Afaik the main reason for base58 is making it impossible to mistake an 'I' for an 'l', etc.
Beeing able to always double-click is a nice added bonus, though.
Exactly this.
I try to explain this to people in layman terms like this:
Comcast ist trying to charge the water fountain, saying it "wants" to pump to much water into people's homes.
It would be interesting to know if this transformative use of the multicolor charsets counts as copyright infringement.
I know "normal" (vector) fonts are not protected by copyright because they don't cross the threshold of originality, but I personally wouldn't lump the examples in the article into the same category.
In any case it is really interesting to see how much creativity was put into the distribution of warez…
Every Bitcoin address includes a checksum at the end, so while you can make up any address like in this example, the checksum still needs to be correct in order to form a valid address.
It's a great feature against typos, btw.
It might not have been a "commercial success", but one has to appreciate the irony of you arguing against the impact of NeXT while using a medium that was invented/first developed on this platform:
I couldn't have said it better.
Also, I have yet to see a more compelling example of clever composition in vim than "delete 3 lines" (which even I do when rarely using vim).
I would strongly disagree that atom commands are not "composable" (though it depends on your workflow/mental model). To take the select/delete example: atom can select to the end of the line, and it supports the delete key.
How is select-than-delete not composition?
