No, but studded tyres do.

What about joining a local hackerspace, if that's an option? You can get access to much better machines than you would buy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace

Don't you have a public bookcase nearby? You could give your books there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_bookcase

My choice as well. I've just added one more 8GB RAM module and replaced OS with Xubuntu. Happy java dev since then.

GitHub API and JSONP support is a nice way, how to play with those data in browsers.

I wanted to have a GitHub timeline on my personal website, instead of the Twitter timeline. After some hacking, I came out with this: https://github.com/todvora/gh-events-widget

I've implemented something similar to be able to run tests with different MongoDB versions: https://github.com/variety/variety/blob/master/test.sh

You can provide any tag, sha, or branch which can be supplied as an argument to git checkout.

Another Gitbook user here. For me, it's the simple markdown syntax, nice diffs in GIT/SVN, tooling, exports to HTML/PDF with plugin possibilities and minimal vendor lock-in.

That said, the preferred tool in our company is still MS Word. Fortunately I've managed to adapt Gitbook output to look pretty much the same as output from our Word template.

Is your company using the Office 365 version of MS Word? I wonder if it would be possible to automatically convert an MS Word file to Markdown :o

Not sure about the version, but probably 2013. Maybe Pandoc could help you with the conversion.