Slashdot for Sale (again)

[Mr. Analog]

http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/07/28/1855254/dhi-group-inc-announces-plans-to-sell-slashdot-media

So what could be worse than DICE?

*shudder*

TBH I wish it went back to the geeks from whence it came, or at least go back to not having a corporate overlord dictate stupidity like Slashvertisements.

Make it better or let it die :shrug:

[Mr. Analog]

Say hello to BIZX, LLC

http://meta.slashdot.org/story/16/01/29/0247219/slashdot-and-sourceforge-sold-now-under-new-management

Strangely the new owners are reaching out to the people in the comments, I wonder if they will listen and adapt or just keep directing traffic to clickbait (like DICE did)

[Mr. Analog]

This guy has a sense of humor, I likie

[Darren Dirt]

This guy has a sense of humor, I likie

Who? http://slashdot.org/~whipslash ?

[Mr. Analog]

This guy has a sense of humor, I likie

Who? http://slashdot.org/~whipslash ?

Yup, he introduced himself here:
http://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8680057&cid=51393293

Seems to be aware of what bugs us:
http://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8680057&cid=51393557

...and has a sense of humor:
http://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8680057&cid=51393591

[Darren Dirt]

Always fun discovering new resources by clicking links from Slashdot discussions!

One of them asked about new ownership maybe finally fixing the broken code -- specifically related to UTF-16, which is variable length and therefore some of the 4-byte encodings can break code that expects only 2 bytes, etc.


That discussion got me to this:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/102205/should-utf-16-be-considered-harmful


which of course links off to something quite practical!
Full table of "visual" Unicode aka Youtube Comments Cheat Sheet
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/1D000-1DFFF

[Mr. Analog]

The comments have been the real content for a long time now but yeah, some good stuff

haha

[Darren Dirt]

which of course links off to something quite practical!
Full table of "visual" Unicode aka Youtube Comments Cheat Sheet
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/1D000-1DFFF

𝗰𝟘𝟘𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 <-- try searching on this webpage for 0 (zero) or the letter c or l or n or e or s -- in Notepad or even MS Word it is not found (but in modern browsers it seems to "interpret" the non-ASCII chars as their ASCII equivalent, where applicable.)





but re. UTF-16 being "harmful" -- apparently it is pretty recognized as YUP ... heck there's even a website on the subject: http://utf8everywhere.org/

[Tom]

Everyone should just use UCS32. the variable length stuff is a hack