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Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- 394 upvotes, 87 downvotes
George Orwell - 1984 -- 372 upvotes, 66 downvotes
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five -- 330 upvotes, 50 downvotes
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game -- 273 upvotes, 62 downvotes
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World -- 268 upvotes, 39 downvotes
George R R Martin - A Game of thrones -- 265 upvotes, 48 downvotes
JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit -- 255 upvotes, 47 downvotes
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 -- 210 upvotes, 38 downvotes
George Orwell - Animal Farm -- 200 upvotes, 44 downvotes
Frank Herbert - Dune -- 189 upvotes, 33 downvotes

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import urllib2
import json

# grab data
raw_data = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/lol8l/time_for_a_new_reddits_favorite_books_thread/.json').read()
thread_data = json.loads(raw_data)[1]
toplevel_comments = thread_data['data']['children']

# extract books, upvotes and downvotes
votes = dict()

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import sys

def can_make(word, letters):
	""" Return True if <word> can be generated using only the letters in the
	    list <letters>. """
	
	if len(word) > len(letters): return False
	
	l = letters[:]

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from string import whitespace, punctuation

def shift(c, shift_by = 2):
    if c in whitespace + punctuation: return c

    upper_ord, lower_ord, c_ord = ord('A'), ord('a'), ord(c)
    c_rel = (c_ord - lower_ord) if c_ord >= lower_ord else (c_ord - upper_ord)
    offset = lower_ord if c_ord >= lower_ord else upper_ord
    return chr(offset + (c_rel + shift_by) % 26)

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import string
from collections import deque

alphabet = string.ascii_lowercase
alphabet_deque = deque(alphabet)
alphabet_deque.rotate(-2)
rotated_alphabet = ''.join(alphabet_deque)
tbl = string.maketrans(alphabet, rotated_alphabet)

msg = 'a quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog'

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#include <algorithm>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

bool can_make(string word, vector<char> letters);
int get_max_len(vector<string> words);

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"use strict;";

// You need htmlparser, soupselect and ent to run this.
// Install them from npm.
var http = require("http");
var fs = require("fs");
var path = require("path");
var htmlparser = require("htmlparser");
var select = require("soupselect").select;
var ent = require("ent");

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import xmpp, time

FB_ID = '[email protected]'
PASS  = 'password'

jid = xmpp.protocol.JID(FB_ID)
client = xmpp.Client(jid.getDomain(), debug=[])

if not client.connect(('chat.facebook.com', 5222)):
    raise IOError('could not connect to Facebook')

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extern mod std;
use std::list::*;

pub fn last_box<T>(l: @List<T>) -> T {
	match *l {
		Nil => fail!(),
		Cons(hd, @Nil) => hd,
		Cons(_, tl) => last_box(tl)
	}
}

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def answer():
    return 42