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		djacobs on Feb 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg I agree with you. This is simple substitution. (If we're going to call this a regex mechanism, so is Find/Replace in Word.)

djacobs on Feb 14, 2011 [–]

I don't mind downvotes, but what are they for? (I upvoted the parent post out of the negatives and now I'm there... I guess that's karma huh.)

nitrogen on Feb 14, 2011 | [–]

Sometimes they come from fat fingering the downvote button on a cellphone. Such downvotes are usually rectified eventually.

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