Blackjack players can "double down" after receiving their initial two cards. What is the past tense of 'Double Down'?

I faced the term "pointcut" first in a context of aspect oriented programming. I wondered why it is called "pointcut" and searched several dictionaries. So I did a google search and found it is also used for a hair cutting technique also known as v-cut (this context makes more sense to me compar...

Imagine a machine that encounters and indicates an error and stops operation. You fix the error and push a button that tells the machine that the error should be fixed and it can continue. How would this button usually be labelled? "Cancel Error"? "Quit Error"?

I just flagged this question as (potentially) off-topic, and I have flagged other questions like this in the past, but I am not sure if I am right to do so. It seems to me that the correct answer to the question would come from someone with knowledge of this specific field (in this case, softw...

There is nothing special about the phrase "snake metaphor." The sentence that you quoted contains a metaphor about a Burmese python, which is a kind of snake. Earlier in the article, the author makes a different snake metaphor: It took me a few minutes to wriggle into it — picture a film of ...