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Jonathan Leffler
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Long-time Informix user and developer, experienced in C and Unix (many variants).

Email: [email protected]

Some of my answers to (or thoughts about and experiments towards answers to) Stack Overflow Questions are available on GitHub in my SOQ repository.

FSF Member since April 2011

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"Referer" or "referrer"
Sep 20, 2011
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"Worse comes to worst" or "worst comes to worst"
Jan 17, 2011
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"Forgot" vs "Forget"
Jan 15, 2011
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How long does it take to mull something over?
Feb 9, 2011
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What's the difference between "yet another" and "another"?
Jan 14, 2011
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Why do Americans call single beds ‘twin beds’?
May 30, 2011
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Is it ever worth the time and effort to correct someone else's grating grammatical mistakes?
Nov 27, 2010
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"Woman is the 'n-word' of the world"?
Nov 28, 2010
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When does a mistake become standard usage?
Jan 19, 2011
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Difference between 'obliterate' and 'eliminate'
Mar 15, 2011
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How do I use extern to share variables between source files?
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How can I pipe stderr, and not stdout?
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Capturing multiple line output into a Bash variable
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"static const" vs "#define" vs "enum"
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How can I exclude all "permission denied" messages from "find"?

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