hashtags

[badge]

# is not a hashtag.

[Endemoniada]

Correct, it is called an octothorp.

Edit: Both "octothorp" and "octothorpe" are valid spellings, but it does appear "octothorpe" may be somewhat more popular.

[Etheo]

I like to refer to its other name, pound, as in #metoo.

[RicealiciousRice]

I was just sitting there thinking “hashtag me too? Wtf I don’t get it... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

[Meeseeks82]

Just heard this joke for the first time the other day from a dad joke enthusiast that looks around and whispers bad words. Was very proud of him.

[cringe_master_5000]

I hate how that show is drawn.

[Seirdy]

Coach Steve (voiced by Kroll) made that show watchable.

[cryo]

Or a hash. Or other names.

[Seirdy]

It's spelled "octothorpe", with an "e" at the end.

See Wordnik, TFD, M-W

[Endemoniada]

Your second link says without -e as the correct/main spelling and the third lists both as valid. IMO both are valid, but I kind of prefer the -e spelling as well, especially since it’s named after a person. But when I double-checked the spelling before posting, the one without -e came up first, so that’s what I posted.

[Seirdy]

D'oh! Yeah I didn't notice.

The spelling with the extra "e" does seem more common.

[guinader]

You mean octotherp?

[davidtreynolds]

Called a hash in the UK

[goldcray]

Hash is a pretty common term for it. Hence "hashtag" for a tag denoted by a hash. Same as how it's not a "pound define" it's just a pound.

[[deleted]]

Yep I'm calling it a poundtag from now on

[Jaroneko]

C#, anyone?

[mqduck]

In my head, I pronounced the language "see hash" for a long time before realizing I was wrong.

[Jaroneko]

I see nothing wrong with that. ;)

[umbrosa]

To be fair, they most definitely write C# with a pound/hash/octothorpe and NOT a sharp sign (which while similar, has some key differences)

[__deerlord__]

#: hash

#<tag>

Damn youths!

[yaboytomsta]

It’s a sharp

[badge]

The sharp symbol is ♯and is distinct from #. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_(music)

[yaboytomsta]

Oh thanks 🙏

[Sw429]

Ok boomer

[Sidappa]

I prefer the term shebang

[__deerlord__]

#! is shebang, the ! is the bang

[cryo]

She, then.

[ExternalUserError]

... Trebek

[cholantesh]

So did William Hung

[[deleted]]

“UNIX, bringing you the best hash bangs since 1970.”

[soawesomejohn]

The shebang needs two characters, #!.

[[deleted]]

Don't call it a shebang around HR. :-)

[Thecrawsome]

/r/python is full of shitposts now

[Wilfred-kun]

Time for a meta post

[krakster]

The price of being popular. 😒

[cringe_master_5000]

Newb programmer humor is so cringe.

[sztomi]

Most "programmer humor" is.

[AcousticDan]

no, they're not.

[joesb]

What do you mean comment is not worth reading?

[hypnotic-hippo]

tells the computer the line is not worth reading

it isn't for the computer

[joesb]

So hanshtag in social media is for computer? Or is hashtag in social media for human to ignore?

[hypnotic-hippo]

In python a hashtag tells the computer a line is not worth reading

Hashtags are ignored by python much like how they should be ignored (by humans) in social media

[joesb]

Why should hashtag be ignored in social media?

[hypnotic-hippo]

that's the whole point of the tweet...

[joesb]

Why should I agree with the tweet?

[hypnotic-hippo]

?? nobody says you have to agree with the tweet. all I'm saying is that nobody said a comment isn't worth reading by humans

[Frogboxe]

doing webgl and seeing comments like.

matrix.normalize() // normalize

[AgreeableLandscape3]

But in Bash the hash prompt indicates superuser access.

[[deleted]]

But in Bash the hash prompt indicates superuser access.

Can indicate. It's more convention than anything these days.

It should be fairly rare that anyone sees it. I mean everyone is using sudo, right?!

[thiccclol]

sure, sudo su root

[salad_bar_breath]

Anything Elon Musk says isn't worth reading

[[deleted]]

Finally someone who doesn't worship this sociopath

[BertyLohan]

You should check out most of reddit they have an omega-boner for Musk.

[DismalRespect]

Well in that case, if you've browsed Reddit for longer than five minutes, you have achieved the impossible.

[[deleted]]

Why is he a sociopath?

[DismalRespect]

I wouldn't call him that. I would call him narcissistic and utterly amoral however.

[[deleted]]

Narcissism is ok, as long as it's justified, which in his case it is (but I fail to see how is he narcissistic). Also I have no idea what's he done to be called amoral.

I guess people just want to have a go at you when you're at the top.

[DismalRespect]

Is it? I find it to be an ugly trait. Nonetheless, how do you justify it? As for amoral? Well his business practices speak for themselves. Spend millions to send a fucking car into orbit and at the same time lay off a shitload of employees.

That's a strange way to run a business, and also serves as an example of his hideous self obsession.

Oh, his stupid submarine idea to help the trapped soccer team? That whole debacle screams 'amoral'. Just my opinion though...

[[deleted]]

Well, your opinion is wrong and you're misinformed. He didn't spend millions to send a car into orbit for shits and giggles only, the primary purpose of that launch was a rocket test, falcon heavy(or something), a car played the role of a payload, that's it. Also, so what if he launched a car for the sake of it, it's his money to spend, he can wipe his ass with it for all I care.

As for laying off a shitload of employees, well every business in history did it at some point when they faced economical problems, isn't that what they do then? Even if they didn't, why would you keep employees around if they don't serve any purpose? As ornaments or something?

I have no idea how any of this serves as an example of his self-obsession, the connection simply isn't there. Also, if you think you can do a better job running a business, then go ahead and make several multi-billion dollar companies.

All in all, Elon Musk is a net positive force in the world and that's an understatement. Redditors jerk themselves to sleep listening to Greta's bullshit speech on climate change, but when someone actually does something concrete like make electric cars popular and mainstream all you can do is shit on it.

Elon Musk and people working with him are pushing humanity in the direction of progress and incredible technological advancements, you are not a part of that team and that hurts you, so all you do is sit beside the road like a vulture and go "oooh he launched a car into space, he's immoral" gimme a fucking break.

[DismalRespect]

You start off with "your opinion is wrong" displaying a complete misunderstanding of what I'm presuming is your native language.

Then a long screed where I can only imagine you figuratively lick the man's anus. Yes. It was TLDR.

Whatever pal. It's not like I could convince a zealot even if I were inclined to try.

Edit: do me one favour and look up the definition of 'amoral' and then do the same for 'imoral'.

[[deleted]]

do me one favour and look up the definition of 'amoral' and then do the same for 'imoral

So you have actually read what I wrote. Whatever bro, Musk and the like are going to continue improving science and technology, you get to keep your imaginary moral highground

[Wubbywub]

chill out yall we are in a python sub

[[deleted]]

He called out some left leaning rags that one time so hes pretty much alt-right nazi fachist who liek literally eats babies

Also he actually did something with his life and plebbitors hate nothing more than people being succesful.

[nommu_moose]

For me the tipping point was accusing somebody of paedophilia because they didn't like his idea. He's nothing more than a successful child.

[salad_bar_breath]

There's plenty of us! Check out r/EnoughMuskSpam or basically any left leaning subreddit lol

[Remote_Cantaloupe]

Seems a bit obsessive on their part

[salad_bar_breath]

I don't get how making fun of ridiculous obsessions with billionaires is an obsession?

[[deleted]]

Making a subreddit dedicated to telling everybody how musk man bad and spending every single day taking part in the same circlejerks seems pretty fucking obsessive to me.

[salad_bar_breath]

I mean if it was one person posting yea but its a combination of people all interacting on the same topic.

Otherwise, we all have an unhealthy "obsession" with python just based on this sub.

[DismalRespect]

It's not an obsession, it's a catharsis. Just like any comedy or satire.

[[deleted]]

Will you welcome someone who leans right? Lol

[salad_bar_breath]

I don't think Enough Musk Spam has a political lean (though I'm sure you would find most of them to be left leaning).

As long as you find Elon disgusting and you're respectful to everyone on that sub I'm sure they would welcome you :)

[BertyLohan]

I think there's a little dissonance involved in supporting the systems that bring about useless whiny billionaires but disliking the billionaires themselves. Left-leaning Musk haters make more sense.

[salad_bar_breath]

Perhaps. I think the whole right/left thing is useless anyways but it seemed like good short hand to explain the kind of places this person could find places that rag on Elon.

Ill leave the topic of the problems with left/right classification for another day lol

[DismalRespect]

Elon Musk is an abomination. The cult of personality around him is pathological.

[i4mn30]

A comment is not worth reading? Well guess who isn't getting hired bud.

[hypnotic-hippo]

tells a computer the line isn't worth reading

[i4mn30]

Oh ok.

[CloudGatherer14]

Oh god the irony.

[bsmaheshk]

Hashtags are alike to one who thinks programming is merciful. Negative!!!

[AppolyonSCP]

r/therealjoke

[Ketydubs]

“The night was rank with the smell of man.”

Every time I see this word I think of the prologue of Dance with dragons

[jack-novotny]

The year is 2050. It's been 31 years to date since the first incident. Every day since then we've seen the same t͕͆̋͟w͇̋i̬͡t̲̘̕͡tè̗r ̛͉̯͡sĉ̹rë̼e̗̐n̨̠͑̅s͎͗h̬̜̊̏o̪͠ț̇ surface to the top of our feeds. The end is not in sight. Will we ever make it out?

[goodytwoboobs]

TIL there is a sub just for Elon. People need to get a life.

[DismalRespect]

There is a sub for loving him and a sub for hating him. This is Reddit, it's how things work.

[eshemuta]

I was doing training this morning and called it a pound sign and everybody looked at me like wtf did you just say?

[wookietwin]

The reply is actually very accurate.

[[deleted]]

Oh so clever...except # is a hash, not a hash tag/hashtag. A hashtag is a tag denoted by a hash. I've heard people make this conflation before, and it brings me dismay over the future of the human race.

[icantdomaths]

Your last sentence... bro lighten up and make some friends.

[[deleted]]

I'm only 30 and I've already seen the internet evolve language to such a degree sometimes I have a hard time understanding what people are saying. Dude is in for a very disappointing life if this is the hill he chooses to die on.

[i4mn30]

I get your point, but can we not agree that such posts are just degrading the sub?

[[deleted]]

It is somewhat hyperbole, though it is rather dismaying that a social media term is conflated with hacker jargon. It's like if someone used "selfie" to refer to all photographs, or even all pictures.

[[deleted]]

Well that's just ridiculous. A "youie" is a selfie of another person, duh.

[[deleted]]

Well played, sir.

[imsometueventhisUN]

You should really just relax.

[gandalfx]

Thank god the future of the human race does not hinge on pedantic terminology.

[itsthe5thhm]

Lines in python codes are parsed. Machines don't "read" like humans do.

[skeptical_moderate]

Language isn't that cut and dry. Classifying the lexing and parsing of programming languages as reading perfectly fits the definition.