you can use your name as a semi-unique color to you
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
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Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder why it ended up being "hash-tag" on social media when it's quite common for North Americans to refer to the symbol as the "pound symbol"?
Yeah, it’s an interesting one. I’ve always known it as the hash symbol from back in the 80s when I got my first microcomputer. This was in the UK but I don’t think hash is UK-specific terminology: “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!) has been common parlance amongst the UNIX-crowd since I don’t know when. I know pound is incredibly common in the US, but in the UK it’s never referred to that way because here pound means £.…
Yeah, I don't think I even heard "pound" for # until I went online and started getting exposed a lot more to US stuff (also harking from the 80s UK micro world).
I feel like "octothorpe" might have been referenced in the jargon file or similar texts?
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder why it ended up being "hash-tag" on social media when it's quite common for North Americans to refer to the symbol as the "pound symbol"?
Yeah, it’s an interesting one. I’ve always known it as the hash symbol from back in the 80s when I got my first microcomputer. This was in the UK but I don’t think hash is UK-specific terminology: “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!) has been common parlance amongst the UNIX-crowd since I don’t know when. I know pound is incredibly common in the US, but in the UK it’s never referred to that way because here pound means £.…
> “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!)
I think the etymology of "shebang" isn't clear, some sources say it may come from "sharp bang" or "shell bang".
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#54> If an octothorpe (#) is located at the start of the value, it's removed. An “octothorpe”! I never knew it was called that (and, apparently, neither does autocorrect). What a glorious name!
I wonder why it ended up being "hash-tag" on social media when it's quite common for North Americans to refer to the symbol as the "pound symbol"?
Perhaps influence from programmers, who would know the real "pound sign" is either ℔ or £, depending what type of pound you prefer, and the number sign is №.
£ is a stylised L with a bar, incidentally.
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#55Also just a name "Chuck" isn't a colour.
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it’s an interesting one. I’ve always known it as the hash symbol from back in the 80s when I got my first microcomputer. This was in the UK but I don’t think hash is UK-specific terminology: “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!) has been common parlance amongst the UNIX-crowd since I don’t know when. I know pound is incredibly common in the US, but in the UK it’s never referred to that way because here pound means £.…
Yeah, I don't think I even heard "pound" for # until I went online and started getting exposed a lot more to US stuff (also harking from the 80s UK micro world). I feel like "octothorpe" might have been referenced in the jargon file or similar texts?
I checked, and it gets a passing mention (along with a snipe about annoying Britons!) in Jargon File and Hackers Dictionary.
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#57I love how forgiving the web is. These days you can get strictness with typescript and the like, which is great for businesses and work. But the forgiving nature of html and css and even javascript has contributed to so much adoption. Plus grew one of the most important things in an platform the ecosystem itself. Seeing rust slow down with piles of crates and fall into the same issues, js and npm has, perhaps its not…
I do appreciate all of what you’ve said but the author of this piece is actually mistaken.
The browser isn’t actually processing the string “chucknorris” and forgiving incorrectly provided hex codes, which is a common misconception.
What actually happens within the rendering pipeline is that the full literal string (in this case, “chucknorris”) is parsed, and the browser attempts to render the tag in the colour of blood in hope of receiving the mercy that Chuck Norris doesn’t have.
As said, it’s a common misconception and I’m glad I could clear it up before he reads this.
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#58The parsing outline in the article omits that there are also 140 hard coded color names in html: https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-names/
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#59Color names are a strange thing, it is like given names to numbers. I made a game out of it [0]. [0] https://colorguesser.com/
Hah I played twice and did not meaningfully inprove my score. Even after seeing the color I could not match it up close enough, and the first time I got pretty close to most colors.
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