Edmontonian

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by Edmontonian 12y ago
I got the solution but didn't understand it for the beginner "naughty" puzzle ... http://regexcrossword.com/challenges/beginner/puzzles/2
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by Edmontonian 12y ago
so in your first example, "AB" was in the capture group and the \1 repeats it?
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by Edmontonian 12y ago
The help button doesn't really explain that point ( I don't think) at least not in a very clear way for someone inexperienced with regex
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by Edmontonian 12y ago
What does it mean when a reg ex ends with a `\1` (backslash 1) as in this example third beginner puzzle? (.)+\1 http://regexcrossword.com/challenges/beginner/puzzles/3
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by Edmontonian 12y ago
Wish there were an offline open source version. With the exception of DHH, do they believe in Open Source in Denmark? (jk)
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by Edmontonian 12y ago
The most recent Pulitzer Prize winner for journalism (Glenn Greenwald) says journalism is an "adversarial" process. However, adversarial is by nature a two way street. Journalists who go digging into the lives of people and busin
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by Edmontonian 12y ago
not a very useful project. Problem for journalists isn't "how to inspect edits" but rather "which edits on which entries should I inspect"
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by Edmontonian 12y ago
this is silly, the comparison to bloodletters was made to undercut the assertion that people's experience is a reasonable way to evaluate ideas, but human beings rely on experience at all times to evaluate. You're trying to justi
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by Edmontonian 12y ago
It is a separate argument, but they are related because the question eventually arises, "how do you prove that such a programmer exists."
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Do 10x Programmers Exist? Says Who?(medium.com)
2 points by Edmontonian 12y ago|5 comments