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Introduction: I was posting a couple of comments on Kaiser’s blog , and I’m finding the CAPTCHA’s there increasingly hard to read. I was thinking that some good software would be helpful. Is there a browser attachment I could download that would automatically read CAPTCHA’s and translate them into letters and numbers? This would be very helpful. I’d appreciate any tips in this direction.
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Introduction: Kaiser Fung tells what it’s really like . Here’s a sample: As soon as I [Kaiser] put the substring-concatenate expression together with two lines of code that generate data tables, it choked. Sorta like Dashiell Hammett without the broads and the heaters. And here’s another take, from a slightly different perspective.
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