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You are getting downvoted, but there are obviously tens (hundreds??) of millions of people of faith--not just Christians--who would instantly reject any product with a demon as its…

As a regular Linux/OSX/Windows user, here are the three (3) questions that I would need answered before switching: 1) In a world with Kali Linux, Arch, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedor…

I coded a simple, attractive Calorie Tracker that works across desktop, tablet, and mobile: https://www.calories.claystuart.com/

What resources did you use to figure out how to do that? This is an interesting use of spreadsheets.

That's not a systematic bias. The senate was DESIGNED from the beginning to be immune to population differences: each state gets two senators, regardless of population. It was one …

Congress is limited to what it can legislate with the remainder defaulting back into the jurisdiction of the states as part of the Federalism system of checks and balances. Check o…

Pace v Alabama was from 1883. Perez v Sharp was a California case from 1948--an odd case to cite since it had no controlling authority outside of California. Regardless, Loving v V…

Improvements in car seats would be my guess. Plus, vehicles were required by law to include special latches for anchoring car seats starting around the early 2000's. It was surpris…

What was it like to use a BBS? In a word: awesome. I was lucky enough to go to middle school in the late 80's with a kid who loved computers even more than I did and actually ran h…

I wanted one for the Forth environment too! OLPC's Forth Tutorial: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons

You can overflow buffers all sorts of ways in C.

The Amish. No joke. My dad's from there. The guy who lives next door to my grandparents drives a truck for the Amish since they can't.

Tax incentives. It's how we encourage a lot of good samaritan behavior. Offer tax deductions for trees and watch forests pop up everywhere.

Your suggestion of parsing out the in-code documentation would go a long way towards documenting the libraries, provided the documentation is of high quality. However, that still d…

Let me take these in reverse order... Here is a link to Python's docs( https://docs.python.org/3/ ). It's still a little busy, but you can go a long way just by using the Python Tu…

TLDR: Pharo needs mountains of high-quality documentation equal to Python's docs or Java's docs if it seriously hopes to attract server-side or desktop mindshare among developers. …

I don't see anything in your response about success. It's true that if you want credit for completing a major, then it is necessary for you to actually complete the major, but that…

How in the world does "being compliant to authority" contribute to university success? What major emphasizes compliance over learning the material and doing the work?

This looks great! I have two questions: 1) Can you resize the notecards for easier management 2) Can you export to .docx for publication submission?

The page says last updated November 22, 2016...they might

How do you get started with GUI programming? I can't seem to find anything on this for Pharo6...and barely anything for earlier versions (which I'm assuming are now obsolete).

I believe it. If he owns everything free and clear--I'm betting he does--and he avoids big purchases and fancy trips, he can basically get by on purchasing nothing but food, electr…

What's the explanation for the huge drop in sales? Those single engine airplanes are still around? Deregulation of the airlines has resulted in cheaper commercial air travel? More …

For those who haven't seen it, Weird Al's song "It's All About The Pentiums" should be required Hacker News watching: https://youtu.be/qpMvS1Q1sos