Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
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You just responded to Nagesh. About spelling and grammar.
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My mistake - it was apparently only prior to World War II that thrusting your thumb upward meant "up yours".
That makes more sense. I give loads of people the thumbs up on my ride to work and have only been knocked off once.
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Why does Discourse even have a link click counter? How is that such vital information that it's been deemed worth the visual noise it imposes? Seems like yet another "because we can" feature.
I've grown to like it. For example, how many of us will get rickrolled despite knowing that's exactly what the link does? or... does it?
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I'm surprised that links to an external domain open in the same window/tab.
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You can change this behavior in your user preferences, if you want all links in post body to open in a new tab.
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is the default configurable by instance? I'd expect it to default to external links.
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Sometimes it is nice to know that the corporate firewall is there to protect us from such foul evil as a rickroll.
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Chrome using the default (I think) sans-serif font, Arial
As far a I can tell, Chrome does it's own font combining. It can do some font combining on Windows 7 where most applications can't.
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Sometimes it is nice to know that
the corporate firewallYoutube is there to protect us from such foul evil as a rickroll.FTFY. It shows "The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
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As far a I can tell, Chrome does it's own font combining. It can do some font combining on Windows 7 where most applications can't.
I don't know what it's doing. Those weird Unicode characters don't display in Chrome, but they do in IE using what appears (with a somewhat careful side-by-side visual comparison) to be the same font. Meh. I can't say that failing to see U+1F4A9 is much of a loss.
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I've grown to like it. For example, how many of us will get rickrolled despite knowing that's exactly what the link does? or... does it?
Okay, so one use case is that people who post troll links like it.Any legitimate use for it?
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I don't know what it's doing. Those weird Unicode characters don't display in Chrome, but they do in IE using what appears (with a somewhat careful side-by-side visual comparison) to be the same font. Meh. I can't say that failing to see U+1F4A9 is much of a loss.
It does display them in Linux. Might be that it is using
wchar_t
the way it was intended as UCS and because in Windows it is 2 bytes only, can't fit the extended characters. While IE started to employ some workaround like treating thewchar_t
as UTF-16 manually.
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Okay, so one use case is that people who post troll links like it.
Any legitimate use for it?
I am so confused by the juxtaposition of these two statements. I mean, posting troll links seems a very legitimate use case
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I've grown to like it. For example, how many of us will get rickrolled despite knowing that's exactly what the link does? or... does it?
Unless they click your link in a quote, in which case there is no link counter...
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It does display them in Linux. Might be that it is using
wchar_t
the way it was intended as UCS and because in Windows it is 2 bytes only, can't fit the extended characters. While IE started to employ some workaround like treating thewchar_t
as UTF-16 manually.Javascript supports characters outside the BMP by representing them as two characters.
var p = '💩'; console.log( p ); // 💩 console.log( p.length ); // 2
Filed under: Surrogate pairs.
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Reminds me of Unicode SQL types.
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Javascript supports characters outside the BMP by representing them as two characters.
Wow.
Not that length wasn't weird already. Consider
var p = 'áá'; console.log(p); // áá console.log(p.length); // 3
Reminds me of Unicode SQL types.
You mean Oracle Unicode types, don't you? For example SQLite passes strings as correct utf-8 or correct utf-16 only. The invalid utf-8 seems to be Oracle-specific abomination.
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You mean Oracle Unicode types, don't you? For example SQLite passes strings as correct utf-8 or correct utf-16 only. The invalid utf-8 seems to be Oracle-specific abomination.
SQL Server, actually. The length column in sys.columns will be double what you expect for Unicode types.
Oh, fun:
declare @test nvarchar(4) = 'test'
select @test, len(@test), DATALENGTH(@test)
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The length column in sys.columns will be double what you expect for Unicode types
Unicode string has at least five (ok, in utf-8 four) distinct notions of length. Number of bytes, codewords, codepoints, characters and letters. Of the last two I am not sure which is which, but there is a distinction in some languages (possibly only Hangul).
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I am so confused by the juxtaposition of these two statements. I mean, posting troll links seems a very legitimate use case
Suddenly the decision to use Discourse makes much more sense.
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Unicode string has at least five (ok, in utf-8 four) distinct notions of length. Number of bytes, codewords, codepoints, characters and letters. Of the last two I am not sure which is which, but there is a distinction in some languages (possibly only Hangul).
[token XKCD standards comic]
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All links are troll links.
Filed under: This is some next level shit, you probably can't understand it.
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All links are troll links.
5th of June? @codinghorror
This is necro-win @codinghorror
Thanks Suggested Topics, I truly enjoyed this topic I forgot about!
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5th of June? @codinghorror This is necro-win @codinghorror Thanks Suggested Topics, I truly enjoyed this topic I forgot about!
Why don't you go and necro some topics on CS? I'm sure some people who still have their e-mail notifications on ( cough @blakeyrat cough) will be grateful.
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That's not a bad suggestion. In said necrotopics, I can link to your post for full blame assignment. @Maciejasjmj is worse than the worst of the worst. Watch out @mikeTheLiar.
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Will notification in spoiler also work?
[spoiler]
@mikeTheLiar @ben_lubar @abarker @the_dragon
@presidentsdaughter @boomzilla
[/spoiler]
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What do you want @nagesh? Do I need to call @the_dragon?
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I shall attack @nagesh on two fronts!
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Will notification in spoiler also work?
[spoiler]
@mikeTheLiar @ben_lubar @abarker @the_dragon
@presidentsdaughter @boomzilla
[/spoiler]Yes
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TMI
mandragon!Stop watching so much pron! I am hunting here! From what I hear, @nagesh is Indian, and I am in the mood for some Indian food.
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It's not my fault featured articles keep linking to it!
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From what I hear, @nagesh is Indian
Or so he would have us believe. @morbiuswilters is of the opinion that it is a Western troll.
I am in the mood for some Indian food.
Bon appetit! Or should I say "बॉन एपेतीत!"Filed under: If the Hindi is wrong, blame Google
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Bon appetit! Or should I say "बॉन एपेतीत!"
Hindi is correct only, but we are not saying this before lunch.
Some Muslim people are fond of saying "Bismillah" before food, but most Hindus just take their food and eAt it.
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I am also knowing of this person Suzie who sing this song in a contest. I am going to post in nice music thread.
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Thanks, I could have done without that, because that was painful.