If a user types a couple of lines right after each other in chat, the avatar grows to it's maximum size. So does the hat. Because of the size of the mask and the short length of the name, the name gets hidden by the hat. This can't possibly be by design.

The Background Folks were talking prime factorization in chat and we found ourselves talking about repunits. Repunits are a subset of the numbers known as repdigits, which are numbers consisting of only repeating digits, like 222 or 4444444444444444, but repunits consist only of 1. The first co...

I have always been intrigued by the word cockpit and have wondered where it originated. I have heard that it originated in the times of cock fights; is this true? If it is, how did the word evolve from having its original cockfighting meaning to being the name for the portion of an airplane or ...

WinterBash is always a lot of fun and makes people trek across sites and participate in communities they are not usually a part of, but how did they originate? What was the thought process behind introducing this tradition?

Let's say I wanna match the letters E, Q and W. However, I don't want them matched if they're found in a certain string of characters, for instance, HELLO. LKNSDG8E94GO98SGIOWNGOUH09PIHELLOBN0D98HREINBMUE ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ yes yes NO y...

There's a nifty regex trick you can use for this. Here's some code in JavaScript, but it can be adapted to any language: var str = 'LKNSDG8E94GO98SGIOWNGOUH09PIHELLOBN0D98HREINBMUE', rgx = /HELLO|([EQW])/g, match; while ((match = rgx.exec(str)) != null) { if (match[1]) outp...