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Just goes to show how you can so quickly alienate your audience and derail any conversation if you don't localise the product (or in this case, de-localise).
I think this is akin to posting a link to a page in a language that is not English. Surely there would be many comments reflecting the users' annoyance of having to use Google translate to read the page; no matter 'who' is sleeping or awake.
That being said, a single upvoted comment on the matter should be enough to make the OP aware.
For Fahrenheit, I never managed to memorize a conversion rule. Weatherwise 0 is friggin' cold, 100 is friggin' hot seems to be enough for daily consumption.
[1] Actually, my mnemonic is that I measure 6ft (1.82m), but I don't think my mnemonic is useful for anyone else.
So from 2 3 5 8 13 21 ... you can see that 3 miles is 5 kilometres, 8 miles is 13 kilometres etc.
-30 is dangerous, hibernate.
0 is frigid, wear a thick coat and warm pants.
30 is cold, wear a coat. (freezing point of water)
60 is cool, wear clothes.
90 is hot, no clothes.
120 is roasting, God help you. (melting point of humans)
72 is room temp.
78 is time to wear shorts.
48 is time to wear shorts in cold regions*.
Set the sliders to a range around your own height and weight. You will be shown pictures of people who are within the height range, and have (at least at one time) had a weight within the weight range.
(just kidding, I'm Belgian and only know SI)
The developer is following the standards and customs of the country he or she lives in. Do you also disagree when a Chinese developer doesn't use English for a website?
It might make sense to have a toggle switch, but then again maybe 95% of the user base is from the US and the developer didn't think the extra effort was worth it.
I would gently remind that Chinese developer that internationalisation is important if they want to get an audience.
The website we're talking about doesn't even have any ads, it looks like a side project, not a business venture. Yet, half the comments on this thread are outright demanding he support their specific needs. Maybe he thinks 300 million Americans is a large enough audience, and he's not willing to put in any more work.
> I run several websites that are English only because I lack the resources and motivation to run an international business right now. There are also plenty of successful Chinese only websites.
Adding support for other languages is a lot more work than adding in support for correct weight and height units.
Are imperial units not "correct" now?
Nothing here regarding height and weight is ever metric, and there is no reason to think the average programmer ever uses the metric system day to day.
It's fine to want features that aren't there (yet) but it's obnoxious to presume that the developer simply didn't think of them.
I started using MyFitnessPal to keep track of calories and although I set my goal as weight gain, it tells me I'm doing great when I'm 500 calories under my target for the day/week.
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Someone who's middle-aged won't really get much use from seeing someone who is in their early twenties, even if the weight ranges are similar.
2.2 pounds to the kilogram; 0.454 kilograms to the pound.
3.28 feet to the meter; 0.304 meters to the foot.
You are reading this on a machine powerful enough to handle unit conversions. Do them, and find something substantive to say.
1 vershok = 1 3⁄4 inches
1 arshin = 2 1⁄3 feet
1 funt = 0.903 lb
Just makes for better headlines, although almost everyone uses C now.
(In Orwell's 1984, he makes a point of having a bystander in a pub complaining about beer being served in liters. Just another symbol of dystopia. Some people still think like that.)
The biggest argument for metric for length and mass is the uniform way of making larger and smaller units. If you need to cover 1875 square centimeters with something that is priced by the square meter, the conversion is going to be a multiplication or division by a power of 10. Figuring out how many square yards you need to buy to cover 1875 square inches is much more annoying.
There is no such argument for temperature. For both C and F, we use a decimal system to get units smaller or larger than a degree. The only advantage C has is that a difference of 1 degree C = 1 Kelvin, so converting between C and K just requires addition or subtraction of an ugly number (273.15). Converting between F and either C or K requires both a multiplication or division (by 1.8) and an addition or subtraction.
F, on the other hand, has the advantage of a smaller degree (1 degree C = 1.8 degree F), giving us a finer scale when we are sticking to integers.
The F scale and choice of reference points aligns it very nicely with the weather. 0 F to 100 F is pretty much the range that a world traveller will encounter as they visit various major cities. In C, that's -18 C to 38 C.
The most sensible system would be to use metric for length and mass, F for temperature when you don't need your 0 point set to absolute 0, and a Kelvin like scale where 1 K = 1 degree F instead of 1 degree C when you do need the 0 point to be absolute 0.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=77+kg+in+pounds
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