In Python, the comment character is the hash or pound sign (#). MATLAB uses the percent symbol (%) as the comment character. Anything following the hash on the line is a comment and is usually ignored by the Python interpreter. Starting on line 2 is a string that provides some context...
A hashtag is just a word or phrase preceded by the #-symbol. The word or phrase would generally be some keyword or term that interests a group of people. In the case of branded hashtags, the keyword/term is a word or phrase related to a brand, often a marketing slogan, such as #...
The corruption of the equals sign was the most complete change of identity of a symbol until the hashtag, which was originally a British symbol for the pound (weight) called the Libra, from the balancing scales of astrology. Robert Recorde — a Welsh mathematician from the 1500s with the s...
Jean Renoir's acidly humane comedy about an ungrateful bum taken up as a charity case by a bourgeois family is enough to make you sucker punch the next panhandler who bums change from you. Some of the movie's glories found their way into the inspired 1936 screwball comedy My Man Godfrey...
He was determined to plant the feather on top of Everest “as a symbol of our people and what we’ve endured for the past several hundred years,” Weasel told CNN. “Showing that our spirit is not broken, but we’re able to rise above the things that have happened to us,” he adde...