Hacker News Reader

Comment by walrus | Hacker News Reader

To whoever changed the title: it really was supposed to be "I � Unicode", not "I Love Unicode". The "�" symbol is embedded in the document as a raster image, so the author really meant for it to be that; it wasn't just a font rendering issue on your end.

View on HN

We changed it back.

Edit: Normally we take attention-grabbing Unicode glyphs out of titles since they disrupt the placid bookishness of HN's front page. But this is one is so tasteful and content-appropriate that it seems obviously a special case.

Thanks!

Author here. The title was a pun. � is U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER which may possibly replace a badly encoded heart.

Is the video of the talk available somewhere?

I'm one of the conf organizers: we were on a budget and didn't record any talk. Will try to fix that for next year.

Recording a talk only takes a phone these days? I know I know it won't be professional recording but I have good luck with just recording from the front row.

I agree. A cheap (iPhone) recording is still better than nothing.

It won't be a recording that you could bear listening to. Even more professional setups/bigger conferences often screw up the audio so that the recording is basically binnable.

Can't you just record the audio via whatever computer the mic is attached to?

Syncing video to audio is always a pain, but I wouldn't mind desync to see it.

Yeah but for some reason they don't always do this. Also in case they actually do that part right, they often don't give people who ask questions a mic and don't repeat their questions. Then you don't have any idea what the presenter is talking about.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com