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		runarb on April 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to stop recruiters posing as applicants As people have picked up I meant a hash table serialised as JSON. You are probably thinking about associative arrays. A hash table is something different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table

jon-wood on April 28, 2013 [–]

And so my lack of formal CS education is exposed! I guess I've got some reading to do on the train into work tomorrow to properly understand the distinction.

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