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UPDATE: Thank you for this advice. My girlfriend was able to recover her account by telling Oculus support that she wanted to buy a product, but wouldn’t commit to it unless she kn…

Facebook has locked my girlfriend out of her account for supposed violations of their Community Standards. They state that the decision “cannot be reversed”. This is very confusing…

Around that age, I read "The Heart of Mathematics", by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird. It's a really fun book which introduces a wide variety of math concepts while being amusi…

I've been playing the piano since I was 4. Learn from my mistake: don't "cheat" by skimping on scales and other technical skills! I know it's not as fun as playing actual music, bu…

I found a great name for my company, let's call it "XYZ Labs", and xyzlabs.com is available. However, xyz.com is taken by a company called "XYZ Software" which has the trademark in…

That is exactly correct, for wind instruments at least: and in fact, some wind instruments have more than 10 holes or keys. But many combinations produce identical sounds, limiting…

The graph is just slightly misleading -- the horizontal scale starts at 20, not 0.

Their site is absolutely hammered right now. The live video feed here ( http://live.reuters.com/Event/Boston_Marathon_Explosion?live ) has details. They have video of 2 suspects, o…

I just found it ironic -- and possibly suspect? -- that 1 week after this XKCD What If? article ( http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/ ), something like this happened. Could the XKCD articl…

My Nexus 4 arrives this week... :)

> Take risks and have fun. I'd love to take risks and have fun, but when you're in college, looking for good, steady, well-paid, full-time summer employment, it's just not very app…

I wouldn't ask those questions point-blank, but if you are reasonably personable and chatty, it's usually pretty easy to lead the conversation in that direction.

I guess the Python 3 team is in South Africa, and the Python 2 team is on the East Coast...? ;)

How many companies offer internships longer than a summer? I have a co-op position for this summer but after my 3rd year I'm hoping to get something longer, a 12 or 16 month positi…

Maybe I'm reading the graphs wrong, but they seem somewhat misleading to me: shouldn't the average (top of the blue bar, bottom of slightly greener blue bar) be what you're compari…

The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so. Nobody who's "at the forefront of the most advanced mathem…

Being in my second year of Electrical (and Biomedical) Engineering at McMaster University, I have to say I love CircuitLab. My advice would be: Buy all the EE textbooks (they're ex…

I agree -- I've found myself in that exact case that he described (mindlessly adding and subtracting one on various loop indices until it worked) more than once.

This is a short question which might get some long answers. I want to develop a tool which makes it easy for teachers and professors to write tests: multiple version, multiple choi…