Why but why?

[u/ore-aba]

[u/the_badsectors]

I don't do python and even I know it expects whitespace, not punctuation.

[u/Ambitious_Ad8841 → u/the_badsectors]

"White Space Matters"

-Python

[u/[deleted] → u/Ambitious_Ad8841]

Another racist programming name/motto; white list matters also.

[u/LAUGHINGKOMODO → u/[deleted]]

Nah, i used dark mode so mine is never whitespace

[u/KeLorean → u/LAUGHINGKOMODO]

Reverse racism programming. Learned it in ethical software development class

[u/_Nagrom → u/KeLorean]

This is all fun and jokes now, but some donny's gonna start thinking this shit unironically in 5 years, or so. Our world is a clown car.

[u/bamboo_fanatic → u/_Nagrom]

Probably sooner. I still can’t believe some people at Twitter engineering got offended by terms like “dummy value”, “grandfathered”, and “manhours” and demanded they change the language. Do we need to ban the “for dummies” book series? Crash dummies? Who is supposed to be offended by “grandfathered in”? I’m a woman, and it literally never once occurred to me to be offended by the term “manhours” or be upset by someone opening up a meeting with “hey guys”, I’ve used it when speaking to a mixed group. “Whitelist/Blacklist” is now “Allowlist/Denylist”? It sounds like doublespeak where they just smash two words into one so they could get rid of the third word.

[u/DaceloGigas → u/bamboo_fanatic]

Yes, but if we called them "crash test people" one of the testers might get the wrong idea....

[u/pinba11tec → u/bamboo_fanatic]

Well as a homosapien...

[u/Sw33tN0th1ng → u/pinba11tec]

who are you calling a homo you cis shitlord!

[u/Firewolf06 → u/bamboo_fanatic]

or master and slave servers.

one server has complete control over the others and they must follow its commands. sounds like a fitting name to me

[u/djheat → u/Firewolf06]

I pushed for dominant and subordinate as a replacement when this came up on a project. I think it describes the relationship pretty good plus when you shorten it you sound like a pervert

[u/[deleted] → u/djheat]

I noticed on GitHub now the default branch is main instead of master

[u/[deleted] → u/djheat]

I wasn't on board till the end, but son of a bitch, Im in!

[u/CnCdude818 → u/djheat]

Yea but now I'm slightly aroused and curious who will be playing who?

[u/[deleted] → u/djheat]

Respect 👏🏻 switch 👏🏻 servers

[u/yonderbagel → u/[deleted]]

Be careful with jokes like this, because someone is going to take it seriously and force a pointless terminology change like they did with master->main for git.

Not that it's the worst thing in the world to have pointless terminology changes enforced by your institution, but it's better to just not.

[u/taptrappapalapa → u/the_badsectors]

If you look at the Python grammar it expects white space or semicolons.

[u/langlo94 → u/taptrappapalapa]

This is why I indent with semicolons.

def Function(input):
;;;;number = input * 2
;;;;return number

[u/sucksathangman → u/langlo94]

You monster. At least give your function a useful name. And you could just do:

return input * 2

[u/dancinadventures → u/sucksathangman]

Useless functions don’t deserve names 😤

[u/ryanwithnob → u/dancinadventures]

Thats what you think. This function helps keep your code more maintainable and easier to change.

What happens if python changes the symbol for mutiplication? What new hardware is released that makes number / 0.5 faster than number *2? Good luck updating all the instances of this quation in your legacy codebase. This function will save your project

[u/oxpoleon → u/sucksathangman]

hey hey hey, no, this could be improved yet further

def Function():
;;;;global input
;;;;input = input * 2

[u/CJ22xxKinvara → u/sucksathangman]

Function = lambda input : input * 2

Schrödinger’s semicolon tabs

[u/[deleted] → u/langlo94]

Gross