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I'm basically in the position where I feel I need to have a portfolio to have a chance to find anything better. Now, whether or not a portfolio should consist of decent but stupid …

Short preface. My life didn't go so well (my own fault). I'm not that young anymore, have barely worked in my life, school didn't go so well, had to teach myself most of the stuff …

I haven't seen many people mentioning this problem before. I've seen it come up in discussions on the current AMD GPU lines. Hard to say who is to blame, but it's rarely obvious ju…

Should msvc be the go-to compiler on Windows for C++? I was getting back into the language and was quickly reminded of all the compiler and dependency hazzle, especially when codin…

So far I've been sticking to a handful of personal preferences and tried to adhere to set standards depending on which programming language I'm using. The problem is, the number of…

They removed browser.tabs.closeButtons. It's now impossible to hide the close buttons without css fiddling. I don't get it. What benefit is there to removing that feature? Same wit…

I wish one of these services would allow signing up without a sim and allow chatting over a desktop client.

Probably not how it was done, but is it possible to craft a bottle in such a way that the refraction index makes the content appear larger than it actually is?

Unless the actual god really hates horseshoes.

I just played with the graph search and that thing is creepy and powerful. It pains me that I'm drawn to such tools and I definitely need to stay away from that one.

Xavier? Logan? Guess someone wants to have his son grow up as the Wolverine.

That doesn't hide the blocked elements though.

Those tools are great and all, but my setup usually involves more than just installing applications. I have a huge pile of registry files which change a lot of windows behaviour. I…

To add another perspective to this. If we assume that after a period of adaption eating less is just as much of a joy as eating a bit too much from time to time, there are still ot…

Border-box is great, but whenever I have to use 3rd party code all hell breaks lose. You can mix both, but only applying border-box to your own code is tricky and the mental overhe…

It's pretty simple. Give everyone who's still using Windows XP a stick of 4 GB DDR2 memory. They will then proceed to pirate Windows 7.

This is clearly manipulating the bitcoin market.

The cycle of messanging. "We need a way to communicate over the internet". Email was born. "We need a way to communicate with groups". Messaging boards and mailing lists are born. …

I love how people send over $1000 to this site. Why not play poker if you have that much money to spend on gambling? Or, you know, buy an instrument and learn something beautiful?

Moral of the story is, if you spend the time you're watching porn on programming instead you would be a master of all these technologies.

I have a similar problem. I'm working on a static site generator. It improves on some ideas other people had, but it isn't exactly unique. With several hundred similar projects out…

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Do you mean that it's easier to do something bad because we are surrounded by bad things happening? Or that it's easier to get …

An often repeated thought. Yet at some point (usually when children or rape is involved) people tend to suddenly forget about tolerance or sympathy and throw around death sentences…

Similar. In my case not violence and not necessarily targeted at other people, but I surprised myself how twisted my morals can get. I even contemplated suicide about it. Of course…

Excuse my lack of knowledge in terms of mail encryption, but wouldn't the knowledge of communication be enough to warrant further investigation, even if the text itself is encrypte…