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I think you're missing the point. Sure, getting "karma" is a fun aspect of SO, but I think what's beautiful about the site is the "give and take" aspect. Every programmer brings a …

I've really enjoyed reading about the technology behind Jet. They are definitely doing some cool stuff with their dynamic pricing engine and advertising (see this post: http://tech…

I don't know about just copying the executable, but I just copied the entire folder that contains MineSweeper.dll, Minesweeper.exe, and an XML license file over to a VM and was abl…

I agree. I recently converted some large files that were previously stored using XmlSerializer to use protobuf-net, and I found an 8x increase in space efficiency, and 6-7x increas…

This map is certainly very interesting, but it suffers as a visualization. The topographical map is nice, due to its simplicity and well-chosen color scale, but the main geological…

I love the look of this, but I have one suggestion to make. If the probability for a particular round is < 1%, I would at least leave one decimal place or show "< 1%" instead of ha…

Can you play full songs from Spotify on the app with a standard Spotify account? Since the Spotify app only allows full catalog access on mobile devices with a premium subscription…