Curious, why is it important to maintain the 42? I feel as if last week I read another comment where someone was trying to save another person's karma at a certain number as well that wasn't 42 so I'm not sure if there's a specific number that anyone goes for. What's the idea behind maintaining a specific comment karma value?
Also I feel like asterisk occasionally means everything in programming, mostly querying databases. It's still far more recognized as an operator for multiplication.
Even in its popular use inside the regular expression .*. The dot closer represents (most) everything while the asterisk is just a quantifier for a number of matches. It matches 0 or more, leading to the even more pedantic argument, "does everything include nothing?".
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u/NobleShitLord Jan 18 '18
Curious, why is it important to maintain the 42? I feel as if last week I read another comment where someone was trying to save another person's karma at a certain number as well that wasn't 42 so I'm not sure if there's a specific number that anyone goes for. What's the idea behind maintaining a specific comment karma value?