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This maybe considered the opposite: live preventing coding.

I designed a matching algorithm for a dating website - okcupid - just before dating my (now) wife.

I met with their CTO and convinced him it’d work over lunch at Mary Chung’s. He gave me the keys to the source so I could start the implementation.

Unfortunately, for OKC, I met my wife with a manual implementation of the algorithm. And thereby lost all time and inclination to continue.

(For those that care, it was a naive TF-IDF approach. )



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