• plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I absolutely fail to see the utility of having a user called Bob and bob, or a dir called Downloads and downloads. Capitalisation makes sense in code - at a glance I can know I’m looking at a Class or a var, but for system administration it has only ever wasted time, and not once made anything easier.

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      2 months ago

      If capitalisation is used to indicate the start of words then it could make sense for a webserver to serve ExpertsExchange and ExpertSexChange. But yeah having 16 possible versions of “main” would be horrendous.

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        2 months ago

        URLs aren’t case-sensitive though, so wouldn’t those necessarily have another kind of differentiator?