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Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Post by connellybarnes »

pg wrote: post #75
jgrahamc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why CSS or HTML are being mentioned during the design of Arc. These seem like library issues and your announcement of Arc was spoiled IMHO by the "rant" about HTML and tables. This is only made worse by the Arc Challenge which seems to be more about the design of libraries for HTML/HTTP etc. than the language. What am I missing?

I could tell from all the people already dissing Arc before it was released that whatever I released was going to be attacked on any possible pretense. So, like someone bracing himself to be hit, that was what I was thinking about as I was about to release it: what are people going to seize upon as a way of attacking it? Which meant that was what much of the initial announcement ended up being about. It was a pretty…

Actually, it's probably beneficial to encourage flames. Your users are hackers, and flamewars are the only form of public dialogue among hackers. Ergo...

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Post by gojomo »

tocomment wrote: post #108
gojomo wrote: post #7

♫♪♫ to my ears. I ♥ unicode! To ∞ and beyond, ☺

How do I make the infinity? Actually where do I get all those symbols?

I used WindowsXP 'Character Map' accessory for the ♫♪ and ♥. I think I copied and pasted the ∞ and ☺ from http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ .

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Post by [deleted] »

docmach wrote: post #119
eusman wrote: post #113

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http://www.unicode.org/charts/ (characters) http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html (geometrical shapes etc) As I understand only UTF-8 is supported, so forget characters for UTF-16 and UTF-32 (but you rarely need these anyway)

UTF-8 can represent any Unicode character.

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Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Post by eusman »

docmach wrote: post #119
eusman wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/ (characters) http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html (geometrical shapes etc) As I understand only UTF-8 is supported, so forget characters for UTF-16 and UTF-32 (but you rarely need these anyway)

UTF-8 can represent any Unicode character.

yeah i confused that with ISO 10646 (has the 3 levels which specify unicode, not all levels support the same characters) and UCS2, which UCS2 is essentially UTF-16, so i meant if he used any characters bytecoded in UTF-16 essentially he'd have a problem, although utf-8 doesnt support certain octets. UTF-8/16 were not yet part of the standard before UCS version 2.0. Been a while I guess since i got updated

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Post by rokhayakebe »

paulgb wrote: post #64
rokhayakebe wrote: post #41

geeks. you guys forget about us sometimes. what is this?

Hacker News now supports "utf-8", a way of storing text that supports characters from languages other than English. The excitement comes from the fact that Hacker News is programmed in Arc, and the change to Hacker News implies that Arc will soon support utf-8 too.

thank you sir

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Post by jgrahamc »

pg wrote: post #75
jgrahamc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why CSS or HTML are being mentioned during the design of Arc. These seem like library issues and your announcement of Arc was spoiled IMHO by the "rant" about HTML and tables. This is only made worse by the Arc Challenge which seems to be more about the design of libraries for HTML/HTTP etc. than the language. What am I missing?

I could tell from all the people already dissing Arc before it was released that whatever I released was going to be attacked on any possible pretense. So, like someone bracing himself to be hit, that was what I was thinking about as I was about to release it: what are people going to seize upon as a way of attacking it? Which meant that was what much of the initial announcement ended up being about. It was a pretty…

Fair enough, and after all: "Real programmers ship"

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Post by LaurieCheers »

pg wrote: post #75
jgrahamc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why CSS or HTML are being mentioned during the design of Arc. These seem like library issues and your announcement of Arc was spoiled IMHO by the "rant" about HTML and tables. This is only made worse by the Arc Challenge which seems to be more about the design of libraries for HTML/HTTP etc. than the language. What am I missing?

I could tell from all the people already dissing Arc before it was released that whatever I released was going to be attacked on any possible pretense. So, like someone bracing himself to be hit, that was what I was thinking about as I was about to release it: what are people going to seize upon as a way of attacking it? Which meant that was what much of the initial announcement ended up being about. It was a pretty…

I thought you handled it pretty well. Basically, you wrote a big sign saying "here is the bike shed", to make sure bike-shed commenters had something to occupy them. :)
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