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I posted this yesterday, it was flagged.

Today, I am posting it again because I believe the HN readers will benefit from it. Why? The majority of HN readers work in IT or adjacent information fields; we communicate information with strings aka words.

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It has been flagged again after being #1 on frontpage.

Falsehoods programmers believe about strings: All strings are words.

More seriously: While I find the topic appropriate for HN, connecting the topicality to the use of strings in IT is weird. If the ban only applied to audio or sign language, the topic wouldn’t be any less appropriate.

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