Re:Why Is Swift's String API So Hard?
by mikeash on Friday November 06, 2015 @01:19PM
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What's really fun is that URLs always count as 23 characters even if they're shorter. For example, I had a tweet about Apple's Keynote.app fail to send the other day, because Twitter thought "Keynote.app" was a URL and "shortened" it such that my tweet exceeded the length limit afterwards. Fun times.
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Re:Why Is Swift's String API So Hard?
by moron4hire on Friday November 06, 2015 @03:15PM
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Yeah, it's not good. I think Twitter would do well to not hurt users with things like that. Use the restraint of UI to keep people's posts small. It's difficult to type a screed into a single-line textbox. But get rid of any actual character limit at all.