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3,944,552 | I am looking into how to write a paint program that supports undo and seeing that, most likely, a command pattern is what I want. Something still escapes me, though, and I'm hoping someone can provide a simple answer or confirmation.
Basically, if I am to embody the ability to undo a command, for instance stamping a s... | 2010/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3944552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323787/"
] | First, beware overdesign: if your app isn't complex and your images small, you may find 'just store everything' to be quick, cheap and feasible. But assuming that's not so:
You are correct that it is not feasible to redraw the entire canvas from step 1 forward for each undo; unless your paint program is very simple so... | From my understanding, the command pattern for implementing undo/redo sorts of systems just record the actions in a stack, not the actual results from those actions (since those will be recreated/removed in sequence). I think you alluded to this, but said you considered it unfeasible for a large undo stack. Can you be ... |
3,944,552 | I am looking into how to write a paint program that supports undo and seeing that, most likely, a command pattern is what I want. Something still escapes me, though, and I'm hoping someone can provide a simple answer or confirmation.
Basically, if I am to embody the ability to undo a command, for instance stamping a s... | 2010/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3944552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323787/"
] | >
> I've heard that one approach is just to keep track of the forward actions and when an undo is performed, you simply start from step 1 and draw forwards to the step before the undo
>
>
>
This isn't a very good idea. Users typically undo only a few recent actions and they expect it to be fast, so it's better to ... | From my understanding, the command pattern for implementing undo/redo sorts of systems just record the actions in a stack, not the actual results from those actions (since those will be recreated/removed in sequence). I think you alluded to this, but said you considered it unfeasible for a large undo stack. Can you be ... |
3,944,552 | I am looking into how to write a paint program that supports undo and seeing that, most likely, a command pattern is what I want. Something still escapes me, though, and I'm hoping someone can provide a simple answer or confirmation.
Basically, if I am to embody the ability to undo a command, for instance stamping a s... | 2010/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3944552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323787/"
] | First, beware overdesign: if your app isn't complex and your images small, you may find 'just store everything' to be quick, cheap and feasible. But assuming that's not so:
You are correct that it is not feasible to redraw the entire canvas from step 1 forward for each undo; unless your paint program is very simple so... | If you probably won't draw gigantic bitmaps, your approach seems totally ok.
To simplify even more, write whole pictures to tmp directory onto disk, and see what it will be like for the users.
Don't overdesign at start-there are other issues that need to be adressed, no doubt. |
3,944,552 | I am looking into how to write a paint program that supports undo and seeing that, most likely, a command pattern is what I want. Something still escapes me, though, and I'm hoping someone can provide a simple answer or confirmation.
Basically, if I am to embody the ability to undo a command, for instance stamping a s... | 2010/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3944552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323787/"
] | >
> I've heard that one approach is just to keep track of the forward actions and when an undo is performed, you simply start from step 1 and draw forwards to the step before the undo
>
>
>
This isn't a very good idea. Users typically undo only a few recent actions and they expect it to be fast, so it's better to ... | If you probably won't draw gigantic bitmaps, your approach seems totally ok.
To simplify even more, write whole pictures to tmp directory onto disk, and see what it will be like for the users.
Don't overdesign at start-there are other issues that need to be adressed, no doubt. |
3,944,552 | I am looking into how to write a paint program that supports undo and seeing that, most likely, a command pattern is what I want. Something still escapes me, though, and I'm hoping someone can provide a simple answer or confirmation.
Basically, if I am to embody the ability to undo a command, for instance stamping a s... | 2010/10/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3944552",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/323787/"
] | First, beware overdesign: if your app isn't complex and your images small, you may find 'just store everything' to be quick, cheap and feasible. But assuming that's not so:
You are correct that it is not feasible to redraw the entire canvas from step 1 forward for each undo; unless your paint program is very simple so... | >
> I've heard that one approach is just to keep track of the forward actions and when an undo is performed, you simply start from step 1 and draw forwards to the step before the undo
>
>
>
This isn't a very good idea. Users typically undo only a few recent actions and they expect it to be fast, so it's better to ... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | When the law for a situation is not established, it is a **lacuna** or **gap**. Gabriel Hallevy in *A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law* (2010) gives a summary of how an absence of law can be perceived. The two interchangeable terms are *gap* and *lacuna*:
>
> [It can be regarded as a nega... | It's two words, but the phrase "legally impossible" seems to be used that way.
For example, in Sneider, Allison L., *Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929*, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2008 (emphasis added):
>
> [The Fourteenth Amendment] overturned nearly a ce... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | It's two words, but the phrase "legally impossible" seems to be used that way.
For example, in Sneider, Allison L., *Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929*, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2008 (emphasis added):
>
> [The Fourteenth Amendment] overturned nearly a ce... | There is the concept that law only encodes the status quo, and directs course of action to maintain it. If something is not specifically forbidden but found deplorable, then the judgement will be subsumed under the basic blanket statements of the constitution--often without such big words but rather common sense.
In t... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | It's two words, but the phrase "legally impossible" seems to be used that way.
For example, in Sneider, Allison L., *Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929*, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2008 (emphasis added):
>
> [The Fourteenth Amendment] overturned nearly a ce... | When I offer legal advice without beeing a lawyer in Germany I have to obey a few rules which limits my freedom to do this. For example, I may not earn money with it and need to be in good contact with a laywer who can help me when I am stuck.
Another of these rules is that when I want to offer encashement, this requr... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | It's two words, but the phrase "legally impossible" seems to be used that way.
For example, in Sneider, Allison L., *Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929*, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2008 (emphasis added):
>
> [The Fourteenth Amendment] overturned nearly a ce... | While you may have problems with implications, I think "*Extralegal*" (outside the law) is the closest single word.
Though, implication is going to be an issue no matter what you pick.
*Unprecedented*, or *unlegislated* might work better in your example. Or rephrase the sentence to specify that "computer algorithms" a... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | When the law for a situation is not established, it is a **lacuna** or **gap**. Gabriel Hallevy in *A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law* (2010) gives a summary of how an absence of law can be perceived. The two interchangeable terms are *gap* and *lacuna*:
>
> [It can be regarded as a nega... | There is the concept that law only encodes the status quo, and directs course of action to maintain it. If something is not specifically forbidden but found deplorable, then the judgement will be subsumed under the basic blanket statements of the constitution--often without such big words but rather common sense.
In t... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | When the law for a situation is not established, it is a **lacuna** or **gap**. Gabriel Hallevy in *A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law* (2010) gives a summary of how an absence of law can be perceived. The two interchangeable terms are *gap* and *lacuna*:
>
> [It can be regarded as a nega... | When I offer legal advice without beeing a lawyer in Germany I have to obey a few rules which limits my freedom to do this. For example, I may not earn money with it and need to be in good contact with a laywer who can help me when I am stuck.
Another of these rules is that when I want to offer encashement, this requr... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | When the law for a situation is not established, it is a **lacuna** or **gap**. Gabriel Hallevy in *A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law* (2010) gives a summary of how an absence of law can be perceived. The two interchangeable terms are *gap* and *lacuna*:
>
> [It can be regarded as a nega... | While you may have problems with implications, I think "*Extralegal*" (outside the law) is the closest single word.
Though, implication is going to be an issue no matter what you pick.
*Unprecedented*, or *unlegislated* might work better in your example. Or rephrase the sentence to specify that "computer algorithms" a... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | While you may have problems with implications, I think "*Extralegal*" (outside the law) is the closest single word.
Though, implication is going to be an issue no matter what you pick.
*Unprecedented*, or *unlegislated* might work better in your example. Or rephrase the sentence to specify that "computer algorithms" a... | There is the concept that law only encodes the status quo, and directs course of action to maintain it. If something is not specifically forbidden but found deplorable, then the judgement will be subsumed under the basic blanket statements of the constitution--often without such big words but rather common sense.
In t... |
519,665 | I'm thinking of an example where a law allows for certain things but not others. However, it's not that these things are prohibited, just that there is no law that allows them. In particular, at least a while ago, one could not obtain a patent in Canada for a computer algorithm. Patent law simply did not list "computer... | 2019/12/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/519665",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/232976/"
] | While you may have problems with implications, I think "*Extralegal*" (outside the law) is the closest single word.
Though, implication is going to be an issue no matter what you pick.
*Unprecedented*, or *unlegislated* might work better in your example. Or rephrase the sentence to specify that "computer algorithms" a... | When I offer legal advice without beeing a lawyer in Germany I have to obey a few rules which limits my freedom to do this. For example, I may not earn money with it and need to be in good contact with a laywer who can help me when I am stuck.
Another of these rules is that when I want to offer encashement, this requr... |
118,559 | I'm a team lead for a small group of programmers. We share several projects with other teams. Lately the quality of two other teams' code has deteriorated to the point where it is slowing us down and causing maintainability issues. I've raised this diplomatically with a couple of individuals directly, but they become d... | 2018/08/31 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/118559",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/91802/"
] | >
> I don't have the clout to go over their heads
>
>
>
You're the team lead, this gives you the clout.
If the problems are with another team, you should raise this with their team lead and discuss the issue of the code quality that's effecting everyone.
Have a meeting with them with a view to increasing quality... | If time is the highest priority, then you're not going to get quality. It sounds like you have all the usual standards in place, just no time to actually enforce them.
You don't say if you have a formal change control process.
If someone raises a ticket for a new feature or a bug fix, the ticket needs to identify wha... |
7,527 | Is Core i3 530/540 enough to run GTA IV smoothly? What is the range of fps that I can expect?
The graphics card is probably immaterial, since I already have MSI 5770 Hawk which will pretty easily churn the voxels.
I have been getting conflicting results in many places -
<http://www.behardware.com/articles/780-12/int... | 2010/09/16 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/7527",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
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] | Depends on the full configuration of your computer and the settings on which you want to play GTA IV.
The results in the two sites differ because both benchmarks use different settings, the one at Tom's Hardware uses:
>
> 1280x1024 (Medium settings, Vsync off)
>
>
>
while the one on behardware:
>
> Once again... | You can expect pretty big improvements over your current system. The i3 and i5s are pretty good cpus. But I would strongly recommend the cheapest 4 core i5, instead of i3 if you can afford it. And I think both links you showed are for integrated video. |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
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] | [South Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa), arguably, had a major change in their government after internal and external pressure (and they resisted purely internal pressure for a long time). The [Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Implementation) was forced by s... | It's worth considering the contextual differences between nations which have been under heavy sanctions for a long time and survived (North Korea, Iran, Cuba), and the notable example where they definitely contributed (South Africa).
North Korea and Cuba were part of the Soviet Union's trade network. But when the USSR... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | It's worth considering the contextual differences between nations which have been under heavy sanctions for a long time and survived (North Korea, Iran, Cuba), and the notable example where they definitely contributed (South Africa).
North Korea and Cuba were part of the Soviet Union's trade network. But when the USSR... | This is probably a frame challenge answer, but the aim of the sanctions is not necessarily to end the regime itself. Some sanctions may be put in place to steer a regime towards a less destructive course of action.
Scott Adams, a Trump supporter and a frequent commentator on Trump's administration, has described Trump... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | It's worth considering the contextual differences between nations which have been under heavy sanctions for a long time and survived (North Korea, Iran, Cuba), and the notable example where they definitely contributed (South Africa).
North Korea and Cuba were part of the Soviet Union's trade network. But when the USSR... | Sanctions alone are not really useful for overthrowing any regimes, but they can be helpful to weaken the regime. [Iraq was under sanctions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq) from 1990 till the US invasion. The same thing with [sanctions on Afganistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | Opinions are divided on this. It's because no dictator has quit because his own car was out of gas or out of spare parts. So one can easily claim that sanction don't work (like that). The discussion on indirect effects easily gets complicated by confounders, but at least some academic research finds an effect, mind you... | [South Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa), arguably, had a major change in their government after internal and external pressure (and they resisted purely internal pressure for a long time). The [Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Implementation) was forced by s... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | It's worth considering the contextual differences between nations which have been under heavy sanctions for a long time and survived (North Korea, Iran, Cuba), and the notable example where they definitely contributed (South Africa).
North Korea and Cuba were part of the Soviet Union's trade network. But when the USSR... | In answer to the question of "Has there ever been any successful example, where sanctions lead to desired results like regime changes?" the case of Japan between 1938 and 1941 is a probable contender. In the context of the question, it is a particularly interesting example because it was one of the earlier instances of... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | Opinions are divided on this. It's because no dictator has quit because his own car was out of gas or out of spare parts. So one can easily claim that sanction don't work (like that). The discussion on indirect effects easily gets complicated by confounders, but at least some academic research finds an effect, mind you... | In answer to the question of "Has there ever been any successful example, where sanctions lead to desired results like regime changes?" the case of Japan between 1938 and 1941 is a probable contender. In the context of the question, it is a particularly interesting example because it was one of the earlier instances of... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | Opinions are divided on this. It's because no dictator has quit because his own car was out of gas or out of spare parts. So one can easily claim that sanction don't work (like that). The discussion on indirect effects easily gets complicated by confounders, but at least some academic research finds an effect, mind you... | Sanctions alone are not really useful for overthrowing any regimes, but they can be helpful to weaken the regime. [Iraq was under sanctions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq) from 1990 till the US invasion. The same thing with [sanctions on Afganistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | [South Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa), arguably, had a major change in their government after internal and external pressure (and they resisted purely internal pressure for a long time). The [Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Implementation) was forced by s... | In answer to the question of "Has there ever been any successful example, where sanctions lead to desired results like regime changes?" the case of Japan between 1938 and 1941 is a probable contender. In the context of the question, it is a particularly interesting example because it was one of the earlier instances of... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | Sanctions alone are not really useful for overthrowing any regimes, but they can be helpful to weaken the regime. [Iraq was under sanctions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq) from 1990 till the US invasion. The same thing with [sanctions on Afganistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against... | In answer to the question of "Has there ever been any successful example, where sanctions lead to desired results like regime changes?" the case of Japan between 1938 and 1941 is a probable contender. In the context of the question, it is a particularly interesting example because it was one of the earlier instances of... |
75,045 | One can read constantly in the media, that the West and especially the US announce sanctions against some countries. North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are some examples.
In some cases like Cuba and Iran, these sanctions are in force for decades, even for half a century, but the regimes in these two countries haven... | 2022/08/26 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/75045",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/39753/"
] | [South Africa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa), arguably, had a major change in their government after internal and external pressure (and they resisted purely internal pressure for a long time). The [Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Implementation) was forced by s... | This is probably a frame challenge answer, but the aim of the sanctions is not necessarily to end the regime itself. Some sanctions may be put in place to steer a regime towards a less destructive course of action.
Scott Adams, a Trump supporter and a frequent commentator on Trump's administration, has described Trump... |
102,514 | On Thanksgiving day a woman posted in a Facebook group that her father had just passed away (left her money) and as a good deed, because it was Thanksgiving, she was offering to pay people’s debts. Well I inboxed her and she pretty much wants me to open up a bank account with First Tech Credit Union and give her my log... | 2018/12/01 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/102514",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
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] | Yes, this is a scam. Your instinct was correct, and you should not engage with this person further.
Scam artists use other people's bank accounts to move money around from scam to scam. Even if you give her access to a bank account with no money in it, that bank account will be in your name, and the scam artist will u... | It's a scam because of the intersection of the following things:
* entirely online. This allows them to use data they create, such as all the forged\* proofs they sent you.
* they want to do the financial transacations on their terms, not yours. I would give them my email and tell them to send paypal. They want to us... |
102,514 | On Thanksgiving day a woman posted in a Facebook group that her father had just passed away (left her money) and as a good deed, because it was Thanksgiving, she was offering to pay people’s debts. Well I inboxed her and she pretty much wants me to open up a bank account with First Tech Credit Union and give her my log... | 2018/12/01 | [
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"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/79230/"
] | Yes, this is a scam. Your instinct was correct, and you should not engage with this person further.
Scam artists use other people's bank accounts to move money around from scam to scam. Even if you give her access to a bank account with no money in it, that bank account will be in your name, and the scam artist will u... | Is it possible that some total stranger wants to give you money for nothing? Sure, it's possible. But it's not likely, so right away I'd be suspicious.
Asking you to open an account and give her the id and password is doubly suspicious. Why would any honest person need access to an account in your name? She wants to k... |
102,514 | On Thanksgiving day a woman posted in a Facebook group that her father had just passed away (left her money) and as a good deed, because it was Thanksgiving, she was offering to pay people’s debts. Well I inboxed her and she pretty much wants me to open up a bank account with First Tech Credit Union and give her my log... | 2018/12/01 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/102514",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/79230/"
] | It's a scam because of the intersection of the following things:
* entirely online. This allows them to use data they create, such as all the forged\* proofs they sent you.
* they want to do the financial transacations on their terms, not yours. I would give them my email and tell them to send paypal. They want to us... | Is it possible that some total stranger wants to give you money for nothing? Sure, it's possible. But it's not likely, so right away I'd be suspicious.
Asking you to open an account and give her the id and password is doubly suspicious. Why would any honest person need access to an account in your name? She wants to k... |
206,833 | I understand completely how to host my own website but my question (i hope this is the right place to ask it) is how to guard against, say your ISP going down or your router failing, things like that? Does anyone run their own website? Anyone have any advice? | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/206833",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61848/"
] | Since your main question was advise-related, I've got one: spend your money on a server.
Companies like [Hetzner](http://hetzner.de/) or [Serverloft](http://serverloft.eu) offer unmanaged servers at awesome prices.
My main point is that if you'd like to be serious about your website or hosting business, you just have ... | Normally this would be done with a cisco/sonic router with multiple ISP's connected. There is no way to protect a router from failing unless you have two routers with seperate ISP's (to redundent because routers still have to connect to the server, with another router or through to network cards on the server). Now whe... |
206,833 | I understand completely how to host my own website but my question (i hope this is the right place to ask it) is how to guard against, say your ISP going down or your router failing, things like that? Does anyone run their own website? Anyone have any advice? | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/206833",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61848/"
] | I'm guessing that by "ISP" you mean whomever provides Internet into your home or office. Beyond that I'll also offer suggestions for dealing with co-location and multiple locations.
Probably the best way to avoid outages due to down-time in a connection to your home or office, via that ISP, is to use either a colocati... | Normally this would be done with a cisco/sonic router with multiple ISP's connected. There is no way to protect a router from failing unless you have two routers with seperate ISP's (to redundent because routers still have to connect to the server, with another router or through to network cards on the server). Now whe... |
206,833 | I understand completely how to host my own website but my question (i hope this is the right place to ask it) is how to guard against, say your ISP going down or your router failing, things like that? Does anyone run their own website? Anyone have any advice? | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/206833",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61848/"
] | Since your main question was advise-related, I've got one: spend your money on a server.
Companies like [Hetzner](http://hetzner.de/) or [Serverloft](http://serverloft.eu) offer unmanaged servers at awesome prices.
My main point is that if you'd like to be serious about your website or hosting business, you just have ... | You could use an external Cache service - cloudflare.com is free and the basic account would work - where your site would "appear" online even when it is not.
To make sure it stays up however - you would need an ASN and the ability to be multi-honed or use a DataCenter that is. |
206,833 | I understand completely how to host my own website but my question (i hope this is the right place to ask it) is how to guard against, say your ISP going down or your router failing, things like that? Does anyone run their own website? Anyone have any advice? | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/206833",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61848/"
] | Since your main question was advise-related, I've got one: spend your money on a server.
Companies like [Hetzner](http://hetzner.de/) or [Serverloft](http://serverloft.eu) offer unmanaged servers at awesome prices.
My main point is that if you'd like to be serious about your website or hosting business, you just have ... | The best solution is multi-site with a transparent failover mechanism and capability of operating in split-brain mode.
Since you can't sensibly change the software running on the clients - transparent failover means round-robin DNS - perferably with location-aware (CDN) weighting. |
206,833 | I understand completely how to host my own website but my question (i hope this is the right place to ask it) is how to guard against, say your ISP going down or your router failing, things like that? Does anyone run their own website? Anyone have any advice? | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/206833",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61848/"
] | I'm guessing that by "ISP" you mean whomever provides Internet into your home or office. Beyond that I'll also offer suggestions for dealing with co-location and multiple locations.
Probably the best way to avoid outages due to down-time in a connection to your home or office, via that ISP, is to use either a colocati... | You could use an external Cache service - cloudflare.com is free and the basic account would work - where your site would "appear" online even when it is not.
To make sure it stays up however - you would need an ASN and the ability to be multi-honed or use a DataCenter that is. |
206,833 | I understand completely how to host my own website but my question (i hope this is the right place to ask it) is how to guard against, say your ISP going down or your router failing, things like that? Does anyone run their own website? Anyone have any advice? | 2010/11/28 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/206833",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61848/"
] | I'm guessing that by "ISP" you mean whomever provides Internet into your home or office. Beyond that I'll also offer suggestions for dealing with co-location and multiple locations.
Probably the best way to avoid outages due to down-time in a connection to your home or office, via that ISP, is to use either a colocati... | The best solution is multi-site with a transparent failover mechanism and capability of operating in split-brain mode.
Since you can't sensibly change the software running on the clients - transparent failover means round-robin DNS - perferably with location-aware (CDN) weighting. |
58,701,066 | GCP's [DLP API Page](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/google/dlp.googleapis.com) has a short description as "Provides methods for detection, risk analysis, and de-identification of privacy-sensitive fragments in text, images, and Google Cloud Platform storage repositories."
I would like to know if ... | 2019/11/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/58701066",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/12322812/"
] | GCP Cloud Source Repositories are not included in DLP processing. You can schedule DLP to scan a variety of data resources that are describe at [Inspecting storage and databases for sensitive data](https://cloud.google.com/dlp/docs/inspecting-storage). But these are:
* Google Cloud Storage (GCS) - Blob storage.
* BigQ... | Kolban is correct, however you could scan Cloud Source Repositories using dataflow and inspectContent. Combining dataflow to scan arbitrary data sources using the \*content methods is a common solution. |
58,641 | In 1777, the assistant pastor of Tamazula, Nueva Vizcaya composed a detailed report on the local geography, climate, natural history, and mineralogy, listing the many plants and animals and few artisans that were present in his rural parish. The overall presentation is frank and rigorous, more like a scientific report ... | 2020/04/11 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/58641",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/18968/"
] | A royal project of the late 1500s collected [geographical reports](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaciones_geogr%C3%A1ficas) from across New Spain. Perhaps reflecting this practice, in the 1740s the naturalist Ulloa compiled geographical details in Perú, research which was later published in books called *Relación his... | The report could be intended for publication, or for his church authorities. Catholic priests, especially Jesuits, are known for many scientific activities in all areas of science, from geography and ethnography to astronomy, mathematics and linguistic studies. Their contribution is very substantial. Jesuits run a netw... |
10,810,951 | last 'li' elements in 'ul' are going down when the browser is minimized. | 2012/05/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10810951",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1138647/"
] | Finally I got solution for this. Main div was overriding 'search' section in the site. this search div pushing menu div li elements down. I removed the search div then everything is working fine. So much relieved now. | Don't know if this is this helps out your problem, but the endtag of </ul> was wrong in your example. When this is not the answer, just show us your code from 'workportfolio' until the end. Maybe there is a little error in your code over there. |
75,895 | In various places, e.g. [here](https://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/difficulty/5y?t=l) and [here](https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty), there are plots of the "difficulty" of bitcoin mining over time. What exactly is the interpretation of these numbers - in what units are they measured?
My first thought was th... | 2018/06/04 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/75895",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/47696/"
] | Difficulty represents the expected number of hashes it takes to find a valid one. The probability of a hash being valid is inversely proportional to the difficulty. The constant of proportionality is (2^16-1)/(2^48); that is, the probability of a hash being valid is (2^16-1)/(difficulty\*2^48) | It means how many times it is harder to mine than in the early days of Bitcoin. In early days it was used some kind of minimum difficulty.
AFAIK Bitcoin code do not operate on "difficulty". Instead of "difficulty" Bitcoin operates on [Target](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Target) which is more useful in source code. |
75,895 | In various places, e.g. [here](https://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/difficulty/5y?t=l) and [here](https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty), there are plots of the "difficulty" of bitcoin mining over time. What exactly is the interpretation of these numbers - in what units are they measured?
My first thought was th... | 2018/06/04 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/75895",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/47696/"
] | Difficulty has units, and these are "Trials / Nonce". (Trials = Hashes)
It is the number of trials (or hashes computed) per nonce, on average, which will yield a success ( A "success" is defined as finding the variables to the hash function which will yield a result that meets or exceeds the difficulty threshold )
Th... | It means how many times it is harder to mine than in the early days of Bitcoin. In early days it was used some kind of minimum difficulty.
AFAIK Bitcoin code do not operate on "difficulty". Instead of "difficulty" Bitcoin operates on [Target](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Target) which is more useful in source code. |
75,895 | In various places, e.g. [here](https://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/difficulty/5y?t=l) and [here](https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty), there are plots of the "difficulty" of bitcoin mining over time. What exactly is the interpretation of these numbers - in what units are they measured?
My first thought was th... | 2018/06/04 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/75895",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/47696/"
] | Difficulty represents the expected number of hashes it takes to find a valid one. The probability of a hash being valid is inversely proportional to the difficulty. The constant of proportionality is (2^16-1)/(2^48); that is, the probability of a hash being valid is (2^16-1)/(difficulty\*2^48) | Difficulty has units, and these are "Trials / Nonce". (Trials = Hashes)
It is the number of trials (or hashes computed) per nonce, on average, which will yield a success ( A "success" is defined as finding the variables to the hash function which will yield a result that meets or exceeds the difficulty threshold )
Th... |
13,254 | How do I convert a 2D section drawn in CAD into 3D polyline in ArcGIS. By 3D polyline I mean PolylineM(Z).
I have 300 sections. Drafting it manually seems a bit laborious.
Any Ideas? | 2011/08/09 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/13254",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/1649/"
] | Convert your CAD polylines to a shapefile or feature class then:
Using ArcGIS 9.3.1 the 3D Analyst toolbar in ArcScene you could use the Convert Feature to 3D tool.
Using ArcGIS 10 you could use the [Feature To 3D By Attribute](http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Feature_To_3D_By_Attribute/... | If I had FME (or the Data Interoperability Extension) then I would use the [CoordinateSwapper](http://evangelism.safe.com/fmeevangelist81/) transformer to switch the Y and Z axes. The NeighborFinder transformer could be used to pick the nearest text label in order to determine the elevation. |
6,092 | Applied Engineering produced many advanced and unusual add-on devices for the Apple II product line. One of these was a 65C816 CPU card for the Apple IIe, which replaced the processor with a daughter card.
Hardware manual for the board:
<https://archive.org/details/AE_65816_16bit_Card_Software_Developers_Guide>
Were ... | 2018/03/27 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6092",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/3687/"
] | Simple answer: **More RAM.**
Instead of flipping around Language Card and Aux Memory banks, the 65816 allowed (native) programs to address up to 16 MiB in an (almost) flat way. Programs no longer had to keep track with complicated addressing schemes about their data and (if larger than ~48 KiB) their program modules.
... | I seem to recall there was some graphic spreadsheet program that would take advantage of an AE 65816 16 bit card if one was installed. It was advertised in Apple II magazines back in the day (VIP Professional by Applied Engineering). I personally have a Laser 128EX with a 65802 installed. I had to write my own software... |
245,988 | I have a server, (Server A) Windows Server 2003 that I was hosting some sites on. Now they are hosted on a different server (Server B). I recently switched the DNS at godaddy to point to the new nameservers.
Is there something I can do on Server A to point all requests to Server A to Server B (basically a redirect fro... | 2011/03/11 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/245988",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/60806/"
] | You can use a [301 redirect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection) on your old server to point at your new one. There's no way to do this in DNS, but it will ensure that all traffic reaches the intended destination while your old records are still cached elsewhere. | This is not possible via DNS since you cannot force the DNS client to talk to your DNS server. It may just use the cached record it already has. If you could force it to query, you might just as well return it the address of the new server.
Instead, you can configure your Server A to respond with a redirect to Server ... |
245,988 | I have a server, (Server A) Windows Server 2003 that I was hosting some sites on. Now they are hosted on a different server (Server B). I recently switched the DNS at godaddy to point to the new nameservers.
Is there something I can do on Server A to point all requests to Server A to Server B (basically a redirect fro... | 2011/03/11 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/245988",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/60806/"
] | There is no DNS records you can create that will do this. You will need to allow time for DNS change to propagate. Setting the TTL down to an hour or so for twice the old TTL (usually a couple days) before the change will speed the propagation significantly.
You could proxy the new server from the old server. Until t... | This is not possible via DNS since you cannot force the DNS client to talk to your DNS server. It may just use the cached record it already has. If you could force it to query, you might just as well return it the address of the new server.
Instead, you can configure your Server A to respond with a redirect to Server ... |
245,988 | I have a server, (Server A) Windows Server 2003 that I was hosting some sites on. Now they are hosted on a different server (Server B). I recently switched the DNS at godaddy to point to the new nameservers.
Is there something I can do on Server A to point all requests to Server A to Server B (basically a redirect fro... | 2011/03/11 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/245988",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/60806/"
] | You can use a [301 redirect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection) on your old server to point at your new one. There's no way to do this in DNS, but it will ensure that all traffic reaches the intended destination while your old records are still cached elsewhere. | This is very simple if you have access to the DNS Server on server A.
Start -> administrator tools -> DNS
See screenshot for example. I'm guessing you have currently the A/CNAME IP as servera
Just change those IP to serverb :)
[http://i.stack.imgur.com/iW2RD.png](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iW2RD.png) |
245,988 | I have a server, (Server A) Windows Server 2003 that I was hosting some sites on. Now they are hosted on a different server (Server B). I recently switched the DNS at godaddy to point to the new nameservers.
Is there something I can do on Server A to point all requests to Server A to Server B (basically a redirect fro... | 2011/03/11 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/245988",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/60806/"
] | You can use a [301 redirect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection) on your old server to point at your new one. There's no way to do this in DNS, but it will ensure that all traffic reaches the intended destination while your old records are still cached elsewhere. | There is no DNS records you can create that will do this. You will need to allow time for DNS change to propagate. Setting the TTL down to an hour or so for twice the old TTL (usually a couple days) before the change will speed the propagation significantly.
You could proxy the new server from the old server. Until t... |
245,988 | I have a server, (Server A) Windows Server 2003 that I was hosting some sites on. Now they are hosted on a different server (Server B). I recently switched the DNS at godaddy to point to the new nameservers.
Is there something I can do on Server A to point all requests to Server A to Server B (basically a redirect fro... | 2011/03/11 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/245988",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/60806/"
] | There is no DNS records you can create that will do this. You will need to allow time for DNS change to propagate. Setting the TTL down to an hour or so for twice the old TTL (usually a couple days) before the change will speed the propagation significantly.
You could proxy the new server from the old server. Until t... | This is very simple if you have access to the DNS Server on server A.
Start -> administrator tools -> DNS
See screenshot for example. I'm guessing you have currently the A/CNAME IP as servera
Just change those IP to serverb :)
[http://i.stack.imgur.com/iW2RD.png](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iW2RD.png) |
29,371 | \*A not unattractive girl is usually used to describe quite an attractive girl.
Not an attractive girl is definitely an unattractive girl.\*
Would you tell me more about these? or how do you use these? and if they are correct?
More over, are they informal? | 2014/07/17 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/29371",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/3751/"
] | Many adjectives have antonyms, but that doesn't mean that all associated nouns fall into one category or the other.
For example, there are expensive cars, and there are cheap cars. But there are cars that fall into the middle of that spectrum, and wouldn't be categorized as expensive or cheap.
Take a look at the set ... | I would use **attractive, unattractive or good looking**. The *nots* are only confusing the meaning and makes it sound like you are uncertain. **Good looking** is a good middle of the road term, as it does not really imply either attractive or unattractive. |
20,078,970 | I know it is duplicate question, there are several topic on SO.
How to auto update the app without user intervention, even no confirmation dialog also.
Most of answer is telling without rooting the phone it is not possible.
My doubt is if without rooting silent update is not possible then how google play is doing on ... | 2013/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/20078970",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2197798/"
] | The Play Store is part of the device firmware, and therefore it can do things that ordinary SDK applications cannot. If you build your own firmware, you can arrange to update apps without user intervention as well. | Yes, without rooting it is impossible. Google play is the only thing that can "auto-update" your app. The user has the choice to auto-update in Google Play specifically for the app, not the developer. |
1,154,944 | I want to use multiple OS, but I don't know how. Currently I have four different OS:
* Ubuntu
* Windows
* Mint
* Mac OSX
I use Ubuntu as my main OS, Windows for gaming (e.g. GTA 5), Mint and Mac OSX for work. Sometimes I want to use 2 at the same time, e.g. I'm doing some work on Ubuntu and want to download some game... | 2016/12/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1154944",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/673471/"
] | The best solution [& only one that breaks no EULAs] is to start with a Mac.
Install the other OSes as VMs, but also 'share' the Windows VM with a Boot Camped version of the same install. That way you can use it in VM when speed is not at a premium & reboot to it when it is.
You would need a big Mac Pro, at least a 2... | Tetsujin alrwady has a nice answer, but to expand a bit on it:
>
> So my question now: Is it possible to use multiple OS at the same time?
>
>
>
Yes, you can do that. Using virtualisation options you can use a type-2 hypoervisor like vmware fusion, vmware workstation, wmware player, Parallels, virtualbox, ... In... |
2,492 | I very recently took over custodianship of a drupal CiviCRM, so I don't really have a clue what I'm doing. Bear with me.
I'm on civi 4.6.2 on drupal, and ever since the upgrade, the mailings have gone completely haywire on me. back when I could upload a .html file, everything worked fine, but now, it's all wonky.
Whe... | 2015/05/19 | [
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/2492",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/users/531/"
] | This seems to be an issue wherein ckeditor does not emit a standard change event when using "Source" mode. Using [a work-around from StackExchange](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17358203/how-to-detect-ckeditor-source-mode-on-change-event), we get this proposed fix: <https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/58... | I sorted this out:
The CiviCRM won't save changes to an email unless you 1)switch back from the HTML source to the WYSIWYG editor and 2)click somewhere inside the WYSIWYG editor. Then save the draft, and then it works fine. |
162,644 | Firebug is the most convenient tool I've found for editing CSS - so why isn't there a simple "save" option for CSS?
I am always finding myself making tweaks in Firebug, then going back to my original .css file and replicating the tweaks.
Has anyone come up with a better solution?
**EDIT:** I'm aware the code is stor... | 2008/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/162644",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14966/"
] | You could write your own server script file that takes a filename parameter and a content parameter.
The server script would find the requested file and replace its contents with the new one.
Writing the Javascript that taps into firebug's info and retrieves the useful data would be the tricky part.
I'd personally r... | Here's a partial solution. After you make your changes, click on one of the links to the relevant file. This is the original file, so you'll have to refresh the file, which is under the options menu button in the upper right of the firebug pane. Now you have the modified css page, which you can copy & paste. Obviously,... |
162,644 | Firebug is the most convenient tool I've found for editing CSS - so why isn't there a simple "save" option for CSS?
I am always finding myself making tweaks in Firebug, then going back to my original .css file and replicating the tweaks.
Has anyone come up with a better solution?
**EDIT:** I'm aware the code is stor... | 2008/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/162644",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14966/"
] | You could write your own server script file that takes a filename parameter and a content parameter.
The server script would find the requested file and replace its contents with the new one.
Writing the Javascript that taps into firebug's info and retrieves the useful data would be the tricky part.
I'd personally r... | A very easy way to "edit" your page is to go onto the site via your internet browser. Save the page as html only onto your desktop. Go to your desktop and right click on the new web page file and select open with, choose notepad and edit the page from there, if you know html it will be easy. After all your editing is d... |
162,644 | Firebug is the most convenient tool I've found for editing CSS - so why isn't there a simple "save" option for CSS?
I am always finding myself making tweaks in Firebug, then going back to my original .css file and replicating the tweaks.
Has anyone come up with a better solution?
**EDIT:** I'm aware the code is stor... | 2008/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/162644",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14966/"
] | I was wondering why can't I bloody well select and copy the text in front of my eyes. Especially when others say you can just "select and copy". Turns out you *can*, you just have to start the drag **outside** of any text (i.e. in the gutter above or to the left of the text) as any mousedown -- whether it's a click or ... | Actually Firebug is a debug and analyze-Tool: not an editor and obviously not considered to be one. The other reason was already mentioned: how to you want to change CSS, stored on a server when debugging a webpage? |
162,644 | Firebug is the most convenient tool I've found for editing CSS - so why isn't there a simple "save" option for CSS?
I am always finding myself making tweaks in Firebug, then going back to my original .css file and replicating the tweaks.
Has anyone come up with a better solution?
**EDIT:** I'm aware the code is stor... | 2008/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/162644",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14966/"
] | I got here looking exactly for this feature, that is, being able to save edited `CSS` properties back to the original file (on my local development machine). Unfortunately after searching a lot and not finding anything that suits my needs (OK, there's [CSS Updater](http://www.cssupdater.com/) but you have to register a... | A very easy way to "edit" your page is to go onto the site via your internet browser. Save the page as html only onto your desktop. Go to your desktop and right click on the new web page file and select open with, choose notepad and edit the page from there, if you know html it will be easy. After all your editing is d... |
162,644 | Firebug is the most convenient tool I've found for editing CSS - so why isn't there a simple "save" option for CSS?
I am always finding myself making tweaks in Firebug, then going back to my original .css file and replicating the tweaks.
Has anyone come up with a better solution?
**EDIT:** I'm aware the code is stor... | 2008/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/162644",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14966/"
] | Been wondering the same for quite some time now,
just gut-wrenching when your in-the-moment-freestyle-css'ing with firebug gets blown to bits by
an accidental reload or whatnot....
For my intents and purposes, I've finally found the tool.... : **FireDiff**.
It gives you a new tab, probably some weird David Bow... | The [Web Developer add-on](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/) let's you save your edits. I'd like to combine the editing of Firebug with the Save feature of Web Developer.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vr166.png)
(source: [mozilla.org](https... |
162,644 | Firebug is the most convenient tool I've found for editing CSS - so why isn't there a simple "save" option for CSS?
I am always finding myself making tweaks in Firebug, then going back to my original .css file and replicating the tweaks.
Has anyone come up with a better solution?
**EDIT:** I'm aware the code is stor... | 2008/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/162644",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14966/"
] | [CSS-X-Fire](http://code.google.com/p/css-x-fire/)
==================================================
I'm surprised that it still not listed to this question, but probably because is new and the author didn't have time to promote it yet.
It is called **[CSS-X-Fire](http://code.google.com/p/css-x-fire/)** and it is a ... | I am the author of CSS-X-Fire which Sorin Sbarnea also kindly posted about in this thread. Guess I'm a bit late ;)
CSS-X-Fire emits CSS property changes from Firebug to the IDE where the changes can be applied or discarded.
There are a couple of advantages with this solution over most of the other existing tools whic... |
162,644 | Firebug is the most convenient tool I've found for editing CSS - so why isn't there a simple "save" option for CSS?
I am always finding myself making tweaks in Firebug, then going back to my original .css file and replicating the tweaks.
Has anyone come up with a better solution?
**EDIT:** I'm aware the code is stor... | 2008/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/162644",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14966/"
] | Been wondering the same for quite some time now,
just gut-wrenching when your in-the-moment-freestyle-css'ing with firebug gets blown to bits by
an accidental reload or whatnot....
For my intents and purposes, I've finally found the tool.... : **FireDiff**.
It gives you a new tab, probably some weird David Bow... | Actually Firebug is a debug and analyze-Tool: not an editor and obviously not considered to be one. The other reason was already mentioned: how to you want to change CSS, stored on a server when debugging a webpage? |
162,644 | Firebug is the most convenient tool I've found for editing CSS - so why isn't there a simple "save" option for CSS?
I am always finding myself making tweaks in Firebug, then going back to my original .css file and replicating the tweaks.
Has anyone come up with a better solution?
**EDIT:** I'm aware the code is stor... | 2008/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/162644",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14966/"
] | The [Web Developer add-on](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/) let's you save your edits. I'd like to combine the editing of Firebug with the Save feature of Web Developer.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vr166.png)
(source: [mozilla.org](https... | You could write your own server script file that takes a filename parameter and a content parameter.
The server script would find the requested file and replace its contents with the new one.
Writing the Javascript that taps into firebug's info and retrieves the useful data would be the tricky part.
I'd personally r... |
164,342 | I'm designing a solar controller in order to charge SLA batteries.
I did some research on dedicated ICs that act as controllers, and found that most implement some sort of MPPT, in order to extract the highest amount of power.
Since the power that the PV panels give can vary in time, I suppose that the charge curren... | 2015/04/12 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/164342",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/72063/"
] | The short answer is - NO! No need to waste power from the panels.
You are correct, the lead acid batteries are best charged on a CC-CV methods. However, constant current doesn't mean that the battery has to be fed an exact pre-determined current or the battery suffers. It would be better interpreted as a maximum curre... | About your question:
>
> Would it be better to disable the charge if the panels can't provide the power required to satisfy the set current (like an on-off control scheme)?
>
>
>
I agree with [Filek’s](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/164343/248404) short answer: **Do NOT DISABLE** the charging.
Battery c... |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | In my mind, "inheritance" is almost exclusively used to deal with physical or monetary goods, features, or character traits; you can inherit your father's estate, you can inherit your mother's good looks, you can inherit your grandfather's business sense.
"Legacy" can be used in that same sense, but it can also have a... | I feel nuances do matter yet legacy deals more with traits those are intangible..with genetic mode of transfer .. and more importantly related to traits in personality. . Where as inhertance has more to do with material and earned properties.. having more to do with lawful .. a tangible actionable claim.. |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | Legacy, as it relates to inheritance, will be of broader or deeper scope. When inheritance refers to one generation's gifts to another, a legacy would refer to three or four generations.
Both terms can be used to denote objects other than money:
>
> I have inherited my father's eyes.
>
>
> Drinking is the family l... | I use the word "legacy" as the inherent traits of my late mother, Grace, who weathered many a storm but kept a positive attitude, saw the good in the worst of mankind, shared goodwill, treated others with respect and kindness and never waivered in her faith that her soul was her most treasured possession. Thru her livi... |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | Generally, "his legacy" would mean the money (or other stuff) somebody left after he died, and "her inheritance" would mean the money (or other stuff) she inherited after somebody else died. They are the same thing from different points of view. | An inheritance is something that can be enjoyed by only one person: e.g.$1 million dollars of the patriarch's money inherited by his favorite grandchild.
A legacy is something that can be enjoyed by all descendants: e.g. the patriarch's surname, or even the patriarch's "good name" and reputation. |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | 'Legacy' specifically has the additional related meaning of 'a person admitted to a university because of the attendance of a parent at the same school' often with the implication that it was done in disregarding merit of the applicant. 'Inheritance' has no such meaning. | I use the word "legacy" as the inherent traits of my late mother, Grace, who weathered many a storm but kept a positive attitude, saw the good in the worst of mankind, shared goodwill, treated others with respect and kindness and never waivered in her faith that her soul was her most treasured possession. Thru her livi... |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | 'Legacy' specifically has the additional related meaning of 'a person admitted to a university because of the attendance of a parent at the same school' often with the implication that it was done in disregarding merit of the applicant. 'Inheritance' has no such meaning. | I feel nuances do matter yet legacy deals more with traits those are intangible..with genetic mode of transfer .. and more importantly related to traits in personality. . Where as inhertance has more to do with material and earned properties.. having more to do with lawful .. a tangible actionable claim.. |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | Legacy, as it relates to inheritance, will be of broader or deeper scope. When inheritance refers to one generation's gifts to another, a legacy would refer to three or four generations.
Both terms can be used to denote objects other than money:
>
> I have inherited my father's eyes.
>
>
> Drinking is the family l... | Generally, "his legacy" would mean the money (or other stuff) somebody left after he died, and "her inheritance" would mean the money (or other stuff) she inherited after somebody else died. They are the same thing from different points of view. |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | In my mind, "inheritance" is almost exclusively used to deal with physical or monetary goods, features, or character traits; you can inherit your father's estate, you can inherit your mother's good looks, you can inherit your grandfather's business sense.
"Legacy" can be used in that same sense, but it can also have a... | I use the word "legacy" as the inherent traits of my late mother, Grace, who weathered many a storm but kept a positive attitude, saw the good in the worst of mankind, shared goodwill, treated others with respect and kindness and never waivered in her faith that her soul was her most treasured possession. Thru her livi... |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | As happens so often, there is the dictionary definition and today´s connotation. The dictionary shows that both words are basically synonyms. Inheritance is generally used when referring to monetary or material goods being handed down from one person to another. Legacy refers to how a person will be remembered by other... | I use the word "legacy" as the inherent traits of my late mother, Grace, who weathered many a storm but kept a positive attitude, saw the good in the worst of mankind, shared goodwill, treated others with respect and kindness and never waivered in her faith that her soul was her most treasured possession. Thru her livi... |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | In my mind, "inheritance" is almost exclusively used to deal with physical or monetary goods, features, or character traits; you can inherit your father's estate, you can inherit your mother's good looks, you can inherit your grandfather's business sense.
"Legacy" can be used in that same sense, but it can also have a... | Legacy, as it relates to inheritance, will be of broader or deeper scope. When inheritance refers to one generation's gifts to another, a legacy would refer to three or four generations.
Both terms can be used to denote objects other than money:
>
> I have inherited my father's eyes.
>
>
> Drinking is the family l... |
17,769 | Can someone explain the difference between *legacy* and *inheritance*? | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17769",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6495/"
] | Generally, "his legacy" would mean the money (or other stuff) somebody left after he died, and "her inheritance" would mean the money (or other stuff) she inherited after somebody else died. They are the same thing from different points of view. | I use the word "legacy" as the inherent traits of my late mother, Grace, who weathered many a storm but kept a positive attitude, saw the good in the worst of mankind, shared goodwill, treated others with respect and kindness and never waivered in her faith that her soul was her most treasured possession. Thru her livi... |
42,758 | I have a computer that is 100% disconnected from the internet. I'd like to:
1. Generate my own private keys by dice rolls;
2. Import them on the offline computer wallet;
3. Send coins to their addresses;
4. Spend those coins by signing the transaction offline and sending to the network from another connected computer,... | 2016/02/05 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/42758",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/32710/"
] | Armory will allow you to do everything except #1. That, you can do with a livecd:
<http://www.swansontec.com/bitcoin-dice.html> | Combine the use of bitaddress.org and coinb.in. You can download both sites locally, or clone from github and put them on a thumb drive. Use bitaddress to convert your dice rolls to WIF using the 'wallet details' tab, and then you can use coinb.in to sign the transaction offline when you are ready to spend. |
672,887 | I tried to install ubuntu on my computer, but something terrible happened. Now I can't boot into ubuntu . I tried to install Ubuntu on another partition, it succeed. But after rebooting, it automatically windows, can not read installed systems.The boot menu doesn't appear on the screen. But when i hold down shift key i... | 2015/09/11 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/672887",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/418354/"
] | So you are using your system with DUAL boot, Winodws+Ubuntu.
It's a pretty common problem with dual boot and seems to be an issue with GRUB boot loader.
You can repair it by going to GRUB boot menu and open the os in recovery mode (check this article about [How to repair Ubuntu](https://www.experthoot.com/how-to-repai... | Is [this](https://askubuntu.com/questions/562857/no-boot-loader-is-installed-in-the-mbr-of-dev-sda) similar to your problem?
If it is, then try disabling secure boot in bios as the OP suggests. |
100,754 | Im preparing a very soft tender cake for covering with fondant. I need it to be really smooth but I also don't want the icing to be too heavy on the cake. I'm not familiar with ganache can I use a coating of royal icing? | 2019/08/15 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/100754",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/77035/"
] | I don’t know that I’d suggest it
There are a few variations on royal icing, and many of them set quite hard. This would be a problem for fondant coating, as you want the buttercream layer to act as a mastic to adhere the fondant to the cake
If the cake is especially soft, you’re not going to be able to use smoothing ... | That seems risky, and the combination or royal icing + fondant will probably ruin your cake by making it way too sweet. I have never tried myself, but I have tasted good cakes where they used buttercream, or simply chocolate or jam, and I have seen this recommendation on different websites and blogs. |
32,890 | Why was Túrin called "Turambar" (Master of Fate/Doom)? Is it something to do with the [Second Prophecy of Mandos](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32734/second-prophecy-of-mandos/)? | 2013/03/12 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32890",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/13016/"
] | It's "Master of Doom", and he made up that name himself:
>
> And with the beginning of spring Túrin cast off his darkness, and grew
> hale again; and he arose, and he thought that he would remain in
> Brethil hidden, and put his shadow behind him, forsaking the past. He
> took therefore a new name, Turambar, which in... | Túrin himself choose the name Turambar, meaning "Master of Doom" or "Conqueror of Fate", to signify that he thought he had escaped his doom. He adopted it as a new name in an attempt to put his past behind him and start afresh with a clean slate
--------------------------------------------------------------------------... |
37,075,568 | I know that Django automatically generates indexes for foreign keys unless we define the field with db\_index=False.
I have read it in [django doc](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/fields/#foreignkey)
But I don't know if it is possible to choose the index name, or how django chooses it.
It's always so... | 2016/05/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/37075568",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2098871/"
] | As far as I know, there's no way to choose the name of the index. It's actually dynamically computed and it implies the hash of the table name and the column names.
See for instance the [code source here](https://github.com/django/django/blob/7901eccf2e591447850be00011a7bb556a3c53f2/django/db/backends/base/schema.py#L... | Is it possible to choose the index name? yes but there isn't any benefit in doing so.
The first step is to switch off the [constraint](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.db_constraint), then you need to manually add one into the migration in the form of a migrations.Ru... |
79,427 | Not counting [Special member state territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union) what's the longest scheduled flight one can take starting and ending in an EU airport? | 2016/09/23 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/79427",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Larnaca, Cyprus to Dublin, Ireland
----------------------------------
Flight distance is 2316 miles (3727 km) and flight time of **5h 35m** (via [Cobalt Air](https://www.dublinairport.com/latest-news/detail/dublin-airport-welcomes-new-twice-weekly-service-to-cyprus)seasonal route).
Cyprus is the easternmost country i... | Helsinki to Lisbon on Finnair (Flight TAP Portugal 791) takes **4h55m** and spans [just over 3350 kilometers](http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HEL-LIS).
It's unlikely anything else could come close, unless there are charter flights from the northernmost Finnish airports. |
79,427 | Not counting [Special member state territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union) what's the longest scheduled flight one can take starting and ending in an EU airport? | 2016/09/23 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/79427",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Helsinki to Lisbon on Finnair (Flight TAP Portugal 791) takes **4h55m** and spans [just over 3350 kilometers](http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HEL-LIS).
It's unlikely anything else could come close, unless there are charter flights from the northernmost Finnish airports. | Following up hippietrail's suggestion:
**[ORY (Orly, Paris, France) to CAY (Cayenne, Guyane, France)](https://www.orbitz.com/Flights-Search?trip=oneway&leg1=from:Paris,%20France%20(PAR-All%20Airports),to:Cayenne,%20French%20Guiana%20(CAY-Rochambeau),departure:10/19/2016TANYT&passengers=adults:1,children:0,seniors:0,in... |
79,427 | Not counting [Special member state territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union) what's the longest scheduled flight one can take starting and ending in an EU airport? | 2016/09/23 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/79427",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | [Air Berlin flight from Düsseldorf to Düsseldorf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlS_FLwcAN8) is a 12 hour sightseeing flight covering a distance of 9780 km. | Helsinki to Lisbon on Finnair (Flight TAP Portugal 791) takes **4h55m** and spans [just over 3350 kilometers](http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HEL-LIS).
It's unlikely anything else could come close, unless there are charter flights from the northernmost Finnish airports. |
79,427 | Not counting [Special member state territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union) what's the longest scheduled flight one can take starting and ending in an EU airport? | 2016/09/23 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/79427",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Larnaca, Cyprus to Dublin, Ireland
----------------------------------
Flight distance is 2316 miles (3727 km) and flight time of **5h 35m** (via [Cobalt Air](https://www.dublinairport.com/latest-news/detail/dublin-airport-welcomes-new-twice-weekly-service-to-cyprus)seasonal route).
Cyprus is the easternmost country i... | Following up hippietrail's suggestion:
**[ORY (Orly, Paris, France) to CAY (Cayenne, Guyane, France)](https://www.orbitz.com/Flights-Search?trip=oneway&leg1=from:Paris,%20France%20(PAR-All%20Airports),to:Cayenne,%20French%20Guiana%20(CAY-Rochambeau),departure:10/19/2016TANYT&passengers=adults:1,children:0,seniors:0,in... |
79,427 | Not counting [Special member state territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union) what's the longest scheduled flight one can take starting and ending in an EU airport? | 2016/09/23 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/79427",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | [Air Berlin flight from Düsseldorf to Düsseldorf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlS_FLwcAN8) is a 12 hour sightseeing flight covering a distance of 9780 km. | Larnaca, Cyprus to Dublin, Ireland
----------------------------------
Flight distance is 2316 miles (3727 km) and flight time of **5h 35m** (via [Cobalt Air](https://www.dublinairport.com/latest-news/detail/dublin-airport-welcomes-new-twice-weekly-service-to-cyprus)seasonal route).
Cyprus is the easternmost country i... |
79,427 | Not counting [Special member state territories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union) what's the longest scheduled flight one can take starting and ending in an EU airport? | 2016/09/23 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/79427",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | [Air Berlin flight from Düsseldorf to Düsseldorf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlS_FLwcAN8) is a 12 hour sightseeing flight covering a distance of 9780 km. | Following up hippietrail's suggestion:
**[ORY (Orly, Paris, France) to CAY (Cayenne, Guyane, France)](https://www.orbitz.com/Flights-Search?trip=oneway&leg1=from:Paris,%20France%20(PAR-All%20Airports),to:Cayenne,%20French%20Guiana%20(CAY-Rochambeau),departure:10/19/2016TANYT&passengers=adults:1,children:0,seniors:0,in... |
127,390 | I was corrected in the middle of a conversation because I used "John and I are friends" as opposed to "John and me are friends."
I think the former sounds correct, but am not sure. Could someone help? | 2017/04/22 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/127390",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/54200/"
] | While people will understand your example sentences, it is not the way they would normally be put together. To correct it you could say it this way:
>
> The treatment is aimed at reducing pain and inflammation.
>
>
> These measures are aimed at reducing unemployment by 50%.
>
>
>
Notice I removed "goals of" bec... | The OED would appear to confirm that the transitive verb *aim*, whilst it normally, in various senses, takes the preposition *at*, can take *for* ("He aimed for glory")
It can also take the infinitive as it does in your later examples - e.g. "We aim to please".
I see nothing wrong with saying "Our policies are aimed ... |
16,770,082 | I am a huge fan of the KISS principle (Keep it simple) and a long time VBA for excel user. However all the articles I can find on VBA vs. VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) seem very complicated.
Firstly, I am sick of the very poor IDE built into Excel and I am looking for a new one. VSTO using Visual Studio as th... | 2013/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16770082",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Which toolset you use is largely a matter of personal preference, but here are some things to consider:
1. Performance: For most Excel-related tasks VSTO performs very slowly compared to VBA because of the additional Interop layer.
2. UDFs: VSTO does not support UDFs
3. Object Model: Its harder to work with the E... | **VBA in Excel gives you the advantage** of having fast results between editing your code and running your code. Because you are a good VBA programmer, you could live without the super feature from Visual Studio (intellisense, try-catch-fanally, inherits, every .NET objects, multi-threading ...)
VSTO is a way to work ... |
16,770,082 | I am a huge fan of the KISS principle (Keep it simple) and a long time VBA for excel user. However all the articles I can find on VBA vs. VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) seem very complicated.
Firstly, I am sick of the very poor IDE built into Excel and I am looking for a new one. VSTO using Visual Studio as th... | 2013/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16770082",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Which toolset you use is largely a matter of personal preference, but here are some things to consider:
1. Performance: For most Excel-related tasks VSTO performs very slowly compared to VBA because of the additional Interop layer.
2. UDFs: VSTO does not support UDFs
3. Object Model: Its harder to work with the E... | This is 6 years after this question was originally asked so it's possible that at the time of the OP a comparison between these two tools were different, but I am actually very surprised at how favorable the existing answers are towards VBA!
VBA is interpreted and housed entirely within the application. The advantages... |
16,770,082 | I am a huge fan of the KISS principle (Keep it simple) and a long time VBA for excel user. However all the articles I can find on VBA vs. VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) seem very complicated.
Firstly, I am sick of the very poor IDE built into Excel and I am looking for a new one. VSTO using Visual Studio as th... | 2013/05/27 | [
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] | Which toolset you use is largely a matter of personal preference, but here are some things to consider:
1. Performance: For most Excel-related tasks VSTO performs very slowly compared to VBA because of the additional Interop layer.
2. UDFs: VSTO does not support UDFs
3. Object Model: Its harder to work with the E... | I'm very surprised by your answers towards VBA.
Working with VBA for some years (mainly with outlook), I was bored with various negative aspects and I'm moving to VSTO since it is much more efficient.
I was confronted to many negative points:
**Developping**
* Vba IDE is very limited,
* Userforms are limited (try ... |
16,770,082 | I am a huge fan of the KISS principle (Keep it simple) and a long time VBA for excel user. However all the articles I can find on VBA vs. VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) seem very complicated.
Firstly, I am sick of the very poor IDE built into Excel and I am looking for a new one. VSTO using Visual Studio as th... | 2013/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16770082",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | **VBA in Excel gives you the advantage** of having fast results between editing your code and running your code. Because you are a good VBA programmer, you could live without the super feature from Visual Studio (intellisense, try-catch-fanally, inherits, every .NET objects, multi-threading ...)
VSTO is a way to work ... | This is 6 years after this question was originally asked so it's possible that at the time of the OP a comparison between these two tools were different, but I am actually very surprised at how favorable the existing answers are towards VBA!
VBA is interpreted and housed entirely within the application. The advantages... |
16,770,082 | I am a huge fan of the KISS principle (Keep it simple) and a long time VBA for excel user. However all the articles I can find on VBA vs. VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) seem very complicated.
Firstly, I am sick of the very poor IDE built into Excel and I am looking for a new one. VSTO using Visual Studio as th... | 2013/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16770082",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | **VBA in Excel gives you the advantage** of having fast results between editing your code and running your code. Because you are a good VBA programmer, you could live without the super feature from Visual Studio (intellisense, try-catch-fanally, inherits, every .NET objects, multi-threading ...)
VSTO is a way to work ... | I'm very surprised by your answers towards VBA.
Working with VBA for some years (mainly with outlook), I was bored with various negative aspects and I'm moving to VSTO since it is much more efficient.
I was confronted to many negative points:
**Developping**
* Vba IDE is very limited,
* Userforms are limited (try ... |
16,770,082 | I am a huge fan of the KISS principle (Keep it simple) and a long time VBA for excel user. However all the articles I can find on VBA vs. VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) seem very complicated.
Firstly, I am sick of the very poor IDE built into Excel and I am looking for a new one. VSTO using Visual Studio as th... | 2013/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16770082",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | This is 6 years after this question was originally asked so it's possible that at the time of the OP a comparison between these two tools were different, but I am actually very surprised at how favorable the existing answers are towards VBA!
VBA is interpreted and housed entirely within the application. The advantages... | I'm very surprised by your answers towards VBA.
Working with VBA for some years (mainly with outlook), I was bored with various negative aspects and I'm moving to VSTO since it is much more efficient.
I was confronted to many negative points:
**Developping**
* Vba IDE is very limited,
* Userforms are limited (try ... |
8,178,294 | I had a problem with *base SDK* on my **Xcode 4.2**. I can not see the drop down menu on on Base SDK field. After I clicked then it became editable. I cannot see the drop down list. Why is that?
Thank a lot.
 | 2011/11/18 | [
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] | It looks like you have changed from "Show Values" mode to "Show Definitions" mode. You can change back to "Show Values" mode through the `Editor` menu. (Editor -> Show Values)
 | It looks like you've messed up your project settings. You are debugging on iOS simulator, but releasing for macOS? What king of product is it?!
Try to set to one target only (either iOS or macOS) for all of your modes(debug,release, e.t.c.)... |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
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] | At that distance you are most in danger of a headbutt.
Firstly, don't find yourself in that situation. When things start to get hairy, lift up your arms to about chest height, with **PALMS FACING OUTWARD IN A NON-MENACING WAY** so as to show you want to avoid confrontation. Any cameras (security or people with camera... | (I am assuming the confrontation is inevitable; if it isn't - just step back if you can and yell for help). If you mist fight, here are few points to consider:
1) just try to do some sparring at this distance (if you have a sparring partner or you are training in a dodjo) - no amount of perfect tips will get you much ... |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
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] | The more important question you should be asking is what's actually going on here? What is the psychology of this situation? Knowing that is the only way of figuring out how you should react. The actual fighting techniques you might use are of secondary importance, and I kind of think any martial art will have a number... | For me, it depends what you feel comfortable with. Bruce lee did say 'box a fighter, fight a boxer'..
My first option is basically always to 'shove' them away to create a safe distance from you. This will buy you sometime to asses the situation. If you are a wrestler, shoot and take him down. If you are a boxer, punc... |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
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] | At that distance you are most in danger of a headbutt.
Firstly, don't find yourself in that situation. When things start to get hairy, lift up your arms to about chest height, with **PALMS FACING OUTWARD IN A NON-MENACING WAY** so as to show you want to avoid confrontation. Any cameras (security or people with camera... | In that situation, you can strike to the groin with your knee. Also, if it's not so life risking then you can step aside and push him in the direction he is applying his body weight. Palm Strike/Straight Punch on his solar plexus or nose can be done. You can deliver an Elbow Strike on his jaw as well. |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
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] | sorry, I'll skip the obligatory 'don't fight' advice. The most effective strikes you could employe at that distance are :
(assuming he has already entered your personal space, at 2 inches apart you don't have the time to draw your arms back, you can't really punch at that distance either)
1. head Butt to the fac... | (I am assuming the confrontation is inevitable; if it isn't - just step back if you can and yell for help). If you mist fight, here are few points to consider:
1) just try to do some sparring at this distance (if you have a sparring partner or you are training in a dodjo) - no amount of perfect tips will get you much ... |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
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"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com",
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] | The more important question you should be asking is what's actually going on here? What is the psychology of this situation? Knowing that is the only way of figuring out how you should react. The actual fighting techniques you might use are of secondary importance, and I kind of think any martial art will have a number... | sorry, I'll skip the obligatory 'don't fight' advice. The most effective strikes you could employe at that distance are :
(assuming he has already entered your personal space, at 2 inches apart you don't have the time to draw your arms back, you can't really punch at that distance either)
1. head Butt to the fac... |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
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] | At that distance you are most in danger of a headbutt.
Firstly, don't find yourself in that situation. When things start to get hairy, lift up your arms to about chest height, with **PALMS FACING OUTWARD IN A NON-MENACING WAY** so as to show you want to avoid confrontation. Any cameras (security or people with camera... | The more important question you should be asking is what's actually going on here? What is the psychology of this situation? Knowing that is the only way of figuring out how you should react. The actual fighting techniques you might use are of secondary importance, and I kind of think any martial art will have a number... |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
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] | You've created your own problem in letting someone that is obviously showing aggression to get within two inches. In many cases where they move in that close, they don't really want to fight, they want to intimidate. If they were intent on damage, they would start swinging or similar as soon as they were in range. Howe... | (I am assuming the confrontation is inevitable; if it isn't - just step back if you can and yell for help). If you mist fight, here are few points to consider:
1) just try to do some sparring at this distance (if you have a sparring partner or you are training in a dodjo) - no amount of perfect tips will get you much ... |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/4720",
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com",
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] | The more important question you should be asking is what's actually going on here? What is the psychology of this situation? Knowing that is the only way of figuring out how you should react. The actual fighting techniques you might use are of secondary importance, and I kind of think any martial art will have a number... | (I am assuming the confrontation is inevitable; if it isn't - just step back if you can and yell for help). If you mist fight, here are few points to consider:
1) just try to do some sparring at this distance (if you have a sparring partner or you are training in a dodjo) - no amount of perfect tips will get you much ... |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/4720",
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com",
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/1811/"
] | The more important question you should be asking is what's actually going on here? What is the psychology of this situation? Knowing that is the only way of figuring out how you should react. The actual fighting techniques you might use are of secondary importance, and I kind of think any martial art will have a number... | In that situation, you can strike to the groin with your knee. Also, if it's not so life risking then you can step aside and push him in the direction he is applying his body weight. Palm Strike/Straight Punch on his solar plexus or nose can be done. You can deliver an Elbow Strike on his jaw as well. |
4,720 | What can we do against a harasser who comes at a distance of two inches of you with a clearly menacing attitude. What strike could be applied at the distance of two inches standing face to face (I suppose the one-inch punch would be the ideal solution, but it's not feasible for me). If you assess the situation and cons... | 2015/01/24 | [
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/4720",
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com",
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] | At that distance you are most in danger of a headbutt.
Firstly, don't find yourself in that situation. When things start to get hairy, lift up your arms to about chest height, with **PALMS FACING OUTWARD IN A NON-MENACING WAY** so as to show you want to avoid confrontation. Any cameras (security or people with camera... | sorry, I'll skip the obligatory 'don't fight' advice. The most effective strikes you could employe at that distance are :
(assuming he has already entered your personal space, at 2 inches apart you don't have the time to draw your arms back, you can't really punch at that distance either)
1. head Butt to the fac... |
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