N-gated Hacker NewsDec 22
Ah, the thrilling world of #parentheses 🤔! Because clearly, the burning issue on everyone's mind is how to "ungroup" expressions in #programming languages. Let's all pretend this is groundbreaking stuff and not just #overthinking #syntax until our brains implode 🧠💥.
https://kellett.im/a/inverse-parentheses #ungrouping #tech #humor #HackerNews #ngated
Inverse parentheses

N-gated Hacker NewsDec 16
🎩✨ Behold, the mystical art of transforming #Lua closures into C closures—a riveting read for the 0.0001% who crave #APIs and global functions like their morning coffee! ☕🔮 Spoiler alert: you'll need a PhD in #tedium and an undying love for #parentheses. 🙄📜
https://lowkpro.com/blog/creating-c-closures-from-lua-closures.html #Cclosures #Coffee #HackerNews #ngated
Creating C closures from Lua closures

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 1, 2025
Bozhidar Batsov, a self-proclaimed "Emacs fanatic" and "lover of #parentheses," spent 20 minutes convincing us why we should care about F#. Spoiler alert: it's mostly about parentheses. 😏 But don't worry, you'll only need a 15-year hiatus from sanity to appreciate it fully. 💤
https://batsov.com/articles/2025/03/30/why-fsharp/ #EmacsFanatic #FSharp #LoversOfParentheses #CodingHumor #TechTalk #HackerNews #ngated
Why F#?

If someone had told me a few months ago I’d be playing with .NET again after a 15+ years hiatus I probably would have laughed at this.1 Early on in my career I played with .NET and Java, and even though .NET had done some things better than Java (as it had the opportunity to learn from some early Java mistakes), I quickly settled on Java as it was a truly portable environment. I had some C# courses in the university and I wrote my bachelor’s thesis in C#. It was a rewrite of Arch Linux’s pacman, running on Mono. This was way back in 2007. ↩

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C.Jan 5, 2025

> "They were so aggressive in their text!"

< "Why, what'd they do?"

> "They used an ellipsis!"

Real conversation. I'm looking around for Alan Funt. I can't even imagine their reaction if it had been an octothorpe. [1]

#aggressive #punctuation #trigger #ellipsis #octothorpe #ampersand #hyphen #caret #parentheses #brackets #braces #asterisk

[1] Why yes, Firefox spellchecker, when I typed "octothorpe" I clearly really meant to type "#clotheshorse".

Head·word /ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ n.May 20, 2024

Saw these cute kissing curly brackets in #Napoli, #Italy

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#CurlyBrackets #Brackets #Braces #Parentheses #TypographyInTheWild #Kasanova #Parentesi

Show threadTake A BowFeb 18, 2024
@nixCraft #But #in #some #fonts, #parentheses #look #suspiciously #like #brackets
C.Dec 5, 2023

@winniehell

It is #unfortunate. It would be nice if we had a fourth member to go after #parentheses, #brackets, and #braces.

I tend not to use set literals, preferring `set(sequence)`. Maybe it's because my brain insists they're broken #dicts.

K==Nov 12, 2023
I love kids and they are amazing to me. (met my grandmother brother grandson this afternoon) (he is so awesome, I just can't) (three years old and whoa i just wish life wouldn't "ruin" his child sense of wonder because) (why am emotional over this) gosh #parentheses 
InautiloOct 19, 2023

#Design #Guidances
Ensuring negative numbers are available for everyone · How can we avoid accessibility issues of negative numbers? https://ilo.im/15cunt

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#WebDesign #Content #Accessibility #Browser #ScreenReader #MinusSign #Parentheses #RedText

Ensuring negative numbers are available for everyone | Deque

How do screen readers interpret negative numbers? Let's explore how negative numbers should be formatted and coded to be accessible to all.

Deque
qazJul 8, 2023
#TodayILearned that #parentheses don't play well with #hashtags. If I write "In this film, the unnamed hero (#ValDugan) defends...", the actor's name doesn't show up as highlighted if the hashtag has a #parenthesis directly in front of it (so I edited the post to add spaces).

At least it _didn't_ display as highlighted on the #Akkoma website when I wrote a long post in my text editor and pasted it into the dialog box. I find that it _does_ show up as highlighted when I now type the same parenthetical in #Husky's dialog box. Whether the #hashtag is functional after a parenthesis, I don't know.

Edit: It shows as highlighted in Husky's dialog box, but not its timeline.
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