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This passage (from another one of the articles on top of HN right now (https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null#tpw) https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null#tpw)) generat
by crgt 9y ago
This passage (from another one of the articles on top of HN right now (https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null#tpw) https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null#tpw)) generates an error when trying to use the Sapien demo: "As a technology journalist, being a Null has served me rather well. (John Dvorak, you know what I’m talking about!) The geek connotations provide a bit of instant nerd cred—to the point where more than one person has accused me of using a nom de plume to make me seem like a bigger nerd than I am.
But there’s a dark side to being a Null, and you coders out there are way ahead of me on this. For those of you unwise in the ways of programming, the problem is that “null” is one of those famously “reserved” text strings in many programming languages. Making matters worse is that software programs frequently use “null” specifically to ensure that a data field is not empty, so it’s often rejected as input in a web form."
Maybe it's the use of the word `Null`? Not sure, but love what you're doing and thought I'd let you know about this.
- patelajay285 9y agoUh-oh, looks like it's the non-ASCII characters that are crashing our interface. We'll fix this. Thanks for bringing it to our attention and the kind comment!
- crgt 9y agoOf course! I love these launch posts, they are one of my favorite parts of HN. One other question for you, sparked in part by your response - any plans on your roadmap to support any other (non-Western?) languages for any of the APIs? Chinese, perhaps?
- patelajay285 9y agoWe've done some experimental work with other languages (specifically Chinese). We think the Cortex Knowledge Graph API will do well when moved into other language domains, but the Sapien Language Engine will likely require full-rewrites of its core code for non-Romance languages.