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"Impressive" is one word for it, I guess.

LOL. My first thought was, "That's kind of a dick comment." My second thought was, "Oh, it must be tptacek himself." :-)

I had very literally this exact same reaction.

That was exactly my reaction as well.

I wasn't going to comment, but "mhartl" looked familiar. I just wanted to say "thank you" for your Rails Tutorial; I don't think I would have ever learned to program without it. It literally changed my life.

Awesome, glad to hear it!

We're all eating the elephant one byte at a time. With 193,000+ karma his average item gets about six upvotes/resubmissions.

You can get a 'prettier' version by removing .json entirely:

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/tptacek