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I believe a big part of the idea is for the hash to be unpredictable as well. If I figure out you're using (36) then I know the next number 1234567891 is "kf12oj". Not the case with Sqids.
No, squids are predictable, you can't use them to hide information. They call it out on their front page.
Side note: there are some business insights you can get from a company using serial ids. i.e if you sign up and get user id 32588 and make another account a few days later, you can tell the growth rate of the company. And this is possible with every resource type in the application. I do wonder how much the url bar junk thing matters these days. I tend to use uulids (waiting on uuid v7 wide adoption), and they're a b…
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The stupid simple way I did this ages ago was: 1. Start with a-z. 2. Drop all vowels, numbers, most homoglyphs, and the letter 'x'. 3. Map digits 0-9 to one of the remaining letters. 4. Stringify the integer and replace the digit in each decimal place with its corresponding character. For my use-case, all the numbers were >7 digits long, so the odds of you getting an offensive acronym were reasonably low unless you s…
Most numbers can be used as letters or phonemes. I could give a fuck about avoiding swear words, but if you want to avoid slurs and eyebleach-inducing ideas and still have any sort of compact representation, I suspect we have to look not at problematic letters but problematic groups of letters. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the letter E. Not with G, I, N, or R, but you can sure get a lot of attention you d…
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Could you just remove vowels and hit 99.9% of profanity in all languages? Ditto for removing their 0-9 equivalents, if you're really worried about it. Quick out of the box support for that via being able to define a custom alphabet.
You might still have issues with generating sequences like "XtrmlyBdWrd" that are still recognizable.
The problem of "pick any N symbols that don't make any profanity in any language across all time" isn't what this is solving, nor should it have to. Take the same concept but use whitelisted words to build the token if you're that adverse to computer generated, fill in the blank naughty words. Keep "pen" and "island", among other things, off that list ;)
is there anyway to generate short unique id's from UUID's? snowflake is incredibly slow when joining UUID => UUID columns.
Side note: there are some business insights you can get from a company using serial ids. i.e if you sign up and get user id 32588 and make another account a few days later, you can tell the growth rate of the company. And this is possible with every resource type in the application. I do wonder how much the url bar junk thing matters these days. I tend to use uulids (waiting on uuid v7 wide adoption), and they're a b…
Can confirm, when I worked in VC we used this to verify order volume for a number of startups we were evaluating. For one startup, I wrote a bot to place a small order a few times a day, and log the order number.
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ehm, yeah, n=2 will not get you anything useful... that'll be like trying to determine the average salary in a company with only two known ones, which could be the janitor's and the CEO's
> that'll be like trying to determine the average salary in a company with only two known ones, which could be the janitor's and the CEO's Ironically that would be somewhat close to the actual average.
I think the "unique IDs" part of the title throws people off and brings security to mind. "The main use of Sqids is purely visual" is what you need to know. It's not necessarily for IDs, it's just a user-friendly way to encode/decode numbers.
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Did they never make an IKEA purchase after that or did they get over it like a normal adult? I don't work retail, but something tells me people will make a stink out of just about anything if it meant potentially free products or other compensation. Plus, are you filtering just English curse words or all curse words for countries that use Latin characters?
The risk is not in offending someone, but in that someone posting the rude string on social media in real or mock indignation, causing the outrage machine to turn on your brand. There’s a steady supply of bottom-feeding journalists waiting to write the article “IKEA’s new system is sending hate messages to customers”.