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Minecraft is _hugely_ popular with anybody under 14. To the point that it's no longer only nerdy parents that showed their kids it, it's kids hearing about it from other kids. It's…

DAMNIT! My daughter had hers disabled, never found the reactivate link. It sucks because she is now 13 and a non-issue, but lost her email address of 3-4 years.

The kindle/amazon is not always a solution either. I live in Canada and there is nothing I hate more than being given a suggestion (from amazon) about a book for my kindle, only to…

I'm a Java developer using IDEA. I still spend most of my time in a shell. Mouse pointing and clicking to do things like run builds annoys me when I can alt-tab and run a script to…

Partially this is likely due to the relatively low populations - Manitoba and Saskatchewan have a combined population of ~2.5 million. Alberta bumps up to ~3.7 million, and the con…

Currently receiving RSUs & work for a company that provides financial reporting solutions for companies that reward with equity. Part of the lock-in is simply the desire of the emp…

I came here to say this. My parents have never shown any interest in IT whatsoever. My brothers, never. Me, as soon as I started messing around with a Commodore-64, I was hooked. G…

"At least I’ve heard IntelliJ IDEA is great, I’ve never used it." That's like complaining about image manipulation software when all you've used is GIMP. I'm a vim guy from way bac…

I'm pretty sure you can in Canada, using the interac (debit) network: http://www.interac.ca/consumers/productsandservices_ol_emt.p...

Obviously a little late to read this.. but the source now shows this: Now the that big switch is gone, here are some fun facts: 1. This site was created in 2002, using Visual Studi…

I'm surprised that The Pragmatic Programmer isn't on there. Am I that much out of date that this book is no longer recommended? It completely changed the way I thought of developme…

I have one boy that reads constantly. I too used a lot of the points here and seems to have worked, thinking about it my parents did the same with me. I will, however, chime in and…

Interestingly enough, I had the exact opposite experience as a Canadian camping in the US this summer. The customs at the US was fantastic, it was our first time visiting, and my 1…

My favorite would be a comment in some generated html (no other comments around it Later it was "fixed"

Used to apply that to PC builds as well. Fast, Quiet, Cheap

I wouldn't be entirely sure of your assumptions that missing class makes them fall behind. An example is myself. I am a high school drop out. I gave up when, in Grade 11, I passed …

My question is why do we treat students differently in exams than we do in classes? When I was going through K-12, there was no collaborative work, we sat at our own desks, did our…