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Solving a relatively simple technological problem with an immense human labor is a bad tradeoff. Computers are for end-users. OS and app developers are in the
by klodolph 6y ago
Solving a relatively simple technological problem with an immense human labor is a bad tradeoff.
Computers are for end-users. OS and app developers are in the minority, and we should remember that when we write apps or filesystems.
- toast0 6y agoAnything involving Unicode (or pre-unicode encoding) isn't a relatively simple technological problem.
- klodolph 6y agoThat's a bit pessimistic--displaying plain, unstyled text onscreen is significantly more difficult, and yet we expect computers to figure it out automatically. You don't have to position each character by hand or select the right glyph. You can just click in a text box and start typing. Case folding and collation are far easier problems by comparison.