Questions

• How can I make my life simpler?
• According to the theory of evolution, why do we die?
• Am I a coward or is my girlfriend being unreasonable?
• Are actors in Hollywood happy and satisfied?
• Are birds dinosaurs?
• Are general requirements in college a waste of time?
• Are human stomachs better able to digest cooked meat than raw meat? If yes, why did we evolve this way?
• Are Ramayan and Mahabharata real?
• Are stealth games in any way realistic?
• Are the features we see in indigenous Africans proof of evolution since apes and homo sapiens originated from the continent?
• Are there any grammatically sound sentences in English where every word starts with the same letter?
• Are there skills (other than coding) that I can learn to get a good paid job?
• Are we really running out of helium?
• Are you a bad developer if you don't take on side projects?
• Batman (creative franchise): What are the long term health consequences of Mr. Harvey Dent's open face wound?
• Can an Indian be a white supremacist?
• Can black holes devour other black holes?
• Can questions that are impossible to answer completely nevertheless be answered adequately?
• Descartes, Cantor, Newton, Hobbes, Occam, Franklin, Lincoln. None attended anything we'd call primary or high school. Why should my children?
• Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production?
• Do all living organisms on Earth share a common ancestor, or did life begin more than once?
• Do animals or human beings feel pain after being beheaded?
• Do animals show any special care towards our children?
• Do doctors visit other doctors when they fall ill? Or do they prescribe their own treatment and medication?
• Do grad school students remember everything they were taught in college all the time?
• Do insects sleep?
• Do people still write and compile programs from the command line instead of an IDE? Why or why not?
• Do people who are born beautiful, smart and into a wealthy, healthy family know how lucky they are?
• Do the best programmers use the fewest lines of code?
• Do the Chinese people currently consider Mao Zedong to be evil or a hero?
• Do women, deep down inside, like being stalked?
• Do you think that the current engineering syllabus is outdated?
• Does a fetus urinate or excrete? If yes, what happens to the feces?
• Does Adam D'Angelo still commit any code to the Quora codebase?
• Does chess really improve thinking skills?
• Does college make you a better coder?
• Does Isaac Newton deserve the praise and respect he's been given throughout history?
• Does practicing math make us more intelligent in other areas as well?
• Does quantum physics end the free will debate?
• Does safely ejecting from a USB port actually do anything?
• Game of Thrones (TV series): Who was truly to blame for the downfall of the Starks?
• Given our current technology would it be possible for someone to become Batman?
• Have I have fallen in love with Python because she is beautiful?
• How are drivers for a computer written?
• How are regular expressions implemented?
• How can I become a world-class coder in under three years?
• How can I become better politically educated?
• How can I develop my kids' curiosity?
• How can I improve my ability to solve hard problems?
• How can I learn about Indian and world economics on my own?
• How can I learn as much as possible in my life?
• How can I learn to communicate like Bill Clinton?
• How can I make my life simpler?
• How can I polish my PowerPoint to make my presentation more compelling?
• How can I prepare myself to be a software engineer at Google?
• How can I study more effectively?
• How can one become part of the 1%?
• How can one visualize 4-dimensional space?
• How can the Halting Problem be explained to a layman?
• How can you explain black holes to a kid?
• How can you increase your productivity on side projects at the end of the day when you're tired from work/college?
• How can you overcome your envy of people who are your age but are far more successful?
• How can you tell whether someone is smarter than you?
• How could New Horizons keep flying for 9 years without getting fuel supply frequently?
• How could we have once been apes, and yet we look so different right now? Is it change of climate?
• How did Adrian Lamo learn to hack?
• How did Ashton Kutcher prepare for his role as Steve Jobs in the new movie Jobs?
• How did flowers evolve?
• How did game developers pack entire games into so little memory twenty five years ago?
• How did Internet Explorer lose to other browsers such as Chrome and Firefox?
• How did Shakuntala Devi mentally calculate the 23rd root of a 201-digit number correctly?
• How did Stephen Hawking have children?
• How did wings evolve, given that they're not useful unless they're evolved enough to enable flight?
• How do actors' significant others feel about love scenes in film, TV and theater?
• How do agents for organizations like the CIA learn so many languages so quickly?
• How do animals in the wild avoid eating anything poisonous?
• How do atheists explain the appearance of design in the universe?
• How do atheists explain the Earth's formation?
• How do good hotels always feel so clean and fresh?
• How do I calculate cos, sine, etc. without a calculator?
• How do I keep my confidence when I am with smart people who really think I am smarter than they are whilst I am pretty sure I am not?
• How do I learn all (I mean everything) of the Linux commands?
• How do I turn my life around as a teenager?
• How do Indians feel when they go back to live in India after living in US for 5+ years?
• How do math geniuses understand extremely hard math concepts so quickly?
• How do Muslims in India view Pakistan?
• How do people describe Che Guevara?
• How do people live in North Korea?
• How do programmers code quickly?
• How do tech companies deal with bugs that cannot be fixed without major changes to the software?
• How do top students study?
• How do we know that the speed of light is the fastest possible speed in the universe?
• How do we know that there is no meaning to life?
• How do we know that we're not living in a computer simulation?
• How do you build a company?
• How do you explain dimensions greater than 3, to a 5 year old?
• How do you explain evolution to a 10-year-old?
• How do you fire an employee that just isn't good enough?
• How do you know when it's time to leave your current company and move on?
• How do you make a video go viral?
• How do you make programmers work 60-80 hours per week?
• How do you manage people who are clearly smarter than you, without them thinking you're an idiot?
• How do you think the concept of God came into existence?
• How does a computer chip work?
• How does a spider decide where to put up its web?
• How does BitTorrent work?
• How does cyber warfare work?
• How does evolution work?
• How does it feel to be both highly attractive and highly intelligent?
• How does it feel to be extremely poor?
• How does it feel to get fired from your job suddenly?
• How does it feel to have sex with your spouse on your wedding night when he/she is a stranger?
• How does it feel to work in service capacity position where one constantly interacts with extremely wealthy?
• How does one determine whether a number is evenly divisible by 7?
• How does randomization in a random forest work?
• How does the human brain decide which memories to store?
• How does the thinking or talent of a top 99.999% percentile math person differ from a 99% percentile math person?
• How easy is it to tail/follow someone in real life?
• How is school life in different countries?
• How is Stephen Hawking alive in spite of his illness?
• How is the game of chess similar/dissimilar to life?
• How long does it take to recognize a face?
• How physically intense is ballet?
• How should I deal with the overwhelming envy I feel toward people whom I perceive as better than me in some way?
• How should I explain dynamic programming to a 4-year-old?
• How were arrows mass produced from raw wood in the Middle Ages in Europe?
• How would a person have spoken with him/herself inside his/her head before the advent of any language?
• How would you explain the Gaussian distribution in layman's terms?
• How would you explain the plot of Game of Thrones in brief, from the beginning?
• How would you explain to a five-year-old that higher taxes on the rich don't fix everything?
• How, when and why did apes (hominoideas) lose their tails to evolve into their modern forms?
• I asked my boyfriend to fight for me, and he refused. Does that mean he doesn't really care that much about me?
• I have heard some people claim Einstein was a fraud. Is there any truth to that claim?
• I just attempted to decapitate an ant. Both the body and head is still moving, how the hell is this possible?
• I want to re-learn mathematics from the ground up. What is the best way to do it?
• I'm interested in too many things, how can I choose a major/career and is it necessary to choose one?
• If a bird had never seen a nest, would it know how to build one?
• If a cab driver makes more money than an IT professional, why should I study?
• If Barack Obama is so brilliant that he earned a seat at Harvard Law School, why doesn't he release his college transcripts?
• If developing countries are growing faster than developed countries, why wouldn't you invest most of your money there?
• If everything is made of atoms, how are some things living and others not so? What infuses life in atoms?
• If I want to look smart, what do I need to know about the Higgs Boson discovery?
• If Steve Jobs was such a bad boss, why did so many people work with him?
• If the Sun disappeared completely what would happen to the Earth and the rest of our solar system?
• If the wheel is an extremely efficient method of transportation then why is there no evolutionary equivalent in nature?
• If there were ten commandments in cooking, what would they be?
• If we can already make diamonds, why can't we make gold yet? Is it just a matter of time?
• If you could give one interesting example to grab someone's interest in game theory (ex: how useful it can be) what would that example/problem it be?
• If you injure a bug, should you kill it or let it live and not die?
• If π ≠ 22/7, how do we know its value?
• In general, why does an airport need such a huge area?
• In layman's terms, how does Naive Bayes work?
• In layman's terms, what are the major programming languages, and what are they used for?
• In layman's terms, what is amortized time complexity?
• In movies, why don't the cool guys look back at explosions?
• In The Dark Knight, how did the Joker really get his scars?
• In The Matrix Reloaded, who is the Architect, and what's he talking about?
• In what specific manner did learning Haskell make you a better programmer?
• In what ways are the major modern functional languages different from each other?
• Indian Space Mission, Poverty and Closet Racism
• Is "cuteness" an evolutionarily advantageous trait?
• Is (a, b) = (1, 1) the only solution of the equation 3^a = b² + 2 where a, b are integers?
• Is 10¹⁰⁰ + 1 (a googol plus 1) prime?
• Is a 100% literacy rate a good thing?
• Is C++ a good first programming language?
• Is everyone's experience of color the same?
• Is family really all that important?
• Is India a good travel destination?
• Is Islam misogynistic?
• Is it easier to learn a programming language than a foreign language?
• Is it important for modern programmers to know/use Unix?
• Is it OK if a teacher says "I don't know" to students?
• Is it OK to cry near the end of a movie?
• Is it possible that one specialized scientist (preferably polymath), who has time-traveled more than 200 years to the past, could construct a working computer from the ground up in less than 20 years?
• Is it possible to have a complex or imaginary probability? If so, what would that imply?
• Is it racist that white makes the first move in a game of chess?
• Is it safe for a single American woman to travel in India?
• Is it true that in China, you can hire someone to serve your prison sentence?
• Is Mark Zuckerberg a ‘bad person’ as depicted in "The Social Network"?
• Is Pakistani culture more Iranian / Persian than Indian?
• Is PHP a badly designed programming language?
• Is pro wrestling fake?
• Is the story true that the US spent millions developing a space pen while the Russians used a simple pencil?
• Is there a science to picking colors that work well together or is it just subjective?
• Is there an evolutionary reason for cancer?
• Is there any evidence for cosmological natural selection?
• Is there any known way to prove that an algorithm is optimal?
• Is there any story of a dead brand brought back to life and becomes a successful one again?
• Is there life on other planets?
• Linux Kernel: After a fork, where exactly does the child's execution start?
• My kids (11 and 8) have started learning chess. Is it a good idea to beat them sometimes to discourage them?
• Object-Oriented Programming: What is a concise definition of polymorphism?
• Relative to the smallest and largest objects in the universe, is there a categorically middle-sized object in the universe?
• Should most young people learn to code?
• Should siblings share beds?
• Should you correct your friends when they make factual errors?
• Track and Field: Why are starting blocks designed for starting from a crouched position?
• Video Games: What are the characteristics of a multiplayer opponent that makes their multiplayer opponent remember them, even after 10-20 years?
• What advice would Jimmy Wales give to the young generation?
• What algorithms should I know to become a good programmer?
• What are ants saying to each other when they pass in a line?
• What are examples of assumptions that people passionately believe in when they are young, that turn out to be false?
• What are good ways to avoid bugs while programming?
• What are important things and advice to know that people generally aren't told about?
• What are some amazing things made by animals?
• What are some bad habits that self-taught programmers develop?
• What are some common stereotypes about Irish people that are largely untrue?
• What are some cool programming tricks or tasks that make a clever use of random numbers?
• What are some dumb questions you have been asked?
• What are some English language rules that native speakers don't know, but still follow?
• What are some examples of novels, books etc. with exceptional, unique, groundbreaking approaches to storytelling?
• What are some great questions that university professors have received?
• What are some hallmarks of a truly educated person?
• What are some of the best ways to learn programming?
• What are some of the greatest acting performances to not win an Oscar? Why?
• What are some of the most annoying double standards that men suffer?
• What are some of the most annoying double standards that women suffer?
• What are some of the most counterintuitive mathematical results?
• What are some of the most interesting mathematical coincidences?
• What are some of the must-see TED talks?
• What are some of the weirdest creatures that evolved during the Cambrian Explosion?
• What are some policies that would improve millions of lives, but people still oppose?
• What are some scams which are commonly used to deceive the people?
• What are some things that you have to unlearn from college/school?
• What are some traits/practices of experienced/good programmers that every beginner programmer should know?
• What are some truly complex concepts that even experienced programmers struggle with?
• What are some useful Bash tricks?
• What are some useful computer related technical skills I can learn within a day?
• What are telltale signs that you're working at a "sinking ship" company?
• What are the basics I should know if I want to write scripts to automate my daily actions?
• What are the basics of brain chemistry?
• What are the benefits of using LaTeX over MS Word?
• What are the best photos of World War II?
• What are the best stories about randomly meeting a celebrity and not recognizing him/her?
• What are the biggest misconceptions that Indians have about India?
• What are the biggest mistakes engineers make when they interview?
• What are the economics of lying?
• What are the horrors of PHP?
• What are the key traits of mentally strong people?
• What are the most common life mistakes young people make?
• What are the most famous computer passwords in history?
• What are the most productive ways to spend time on the Internet?
• What are the top 10 pieces of career advice Brian Bi would give to future software engineers?
• What are the top five books every computer programmer should study at least once?
• What are the tradeoffs of client-side rendering vs. server-side rendering?
• What are the weirdest things flight attendants have seen in their line of duty?
• What can I learn in one minute that will be useful for the rest of my life?
• What created time?
• What determines the color of stars?
• What determines whether an actor is cast in a part in Hollywood?
• What did it feel like to be inside the World Trade Center at the time of the 9/11 attacks?
• What do all the controls in an airplane's cockpit do?
• What do experienced software engineers see as the most common mistakes young software engineers make?
• What do real-world calculations that physicists do look like?
• What do recruiters look for in a resumé at first glance?
• What do software developers of age 30 and over know now that wish they had known in their 20s?
• What do supermarkets do with food items that have passed their expiry date?
• What do you do when you are good at something but not good enough?
• What do you do when you realise that you are an utter loser?
• What do you think of professors who only teach introductory courses?
• What does it feel like being the CEO of a startup?
• What does it feel like to be a prison guard?
• What does it feel like to be addicted to drugs?
• What does it feel like to be an average programmer among very talented ones?
• What does it feel like to be an introvert?
• What does it feel like to be an unattractive woman?
• What does it feel like to be at the top 0.1% of Stack Overflow?
• What does it feel like to be bitten by a black widow spider?
• What does it feel like to be in a coma?
• What does it feel like to cancel your wedding?
• What does it feel like to have a loaded gun pointed at you in anger?
• What does it feel like to have bipolar disorder?
• What does it feel like to have your sibling die?
• What does it feel like to lose a lot of money quickly?
• What does it feel like to murder someone?
• What does it feel like to play grandmaster level chess?
• What does it feel like to win a Fields Medal?
• What does it mean when a girl smiles at you every time she sees you?
• What does object-oriented programming do better than functional programming, and why is it the most popular paradigm when everybody seems to say functional programming is superior?
• What does one mean by 'elegant' code?
• What does the first day of a 5+ year prison sentence feel like?
• What equation generates a beautiful or unique shape when we plot?
• What exactly goes on in the Linux scheduler when a process consumes 100% CPU?
• What exactly happened to the Indian economy in 1991 in layman's terms?
• What exactly is combinatorics?
• What exactly is evolution?
• What exactly is the "Vyapam" scam? Why have so many died because of it?
• What facts about the United States do foreigners not believe until they come to America?
• What format of book pays the writer the most?
• What happens in my brain when I can't recall something I know or it's on the "tip of my tongue"?
• What happens in the brain during and after orgasm?
• What happens to an individual ant that gets separated from the colony?
• What happens to Neo at the end of The Matrix Revolutions?
• What has been a quiet moment in your life that in retrospect is precious?
• What have you learned from debating religion on Quora?
• What is a coder's worst nightmare?
• What is a day in the life of a porn star like?
• What is a hobby of yours that you think is fairly uncommon?
• What is a simple explanation of higher order functions and callbacks in JavaScript?
• What is an intuitive explanation of Bayes' Rule?
• What is Chaos Theory, in layman's terms?
• What is fascinating about dynamically-typed programming languages?
• What is it like being exceptionally tall?
• What is it like living on Earth after living in space?
• What is it like to be a drug dealer?
• What is it like to be a prisoner of war?
• What is it like to be a sniper?
• What is it like to be a woman working in the tech industry?
• What is it like to be an alcoholic?
• What is it like to be an INTP?
• What is it like to be blind?
• What is it like to be deaf from birth?
• What is it like to be exposed to new technology after a 20+ year prison sentence?
• What is it like to be kidnapped?
• What is it like to be raised by a narcissist?
• What is it like to be wrongly convicted?
• What is it like to burn out as a student at MIT?
• What is it like to earn a living through poker?
• What is it like to find out you have HIV/AIDS?
• What is it like to have Parkinsons?
• What is it like to have schizophrenia?
• What is it like to not identify as male or female?
• What is it like to serve a life sentence in prison?
• What is it like to talk to a serial killer?
• What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
• What is it like to visit North Korea?
• What is it like to work at a startup that's on fire?
• What is it like to work for the Indian Premier League?
• What is it like to work undercover?
• What is it that nobody tells you about having children?
• What is one thing that you regret learning in medical school?
• What is so great about functional programming?
• What is some advice every new mother should know?
• What is tail recursion? Why is it so bad?
• What is the "mother" of all programming languages?
• What is the craziest thing you have ever said (or done) at an interview and still got the job?
• What is the evidence for the Great Vowel Shift?
• What is the evolutionary benefit or purpose of having periods?
• What is the farthest human-made object?
• What is the Great Vowel Shift?
• What is the most awesome paradox?
• What is the most heroic thing you have done?
• What is the most interesting attack made on a website?
• What is the nicest thing you've ever done that nobody knew about until you revealed it here?
• What is the one skill that, if you have it, will completely change your life?
• What is the point of linear algebra?
• What is the point of living an unexceptional life?
• What is the point of living if we are going to die and not remember anything?
• What is the political situation in the Mario universe?
• What is the prisoner's dilemma in layman's terms?
• What is the proper definition of a startup?
• What is the real reason the United States waged war against Iraq?
• What is the simplest intuitive proof of Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm?
• What is the single best feature in any programming language?
• What is the single worst feature in any programming language?
• What is the space that atoms reside on?
• What is the use of discovering habitable planets if we don’t take steps to reach them?
• What is the weirdest or most disturbing thing that a kid has said to you?
• What is the worst mistake ever made in computer science and programming that proved to be painful for programmers for years?
• What is the worst part of being a VC?
• What is true education?
• What is wrong with the Indian education system?
• What life lessons are counter-intuitive or go against common sense or wisdom?
• What life lessons does Game of Thrones teach us?
• What makes any one programming language better than another?
• What patterns can be observed in the way geniuses think and behave?
• What qualities characterize a great PhD student?
• What should every foreigner know about your country?
• What should everyone know about economics?
• What should everyone know about making good charts and graphs to represent data?
• What should everyone know about math?
• What should teachers teach more of?
• What TV series are worth watching?
• What was it like to be a programmer without the Internet?
• What was it like to fight in the Iraq war?
• What was it like to work on the I Have a Dream (1963 speech) speech with Martin Luther King, Jr.?
• What was the most difficult thing for you to unlearn?
• What was the most fatal/worst century in human history?
• What was the most powerful piece of magic performed by anyone in the Harry Potter books?
• What was the most significant adaptation in human evolution?
• What were the most ridiculous startup ideas that eventually became successful?
• What would a modern-day evil genius have to do in order to take over the world?
• What would a realistic sword duel between two armored medieval knights look like?
• What would happen if 1 USD = INR 1?
• What's an efficient way to overcome procrastination?
• What's it like to have a 150 IQ? Is life easier?
• What's the best way to explain big-O notation in laymen's terms?
• What's the easiest way to understand Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems?
• What's the most counter-intuitive thing you've learned?
• What's the most frustrating thing about the popular (mis) understanding of science?
• What's the purpose of long words which have short, simple equivalents?
• What's the worst thing a boss has ever asked you to do for your job?
• When should someone be finished grieving?
• Where can the "pay what you want" model succeed?
• Where did the Sun get its energy to burn itself?
• Where does the money go in a recession?
• Which are the most horrific science experiments?
• Which concept is scientifically more accepted: that the universe is infinite or that it is part of a multiverse?
• Which is the best joke about engineers that very few people have heard?
• Who is the biggest lying cheater in the history of pro sports?
• Who wrote the Batman equation?
• Why are email scams written in broken English?
• Why are lawyers so expensive even with the excess supply of them?
• Why are Mathematics and Physics inherently 'difficult' subjects?
• Why are moths fatally attracted to light?
• Why are Nokia phones stereotyped as being indestructible?
• Why are numerous programmers against writing loops?
• Why are our genitals positioned between our legs?
• Why are petrol prices rising in India?
• Why are so many people content with just earning a salary and working 9-6 their entire adult life?
• Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
• Why are some Indians so furious about the BBC documentary 'India's Daughter'? Why did the government of India ban this documentary film?
• Why are text editors more popular than IDEs with the engineers in the software industry?
• Why are the paintings that look simple worth millions?
• Why are the people who answer 911 calls so relaxed?
• Why aren't there smells in dreams?
• Why can't Indians win more Olympic medals?
• Why can't the poor be handed out lots of money to make them rich?
• Why did Michael Jackson get surgery to turn white?
• Why did Symbian fail?
• Why didn't Einstein's descendants inherit Einstein's IQ?
• Why didn't other animals develop intellect like apes did 100,000 years ago?
• Why didn't the creator of Hashtag patent the concept?
• Why didn't we humans develop immunity to mosquitoes if they have been around and biting us for millions of years?
• Why do advertisements often use the time 10:10 on clocks and watches?
• Why do all good things come to an end?
• Why do honey bees die after they use their sting?
• Why do house flies rub their front legs together?
• Why do humans behave irrationally?
• Why do most girl names end with an 'aa' sound? Does your language have girl names that end with a consonant sound?
• Why do movie franchises make 3 movies (trilogy) as a standard? Why not two or four?
• Why do people adore celebrities but not intellectuals like scientists, researchers, etc.?
• Why do people care about using English properly?
• Why do people in the academia seek rigorous proofs even if there exists a simple but correct proof?
• Why do people like Game of Thrones?
• Why do people quit their jobs at dream companies like Facebook or Google?
• Why do planets rotate?
• Why do so many writers use words that might be difficult for some readers?
• Why do some people hate the United Nations?
• Why do some people think Kim's cover photo on Paper was racist?
• Why do some programmers hate Java?
• Why do standards still use plain text?
• Why do we get frustrated when learning something?
• Why do we sleep?
• Why do you love reading?
• Why does every physicist want unification of all the fundamental forces? Maybe there is no unified theory, so why are they obsessed with this?
• Why does Google accept some applicants rejected everywhere else?
• Why does it seem most doctors are not compassionate?
• Why does Kerala have a higher crime rate even though most of the population is well educated?
• Why does software have bugs?
• Why doesnt glue stick to its bottle or tube?
• Why don't birds get electrocuted sitting on power lines?
• Why don't cell phones work at music festivals?
• Why don't college students ask questions in class?
• Why don't I turn into a fish when I eat fish? Or a cow when I eat beef?
• Why don't many smart people go to the top 10 universities?
• Why don't we see quantum weirdness in the everyday world?
• Why don't/can't we put solar panels in the Sahara Desert as a source of electricity?
• Why has evolution favored a method of mammalian birth that is so dangerous for the mother, relative to laying eggs?
• Why hasn't human body developed resistance to the common cold?
• Why have humans not evolved multiple brains to do parallel processing?
• Why have most animals evolved to see only in front of their bodies and not all directions simultaneously?
• Why haven't humans evolved to grow wings yet?
• Why is advice largely useless?
• Why is C++ so irreplaceable?
• Why is Dropbox more popular than other programs with similar functionality?
• Why is everyone on Quora smarter than I am?
• Why is factoring numbers into primes a difficult problem?
• Why is food so expensive in theatres?
• Why is it easier to hold your breath after inhalation than after exhalation?
• Why is it important to name organisms?
• Why is it so hard to resuscitate the dead?
• Why is J.R.R Tolkien's LOTR considered such a classic?
• Why is learning JavaScript so hard?
• Why is Napoleon seen as a villain historically?
• Why is the proton so much more massive than the electron?
• Why is water transparent?
• Why isn't it possible to imagine a new color?
• Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting
• Why should I write automated tests when I can test manually?
• Why should someone learn to program in Assembly?
• Why shouldn't I feel ashamed about going to community college?
• Will I ever be happy again after the loss of my only child?
• Would a lone adult wolf be able to take down an unarmed, athletic adult human?
• You've got 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents etc. Where does the exponential growth stop?
• What is it like to be an alcoholic?
• What is it like to be blind?
• Can black holes devour other black holes?
• What are some good ways to respond to a kid who asks "Why does all the stuff that is bad for you taste so good?"
• Are human stomachs better able to digest cooked meat than raw meat? If yes, why did we evolve this way?
• Are the features we see in indigenous Africans proof of evolution since apes and homo sapiens originated from the continent?
• Are you a bad developer if you don't take on side projects?
• Can an Indian be a white supremacist?
• Can questions that are impossible to answer completely nevertheless be answered adequately?
• Do animals or human beings feel pain after being beheaded?
• Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production?
• Do all living organisms on Earth share a common ancestor, or did life begin more than once?
• Do grad school students remember everything they were taught in college all the time?
• Do insects sleep?
• Do people still write and compile programs from the command line instead of an IDE? Why or why not?
• Do people who are born beautiful, smart and into a wealthy, healthy family know how lucky they are?
• Do the Chinese people currently consider Mao Zedong to be evil or a hero?
• Do you think that the current engineering syllabus is outdated?
• Does a fetus urinate or excrete? If yes, what happens to the feces?
• Does chess really improve thinking skills?
• Does college make you a better coder?
• Does Isaac Newton deserve the praise and respect he's been given throughout history?
• Have I have fallen in love with Python because she is beautiful?
• How can I become a world-class coder in under three years?
• How can I learn as much as possible in my life?
• How do people live in North Korea?
• Is there any organism that can change shape, colour or form to resemble its own predator?
• If we never use 90% of the stuff we learn in engineering school, why do we learn it?
• How is the game of chess similar/dissimilar to life?
• How can I gain the confidence to be an effective leader?
• What life lessons does Game of Thrones teach us?