Dapp-a-day 17: Character Development
Up until now, the dapp-a-days have been short, they've been long,
they've been complex. Some have been extremely simple, but they've
all been interesting in their own way.
Today, we're going to look at something different... something weird.
Something that falls rather outside our normal frame of reference.
Yeah, we're not really going to be talking about bits or bytes today,
because this day is about the emotions behind the bits and the bytes.
What's weird about emoji symbols is not that they don't fit in bytes.
Bytes are rectangular, while emoji are typically round or irregular.
Emotions are often very strong, deriving from things like
circumstances, moods, and personal relationships.
Well. How many bits does it take to make a cat cry with tears of joy?
How many cold ASCII hearts did it take, and did you even understand?
How many tears were spilled those endless nights in Boulder when you
cried and cried and begged me to go into the mountains and escape?
You can't use regular math for this. You need a special kind of math,
a much more sensitive and emotional, a context-dependent math.
You need Nick Johnson's string utility library.