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The task of verification looks like a nice AI problem to solve.

tvtropes.org. plato.stanford.edu, which is a philosophy encyclopedia by Stanford university.

Nice content but had forgotten what the site looked like. It literally kills the eyes and gives a headache when the green on black index page suddenly changes to black on white tex…

Indie movie maker (with story, screenplay, editing, cinematography, directing and money all being mine so that I am in total control of creativity). Making movies has been a long t…

c++ 03. (This works well for me and never felt a need to switch to newer versions beyond using a few things here and there like auto, with new meaning. I have been using latest Vis…

Two things stood out right away (on Firefox 42) and point 2 particularly dissuaded me from checking it out any further. 1. It doesn't check for empty content and produces a pdf wit…

> Notice how much of the countries and people living near the equator fail to have built great civilizations, humans just aren't as productive in the heat. I think Iraq, Egypt, Ira…

> Perhaps the best advice is from Michelle Obama: "When they go low, we go high" Brilliant appropriation.

The usage "big omega" and "little omega" always makes me chuckle, as they translate to "big big oh" and "little big oh".

Printed copies stored in libraries of UN and each of the Security Council permanent member countries, and whoever volunteers to make it "technology proof". Further, the paper and i…

OK. Going by what you said, the best way is to actually build something that works, and if possible non trivial (you can even try to clone an existing popular app as you can focus …

Stick to your specialty and scratch the programming itch as a hobby. If you get good at that hobby, see if you really want to be a professional dev and look for a job. If you get n…

> I am constantly seeking to remind her that it is a lack of lightheartedness that is at the rock of extremism....I know the likelihood that I'll ever succeed is small, but it's im…

Have you talked to this person in order to understand his "serious personality problems" or just basing these on what you hear or observe? You said you brought all the team members…

Be it web application development in specific, or software engineering in general, or even in life itself, I'd say its much better to be good at many things than great at one thing…

I have been a C++ dev for all my career (about 14 years), so JavaScript was pretty cool relatively speaking. For various reasons I had been a Luddite of sorts and late to the webap…

I have never been involved with one, directly or indirectly, so I can't comment on the culture. I am planning to start one though. However, as a strict outsider looking at things, …

Search and Replace for Windows (that nifty little tool with blue binoculars icon), HxD - Hexeditor, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Express (web and desktop), Beyond Compare, MS Paint,…

> YMMV, but you should take some time to examine yourself and discover what genuinely refreshes you. I hope by 'you' you mean 'one'.

By going beyond frameworks and languages and investing in more abstract things like design and algorithms.

When this sort of thing happens to me it is usually because either I didn't have a concrete plan on what I was going to do beyond describing it as "useful" (or the project wasn't r…

The connotation of the word 'union' is of a group of poor laborers, often working in harsh environment, coming together for fight against arbitrariness of their rich employers with…

> But all candidates get demonized, and then you choose between the least of both evils. In practice, it results in a similar outcome. Media could paint all candidates as the great…

Not sure of the (technical) feasibility of this, but I have some social observations. It seems the motivating factor, ostensibly, is to protect children. However, the primary conce…

> I just don't think that you provided a well-justified reason I was implying something like why reading something from a textbook is better than a random answer on reddit or yahoo…