Warner Bros repeated includes its own URL in piracy takedowns

religious education?

[often if I reread uncommented regexp scripts I wrote years ago I have a head-scratch moment - what the fuck does this? why does it even work? voodoo and black magic, believing* in my former self helps]

* in the religious just-don’t-check-it sense

Ah yes. “I just googled the solution to the problem, and if I copy and paste this line into powershell, everything works out. Now to add it to my enormous spreadsheet of code snippets and forget about it.”

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Right. And the “g” stands for “google”, doesn’t it? As in “google regular expressions program”.

ducks swiftly

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2 out of 4 … well, that’s not too bad for some purposes, I guess. (Now I’m just waiting to hear that from a student.)

That’s sarcasm son. Look up TECO and DDT…they predate GREP by years.

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Which of course is the reason you and your like are not in charge at Google. Just saying.

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