While reviewing, I came across a question about  and . I agree to the reason for closed, whereas I can't agree with deletion.  This question is marked with 120 votes and favored by 170 people and the other has 409 votes with 600+ users favored.  Better to lock this question instead of deleting.  Is there any reason to delete?   whereas similar other questions are still locked ,
Why does  get a pass, but I can't ask my own book recommendation question? Can I ask my own book recommendation question in a way that is acceptable to the community, like the C++ book list question?
Vim-latex adds extra brackets when typing empty brackets Are global variables bad? In C/C++, are global variables as bad as my professor thinks they are? How to check if list item already exist when adding it with So, the question pretty much says it all. I'm on Snow Leopard, and I do a lot of web development, particularly in Rails 3 which makes heavy use of the console.  I've seen some notable bloggers etc. mention Zsh as their preference over Bash, but I don't know what difference it would make.  Could anyone give me a good comparison of what difference there is and what might make one prefer one option or the other? This is a repost with additional info of an older question that was never answered. I have stumbled upon this old question while also trying to find the name of the book series myself, as I dearly wish to read it again but for the life of me, I can't remember the name of it.      This is a long shot but I'm really in need of help for this because      it was an amazing book. It was either a kid's or YA book. A guess      from what year it was published would be 90s-mid 2000s, as I read it      around 2008-2011.         The book cover was in first person view, with the main character   holding a weapon, and was a 3D rendered image inside a dungeon or   cave (that was very reminiscent of early 90s CGI animation), though   there may be variants.    It would have been set around when computer   games were mainstream (maybe around the same time as when it might've   been published) It's about a teenage boy who is bored at home, so he   looks through an old family computer to play a game and finds one   that he has never seen before. When he plays it he gets transported   into the game which is a fantasy-medieval setting.    All that I can   remember about the game and story is that the main character is on a   quest, he rides horses a lot, (to the point where he can ride horses   perfectly in real life), at one point he eats food at an ingame   tavern/restaurant? and he tosses the ingame coin currency at the   server because he's in a hurry, (don't know why I remember that bit   specifically haha), and he meets a gnome/dwarf character who is   helping him on his journey, who has a home in an ingame mountain, and   that time goes faster in the game. (For example, if he spent 5   minutes in the real world, 3 in-game days would have passed)   Sometimes as he's playing something stops him from being able the   play the game for a few weeks, maybe a concerned parent because he's   playing too much or there's a family vacation. I remember during the   time when he's not playing the game he's on a farm and knew how to   ride the horses there.    There was a character in the real world who   was the main character's sibling, relative or friend. They were like   a rival and was also very whiny (to some extent). They were on the   farm as well with him and questioned how the main character knew how   to ride a horse when he had never done it in real life.   This is all I can remember but if you need more specific information I can try and answer. It is definitely not Space Demons or Demons Don't Dream. If anyone knows anything remotely similar please mention it, I would really appreciate it. Thank you!!            Additional info:    It is not an online game or virtual reality game. It was a normal PC game, and all other characters are (I think), just NPCs.  He woke up for the first time in a field/farm and was super confused about what happened and where he was, as he had never played the game before. He is asked a super serious question before starting the game up for the first time, like "are you sure you wish to play ___?", and then he is transported into the game.  He frequently exited the game, to continue his IRL life. And sometimes, he would lose access to the family desktop PC for a couple of days at a time, and when he went back everyone in the game (NPCs), thought he had disappeared because he was gone for ages. I think once, his family when on holidays and he couldn't take the PC, for example.  It was a book series, not a single book. In later books he would play the game again months later in the real world, and years and years would have passed in the game world.  The plot involved 2 main warring sides/factions/countries of humans, but there were fantasy/magical races and characters involved. I vaguely remember something about each side having official colours, one red and one blue. I think the main character was on the blue side.   The original question was never correctly answered, so I'm posting again to see if anyone can remember.   Books that were ruled out in original post: Eden's Gate &amp; Heir Apparent. nth fibonacci number in sublinear time difference between not to verb , to not + verb "Name three things that, if you were told were part of the job, would cause you to not take the position. "   I've just come across this sentence while reading the news.   Question is: Why to not is used instead of not to? This usage in this way imposes different meaning? Is "mens" a valid word? I've been living in Ireland for almost a year now and I start noticing they use the word "mens" a lot. I can see it used in:   Shops, to denote the area where you can find men's clothes In sport, when they talk about "mens team".    My guess is just that they are lazy about the use of quotes, so that mens should actually be men's. However, there may be some rule I'm not aware of. So, is "mens" only limited to Irish English? When I'm allowed to use it? Consolidate tag wiki excerpt and body contents with regards to suggested edits At the moment, in major part because they are two separate post objects in the system, the excerpt and the body of a tag wiki count as two separate posts with regards to suggested edits in the queue. Mechanically, this is sane, but when it comes to handling the actual queue, it can be confusing. A body edit might consist of little more than a bed of links, which looks bad. But then an excerpt is shown that includes the rest of the data, and since excerpts can be included on the actual wiki page, it makes a lot more sense when they're taken in the same space.  And this is how they are composed, too. The actual edit interface for working on tag wikis has both the excerpt and the body on the same page. In a sense, the excerpt behaves a lot like the "title" of the wiki, if we make a parallel to normal post edits.  Thus, my suggestion (which is to say a suggestion that I repossessed from Robert Cartaino) is that when suggested edits are reviewed for tag wikis, that they be presented in a single unit, treating the excerpt the same as how a title is treated in a question edit. This way, relevant information that is crossed between the two isn't lost because they are reviewed separately. What does // mean in a path? I upgraded my Mega Ring and have been looking for Mega Stones, and I found . However, the Mega Stone isn't in the place it's supposed to be, and I'm sure the location is right. Why isn't my Mega Stone here? MySQL Error 1153 - Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes Why high voltage transmission lines? When I play Black Ops 2, it seems that my xbox controller is inverted. Example: if I press up, my character looks down and vice versa. It was not like this before. Does anyone know how to reset the controller back to its original settings? How to prove this inequality $ x + \frac{1}{x} \geq 2 $ I was asked to prove that:   $$x + \frac{1}{x}\geqslant 2$$  for all values of $ x &gt; 0 $  I tried substituting random numbers into $x$ and I did get the answer greater than $2$. But I have a feeling that this is an unprofessional way of proving this. So how do I prove this inequality? Why does Stack Overflow only allow one @User per comment?  This restriction lead me to a non-comment like :     @MiMo - seem my previous comment (Only one @ user per comment)   Which left me wondering why Stack Overflow is blocking me from notifying two users of a response.  I am sure there is a reason for this, can some one share it with me? How do you disable an application specific hotkey, for example, "Command-P"? In many applications, Command-P is used to print.  My fingers are accustomed to emacs settings and reflexively press Command-P not for printing but for browsing history. It's annoying to see the print pop-up window every time when I press Command-P. I don't need a shortcut to print. How do you block a shortcut globally? I am trying to prove the matrix norm equivalence for norms 1, 2, $\infty$ and Frobenius.  I have managed to solve find the constants for $||.||_{1}$ and  $||.||_{2}$ but I cannot see how to continue if I want to prove the following:  $||A||_{\infty} \leq \sqrt{n}||A||_{2}$   and the ones for Frobenius:  $||A||_{F} \leq \sqrt{n}||A||_{1}$  $||A||_{F} \leq \sqrt{n} ||A||_{2}$  Any help is appreciated. Thank you for your time macOS Sierra restarting download instead of resuming Did Voldemort die or stay in limbo after the final battle? In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, while Harry is in Kings Cross he sees something like a small child, which is the fragment of Voldemort's soul that was attached to him.     He recoiled. He had spotted the thing that was making the noise. It had   the form of a small, naked child, curled on the ground, its skin raw and rough, flayed-looking, and it lay shuddering under a seat where it had been left, unwanted, stuffed out of sight, struggling for breath.      He was afraid of it. Small and fragile and wounded though it was, he did not want to approach it. Nevertheless he drew slowly nearer, ready to jump back at any moment. Soon he stood near enough to touch it, yet he could not bring himself to do it. He felt like a coward. He ought to comfort it, but it repulsed him.      Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows   Once Harry returns to the world of the living, that part of Voldemort's soul stays in limbo. Is this what happens to all fragments of someone's soul if he has divided his soul by creating a Horcrux? Does that mean that Voldemort's soul however crippled will stay in limbo or when all parts of his soul die, so does he?