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It may give you the wrong answer, but it makes it hard to be led astray: Evaluated area = pi * radius^2 giving AREA = 3.1415926535897931 * 2x^2 That description makes it obvious th…

"When Wolfram Alpha starts solving word problems..." http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cgi/physdemo.cgi It's no Wolfram|Alpha, but it solves word problems fairly well.

Consider the word ‘smashing’. Using the above regular expression, the regex engine will first try to match the pattern ‘hi’ in ‘smashing’. It will not find a match. ... what?

W3Schools ( http://www.w3schools.com/ ) is undoubtedly a better and more thorough resource. I was rather underwhelmed by this article. Shoddy editing (is it "short hand" or "shorth…

Jeff Atwood (from Coding Horror) ran a comparison of bzip2 on 8 cores against 7-Zip on 2 cores in February. bzip2 ran faster but generated larger files. "The only reason to go bzip…

Inexplicably, this creates JPEGs instead of PNGs.

"Sanborn [the artist] named his proposal after the Greek word for hidden ."

At 4,220 words, he proves Google isn't making his writing more terse or staccato. And, with 22 links scattered throughout, are we expected to make it all the way through in one go …

I can't say anything about this site in particular, but be wary of these prank websites in general. A friend of mine sent me a prank call through one and I've received a bunch of s…

From the presentation: "Did design do this? No. Not alone." Mr. Utko recognizes that design cannot create a 20 to 100 percent increase in circulation. He isn't claiming that it can…

Pertinent bit of `wget --verbose --server-response --no-dns-cache apple.com`: HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved Location: http://www.apple.com/