DIP80: phobos additions
Joakim via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 19 18:50:20 PDT 2015
On Sunday, 14 June 2015 at 01:57:37 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> On 6/13/15 11:46 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> On 06/08/2015 03:55 AM, ezneh wrote:
>>>
>>> - Create / read QR codes, maybe ? It seems we see more and
>>> more QR Codes
>>> here and there, so it could potentially be worth it
>>
>> I see them everywhere, but does anyone ever actually use them?
>> Usually
>> it's just an obvious link to some company's
>> marketing/advertising. It's
>> basically just like the old CueCat, if anyone remembers it:
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat>
>>
>> Only time I've ever seen *anyone* actually using a QR code is
>> when *I*
>> use a "display QR link for this page" FF plugin to send the
>> webpage I'm
>> looking at to my phone.
>>
>> Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but I suspect QR is more someone
>> that
>> companies *want* people to care about, rather than something
>> anyone
>> actually uses.
>>
>
> A rather cool usage of QR code I saw was a sticker on a device
> that was a link to the PDF of the manual.
Then there's always this:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/19/8811425/heinz-ketchup-qr-code-porn-site-fundorado
Not the fault of the QR code of course, just an expired domain
name, but still funny. :)
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