And the same may be said about the products we make today 40 years from now. Survivorship bias is the logical error of concentrating on the things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not.

Where is the reference implementation?

I don't see why that warrants taking the github repo down.

Mythtv

Just try and compile this simple program:

> println("System");

It gives this error: "At line undefined, the submission failed to compile with the error: Error: Sorry, but you may not use the keyword 'System'"

This tool has a list of blacklisted words that can not appear in your source code.

I want a product that comes up with new product ideas.

Is Hacker News the new reddit now? Should I start posting graphic memes?

Well, technically a file system is a specialized typed of database. NTFS has some support for removing duplicate files and replacing them with links. Windows server 2008 calls this feature "Single Instance Storage".

This bookmarklet uses xpath to replace every plain text 'the' with 'ye'.

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