13 votes

string length is complicated

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  1. dblohm7
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    For some context, Henri is our text encoding and HTML parsing guru at Mozilla.

    For some context, Henri is our text encoding and HTML parsing guru at Mozilla.

    6 votes
  2. vakieh
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    Length is easy. This is a symptom of an entirely different problem - one of the 2 hard things. Because the only one of these that is length is where the answer is 1 - all the others are in fact...

    Length is easy. This is a symptom of an entirely different problem - one of the 2 hard things. Because the only one of these that is length is where the answer is 1 - all the others are in fact different interpretations of size.

    3 votes
  3. skybrian
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    I didn't use the original title because the tablet I'm using can't handle whatever emoji they're using. It's still an impressively thorough discussion.

    I didn't use the original title because the tablet I'm using can't handle whatever emoji they're using. It's still an impressively thorough discussion.

    1 vote