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Alexander Yee's explanation of why processing a sorted array is faster[^] (well, in that case).
Not because it has many upvotes or even because I learned something from it (I didn't), but because it's one of those things that no one seems to know about but are very important anyway, and that answer makes it accessible to those people.
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Oh, I love that answer. Indeed, it's something kind of obscure and many people (like me) never suspected it, however it makes a tremendous impact on execution speed. And it's a very complicated issue explained in very simple words. Simply brilliant.
Sore wa ore no nindo da!
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Wow, that didn't even seem like an unreasonable question. Certainly a good way to put people off ever asking a question on SO 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Now we need a collection from CP
First someone needs to figure out how to make non-article content her visible over the long term. CP's forum archives have been invisible to Google for as long as I can remember (probably because performance is(was?) appalling); and I've never seen a QA when I Google something.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I wish to answer by similar way to classic C "How to convert hex to binary" question.
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A bloke at work is organising this as a 'team-building' exercise. I put my name down for as it sounded cool and I like football. It's only now I've researched it, I realise exactly what it is. I don't think my Football skills are going to come in handy[^].
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Is there a doctor in the house!?
Yeah, looks like fun. I have hear that cliff diving is fun too. I don't cliff dive for many, many reasons. 
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It looks like a kindergarten version of American football, itself a kindergarten version of good old-fashioned rugby.
I understand workplace zero-tolerance policies for violence, but this is ridiculous!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Looks like a get a bunch of people drunk and make them do silly sh*t game!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Could be worse: Zorb Rugby? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Could be worse: Zorb Rugby?
That's called American football (Just look at the padding  ).
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Replaced the LCD in my son's Acer tablet that he dropped: everything looks like a photo negative now.
Tried to fix the 520ST: All I get is either A) green stripes, B) 20 Bombs, or C) nothing.
Tried to fix my son's Nintendo DSi, which he dropped in the toilet: broke a teeny tiny ribbon connector, so it won't even turn on anymore.
I give up.
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Regular listeners may remember how I tried to replace the pull cord in my bathroom light switch in January, it took me a week to get it fully working, with various intermediate states of working along the way.
Last week I had to have two goes at getting a new shelf to stay up in the kitchen.
So it really was highly optimistic of my wife to expect me to be able to wire in a new light fitting in the hallway in half an hour on Saturday evening, and she only has herself to blame that we had no lights downstairs for the rest of the night.
I got my DIY skills from my dad, and some day I hope to be wealthy enough to pay someone to do the simplest of tasks around the house just like he now does.
Sunday was a success though, I managed to get a new picture up on the wall with only the one nail hammered into the wrong place.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Measure twice, cut once?
NOPE. Measure 17 times, then have someone else double check it.
And 30% of the time, it will still be 1/8" too short.
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GenJerDan wrote: my son's Acer tablet that he dropped
GenJerDan wrote: fix my son's Nintendo DSi, which he dropped
I can see a pattern here!  
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Super Lloyd wrote: I can see a pattern here!
Drop it.
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Oh, yeah.
I'm hoping it clears up once they learn about gravity in school.
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It sounds like my son, a.k.a. Destructo-Boy!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hmm, here I though my son was a euphemism for my wife got mad and threw x at me. 
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How old is your son?
My son knows that I will not replace anything he owns, if he is constantly careless with it. He is currently saving up for his own x-box. 
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He'll be 7 in 3 weeks.
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Don't let him hold the Birthday Cake.
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I really understand this, especially after my episode with a hot water tank last week!
I'm sitting here now looking at my step-son's laptop which he asked me to look at...something wrong with the screen since he used the top of the screen like a handle to move it...of course he doesn't know where the adapter is. After a few weeks I finally find an adapter that will work with it and finally see that the display is completely whacked and appears to have cracks under the surface. And how do we punish reward him for his destructive behavior? The replacement was an iPad. In the meantime, I'm still working on a 6 year old laptop.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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All that, plus things are crappily made these days.
My laptop is a Toshiba from a dozen years ago. Works fine. Never a problem to be seen.
My wife is on her third laptop since 2007...they keep "dying". HP -> Dell -> Toshiba.
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You know what? I do have a brother in law and a motherboard that...
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