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I have decoded the UK QR code (though not using this code). It conforms to the same standard.

I used to live in a flat (I guess you would call it a condo in the US) with heating provided by the building. My landlord who I lived with left the heating on 24/7 during the winte…

When I lived in the US, the lack of in-unit washing machines was quite unexpected. I had to pay $2 to use the shared (between 2 apartments) machine even though we as tenants paid t…

With a pen mark you can just cross out the mark and put your X in another box. That would be accepted here in the UK at least.

When I crossed the border on a passenger train from Poland to Belarus and from Mongolia to China, the train went into a warehouse where the compartment was lifted and new bogies sl…

I get that it may be demeaning but that analogy doesn't really work. It would be like the NYC Subway didn't go to Wall Street at all, and the banks built their own subway for their…

Djangae lets you use the Django ORM with the Datastore, meaning you don't have to use NDB. It also has lots of other helpers for things like deferred tasks. The Django NDB middlewa…

Northern line trains on the Charing Cross branch only go south of Kennington at peak times. This is shown on the map of the Northern line but not on normal Tube maps.

No option for both parents :) although my mum hadn't done it for years when I was starting out. I wouldn't say either of was a mentor though, I learnt by myself.