I need my SPACE, symbolically speaking

re: I need my SPACE, symbolically speaking

Susan Morehouse — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:26:56 GMT

I am trying to set up "myspace.com" and the program continually tells me that the password does'nt match.

On reversing the irreversible (grabbing the data, part I)

Sorting It All Out — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:17:39 GMT

The first blog in this series was On reversing the irreversible (the introduction) and the second was

If a bunch of specific Unicode characters can no longer live in the same apartment together, can they really claim that they needed their space?

Sorting It All Out — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:45:58 GMT

So dipaksmistry asks (in an off-topic manner in response to this post): Hi, I have written a small programme.

If you add enough characters to a sort, intuitive distinction can suffer

Sorting It All Out — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:10:49 GMT

I have decided that I need to channel the spirit of the father of comedian of Emo Phillips and juxtapose

"àèìòù" < "äëïöü" but "àèìòù " > "äëïöü"

Sorting It All Out — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:37:21 GMT

You may remember my post I need my SPACE, symbolically speaking from this past March. There are some

Logical StrCmpLogicalW changes in Vista

Sorting It All Out — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:04:38 GMT

I mentioned yesterday in StrCmp for humans? It's in there! that some change happened in the behavior...

'universal-character-name encountered in source'

Sorting It All Out — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:31:39 GMT

The compiler error is C4428: universal-character-name encountered in source. The description of it in...

re: I need my SPACE, symbolically speaking

Michael S. Kaplan — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:19:13 GMT

The person who I believe came up with both of those things is no longer at Microsoft (he left shortly after the new names were announced). The previous name (NGWS) was not so much better, though at least more searchable!

re: I need my SPACE, symbolically speaking

Mihai — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:29:42 GMT

Some guys in marketing should be reading this post.
Then we might stop seeing products called "C#" and ".NET" that messed-up all the search engines :-)

re: I need my SPACE, symbolically speaking

Michael S. Kaplan — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 08:54:57 GMT

Ah, but that gets us into a whole new thing -- how do you describe the expectations of collation of text with "whitespace" as opposed to text with "symbols", really?

In the end, there is not all that much that is different. What was that expression? "A difference that makes no difference, make no difference?" :-)