I will be spending four months on Lanzarote this year, an arid island off the African coast, and want to grow vegetables for home consumption there. The summer is sunny, hot, and dry; local agriculture (mostly potatoes, squash, carrots) is suspended until the winter months. Extreme temperatures...

The Ask Ubuntu Town hall digest caused me to win the Mortarboard badge, yey! But wait. [Mortarboard] Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time Per-site metas don't have any reputation... I am confused :-) I know why I got the badge. Should I have? Let me rephrase. Is this behavior ...

I have a video as a background to a web page, and I am trying to get it to loop. Here is the code: <video autoplay='true' loop='true' muted='true'> <source src='/admin/wallpapers/linked/4ebc66e899727777b400003c' type='video/mp4'></source> </video> Even though I have told the video to loop, i...

We would like to comment on behalf of the company. There are several questions on this website, the possible solution to which can be the use of our tool. Our answers were always deleted by the site administration, despite of the fact that they contained useful information for the SO users. Th...

declining -- you can always cast a reopen vote if the post gets closed. Also note that all close votes automatically expire after two days. (and for that matter reopen votes, or any other vote that attempts to reach a threshold -- otherwise, over an absurdly long period of time, say 10 years, e...

I have this code in my iOS app, written in Swift: class AddHomeViewController: UITableViewController, UITextFieldDelegate { ... required override init(nibName nibNameOrNil: String?, bundle nibBundleOrNil: NSBundle?) { super.init(nibName: nibName, bundle: nibBundle) } ...