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How should one cite a proof that is in no textbook, very straight-forward, but not obvious? Alon Amit, Mathcircler and Origamist. 51 votes There's no clear cut answer to this. Whatever you write has an intended audience, and you need to make assumptions about that audience all the time. If you're writing up a ... Read More » How did Jimmy Wales learn to code and what is the sequence in which he learned languages? Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder and Wikia cofounder 2.6k votes I can't remember all the details, but I will tell you what I can. It's important to remember this, though: I'm not a great programmer. I think I'm not even a pretty good ... Read More » Why don't engineers make it further than being senior engineers at Google? Bruce R. Miller 1.4k votes I am a staff engineer at Google, one level above Senior Engineer. 1) In the three years that I have been at Google, I have only seen a single person leave. Plenty of peo... Read More » How do Russians learn competitive coding? Egor Suvorov, Passionate about programming since I ... 1.4k votes Source: I'm from Russia and know something about country-wide events. Disclaimer: I'll describe things how they typically go in St. Petersburg (and, probably, in Moscow). I... Read More » How can you tell if a restaurant is overpriced? Jonas Mikka Luster, trimethylxanthine addict 54 votes I have a friend named Jacub. He loves to go to estate auctions and buy/sell things on eBay. Every so often he holds something under my nose and asks "what do you think this... Read More » Why do many software engineers not like Java? Michael O. Church 645 votes First, let's cover the technical issues. It's verbose, combines the worst of both worlds between static and dynamic typing by having a hobbled but extremely clunky type sys... Read More » Why is KFC in the U.S. so awful? Matt Wasserman, We don't know what the internet is fo... 66 votes KFC chicken is supposed to be served within 1 1/2 hours of cooking. However, it's also the highest food cost fast food there is so allowable waste is very low. A typical l... Read More » Picking an integer randomly, what is the probability of it being prime? Qiaochu Yuan, PhD student in Mathematics at UC Berk... 166 votes The Prime number theorem can be interpreted as saying that if you pick a random integer of size about [math]n[/math], then the probability that it is prime is about [math]\frac{1}{\ln n}[/math]. However, if you l... Read More » What do high-end restaurants like The French Laundry and Saison do if a credit card is declined at the end of a meal? Jim Char 2.3k votes If a card was declined we would always tell the customer that we were having trouble with our machines and the card would not go through. We would say that it might not g... Read More » What has been the toughest decision of your life? Did it turn out to be the right one? Virali Modi, Writer at FadBulletin 537 votes The toughest decision of my life was when I left my (ex) fiancé. It felt like I was stuck in the middle of a basketball court and my fiancé and mom were on either side of m... Read More »