracy is a joke. A Republic was a fine idea, but the US has done a really poor job of understanding the notion of a sovereign citizen (as opposed to whatever king .. er president is in power)
wtf are you two talking about. The author never says anything about them "becoming public". He just says that after the 31st, all profiles will BE public (since they delete all private ones).
Which, because it doesn't imply any are excluded ("all profiles"), implies all existing profiles, public and private, will be public. From there it's a pretty straight conclusion to think they'll switch existing private ones to public. The rest of the article (actual text of release excluded) reinforces this conclusion, and does precisely nothing to discourage it.
Of course, anyone reading the actual text of the release will understand what's going on. But A) clearly few of the commenters there did so, and B) they've already linkbaited their way to free advertising / ad revenue.
you could do
{"name":
{"first": "John",
"last": "Smith"
}
}
even for json there's multiple ways you could do it. You could also include the person like XML did, but oh well...
With JSON, there's still a culture of doing things the simplest possible way. Sure, it won't eliminate all the variability, but the lighter syntax makes needless complexity more obvious.
For instance, if you don't need to separate the first name from the last name, {"name":"John Smith"} is obviously simplest. If you need to, and you have few other parameters besides the name, the OP's solution is obviously simplest. If there are lots, or if the name itself is complicated (first, last, mother's maiden name, pseudonym…), then your solution is obviously simplest.
