6 ms·
70 Unique Ways to Encode ＜
- AsymetricCom 13y agoHere's another: \\546 and another: %% etc.
- danielweber 13y agoIronic because the headline isn't even < It's FULLWIDTH LESS-THAN SIGN: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff1c/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff1c/index.htm
- looki 13y agoIs that supposed to be some kind of HN easter egg? I mean, who has quick enough access to that character to accidentally write it instead? And if he's using some esoteric layout, I'm sure he knows his keyboard well enough not to mix them up!
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoNo, it's likely deliberate on the part of the submitter, since HN stupidly strips stuff which looks like HTML.
- pushedx 13y agoIf you have a Japanese or Chinese input method installed, full-width characters are readily type-able.
- rootbear 13y agoI know that "unique", which became a synonym of "unusual" years ago, has now also become a synonym of "distinct", especially in tech contexts, like "unique hits", but it still grates on my ears (or eyes, in this case). Languages are fluid, and change is inevitable, but I'm sad when those changes are careless and cause a loss of precision of expression.
- wowaname 13y agoWhat do you even mean by this? What did the word originally mean?
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- Someone 13y ago"etymology: unique" on Google gives http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=unique http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=unique and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unique#Etymology http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unique#Etymology. With definitions "forming the only one of its kind" and "being the only one of its kind". I don't have a trillion unique bits of memory on my SSD, as they are all interchangeable.
- DanBC 13y agoWhat are better words to use? Would it matter if the audience is international or if the audience mostly has English as a first language? "70 Different Ways to Encode〈"?
- SnydenBitchy 13y ago“Distinct” would do, I suppose, as surrender to the language prescriptivists.
- rootbear 13y ago"70 Distinct Ways to Encode <" would be the traditionally correct way to say it. I should have made that more clear in my original rant. My objection to using "unique" in this context is that doing so further erodes the original, narrow meaning of "unique" as "one of a kind". I suppose that makes me a prescriptivist and I'm okay with that.
- likeclockwork 13y ago
- dgreensp 13y agoWow, it's like a little piece of postmodern art. I give you mine, Untitled 7 (solidus on web page): /
- jfasi 13y ago> StoneCypher: All of the entities missing semicolons are incorrect. > aprilthemoo: are you autistic or something StoneCypher? Quality discussion right there.
- seanalltogether 13y agoIs this the quality of github comments in general?
- crazygringo 13y agoWell... at least if you're trying to detect/remove HTML tags, the only one that works is the first in the list, as far as I know, thank goodness. All the others actually render the character, someone please correct me if I'm wrong?
- fleitz 13y agoaka Why IDSs are practically useless, here's a NOP slide AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- martindale 13y agoComplex systems always fail.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- homakov 13y agoSo what
- raldi 13y agoCan someone explain lines 49-52?