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  1. Re:I've seen this before by Old+Wolf · · Score: 1 · on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity

    It's scary to me to think that people who write code in the first style get to submit code to important projects like Apache. It looks like a Basic programmer writing in C syntax. Even for a string with no double slashes it is far less efficient than the second style.

    Regarding the second function, it's unaesthetic (to me) to have the ++s twice, how about this:

    no2slash.html

    PS. "Lameness filter encountered. Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." I suspect I wouldn't have got that message if the code were in VB instead of C :(

  2. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux Clusters Finally Break the TeraFLOP barrier
    Maybe we could use it to describe you, this little, insecure, disrupted homophobe?

    Most homophobes are closeted gays with very low self-esteem, and that is just how you look like, with or without your glasses ;)

  3. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux Clusters Finally Break the TeraFLOP barrier
    Maybe we could use it to describe you, this little, insecure, disrupted homophobe?

    Most homophobes are closeted gays with very low self-esteem, and that is just how you look like, with or without your glasses ;)

  4. Re:yes, unicode works, but is unnecessary. by Old+Wolf · · Score: 1 · on Why Unicode Will Work On The Internet
    Anyone who's ever tried to write a page that needs to use multilingual fonts will know that Unicode is by far and away the easiest. I can load a Unicode-compatible text editor, type straight out the letters I want , and save, upload to webserver, and voila! Easy, compatible, and no pissing around with various coding conventions and garbage.

    Here's an example which I did quickly: http://wolf.project-w.com/chess/pieces.html

  5. Re:All Character sets simultaneously?? by Old+Wolf · · Score: 1 · on Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet
    You may want to write a comparative linguistic document, or perhaps write a manual that includes a glossary for various languages.

    Here is an example of such a page:
    http://wolf.project-w.com/chess/pieces.html

    Of course, to view this your browser will need to support Unicode encoding, and have the appropriate Unicode fonts.

    I have also created a test page for various operating systems and browsers to view Unicode text: here.

    My opinion on this debate? When loading this page, I didn't expect to see 75% of it being Americans saying, why doesn't everyone use English (!) A better solution, IMO, would be to pick a character encoding that can a) write all possible characters with a LOT of redundancy (who would ever need 2^31 IP addresses?), and b) not take up too much storage space for simple / common characters (I don't want to use 1K to write one sentence in a 4-byte charset).
    Then, this encoding should be verified with all governments and, pending acceptance, made an ISO standard.

  6. Re:All Character sets simultaneously?? by Old+Wolf · · Score: 1 · on Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet
    You may want to write a comparative linguistic document, or perhaps write a manual that includes a glossary for various languages.

    Here is an example of such a page:
    http://wolf.project-w.com/chess/pieces.html

    Of course, to view this your browser will need to support Unicode encoding, and have the appropriate Unicode fonts.

    I have also created a test page for various operating systems and browsers to view Unicode text: here.

    My opinion on this debate? When loading this page, I didn't expect to see 75% of it being Americans saying, why doesn't everyone use English (!) A better solution, IMO, would be to pick a character encoding that can a) write all possible characters with a LOT of redundancy (who would ever need 2^31 IP addresses?), and b) not take up too much storage space for simple / common characters (I don't want to use 1K to write one sentence in a 4-byte charset).
    Then, this encoding should be verified with all governments and, pending acceptance, made an ISO standard.