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Are you referring to the Curse of Knowledge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge What you are describing also sounds a little like the Dunning-Kruger effect: https://e…

Though it might also be worth mentioning that Tumblr is a total pain in the * to use precisely because of that customization. Every dang page is different and I never know what to …

This was discussed in the book "Flashboys". The real challenge with high speed trading in the long distance communication between the stuff on Wall Street and the commodities actio…

I've been using Duolingo to learn Italian. It was awesome up until about 40% fluency, then it lost its effectiveness. It was a great way to learn basic vocabulary and sentence stru…

Yes! This cannot be stressed enough. Not just for car accidents, but this is true for emergencies in general. Always check your surroundings! For example, if you find a guy laying …

What, if any, effect might this have on Android, given that its all Java?

I came here to ask about that too. From what I've heard elsewhere, it sounds like Google is smart enough to figure out if you are posting unrelated content just for SEO purposes, a…

If it's just JSON, can't you do this: head -10 myfile.json

My thought too, especially when I noticed the typo: "...similar tastes to extrapolate how much the you will like some other movies..."

Headline bait. I was expecting some exciting breakthrough in nuclear reactor technology or something.

I think a very simple step that could be taken to improve adoption would be making it more obvious that you don't need an email to try the demo. I would mention it right on the dem…

My experience as well. Plus, my passwords became stronger. If I know I won't remember it anyway, why stop at 10-15 character passwords? I just crank it up to 40 characters of gibbe…

Blasting the drone out of the sky is probably not the best option. Drones are becoming more popular for legitimate uses like photography, farming, and maybe deliveries in the futur…

I'm confused. How does this work without inserting any code on your site?

"The heavily-redacted reports include examples of data on Americans being e-mailed to unauthorized recipients, stored in unsecured computers and retained after it was supposed to b…

"I am a huge believer in the rule of law, but I am also a believer that no-one in this country is beyond the law," So protecting your phone from thieves means you are "beyond the l…

This really gets annoying to me too. I think the media is largely to blame for it. Every city with a kid who started a website is referred to as "Silicon ". Likewise, they call eve…

I have mild depression, and one of the best treatments I have found is martial arts. Physical activity in general is helpful, but martial arts in particular has a very calming effe…