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				    Browser plugin idea:
 Hide all comments that contain blank spaces between words and following punctuation. (Like this .)
 
 This would like eliminate 90% of rambling ranting hate spouting madmen from any comment section!4
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				    As an -absolute beginner-, don't try to prove yourself by doing everything on your own after only a short explanation.
 Rather ask as many questions as you need to finish it. One questions more now, saves 20 headaches later.
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				    Haven't yet been able to formulate a question that StackOverflow didn't downvote to oblivion.
 
 I tried to follow all the rules. No chance.13
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				    Anyone else here trying to access the menu of any service display they come across. Can't help it ;)
 (Or trying to find an outgoing link if the display is set to a certain website.)
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				    · 10 sales on Play Store
 · 1 star review because "good app, but doesn't have that particular function"
 · 0 sales on Play Store4
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				    Anyone else here that doesn't answer people that only write "hi" to initiate a conversation?
 
 I always feel like they try to put me in charge of leading the convo. You wouldn't call someone and just say Hi, now would you?6
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				    What's the strangest Assembler or Pseudo-Assembler you've ever encountered?
 
 I wrote a Z-machine (Infocom's virtual text adventure interpreter) and it was quite an interesting interpretation of bytes:
 - The first 3 bits of an instruction tell you the opcode category, the rest are the instruction
 - The 2nd (and maybe 3rd) byte tell you in 2-Bit chunks the operand types.
 - text is encoded in 5-Bit chunks, with special characters for CapsLock that double function as padding (if your text doesn't align with the 3 letters per 2 bytes).
 - and of course there are 5 different versions that all work slightly differently (as in CapsLock becomes Shift or "this special character isn't in use anymore")3
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				    Think about it:
 It wouldn't be a real "bug" if it needed a 200 line fix. These little insects are so tiny they can easily hide even behind a misplaced apostrophe.
 
 (In response to people getting upset about 1 line being enough to fix a 3 day problem)2

