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I thought that was PascalCase and this is camelCase? Have I been wrong all these years?

by errantspark 6y ago

butt_hugger 6y ago
Yes. CamelCase is such, you're referring to mixedCase. (The first letter is the camel's head.)
- mixedCase 6y ago
  I would say the same.
leetcrew 6y ago
wikipedia, the world's highest authority on matters of nitpicking, says camel case can be either; capitalization of the first letter is unspecified. in practice, I've certainly heard people use camel case to refer to either convention. I hear pascal case a lot when people specifically mean a capitalized first character. wikipedia lists dromedary case as the complement of pascal case, but I've never actually seen this term used IRL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case
moron4hire 6y ago
This is something that I miss about forums of yore and sort of hate about HN, Reddit, and their ilk: the deprioritization of a post author's identity. It took me way too long to figure out you were talking about the username of the person you were replying to. I miss being able to scan through a forum's post listing and readily pick out names of posters I recognized after being involved in the site for a while. It was an additional signal of post quality (or lack thereof, depending on the user). Here, the username is hidden in a sentence of status text, on the same visual level of the number of minutes ago the post was made, all of which is rendered in a light grey font. It's clearly intentional, and I can't for the life of me figure out why the forum owners don't want users to be able to build a consistent identity.
- errantspark 6y ago
  I made a quick little userscript that allows you to attach tags to users on HN. There's pretty much no documentation, I didn't really expect to release it, but it puts a little [t] next to usernames on HN and you can click it to add tags that persist in localstorage and show up next to that user wherever they post on HN. Feel free to use it and adapt it however you like. Only tested on Firefox and I'm sure it's full of bugs and unintended side effects! https://gist.github.com/errantspark/7000c8a5192eb0b8ee64ba2128c851c6 https://gist.github.com/errantspark/7000c8a5192eb0b8ee64ba21...
  - moron4hire 6y ago
    Cool! It works in ViolentMonkey on MS Edge Chromium. I didn't realize how easy this was to setup and do. Here's a first crack at making user names more prominent.
    - moron4hire 6y ago
      That's weird, I could have sworn I shared the link https://gist.github.com/capnmidnight/b61dcecf587949d6adf1dc4130572625 https://gist.github.com/capnmidnight/b61dcecf587949d6adf1dc4...
- netsec_burn 6y ago
  Wow. You make excellent points, I never realized it was intentional how the usernames blend in on the page on HN and Reddit. This is fascinating! Is it that usernames distract from the content?
Darmody 6y ago
I've always seen it like camel case when it's not important if you capitalize the first letter or not and lower camel case or upper camel case if it's important.

I thought that was PascalCase and this is camelCase? Have I been wrong all these years?

butt_hugger 6y ago

Yes. CamelCase is such, you're referring to mixedCase. (The first letter is the camel's head.)

mixedCase 6y ago
I would say the same.

leetcrew 6y ago

wikipedia, the world's highest authority on matters of nitpicking, says camel case can be either; capitalization of the first letter is unspecified. in practice, I've certainly heard people use camel case to refer to either convention. I hear pascal case a lot when people specifically mean a capitalized first character. wikipedia lists dromedary case as the complement of pascal case, but I've never actually seen this term used IRL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

moron4hire 6y ago

This is something that I miss about forums of yore and sort of hate about HN, Reddit, and their ilk: the deprioritization of a post author's identity. It took me way too long to figure out you were talking about the username of the person you were replying to. I miss being able to scan through a forum's post listing and readily pick out names of posters I recognized after being involved in the site for a while. It was an additional signal of post quality (or lack thereof, depending on the user). Here, the username is hidden in a sentence of status text, on the same visual level of the number of minutes ago the post was made, all of which is rendered in a light grey font. It's clearly intentional, and I can't for the life of me figure out why the forum owners don't want users to be able to build a consistent identity.

errantspark 6y ago
I made a quick little userscript that allows you to attach tags to users on HN. There's pretty much no documentation, I didn't really expect to release it, but it puts a little [t] next to usernames on HN and you can click it to add tags that persist in localstorage and show up next to that user wherever they post on HN. Feel free to use it and adapt it however you like. Only tested on Firefox and I'm sure it's full of bugs and unintended side effects! https://gist.github.com/errantspark/7000c8a5192eb0b8ee64ba2128c851c6 https://gist.github.com/errantspark/7000c8a5192eb0b8ee64ba21...
- moron4hire 6y ago
  Cool! It works in ViolentMonkey on MS Edge Chromium. I didn't realize how easy this was to setup and do. Here's a first crack at making user names more prominent.
  - moron4hire 6y ago
    That's weird, I could have sworn I shared the link https://gist.github.com/capnmidnight/b61dcecf587949d6adf1dc4130572625 https://gist.github.com/capnmidnight/b61dcecf587949d6adf1dc4...
netsec_burn 6y ago
Wow. You make excellent points, I never realized it was intentional how the usernames blend in on the page on HN and Reddit. This is fascinating! Is it that usernames distract from the content?

Darmody 6y ago

I've always seen it like camel case when it's not important if you capitalize the first letter or not and lower camel case or upper camel case if it's important.