7 month ago
wearehugh : On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org - "Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."
deusx : On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org - "Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."
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7 month ago
jcgregorio : Arc's Out - "Character sets are a black hole. I realize that supporting only Ascii is uninternational to a point that's almost offensive, like calling Beijing Peking" and lot's of other self-important twaddle in the announcement.
deusx : Arc's Out - This description of things makes me want to steer a wide course around Arc. ASCII-only? HTML tables? Quick & dirty versus clogged with mud.
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13 month ago
deusx : JNJ BTW » Blog Archive » You’re Doing What?! - "So, I’ve now lived a classic corporate public affairs nightmare: announcing a lawsuit against the American Red Cross. Would I have chosen this exercise as a reputation-building opportunity for Johnson & Johnson? No, of course not."
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