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Why is this "troll physics" not possible? 93 Alon Amit, BSc in Physics. Stand upright and pull your own shirt forward with all your might. Do you start moving? No. Doing it with magnets makes no difference - there's nothing magical about magnet... Read More » If C and C++ give the best performance, why do we still code in other languages? 212 Bruce R. Miller Where I work, we have a table that lists how much it costs the company to keep a single CPU core running for a year. It is not listed in terms of money. Instead, it is li... Read More » How do math geniuses understand extremely hard math concepts so quickly? 1.3k Satvik Beri, Math dude The other day a friend of mine taught me about Fourier Series[0]. He was surprised because I seemed to completely understand them instantly, while most people he'd taught h... Read More » What happens to software engineers who don't climb the corporate ladder and stay as engineers? 1.1k Harry Glaser, Itinerant Hacker They become ... Unix Beards! (Just kidding.)... Read More » How does one compensate for not going to Stanford or MIT to do CS? 174 Darren O'Connor, Software Engineer A little anecdotal evidence: I was hired by Google to relocate to the Bay Area from Dublin, Ireland. I didn't go to a top CS school. I worked hard, actively pursued opport... Read More » Why did President Bush react so calmly when told that planes had crashed into the Twin Towers? 723 Adam Nyhan, Former Congressional staffer I'm no fan of George W. Bush, but I always thought it was a bit of a cheap shot to give him a hard time for the way he handled his first few seconds of reacting to the news... Read More » Does God exist? If yes, what is the proof? 976 Navin Gupta When he turned 50, Einstein granted an interview in which he was asked point-blank, do you believe in God? “I am not an atheist,” he began. ... Read More » If there were ten commandments in cooking what would they be? 68 Kent Fung, a clever bastard, loved by distillers... 1. Fat is flavor. Do not fear it -- rather, learn to harness it, and don't skimp. 2. Although time and logistics will impose varying limitations, as much as possible/pract... Read More » What's it like to work with Meryl Streep? 157 Brad Jeffries, Former Choreographer of Film Televisi... I was fortunate to have had the incredible experience of working with Meryl on a film called Death Becomes Her in either 1991 or 1992..(my memory fails me, but I'm sure a g... Read More » How does an actor or actress successfully direct a film they are also starring in? 135 Jason Bateman, Director/Actor/Producer, Bad Words I storyboarded as much as possible, since we didn’t have the storyboard artist for as long as we would have needed to for everything to have been storyboarded. The most com... Read More »