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And the teams are rightsized!

Innovation, oh my, sometimes it feels like the fat ones (and, by proxy, everyone else) are living in some alternate fantasy world where the mantra "you're not gonna need it" is tak…

What does one do if they wish to see the actual contents of this crate? The web interface I'm looking at contains no hints at peeking inside, not even direct archive download links…

From programming perspective, there's nothing sufficiently preposterous in the idea of dividing by zero that would require bringing the whole world to a low-level halt just for att…

For me, it was a book on stoicism ("A Guide to the Good Life — The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William B Irvine) that showed me that, while it's not possible to avoid the inevitab…

It was very hard to read a text this bright on a white background.

Their culture sure is a bit alien. The authors are boasting about the dosbox they've broken, yet (it looks to me that) not a single bug/crash has been reported. Edit: happily I'm w…

For [0, 1), would the naive approach of generating a string of, say, 16 digits, sticking a "0." in front of it and calling strod / atof yield similarly uniform results?

For a good screenshot utility with a gui, there's xfce4-screenshooter from the xfce desktop suite. It's the bees knees, has the possibility to capture the system cursor (a feature …

Well, you can still jump in on the very fun and competetive Al Zimmerman's challenge (which ends in about a week, though), the current task is exactly about solving the given Scrab…

Not meta enough. When was the last time you designed the chart for a book or other static media? I'd like to think that in this age there's no need to force a static, unexplorable …

Also, they didn't survive at all, they're all dead.

How to deal with the discontent: 1. Make things worse for everybody, much worse, 2. After public outrage, return things to how they were before #1, 3. Profit, while the public rejo…

One of the killer features to me for using Opera was a feature to browse with images turned off (cached images only) and a "show image" option on the right-click menu: coupled with…