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1.

The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written (www.quora.com)

1493 points by graposaymaname 2018-05-18 | 481 comments

2.

Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? (www.quora.com)

1002 points by grzm 2019-02-13 | 618 comments

3.

How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1 (www.quora.com)

934 points by ekianjo 2015-06-18 | 247 comments

4.

Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40? (www.quora.com)

580 points by rbanffy 2017-11-17 | 393 comments

5.

Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012) (www.quora.com)

515 points by chenster 2017-01-17 | 253 comments

6.

What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them? (www.quora.com)

514 points by mpweiher 2017-04-13 | 218 comments

7.

Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (2016) (www.quora.com)

488 points by johnny313 2018-02-26 | 111 comments

8.

What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014) (www.quora.com)

476 points by oskarth 2015-11-21 | 224 comments

9.

William Shatner's Seat (www.quora.com)

458 points by vinnyglennon 2017-03-08 | 81 comments

10.

How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4? (www.quora.com)

446 points by jordigh 2017-08-06 | 94 comments

11.

Alan Kay on Lisp (www.quora.com)

427 points by shakes 2017-10-26 | 193 comments

12.

In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley (www.quora.com)

406 points by thinkcomp 2011-05-11 | 208 comments

13.

How big an issue is the nausea problem for VR products? (www.quora.com)

387 points by BrandiATMuhkuh 2016-05-29 | 175 comments

14.

Why did Borland fail? (www.quora.com)

381 points by networked 2015-06-13 | 261 comments

15.

What are common mistakes that new or inexperienced managers make? (www.quora.com)

376 points by asianexpress 2014-05-19 | 147 comments

16.

What is it like to be a geek in a prison? (www.quora.com)

368 points by edw519 2013-12-26 | 249 comments

17.

What was the technology stack driving the original Ultima Online servers? (www.quora.com)

336 points by jdmoreira 2015-07-02 | 85 comments

18.

What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? (www.quora.com)

308 points by Nuance 2018-07-23 | 246 comments

19.

What was the code quality of the initial version of Google? (www.quora.com)

295 points by mlinsey 2011-04-15 | 73 comments

20.

How to become Batman (www.quora.com)

286 points by rpsubhub 2011-02-18 | 77 comments

21.

What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo? (www.quora.com)

275 points by lettergram 2018-10-28 | 139 comments

22.

Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month? (www.quora.com)

264 points by ljdk 2011-05-14 | 121 comments

23.

What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016) (www.quora.com)

260 points by janeboo 2017-05-15 | 285 comments

24.

How to parse a sentence and decide if to answer "that's what she said"? (www.quora.com)

256 points by fogus 2011-04-27 | 44 comments

25.

What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? (www.quora.com)

252 points by maverick_iceman 2016-08-14 | 92 comments

26.

Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google? (www.quora.com)

245 points by berkeleyjunk 2018-09-17 | 189 comments

27.

“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept” (www.quora.com)

245 points by vvijay03 2014-07-18 | 62 comments

28.

Which programming language is used for making Windows 10? (www.quora.com)

244 points by donnemartin 2019-04-14 | 118 comments

29.

Time-saving tips for Linux (www.quora.com)

242 points by thenicepostr 2011-03-23 | 85 comments

30.

Heroku architecture (www.quora.com)

221 points by helwr 2011-05-12 | 17 comments

31.

Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are immune from AI, etc? (www.quora.com)

220 points by aburan28 2017-01-02 | 220 comments

32.

Craigslist has been disrupted (www.quora.com)

218 points by rpsubhub 2011-04-01 | 126 comments

33.

Are we really running out of helium? (www.quora.com)

216 points by caffeinewriter 2015-02-24 | 121 comments

34.

Why Did Yishan Wong Resign as Reddit CEO? (www.quora.com)

215 points by wyclif 2014-11-14 | 97 comments

35.

Where can I get large datasets open to the public? (www.quora.com)

215 points by helwr 2011-04-05 | 37 comments

36.

What life lessons are unintuitive or go against common sense or wisdom? (www.quora.com)

213 points by sajithw 2011-03-27 | 121 comments

37.

Why isn't bamboo wood a bigger industry? (www.quora.com)

210 points by tomcam 2019-01-07 | 98 comments

38.

If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl Reactor No.4 core (www.quora.com)

209 points by tomerds 2019-06-02 | 77 comments

39.

What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote? (www.quora.com)

207 points by tambourine_man 2018-04-14 | 133 comments

40.

DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017? (www.quora.com)

200 points by gavingmiller 2017-01-24 | 130 comments

41.

Genesis of requiring a "Dropbox folder," versus designated folders (www.quora.com)

196 points by brezina 2011-04-28 | 31 comments

42.

What happens over time if each year I fire all my below average programmers? (www.quora.com)

192 points by rmason 2017-04-06 | 104 comments

43.

Why did Clojure gain so much popularity? (www.quora.com)

182 points by yogthos 2019-04-23 | 265 comments

44.

What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack? (www.quora.com)

181 points by thenicepostr 2011-04-05 | 144 comments

45.

Why Quora uses MySQL rather than No-SQL (www.quora.com)

175 points by bokonist 2010-06-30 | 56 comments

46.

How is Javascript used within the Spotify desktop application? (www.quora.com)

174 points by gflandre 2015-05-14 | 96 comments

47.

What do all the controls in an aeroplane cockpit do? (www.quora.com)

169 points by lisper 2014-11-29 | 36 comments

48.

Lists of must see TED-talks (www.quora.com)

168 points by TheAlan 2011-03-01 | 24 comments

49.

Is getting rich worth it? (www.quora.com)

168 points by jesseddy 2013-02-07 | 135 comments

50.

Large Public Datasets (www.quora.com)

164 points by amazedsaint 2014-05-11 | 26 comments

51.

What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week (www.quora.com)

164 points by RBr 2011-02-08 | 66 comments

52.

How does a computer chip work? (www.quora.com)

158 points by pinkyand 2014-10-05 | 27 comments

53.

What were the key decisions that Page and Brin made in the early days of Google (www.quora.com)

157 points by helwr 2010-07-10 | 50 comments

54.

What are some things that only someone who has been programming 20 years knows? (www.quora.com)

156 points by mcguire 2018-09-22 | 141 comments

55.

Max Howell, author of Homebrew, on being rejected for a job at Google (www.quora.com)

155 points by ksourav 2017-12-22 | 92 comments

56.

Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: D, Go, Rust? (www.quora.com)

152 points by sidcool 2015-11-10 | 209 comments

57.

Should I fire an engineer for working on his side projects during office hours? (www.quora.com)

152 points by signa11 2017-04-28 | 144 comments

58.

What is the most ridiculous aircraft design? (www.quora.com)

150 points by anigbrowl 2015-07-17 | 54 comments

59.

Adapting to American culture as a Chinese student (www.quora.com)

145 points by berneezy3 2016-11-27 | 111 comments

60.

What was it like working on the original iPhone project? (www.quora.com)

145 points by dvdhnt 2016-12-28 | 46 comments

61.

FreeBSD has lower latency, and Linux has faster application speeds (www.quora.com)

134 points by krn 2018-06-19 | 75 comments

62.

There is no such thing as EQ (2016) (www.quora.com)

134 points by mpweiher 2017-08-06 | 120 comments

63.

Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016) (www.quora.com)

129 points by turrini 2017-12-10 | 41 comments

64.

Alan Kay answers “What was it like to be at Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited?” (www.quora.com)

123 points by vshan 2017-10-28 | 55 comments

65.

What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? (www.quora.com)

122 points by vinchuco 2017-08-12 | 53 comments

66.

What are some startup ideas that persistently fail? (www.quora.com)

121 points by helwr 2011-05-05 | 91 comments

67.

Why don't more physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory? (www.quora.com)

119 points by rfreytag 2016-12-17 | 112 comments

68.

What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook? (www.quora.com)

117 points by iraldir 2016-03-04 | 129 comments

69.

Scala vs Go (www.quora.com)

116 points by dcu 2017-02-14 | 103 comments

70.

President Obama Wants You--In Jail (www.quora.com)

116 points by thinkcomp 2011-05-15 | 28 comments

71.

Why aren't figs considered vegan? (www.quora.com)

115 points by sethbannon 2019-04-17 | 102 comments

72.

Why did Borders Tank and B&N not? (www.quora.com)

114 points by ThomPete 2011-02-19 | 70 comments

73.

Life Without Photoshop (www.quora.com)

111 points by rpsubhub 2011-02-26 | 66 comments

74.

How Stripe does engineering interviews (www.quora.com)

110 points by christinac 2013-08-26 | 48 comments

75.

What are some things you wish you knew when you started programming? (www.quora.com)

109 points by afable 2017-03-19 | 99 comments

76.

Elon Musk's first wife on what it takes to become a billionaire (www.quora.com)

109 points by yuvals 2015-04-21 | 70 comments

77.

Web scale: Facebook's architecture (www.quora.com)

107 points by jpren 2011-04-18 | 10 comments

78.

Disregard ideas, acquire assets (www.quora.com)

103 points by shalmanese 2011-03-29 | 19 comments

79.

If I haven't succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful? (www.quora.com)

101 points by mbesto 2011-03-14 | 90 comments

80.

Why did Google feel that Google Wave was a good product? (www.quora.com)

99 points by rpsubhub 2011-02-15 | 64 comments

81.

What will happen to Bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya? (www.quora.com)

98 points by andre3k1 2011-02-19 | 30 comments

82.

Why do Chinese political leaders have engineering degrees? (www.quora.com)

97 points by eternalban 2016-02-28 | 81 comments

83.

Why did science make little real progress in Europe in the Middle Ages? (www.quora.com)

97 points by i04n 2014-09-15 | 67 comments

84.

Is abstraction overrated in programming? Chess, interviews and OOP (www.quora.com)

95 points by toAnswerIt 2018-01-01 | 146 comments

85.

Was object-oriented programming a failure? (2015) (www.quora.com)

94 points by open-source-ux 2017-03-12 | 119 comments

86.

What are red flags that signal you should walk away from a startup job? (www.quora.com)

92 points by shawndumas 2015-05-23 | 65 comments

87.

Not only is it possible to beat Google, it could happen sooner than we think (www.quora.com)

92 points by Nuzzerino 2018-01-01 | 125 comments

88.

Does LinkedIn access your email or contact list? (www.quora.com)

92 points by jackgavigan 2016-10-06 | 50 comments

89.

Max Howell's take on getting rejected by Google (www.quora.com)

88 points by whack 2017-12-21 | 69 comments

90.

How to build a good EMR (www.quora.com)

87 points by helwr 2011-03-27 | 21 comments

91.

What are you banned from? Why? (www.quora.com)

87 points by dredmorbius 2017-12-13 | 112 comments

92.

What was John Nash like as a professor? (www.quora.com)

85 points by l0nwlf 2011-03-29 | 13 comments

93.

What does it feel like to be fired from Google? (www.quora.com)

85 points by kawera 2015-10-31 | 60 comments

94.

Why did Quora choose Python (over PHP and others) for its development? (www.quora.com)

83 points by rxin 2010-07-12 | 42 comments

95.

Why didn't Common Lisp fix the world? (www.quora.com)

83 points by weeber 2016-05-17 | 124 comments

96.

Which websites dropped the most in the latest Google algorithm change? (www.quora.com)

80 points by mitultiwari 2011-02-26 | 49 comments

97.

Why Dropbox is Failing (www.quora.com)

77 points by zackify 2015-08-10 | 30 comments

98.

How much does Netflix spend on Amazon AWS? (www.quora.com)

77 points by gibbiv 2018-07-20 | 22 comments

99.

Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) (www.quora.com)

76 points by webdva 2020-04-22 | 36 comments

100.

The Medieval Fourier Transform (www.quora.com)

76 points by espeed 2015-11-09 | 15 comments

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