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Jesus Christ Almighty, what a f***ing mess of a website. I'm trying to post a question. Just the one, you know, f***ing question. So I sign up for an ID and I'm sent an email that doesn't real...
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I just came across this question in Meta: SO fails to promote well-researched, well-written, but difficult questions, and once I finished reading it. I think of something I might bring some discussions about a feature that can somehow approaches the problem.
The problem is that questions currentl...
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Good morning everyone,
I am new to programming and have benefited so much from this site over the past couple of months. While it is just one of the many resources I am using to deepen my understanding of programming, it has certainly proven to be the most beneficial for me and my particular lear...
Verb: maunder (third-person singular simple present maunders, present participle maundering, simple past and past participle maundered)
- To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
- 1834, Maria Edgeworth, Helen, v. 3, ch. V
- "Not so fast, Lady Cecilia; not yet;" and now Louisa went on with a medical maundering. "As to low spirits, my dear Cecilia, I must say I agree with Sir Sib Pennyfeather, who tells me it is not mere common low spirits […] "
- 1871, Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim, ch. IV
- On the following day my friend's exhaustion had become so great that I began to fear his intelligence altogether broken up. But toward evening he briefly rallied, to maunder about many things, confounding in a sinister jumble the memories of the past weeks and those of bygone years.
Grupo Modelo is a large brewery in Mexico that exports beer to most countries of the world. Its export brands include Corona, Modelo, and Pacífico. Grupo Modelo also brews brands that are intended solely for the domestic Mexican market and has exclusive rights in Mexico for the import and distribution of beer produced by Anheuser-Busch.
Until the 1960s, Grupo Modelo used red poppy flowers in its advertising, where almost any image it used had poppy flowers somewhere in the image.
On June 12, 2008, The Wall Street Journal stated that Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owned a non-controlling 50% stake...
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It seems that after 11 years, Geoff Dalgas - "Valued Associate #00003" - has decided to hang up his hat as a developer at Stack Exchange.
That deserves... Some recognition and gratitude!
Let's talk about Geoff, baby
Eleven years. Eleven (11) years! From a tiny team without so much as an office to...
In the Latin-based orthographies of many European languages, the letter ⟨g⟩ is used in different contexts to represent two distinct phonemes that in English are called hard and soft ⟨g⟩. The sound of a hard ⟨g⟩ (which often precedes the non-front vowels ⟨a o u⟩ or a consonant) is usually the voiced velar plosive [ɡ] (as in gangrene or golf) while the sound of a soft ⟨g⟩ (typically before ⟨i⟩, ⟨e⟩, or ⟨y⟩) may be a fricative or affricate, depending on the language. In English, the sound of soft ⟨g⟩ is the affricate /dʒ/, as in general, giant, and gym. A (g) at the end of a word usually renders a...
I am pleased to announce that Stack Overflow just added another team member in an officially paid capacity: Geoff Dalgas. Geoff and I met on a customer site in 1996. Here was this crazy kid, in charge of all the computer stuff at a government facility, who knew more about the computers and custom software…
Each Stack Exchange site should provide users the option of using a dark mode design/theme.
Why is this feature missing?
The major IDEs are already a letdown regarding dark color schemes.
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Dangit Shog9! I was doing ok holding it together until I read this - now someone is chopping onions everywhere I go!
I wanted to take a moment and say that it really has been my honor and privilege to be part of the mission to bring Stack to life but I'm really just a small part in the great comm...
