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  • A Alexander DiMauro

    There is probably a good chance this was posted here before, since it's from 5 years ago, but, I'm a little slow and just found this today from a link on Twitter. Read the accepted answer for this question. Read the whole thing, it's brilliant! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags[^] Any other great answers out there that people know of?

    I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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    Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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    If you want to read some great answers, please read the answers from Jon Skeet[^]'s profile. I didn't get much chance to get answers to my (stupid) questions from Mr. Skeet, but as much as he has answered, were some of the best answers in my questioning history. His method of answering a question is just like asking a question to your own friend.

    The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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    • B Brisingr Aerowing

      This one[^] (First code block)

      What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. --- Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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      realJSOP
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      //
      // Dear maintainer:
      //
      // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
      // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
      // please increment the following counter as a warning
      // to the next guy:
      //
      // total_hours_wasted_here = 42
      //

      F*ckin outstanding. :)

      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
      -----
      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
      -----
      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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        If Jon Skeet can't do it, then it can't be done.

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        I dunno, maybe Chuck Norris could have a crack at it ;P

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        • A Alexander DiMauro

          There is probably a good chance this was posted here before, since it's from 5 years ago, but, I'm a little slow and just found this today from a link on Twitter. Read the accepted answer for this question. Read the whole thing, it's brilliant! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags[^] Any other great answers out there that people know of?

          I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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          Nemanja Trifunovic
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          My favorite one is Shog's answer to the question about the difference between JavaScript and Java[^]:

          Quote:

          One is essentially a toy, designed for writing small pieces of code, and traditionally used and abused by inexperienced programmers. The other is a scripting language for web browsers.

          utf8-cpp

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          • A Alexander DiMauro

            There is probably a good chance this was posted here before, since it's from 5 years ago, but, I'm a little slow and just found this today from a link on Twitter. Read the accepted answer for this question. Read the whole thing, it's brilliant! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags[^] Any other great answers out there that people know of?

            I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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            Lost User
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            Alexander Yee's explanation of why processing a sorted array is faster[^] (well, in that case). Not because it has many upvotes or even because I learned something from it (I didn't), but because it's one of those things that no one seems to know about but are very important anyway, and that answer makes it accessible to those people.

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            • N Nish Nishant

              Why is that funny? Paris's work on the Ubuntu kernel is legendary! :confused:

              Regards, Nish


              Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com

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              Kenneth Haugland
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              Picture/Video or it didn't happen ;P

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              • A Alexander DiMauro

                There is probably a good chance this was posted here before, since it's from 5 years ago, but, I'm a little slow and just found this today from a link on Twitter. Read the accepted answer for this question. Read the whole thing, it's brilliant! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags[^] Any other great answers out there that people know of?

                I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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                Lost User
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                Wow, that didn't even seem like an unreasonable question. Certainly a good way to put people off ever asking a question on SO :wtf:

                How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

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                • L Lost User

                  I like the answer one below....

                  Quote:

                  While it is true that asking regexes to parse arbitrary HTML is like asking Paris Hilton to write an operating system, it's sometimes appropriate to parse a limited, known set of HTML.

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                  Lost User
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                  Probably referring to the new Microsoft Paris Hilton Lens, written entirely in Microsoft new language PH#.

                  How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

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                  • K Kenneth Haugland

                    Picture/Video or it didn't happen ;P

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                    No! Please, for gawd sake NO!

                    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    • R realJSOP

                      //
                      // Dear maintainer:
                      //
                      // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
                      // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
                      // please increment the following counter as a warning
                      // to the next guy:
                      //
                      // total_hours_wasted_here = 42
                      //

                      F*ckin outstanding. :)

                      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                      -----
                      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                      -----
                      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                      Brisingr Aerowing
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                      I know of a lot of code that could use that.

                      What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. --- Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                      • B Brisingr Aerowing

                        This one[^] (First code block)

                        What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. --- Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

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                        Alexander DiMauro
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                        Rickrolled!

                        I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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                          I dunno, maybe Chuck Norris could have a crack at it ;P

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                          Quirkafleeg
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                          This guy would probably delegate him to do it: :) Peter C.

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                          • L Lost User

                            Probably referring to the new Microsoft Paris Hilton Lens, written entirely in Microsoft new language PH#.

                            How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

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                            SortaCore
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                            Visual PH# Studio 2015 SP3 to be released with three editions: Ultimate, Professional, and Express[ly Irritating].

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                              I dunno, maybe Chuck Norris could have a crack at it ;P

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                              (MQOTD rules and previous solutions)

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                              Freak30
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                              It was already mentioned in the comments. "Chuck Norris doesn't parse HTML. When he shows up it parses itself."

                              The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.

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                              • A Alexander DiMauro

                                There is probably a good chance this was posted here before, since it's from 5 years ago, but, I'm a little slow and just found this today from a link on Twitter. Read the accepted answer for this question. Read the whole thing, it's brilliant! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags[^] Any other great answers out there that people know of?

                                I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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                                Dan Neely
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                                Quote: @Kent-Sharkey

                                Now we need a collection from CP

                                First someone needs to figure out how to make non-article content her visible over the long term. CP's forum archives have been invisible to Google for as long as I can remember (probably because performance is(was?) appalling); and I've never seen a QA when I Google something.

                                Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                                • A Alexander DiMauro

                                  There is probably a good chance this was posted here before, since it's from 5 years ago, but, I'm a little slow and just found this today from a link on Twitter. Read the accepted answer for this question. Read the whole thing, it's brilliant! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags[^] Any other great answers out there that people know of?

                                  I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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                                  Lost User
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                                  I wish to answer by similar way to classic C "How to convert hex to binary" question.

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                                  • L Lost User

                                    Alexander Yee's explanation of why processing a sorted array is faster[^] (well, in that case). Not because it has many upvotes or even because I learned something from it (I didn't), but because it's one of those things that no one seems to know about but are very important anyway, and that answer makes it accessible to those people.

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                                    Jose Ernesto Lara Rodriguez
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                                    Oh, I love that answer. Indeed, it's something kind of obscure and many people (like me) never suspected it, however it makes a tremendous impact on execution speed. And it's a very complicated issue explained in very simple words. Simply brilliant.

                                    Sore wa ore no nindo da!

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                                    • S SortaCore

                                      Visual PH# Studio 2015 SP3 to be released with three editions: Ultimate, Professional, and Express[ly Irritating].

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                                      User 10300468
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                                      PH#, it's pronounced: Pee Ache Ow! I cut myself!

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                                      • R realJSOP

                                        //
                                        // Dear maintainer:
                                        //
                                        // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
                                        // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
                                        // please increment the following counter as a warning
                                        // to the next guy:
                                        //
                                        // total_hours_wasted_here = 42
                                        //

                                        F*ckin outstanding. :)

                                        ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                                        -----
                                        You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                                        -----
                                        When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                                        Kirk 10389821
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                                        I have to admit, I started to look for the code JUST to see if I could optimize it :-)))) I think I have a character flaw!

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