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They do. IIRC they used to use a Unicode snowman instead of a checkmark, but it was changed as the snowman wasn't deemed "enterprisey enough" or something.
by mosburger 14y ago
They do. IIRC they used to use a Unicode snowman instead of a checkmark, but it was changed as the snowman wasn't deemed "enterprisey enough" or something.
- griffindy 14y agothey did use a snowman before, though I can't find the commit where they changed it. EDIT: found the commit with some git log magic - https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c616089 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c616089
- nicholassmith 14y agoMaybe when a service/product/framework etc hits a specific point in it's lifecycle (when it's trying to be enterprisey for example), we can say that it's melted the snowman.
- xanadohnt 14y agoI mean ... this is one of the funniest comments I've read on HN. I will be diligent in adopting this into my nerd vernacular.
- nicholassmith 14y agoIf it ends up as a thing I'll be surprised and proud.
- mmahemoff 14y agoI prefer the tick. It's self-documenting which makes it more useful and that also makes it amusing in its own way.
- dllthomas 14y agoIt's partially self documenting. As mentioned elsewhere, there's a vague implication that putting something else there could mean "don't use utf8", where if you put the utf8 X character that corresponds to the check you are still asking for utf8. edited to add: This seems related to a problem various "try to sound like English" programming languages (e.g. Inform) have, where it is easy to assume invalid syntax will be valid because it's valid English.