Why don’t my numbers, like 0.1 + 0.2 add up to a nice round 0.3, and instead I get a weird result like 0.30000000000000004? Because internally, computers use a format (binary floating-point) that cannot accurately represent a number like 0.1, 0.2 or 0.3 at all. When the code is compiled or inte...

I was wondering how strict Stack Overflow is about privacy. Does it profile the people asking questions so it promotes only those it sees as worthy of getting points, perhaps for the profit of Stack Overflow or someone related to the site?

I generally steer clear of sugary junk food such as beer, fruit juices, etc. I'm not really a fan of drinking alcohol either, as I like my sleep. So when I go out with a bunch of work colleagues and they offer to buy me a drink, I ask for water. Which is quite awkward to be honest, as it feels...

I was browsing the web doing some research. After entered a term and select the time range & hit 'search', no result was returned. Then I noticed that instead of searching for the time period 30 Apr 2104 - 14 July 2014, it was searching for sometime in the future! At first, I thought I did someth...