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by razster 2057 days ago
I registered <b>Be</b> for a small company a long time ago. I thought it was clever. They folded during the tech bubble.
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clearly, it was older as now it would be encouraged to use <strong>Be</strong>
<b>Be</b>, <strong>be</strong>, but donโ€™t <head>be</head>. That's an illegal act of violence.
isn't illegal html too? i've never seen raw text the head tag.
That's actually kind of clever, albeit developer centric.
Also, too many vowels for a modern company name.
<blink>Be</blink>
<blink>Blink</blink> -- It's a deprecated tag now, and most browsers don't support it, but I would have loved to have seen that as a company... <marquee> is still supported though....
Bold bee?
Be bold ?
๐—•๐—ฒ
Iโ€™ve never seen bold in an HN comment before? How do you do it?
๐”๐ง๐ข๐œ๐จ๐๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ.

๐—จ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜.

๐‘ˆ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘–๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘ก.

๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต.

๐‘ผ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’๐’…๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’๐’๐’๐’Œ ๐’”๐’Š๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’“ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‡๐’๐’“๐’Ž๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’•.

๐™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™˜๐™ค๐™™๐™š ๐™๐™–๐™จ ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™  ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ž๐™ก๐™–๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™ข๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ญ๐™ฉ.

(Don't do this: it's _terrible_ for accessibility, as screen readers can't parse these as regular text)

Can confirm. All I see are [X]'s.

๐”๐ง๐ข๐œ๐จ๐๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ.

I'm curious if that copied the text or the placeholders. It's like hunter2 for the modern era.

FWIW for most of these sorts of things you can scrub it via passing the text through an NFKC or NFKD transform. I'd hope that a screen reader can be updated to handle this case.
These are Unicode characters intended for use in mathematical formulas, not text, so they break all sorts of things. It might make some sense to use them in mathematical Python code (where they do seem to work), but they're hard to type.
Looks like Unicode characters to me.
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