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Not a parent, but sharing my experiences as a kid. GameMaker ( https://www.yoyogames.com/get ) was my gateway drug to programming. It's an environment for making games that covers …

The Faroe Islands are part of Denmark, not Norway.

Solving a problem with technology does solve the initial problem, but at the same time it introduces new ones. There has been a naïve belief that the Internet would be an all-posit…

Interesting. When I changed my Apple ID region I couldn't do it without canceling my subscription first. Just canceling wasn't enough though, as my current subscription period woul…

What exactly are people in Sweden learning?

Some of these aspects are rapidly changing. Since a new player, Jio, entered the telco market a couple of years ago prices on prepaid subscriptions have dropped significantly. All …

In India, the people who can afford an iPhone typically have pursued higher-level education. With almost all higher-level education being taught in English, iPhone owners will also…

Salary levels don't say anything about social mobility. Social mobility is about how easy it is to climb to highly paying jobs such as software engineering for people from underpri…

I have used the same keyboard, SwiftKey, for the past couple of years. Whenever I write a new word that is unfamiliar to the keyboard it is saved to a personal dictionary. By now, …

At my university, Facebook is primarily used for events and groups. The groups aren't used for discussion though, mostly just for informing about the events. Banter is usually done…

I do not know if this applies to all stoves with tactile buttons, but the one I have turns itself off if anything hot is put on the buttons. This happens both if you overcook somet…

> Also - they don't have horrific winters in which walking/biking is a pain. As someone living in the Nordics, that's news to me.