User:PaulVorobyev

Hi! I'm 26 and used to be a software engineer in Manhattan. This page is a collection of articles that I find weird, interesting, or otherwise noteworthy. Sometimes I use it to bookmark things I want to remember for later. They frequently pertain to my esoteric flavor-of-the-month interests.

N.B.: Items in this list belong to exactly one sub-section. If an article fits under more than one sub-section, then it goes into the most specific (ie deepest) one. For example, List of national flags by design goes under #Flags instead of #Lists. In the case there is more than one appropriate subsection with depth n, then my process for choosing is completely subjective. Deal with it.

Misc

• Pope Joan

• XY problem

• Friend of Dorothy

• Thorn in the flesh

• Looped square

• Judaism in Rugrats

• Detsl

• Gammon (insult)

• Stella d'Italia

• Wicked problem

• Unusually shaped vegetable

• Icthys

• New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens

• Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

• Umarell

• Corbin Bleu (see number of translations)

• Adesoji Aderemi

• Death by GPS

• Megumi Yokota

• Stealth Starbucks

• Pre-Code Hollywood

• Scots Wikipedia

• Ninja rocks

• Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah

• Russian apartment bombings

• Republican Revolution

• Saint Grottlesex

• Focal point (game theory)

• Dead key

• Consensus reality

• Borjomi (water)

• Disneyfication

• f/8 and be there

• Great Pacific garbage patch

• My Immortal (fan fiction)

• Armenia–Azerbaijan relations in the Eurovision Song Contest

• Airline booking ploys

• Fāl-gūsh

• Nix v. Hedden

Lists

• This page

• List of cities claimed to be built on seven hills

• Countries blocking access to The Pirate Bay

• List of Mount Everest death statistics

• Unusual Deaths

• List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data

• List of controversies involving The New York Times

• List of urban parks by size

• Infinite monkey theorem in popular culture

Language & Linguistics

• Kató Lomb

• Wine dark sea (Homer)

• Kangaroo word

• Ough (orthography)

• Hyponymy and hypernymy

• English as She Is Spoke

• Oxford spelling

• List of countries by the number of recognized official languages

• Hapax legomenon

• Initial stress derived noun

• Language brokering

• Epiousios

• Guttural R

• Silbo Gomero

• Cheugy

• Snowclone

• Shm-reduplication

• Tenevil

• Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin

• I Can Eat Glass

• Glomar response

• Aizuchi

Etymologies & Origins

• Names of Germany

• False friends

• List of proposed etymologies of OK

• Long time no see

• Stockholm_syndrome#Stockholm_bank_robbery

Art

• Ivan Aivazovsky

• The Greek Slave

• Garçon à la pipe

• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

• The Problem We All Live With

• Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue

• Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

Programming

• The lexer hack

• Most vexing parse

• Anaphoric macro

• Fragile base class and Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)

• Basic block

• Dead store

• Liskov substitution principle

• CAP Theorem

• Setun & Ternary computer

• Tony_Hoare#Apologies_and_retractions

• Position-independent code

• Sequential logic

• MINIX

• Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate

• Address space layout randomization

• Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number

Classics & Related

• Ephesus

• Third Rome

• Catiline Orations

• Lucretia

• Conflict of the Orders & Verginia

• Pseudo-Nero

Flags

• List of national flags by design

• Flag of Mozambique

• Flag of Angola

• Flag of Abkhazia

• Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Education & Pedagogy

• Critical consciousness

• Tacit knowledge

• Generation effect & Testing effect

• Bloom's 2 sigma problem

• Self-concept#Academic

• Froebel gifts

Buddhism

• Māna

• Mūlapariyāya Sutta