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Beyond being the first wiki wiki and the model for Wikipedia, the Portland Pattern Repository was a place where many of the principles of Agile software development were hashed out…

It's Bentley's _Programming pearls_ column from the _Communications of the ACM_, which was collected into a series of books, such as _Programming Pearls_ and _More Programming Pear…

The only subreddits in my experience that approach this "professional," disinterested standard of moderation are /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians. I know AH has a huge team devot…

I'll piggyback on your comment to add another functional version of C to the discussion, Single Assignment C. http://www.sac-home.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Assignment…

Not who you were asking, but it's pretty much steeping coarse coffee grounds and cold water in a cup overnight, then filter out the grounds, sort of like cold sun tea. In New Orlea…

The code at that location in the Ethereum blockchain implements a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that takes Ether from participants in exchange for tokens granting them the …

Not a lawyer, but a contract requires that all parties must gain some consideration for their entry into the contract. That the blockchain enforces the proposer's "smart contract" …

I like extended figures, but also sumptuous language and formal rigor. Ah heck, I love each poet for their own quirks and idiosyncrasies. Stephen Dobyns. John Bricuth. Wallace Stev…

Does this have anything with the old ios game by Frank Li and Jason Ma?

These products or services are not guaranteed by Kickstarter or Kickstartees though, so we backers aren't paying for a product alone. In many cases, the value of the product is not…

From what I recall post-9/11, the FBI do not carry badges, but written identification, like a large social security card.

Coffee in other places is expensive precisely because the price is a stand-in for table-space and queuing rent. The cafe charges for the opportunity cost of someone peeking in seei…

> In ancient versions of R from the early 2000s, the underscore operator was synonymous for ' Huh, early Smalltalk mapped the left arrow to the underscore key; I'm not sure if Sque…

Does it? I typed in http://webdevchecklist.com/robots.txt and it gave me a bog-standard IIS 404 page, not a custom one.

Once Google has the patents to start injunctions and stoppages, they can get their competitors to the table. That's not nuclear war. Google is a young company, but it's been in the…