Steve Jolly wrote:
Jonathan Tweed wrote:
Don't forget to also drop at least u, otherwise you might end up with
offensive short codes.
You may have noticed that the programme ids don't have any vowels in
them. This is deliberate ;-)
Sounds like an interesting little algorithmic challenge - what shortcode
generation algorithm eliminates accidental real words while compromising
optimally between simplicity and efficiency?
It's been discussed in the Mac blogosphere recently:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/posts/Random/RASN2-Swears-2007-10-16-15-00.html
Essentially, generate as normal, and reject on matches from a dictionary.
adam
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