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Would it be useful if while reading about a solar eclipse I would find jokes about people pulling their pants down and mooning you? The content and vision of the founder for that content is what draws…
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You can, but there is a very strong "don't modify other people's code; down vote wrong or not useful answers and provide your own" culture. This becomes especially noticeable when …
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There are certainly libraries out there that could do with better docs. However, documentation written by people trying to get fake internet points with no skill at technical writing (even such things…
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Only a small fraction of the site is voting in ways that enable moderation and curation or flagging. They don't leave because they can't read fun things - they leave because those actions h…
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Look at the organization of the python documentation. Consider how useful that is for learning how to program in python. Then go out and get an actual book, targeted at your experience level for progr…
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A core problem for Stack Overflow is the lack of people willing to curate material. Its not an easy job and is quite thankless. Its possible to have a site that is a mashup of /r/programmin…
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BSD is compatible with the GPL. You can use BSD licensed code in a GPL project. The 0verall project is GPL, any enhance,nets to the BSD code may be licensed under the GPL. The flip is not true. Using…
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Magic is wonderful when it works right, and painful when it goes wrong. I will absolutely agree that the magic built around speedy crud apps that handle 80% of what a web developer does making it onl…
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Alas, if only tabs realized columns could occur in locations other than 8 or 4 space tab stops. http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ …
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Creating a translation of a work is a derivative work itself. This applies to porting software from C++ to Java as well as translating of Harry Potter to French.
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Rephrased: > Given the 1973 logo ( http://www.logodesignlove.com/images/evolution/lego-logo-12.... ), in 1998 the image was tightened to make it easier to print digitally…
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https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20945/what-is-... has a rather good explanation.…
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How about Eau Claire? Duluth? La Crosse? Iowa city? Marshal? Wausau? If there is an influx of people to an area (Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Rochester), entry level will be harder to find. This e…
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My previous job was in the north woods of the Midwest where there are fewer than 75k people living and the next nearest city of more than 25k is an hour drive away. There are several companies there, …
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While it does little good for me to say it, that is something that probably needs to change. Failure to do this could lead to some skewing of labor markets. It is in the same category as taking the pa…
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I don't see that. What I do see is a recognition that only in specific cases with well defined product boundaries does outsourcing development work reasonably. On the other hand we see many compa…
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And the insurers saw how wrong it can go and how much the payouts for such could be. This then was fed back into the risk / premium calculation equations and have kicked out a new, higher number…
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From the article: > In late June, Insomniac Holdings LLC and Live Nation Entertainment Inc. were sued for the wrongful death of attendee Tom Nicholas at the Electric Daisy Carnival festival in Las …
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For some other fun with California's 60hz legacy... The timezone database (maintained by the people who are very particular about making sure that a time specified is a well known time) have a no…
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That depends on the type of solar power. Yes, there's photovoltaic power - though you'll note that the article was talking about mirrors - mirrors heating up something. That something ofte…
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Digging up an old page (I am not sure if the film still has that characteristic curve), Provia 100F had some very nice lack of reciprocity failure. http://home.earthlink.net/~kitath…
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One of the photographers that I'm intrigued by is Michael Wesely ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wesely ) who takes ultra long exposures (a two week long exposure is…
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The private prisons have an interest in filling beds. That is where the money is. They don't get money by reducing recidivism, or providing job training, or providing preventative and maintenan…
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For a Spider-Man approach- https://imgur.com/gallery/gcrPf There are a number of companies that exist with the intended purpose of providing jobs to ex convicts. The risk that a …
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That was recently answered... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-series-casts-bernie-mad... > “Bernie really was a successful businessman with quite original insights into t…
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A Pattern Language by by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language From a blog post ( http://the-w…
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I would go with "not following the advice of how to be a programmer ( https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer/blob/master/RE... ) for your given skill l…
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While the "top N" password lists are likely english centric, the other parts of the analysis aren't. Things like "length of password" or "percentage of users using their …