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Comment by setr | Hacker News Reader

I am grossly offended by this

    .grid-item {
      ...
      height: 4.5rem;
      width: 4.5rem;
    }

That's a square.

Fine, a square is a rectangle. But that's a square.

There's no media queries to eliminate the square. There's no JS that affects the square-ness. It's all squares.

144 squares.

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Yikes, I haven't thought anyone would venture there and see that monstrosity...

Well, now they're rectangles!

      height: 4.5rem;
    - width: 4.5rem;
    + width: 4.6rem;

consider my offense revoked

Can someone clarify?

It’s tongue in cheek - the original site had squares not the advertised “rectangles” - even though a square is a type of rectangle most people consider rectangles to be the non-squares.

My 5-year-old knows that squares are a type of rectangle. Her kindergarten teacher corrected her when she said this during a shapes lesson and told her that rectangles always have two sides longer than the other.

We haven't bothered to correct the teacher, but used it as a lesson to say that even intelligent people aren't always correct about everything.

(She also had a preschool teacher that told her that blood is blue before it gets oxygen. This lesson is one that will be repeated throughout her life.)

There's the technical definition where rectangle is a genus of the species square, and there's the colloquial definition - if there are two boxes and one is a cube and the other is elongated, most people will ask for "the rectangular" one and not the "non square" one.

And an important part of life is learning when to pick your battles.

>where rectangle is a genus of the species square

Wrong battle, I know, but to nitpick the species is more likely quadrilateral.

Quadrilateral would be the family, and rectangle the genus, square the species. Or you could promote quadrilateral to order and designate parallelogram the family.

I thought polygons as the family ...

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