Ken Bloom

Boston, MA

http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/

I did my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Illinois Institue of Technology, working on natural language processing, with a concentration in sentiment analysis. Now I'm a software engineer working on web search at Google.

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Test whether a glob has any matches in Bash

bash glob asked May 30, 2010 at 3:22

stackoverflow.com

75 votes

How to get NaN when I divide by zero

python asked Apr 4, 2012 at 13:05

stackoverflow.com

62 votes

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

feature-request status-completed accepted-answer design accessibility asked May 24, 2011 at 12:37

meta.stackexchange.com

44 votes

What causes std::bad_function_call?

c++ exception lambda c++0x asked Apr 6, 2011 at 13:39

stackoverflow.com

41 votes

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

ruby stdin asked Nov 25, 2010 at 17:32

stackoverflow.com

22 votes

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

medical-science marketing sexual-abuse security asked May 17, 2011 at 19:27

skeptics.stackexchange.com

22 votes

C++ preprocessor #define-ing a keyword. Is it standards conforming?

c++ c-preprocessor asked Apr 28, 2010 at 1:04

stackoverflow.com

19 votes

Order of the Tanach

tanach asked May 13, 2011 at 14:44

judaism.stackexchange.com

15 votes

Women and Mayim Acharonim

minhag women netilat-yadayim-washing asked Aug 26, 2012 at 3:20

judaism.stackexchange.com

14 votes

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

ruby regex theory context-free-grammar oniguruma asked Jan 22, 2012 at 5:49

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XPath contains(text(),'some string') doesn't work when used with node with more than one Text subnode

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213

How to document Ruby code?

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197

How can I generate PDF metadata from LaTeX?

tex.stackexchange.com

158

Go templates: How do I access array item (arr[2]) in templates?

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129

LaTeX VERY compact itemize

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109

Is there a way to rollback my last push to Git?

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How do I convert a String object into a Hash object?

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How ensure works in ruby

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What are good alternatives to SQL (the language)?

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Ruby rescue all exceptions except MyException

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Computing precision and recall in Named Entity Recognition

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Java - is there a "subclassof" like instanceof?

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How can I generate PDF metadata from LaTeX?

tex.stackexchange.com

why is the output of `du` often so different from `du -b`

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dynamically allocated memory after program termination

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Linking libraries to a QT project using pkg-config output

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Running a JAR file without directly calling `java`

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C++ object created with new, destroyed with free(); How bad is this?

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Canonical File Path in Ruby

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What is wrong with using goto?

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Do semantics matter in LaTeX? If not, why not?

tex.stackexchange.com

Make C++ crash without casting?

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What's the difference between a proc and a lambda in Ruby?

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Why are List and String identifiers named "xs" (in Scala and other languages)?

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Elegant Ruby one liners

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Which features of shell scripting are relevant for PHP/Python development?

softwareengineering.stackexchange.com

Tail-recursive bounded stream of pairs of integers (Scala)?

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When do we need #ifdef before #undef?

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PTIJ: What is the Torah preferred brand of cell phone?

judaism.stackexchange.com

Is an 'if password == XXXXXXX' enough for minimum security?

softwareengineering.stackexchange.com