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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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XPath contains(text(),'some string') doesn't work when used with node with more than one Text subnode
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How to document Ruby code?
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How can I generate PDF metadata from LaTeX?
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132
Go templates: How do I access array item (arr[2]) in templates?
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LaTeX VERY compact itemize
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94
Is there a way to rollback my last push to Git?
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84
How do I convert a String object into a Hash object?
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69
How ensure works in ruby
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54
What are good alternatives to SQL (the language)?
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51
Computing precision and recall in Named Entity Recognition
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48
Java - is there a "subclassof" like instanceof?
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Ruby rescue all exceptions except MyException
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How can I generate PDF metadata from LaTeX?
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43
Running a JAR file without directly calling `java`
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41
Linking libraries to a QT project using pkg-config output
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39
dynamically allocated memory after program termination
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36
why is the output of `du` often so different from `du -b`
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33
Make C++ crash without casting?
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33
Do semantics matter in LaTeX? If not, why not?
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33
Canonical File Path in Ruby
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32
What's the difference between a proc and a lambda in Ruby?
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32
C++ object created with new, destroyed with free(); How bad is this?
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31
Why are List and String identifiers named "xs" (in Scala and other languages)?
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31
What is wrong with using goto?
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29
Elegant Ruby one liners
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29
Which features of shell scripting are relevant for PHP/Python development?
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28
Tail-recursive bounded stream of pairs of integers (Scala)?
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26
Is an 'if password == XXXXXXX' enough for minimum security?
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26
PTIJ: What is the Torah preferred brand of cell phone?
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25
C++ const getter method with lazy initialization
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