“Email address” is the phrase you’re looking for!

Mutation testing is a cool concept, but what’s it got to do with the fediverse?

Public schoolboys (i.e. the very posh), yes it’s weird

Yeah but only poshos call it “soccer” here to distinguish it from “rugger”

Commenting the why not is key. Half my comments are explaining why I had to use this hack as a warning that the obvious fix doesn’t work!

Exactly! Write your code to be as clear and self-descriptive as possible, and then add a comment if something is still not immediately obvious.

testing

If you don’t consider this part of “writing code” then I don’t want to run any of your code

I read it as “waff-run”

If I can’t read or even search it without creating an account then it’s pretty useless as an information source. Same issue with Twitter and Instagram.

Americans sadly got there first and defined all the computer terms, that’s why it’s a TV programme but a computer program. I can deal with that though, helps distinguish computer things from real things!

What, you don’t like tabs and spaces being syntactically different?

Same, I’m wondering what this brings that you can’t already do

Fortunately the company execs aren’t the ones doing the hiring, and if they are then you probably don’t want that job!

I think this is something a lot of people posting here don’t get. You can be a programmer, make apps or games in your spare time, set your own goals and be your own boss, and that’s great. Suddenly you get a “normal” job programming and you have you deal with customer requirements, business nonsense, and working as part of a team; that’s being a software engineer. One isn’t superior to the other, they are just different beasts.

Ah, the XCOM approach. Now you look after those variables and get sad when you have to delete them.

I’m using Summit, it can toggle off links, texts, pictures, and video posts

Would that work to obfuscate up/downvotes in general?

Some clients let you do that

How do you store who has voted and what the results of the poll are without storing results on a server? Ultimately it’s just the same sort of data as who upvoted and downvoted what, right?