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The Daily WTF As oft stated, the specification governing email addresses is complicated, and isn’t really well suited for regular

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The Daily WTF Gloria was a senior developer at IniMirage, a company that makes custom visualizations for their clients. Over a few years,

The Daily WTF It’s incredibly common to convert objects to dictionaries/maps and back, for all sorts of reasons. Jeff‘s co-worker was

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