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I got the solution but didn't understand it for the beginner "naughty" puzzle ... http://regexcrossword.com/challenges/beginner/puzzles/2

so in your first example, "AB" was in the capture group and the \1 repeats it?

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

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

Wish there were an offline open source version. With the exception of DHH, do they believe in Open Source in Denmark? (jk)

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 …

not a very useful project. Problem for journalists isn't "how to inspect edits" but rather "which edits on which entries should I inspect"

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…

It is a separate argument, but they are related because the question eventually arises, "how do you prove that such a programmer exists."