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> "Yo-Yo code" that converts a value into a different representation, then converts it back to where it started (eg: converting a decimal into a string and then back into a decimal, or padding a string and then trimming it)

The other day I was at a hack night and some guys were working on something written in Node. They were having all kinds of problems with an object, so they serialized it to JSON and loaded it back, and somehow it magically started working.



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