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For apartments, amazon has a different approach. https://thehub.amazon.com/home

Try the mobile version (alternative way for alt text reading): https://m.xkcd.com/1865/

I’ve enjoyed the Beyond series from Sid Sackson in the past. Beyond Tic Tac Toe ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3937/games-art ) Beyond competition ( https:/…

You might find De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry ( http://www.princeton.edu/~aylinc/papers/caliskan-islam_deano... ) an interesting read. I suspect that coding …

Also doable with desktops for those occasions where it is a remote screen share. For UAT / Test environments that are different than dev, I use a yellow background.

Twitch is where I would be digging around. https://twitch.tv/sscait is one such with commentary.

In the days of Sears, you got a big catalog every so often. It had everything. You could go to the Sears store and it would probably have it in stock. I remember that's where you bought Boy Sc…

You are likely thinking of the article Does Your Language Shape How You Think? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html which describes the Guu…

If you look at a Pentax 7 bottom plate, http://forum.mflenses.com/userpix/271_PENTAX67BOTTOM_1.jpg you can see that additional screw location. I am certain one of the holes in th…

Some QR plates have set screws that can be tightened down to reduce twisting. For example, you can see them in https://uniquephoto.azureedge.net/resources/uniquephoto/imag...…

As a Bogen hex plate user, I would be aghast at having an Arca Swiss mount on the bottom of my camera. Furthermore, a permanent Arca Swiss would prevent innovative designs such as the Really Right Stu…

This has more to do with sugar (corn in the americas). For example, in Wisconsin it is possible to use dental information to identify if there was a diet of wild rice or corn. https://www.w…

While traveling recently, I was in Billings was discussing with a bartender about the local dialect and where various boundaries of production were and pulled up this map. Both the pin / pen and …

This is IBM finally beating Sun over control of enterprise Java - something they've been fighting for for well over a decade (and much closer to two). IBM has been trying to get the Java process…

Ahh yes... the days of the Software Wars. http://mshiltonj.com/software-wars/ (last update 2003) - it might be interesting to reimagine that in today's world. From the 200…

Sanitization. Remove all things that shouldn't be there. I recall the cleaning of the code - things where developers got a bit... salty - for the Mozilla open source project. Stuff that people…

At a more general level, you may find the book Society of the Mind interesting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind ). In this, Minsky proposes simple (mindless) agen…

While not quite as "oh, that's neat" - a set of Wang dominoes might be interesting to people who know what it is (incidentally, Wang is the logician that had a conjecture that proved fa…

Try calling yourself an engineer in Texas without proper licensure. http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politi... And the relevant court case: http://…

I suspect many do. Just that this isn't a story about them. As to the coverage: North American only. There is coverage in Canada and Puerto Rico. The XM satellite are geostationary, the Sirius s…

That is very true - there is a lot of cobol out there. Fortunately, it has a JVM target too. http://documentation.microfocus.com/help/index.jsp?topic=%2F... …

Controlled doesn't mean "I am writing as Grandpa" but rather "I am writing on behalf of Grandpa." Part of what needs to be addressed is "is what I write and what I contro…

That is the law for California. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/sdut-... > In 2014 the Legislature and Governor Brown gave the California Coastal C…

I wrote about this (rudeness) a bit ago... http://shagie.net/2016/09/16/rudeness-the-moderation-tool-of... I believe that people become rude when that is the only moder…

A down vote is not marking it wrong. It is indicating that it is not useful (compared to other content?). As to "timeless" - consider that even such material can expire. The "timeless…

Consider the site where nothing is closed. Its not hard to imagine... https://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?sid=396545663 Consider that without people who care about the quality (…

Curate was very specifically chosen. There is moderation - which is about the selection of material to see and its removal... and then there is curation which focuses on maintaining existing material…

If I may point over at Slant.co for this type of question - https://www.slant.co/topics/5699/~javascript-frontend-framew... ; it appears to do the "what is the best XYZ…

One of the principles of version control and branching is "branch on incompatible policy" ( http://www.bradapp.com/acme/branching/branch-creation.html#P... ). The…

The chat system had been around for a long time. It was introduced by Jeff with the blog post https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/04/29/do-trilogy-sites-need-... Question t…