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Zamaamirotoday at 1:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

Classic over-engineering. Their approach is just fine 90% of the time for the use case it’s intended for.


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orpheatoday at 2:19 PM

75-80% [1], 90%, 99% [2]. In other words, no one has any idea.

I doubt it's anywhere that high because even if you don't write anything fancy and simply capitalize the first word like you'd normally do at the beginning of a sentence, the regex won't flag it.

Anyway, I don't really care, might just as well be 99.99%. This is not a hill I'm going to die on :P

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587286

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586932

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morkalorktoday at 3:23 PM

Except that it's a list of English keywords. Swearing at the computer is the one thing I'll hear devs switch back to their native language for constantly