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85,282 | I've listened that it is possible to modify the cage size of a rear derailleur.
For instance reducing a long (SGS) to a medium (GS) or short (SS) cage size.
Is it possible on all brands?
Just shimano?
Every model or just high specs?
Is possible to buy generic metal cages or you need to reuse a cage from other derail... | 2022/08/10 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/85282",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/64197/"
] | First of all, what derailleur do you have or do you wish to modify? That information is necessary as the answer is not necessarily "general."
Overall, many cages are detachable (at least those on high-end rear derailleurs), but there will be slight issues. The derailleurs of different capacities aren't just different ... | The answer is maybe, and you probably won't find enough published information to know until you try to bolt it together.
Even within a single product family and generation, the parts vary:
* RD-M9100-SGS XTR Long cage for 1x <https://bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/xtr-m9100/RD-M9100-SGS.html>
* RD-M9120-SGS... |
9,840 | I want to start with woodworking, and am looking at power tools. I've looked at a lot of comparisons and reviews on Youtube, and most of them recommend that you shouldn't buy expert tools as a DIY.
But I've noticed that the cheaper expert tools are about the same price as the expensive DIY tools. A few examples of wh... | 2019/07/30 | [
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/questions/9840",
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com",
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/users/7663/"
] | The differences in price between any two similar appliances is driven by a complicated matrix of global market capitalism, most of which will be opaque to you, or out of your control.
The prices at your local store will be driven by a variety of things, from a choice to use sintered or plastic gears during manufacture... | Here we have a large retailer of import tools "Quality Tools Lowest Prices" there products range from dumpster fill to extremely good buys. Some are so inexpensive that if you use it once or twice it's payed for. I have some of there tools that broke halfway into there first use and some I have used hundreds of times. ... |
285,081 | Is there a way to write log4j logging events to a log file that is also being written to by other applications. The other applications could be non-java applications. What are the drawbacks? Locking issues? Formatting? | 2008/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/285081",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18995/"
] | Your best bet might be to let each application log separately, then put a scheduled job in place to 'zipper' the files together based on time. If you need really up-to-date access to the full log, you could have this run every hour. | Log4j is flexible enough that you can create log entries in a format that is compatible with the records already in the file. Just look into the appenders for how to format specific data fields.
Your main concern will be with locking, most likely by other applications. Make sure all of the applications do not have an ... |
285,081 | Is there a way to write log4j logging events to a log file that is also being written to by other applications. The other applications could be non-java applications. What are the drawbacks? Locking issues? Formatting? | 2008/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/285081",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18995/"
] | Log4j has a SocketAppender, which will send events to a service, which you can implement yourself or use the simple implementation bundled with Log4j.
It also supports syslogd and the Windows event log, which may be useful in trying to unify your log output with events from non-Java applications.
If performance is a... | Your best bet might be to let each application log separately, then put a scheduled job in place to 'zipper' the files together based on time. If you need really up-to-date access to the full log, you could have this run every hour. |
285,081 | Is there a way to write log4j logging events to a log file that is also being written to by other applications. The other applications could be non-java applications. What are the drawbacks? Locking issues? Formatting? | 2008/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/285081",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18995/"
] | Log4j has a SocketAppender, which will send events to a service, which you can implement yourself or use the simple implementation bundled with Log4j.
It also supports syslogd and the Windows event log, which may be useful in trying to unify your log output with events from non-Java applications.
If performance is a... | Log4j is flexible enough that you can create log entries in a format that is compatible with the records already in the file. Just look into the appenders for how to format specific data fields.
Your main concern will be with locking, most likely by other applications. Make sure all of the applications do not have an ... |
285,081 | Is there a way to write log4j logging events to a log file that is also being written to by other applications. The other applications could be non-java applications. What are the drawbacks? Locking issues? Formatting? | 2008/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/285081",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18995/"
] | I have a experience with the following two approaches:
1. Use database for logging instead of plain text file - it can be prohibitive because of performance issues, on the other hand it is very easy to analyze logs, create reports. Database takes care for all concurrency problems.
2. The other approach involves usage ... | Log4j is flexible enough that you can create log entries in a format that is compatible with the records already in the file. Just look into the appenders for how to format specific data fields.
Your main concern will be with locking, most likely by other applications. Make sure all of the applications do not have an ... |
285,081 | Is there a way to write log4j logging events to a log file that is also being written to by other applications. The other applications could be non-java applications. What are the drawbacks? Locking issues? Formatting? | 2008/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/285081",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18995/"
] | I don't think the default log4j appenders do any file locking or synchronization. Without such locking, you're likely to lose log messages or receive them mangled.
I'm not sure how easy it is to do file locking in Java, but to make this work directly, I think you would need to subclass the appropriate Appender and ove... | Log4j is flexible enough that you can create log entries in a format that is compatible with the records already in the file. Just look into the appenders for how to format specific data fields.
Your main concern will be with locking, most likely by other applications. Make sure all of the applications do not have an ... |
285,081 | Is there a way to write log4j logging events to a log file that is also being written to by other applications. The other applications could be non-java applications. What are the drawbacks? Locking issues? Formatting? | 2008/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/285081",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18995/"
] | Log4j has a SocketAppender, which will send events to a service, which you can implement yourself or use the simple implementation bundled with Log4j.
It also supports syslogd and the Windows event log, which may be useful in trying to unify your log output with events from non-Java applications.
If performance is a... | I have a experience with the following two approaches:
1. Use database for logging instead of plain text file - it can be prohibitive because of performance issues, on the other hand it is very easy to analyze logs, create reports. Database takes care for all concurrency problems.
2. The other approach involves usage ... |
285,081 | Is there a way to write log4j logging events to a log file that is also being written to by other applications. The other applications could be non-java applications. What are the drawbacks? Locking issues? Formatting? | 2008/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/285081",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18995/"
] | Log4j has a SocketAppender, which will send events to a service, which you can implement yourself or use the simple implementation bundled with Log4j.
It also supports syslogd and the Windows event log, which may be useful in trying to unify your log output with events from non-Java applications.
If performance is a... | I don't think the default log4j appenders do any file locking or synchronization. Without such locking, you're likely to lose log messages or receive them mangled.
I'm not sure how easy it is to do file locking in Java, but to make this work directly, I think you would need to subclass the appropriate Appender and ove... |
13,705 | Recently i stumbled upon a movie disc and on it was a movie called ["American guinea pigs".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVMGsfbNfo0)
It wasn't a typical funny horror story, it was a ultra realistic documentary style movie.
There was a woman laying on a table (tied to it) and she was surrounded by masked group who ... | 2016/01/16 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/13705",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/7141/"
] | Know that they are only actors and don't watch it if it's going to traumatize you. Don't watch any movies unless you like distraction. | >
> 1:- How do we understand this kind of sick entertainment in a Buddhist perspective (why do people enjoy this kind of things)?
>
>
>
How do we understand this? As impermanent, not ultimately satisfactory, and void of any self.
Like all experience that make up samsara, giving rise to wanting or aversion to any... |
13,705 | Recently i stumbled upon a movie disc and on it was a movie called ["American guinea pigs".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVMGsfbNfo0)
It wasn't a typical funny horror story, it was a ultra realistic documentary style movie.
There was a woman laying on a table (tied to it) and she was surrounded by masked group who ... | 2016/01/16 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/13705",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/7141/"
] | Know that they are only actors and don't watch it if it's going to traumatize you. Don't watch any movies unless you like distraction. | >
> How do we understand this kind of sick entertainment in a Buddhist perspective (why do people enjoy this kind of things)?
>
>
>
I don't enjoy that kind of thing (i.e. "horror movies"), so I don't ever watch them and don't have to think about them.
It might be a bit like asking, "how do we understand drug addi... |
49,486 | [According](https://www.thejournal.ie/donald-trump-north-korea-2-3707741-Nov2017/) to some news reports:
>
> The designation of state sponsor of terror was removed from North Korea by President George W. Bush in 2008. North Korea was named among the ‘axis of evil’ countries allegedly supporting terror that were named... | 2020/01/16 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/49486",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/18373/"
] | The reason(s) can be gleaned from the previous year's [Country Reports on Terrorism](https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2006/82736.htm), released (regularly) by the State Department. Basically, it says that (1) NK hadn't sponsored a terrorist attack in a long time (it happened to be a 20 years anniversary) and (2... | Looks like another entry in the fool's game of *we'll-be-nice-to-you-if-you-stop-your-nukes* with NK.
Google *"bush north korea terrorism remove nuclear 2008"* and you'll find hits right away. A fair bit of hits are behind paywalls or nagwalls though.
[Financial Times 2008](https://www.ft.com/content/90e15f8c-970d-11... |
39,563,738 | I am using IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.3 (normal x64 IDE, not Android Studio) on windows 10, with 1.8 JDK.
I have set up a libgdx project with android and desktop modules.
When trying to run Desktop:Run, Android:Run is also executed beforehand.
I have checked the build file in the main project folder, as well as the modules C... | 2016/09/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/39563738",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6767945/"
] | Ok...it seems that while I used to be able to simply specify "run" as the task in the run configuration, this is no longer working, and I must fully define the task name: ":Desktop:run" | Specifying ":desktop:run" in the LibGDX project run configuration, in place of "run" worked for me too.
This appears to be tracked in IntelliJ's tracker under this issue: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-160189> |
7,529,732 | I want to start developing in an MVC framework, specifically CakePHP.
I see they have released 2.0.0-RC2 and was wondering if it is a waste of time to start an app in 1.3 when 2.0 is right around the corner. Should I start learning and developing in 2.0-RC2 rather as I'm guessing most of what I will learn in 1.3 now m... | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7529732",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/383624/"
] | I would advise against starting on a Release Candidate when you are new to the platform or programming pattern - mostly because you won't know the difference between broken/missing functionality and your lack of knowledge.
Start with the stable build, then move to the new hotness once it has an official release. | For now, you can start learning CakePHP 1.3. There is official [documentation](http://book.cakephp.org/) from where you can start and also you have a lot of examples on internet. When CakePHP 2.0 come stable you will be ready to work with it. |
7,529,732 | I want to start developing in an MVC framework, specifically CakePHP.
I see they have released 2.0.0-RC2 and was wondering if it is a waste of time to start an app in 1.3 when 2.0 is right around the corner. Should I start learning and developing in 2.0-RC2 rather as I'm guessing most of what I will learn in 1.3 now m... | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7529732",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/383624/"
] | I would advise against starting on a Release Candidate when you are new to the platform or programming pattern - mostly because you won't know the difference between broken/missing functionality and your lack of knowledge.
Start with the stable build, then move to the new hotness once it has an official release. | I would start with CakePHP 2.0.0-RC2 as CakePHP 2.0 is the future of CakePHP. CakePHP 1.3.x is outdated in my opinion as it is still PHP4-based...
For documentation, see the cookbook for CakePHP 2.0: <http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/> . And if there are questions, ask in the IRC channel, or post in the Google group (or... |
7,529,732 | I want to start developing in an MVC framework, specifically CakePHP.
I see they have released 2.0.0-RC2 and was wondering if it is a waste of time to start an app in 1.3 when 2.0 is right around the corner. Should I start learning and developing in 2.0-RC2 rather as I'm guessing most of what I will learn in 1.3 now m... | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7529732",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/383624/"
] | I would advise against starting on a Release Candidate when you are new to the platform or programming pattern - mostly because you won't know the difference between broken/missing functionality and your lack of knowledge.
Start with the stable build, then move to the new hotness once it has an official release. | Well .. first of all , i would recommend against use of php frameworks before you have learned enough to understand how they work.
But especially large distance should be kept from Cake and other Ruby on Rails clones in PHP. They all are filled with bad practices, and it is **not** MVC pattern which they are implemen... |
7,529,732 | I want to start developing in an MVC framework, specifically CakePHP.
I see they have released 2.0.0-RC2 and was wondering if it is a waste of time to start an app in 1.3 when 2.0 is right around the corner. Should I start learning and developing in 2.0-RC2 rather as I'm guessing most of what I will learn in 1.3 now m... | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7529732",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/383624/"
] | For now, you can start learning CakePHP 1.3. There is official [documentation](http://book.cakephp.org/) from where you can start and also you have a lot of examples on internet. When CakePHP 2.0 come stable you will be ready to work with it. | I would start with CakePHP 2.0.0-RC2 as CakePHP 2.0 is the future of CakePHP. CakePHP 1.3.x is outdated in my opinion as it is still PHP4-based...
For documentation, see the cookbook for CakePHP 2.0: <http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/> . And if there are questions, ask in the IRC channel, or post in the Google group (or... |
7,529,732 | I want to start developing in an MVC framework, specifically CakePHP.
I see they have released 2.0.0-RC2 and was wondering if it is a waste of time to start an app in 1.3 when 2.0 is right around the corner. Should I start learning and developing in 2.0-RC2 rather as I'm guessing most of what I will learn in 1.3 now m... | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7529732",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/383624/"
] | Well .. first of all , i would recommend against use of php frameworks before you have learned enough to understand how they work.
But especially large distance should be kept from Cake and other Ruby on Rails clones in PHP. They all are filled with bad practices, and it is **not** MVC pattern which they are implemen... | I would start with CakePHP 2.0.0-RC2 as CakePHP 2.0 is the future of CakePHP. CakePHP 1.3.x is outdated in my opinion as it is still PHP4-based...
For documentation, see the cookbook for CakePHP 2.0: <http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/> . And if there are questions, ask in the IRC channel, or post in the Google group (or... |
76,474 | It seems that making edits, annotations, or even just opening and saving a PDF file in Preview will cause a significant increase in file size. I've noticed that for some books I've scanned this also happens to improve page rendering time.
Can anyone shed some light as to what is going on to cause these changes? I am i... | 2013/01/01 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76474",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/28635/"
] | I know this is quite late, but I have found something that seems to work, at least if used initially: I've tried using the Quartz filter to "Reduce File Size." It seems to work but is not on by default. I can specifically choose it via the Save As menu (hold Option), but am worried that it defaults to the usual method ... | The problem remains a serious one. In Preview 7.0 (Mac Os 10.9.5.) I generated a pdf using Acrobat 9.5.5. that resulted in a 5 MB file. In Preview I added exactly 12 characters (using the edit tools). After saving this file it balooned to 14 MB.
You can fix it by opening and saving again in Acrobat (may have to use th... |
76,474 | It seems that making edits, annotations, or even just opening and saving a PDF file in Preview will cause a significant increase in file size. I've noticed that for some books I've scanned this also happens to improve page rendering time.
Can anyone shed some light as to what is going on to cause these changes? I am i... | 2013/01/01 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76474",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/28635/"
] | The problem remains a serious one. In Preview 7.0 (Mac Os 10.9.5.) I generated a pdf using Acrobat 9.5.5. that resulted in a 5 MB file. In Preview I added exactly 12 characters (using the edit tools). After saving this file it balooned to 14 MB.
You can fix it by opening and saving again in Acrobat (may have to use th... | Can't add clues to the solution. I can add a similar scenario (OS X 10.11.3): a scanned pdf weighing in at ~800kb is opened in preview, a couple of empty scanned paged are deleted, the resulting, two-page shorter pdf is ~2,2Mb. "Option-Save as" and selecting the "reduce file size" quartz filter compresses the file down... |
76,474 | It seems that making edits, annotations, or even just opening and saving a PDF file in Preview will cause a significant increase in file size. I've noticed that for some books I've scanned this also happens to improve page rendering time.
Can anyone shed some light as to what is going on to cause these changes? I am i... | 2013/01/01 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76474",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/28635/"
] | I know this is quite late, but I have found something that seems to work, at least if used initially: I've tried using the Quartz filter to "Reduce File Size." It seems to work but is not on by default. I can specifically choose it via the Save As menu (hold Option), but am worried that it defaults to the usual method ... | Can't add clues to the solution. I can add a similar scenario (OS X 10.11.3): a scanned pdf weighing in at ~800kb is opened in preview, a couple of empty scanned paged are deleted, the resulting, two-page shorter pdf is ~2,2Mb. "Option-Save as" and selecting the "reduce file size" quartz filter compresses the file down... |
429 | I would like to learn a bit about the first games that were ever played on a computer-like device.
It may be a digital computer, a console, an embedded chip or micro-controller or even something semi-mechanical.
The game itself has to be a software program and should not be hard-wired into the device. If the game p... | 2016/05/09 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/429",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/128/"
] | Given your restrictions, the earliest computer game I can find is an implementation of checkers for the [Pilot ACE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_ACE), written in 1951 and debugged to the point of working in 1952.
Other candidates are checkers for the [IBM 701](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701) (1952 again)... | Although Mark's post probably is the correct answer (first non-hardwired game) the first home video game console is the [Magnavox Odyssey](http://www.magnavox-odyssey.com/):
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7gJLGm.png)
>
> The Magnavox Odyssey and the whole idea o... |
429 | I would like to learn a bit about the first games that were ever played on a computer-like device.
It may be a digital computer, a console, an embedded chip or micro-controller or even something semi-mechanical.
The game itself has to be a software program and should not be hard-wired into the device. If the game p... | 2016/05/09 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/429",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/128/"
] | Given your restrictions, the earliest computer game I can find is an implementation of checkers for the [Pilot ACE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_ACE), written in 1951 and debugged to the point of working in 1952.
Other candidates are checkers for the [IBM 701](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701) (1952 again)... | If you're thinking of interactive realtime games using some kind of visual representation (so, this is essentially excluding turn-based games), it's probably Spacewar! for the DEC PDP-1 (MIT, Steve Russell et al., 1961/62).
See <http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/> (online emulation)
See also "The Origin of Spacewar" by... |
429 | I would like to learn a bit about the first games that were ever played on a computer-like device.
It may be a digital computer, a console, an embedded chip or micro-controller or even something semi-mechanical.
The game itself has to be a software program and should not be hard-wired into the device. If the game p... | 2016/05/09 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/429",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/128/"
] | Although Mark's post probably is the correct answer (first non-hardwired game) the first home video game console is the [Magnavox Odyssey](http://www.magnavox-odyssey.com/):
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7gJLGm.png)
>
> The Magnavox Odyssey and the whole idea o... | If you're thinking of interactive realtime games using some kind of visual representation (so, this is essentially excluding turn-based games), it's probably Spacewar! for the DEC PDP-1 (MIT, Steve Russell et al., 1961/62).
See <http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/> (online emulation)
See also "The Origin of Spacewar" by... |
36,201,004 | I want to use a many-to-many relation between System & Device. I want the system to know its devices order.
I've seen [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/26058223/1028741) that I can do it using @OrderColumn.
How can I do it using hibernate xml configuration instead of annotation? | 2016/03/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/36201004",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1028741/"
] | If you're using Hibernate you could try with
sort="unsorted|natural|comparatorClass"
order-by="column\_name asc|desc"
as attributes of your relatonship declaration | @OrderColumn is the JPA annotation introduced in JPA 2.0. This works as an additional feature if we work hibernate through JPA. There is no equivalent replacement in hibernate who work with hibernate directly. |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | "Design patterns" in software didn't exist in the era you talk about, because the concept hadn't been invented. This is not me being flippant - it actually *is* the reason; being called a recognizable name is what makes a Design pattern a "Design pattern" rather than just code that you keep using in one form or another... | Since nobody has mentioned the obvious one yet: one big design pattern in the procedural era was Object. Like many popular design patterns before (e.g. Subroutine) and after (e.g. Iterator), it became so popular that it even got language support. |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | I was a Cobol developer before I learned Java. I've developed for over 35 years.
Back in the days of procedural languages, most of the processing was done in batch. Go back far enough in history, and even program compilation was done with a deck of punch cards in batch.
Contrary to Kilian Foth's [assertion](https://s... | The previous big paradigm was [structured programming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming). Instead of UML, there were a variety of different diagrams (flow charts, data-flow diagrams, structure charts, etc). Development was mostly top-down, and followed a process of functional decomposition. One of th... |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | "Design patterns" in software didn't exist in the era you talk about, because the concept hadn't been invented. This is not me being flippant - it actually *is* the reason; being called a recognizable name is what makes a Design pattern a "Design pattern" rather than just code that you keep using in one form or another... | A "finite state machine" may count as a Pattern, and FSMs were written (e.g. for communications protocols) using pre-OO languages.
Also "interrupt handlers" and [TSRs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_and_stay_resident_program) used to be popular e.g. on DOS. |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | I was a Cobol developer before I learned Java. I've developed for over 35 years.
Back in the days of procedural languages, most of the processing was done in batch. Go back far enough in history, and even program compilation was done with a deck of punch cards in batch.
Contrary to Kilian Foth's [assertion](https://s... | Since nobody has mentioned the obvious one yet: one big design pattern in the procedural era was Object. Like many popular design patterns before (e.g. Subroutine) and after (e.g. Iterator), it became so popular that it even got language support. |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | Since nobody has mentioned the obvious one yet: one big design pattern in the procedural era was Object. Like many popular design patterns before (e.g. Subroutine) and after (e.g. Iterator), it became so popular that it even got language support. | Terms like "Spaghetti Code" and "Single Point of Exit" are actually throwbacks to that era. Nowadays we call code we don't like "spaghetti code", but really that's a reference to code tied together (badly) with GOTOs and JMPs.
(Today we suffer "ravioli code", in which the code is like a bunch of unrelated, tightly pac... |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | I was a Cobol developer before I learned Java. I've developed for over 35 years.
Back in the days of procedural languages, most of the processing was done in batch. Go back far enough in history, and even program compilation was done with a deck of punch cards in batch.
Contrary to Kilian Foth's [assertion](https://s... | A "finite state machine" may count as a Pattern, and FSMs were written (e.g. for communications protocols) using pre-OO languages.
Also "interrupt handlers" and [TSRs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_and_stay_resident_program) used to be popular e.g. on DOS. |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | I suppose one large one (besides structured programming itself) was the concept of passing a handle around - in OO you have an object and it contains state and functionality. Back before OO, you'd have a load of independent functions, and you'd pass a handle to some state between them - a cookie if you like. This gave ... | Terms like "Spaghetti Code" and "Single Point of Exit" are actually throwbacks to that era. Nowadays we call code we don't like "spaghetti code", but really that's a reference to code tied together (badly) with GOTOs and JMPs.
(Today we suffer "ravioli code", in which the code is like a bunch of unrelated, tightly pac... |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | I suppose one large one (besides structured programming itself) was the concept of passing a handle around - in OO you have an object and it contains state and functionality. Back before OO, you'd have a load of independent functions, and you'd pass a handle to some state between them - a cookie if you like. This gave ... | A "finite state machine" may count as a Pattern, and FSMs were written (e.g. for communications protocols) using pre-OO languages.
Also "interrupt handlers" and [TSRs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_and_stay_resident_program) used to be popular e.g. on DOS. |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | "Design patterns" in software didn't exist in the era you talk about, because the concept hadn't been invented. This is not me being flippant - it actually *is* the reason; being called a recognizable name is what makes a Design pattern a "Design pattern" rather than just code that you keep using in one form or another... | Terms like "Spaghetti Code" and "Single Point of Exit" are actually throwbacks to that era. Nowadays we call code we don't like "spaghetti code", but really that's a reference to code tied together (badly) with GOTOs and JMPs.
(Today we suffer "ravioli code", in which the code is like a bunch of unrelated, tightly pac... |
201,880 | Similar: [How was programming done 20 years ago?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/58186/how-was-programming-done-20-years-ago)
[OOP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) is quite fashionable nowadays, having its roots in [Simula 67](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) in ... | 2013/06/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/201880",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/54268/"
] | "Design patterns" in software didn't exist in the era you talk about, because the concept hadn't been invented. This is not me being flippant - it actually *is* the reason; being called a recognizable name is what makes a Design pattern a "Design pattern" rather than just code that you keep using in one form or another... | The previous big paradigm was [structured programming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming). Instead of UML, there were a variety of different diagrams (flow charts, data-flow diagrams, structure charts, etc). Development was mostly top-down, and followed a process of functional decomposition. One of th... |
14,974,628 | 1. What's the rate limit of graph api?
I have done a lot of searching and asking on the web. Some said 600calls/600secs, but I did not manage to find the official decalration of rate-limiting issues.
2. How long does graph api's access token expire?
No being able to find it anywhere | 2013/02/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/14974628",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2090147/"
] | This limit is not mentioned anywhere in the documents. This limit is user specific i.e If u are making 600 calls in 600 secs for 1 or more tokens of a user. There can be a workaround by using tokens of different Apps but same user, if u need to make so many calls. | 1.I don't think there is any rate limit on the Graph API although they have some thresholds mentioned at **Facebook Platform Policies** stating
>
> If you exceed, or plan to exceed, any of the following thresholds please contact us as you may be subject to additional terms: (>5M MAU) or (>100M API calls per day) or (... |
40,882,040 | I am exploring grafana for my log management and system monitoring.
I found kibana is also used for same process.
I just don't know when to use kibana and when to use grafana and when to use zabbix? | 2016/11/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40882040",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4753991/"
] | **Zabbix** - complex monitoring solution including data gathering, data archiving (trends, compaction,...), visualizer with dashboards, alerting and some management support for alerts escalations. (have a look at [collectd](https://collectd.org/), [prometheus](https://prometheus.io/), [cacti](http://www.cacti.net/). Th... | Zabbix is a monitoring solution, which works with active+passive agents, which can "measure" things on your systems.
Based on those measured values, you can take actions/alerting etc.
In addition, it plots nice graphs with disk/CPU etc. usage
Kibana/Grafana, on the other hand, do get the information from logs sent fro... |
299,858 | My son is learning English as a second language. Of course the phonetic alphabet is something they have to learn. Now he keeps telling me that it is a completely pointless endeavour, because he knows how to pronounce English words by instinct.
Of course, I want to prove him wrong. How do I find words which are hard to... | 2016/01/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299858",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/155467/"
] | **Any word with silent letters is likely to be a trap.**
* *Answer* is one such; there are differences between *tongue* and *plague;* there is a difference between *timeline* and *Bakelite.* In fact, many names can be awkward — the classic example is *Featherstonehaugh* (pronounced *Fanshaw*).
**Words where the verb ... | There are thousands. Just off the top of my head ...
* *lead* (v), *led* (past tense of *lead*), *lead* (n), *lede* (n)
* *bedridden, bedraggled, bedroll*
* *house* (n), *house* (v), *lose* (v), *loose* (adj)
* *retake* (n), *retake* (v), *remake* (n), *remake* (v)
* *smooth* (adj), *smooth* (v), *thesis, these, these... |
299,858 | My son is learning English as a second language. Of course the phonetic alphabet is something they have to learn. Now he keeps telling me that it is a completely pointless endeavour, because he knows how to pronounce English words by instinct.
Of course, I want to prove him wrong. How do I find words which are hard to... | 2016/01/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299858",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/155467/"
] | **Any word with silent letters is likely to be a trap.**
* *Answer* is one such; there are differences between *tongue* and *plague;* there is a difference between *timeline* and *Bakelite.* In fact, many names can be awkward — the classic example is *Featherstonehaugh* (pronounced *Fanshaw*).
**Words where the verb ... | For starters, how about all the words with 'ough' that can be pronounced half a dozen different ways? TOUGH, THROUGH, COUGH, DOUGH, THOUGHT, PLOUGH...
For the record, I believe learning phonetic pronunciation *can* be helpful, but it should be taught in conjunction with etymology so there is a fuller awareness of why ... |
299,858 | My son is learning English as a second language. Of course the phonetic alphabet is something they have to learn. Now he keeps telling me that it is a completely pointless endeavour, because he knows how to pronounce English words by instinct.
Of course, I want to prove him wrong. How do I find words which are hard to... | 2016/01/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299858",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/155467/"
] | There are thousands. Just off the top of my head ...
* *lead* (v), *led* (past tense of *lead*), *lead* (n), *lede* (n)
* *bedridden, bedraggled, bedroll*
* *house* (n), *house* (v), *lose* (v), *loose* (adj)
* *retake* (n), *retake* (v), *remake* (n), *remake* (v)
* *smooth* (adj), *smooth* (v), *thesis, these, these... | For starters, how about all the words with 'ough' that can be pronounced half a dozen different ways? TOUGH, THROUGH, COUGH, DOUGH, THOUGHT, PLOUGH...
For the record, I believe learning phonetic pronunciation *can* be helpful, but it should be taught in conjunction with etymology so there is a fuller awareness of why ... |
299,858 | My son is learning English as a second language. Of course the phonetic alphabet is something they have to learn. Now he keeps telling me that it is a completely pointless endeavour, because he knows how to pronounce English words by instinct.
Of course, I want to prove him wrong. How do I find words which are hard to... | 2016/01/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299858",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/155467/"
] | Some native speakers may say that they can pronounce any new word they see, but they can't. And so if us native speakers can't, neither can anyone else! A simple way to show that this claim isn't true even for native speakers is to take the letter cluster : -*ough*
This can have nine different pronunciations in Englis... | There are thousands. Just off the top of my head ...
* *lead* (v), *led* (past tense of *lead*), *lead* (n), *lede* (n)
* *bedridden, bedraggled, bedroll*
* *house* (n), *house* (v), *lose* (v), *loose* (adj)
* *retake* (n), *retake* (v), *remake* (n), *remake* (v)
* *smooth* (adj), *smooth* (v), *thesis, these, these... |
299,858 | My son is learning English as a second language. Of course the phonetic alphabet is something they have to learn. Now he keeps telling me that it is a completely pointless endeavour, because he knows how to pronounce English words by instinct.
Of course, I want to prove him wrong. How do I find words which are hard to... | 2016/01/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299858",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/155467/"
] | ðɪs ɪz ə letə ɪn fəni:mɪk skrɪpt ‖ ɪts wʌn θɪŋ tə bi eɪbl tə seɪ ə wɜ:b | bət ɪts ənʌðə tə bi eɪbl tə bi ʌndəstʊd
pəhæps | ju dʒəs ni:d tə meɪk ðə həʊl θɪŋ ə bɪp mɔ:r ɪntrestɪŋ | fə jə sʌn
fər ɪgzæmpl ‖ ju kʊd gɪv ɪm səm rɪdlz | ɔ: sm dʒəʊks
hɪəz ə dʒəʊk fə ju ‖
>
> waɪ wəz sɪks efreɪd əv sevn?
>
>
> bɪkəz sevn ... | There are thousands. Just off the top of my head ...
* *lead* (v), *led* (past tense of *lead*), *lead* (n), *lede* (n)
* *bedridden, bedraggled, bedroll*
* *house* (n), *house* (v), *lose* (v), *loose* (adj)
* *retake* (n), *retake* (v), *remake* (n), *remake* (v)
* *smooth* (adj), *smooth* (v), *thesis, these, these... |
299,858 | My son is learning English as a second language. Of course the phonetic alphabet is something they have to learn. Now he keeps telling me that it is a completely pointless endeavour, because he knows how to pronounce English words by instinct.
Of course, I want to prove him wrong. How do I find words which are hard to... | 2016/01/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299858",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/155467/"
] | Some native speakers may say that they can pronounce any new word they see, but they can't. And so if us native speakers can't, neither can anyone else! A simple way to show that this claim isn't true even for native speakers is to take the letter cluster : -*ough*
This can have nine different pronunciations in Englis... | For starters, how about all the words with 'ough' that can be pronounced half a dozen different ways? TOUGH, THROUGH, COUGH, DOUGH, THOUGHT, PLOUGH...
For the record, I believe learning phonetic pronunciation *can* be helpful, but it should be taught in conjunction with etymology so there is a fuller awareness of why ... |
299,858 | My son is learning English as a second language. Of course the phonetic alphabet is something they have to learn. Now he keeps telling me that it is a completely pointless endeavour, because he knows how to pronounce English words by instinct.
Of course, I want to prove him wrong. How do I find words which are hard to... | 2016/01/14 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299858",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/155467/"
] | ðɪs ɪz ə letə ɪn fəni:mɪk skrɪpt ‖ ɪts wʌn θɪŋ tə bi eɪbl tə seɪ ə wɜ:b | bət ɪts ənʌðə tə bi eɪbl tə bi ʌndəstʊd
pəhæps | ju dʒəs ni:d tə meɪk ðə həʊl θɪŋ ə bɪp mɔ:r ɪntrestɪŋ | fə jə sʌn
fər ɪgzæmpl ‖ ju kʊd gɪv ɪm səm rɪdlz | ɔ: sm dʒəʊks
hɪəz ə dʒəʊk fə ju ‖
>
> waɪ wəz sɪks efreɪd əv sevn?
>
>
> bɪkəz sevn ... | For starters, how about all the words with 'ough' that can be pronounced half a dozen different ways? TOUGH, THROUGH, COUGH, DOUGH, THOUGHT, PLOUGH...
For the record, I believe learning phonetic pronunciation *can* be helpful, but it should be taught in conjunction with etymology so there is a fuller awareness of why ... |
1,219,112 | Does anyone know a book which covers topics on:
Brownian Motion
Martingales
Stochastic Calculus
Stochastic Differential Equations
Options pricing. Black-Scholes model
Fundamental Theorems. Interest Rates
Random Walk
Applications in Insurance
Simulations. Convergence
Simulation methods
I would like so... | 2015/04/03 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1219112",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/185305/"
] | A recommended book which covers most of your topics is [***Options, Futures and Other Derivatives - John Hull***](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B007V5ISCO). Regarding simulation methods, I would suggest [***Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering - Paul Glasserman.***](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn... | [Oksendal, Stochastic Differential Equations](http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540047582) is also a very good book to learn stochastic calculus. |
1,219,112 | Does anyone know a book which covers topics on:
Brownian Motion
Martingales
Stochastic Calculus
Stochastic Differential Equations
Options pricing. Black-Scholes model
Fundamental Theorems. Interest Rates
Random Walk
Applications in Insurance
Simulations. Convergence
Simulation methods
I would like so... | 2015/04/03 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1219112",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/185305/"
] | A recommended book which covers most of your topics is [***Options, Futures and Other Derivatives - John Hull***](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B007V5ISCO). Regarding simulation methods, I would suggest [***Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering - Paul Glasserman.***](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn... | Consider [An Informal Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications - Ovidiu Calin](https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9620)!
This book would cover the following topics (that were mentioned in the question): Brownian motion, Martingales, Stochastic Processes, SDEs. For mathematical finance t... |
1,219,112 | Does anyone know a book which covers topics on:
Brownian Motion
Martingales
Stochastic Calculus
Stochastic Differential Equations
Options pricing. Black-Scholes model
Fundamental Theorems. Interest Rates
Random Walk
Applications in Insurance
Simulations. Convergence
Simulation methods
I would like so... | 2015/04/03 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1219112",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/185305/"
] | A recommended book which covers most of your topics is [***Options, Futures and Other Derivatives - John Hull***](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B007V5ISCO). Regarding simulation methods, I would suggest [***Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering - Paul Glasserman.***](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn... | This is answered on the Quantitative Finance S.E.
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/38862>
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/2019>
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/15013>
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/1>
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/2391> |
1,219,112 | Does anyone know a book which covers topics on:
Brownian Motion
Martingales
Stochastic Calculus
Stochastic Differential Equations
Options pricing. Black-Scholes model
Fundamental Theorems. Interest Rates
Random Walk
Applications in Insurance
Simulations. Convergence
Simulation methods
I would like so... | 2015/04/03 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1219112",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/185305/"
] | [Oksendal, Stochastic Differential Equations](http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540047582) is also a very good book to learn stochastic calculus. | Consider [An Informal Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications - Ovidiu Calin](https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9620)!
This book would cover the following topics (that were mentioned in the question): Brownian motion, Martingales, Stochastic Processes, SDEs. For mathematical finance t... |
1,219,112 | Does anyone know a book which covers topics on:
Brownian Motion
Martingales
Stochastic Calculus
Stochastic Differential Equations
Options pricing. Black-Scholes model
Fundamental Theorems. Interest Rates
Random Walk
Applications in Insurance
Simulations. Convergence
Simulation methods
I would like so... | 2015/04/03 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1219112",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/185305/"
] | [Oksendal, Stochastic Differential Equations](http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540047582) is also a very good book to learn stochastic calculus. | This is answered on the Quantitative Finance S.E.
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/38862>
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/2019>
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/15013>
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/1>
<https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/2391> |
44,468 | First of all, sorry for my English. I am new to blender animation. I have a problem regarding material colours, my problem is I can`t get colour same like texture shading. any one can help me on this point. I am working in cycle render.
**1) Texture Shading Viewport.**
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack... | 2016/01/07 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/44468",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/20132/"
] | what you have is this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J5oFd.png)
what you want is something like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQHwd.png)
what you miss is two things:
There is no light source in the scene. You can have ... | I believe dirty vextex textures could help you. AndrewPrice made a good tutorial about it here: <https://youtu.be/nX4dkwU1pyQ>
You could also try to work with fresnel / layer weight: [What does the Cycles Fresnel Node do?](https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/692/what-does-the-cycles-fresnel-node-do)
Note that... |
44,468 | First of all, sorry for my English. I am new to blender animation. I have a problem regarding material colours, my problem is I can`t get colour same like texture shading. any one can help me on this point. I am working in cycle render.
**1) Texture Shading Viewport.**
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack... | 2016/01/07 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/44468",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/20132/"
] | what you have is this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J5oFd.png)
what you want is something like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQHwd.png)
what you miss is two things:
There is no light source in the scene. You can have ... | The color you have selected in the Material > Settings > Viewport Color and Specular Color only affects the viewport. The reason being the viewport uses GLSL OPENGL shading model to display in realtime your mesh in the blend file. It has nothing to do with the output of colors in your final render.
In fact you can cha... |
2,594 | Especially for games which involve frequent card shuffling by multiple players of decks of uneven sizes is there is a technique for shuffling which is quick and easy for everyone to learn yet also reliably random?
Ideally this would work with cards which were sleeved.
I'm asking in particular for games of Dominion b... | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2594",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/842/"
] | When I shuffle I use a mixture of two techniques: riffle and stripping (as defined quite adequately in the [Wikipedia article on shuffling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling)). **Riffle** separates adjacent cards while **stripping** cycles cards from the top of the deck to the bottom.
I use both because riffle al... | From what I know of M:tG, a common shuffling technique is to deal the cards to a number of piles, say about 5 to 8, randomly sending a card to each pile until all are used up. Then stack the piles in random order.
For Dominion, I commonly just use an under-over-hand shuffle. That is, with cards in my right hand, I spl... |
2,594 | Especially for games which involve frequent card shuffling by multiple players of decks of uneven sizes is there is a technique for shuffling which is quick and easy for everyone to learn yet also reliably random?
Ideally this would work with cards which were sleeved.
I'm asking in particular for games of Dominion b... | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2594",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/842/"
] | From what I know of M:tG, a common shuffling technique is to deal the cards to a number of piles, say about 5 to 8, randomly sending a card to each pile until all are used up. Then stack the piles in random order.
For Dominion, I commonly just use an under-over-hand shuffle. That is, with cards in my right hand, I spl... | I've heard some praising reviews of **shuffling machines**. I don't know how well they work with sleeved cards, but they are very quick, easy to use and fair. They aren't prohibitively expensive either, and could certainly be justified for casual use if you play a lot of card games. |
2,594 | Especially for games which involve frequent card shuffling by multiple players of decks of uneven sizes is there is a technique for shuffling which is quick and easy for everyone to learn yet also reliably random?
Ideally this would work with cards which were sleeved.
I'm asking in particular for games of Dominion b... | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2594",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/842/"
] | Adam did an awesome job of answering, so I won't repeat anything he mentioned there, but there's 2 things I want to add.
1. I like mixing regular strip shuffles with the variant where you pick up most of the deck like normal, but instead of depositing cards with a chopping motion on one side of the cards only, alterna... | From what I know of M:tG, a common shuffling technique is to deal the cards to a number of piles, say about 5 to 8, randomly sending a card to each pile until all are used up. Then stack the piles in random order.
For Dominion, I commonly just use an under-over-hand shuffle. That is, with cards in my right hand, I spl... |
2,594 | Especially for games which involve frequent card shuffling by multiple players of decks of uneven sizes is there is a technique for shuffling which is quick and easy for everyone to learn yet also reliably random?
Ideally this would work with cards which were sleeved.
I'm asking in particular for games of Dominion b... | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2594",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/842/"
] | When I shuffle I use a mixture of two techniques: riffle and stripping (as defined quite adequately in the [Wikipedia article on shuffling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling)). **Riffle** separates adjacent cards while **stripping** cycles cards from the top of the deck to the bottom.
I use both because riffle al... | I've heard some praising reviews of **shuffling machines**. I don't know how well they work with sleeved cards, but they are very quick, easy to use and fair. They aren't prohibitively expensive either, and could certainly be justified for casual use if you play a lot of card games. |
2,594 | Especially for games which involve frequent card shuffling by multiple players of decks of uneven sizes is there is a technique for shuffling which is quick and easy for everyone to learn yet also reliably random?
Ideally this would work with cards which were sleeved.
I'm asking in particular for games of Dominion b... | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2594",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/842/"
] | When I shuffle I use a mixture of two techniques: riffle and stripping (as defined quite adequately in the [Wikipedia article on shuffling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffling)). **Riffle** separates adjacent cards while **stripping** cycles cards from the top of the deck to the bottom.
I use both because riffle al... | Adam did an awesome job of answering, so I won't repeat anything he mentioned there, but there's 2 things I want to add.
1. I like mixing regular strip shuffles with the variant where you pick up most of the deck like normal, but instead of depositing cards with a chopping motion on one side of the cards only, alterna... |
2,594 | Especially for games which involve frequent card shuffling by multiple players of decks of uneven sizes is there is a technique for shuffling which is quick and easy for everyone to learn yet also reliably random?
Ideally this would work with cards which were sleeved.
I'm asking in particular for games of Dominion b... | 2011/02/15 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2594",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/842/"
] | Adam did an awesome job of answering, so I won't repeat anything he mentioned there, but there's 2 things I want to add.
1. I like mixing regular strip shuffles with the variant where you pick up most of the deck like normal, but instead of depositing cards with a chopping motion on one side of the cards only, alterna... | I've heard some praising reviews of **shuffling machines**. I don't know how well they work with sleeved cards, but they are very quick, easy to use and fair. They aren't prohibitively expensive either, and could certainly be justified for casual use if you play a lot of card games. |
18,879 | I gained significant work experience through independent work with multiple businesses and non-businesses during my time at school and university. Through this work I built my skills which helped me fast track into corporate-level junior management with staff a few years after university. I hold a tenure of two years a... | 2014/02/01 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/18879",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/14592/"
] | The stigma of the "job-hopper" is generally attached to someone who frequently changes *permanent*, *full-time* jobs. Such a person begins to appear undesirable to employers who are looking to hire a permanent, full-time employee - they quite reasonably fear that you won't stick around for long. Hiring is a lot of work... | I would say you also don't have to feel compelled to list every job you've ever had on your resume. List the **most recent jobs** from the past 3/4 years. That's more than enough indication of what you have been up to.
If you want to highlight the work that you did as a freelancer, you could include that in a separate... |
95,464 | Many mobile apps have bottom navigation (think Instagram, Twitter, etc.). However, for some of the pages / processes, the bottom navigation disappears.
E.g. On Instagram, once you do the process of uploading a photo, the bottom navigation disappears and just shows the entire process from start to finish. The bottom na... | 2016/06/10 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/95464",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/7021/"
] | This relates as much to UX patterns as it does to **operating system patterns**.
When you learn a bit of Swift, you realize it's not about "hiding the bottom navigation", but actually about using a *different form of presentation for the content you're about to show*.
If you're designing for iOS, Apple describes it b... | few months ago i've got the same problem. so i did some research. I think if the app is a scrollable one like instagram (you know what i am saying) or aliexpress etc. it should be hide when scrolling it down. this trick will give more space to the contents. if its a app which scroll sideways you do not need it to hide.... |
95,464 | Many mobile apps have bottom navigation (think Instagram, Twitter, etc.). However, for some of the pages / processes, the bottom navigation disappears.
E.g. On Instagram, once you do the process of uploading a photo, the bottom navigation disappears and just shows the entire process from start to finish. The bottom na... | 2016/06/10 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/95464",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/7021/"
] | This relates as much to UX patterns as it does to **operating system patterns**.
When you learn a bit of Swift, you realize it's not about "hiding the bottom navigation", but actually about using a *different form of presentation for the content you're about to show*.
If you're designing for iOS, Apple describes it b... | So straight answering your questions:
>
> So is it alright to assume that when you do the main goal / action for the app, the bottom navigation can be hidden to make the user complete the process without any distractions?
>
>
>
Yes. The key phrase you mentioned is: "to make the user complete the process without a... |
18,402,213 | I have some Questions on linking libraries.
How does the Linker decide, if a library I want to link is linked static or dynamic? Is it decided by the file extention (*.a/*.so)?
Is it possible, to dynamically link a .a library?
Is it possible to convert a .a library into a .so library without having the sources? | 2013/08/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18402213",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1872473/"
] | 1. The linker decides how to link the library by generally looking at the extension, but that's pretty much up to the linker. The AIX linker has some rather exotic behaviour. Moreover, if you have both a .so and a .so version of the library in the same place, the command line switches you have given the linker will det... | The gcc linker will link dynamically to .so files by default, if both types of library are found in its search path. You can over-ride this with command line arguments, as described [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14731219/what-library-would-it-link-against-static-or-shared-object). |
107,452 | I have a little big problem. After the migration of the catalog for a new store in a "clean" installation of Magento I started to have problems with configurable products. When you select an option and click buy, instead of adding the product to cart, returns the error message:
>
> *Fatal error: Call to a member func... | 2016/03/22 | [
"https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/107452",
"https://magento.stackexchange.com",
"https://magento.stackexchange.com/users/37773/"
] | This depends on how you migrated the catalog.
The error appears if there is not stock record for the product you are trying to add to cart.
You can try a reindex, but I doubt that will solve it.
But I bet the problem will be solved if you edit the product in the backend and save it.
Of course, this is not a... | Just for the record as solved:
I solved the problem by simply opening the simple and saving products.
I think that's what was presented as a solution on the link below, but I understood it was to access the configurable product, and not simply as I did. |
107,452 | I have a little big problem. After the migration of the catalog for a new store in a "clean" installation of Magento I started to have problems with configurable products. When you select an option and click buy, instead of adding the product to cart, returns the error message:
>
> *Fatal error: Call to a member func... | 2016/03/22 | [
"https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/107452",
"https://magento.stackexchange.com",
"https://magento.stackexchange.com/users/37773/"
] | This depends on how you migrated the catalog.
The error appears if there is not stock record for the product you are trying to add to cart.
You can try a reindex, but I doubt that will solve it.
But I bet the problem will be solved if you edit the product in the backend and save it.
Of course, this is not a... | This can cause because of following reason
->All the attributes that you had in previous store has not been added in attribute sets. Re-indexing might solve the problem afterwards.
Solution:
Create all attributes that were present in previous store and update it via magmi for configurable product if there are any. And... |
34,402 | I have a folder (/var/www/test7.com), which must be readable/writable by www-data AND test7 users.
test7 user should not have access to other websites.
How can I do that? | 2011/04/10 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/34402",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/8085/"
] | The simplest way would be to add the www-data user to the test7 group, and have the files owned by test7, not www-data. | most confusing way would be to use 'acl' (apt-get install acl) tool to create advanced control lists, where you can allow/disallow access to files using advanced rules.
for example, you have directory owned by root and 3 other users, using acl you can set that direcotry owner is still root with 700 rights, but then se... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> I keep being offered better jobs, but… how to sell yearly job changes?
>
>
>
You don't sell yearly job changes. Your holding three jobs in two years is no advantage to a potential employer - just for you. So there is nothing about it to sell.
When asked, you can be honest about the better salary and better op... | Assuming you aren't quitting your current job before interviewing at new prospective employers then I don't see why you'd say anything but the truth.
"I receive a lot of unsolicited inquiries about me moving companies, just as you are doing now, which have increasingly more interesting work opportunities and compensat... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | 'It seems to be that these people want to pay me little AND to keep me as long as possible."
We can't have that, can we?
"I don't understand how to handle/negotiate this. I would be happy yo change company for a higher salary now, but I am worried about the situation. Please advise."
Nothing to worry about. You don'... | You are obviously opportunistic but as others have pointed out in the long run too much jumping is a flight risk. Are there or her factors that you are moving for? Could it be that aside from money there was xyz missing and also not making you stick around? I would focus in identifying xyz and find a place which offers... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> I keep being offered better jobs, but… how to sell yearly job changes?
>
>
>
You don't sell yearly job changes. Your holding three jobs in two years is no advantage to a potential employer - just for you. So there is nothing about it to sell.
When asked, you can be honest about the better salary and better op... | You first need to evaluate why you are job-hopping. You are saying:
* "The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities." Yet you stay less than a year.
* "The honest answer is that life is expensive and I found better paying jobs with better opportunities." Yet you stay less than a ... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | You first need to evaluate why you are job-hopping. You are saying:
* "The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities." Yet you stay less than a year.
* "The honest answer is that life is expensive and I found better paying jobs with better opportunities." Yet you stay less than a ... | Compensation is about value, your value to the employer will lead directly to your level of compensation. This has two angles.
First, any value your skill-set may bring to the table will be offset by the perceived risk of you leaving in a short time. Companies don't want to invest the expense of hiring and on-boarding... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> I keep being offered better jobs, but… how to sell yearly job changes?
>
>
>
You don't sell yearly job changes. Your holding three jobs in two years is no advantage to a potential employer - just for you. So there is nothing about it to sell.
When asked, you can be honest about the better salary and better op... | 'It seems to be that these people want to pay me little AND to keep me as long as possible."
We can't have that, can we?
"I don't understand how to handle/negotiate this. I would be happy yo change company for a higher salary now, but I am worried about the situation. Please advise."
Nothing to worry about. You don'... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I don't think you can 'sell' your frequent job changes. What you *can* do to stop this pattern is *aim higher*.
Clearly, based on your frequent offers that just keep increasing the pay, you belong at a top position. But based on your history, you have started far too low and are moving up one little step at a time.
... | Assuming you aren't quitting your current job before interviewing at new prospective employers then I don't see why you'd say anything but the truth.
"I receive a lot of unsolicited inquiries about me moving companies, just as you are doing now, which have increasingly more interesting work opportunities and compensat... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I don't think you can 'sell' your frequent job changes. What you *can* do to stop this pattern is *aim higher*.
Clearly, based on your frequent offers that just keep increasing the pay, you belong at a top position. But based on your history, you have started far too low and are moving up one little step at a time.
... | 'It seems to be that these people want to pay me little AND to keep me as long as possible."
We can't have that, can we?
"I don't understand how to handle/negotiate this. I would be happy yo change company for a higher salary now, but I am worried about the situation. Please advise."
Nothing to worry about. You don'... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Assuming you aren't quitting your current job before interviewing at new prospective employers then I don't see why you'd say anything but the truth.
"I receive a lot of unsolicited inquiries about me moving companies, just as you are doing now, which have increasingly more interesting work opportunities and compensat... | You are obviously opportunistic but as others have pointed out in the long run too much jumping is a flight risk. Are there or her factors that you are moving for? Could it be that aside from money there was xyz missing and also not making you stick around? I would focus in identifying xyz and find a place which offers... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Compensation is about value, your value to the employer will lead directly to your level of compensation. This has two angles.
First, any value your skill-set may bring to the table will be offset by the perceived risk of you leaving in a short time. Companies don't want to invest the expense of hiring and on-boarding... | You are obviously opportunistic but as others have pointed out in the long run too much jumping is a flight risk. Are there or her factors that you are moving for? Could it be that aside from money there was xyz missing and also not making you stick around? I would focus in identifying xyz and find a place which offers... |
48,171 | In the last 2 years I had three jobs.
The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities. However, life is expensive and I keep getting contacted for new opportunities.
But now interviewers started asking me "why do you keep changing jobs".
The honest answer is that life is expensive a... | 2015/06/12 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/48171",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | You first need to evaluate why you are job-hopping. You are saying:
* "The short story is that I changed jobs twice for better pay or better opportunities." Yet you stay less than a year.
* "The honest answer is that life is expensive and I found better paying jobs with better opportunities." Yet you stay less than a ... | Assuming you aren't quitting your current job before interviewing at new prospective employers then I don't see why you'd say anything but the truth.
"I receive a lot of unsolicited inquiries about me moving companies, just as you are doing now, which have increasingly more interesting work opportunities and compensat... |
51,510 | I have a list in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (ultimately for deployment to SharePoint Online).
The list currently has about 265 fields of type "single line of text".
When I try to add more columns in SharePoint Designer I get:
"Could not save the field changes to the server. The column cannot be added because the tot... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/51510",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/9973/"
] | You might want to consider re-architecting this solution as I can tell you from experience that the wider a list gets, the worse it performs. Certain browsers, like Internet Explorer, choke when rendering large complex views of data, often taking minutes to display or simply locking the system entirely. Lastly, there i... | please refer to this to understand sharepoint limmits ;)
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx#Column>
you might need to think about splitting the list into two.
or if you really want to keep it as one you can throttle but its highly not recommended as it can hinder on speeds and loading times.
... |
51,510 | I have a list in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (ultimately for deployment to SharePoint Online).
The list currently has about 265 fields of type "single line of text".
When I try to add more columns in SharePoint Designer I get:
"Could not save the field changes to the server. The column cannot be added because the tot... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/51510",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/9973/"
] | You're attempting to exceed the column limits for a SharePoint List. Review this section of the SharePoint boundaries article: <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx#Column>. | please refer to this to understand sharepoint limmits ;)
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx#Column>
you might need to think about splitting the list into two.
or if you really want to keep it as one you can throttle but its highly not recommended as it can hinder on speeds and loading times.
... |
51,510 | I have a list in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (ultimately for deployment to SharePoint Online).
The list currently has about 265 fields of type "single line of text".
When I try to add more columns in SharePoint Designer I get:
"Could not save the field changes to the server. The column cannot be added because the tot... | 2012/11/13 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/51510",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/9973/"
] | You might want to consider re-architecting this solution as I can tell you from experience that the wider a list gets, the worse it performs. Certain browsers, like Internet Explorer, choke when rendering large complex views of data, often taking minutes to display or simply locking the system entirely. Lastly, there i... | You're attempting to exceed the column limits for a SharePoint List. Review this section of the SharePoint boundaries article: <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx#Column>. |
58,990,097 | I have to automate my web application login process. Steps have to follow manually are
-- login page opens --> enter credentials and click on login button
-- Now One mail will be sent to my personal outlook mail
-- I have to open that mail and click on one hyperlink text to open new window of application.
Please help... | 2019/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/58990097",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11701836/"
] | You can connect to outlook backend using your email and password
If you working in java, probably below link will help you getting started.
<https://www.tutorialspoint.com/javamail_api/javamail_api_checking_emails.htm>
Once you are connected, read the new mail say with certain subject and extract that mail content i... | Depends on how much control you have over the *application under test*. If you can disable 2FA for test applications
>
> then I would recommend do that (mark the 2fa login scenario for manual tests)
>
>
>
If you can use mailtrap or any other utility like that you can then
>
> automate the step using mailtrap's... |
34,250 | I am no expert on this issue, I am maybe even using the wrong technical term. Anyway, my goal is this: to install a new OS from a server that has the installation documents etc so some settings in boot-loader apparently. I would like to install FreeBSD [here](http://www.freebsd.org/where.html) but I am lacking physical... | 2012/03/15 | [
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34250",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I've always installed [OpenBSD](http://www.openbsd.org/) via PXE and I think their docs on the matter are great.
<http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE>
It is the same process as with FreeBSD, but you might find OpenBSD's documentation clearer and easier to follow. OpenBSD's installer lets you install core package... | A colleague of mine wrote a blog about this [here](http://tonkersten.com/2011/06/96-freebsd-pxe-boot-part-2/). It's quite some work, because you need several other services in order to bootstrap the installation. He also uses puppet which makes it quite fancy. But he describes the configuration of the needed components... |
2,876 | The Space Exploration Stack Exchange site is scheduled to graduate from Beta to a full site today, December 16th.
The moderator team would like to congratulate our entire user base for the contributions that made this graduation possible. The hard work and diligence in asking and answering questions thoroughly and res... | 2021/12/16 | [
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18,551,705 | What are the file formats which Android WebView can open, if any?
I wasn't able to find this information.
For iOS, Apple documented this nicely: <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1630/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40008749> | 2013/08/31 | [
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] | Well, it can open none of those formats that Apple lists. `WebView` handles Web formats: HTML, CSS, JS, SVG, etc., not document formats. | As mentioned by CommonsWare, the WebView on Android only supports what you would expect a normal browser to support for the purpose of web browsing. From my own experience, this includes pretty much all common MIME types starting with "image/" (i.e. "image/png", "image/jpeg", etc) as well as MIME types starting with "v... |
1 | I think a lot of people have questions that are not directly related to a technical question per se, but rather a "how do I approach this issue" question. Almost a best practice type of question.
How receptive should we be to questions that, while valid, may not be inline with the Stack Exchange Q&A standards? Are we ... | 2013/02/19 | [
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] | As Rob points out this is one of the the reasons for this Stack Exchange to exist.
There are a number of Stack Exchange sites (moms4mom, cooking, programming) which embrace questions which are going to result in subjective type answers. As long as the OP's original question isn't 'too subjective' and the people answer... | It's a grey area but it's also one of the reasons for the Stack Exchange site existing. There will definitely be questions like is X approach better than Y approach or what is the recommended way to do Z.
A lot of topics - e.g. Navigation, have several ways to approach them and each has their pros and cons but as a n... |
1 | I think a lot of people have questions that are not directly related to a technical question per se, but rather a "how do I approach this issue" question. Almost a best practice type of question.
How receptive should we be to questions that, while valid, may not be inline with the Stack Exchange Q&A standards? Are we ... | 2013/02/19 | [
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] | It's a grey area but it's also one of the reasons for the Stack Exchange site existing. There will definitely be questions like is X approach better than Y approach or what is the recommended way to do Z.
A lot of topics - e.g. Navigation, have several ways to approach them and each has their pros and cons but as a n... | I think we can relax the requirement for "practical, answerable questions" if we have recognizable answers, keep high standards for questions, and focus on actual problems.
* The question should result in a set of recognizable answers, patterns, or approaches seen in SDL training, documentation, or examples online.
* ... |
1 | I think a lot of people have questions that are not directly related to a technical question per se, but rather a "how do I approach this issue" question. Almost a best practice type of question.
How receptive should we be to questions that, while valid, may not be inline with the Stack Exchange Q&A standards? Are we ... | 2013/02/19 | [
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] | As Rob points out this is one of the the reasons for this Stack Exchange to exist.
There are a number of Stack Exchange sites (moms4mom, cooking, programming) which embrace questions which are going to result in subjective type answers. As long as the OP's original question isn't 'too subjective' and the people answer... | I think we can relax the requirement for "practical, answerable questions" if we have recognizable answers, keep high standards for questions, and focus on actual problems.
* The question should result in a set of recognizable answers, patterns, or approaches seen in SDL training, documentation, or examples online.
* ... |
1 | I think a lot of people have questions that are not directly related to a technical question per se, but rather a "how do I approach this issue" question. Almost a best practice type of question.
How receptive should we be to questions that, while valid, may not be inline with the Stack Exchange Q&A standards? Are we ... | 2013/02/19 | [
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There are a number of Stack Exchange sites (moms4mom, cooking, programming) which embrace questions which are going to result in subjective type answers. As long as the OP's original question isn't 'too subjective' and the people answer... | If we stick to the statement: "You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.", I think everything will fit.
Stack Overflow expects answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise. Answering a best practice type of question, should then be perfectly fin... |
1 | I think a lot of people have questions that are not directly related to a technical question per se, but rather a "how do I approach this issue" question. Almost a best practice type of question.
How receptive should we be to questions that, while valid, may not be inline with the Stack Exchange Q&A standards? Are we ... | 2013/02/19 | [
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Stack Overflow expects answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise. Answering a best practice type of question, should then be perfectly fin... | I think we can relax the requirement for "practical, answerable questions" if we have recognizable answers, keep high standards for questions, and focus on actual problems.
* The question should result in a set of recognizable answers, patterns, or approaches seen in SDL training, documentation, or examples online.
* ... |
56,376 | It has been a while since I saw it so please forgive me for asking.
In Star Trek 2009 Kirk is thrown off the Enterprise, his escape capsule crashes on a Moon.
Is it coincidence that his crash-location is within walking distance to 'Spock's cave' (and that he walked in the direction of the cave)?
A time-traveling Sp... | 2014/05/15 | [
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] | **Yup!**
Old Spock was on [Delta Vega](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Delta_Vega_%28Vulcan_system%29) because he'd been essentially exiled (or, more appropriately, cast aside) by Nero on that planet1, specifically because (miraculously) it was close enough to Vulcan to see it being destroyed, but not close enough for... | Its a bit of a coincidence but not as big as it seems. Spock was there because his captors were attacking Vulcan and that moon was a good place to leave him to watch. Kirk was there because his ship had been deployed to stop that same attack, Kirk's rebellion occurred while in orbit and again it was a convenient place ... |
56,376 | It has been a while since I saw it so please forgive me for asking.
In Star Trek 2009 Kirk is thrown off the Enterprise, his escape capsule crashes on a Moon.
Is it coincidence that his crash-location is within walking distance to 'Spock's cave' (and that he walked in the direction of the cave)?
A time-traveling Sp... | 2014/05/15 | [
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] | Its a bit of a coincidence but not as big as it seems. Spock was there because his captors were attacking Vulcan and that moon was a good place to leave him to watch. Kirk was there because his ship had been deployed to stop that same attack, Kirk's rebellion occurred while in orbit and again it was a convenient place ... | I'd like to think that fate draws them to each other, like they were meant to be together. It brings something mystical to all the science fiction. |
56,376 | It has been a while since I saw it so please forgive me for asking.
In Star Trek 2009 Kirk is thrown off the Enterprise, his escape capsule crashes on a Moon.
Is it coincidence that his crash-location is within walking distance to 'Spock's cave' (and that he walked in the direction of the cave)?
A time-traveling Sp... | 2014/05/15 | [
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] | Its a bit of a coincidence but not as big as it seems. Spock was there because his captors were attacking Vulcan and that moon was a good place to leave him to watch. Kirk was there because his ship had been deployed to stop that same attack, Kirk's rebellion occurred while in orbit and again it was a convenient place ... | Speculation follows.
In the TOS episode ["The City on the Edge of Forever"](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever_(episode)), Spock suggests that there are eddies and currents in time that could make it more likely that he and Kirk could have been brought somewhere close to where McCoy h... |
56,376 | It has been a while since I saw it so please forgive me for asking.
In Star Trek 2009 Kirk is thrown off the Enterprise, his escape capsule crashes on a Moon.
Is it coincidence that his crash-location is within walking distance to 'Spock's cave' (and that he walked in the direction of the cave)?
A time-traveling Sp... | 2014/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56376",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | **Yup!**
Old Spock was on [Delta Vega](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Delta_Vega_%28Vulcan_system%29) because he'd been essentially exiled (or, more appropriately, cast aside) by Nero on that planet1, specifically because (miraculously) it was close enough to Vulcan to see it being destroyed, but not close enough for... | I'd like to think that fate draws them to each other, like they were meant to be together. It brings something mystical to all the science fiction. |
56,376 | It has been a while since I saw it so please forgive me for asking.
In Star Trek 2009 Kirk is thrown off the Enterprise, his escape capsule crashes on a Moon.
Is it coincidence that his crash-location is within walking distance to 'Spock's cave' (and that he walked in the direction of the cave)?
A time-traveling Sp... | 2014/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56376",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/22856/"
] | **Yup!**
Old Spock was on [Delta Vega](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Delta_Vega_%28Vulcan_system%29) because he'd been essentially exiled (or, more appropriately, cast aside) by Nero on that planet1, specifically because (miraculously) it was close enough to Vulcan to see it being destroyed, but not close enough for... | Speculation follows.
In the TOS episode ["The City on the Edge of Forever"](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever_(episode)), Spock suggests that there are eddies and currents in time that could make it more likely that he and Kirk could have been brought somewhere close to where McCoy h... |
56,376 | It has been a while since I saw it so please forgive me for asking.
In Star Trek 2009 Kirk is thrown off the Enterprise, his escape capsule crashes on a Moon.
Is it coincidence that his crash-location is within walking distance to 'Spock's cave' (and that he walked in the direction of the cave)?
A time-traveling Sp... | 2014/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56376",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/22856/"
] | Speculation follows.
In the TOS episode ["The City on the Edge of Forever"](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever_(episode)), Spock suggests that there are eddies and currents in time that could make it more likely that he and Kirk could have been brought somewhere close to where McCoy h... | I'd like to think that fate draws them to each other, like they were meant to be together. It brings something mystical to all the science fiction. |
28,815 | I picked this up because I've always enjoyed dialogue in RPGs. However, I can't really be sure that I'm making effective use of it. Most times, the conversation will plod along until I can activate pheromones, and the person I'm talking to gives in. But I'm a bit baffled as to the more subtle aspects of it.
Alpha, Be... | 2011/08/27 | [
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] | The heart/lung/skin temperature monitors are just frill, as far as I can tell - the same animation plays every time they show up.
However, the box at the upper right corner gives extremely useful information as to the target's personality type that will help you decide how to approach the topic, and the persuasion ba... | The short answer:
Watch the squares. Go with the most squares. Alpha is left, Beta is middle and Omega is the rightmost choice. Many characters flash one alpha square but show the other types longer and stronger, earlier in the conversation.
The long answer:
It seems to be derived from dog training. If I ever do a... |
58,721 | I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned homeworks and has a missed a few lab assignments, as well. I've been told by other faculty that he has a job which keeps ... | 2015/11/23 | [
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] | There are many answers already, but let me give one that applies in France (hoping I am not the only French around here).
First, Universities usually have special attendance waivers for students who work aside their studies. Students have to declare this early to make university able to accommodate them, but it is alw... | My approach in this kind of situation has been to follow my syllabus and grading process to the letter. Students who earn Fs, even those who need a passing grade to advance, get Fs. If they need a heads up to see this coming, then it's definitely worth pulling them aside and telling them. It really can change their app... |
58,721 | I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned homeworks and has a missed a few lab assignments, as well. I've been told by other faculty that he has a job which keeps ... | 2015/11/23 | [
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] | I strongly recommend you start with whatever the policy is in your syllabus. Most syllabi contain details about grading, points allocation, etc. By starting here, you can avoid any claims of "unique treatment", given that everyone received the same instructions.
That said, it sounds as though your student has a unique... | I know what you want to do. You want to give them a break. BUT, you established grading standards for the entire class. It would be unfair to treat this student differently from the rest. And you can be penalized for doing so. If you don't want to enforce your own standard, then you should create a new one for the next... |
58,721 | I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned homeworks and has a missed a few lab assignments, as well. I've been told by other faculty that he has a job which keeps ... | 2015/11/23 | [
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] | I had a professor that instituted a "flex" grading system (for all students) to cover this contingency.
There were three aspects of the course: 1) homework 2) hourly exams, and 3) the final, weighted 1/3, 1/3, 1/3.
But if some student did markedly better or worse on one aspect of the course, the professor would re-w... | My approach in this kind of situation has been to follow my syllabus and grading process to the letter. Students who earn Fs, even those who need a passing grade to advance, get Fs. If they need a heads up to see this coming, then it's definitely worth pulling them aside and telling them. It really can change their app... |
58,721 | I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned homeworks and has a missed a few lab assignments, as well. I've been told by other faculty that he has a job which keeps ... | 2015/11/23 | [
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] | There are many answers already, but let me give one that applies in France (hoping I am not the only French around here).
First, Universities usually have special attendance waivers for students who work aside their studies. Students have to declare this early to make university able to accommodate them, but it is alw... | What do you wish a grade in your class to mean? If you ignore the missing homework, a good grade in your class will indicate that a student has a strong grasp of the material and a high level of skill in solving the sorts of problems which you put on your tests within time limits. If you penalize the missing homework e... |
58,721 | I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned homeworks and has a missed a few lab assignments, as well. I've been told by other faculty that he has a job which keeps ... | 2015/11/23 | [
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] | Stick to your syllabus.
That doesn't mean you're out of options though. Talk to the student and determine a minimum number of assignments that the student must complete in order to reach that C. Concentrate on balancing assignments that the student can complete, with assignments that you feel are especially important.... | As others have said: default to the syllabus grading scheme to the letter. Diverging from this sends you down a sinkhole of making more modifications on the fly, trying to be fair to all students, running different case what-ifs, and generally doing a lot more work.
Given enough heads-up (again, as others said), I hav... |
58,721 | I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned homeworks and has a missed a few lab assignments, as well. I've been told by other faculty that he has a job which keeps ... | 2015/11/23 | [
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] | **Talk to the Student now**
---------------------------
If possible you should communicate to the student exactly the precarious position they are in. Presumably this student is capable of completing the assignments and labs just like other students in the course. From the sounds of it, even doing an average to below-... | Convert assignment to exam. Just explain the student that not everything can be verified in exam, that some kinds of performance, understanding can only be seen from assignment results, so assignment marks influence the exam marks.
As the student is doing exams well, he will do the assignments well also now, because t... |
58,721 | I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned homeworks and has a missed a few lab assignments, as well. I've been told by other faculty that he has a job which keeps ... | 2015/11/23 | [
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] | Kudos to you for wanting to find a way for a talented and hard-working but over-extended student to succeed.
What is the right measure of whether the student is mastering the material in a way that supports the follow-on classes? Ideally, you will design your syllabus so that the student's grade will appropriately ref... | Your syllabus has, or should have, a formula used to calculate the students' grades. This student is making a choice, based upon what he or she understands that formula to be, not to do the homework. Every student should be able to look at the grade formula, figure out what grade they can accept, weigh that against the... |
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