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Created February 2, 2016 06:33
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Generate 4 alpha-numberic symbols, useful for SMS services, DOM id attrs
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generate-short-uid.js
//this will generate 8wde for example
function genShortUid() {
return ('0000' + (Math.random()*Math.pow(36,4) << 0).toString(36)).slice(-4);
}
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