6 ms·

"Hmmm... there's something wrong with that idea, but I can't quite put my finger on it...." I think your missing the sarcasm...

• jemfinch 14y ago
  No, the sarcasm is obvious. It's just not very funny, and doesn't positively contribute to the level of discourse here.
  • anjc 14y ago
    Of course it positively contributes. It's the first comment to say that it's a silly way of encoding the form as utf-8 when utf8="✘" will also do the same thing, even though it's counterintuitive.
    • jerf 14y ago
      That is actually what I was going for; the humor attempt was a bonus.
      • anjc 14y ago
        ConstructiveHumour=✓ Wait, true...true
    • Evbn 14y ago
      It is only counterintuitive because you arbitrarily assigned a different type (boolean, with members you made up) instead respecting that any utf8 character fits the utf8 type. X is used variously as true and false in Different languages, so why would you assume it means false in a language you have never used?
      • anjc 14y ago
        Well i didn't make it up, but yeah i get your point. I didn't mean that i'd assume it means false, but it's still clearly counterintuitive to use a tick to encode as utf-8 when any character at all will do. A tick has an opposite, an X, a snowman (as in the Rails case) doesn't.
    • arcatek 14y ago
      I have already seen a website which use "ie=☠" in the URL.
  • nsxwolf 14y ago
    I laughed.
    • tomrod 14y ago
      Could you explain it then? I'm really confused!
      • aviraldg 14y ago
        That would spoil the joke. ˙ɔıuoɹı sı ʇɹoddns ǝpoɔıun ou s,ǝɹǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʇ ǝʇɐɔıpuı oʇ ʇı buısn os 'ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝpoɔıun ɐ ɟןǝsʇı uı sı ssoɹɔ ʇɐɥʇ
        • tomrod 14y ago
          Clear enough then! But why upside down? ;-)
          • SiVal 14y ago
            More important to me, HOW upside down? How did you do that?
            • skeletonjelly 14y ago
              http://www.fliptext.org/ http://www.fliptext.org/
            • jlgreco 14y ago
              Unicode is fun. ;)
          • aviraldg 14y ago
            Haven't you ever tried to solve puzzles in comic books?
          • gpvos 14y ago
            Because he can.
• smegel 14y ago
  He wasn't being sarcastic, he was being sardonic