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Code Quality

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I honestly didn't think you could even USE emoji in variable names. Or that there were so many different crying ones.
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discostar101
3290 days ago
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First order of business in the morning: check if gcc accepts emoji variable names
bakablur
3290 days ago
See -fextended-identifiers, but that is \UXXXXXXXX, not utf-8. 🙁
mikedanger
3290 days ago
IIRC you can actually use them in Swift
bakablur
3290 days ago
Survey says...yes: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names#Swift
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jimwise
3290 days ago
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tee-hee, the Ikea one.
mburch42
3290 days ago
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We have some people who write code like this.
bakablur
3290 days ago
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use utf8;
use Encode;
$_ = encode_utf8(chr(0x263a));
$щಥДಥщ = pack("c*",0x6c,0154);
$ಢ_ಢ = "\157";
$ಢ_ಥ = "H";
$ಥ_ಥ = chr(101);
print $ಢ_ಥ.$ಥ_ಥ."$щಥДಥщ@{[$ಢ_ಢ]}";
print;
alt_text_bot
3290 days ago
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I honestly didn't think you could even USE emoji in variable names. Or that there were so many different crying ones.

Google Announcement

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The less popular 8.8.4.4 is slated for discontinuation.
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discostar101
3643 days ago
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And here I intentionally use the 8.8.4.4 one since I expect most people to use the 8.8.8.8. Gotta save those precious precious ms.
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zippy72
3644 days ago
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Ironically, the way Google casually shuts down services, that's kinda believable...
FourSquare, qv
adamgurri
3644 days ago
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discontinuation.
New York, NY
infini
3644 days ago
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at last... the images are working again!
Asia, EU, Africa
tedder
3644 days ago
you probably had 'https everywhere' enabled. they've been working all along for others.
infini
3644 days ago
bingo...
jtgrimes
3644 days ago
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Alt text: The less popular 8.8.4.4 is slated for discontinuation.
Oakland, CA

Tall Infographics

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'Big Data' doesn't just mean increasing the font size.
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discostar101
3850 days ago
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Title text:

Big Data' doesn't just mean increasing the font size.
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bogorad
3848 days ago
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Даа.
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Michdevilish
3850 days ago
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26 Shades of Character
Canada
JayM
3850 days ago
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Sometimes I like info graphics... Usually... Yeah they annoy they heck out of me.
Atlanta, GA
eraycollins
3850 days ago
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More lines running every which way!
dbentley
3850 days ago
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For Bitsy
shrodes
3850 days ago
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Title text:

"'Big Data' doesn't just mean increasing the font size."
Melbourne, Australia