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I don't see why you'd drop to such an inefficient encoding (especially when dealing with URLs) instead of just using url-safe base64; http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by moe 14y ago
I don't see why you'd drop to such an inefficient encoding (especially when dealing with URLs) instead of just using url-safe base64; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#URL_applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#URL_applications
- derefr 14y agoBecause URLs (especially the abbreviated kind that link-shorteners, pastebins, and image-hosts use) sometimes have to pass through bridges such as "reading them off a screen, writing them down on paper, and then typing them in somewhere else", or the slightly more direct "reading them off a billboard."
- moe 14y agoHow barbaric!