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Maryam

Ken Thompson's contribution to humanity is grossly underrated.

Feb 04, 2022, 08:46 PM·Public·Tusky
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Bernie

@Maryam I didn't know he's also co-inventor of UTF-8... which seems like an obvious idea today, but Microsoft, Java and many others could only come up with fixed-size encodings that didn't interact well with existing text files.

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