As a black programmer, I remember the cliche about problems and regular expressions in my head as "regular expressions are like calling the cops."
That's unfair to regular expressions, though, because I actually have seen them solve a problem before. Cops improving a situation? Never seen it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7234978
pessimizer wins teh intarnets.
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