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It isn't limited to Google. At the end of 2014 Facebook put this thing in my brother's feed that said "It's been a great year" and then put in post he made right after our mother p…

Of course. You can't learn that sort of judgement (when to use vs when not to use) from a book. But our profession's training material, at least in my experience reading, drills it…

> I can tell an amateur programmer from a professional by looking at their order of priorities when they grow a code base. > Amateur programmers tend to put code de-duplication at …

I can only partially answer your question for Pascal: Look at the Free Pascal compiler. I learned (Turbo) Pascal many years ago. Recently I've revived my usage while writing a vide…

I'm using only Ghostery, and I did not see any ads. Perhaps it stops such code from running?

I always thought the fastest was the closed form formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex... Unless looping and counting is that much faster than doing…

Isn't a Microwave a Farady Cage for the frequency used by the oven? I'm guessing the Cell frequencies are different so they can penetrate the cage?

I was thinking about driving before GPS recently and I had to go somewhere I've never been to before. So I resolved to just look at Google maps before hand and then just try to dri…

Interesting. I guess it actually emits all sorts of frequencies of light visible or not, but Superman is still wrong. :)

Sun is actually white... which is why you see a all the colors in a rainbow. I know Superman lied to you. :)

> In a similar timeframe will anyone be able to read our digital thoughts? Lots of famous writing from the ancient world doesn't survive in the original and had to be copied; what …

Most mainstream music (i.e. stuff that makes it into Billboard's charts) is obviously targeted at teenagers and maybe people in their young 20's. I'd say the same thing is true abo…

Hmm so when were was there a lull? Serious question. I grew up in the 80's and although I don't check space news every day it doesn't seem like activity in space decreased in that …

When did this era start? This probe was launched 10 years go, and the planning must have started at least a few years before that.

I submit, as argued in my other comment, that greggman is the one assuming his/her experience should take priority. If you are able to work years on end at 70 hours a week then mor…

Good to hear that you're happy and your choices have worked out, sincerely. But kindly please consider the following points: 1. You may not have worked enough to burn out. If you'r…

The author's analogy with Mozart's music is curious. Mozart's compositions are closer to the classical forms of a symphony, concerto, etc. than other well known composers who came …

Most artist, according to my understanding, have never really made money on record sales even before the advent of Napster (for example, google "The Problem with Music" by Steve Al…

Album is _Hurt Seconds_ by The Shy Trafficker. I'll warn you that it's a long poorly recorded slog. There's a couple songs with some vocals but most of it is instrumental. Instrume…

I was in a band in my college years that played this "indie / experimental" instrumental rock. We only played maybe a dozen shows that were sparsely attended. There's one show we p…

That made me wonder what the procedures are if one was to die on the ISS. You'd have to store the remains somewhere until the next Soyuz ship can launch? That's probably enough mor…

This is not an example of racist hashtags, but I remember hearing about a lot of racist tweets when Obama's speech about the Newtown massacre interrupted Sunday Night Football. Edi…

I certainly agree with what you're saying. There is a difference between fiscal and social conservatives, and the fiscal camp is larger. The religious right by themselves are not a…

Speaking as someone who grew up in Texas in conservative evangelical family, there are plenty of churches that are politically active (not all but there are a lot). So you basicall…

I'm not sure how compelling my argument is... but if I have nothing to hide then why does anybody need to look? For example does the TSA seeing everybody naked actually improve sec…