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And here I thought I was the only one with a vertical side monitor. Then again, did you mean that both are vertical?

Before the industrial revolution, almost all manufacturing of common goods, including food, was performed by human hands and feet. This limited output capacity to that of human str…

We often talk about how this or that technology, feature, or product ought to exist. Let's touch on the other end. What technologies, products, and features (including programming …

Imagine a search engine that not only gave you search results, it used advanced AI to tell you in brief how each result applied to the problem you are currently trying to solve. Cu…

Is this a scientifically supported assessment? I say this because I have heard it often, but in thinking about it, I cannot see this necessarily being true. WPF uses XAML, which is…

So they say, but that doesn't mean its support is about to end. If you look at how long MS supports technologies, you can be pretty sure it has plenty of usable life. Plus, UWP is …

WPF is superior to Windows Forms in many ways, particularly layout responsiveness. I would not recommend anyone entering the Windows Desktop scene to use this old paradigm of UI de…

Indeed a product often has value, but an idea without execution is an untested gamble.

The basic idea here is that arguing with reality is counter-productive. To be effective, one should embrace those changes that cannot be avoided.

For many in the field, a bigger issue than commoditisation is probably wage gaps between higher and lower cost regions of the globe. While it should not be expected that the averag…

I just read an article saying that NASA's Apollo 11 "space program" source code was released to GitHub on July 07 2016. They say it was programmed in a variant of the Assembly prog…

In theory, a larger organisation would have more communication going on, and having messages that stand out among the noise would definitely set you apart. Moreover, the more peopl…

> I don't really know of a defense other than ... One way is to make sure you (a) provide real value and (b) know how to convey that knowledge effectively in tense situations. If y…

The underlying message here is very important to consider in this discussion. In many ways, the average human may already be outputting intelligent information about as fast as he …

We must first consider the purpose of money and the purpose of employment. Money's purpose is to allow distribution of credit based on the amount of value that an individual or oth…

A game is not fair if the rules are not the same for everyone. At least, I would like to believe that anyone who watches sports would agree with this statement. Moreover, a game pl…

> people you'd go out of your way to cause harm to It should also be pointed out that there are two different directions here. Is an "enemy" someone you would harm, is an enemy som…

>dbo.v_TheFirstTimeIMadeThisView followed by dbo.v_TheFirstTimeIMadeThisView_1 Not to mention multiple versions of stored procedures having slightly different names because they ha…

Official App Developer wage statistics, including both mean and percentile, in the US (for 2014) can be found here: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm For generic Program…

> it will probably help more than any amount of exercise ever will. Unless the issue is solely anxiety-based, exercise would in most cases help a considerable amount. Especially fo…

> LE becomes a standard service out-of-the-box. This could happen, but I would think some of the cram-all-you-can hosting providers would not want to "waste" CPU power like that. S…

> "waste" a few dollars on a streamlined process than spend hours trying to get Let's Encrypt working This is true. It probably took me somewhere around 20 hours to get everything …

I've thought about getting into this area myself, but I was too afraid there was not enough market for it. This was several years ago. As far as CPU power, today's average PC is ea…

> One way to solve this is to create a modular super-app for which developers can write components I am pretty sure they call this an operating system. Moreover, most operating sys…

> It can be hard to tell how much someone actually contributed just by looking at a CV. While this is true, it can also be hard to tell how much of a person's open-source code was …