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Resident_Geekon Go to Trial - Crash the Justice System

I'm having a tough time with this one. From Google, possibilities for "epicenter of the housing meltdown are":

- Phoenix, AZ (Maricopa County): DA won the 2008 election, resigned in 2010 to run for state AG

- Cuyahoga County, OH: heavily Democratic

- San Joaquin County, CA: DA in office since 2006

- Stanislaus County, CA: female DA, in office since 2006

- Atlanta, GA: heavily Democratic

- Las Vegas, NV (Clark County): DA in office from ~2003-2012, then retired

None of them seem to fit (I was surprised it wasn't Maricopa County). A mystery...

Resident_Geekon What Happens When You Swear At Your Users

"Misogyny" means "hatred of women", nothing more, nothing less. This is not misogyny by any stretch of the imagination.

Resident_Geekon Google Code Search team says Goodbye

> I wonder if they used a regex for that?

Not possible. You have to parse the file fully to extract that information; regular expressions aren't powerful enough.

Resident_Geekon Panic of the Plutocrats

But isn't that the point? Lots of people aren't unhappy with the world right now, and, wouldn't you know it, they mostly seem to be the people who have the power to change things.

Resident_Geekon How to Rock an Algorithms Interview

I disagree with your first sentence. When I had a month of downtime between graduating college and interviews, I read CLRS (nearly) cover-to-cover, and did approximately 1/4-1/3 of the problems (with an emphasis on chapters and sections I had a weaker grasp on). I can't be the only one.