Posted by Andy Dingley on 06/25/05 23:39

On 25 Jun 2005 17:32:12 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid>
wrote:

>Okay, what are a couple?

Any enormous data stream: genomics, crypto, source code, whatever you
want.

But it's a basic rule of communication that things that are difficult to
read are particularly difficult to make use of. We don't need to read
lines of more than 132 characters because we'd never remeber them, or
transcribe them accurately if we did. If you expect your poor bloody
user to actually _do_ something with these, then they need to be in
smaller chunks - our savannah-dwelling, lion-dodging brains just don't
"do" enormous text strings, unless you're Kim Peek.


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