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It's no secret, here it is! Complete with the cocaine that was removed from Coke's production in 1903: Picture and text from This American Life The radio broatcast recording on the above link makes a very compelling case that the picture at the top of the page is really the original formula...

I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

Possible Duplicates: What security issues should I look out for in PHP What should a developer know before building a public web site? The project i was working on is nearly complete and near launching, but I want to make sure it is hack-proof as mine friend/partner thinks we have s...

Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("apple"); String word=kb.next(); What is the kb.next() doing? I'm trying to use the variable word to print out the first and last characters of string.

For the background, see: The Stack Overflow homepage is over-emphasizing bad questions (and a proposed solution) We've put together a first pass at a new homepage algorithm. You can check it out here: http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=recommended What it's doing is this: Take the 3000 most recen...

Background I have been on Stack Overflow for a while now and have enjoyed it both for asking and answering questions, but of late (probably the last 1-2 years) have seen it descend more and more into minutiae about broken compiles, 'small' questions that seem to be asked because of the impressio...