# Misc

**URL:** https://discuss.dgraph.io/c/misc/9.md?page=3

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## [Deeply nested quireis by edges](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/deeply-nested-quireis-by-edges/1281)

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**Author:** [@artemklv](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/artemklv)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 16, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/deeply-nested-quireis-by-edges/1281 "2017-02-16T11:59:28Z")

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Hallo, is it possible to make deeply nested queries by edges in dgraph. i don’t so examples in wiki?

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## [Minimal Dgraph example for newbies](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/minimal-dgraph-example-for-newbies/1241)

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**Author:** [@katopz](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/katopz)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [January 25, 2017, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/minimal-dgraph-example-for-newbies/1241 "2017-01-25T06:14:20Z")

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Refer to { debug(allof("type.object.name.en", "steven spielberg")) { type.object.name.en film.director.film { type.object.name.en film.film.initial\_release\_date film.film.country film.f…

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## [Deep Work - Learnings](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/deep-work-learnings/1090)

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**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/deep-work-learnings/1090 "2017-01-14T17:03:47Z")

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I read the book Deep Work and found it a pretty nice read. I will try to summarize some of the main points that I found good. What is shallow work? It is non-cognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performe…

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## [Expense Classification](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/expense-classification/1006)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/expense-classification/1006 "2017-01-02T15:22:25Z")

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Hey @jchiu, I use ledger for expense categorization. I have essentially these categories as you can imagine, all predefined. And a whole bunch of past expenses which have been pre-categorized as well. I want to run the …

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## [RocksDB on librados/Ceph cluster](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rocksdb-on-librados-ceph-cluster/1181)

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**Author:** [@adam](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/adam)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 30, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rocksdb-on-librados-ceph-cluster/1181 "2016-12-30T15:20:05Z")

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The other day, while catching up on talks I heard Sage Weil mention something that I thought might interest people in the Dgraph community. The Ceph team, has made it possible run RocksDB directly on a distributed librad…

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## [Jeff Dean's talk about rapid response times](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/jeff-deans-talk-about-rapid-response-times/83)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [November 26, 2016, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/jeff-deans-talk-about-rapid-response-times/83 "2016-11-26T10:40:19Z")

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Hey @staff, Take time to watch this video, and read his paper. Jeff Dean along with Sanjay Ghemawat, is a pioneer at Google, leading almost all the externally popular infrastructure technologies, i.e. Mapreduce, GFS, Bi…

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## [Neo Techcrunch article mentions Dgraph](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/neo-techcrunch-article-mentions-dgraph/1103)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 25, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/neo-techcrunch-article-mentions-dgraph/1103 "2016-11-25T03:08:07Z")

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Mentions Dgraph as a competitor. That’s pretty awesome! :slight\_smile:

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## [Binary encoding, Flatbuffers and GRPC by Manish](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/binary-encoding-flatbuffers-and-grpc-by-manish/1001)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 13, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/binary-encoding-flatbuffers-and-grpc-by-manish/1001 "2016-10-13T12:17:07Z")

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## [Go test -race Under the Hood](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/go-test-race-under-the-hood/990)

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**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 11, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/go-test-race-under-the-hood/990 "2016-10-11T11:27:59Z")

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5erqWdlhQLA. Introduces the go race detector and goes into the internals of how it works. I’d have to see this again to understand it better. It doesn’t give any practical tips but would …

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## [Dgraph lint an alternative to houndci for Go](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/dgraph-lint-an-alternative-to-houndci-for-go/983)

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**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/dgraph-lint-an-alternative-to-houndci-for-go/983 "2016-10-10T03:17:21Z")

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We have been using houndci for a bit and it has been working fine for us. Though the fact that it comments on auto-generated files and there is no way to get it to ignore those is very irritating. Thanks to learning Fri…

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## [Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/good-software-takes-ten-years-get-used-to-it/972)

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**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 7, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/good-software-takes-ten-years-get-used-to-it/972 "2016-10-07T02:50:35Z")

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Joel Spolsky on time required to build good software. The article is a bit old but relevant nonetheless.

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## [Vim anti patterns](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/vim-anti-patterns/973)

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**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 7, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/vim-anti-patterns/973 "2016-10-07T02:44:26Z")

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A post which was trending on HN. https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/vim-anti-patterns/ Of course, all of this would read very familiar if one has read the book on mastering Vim.

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## [Distributed Systems in Practice, by Googler](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/distributed-systems-in-practice-by-googler/941)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/distributed-systems-in-practice-by-googler/941 "2016-09-30T06:11:06Z")

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## [Vim has a major version release: 8.0](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/vim-has-a-major-version-release-8-0/928)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/vim-has-a-major-version-release-8-0/928 "2016-09-23T19:09:21Z")

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Wao! This is huge! After over 10 years, Vim has a major version release: version 8.0! Read more about it here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim\_announce/EKTuhjF3ET0

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## [Benchmarking converting types to binary](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/benchmarking-converting-types-to-binary/915)

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**Author:** [@kostub](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/kostub)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/benchmarking-converting-types-to-binary/915 "2016-09-21T11:18:40Z")

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I’ve been working on saving types such as int/float etc. in dgraph as binary instead of the string representation that we now have. I was investigating the various ways of converting these types to the corresponding byte…

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## [Engineer machine setups](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/engineer-machine-setups/894)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 19, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/engineer-machine-setups/894 "2016-09-19T14:08:12Z")

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https://usesthis.com/

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## [Mastering concurrency in Go](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/mastering-concurrency-in-go/893)

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**Author:** [@jchiu](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/jchiu)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 19, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/mastering-concurrency-in-go/893 "2016-09-19T10:27:41Z")

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I bought the book “Mastering concurrency in Go” by Nathan Kozyra. I will share what I learn in this thread. In case you have seen this book before and find it not useful, feel free to let me know.

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## [Introducing Asanawarrior](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/introducing-asanawarrior/852)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 19, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/introducing-asanawarrior/852 "2016-09-19T04:20:06Z")

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Hey guys, As you might know, I haven’t been happy with the speed and UI/UX of Asana. It’s slow, hugely reliant on mouse, has cumbersome keyboard shortcuts (tab+a, really?!) and takes a whole bunch of effort to sort thro…

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## [Reference counting](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/reference-counting/886)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 17, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/reference-counting/886 "2016-09-17T12:47:52Z")

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http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/reference-counted-pool-golang.html This is going to be useful for the posting list sync.Pool, which has the same issue of multiple consumers.

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## [Geospatial queries in Neo4j](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/geospatial-queries-in-neo4j/881)

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**Author:** [@kostub](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/kostub)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 16, 2016, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/geospatial-queries-in-neo4j/881 "2016-09-16T08:00:14Z")

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There is a plugin for Neo4j that supports geospatial data: https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/spatial Here is a blog post that explains how to use it: https://neo4j.com/blog/geospatial-indexing-us-congress-neo4j/

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## [Geo-spatial features in RocksDB](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/geo-spatial-features-in-rocksdb/820)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/geo-spatial-features-in-rocksdb/820 "2016-09-06T23:18:14Z")

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FYI, @kostub

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## [Vim-go talk by Fatih](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/vim-go-talk-by-fatih/817)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/vim-go-talk-by-fatih/817 "2016-09-06T18:19:50Z")

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Based on the vim-go video by Fatih: GoCoverageToggle: Amazing tool to check coverage per line of code. Already found it very useful in posting/list.go. au FileType go nmap \<Leader\>c \<Plug\>(go-coverage-togg…

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## [Tag my shit up: File tagging system written in Go](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/tag-my-shit-up-file-tagging-system-written-in-go/791)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 5, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/tag-my-shit-up-file-tagging-system-written-in-go/791 "2016-09-05T01:04:33Z")

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http://tmsu.org/ TMSU is an application that allows you to organise your files by associating them with tags. It provides a tool for managing these tags and a virtual file system to allow tag based access to your files. …

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## [Using ack for search within project via Vim](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/using-ack-for-search-within-project-via-vim/785)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/using-ack-for-search-within-project-via-vim/785 "2016-09-03T14:41:08Z")

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Hey guys, Picked up a few things from Practical Vim yesterday. I was looking for a way to search within entire Dgraph directory, ignoring vendor folder, and then going over the results, all within Vim. " Use ack for vi…

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## [Three way merge with Vim](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/three-way-merge-with-vim/784)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/three-way-merge-with-vim/784 "2016-09-03T14:22:48Z")

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An amazing screencast which makes 3-way merging much easier. http://vimcasts.org/episodes/fugitive-vim-resolving-merge-conflicts-with-vimdiff/

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## [Go errors are values by Rob Pike](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/go-errors-are-values-by-rob-pike/783)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/go-errors-are-values-by-rob-pike/783 "2016-09-03T12:01:43Z")

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https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values

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## [Learn regexp using this interactive tutorial](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/learn-regexp-using-this-interactive-tutorial/771)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/learn-regexp-using-this-interactive-tutorial/771 "2016-09-02T14:16:09Z")

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Thought, I’ll brush up on my search skills in Vim. And eventually came across this useful tutorial to brush up on your regular expressions. https://regexone.com/

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## [Your first Vim plugin by Chris Toomey](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/your-first-vim-plugin-by-chris-toomey/733)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 28, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/your-first-vim-plugin-by-chris-toomey/733 "2016-08-28T11:37:40Z")

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## [Article on Learned Optimism](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/article-on-learned-optimism/700)

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**Author:** [@pawan](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/pawan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 21, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/article-on-learned-optimism/700 "2016-08-21T13:09:26Z")

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https://github.com/raganwald/presentations/blob/master/optimism.md Summarizes the book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400078393. Found it an interesting read, would recommend it.

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## [Cheat sheet of registers chapter in Practical Vim](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/cheat-sheet-of-registers-chapter-in-practical-vim/693)

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**Author:** [@mrjn](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/mrjn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 15, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/cheat-sheet-of-registers-chapter-in-practical-vim/693 "2016-08-15T14:49:29Z")

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Here’s a summary of the Registers chapter (chapter 10) in Practical Vim. Enjoy!

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