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I'm trying to figure out what sci-fi book I read in junior high, about 25 years ago.

The book is post-apocalyptic although I don't know the nature of the apolcalypse: either 
nuclear and/or environmental.  The story centers around a young man who lives with his 
father. They live in some sort of oppressive society and have to keep things (or 
people?) hidden beneath their house. I think they grow their own food down there, which 
is against the law. They use the dirt they've dug up as sound insulation in their walls. 
Something is wrong with the air and they can't always be outside, or they need special 
breathing gear. I don't remember anything about the story arc, but at the end they go 
out to the desert and find a hatch that takes them to a passenger jet that is buried 

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  #
  # TODO: Implement this test some day
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1. You followed this link.
2. You followed this link.
3. You followed this link.
4. You followed this link.
5. You followed this link.
6. You followed this link.
7. You followed this link.
8. You followed this link.
9. You followed this link.
10. You shared this link with someone else.

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From Python
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List comprehensions (and set/dictionary comprehensions too)
Decorators*
Implicit truthiness for values and containers (False: empty string, empty list, None, etc.)
Formatting w/o need to count braces or parens (much)
English keywords for logic operators (or, and, not, is)
Friendlier ternary syntax. (return x if x else y)

From Ruby

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(From Slashdot Q&A http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/13/1410230/interviews-freeman-dyson-answers-your-questions)

How has your education helped or hindered you? You are the "ideal" educated man. In our (American) culture, we don't seem to be producing people devoted to learning, discovering, thinking, inventing, etc. What in your opinion can an educational system do to foster what you've become? 

Dyson: I was extremely lucky because I came through the British education system during the war when everything was screwed up. The whole system depended on written examinations and we did not have enough ships to import paper. So there was no paper and no exams. Also there was a high shortage of teachers since all the young people were away fighting the war. As a result, I was in class only seven hours a week. A wonderful time to get an education. We had maximum freedom, and the kids learned more from one another than we would have learned from teachers. 

The kids today spend far too much time in class and a

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Meta about Tour of Go

Use of packages is nice.

Import syntax with quotes, as in Ruby. I don't like this. You quote the package name but then refer to the imported thing with a plain identifier? Why not omit the quotes so it is uniform?

Types after identifiers is weird, but I get the motivation. Should have gone all the way so everything works uniformly though.
Pointer syntax didn't have to be a star. Other options available.

Result parameters are interesting. But why do I have to say "return" at all?

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I have heard of an emulator of Peregrinos, a post-war writer who, after having finished his first book, committed suicide to attract attention to his work. Attention was in fact attracted, but the book was judged no good.

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class EzekielTemplin
  def initialize
    @birthdate  = Date.parse('1983-06-29')
    @gender     = "male"
  end

  def age
    #still derp
    Date.today.year - @birthdate.year
  end