Ken Bloom

Chicago, IL

iit.edu/~kbloom1

Age: 30

A PhD student in Computer Science, working on natural language processing, with a concentration in sentiment analysis.

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Checkmarks on new SE sites are inconvenient for red-green colorblind users

feature-request status-completed accepted-answer design accessibility asked May 24 '11 at 12:37

meta.stackoverflow.com

27 votes

Test whether a glob has any matches in bash

bash glob asked May 30 '10 at 3:22

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25 votes

Ruby but not Rails on my Resume

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20 votes

Can the Rape-aXe only be removed by a doctor?

medical-science marketing sexual-abuse security asked May 17 '11 at 19:27

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What is the difference between STDIN and $stdin in Ruby?

ruby stdin asked Nov 25 '10 at 17:32

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16 votes

Order of the Tanach

tanach asked May 13 '11 at 14:44

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12 votes

Why did Moshe Rabbeinu object to the mirrors, but not the kumaz?

parshanut-torah-comment tzedakah-charity rashi jewelry asked Mar 26 '12 at 8:15

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10 votes

Women and Mayim Acharonim

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8 votes

Performing complicated XPath queries in Scala

java xml scala xpath jdom asked Jun 16 '10 at 19:01

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8 votes

Are Ruby 1.9 regular expressions equally powerful to a context free grammar?

ruby regex theory context-free-grammar oniguruma asked Jan 22 '12 at 5:49

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