Software engineering stack question I am about to start a new research project, and want to ask/poll the community on what technology stacks they think I should use beyond ones that I would provide and explain.  Where can I ask my software engineering question, preferable on Stack exchange, as I like the portfolio and community?
Give each site a parallel site for polling, recommendations and subjective-ish stuff Stuff like polls, recommendations based on subjective constraints, puzzles, webcomics etc. do not belong on the serious main SE sites, where professionals should be considered at work and having just a few spare minutes ("code's compiling") to answer questions, so they should not be distracted by such things. However, I'd also like to have a home for these things still using the SE engine. For the reason I mentioned before, this needs to be a separate place though. Let's call it four.[sitename-here].com.
What are the differences between $$, \[, align, equation and displaymath? On Takodana,      the main characters and various bar patrons can see the planet Hosnian Prime being destroyed by Starkiller Base with their (respective) naked eyes. How did they see this? Is the Hosnian system close enough to see? If it's not very close and they could just see the explosion, how did the light from it reach them so quickly? Proof that every metric space is normal I'm mainly a C# developer, but I'm currently working on a project in Python.  How can I represent the equivalent of an Enum in Python? I am looking at this:    I need to create a boot disk to test Ubuntu to make sure it will run on a PC (Compaq Mini CQ10-120LA) I was given. I can create the boot disk off of a Mac (in English) or Windows (but Windows is in Spanish and foreign to me).   Questions:     What format do I choose for the USB stick? (I wish the instructions stated this). What is Dash? (Will I know when I run the installer?) Can I do this from a Mac or Windows computer? Or only from Ubuntu? Let's say I have a document that has many pages and some pages have different formats. For example, most of the pages are fine with \documentclass{article} but there may be pages in the middle that I want to be \documentclass{letter}. I want my letter pages to be numbered inline with the other pages and have them show up in the Table of Contents.   Is it possible to change the class used for an individual or range of pages while still keeping things like page numbering consistent across them?   EDIT I'm trying to create a "welcome to the company" sort of document that has a cover page, table of contents, welcome letter, then various sections of information. I've never tried this in anything other than a word processor where it's easy to set "master pages" or "template pages" for individual pages in the document. So I could use a letterhead template page for the welcome letter part and a standard article-type template for the rest and still have the letter numbered/referenced in the ToC.   So the idea was to take advantage of the classes written, if possible, rather than have to format a single page by hand differently from the rest. When I apply to a PhD program, may I ask a postdoc who closely supervised me to write a recommendation letter? My supervisor also has written one for me, but I believe the postdoc can comment on my research skills in a more detailed and precise way. Does a postdoc have enough authority to convince admission committee? Travelling within the US as a foreign citizen without a passport I'm travelling within the US and am a British citizen. Can I travel without my passport and just show my UK driver's license instead? I have a Canon Powershot A710 and I previously had a previous Powershot A-series model. I love them due to the high amount of control they offer. Sadly, they both suck in low light conditions, their flash is very unresponsive, and the camera takes several seconds preparing itself for the next shot after a flash shot. And even then, the pictures they take in low light/flash are as bad as good are those with good light.  I'd like a camera which gives a lot of control options, but what do I need to look for to find one that's great in low light, with or without flash? How can Zeno's dichotomy paradox be disproved using mathematics? A brief description of the paradox taken from :     Suppose Sam wants to catch a stationary bus. Before he can get there, he must get halfway there. Before he can get halfway there, he must get a quarter of the way there. Before traveling a quarter, he must travel one-eighth; before an eighth, one-sixteenth; and so on.      This description requires one to complete an infinite number of tasks, which Zeno maintains is an impossibility. This sequence also presents a second problem in that it contains no first distance to run, for any possible (finite) first distance could be divided in half, and hence would not be first after all. Hence, the trip cannot even begin.      The paradoxical conclusion then would be that travel over any finite   distance can neither be completed nor begun, and so all motion must be   an illusion.   How can this be disproved using math, as obviously we can all move a walk from one place to another? Is there a word to describe someone who tends to disagree with others only to upset them? If $A|B$ and $B|A$ then prove $A=\pm B$   So far I have $A|B \iff AX=B$ and $B|A \iff BY=A$ with $X,Y \in \mathbb{Z}$  Not sure how to finish, any help. Laptop w/o battery US bound flight? How to append something to an array? How do I append an object (such as a string or number) to an array in JavaScript? IP address of host of Wi-Fi ad-hoc network? I often create a wireless ad-hoc network on my laptop running Windows 7. Now I'd like to connect to it using standard HTTP from my . I've tried 192.168.1.1 and that doesn't work. What should the address be so I can connect? Collective term for data sizes (bytes, kilobytes, megabytes etc.) As you will probably work out from my profile, I'm a software developer. This is sort of a software development question, but I think this is more suited to English language too.  Feel free to migrate if you think the question does not belong here.  Say I want to refer to the data size, or capacity of something:   A floppy disk can hold 1.44 megabytes of data. My flash drive can hold 16 gigabytes of data. My internet connection can operate at a maximum of 50 gigabits per second I have just managed to compress a file from 1 megabyte to just 200 kilobytes.   How do I collectively refer to these units of data size/capacity? Iptables rules with ! character I have entered iptables rules to log a specific connection on our server, but it doesn't seem to be working as I want it to. Here are the rules:  1    LOG        tcp  -- !10.51.0.0/16         0.0.0.0/0           state NEW    tcp dpt:8040 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `New Connection_8040TCP: ' 2    LOG        tcp  -- !192.168.0.0/16       0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:8040 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `New Connection_8040TCP: '   Iptables should log only IP connections which are not in the specified networks, but it keeps logging all connections from all IP addresses. How do I check if an element is really visible with JavaScript? In JavaScript, how would you check if an element is actually visible?  I don't just mean checking the visibility and display attributes. I mean, checking that the element is not   visibility: hidden or display: none underneath another element scrolled off the edge of the screen   For technical reasons I can't include any scripts. I can however use  as it is on the page already. Why is variance squared? Are the rings $k[[t^3,t^4,t^5]]$ and $k[[t^4,t^5,t^6]]$ Gorenstein? (Matsumura, Exercise 18.8) Here is question 18.8 of Matsumura's Commutative Ring Theory. It asks whether the rings   $k[[t^3,t^4,t^5]]$, $k[[t^4,t^5,t^6]]$   are Gorenstein. I got that 1) is not Gorenstein, but 2) is Gorenstein (by computing the socle). Just wanted to check if I am correct. I don't need the answer necessarily, a yes or a no will suffice. Thanks.