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PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

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Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

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I have a dream... that one day people will name their projects with names that don't exist on google yet. If you search for PEP now you'll find python enhancement proposals, and the "Philippine Entertainment Portal" and the stock code for PepsiCo.

I wish that once people do name their project, they would assign it a 128-bit random number in lower case hex, and include that number on any web page that they would like people searching for their project to find. That way once I know that say PEP the PDF editor exists and find its 128-bit number (let's say that is 379dd864b16eaca3ce94c15a6bdfcc73), at least I can subsequently toss a +379dd864b16eaca3ce94c15a6bdfcc…

I kind of do this in blog. Each page is assigned an UUID.

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

#112
post #87

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Er yeah. Derp. 8 character ascii not 8 bit. It's early. That's 8 bits ^ 8. Or 256 ^ 8. and easily able to be represented searching online with 8 characters.

Don't get discouraged, but you might still have a bug or two to work out with your new and never-before-tried "256^8 and easily able to be represented searching online with 8 characters" design. For your beta test, here are some of the unique 8-char identifiers you might want to try searching for: `unique `, ` unique `, ` unique`, `Unique `, `u^Hunique`, `un^Hnique`, `uniq^H^H^H^H`, ` . . . .`, `. . . . `, `uniqueESC…

Lol, thanks for your totally non sarcastic assistance. It needs some fleshing out.

Re: PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

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post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't get discouraged, but you might still have a bug or two to work out with your new and never-before-tried "256^8 and easily able to be represented searching online with 8 characters" design. For your beta test, here are some of the unique 8-char identifiers you might want to try searching for: `unique `, ` unique `, ` unique`, `Unique `, `u^Hunique`, `un^Hnique`, `uniq^H^H^H^H`, ` . . . .`, `. . . . `, `uniqueESC…

Lol, thanks for your totally non sarcastic assistance. It needs some fleshing out.

If the alternative is a 32 char, 128 bit hex string..I think that's a little excessive to expect people to use especially when an 8 char ascii has way more variation and is way easier to remember.

687c066db3458f7cbd5cc8bd58a65c64.

Vs.

*Xrh6x1!

You just have to eliminate dictionary words.

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