? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @rockhopper ever

July 8th, 2011

I described a piece of clever code to a co-worker, and he said “all that stuff you just told me… write it down in a comment at the top”.

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I believe I am looking for the term “backreference”.

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Looking for the term to describe “\1” in regex search/replace, as in s/foo([0-9])/bar\1/g .

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zefrank prolly the best tribute photo i have seen for the last shuttle launch :: http://t.co/ORO0bpi

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Spectacular view from the shuttle’s external fuel tank camera. Blue Earth, black sky, separation, Atlantis continuing to orbit, tank falls.

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Parking myself in front of a NASA TV feed… STS-135 shuttle launch in 15 minutes!

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