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Greg Bacon
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Claim to Fame: I coined the phrases Perl golf and XY problem.

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What rules make “Remember me, who am your friend” grammatical?
Jun 5, 2011
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25
How do the rules of English inform understanding of one of our language's most disputed sentences?
Jun 5, 2011
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16
What is the plural form of "status"?
Apr 4, 2016
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Clinton's “wonky”
Aug 31, 2016
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Chasing something that doesn't exist
May 24, 2016
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When do nouns convert between mass and count?
Jun 26, 2011
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Why do they call a murder a "red ball" case?
Jun 5, 2011
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How does one pluralize a name that ends with a silent x?
Nov 27, 2015
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What do you call a response which does not address the question?
Sep 14, 2016
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"How are" or "How is" the wife and kid?
Jun 5, 2011
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How can I merge two commits into one if I already started rebase?
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What's the difference between HEAD^ and HEAD~ in Git?
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How can I remove/delete a large file from the commit history in the Git repository?
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How to fix a locale setting warning from Perl
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Match whitespace but not newlines

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