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I'm working on a multiple-choice quiz web app for fun (and to use for code samples). The questions are trivia about programming history and other arcana (it's intended to be fun for your coffee break, not a tech…

Hi, I'm trying to learn how to code happy numbers in JS. I've seen a bunch of examples but most are either very difficult to read / understand, use implicity declared global variables, or have really bad style…

I'm a native of New York State an have lived in Brooklyn and worked in Manhattan for the past 19 years. I bought a tiny starter studio apartment in a then "up-and-coming" neighborhood about 17 years ago and now have…

I am one of those people who detests the open office. I find them noisy and distracting. Even with headphones on I am distracted by the movement around me and the feeling the I am in a fishbowl being looked at from…

I'm a senior front-end developer at my current job. I'm tired of working here but having trouble finding a new job. I have 8 years of experience, which includes having done some fullstack stuff with PHP in the past. I'm…

I don't have a CS degree. I sucked at math in high school. I never took calculus. I need to learn the classic algorithms to frow as a programmer. I have found some resources on coursera and some books, but most require…

I hate to sound like a conspiracy wingnut, but it seems unlikely that there were major outages at NYSE, United Airlines, and the WSJ all on the same day and it's merely a coincidence. The media are referring to this as…