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Re:Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s by 171243 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:15PM (#21986786)
input: "bcabc"

  1. "b"
  2. "bc"
  3. "bca"
  4. "bca"
  5. "bca"
What am I missing?
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Re:Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s by kangnkodos on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:47PM (#21993824)
Take all the possible answers with duplicates removed, and return the first one in alphabetical order.

input: "bcabc"

output: "abc"

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Re:Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s by MaximumYComb on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:54PM (#21987107)
Nothing. I hadn't fleshed out my idea yet and that's the error I thought could exist. My solution is wrong.
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Re:Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s by pizza_dave on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:56PM (#21995102)
that is a single line of code in javascript, assuming you just want the value in #5 const foo = [...new Set('bcabc'.split(''))].join('')
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