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Haha, I definitely thought this was going to be about investments in the X Window System, not 11 different people joining YC.

thegigaraptor 11y ago
I thought the exact same thing.
- sdegutis 11y ago
  Came here to say this. I hope the fact that I'm using my very limited noprocrast window to say this adds weight to this expression of my disappointment.
- dbpokorny 11y ago
  I'm just posting to say that I agree, and I have nothing else to add to this conversation.
ajarmst 11y ago
Yep. I was thinking "X11 again? Is X.Org forking?"
taude 11y ago
haaaa. me too.
jhardcastle 11y ago
Welcome * 11 instead, perhaps?
- evincarofautumn 11y ago
  Welcome × 11. There have been some developments in character sets since the 60s, not that you’d know from our programming languages.
  - pmilot 11y ago
    Sadly, there has been comparatively few developments in keyboard hardware and input schemes since the 60s.
    - kuschku 11y ago
      Huh? On DE-International that is on [AltGr]+[Shift]+[,]: ×
  - kalsk 11y ago
    That doesn't look very different from the letter x though, I think I'd still prefer the asterisk even if there was a × button on my keyboard.
    - teddyh 11y ago
      There has been a × key on the normal PC keyboard since 1986, on the numeric keypad section.
      - Coding_Cat 11y ago
        [citation needed] I'm looking at my 1992 Model M right now and it has just a "*", unless you count "+" as a lopsided "×".
        teddyh 11y ago
        Depends on the manufacturer – some, like a Keytronic I can see from here, definitely have a × glyph.
  - noobermin 11y ago
    Julia has support for unicode in the language (unicode identifiers, etc) and even has some operators/functions (they are the same thing in julia) aliased as their usual symbols, like "in" is aliased to "∈". [0] http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/collections/#Base.in http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/collections/...
dang 11y ago
We added a space to the title with a dismaying feeling that it would not be enough.

thegigaraptor 11y ago

I thought the exact same thing.

sdegutis 11y ago
Came here to say this. I hope the fact that I'm using my very limited noprocrast window to say this adds weight to this expression of my disappointment.
dbpokorny 11y ago
I'm just posting to say that I agree, and I have nothing else to add to this conversation.

ajarmst 11y ago

Yep. I was thinking "X11 again? Is X.Org forking?"

taude 11y ago

haaaa. me too.

jhardcastle 11y ago

Welcome * 11 instead, perhaps?

evincarofautumn 11y ago
Welcome × 11. There have been some developments in character sets since the 60s, not that you’d know from our programming languages.
- pmilot 11y ago
  Sadly, there has been comparatively few developments in keyboard hardware and input schemes since the 60s.
  - kuschku 11y ago
    Huh? On DE-International that is on [AltGr]+[Shift]+[,]: ×
- kalsk 11y ago
  That doesn't look very different from the letter x though, I think I'd still prefer the asterisk even if there was a × button on my keyboard.
  - teddyh 11y ago
    There has been a × key on the normal PC keyboard since 1986, on the numeric keypad section.
    - Coding_Cat 11y ago
      [citation needed] I'm looking at my 1992 Model M right now and it has just a "*", unless you count "+" as a lopsided "×".
      - teddyh 11y ago
        Depends on the manufacturer – some, like a Keytronic I can see from here, definitely have a × glyph.
- noobermin 11y ago
  Julia has support for unicode in the language (unicode identifiers, etc) and even has some operators/functions (they are the same thing in julia) aliased as their usual symbols, like "in" is aliased to "∈". [0] http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/collections/#Base.in http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/collections/...

dang 11y ago

We added a space to the title with a dismaying feeling that it would not be enough.