Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
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@Alice also I don't know why I keep boosting your toots. You have a bazillion followers already who see your posts.
@sand Maybe because it makes me feel good to know that people appreciate my dumb jokes? No complaints here!
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
@Alice love those ‘..oohhh’ moments… an old classic:
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
OK my question, is what exactly was it about WhoreMembers that got you excited?
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
An understandable case of misplaced elation @Alice I too read it disappointed.
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
@Alice why not combine the communities? #whoreremembers - everyone wins!
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
@Alice the canonical example on the Intarwebs is expertsexchange.com
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Like, I don't care about your nostalgia for Chatty Cathy dolls, Carol. Just let me vibe with my fellow whores.
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@Alice At my university in Mexico, the Faculty of Science's Academic Council (Consejo Académico, in Spanish) had a website whose URL ended in cacademico, which I always read as "caca de mico", monkey poop.
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Works with domains too, which are obvs not case sensitive. Remember when an electricity company in Italy went with a new domain, and it took a moment for some people to see that it was supposed to be
PowergenItalia.whatever
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PowerGenitalia.whatever -
@Alice whorepresents.com
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
@Alice with all the UNIX enjoyers on Mastodon I'm surprised the hashtags aren't casesensitive
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@sand Maybe because it makes me feel good to know that people appreciate my dumb jokes? No complaints here!
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
@Alice
"camel case would solve this problem" vs
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
@Alice Reminds me of this classic: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/nov/12/internet.guide
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
@Alice As previously demonstrated by the domain names of Powergen Italia, the Lumberman’s Exchange, and a plant nursery in a town named Mole Station.
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Camel case is very important because I just came across a post with #whoremembers and I got excited because I thought it was #WhoreMembers until I realized it's just #WhoRemembers.
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Works with domains too, which are obvs not case sensitive. Remember when an electricity company in Italy went with a new domain, and it took a moment for some people to see that it was supposed to be
PowergenItalia.whatever
and not
PowerGenitalia.whateverI worked as a sysadmin/network/data centre manager for a hosting and domain registration company from 2000 to 2006. One of our customers was an angling shop in Wickford, Essex.
WickfordAngling.[tld], or as I always saw it
WickForDangling.[tld]
For some reason it's never left my brain, that one...
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@Alice As previously demonstrated by the domain names of Powergen Italia, the Lumberman’s Exchange, and a plant nursery in a town named Mole Station.
