Australis13

To be honest, the explanation given in the screenshot makes sense. Whilst it’s frustrating, if the mods have had past problems with arguments over OSes (and there are dedicated subs for them), I can somewhat understand the reason for the rule.

Because any tech has privacy risks?

We’re no longer living in a world where the only major cybersecurity threats are CCP-backed tech and Russian hackers.

We work in protoduction.

Nope, just inherited a colleague’s codebase when they left. It’s years later and I still haven’t sorted it all out.

As someone who has inherited code like that, I would like to strangle the first programmer in the comic.

Make sure it’s not whitespace sensitive and requires explicit typing, just to mess with everyone.

Ouch.

I have actually encountered those sort of potential differences between ground planes. They can indeed wreak havoc under the right circumstances.

I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry.

I think it’s just that we’re possessive/protective of “our” code, even more so if one is passionate about programming. We’ve put a lot of effort into it, then somebody else comes along and “ruins” our “perfect” (to our eyes) formatting/styling!

Some linters can do both. Getting one set up as an automated job whenever code is pushed to the repo is on my TODO list…

I felt that. I have a colleague whose coding style is different to mine and whenever they work on code that I originally wrote, I have to resist the temptation to modify things to camelCase.