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I try to be fairly active on the different Stack Exchange sites, and although Stack Overflow is probably undoubtedly the most famous one, I’ve been a big fan and pretty regular contributor over on Code Review. One of the cool things about CR.SE is that they have monthly community challenges where people come up with cool problems, you implement a solution however you want, and you (hopefully) get a useful critique and review of your solution. This month’s problem has to do with rainfall:

I’ve decided to start writing about my life, and the sort of programming challenges I face and (hopefully) resolve.