Remember the floppy discs? We dug one out from our storage, opened it up and looked through the film sheet. Alternatively, a friend of mine took a lighter and a glass cup mat. He placed the glass mat above the lighter to get some soot onto it and watched it through the mat.

Based on this question, I feel it's not made sufficiently clear by PayPal to its users that Stack Overflow is not the correct platform to ask their non-technical questions on. The link to Stack Overflow is on PayPal's sub-site https://developer.paypal.com/developer/support, where the "Developer ...

A question was asked today that contained multiple errors that needed to be fixed via an edit. I went forth with the editing, but noticed that the question was tagged with player, looking into the tag there's a clear need for it to be removed: It's ambiguous- What type of player? Audio player?...

It's well-known on Stack Overflow (and perhaps all of Stack Exchange) that the first line of every question/answer is checked using regular expression against a list of unallowed words & phrases. Simple words such as 'Hello' and 'Hi' are disallowed, but lately I've noticed a few (new) questions...

There are ants in my laptop keyboard again. It's happened before and ended up killing my productivity occasionally as the little critters suddenly show up from within the gaps of the keyboard. I had to bring it over to my uncle and he got rid of the ants, somehow, but I forgot to ask how he did i...

When I receive a reply/tag on chat, the 'notification bubble' must be clicked in order to dismiss the message: I have desktop notifications enabled, but however clicking the notification to go to the chat message does not dismiss it (from both within the same tab/window, and from other browser...

Don't abuse regex! If you are testing for single strings, test for single strings. Since JavaScript doesn't have a built in replaceAll method (yet) for strings, you can make your own: String.prototype.replaceAll = function(find, replace) { return this.split(find).join(replace); }; Then j...