Is it saying that the PHP developers are kids and the C++ developer is acting as their parent?

I’m not sure.

If you want to fork the repo then you make a commit to the original repo giving yourself rights then you make the fork and you’re golden.

I don’t understand why people think that it’s acceptable.

As developers, we’ve had it drummed into us from day one that variable names are important and shouldn’t be one or two letters.

Yet developers deliberately alias an easy to read table name such as “customer” into “c” because that’s the first letter of the table. I’m sure that it’s more work to do that with auto completion meaning that you don’t even need to type out “customer”.

Not really. I refer to our shed as the shed. It’s obviously not the only shed in the world.

People tend to use the whatever when there is one whatever that is obviously more relevant to the conversation than the others.

Wouldn’t every country refer to the civil war that happened in their country as the civil war. Assuming that they only had one … we’ve had a few in the UK so they have their own names.

The phones are mental too.

The Xperia range have a model number to denote the different models (similar to Samsung’s S and A) and a version number so if you say the phone’s full name it’s the Xperia 10 5 but the version number is in Roman numerals so it’s written Xperia 10 V, Xperia 5 IV, Xperia 1 V etc.

I think that it’s harder to all be in the same time zone. You then have to remember each zone’s working hours instead of the offset from your time.

I don’t see how it’s easier to get rid of time zones.

I like the scope creep there:

1. Programming language (singular)
2. All programming languages and related knowledge
3. Add in AI, ML and data structures

There’s the shopping popup that tries to find better deals or vouchers for products you’re looking at. It’s easy to turn off though.

Searching the settings for “notification” does show others - a feature called Discover and sidebar apps seem to be able to send notifications but I’ve never seen either.

And if you convince the project manager that it won’t work by telling them all the reasons why they come back a few days or weeks later asking why it won’t work.

Won’t autocomplete fail if you do “cd d” and then try the autocomplete?

Or is that what you mean by “decent” auto-completion?

If the ads come to Prime, then I might cancel that. It’s already our least watched service and it’s been getting a free pass because of the next day delivery.

I don’t want to watch ads, I don’t want to pay an extra £30 per year to not see ads and I don’t need next day delivery often enough to keep it for that.

Downvoting is a way to say you disagree with someone without getting into an argument.

Is that what it’s supposed to mean though? I understood it to mean that the comment either didn’t contribute to the discussion or it was actually detrimental to it.

I regularly used to upvote people that I replied to even if disagreed with them.

Obviously, if they’re being dicks then that’s a downvote.

about a thousand subreddits have gone private.

That number ended up being more than 8000 and there are still more than 7000 in private or restricted mode. Although they are starting to come back online now.

He’s right though - it will pass. The question is, will Reddit be the same once it does pass? Will enough moderators and contributors leave to reduce the quality of the content?

Personally, I don’t really care anymore. I’m not going back if I can’t use a third party app and I haven’t had a problem using Lemmy for the past two days instead. I just need to find the best communities for me which will take time but I’m sure that it’ll be a good replacement.

Also, be very careful about who ultimately owns the domain name that you’re buying.

I know of someone who “bought” a domain for a ridiculous price and it turned out that they didn’t actually own it. The company registered it in their own name so that he wasn’t able to transfer it to another registrar and had to continue to pay the high fees if he wanted to keep the domain.

Well shady.

It’s not about wasting time and it’s not about trying to get users to come over to Lemmy today or tomorrow.

It’s about whether you contribute to the protest or not. If you log in to Reddit and start writing comments then you’ll be flagged as an active user for that day and will lessen the impact a small amount. If many did it as you’re suggesting we should then that will lessen the impact of the protest more.

Maybe he’s got confused and he’s going to delete all his posts and comments before deleting his account?

It is. We want their usage stats to show that users are objecting to their plans rather than just mods and app developers.

It needs an API key to function so they’ll disable the old key and generate a new one which they’ll keep private.

There were three ways to use it:

Free - limitations (things like a single account and can only comment, not post).

Pro - one off payment for the standard functionality.

Ultra - annual or monthly subscription for the enhanced functionally that did cost the dev money to operate.

Apparently you could pay a one off amount for a lifetime sub to the Ultra subscription but I didn’t see that option available to me (I’ma recent iPhone user)