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Given that JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, I would expect nothing less than seamless integration in JavaScript. Languages that have a more strict and less dynamic structure would likely ha…

My personal favorite Adler SE post is in code golf: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/78901 - Compute the Adler-32 checksum…

Relocation typically has the question of "can you afford to live here?" This is done with a pay stub of offer letter to see if you have 3x the money on it than rent. If you are unemployed t…

There was a recent 538 article on rent-seeking (the use of licenses as a hurdle to keep competition out): http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rent-seeking-is-too-... …

The concept that you are interested in is known as deep time ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_time ) and there is a book by the same name by Gregory Benford ( http://…

> But what actually happened was that people who were good at their job, and could find work elsewhere, left. So they would have had all of the top talent leave the company and the remaining employ…

Sometimes I find a two year old post on HN that I want to comment on, but it's "closed" - the reply button is gone. HN should implement that when N hits from Google occur, it bumps it b…

Just need to repaint the walls. http://www.lessemf.com/paint.html or appropriately tuned wallpaper http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/…

That is not always the case. Consider http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/263542/ in which an answer was posted three years after the question was asked and two years si…

Back in April there was some discussion on meta.P.SE about updating the help center ( http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6590/ ) which resulted in some chan…

There is a badge for exactly that - Necromancer ( http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/17/necromancer ): Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5…

The key difference though is that you got timely help from a forum by asking a question. However, as the next person trying to find the answer to the same question, I would have to wade through mul…

This reminds me of an article written for the April (first) edition of Scientific American many years ago... 1988. The key thing to look for is the word 'Apraphul' which is the name of the i…

At one point, I worked in a computer lab that was mostly Ultrix machines. The shutdown grace period was specified in minutes ( http://www.polarhome.com/service/man/generic.p…

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-_and_low-context_cultures Short version, in a 'high context culture', things can be left unsaid and the cultural backgroun…

Downvotes serve to help signal to the person that there is something wrong - and it does it noticeably. Flags are things that go to various levels of moderation (close flags go to the close vote queu…

On Programmers.StackExchange there is some additional about the recommendation for a tool, library or other: http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/why... …

There are some things built into the DNA of the system. Dowvnotes are there and an early blog post addresses that - http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvo…

You might want to look at Stack Overflow's younger sibling(? child? cousin?) - http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ which is intended for the design type questions rather than t…

According to Andy Chou of Coverity on Twitter https://twitter.com/_achou/status/454287263917043712 - "We looked at the code and it turns out the bug is caused by someth…

The wayback machine begs to differ: http://web.archive.org/web/20070525044536/http://mtgox.com/g... -- now, if the codebase was the same as it was when that…

Its based on the idea of an artist in residence (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist-in-residence ). Another odd travel related residency is Heathrow's writer-in…