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Comment Scaremongering (Score 1) 108

Neon isn't in short supply, you can make neon anywhere by liquifying air. Yes, it's probably cheaper to do in Eastern Europe, but the cost of neon is about 0.0001% of the cost of the hard UV lasers needed for chip production. Not to mention the fabs operating at small feature sizes use argon lasers nowadays, and the shortage of chips of large feature size has more to do with design and logistics problems than supply and demand.

Comment Re:UTF-8 or nothing (Score 2) 61

You could've spent half the time it took writing this gibberish actually looking it up. UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 are all capable of representing the entire Unicode character set. The difference is that UTF-32 is fixed width, while UTF-8 and UTF-16 are variable width encodings. So an UTF-8 character can 1-4 bytes long. You seem to be describing some old MSDOS charset which has nothing to do with Unicode.

Comment A former employer isn't a reliable source (Score 2, Insightful) 192

You shouldn't judge an applicant based on what their former employer says about them the same way you shouldn't trust a person based on what their ex says about them. Of course, good luck explaining that when you don't even get to the interview because a "job verification service" decides that you "lied" on your CV.

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