15:[[11610858,{"by":"yanowitz","descendants":364,"id":11610858,"kids":[11611739,11611603,11611386,11611087,11612265,11611194,11613766,11611032,11611606,11611113,11612078,11611837,11611049,11611040,11615247,11611203,11611304,11615983,11611497,11613636,11615429,11614326,11611374,11611174,11614912,11611385,11612999,11617197,11611196,11616785,11611055,11616281,11611889,11611568,11614089,11611065,11611675,11615612,11611063,11614778,11614120,11611281,11611500],"score":305,"time":1462193086,"title":"After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight","type":"story","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html"}],[2583605,{"by":"dohop1","descendants":20,"id":2583605,"kids":[2583991,2583808,2584184,2583728,2583995,2584101,2584311],"score":63,"text":"","time":1306323720,"title":"6 Unusual City Maps, Locals vs Tourists","type":"story","url":"http://blog.dohop.com/index.php/2011/05/19/locals-vs-tourists/"}],[1006923,{"by":"scorxn","descendants":36,"id":1006923,"kids":[1007086,1007094,1007689,1007253,1007207,1007553,1007506,1007580,1007216,1007324,1007233,1007760,1007243,1007942,1007504,1007073,1007127,1007319,1007318,1007347],"score":148,"text":"","time":1261358289,"title":"The official term for the smell after it rains","type":"story","url":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor"}],[916999,{"by":"3pt14159","descendants":64,"id":916999,"kids":[917131,917155,917052,917101,917099,917210,917190,917122,917325,917261,917087,918043,917144,917344,917763,917322,917279,917434,918297,917379,917377,917526,917622,918267,917517,917097],"score":41,"text":"I'm sure many of you guys and gals know this. And it might be just one of those things that I have somehow missed during all my time coding QBASIC, VBA, C++, C, Ruby, Python, etc...

Most of the time when you are writing an if statement, you are comparing a mutable variable to something constant (i.e. variable to string, variable to integer, variable to symbol), so you can avoid the assignment-instead-of-comparison bug by writing constant == variable instead of variable == constant. This way if you forget one of the equals signs you'll get a syntax error. The key with this is you have to get in the habit of doing it and do it all the time, so that you don't have a false sense of security. \nSo instead of:

if foo.to_str == \"hi everyone!\\n\"

  puts \"hello there!\"  \n

\nend

use

if \"hi everyone!\\n\" == foo.to_str

  puts \"hello there!\"  \n

\nend","time":1257177472,"title":"Something simple I wish I learned 17 years ago","type":"story"}]]

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