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If anyone tells you that a string (like a command-line argument) contains a lis… | |
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@simontatham So many people do not understand the difference between "not … | |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Hash collisions meet birthday parado… | |
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@simontatham I once had a CS professor quip that something that only happens on… | |
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@simontatham I don't understand why nobody uses 0x1C or 0x1E. They seem exa… | |
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@liw I learned “the rare happens more than you think” when I played #poker… | |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @federicomena@ms… | |
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@simontatham Sometimes the answer is “yeah, this is a bug, but fixing it isn�… | |
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@simontatham I love* how msvcrt on Windows does it – split by unquoted spaces… | |
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@alwayscurious another startling example is Unix PATH – if you have a directo… | |
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@simontatham @alwayscurious Windows has the same problem with PATH, since ; is … | |
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@simontatham '%' in printf. I've seen it. printf(string); Guess wha… | |
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@Dianora @simontatham Name your WiFi %p%s%s%s%s%n and see what breaks. | |
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@simontatham I (and I suspect you) have also met "foo is the separator, fo… | |
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@RogerBW @simontatham Visual Basic solved it like this:"" is an empty… | |
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@simontatham This! Same for quoting ("), key-value stores (:, =), embedded… | |
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@bkuhn @liw @simontatham @federicomena I'm a card cheat. I never do it for … | |
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@ApostateEnglishmanYou should read about the Absolute Poker / Ultimate Bet chea… | |
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@bkuhn @liw @simontatham @federicomena I'll agree that defeating the wash, … | |
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@draeath @simontatham you can’t type them and there’s no standard way to di… | |
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@hailey @simontatham @draeathOne very much can type them, and they are definite… | |
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@simontatham Do you run a mile from almost all #awk variants? (-:Those have an … | |
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@simontatham Don't look up how 'multipart/form-data' works. It'… | |
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@matiasgoldberg @simontatham Multipart pains me so much any time I have to deal… | |
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@mort @matiasgoldberg ugh, I hadn't heard of multipart/x-mixed-replace befo… | |
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@simontatham I think specifically for command-line arguments an other types of … | |
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@jaseg the problem is that in some cases the form of the argument isn't und… | |
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@simontatham and if the string is separated by length, always ask if length ref… | |
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@prauscher @simontatham and does the length include itself or not? | |
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@rogerlipscombe @prauscher the "pax extended header" found in some ta… | |
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@jernej__s @simontatham @alwayscuriousPC-DOS 1.0 appears to forbid ; in filenam… | |
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@bkuhn @liw @federicomena slightly surprised nobody's quoted #TerryPratchet… | |
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@simontatham @bkuhn @liw @federicomena Also Littlewood's law: you see a mil… | |
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood's_law | |
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@simontatham is this secretly about https://github.com/golang/go/issues/74472 ?… | |
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@danvolchek I don't follow Golang at all, so no, it wasn't. But surely … | |
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@RogerBW the really *weird* one is the doubled {{ and }} in Python .format(), w… | |
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@liw and that's just on one CPU – the flip side is, how many people in a … | |
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@simontatham @liw and yet still no Shakespeare ;-) | |
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@demoographics @simontatham @liw well, so far we have *one* Shakespeare | |
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@liw and worse, won't happen _until_ it's in production! | |
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@simontatham @liw and will first effect the most-important customer/organisatio… | |
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@bkuhn @liw @federicomena one in fifty chance doesn't seem so rare when you… | |
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@elexia Indeed 1-to-50 is common when you play 40 hands an hour *but* the examp… | |
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@bkuhn @liw @federicomena mhmm | |
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@nowsterAll-in situations in poker that are 98/2 do not occur hourly. Maybe 2 o… |