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46,952,944 | As I have opened account, I got this kind of tax info related message on Google Play Console.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CPmrS.png)
As per Indian tax standard its asking for GSTIN info as per my business.
But I don't have any registered business ex... | 2017/10/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/46952944",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1308171/"
] | Now I got proper reply from Google Support Team and posting here so if other users have noticed same point then they can get relief.
Please read content of attached image so that you will get whole idea.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NZfxF.png) | I have contacted google payment help desk. If you are an individual developer you can ignore this error let the banner flash. Google currently does not have category as individual tax payer and businesses.
This error will not affect your application uploads. This will also will not affect your payment receipts. |
14,560 | I have never heard this sound before, it made the sound whether i used my brakes or not, it only stopped when i turned right. anyone have any idea what this could be? | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/14560",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/users/7779/"
] | I had a situation like this many years ago: my 87 Mustang would make squeaking brake disk noises from one of the front wheels when the wheels were very close to straight ahead. When I turned the steering wheel, the noise would sometimes stop. This was eventually diagnosed as a brake disk that was very slightly warped. ... | Worn pads. Pads worn down to the metal would cause your symptoms. Have your vehicle checked over for this noise, but expect to have the pads and rotors changed. |
4,984,868 | I did an SDK update last night and it moved adb.exe. In its place it left a file called "adb\_has\_moved.txt" saying
>
> The adb tool has moved to platform-tools/
>
>
> If you don't see this directory in your SDK, launch the SDK and AVD
> Manager (execute the android tool) and install "Android SDK Platform-tools"... | 2011/02/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4984868",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/424690/"
] | I had the same problem, and updating Eclipse did the trick. **Eclipse -> Help -> Check for Updates**. Also see <http://sagistech.blogspot.com/2010/12/can-not-find-adbexe-after-android-sdk.html>. | Updating the ADT plugin from within Eclipse might help, as detailed here: <http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html>
Alternatively, I guess you could always make the directory 'tools' in C:\SDK\android-sdk-windows and copy adb.exe in there - a bit of a hack but it should work :) |
211,773 | I'm a heavy user of OS X's / iOS's ‘text substitutions’ or text replacements. I probably have hundreds of these.
At some point in the recent-ish past (last couple of years?), Apple silently started syncing them between devices logged into the same iCloud app; that was great, for a while.
Unfortunately, at some point,... | 2015/10/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/211773",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15184/"
] | So, this has happened to me twice more (up to four times now, Go Go Apple™! (｡-\_-｡), and the same fix that solved this for me when originally asked has worked both times. I'm going to consider it an actual solution, at this point (although do please let me know if it works for you, as well!)
If you have *another devi... | I noticed this as well, and after a year of being annoyed by it I managed to fix by "brute force" ;-) What worked for me is opening the relevant screens in latest iOS and OS X side by side, and typing the same values for each. I only use 5 or 6 shortcuts so it was easy. In the past I've updated the iOS *OR* the Mac dev... |
211,773 | I'm a heavy user of OS X's / iOS's ‘text substitutions’ or text replacements. I probably have hundreds of these.
At some point in the recent-ish past (last couple of years?), Apple silently started syncing them between devices logged into the same iCloud app; that was great, for a while.
Unfortunately, at some point,... | 2015/10/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/211773",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15184/"
] | >
> After removing the folder ***com.apple.InputMethodKit.TextReplacementService*** from the depths of the *~/Library* heirarchy and restarting the computers my current list of Text Replacement shortcuts is available on two Macs that previously refused to synchronize. Both of these Macs legitimately run Sierra, but di... | I noticed this as well, and after a year of being annoyed by it I managed to fix by "brute force" ;-) What worked for me is opening the relevant screens in latest iOS and OS X side by side, and typing the same values for each. I only use 5 or 6 shortcuts so it was easy. In the past I've updated the iOS *OR* the Mac dev... |
211,773 | I'm a heavy user of OS X's / iOS's ‘text substitutions’ or text replacements. I probably have hundreds of these.
At some point in the recent-ish past (last couple of years?), Apple silently started syncing them between devices logged into the same iCloud app; that was great, for a while.
Unfortunately, at some point,... | 2015/10/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/211773",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15184/"
] | So, this has happened to me twice more (up to four times now, Go Go Apple™! (｡-\_-｡), and the same fix that solved this for me when originally asked has worked both times. I'm going to consider it an actual solution, at this point (although do please let me know if it works for you, as well!)
If you have *another devi... | For me, this was caused by the operation of the Flycut application after establishing confirmation in its "Save forgotten items to Desktop:" menu. After deleting the confirmation, scan the text messages on the desktop. |
211,773 | I'm a heavy user of OS X's / iOS's ‘text substitutions’ or text replacements. I probably have hundreds of these.
At some point in the recent-ish past (last couple of years?), Apple silently started syncing them between devices logged into the same iCloud app; that was great, for a while.
Unfortunately, at some point,... | 2015/10/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/211773",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/15184/"
] | >
> After removing the folder ***com.apple.InputMethodKit.TextReplacementService*** from the depths of the *~/Library* heirarchy and restarting the computers my current list of Text Replacement shortcuts is available on two Macs that previously refused to synchronize. Both of these Macs legitimately run Sierra, but di... | For me, this was caused by the operation of the Flycut application after establishing confirmation in its "Save forgotten items to Desktop:" menu. After deleting the confirmation, scan the text messages on the desktop. |
6,138 | I download multiple podcasts from one source, eg, five episodes of Naked Scientists. I want to listen to one only, but when the first finishes it automatically goes to the second, and third etc.
I want to listen to just one episode at a time and have the iPod Touch turn off when it is finished (this is a sleep-aid for... | 2011/01/09 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6138",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | With iOS 4, you can make a playlist directly on your device. Go to the Music app, then Playlists, then "Add Playlist...". Type in the name for the playlist, hit Save, and you're presented with a screen to add items to the playlist. Select "Podcasts" (by default, it's found under "More") and select the item you want to ... | You should be able to do this with a smart playlist. Set it up with the following rule:
- Name is {the podcast's name}
- Plays is 0
Limit it to 1 item, selected by least recently added.
Check the "live updating" box.
This should give you a playlist with one track - the oldest unheard episode of the podcast.
I... |
6,138 | I download multiple podcasts from one source, eg, five episodes of Naked Scientists. I want to listen to one only, but when the first finishes it automatically goes to the second, and third etc.
I want to listen to just one episode at a time and have the iPod Touch turn off when it is finished (this is a sleep-aid for... | 2011/01/09 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6138",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Use the On-The-Go playlist and add the one podcast episode to it. Works from at least iOS 3 or possibly before.
You don't event need to clear the existing playlist, because adding a track will add to the end, so just start from that track and it will stop at the end (unless you have repeat on). | You should be able to do this with a smart playlist. Set it up with the following rule:
- Name is {the podcast's name}
- Plays is 0
Limit it to 1 item, selected by least recently added.
Check the "live updating" box.
This should give you a playlist with one track - the oldest unheard episode of the podcast.
I... |
13,468,470 | I'm developing a note-taking utility and want to add a feature for voice-recording and playback in full duplex asynchronous mode.
What cross-platform c/c++ libraries/API's can I evaluate for my purpose? Google isn't much help in this case and the existing QA's on SO doesn't quite cover this. | 2012/11/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13468470",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/15161/"
] | I found a solution of this problem.
I used the following tool <http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/>
I pasted my arabic in it and copy the result then I pasted the result in my html file. The result is like this.
Although it is not 10... | U can use adobe indesign for your arabic text and after paste all paragraph text to indesign , you should copy, then paste to photoshop from adobe indesign, every texts will be Okay. |
34,948 | I was recently hired in a rather famous company as a senior developer and have been working there for a bit more than 3 weeks now. Even if 3 weeks isn't a lot, I can already say this company is by far the best place I've ever worked at and not a single day has passed that wasn't better than the one before.
One of my c... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34948",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13362/"
] | >
> Is there a way for me to actually help/endorse him and to prevent any
> backfire in case it doesn't go well for him ?
>
>
>
It depends what you mean by "backfire".
If you honestly believe your friend would make a good employee at your company you should go ahead and heartily recommend him. A strong recommend... | Have your friend apply and state that he is applying because you went through the interview process, started working at the company and have nothing but nice things to say about the company.
Say nice things - if you believe that they accurate - about your friends if your management asks you about him. Don't say anythi... |
34,948 | I was recently hired in a rather famous company as a senior developer and have been working there for a bit more than 3 weeks now. Even if 3 weeks isn't a lot, I can already say this company is by far the best place I've ever worked at and not a single day has passed that wasn't better than the one before.
One of my c... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34948",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13362/"
] | >
> Is there a way for me to actually help/endorse him and to prevent any
> backfire in case it doesn't go well for him ?
>
>
>
It depends what you mean by "backfire".
If you honestly believe your friend would make a good employee at your company you should go ahead and heartily recommend him. A strong recommend... | Respect in the workplace is earned capital, spend it wisely.
Frankly, if you have only been there 3 weeks, your recommendation probably won't mean much anyway since you haven't had the chance to really prove yourself. Also, if you recommend this friend, you are now linking your name to them for the journey, including... |
34,948 | I was recently hired in a rather famous company as a senior developer and have been working there for a bit more than 3 weeks now. Even if 3 weeks isn't a lot, I can already say this company is by far the best place I've ever worked at and not a single day has passed that wasn't better than the one before.
One of my c... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34948",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13362/"
] | >
> Is there a way for me to actually help/endorse him and to prevent any
> backfire in case it doesn't go well for him ?
>
>
>
It depends what you mean by "backfire".
If you honestly believe your friend would make a good employee at your company you should go ahead and heartily recommend him. A strong recommend... | You should not. It is too risky, and in case he will turn out to be a bad acquisition, you will not have enough credit in your current position to back you up. If this friend will get too offended, tell him, your company just not hiring new people at the moment. |
34,948 | I was recently hired in a rather famous company as a senior developer and have been working there for a bit more than 3 weeks now. Even if 3 weeks isn't a lot, I can already say this company is by far the best place I've ever worked at and not a single day has passed that wasn't better than the one before.
One of my c... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34948",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13362/"
] | >
> Is there a way for me to actually help/endorse him and to prevent any
> backfire in case it doesn't go well for him ?
>
>
>
It depends what you mean by "backfire".
If you honestly believe your friend would make a good employee at your company you should go ahead and heartily recommend him. A strong recommend... | You shouldn't hesitate to recommend your friend. Whenever I refer someone for a position with my company, I do so in one of three ways. If I worked with this person in the past, I will say something to the effect of:
"I worked with xxxxx in the past, and I professionally recommend him for the position."
You can then ... |
34,948 | I was recently hired in a rather famous company as a senior developer and have been working there for a bit more than 3 weeks now. Even if 3 weeks isn't a lot, I can already say this company is by far the best place I've ever worked at and not a single day has passed that wasn't better than the one before.
One of my c... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34948",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13362/"
] | Have your friend apply and state that he is applying because you went through the interview process, started working at the company and have nothing but nice things to say about the company.
Say nice things - if you believe that they accurate - about your friends if your management asks you about him. Don't say anythi... | Respect in the workplace is earned capital, spend it wisely.
Frankly, if you have only been there 3 weeks, your recommendation probably won't mean much anyway since you haven't had the chance to really prove yourself. Also, if you recommend this friend, you are now linking your name to them for the journey, including... |
34,948 | I was recently hired in a rather famous company as a senior developer and have been working there for a bit more than 3 weeks now. Even if 3 weeks isn't a lot, I can already say this company is by far the best place I've ever worked at and not a single day has passed that wasn't better than the one before.
One of my c... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34948",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13362/"
] | Have your friend apply and state that he is applying because you went through the interview process, started working at the company and have nothing but nice things to say about the company.
Say nice things - if you believe that they accurate - about your friends if your management asks you about him. Don't say anythi... | You should not. It is too risky, and in case he will turn out to be a bad acquisition, you will not have enough credit in your current position to back you up. If this friend will get too offended, tell him, your company just not hiring new people at the moment. |
34,948 | I was recently hired in a rather famous company as a senior developer and have been working there for a bit more than 3 weeks now. Even if 3 weeks isn't a lot, I can already say this company is by far the best place I've ever worked at and not a single day has passed that wasn't better than the one before.
One of my c... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/34948",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/13362/"
] | Have your friend apply and state that he is applying because you went through the interview process, started working at the company and have nothing but nice things to say about the company.
Say nice things - if you believe that they accurate - about your friends if your management asks you about him. Don't say anythi... | You shouldn't hesitate to recommend your friend. Whenever I refer someone for a position with my company, I do so in one of three ways. If I worked with this person in the past, I will say something to the effect of:
"I worked with xxxxx in the past, and I professionally recommend him for the position."
You can then ... |
216,406 | I get that /dev/random is a good source of entropy, and is what is usually used-- It's just as I'm reading up on GC, at least in Java, it seems accepted that the garbage collection daemon executes non-deterministically. If this it true, why don't we use the timing of the garbage collection as a source of entropy instea... | 2013/11/03 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/216406",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/48999/"
] | "Unspecified" and "random" are two entirely different concepts.
The exact workings of a garbage collector are not specified and are up to the garbage collector (usually implemented by a VM of sorts, but not necessarily).
Therefore, you have no specified (i.e. deterministic) time at which garbage will be collected.
*... | Firstly, we have to be careful not to fall into the trap of reasoning by manipulation of mere words. For instance, we could ask, since a NFA is a "non-deterministic finite automaton", why don't we use it to obtain random numbers? In that case, it would be because that's not what "non-deterministic" means in an NFA; in ... |
74,981 | I have recently gotten interested in cryptography, so I looked some things up.
I thought, why even use AES or DES or any other complex way for encrypting data when there are far simpler ways, like just generating a random (pseudorandom) bitstream, and XOR'ing it with the data or secret message? The point is, if you ha... | 2019/10/12 | [
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/74981",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/users/73458/"
] | **You could use a one-time pad**, which does grant confidentiality when properly employed, but then you would have **many non-trivial problems**:
1. Your message or messages would have to **be quite short** because generating letters in a truly random manner usually takes a bit of time and effort (rolling dice).
2. On... | What you're describing would be a [One-Time-Pad](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Time-Pad). The OTP would actually be perfectly secure, but the first problem is in the issue that you have to generate a bit stream using a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator ([CSPRNG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr... |
74,981 | I have recently gotten interested in cryptography, so I looked some things up.
I thought, why even use AES or DES or any other complex way for encrypting data when there are far simpler ways, like just generating a random (pseudorandom) bitstream, and XOR'ing it with the data or secret message? The point is, if you ha... | 2019/10/12 | [
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/74981",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/users/73458/"
] | The other answers are great, but I wanted to call out an interesting feature of modern cryptography. Your question asked:
>
> I thought, why even use AES or DES or any other complex way for encrypting data when there are far simpler ways, like just generating a random (pseudorandom) bitstream, and XOR'ing it with the... | What you're describing would be a [One-Time-Pad](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Time-Pad). The OTP would actually be perfectly secure, but the first problem is in the issue that you have to generate a bit stream using a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator ([CSPRNG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr... |
74,981 | I have recently gotten interested in cryptography, so I looked some things up.
I thought, why even use AES or DES or any other complex way for encrypting data when there are far simpler ways, like just generating a random (pseudorandom) bitstream, and XOR'ing it with the data or secret message? The point is, if you ha... | 2019/10/12 | [
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/74981",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/users/73458/"
] | The other answers are great, but I wanted to call out an interesting feature of modern cryptography. Your question asked:
>
> I thought, why even use AES or DES or any other complex way for encrypting data when there are far simpler ways, like just generating a random (pseudorandom) bitstream, and XOR'ing it with the... | **You could use a one-time pad**, which does grant confidentiality when properly employed, but then you would have **many non-trivial problems**:
1. Your message or messages would have to **be quite short** because generating letters in a truly random manner usually takes a bit of time and effort (rolling dice).
2. On... |
41,642 | Is my gear and some application capable enough to photograph the Aurora Borealis?
My gear:
* iPhone4S
* [olloclip 3-in-1 lens](http://www.olloclip.com/product/) (macro, wide-angle and fisheye lens)
* [LightTrac](https://itunes.apple.com/th/app/lighttrac/id392892355?mt=8) Apps
* Instagram Apps
I have heard many sugge... | 2013/08/10 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/41642",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/20807/"
] | You need to be at the perfect latitude(65-72deg), on a crisp, cold, clear, and cloudless night, with zero light pollution, and a huge amount of luck. Even then you are pushing it with equipment like that.
See the Auroa-Borealis tag here for much more info - <https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aurora-bor... | I wrote the app, Northern Lights Photo Taker (<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/northern-lights-photo-taker/id979540312?mt=8>), in lieu of threads like these :-)
The app will try its best to capture the northern lights for you based on how dim they are.
I hope this helps!
[edit - whoops! Sorry,I've failed to address ... |
41,642 | Is my gear and some application capable enough to photograph the Aurora Borealis?
My gear:
* iPhone4S
* [olloclip 3-in-1 lens](http://www.olloclip.com/product/) (macro, wide-angle and fisheye lens)
* [LightTrac](https://itunes.apple.com/th/app/lighttrac/id392892355?mt=8) Apps
* Instagram Apps
I have heard many sugge... | 2013/08/10 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/41642",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/20807/"
] | **1) Yes,** I believe you can capture at least something with your smartphone.
There seems to be **slow shutter speed apps** for iPhone, I just googled a couple and those offer max 15 second shutter speed plus Bulb mode. You will need one of this kind of apps to have long exposure on Aurora Borealis.
To keep your cam... | I wrote the app, Northern Lights Photo Taker (<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/northern-lights-photo-taker/id979540312?mt=8>), in lieu of threads like these :-)
The app will try its best to capture the northern lights for you based on how dim they are.
I hope this helps!
[edit - whoops! Sorry,I've failed to address ... |
8,431,732 | I'm wondering if someone has experience with parallel executions of Maven builds. I know there is a option in Jenkins to use local repository for Maven builds and I also found this issue from 2007 <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2802> .
Is there any way to hook into Maven downloads to do basic filesystem locking?... | 2011/12/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8431732",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/214720/"
] | On my CI server, I configure each project to have it's own local repository. Additionally I schedule a periodic job to purge these files. Why?
My reasoning is that I want to isolate each project from each other and encourage a regular "clean" build from my Nexus-based Maven repository.
Doesn't address your valid con... | In practice this mostly matters if you are building two projects that consume artifacts the other produces (a downstream project), or produce the same artifacts (building a different configuration). In those cases, you might consider blocking the downstream build until the first is finished or pipelining the configurat... |
41,495 | 3.04 An a priori true thought would be one whose possibility guarenteed its truth.
Note: I am asking about the earlier Wittgenstein and not his post-Tractatus philosophy.
It is clear to me why this is not an a priori true *fact*, as the act of thinking would be an aspect of the world being appealed to. But I don't un... | 2017/03/15 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/41495",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/26010/"
] | The thing is, that for the early Wittgenstein the Cogito Ergo Sum was just [not true](http://www.kfs.org/jonathan/witt/t563en.html). So the Cogito could not be true *a priori* for him.
Like David Hume, Wittgenstein believed that the Cartesian Ego, the thinking subject, was nowhere to be found.
>
> 5.631 **There is n... | It seems to me that there is no place for *a priori* knowledge in the [Tractatus](https://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/tlp.pdf) (quoting from Pears/McGuinness translation).
Some basic concepts are : form, possibility, picture.
>
> **3** A logical picture of facts is a thought.
>
>
>
Here I read "thought" in a Fr... |
2,067 | This site is beginning to be plagued with questions that have useless titles such as:
* Name this movie.
* Help! I need this movie title.
* I don't remember the title of this movie.
* who is this actor
* I forgot the name of this movie.
* ID this movie.
Etc.
These are terrible titles as they offer no way to disting... | 2015/12/29 | [
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2067",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/users/756/"
] | Why not just pick some salient points from the question and recast the title? The powers-that-be gave you an edit button precisely so you could make edits. In the time it takes to write a comment asking the OP to write a better title, you could have written a better title for them.
["**Help! What is that movie from th... | I suggested updating the help center advice in my question, [Instructions for Identify-This-X questions should include title advice](https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1491/instructions-for-identify-this-x-questions-should-include-title-advice) a year ago. The help center was updated, but I don't think it ... |
2,067 | This site is beginning to be plagued with questions that have useless titles such as:
* Name this movie.
* Help! I need this movie title.
* I don't remember the title of this movie.
* who is this actor
* I forgot the name of this movie.
* ID this movie.
Etc.
These are terrible titles as they offer no way to disting... | 2015/12/29 | [
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2067",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/users/756/"
] | Why not just pick some salient points from the question and recast the title? The powers-that-be gave you an edit button precisely so you could make edits. In the time it takes to write a comment asking the OP to write a better title, you could have written a better title for them.
["**Help! What is that movie from th... | I suggest to update the page where the person posts his/her question to automatically detect if the title is too generic and poor quality, and provide examples or suggestions so that the question could never be asked with a poor title.[](https://i.stac... |
2,067 | This site is beginning to be plagued with questions that have useless titles such as:
* Name this movie.
* Help! I need this movie title.
* I don't remember the title of this movie.
* who is this actor
* I forgot the name of this movie.
* ID this movie.
Etc.
These are terrible titles as they offer no way to disting... | 2015/12/29 | [
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2067",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/users/756/"
] | Why not just pick some salient points from the question and recast the title? The powers-that-be gave you an edit button precisely so you could make edits. In the time it takes to write a comment asking the OP to write a better title, you could have written a better title for them.
["**Help! What is that movie from th... | [Skeptics.SE](http://skeptics.stackexchange.com) uses a blacklist for question titles. [They've banned the words *really* and *actually*](https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2810/16121) from their titles. The question cannot be submitted as long as the blacklisted words appear in the title.
Perhaps we can do the... |
2,067 | This site is beginning to be plagued with questions that have useless titles such as:
* Name this movie.
* Help! I need this movie title.
* I don't remember the title of this movie.
* who is this actor
* I forgot the name of this movie.
* ID this movie.
Etc.
These are terrible titles as they offer no way to disting... | 2015/12/29 | [
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2067",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/users/756/"
] | I suggested updating the help center advice in my question, [Instructions for Identify-This-X questions should include title advice](https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1491/instructions-for-identify-this-x-questions-should-include-title-advice) a year ago. The help center was updated, but I don't think it ... | I suggest to update the page where the person posts his/her question to automatically detect if the title is too generic and poor quality, and provide examples or suggestions so that the question could never be asked with a poor title.[](https://i.stac... |
2,067 | This site is beginning to be plagued with questions that have useless titles such as:
* Name this movie.
* Help! I need this movie title.
* I don't remember the title of this movie.
* who is this actor
* I forgot the name of this movie.
* ID this movie.
Etc.
These are terrible titles as they offer no way to disting... | 2015/12/29 | [
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2067",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/users/756/"
] | I suggested updating the help center advice in my question, [Instructions for Identify-This-X questions should include title advice](https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1491/instructions-for-identify-this-x-questions-should-include-title-advice) a year ago. The help center was updated, but I don't think it ... | [Skeptics.SE](http://skeptics.stackexchange.com) uses a blacklist for question titles. [They've banned the words *really* and *actually*](https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2810/16121) from their titles. The question cannot be submitted as long as the blacklisted words appear in the title.
Perhaps we can do the... |
53,342 | Are there any statistics that indicate how many users an Android app has based on the number of reviews for it? Are there other ways to tell how many users are using an app? | 2013/09/16 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/53342",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/41536/"
] | On [AppBrain](http://www.appbrain.com/), you can find the number of installs right at the beginning of the page for the app:
On [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps), you will have to scroll a little further down, as with the relaunch the summar... | I use many services for tracking the data related to my apps, for example: How many current active users and much more.
For checking the performance of a **specific app**:
If you want to track from your android phone you can use apps like this:
[App Stats for Android (beta)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/detail... |
1,077,713 | In the process of setting up DNS for my own website I got curious about looking up a large company's DNS record. I chose facebook.com and used dnschecker.org to view their dns record.
Ignoring AAAA records because the majority of people still use IPv4, I only get back 2 addresses:
31.13.71.36 and
157.240.26.35
Maybe I... | 2021/09/16 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1077713",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/835840/"
] | When you query a DNS server, especially for something like an `A` record, you don't get a complete picture of all of the set up of a site. You only get enough to satisfy your request and connect to the intended target.
It use to be possible to do additional queries and get full listings, but for security reasons, this... | Because those IPs don't belong to a server, they point to Facebooks CDN 'Content Delivery Network'
Maybe someone else might have some knowledge on their setup but my DNS servers are reporting different IPs to you, so I dare say there are thousands that are dynamically changing all the time. |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | I have used Multipe IE for my testing but lately I am trying out [SuperPreview](http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/microsoft-announces-superpreview-for-ie-browser-testing/).
SuperPreview is a new free standalone application from Microsoft (still in beta) which enables you to see how your websites will look across... | Yeah, this is just one of the weird little behavioural/scripting weirdnesses that affects multiple-IE setups.
Sadly the virtual machine method is the only reliable way to test web browser interaction (as opposed to just rendering) across different versions of IE. (Thanks for integrating that one into the OS Microsoft.... |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | Discovered in the comments on the tredosoft site that installing [IE8 breaks textbox & textareas](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE?page=6) in the Multiple IE browser. I uninstalled IE8 & it's fixed the problem. | I have used Multipe IE for my testing but lately I am trying out [SuperPreview](http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/microsoft-announces-superpreview-for-ie-browser-testing/).
SuperPreview is a new free standalone application from Microsoft (still in beta) which enables you to see how your websites will look across... |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | I have used Multipe IE for my testing but lately I am trying out [SuperPreview](http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/microsoft-announces-superpreview-for-ie-browser-testing/).
SuperPreview is a new free standalone application from Microsoft (still in beta) which enables you to see how your websites will look across... | Use the app compat VHD's that Microsoft makes available for free. Virtual PC is free too.
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en>
You can't take a random subset of system dlls and host them side-by-side and expect things to work. It's like expecti... |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | I have used Multipe IE for my testing but lately I am trying out [SuperPreview](http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/microsoft-announces-superpreview-for-ie-browser-testing/).
SuperPreview is a new free standalone application from Microsoft (still in beta) which enables you to see how your websites will look across... | I just installed [IE Collection](http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm) and so far it works much better than Multiple IE for me. I still had to uninstall IE8 to get form inputs to work, but it comes with a standalone version so I can still use 8 for testing.
It has a crapload of versions too (much more than M... |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | Discovered in the comments on the tredosoft site that installing [IE8 breaks textbox & textareas](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE?page=6) in the Multiple IE browser. I uninstalled IE8 & it's fixed the problem. | Yeah, this is just one of the weird little behavioural/scripting weirdnesses that affects multiple-IE setups.
Sadly the virtual machine method is the only reliable way to test web browser interaction (as opposed to just rendering) across different versions of IE. (Thanks for integrating that one into the OS Microsoft.... |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | Use the app compat VHD's that Microsoft makes available for free. Virtual PC is free too.
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en>
You can't take a random subset of system dlls and host them side-by-side and expect things to work. It's like expecti... | Yeah, this is just one of the weird little behavioural/scripting weirdnesses that affects multiple-IE setups.
Sadly the virtual machine method is the only reliable way to test web browser interaction (as opposed to just rendering) across different versions of IE. (Thanks for integrating that one into the OS Microsoft.... |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | Discovered in the comments on the tredosoft site that installing [IE8 breaks textbox & textareas](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE?page=6) in the Multiple IE browser. I uninstalled IE8 & it's fixed the problem. | Use the app compat VHD's that Microsoft makes available for free. Virtual PC is free too.
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en>
You can't take a random subset of system dlls and host them side-by-side and expect things to work. It's like expecti... |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | Discovered in the comments on the tredosoft site that installing [IE8 breaks textbox & textareas](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE?page=6) in the Multiple IE browser. I uninstalled IE8 & it's fixed the problem. | I just installed [IE Collection](http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm) and so far it works much better than Multiple IE for me. I still had to uninstall IE8 to get form inputs to work, but it comes with a standalone version so I can still use 8 for testing.
It has a crapload of versions too (much more than M... |
745,666 | Not sure if this counts as programming related, it's a tool that I use.
I've got [Multiple IE](http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) installed so I can test the sites I make on IE6 for those people who require it, but recently IE6 is not letting me enter into any textboxes, they're acting as if they're all disabled.
Has... | 2009/04/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/745666",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2975/"
] | Use the app compat VHD's that Microsoft makes available for free. Virtual PC is free too.
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en>
You can't take a random subset of system dlls and host them side-by-side and expect things to work. It's like expecti... | I just installed [IE Collection](http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm) and so far it works much better than Multiple IE for me. I still had to uninstall IE8 to get form inputs to work, but it comes with a standalone version so I can still use 8 for testing.
It has a crapload of versions too (much more than M... |
35,007,895 | I have a table called BigData on SQL Server. BigData is modified by an app continuously and can't be taken offline even for a second. Another requirement is that the table can't be locked exclusively by some other process other than the app accessing it. The question is; how can I change one of the columns of BigData f... | 2016/01/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/35007895",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5287943/"
] | I also recently had a question very similar to this during a PayPal interview. This situation is common with a bank or e-commerce company which has a live database which is constantly in use.
The answer I gave was to:
1. Create a new table based on the `BigData` table which looks identical except that the column has ... | A solution to avoid locking issues during a possibly long running processes of copying old data is to do it batches with delays in between each batch to allow other normal usage processes to lock the table in the delay between each batch. As @TimBiegeleisen also mentioned this could be simple if there's an identity col... |
44,279 | For someone who wants to stay anonymous and probably terrorize the skies, what protective measures do we have?
Without even thinking too deep, I can imaging the following scenarios for someone who's in a mood to mess around.
1. Flying in a busy airspace, calling to "Cancel IFR" for someone else.
2. Abusing recklessly... | 2017/10/02 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44279",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/11136/"
] | This sounds like a “people problem”. That kind of problems is best solved with *enforcement*.
Source of radio broadcast can be localized and it is not particularly difficult. There are techniques for transmitting something secretly, but they need specific modulation. Rogue broadcast or jamming on simple AM voice chann... | The reality is that there are stuck mics daily on ATC frequencies. Pilots and controllers utilize guidance from the AIM and sometimes creative improvisation. There have been numerous cases of lone actors wreaking havoc with ATC in various countries and they are usually located with direction-finding and dealt with by p... |
44,279 | For someone who wants to stay anonymous and probably terrorize the skies, what protective measures do we have?
Without even thinking too deep, I can imaging the following scenarios for someone who's in a mood to mess around.
1. Flying in a busy airspace, calling to "Cancel IFR" for someone else.
2. Abusing recklessly... | 2017/10/02 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44279",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/11136/"
] | This sounds like a “people problem”. That kind of problems is best solved with *enforcement*.
Source of radio broadcast can be localized and it is not particularly difficult. There are techniques for transmitting something secretly, but they need specific modulation. Rogue broadcast or jamming on simple AM voice chann... | I think it is a vulnerability, yes. But it has worked so far, much like the "if hijacked, cooperate with hijackers and let things sort themselves out" doctrine that saved many lives until someone figured out how to game the rule (and cost as many lives as were ever saved).
Indeed, right now, we depend on these being ... |
44,279 | For someone who wants to stay anonymous and probably terrorize the skies, what protective measures do we have?
Without even thinking too deep, I can imaging the following scenarios for someone who's in a mood to mess around.
1. Flying in a busy airspace, calling to "Cancel IFR" for someone else.
2. Abusing recklessly... | 2017/10/02 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44279",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/11136/"
] | This sounds like a “people problem”. That kind of problems is best solved with *enforcement*.
Source of radio broadcast can be localized and it is not particularly difficult. There are techniques for transmitting something secretly, but they need specific modulation. Rogue broadcast or jamming on simple AM voice chann... | Just the rules and physics.
1. If I was flying and I heard over the radio something like "Flight 122, Jacksonville Center, Request cancel IFR" I could just respond with "Flight 122, Jacksonville Center, That was not a legitimate request, we wish to maintain IFR" and though my phraseology is wrong, I could reasonably ... |
44,279 | For someone who wants to stay anonymous and probably terrorize the skies, what protective measures do we have?
Without even thinking too deep, I can imaging the following scenarios for someone who's in a mood to mess around.
1. Flying in a busy airspace, calling to "Cancel IFR" for someone else.
2. Abusing recklessly... | 2017/10/02 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44279",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/11136/"
] | The reality is that there are stuck mics daily on ATC frequencies. Pilots and controllers utilize guidance from the AIM and sometimes creative improvisation. There have been numerous cases of lone actors wreaking havoc with ATC in various countries and they are usually located with direction-finding and dealt with by p... | Just the rules and physics.
1. If I was flying and I heard over the radio something like "Flight 122, Jacksonville Center, Request cancel IFR" I could just respond with "Flight 122, Jacksonville Center, That was not a legitimate request, we wish to maintain IFR" and though my phraseology is wrong, I could reasonably ... |
44,279 | For someone who wants to stay anonymous and probably terrorize the skies, what protective measures do we have?
Without even thinking too deep, I can imaging the following scenarios for someone who's in a mood to mess around.
1. Flying in a busy airspace, calling to "Cancel IFR" for someone else.
2. Abusing recklessly... | 2017/10/02 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44279",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/11136/"
] | I think it is a vulnerability, yes. But it has worked so far, much like the "if hijacked, cooperate with hijackers and let things sort themselves out" doctrine that saved many lives until someone figured out how to game the rule (and cost as many lives as were ever saved).
Indeed, right now, we depend on these being ... | Just the rules and physics.
1. If I was flying and I heard over the radio something like "Flight 122, Jacksonville Center, Request cancel IFR" I could just respond with "Flight 122, Jacksonville Center, That was not a legitimate request, we wish to maintain IFR" and though my phraseology is wrong, I could reasonably ... |
913,941 | Is *nor*:
!(a or b)
!a or !b
!(a and b)
something else? | 2009/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/913941",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20844/"
] | !(a or b)
see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_NOR> for more:
>
> In [boolean logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_logic), **logical nor** or **joint denial** is a truth-functional operator which produces a result that is the negation of [logical or](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_disjunction). T... | your first alternative: `!`(a or b)
which happens to be equivalent to !a and !b |
913,941 | Is *nor*:
!(a or b)
!a or !b
!(a and b)
something else? | 2009/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/913941",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20844/"
] | !(a or b)
see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_NOR> for more:
>
> In [boolean logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_logic), **logical nor** or **joint denial** is a truth-functional operator which produces a result that is the negation of [logical or](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_disjunction). T... | [!(a or b)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_NOR) |
913,941 | Is *nor*:
!(a or b)
!a or !b
!(a and b)
something else? | 2009/05/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/913941",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20844/"
] | [!(a or b)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_NOR) | your first alternative: `!`(a or b)
which happens to be equivalent to !a and !b |
11,200 | How do I transpose D/G, G/B etc. I want to do this in a program I'm knocking up, to display my music the way I want to see it, so an algorithmic description would be handy. If it's of any significance, the code will be put out there in an open source way :-)
I suspect it's not an easy answer because artists like the c... | 2013/07/04 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/11200",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/6588/"
] | There is an inactive project on Sourceforge that does most of what you're wanting to do. It also includes "slash chords" so it should be a good jump-off point for you to at least understand the algorithms behind building up the chords.
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/chorderator/> | This [transposing app](http://www.transposingapp.com) for iOS called Chordmatic will transpose inverted chords for you: <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chordmatic/id1099475271?mt=8> |
11,200 | How do I transpose D/G, G/B etc. I want to do this in a program I'm knocking up, to display my music the way I want to see it, so an algorithmic description would be handy. If it's of any significance, the code will be put out there in an open source way :-)
I suspect it's not an easy answer because artists like the c... | 2013/07/04 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/11200",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/6588/"
] | The old Blue Peter way was to have concentric circles, one bigger. Mark out 12 points around the outside of each, as in a clock face.Put the notes, chromatically round the edge of each.When you wanted to transpose, you rotated the outside face against the inside face, and read off the new notes/chords with reference to... | There is an inactive project on Sourceforge that does most of what you're wanting to do. It also includes "slash chords" so it should be a good jump-off point for you to at least understand the algorithms behind building up the chords.
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/chorderator/> |
11,200 | How do I transpose D/G, G/B etc. I want to do this in a program I'm knocking up, to display my music the way I want to see it, so an algorithmic description would be handy. If it's of any significance, the code will be put out there in an open source way :-)
I suspect it's not an easy answer because artists like the c... | 2013/07/04 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/11200",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/6588/"
] | The old Blue Peter way was to have concentric circles, one bigger. Mark out 12 points around the outside of each, as in a clock face.Put the notes, chromatically round the edge of each.When you wanted to transpose, you rotated the outside face against the inside face, and read off the new notes/chords with reference to... | This [transposing app](http://www.transposingapp.com) for iOS called Chordmatic will transpose inverted chords for you: <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chordmatic/id1099475271?mt=8> |
102,905 | The black pepper I buy come in containers where you can grind it on use and they come out fine but not super fine.
I'm just wondering :
1. how do powder suppliers e.g. the companies which make curry powders etc make black pepper so fine?
2. What can I use to make my peppercorns more fine, it seems the store container... | 2019/10/16 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/102905",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/7945/"
] | Better grinding and *sieving*
If you think about it - spice powders are essentially flour. Pop it in a *good* blender. Blend, let it settle and sieve to required consistency. Repeat with oversized particles.
In an industrial setting this would likely mean a large mill and vibrating sieves, but you can, *very carefull... | An industrial grinding mill at a, uh, ground pepper factory (Caution! Extreme sneezing danger!) is not *fundamentally* different in design from your plastic store-bought mill. It consists of two hard surfaces which are very close together, and the pepper will be crushed and ground between them.
As Journeyman Geek ment... |
43,317 | I am looking for a translation in english (or french) of the following book in Chinese Mandarin:
大圆满前行法海
It is a book in the Bön tradition about Dzogchen. | 2020/11/27 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/43317",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/20100/"
] | I coudn't find a translation, but from what I gather from the title:
* 大圆满 Dzogchen
* 前行 forward, advance
* 法海 Fa-Hai
[法海 Fa-Hai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahai) was a Chan monk in the Tang dynasty, but is also the name of a Sino-Tibetan Lama (1920-1991) who studied both Chan and Dzogchen. Monica Esposito wrote ... | This is the book probably : <https://sanxuezang.com/book/7571>
Use the website <https://www.deepl.com> to translate. |
43,317 | I am looking for a translation in english (or french) of the following book in Chinese Mandarin:
大圆满前行法海
It is a book in the Bön tradition about Dzogchen. | 2020/11/27 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/43317",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/20100/"
] | I coudn't find a translation, but from what I gather from the title:
* 大圆满 Dzogchen
* 前行 forward, advance
* 法海 Fa-Hai
[法海 Fa-Hai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahai) was a Chan monk in the Tang dynasty, but is also the name of a Sino-Tibetan Lama (1920-1991) who studied both Chan and Dzogchen. Monica Esposito wrote ... | 大圆满前行法海 is not a Bon text. It's either a Nyingma Buddhist text or a Chinese Ch'an Buddhist text.
Here is a Chinese site that has information about 大圆满前行法海 and its author, but it's in Chinese. You will need to use a translator to read it.
<https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%86%E6%BB%A1%E5%89%8D%E8%A1%8C%E6%B... |
23,704 | OK, this would seem old and odd...but it still needs to be done.
We actually have a file server (NAS) that has VSS 6.0 on it, basically the .exe files, etc. are in a share and the users run the .exe file to open VSS and check in/out documents.
I've downloaded VSS 2005 from our MVLS site and extracted it and read the ... | 2009/06/10 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/23704",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/7861/"
] | Ok, you can have the repository (vss database) files shared via a network share thats how the multi-user aspects are claimed.
I believe VSS 6 had a network install option and just installing VSS 2k5 now to confirm this option still exists. This means you only need to get all your clients to run the .exe from this shar... | The server portion of VSS needs to go onto an actual server running Windows.
Unfortunately it's not as easy as a simple file share. The server is responsible for adjudicating transactions, check-ins, check-outs, timestamping, etc. |
38,559 | I have a panel interview for an entry level position with a financial institution at the end of the week. Aside from the usual preparations such as the following:
* Researching the company and the position you are applying for
* Being prepared to describe past experiences on one's resume
* Linking your skills to the j... | 2014/12/16 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/38559",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/30062/"
] | One of the biggest things I can think of is to make sure to address your answer **first** to the person who asked the question. But overall, make sure you make eye contact with everyone. Check out their body language. If the guy who asked the question is smiling but the guy in the corner is frowning, you are probably m... | >
> What are some other recommendations for properly handling a panel interview (with five panelists and they are from different managerial levels)?
>
>
>
Some of these may be more or less applicable.
* Look up your interviewers on Linked-in (if you know who they are).
* Write out some sample [STAR](http://en.wik... |
14,754,460 | I am using a nine patch image as a drawable for a selector's item element.
The nine patch image is here:
The image that finally gets rendered is this (emulator & device screenshot, both device have resolutions > mdpi):
![resulting rendered image](https://i.stack.... | 2013/02/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/14754460",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/462982/"
] | Do you only provide a mdpi version of the image?
Android scales all images that aren't available in the correct pixel density. This happens before the image is scaled via 9patch.
This would mean that your image gets scaled up to fit hdpi and then scaled to fit the content.
To fix this, you have to provide hdpi and x... | I checked out your 9 patch:
Why did you color your not used bounds white? It should be transparent.
Because of this it is not recognized as a 9Patch:
 |
63,008,102 | I am working with my new website. I got SSL certificates file from Digicert SSL provider . I installed SSL as instructed . But my WordPress pages still get Insecure page error while other html and non-WordPress PHP pages works Okay. I am not sure what did i do wrong.
my website is
<https://www.devbhusal.com/> shows in... | 2020/07/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/63008102",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13967331/"
] | If SSL installed successfully with domain and still site is not secure then please check if internal link used only http:// if yes then convert to https:// and still you not able to find then you can use <https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/> plugin. | I tried with simpl SSL and everything that I can find on internet. At last I made wordpress backup file, created new server in EC2 ,install fresh WordPress ,restore wordpress data and install SSL. Now it is working. I still couldn't figure out what went wrong with old settings. |
4,372,329 | I am downloading a large file from the internet within my code and would like to show the user a progress bar to show how far along the download is, preferably in a separate pop-up box.
How would I go about doing this? | 2010/12/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4372329",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/499870/"
] | See javax.swing.ProgressMonitorInputStream.
People seem to miss this. Maybe it's because it doesn't start with 'J'. ;-) | What UI framework do you use? In case it is Swing, you could wrap your download code into SwingWorker and update progress bar on buffer writes. You could also store written byte count in local variable and utilize Timer, however it seems less elegant (but working).
If my assumption about Swing is correct, [wikipedia](... |
4,372,329 | I am downloading a large file from the internet within my code and would like to show the user a progress bar to show how far along the download is, preferably in a separate pop-up box.
How would I go about doing this? | 2010/12/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4372329",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/499870/"
] | See javax.swing.ProgressMonitorInputStream.
People seem to miss this. Maybe it's because it doesn't start with 'J'. ;-) | See <http://www.java-forums.org/awt-swing/15152-swingworker-my-small-internet-page-downloader.html> |
50,156 | I'm working a project which tries to determine Blood Pressure from PPG signals.I'm trying to extract the features as shown below...
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/O1aOa.png)
I'm having problem in finding the troughs and dicrotic notch for each cycle an... | 2018/06/27 | [
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/50156",
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com",
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com/users/36480/"
] | I went ahead with the proof of concept. $60 is a minimal investment to make and implementing high-school-level science experiments at home is never a bad idea.
What I discovered is that yes, low frequency ANC is possible with a simple analog setup for predictable read-world noise, but no, it's not practical in any use... | Very similar situation here. What kind of brown noise did you use? I'd love to try a similar approach, and kill (or at least mask) this noise
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kcKHj.jpg) |
250,947 | This question is regarding specifically the [hash](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/hash "show questions tagged 'hash'") tag. This word has a heavily overloaded meaning for programming. The tag-wiki specifies the tag is only for the [algorithmic method of fingerprinting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_func... | 2014/03/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250947",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1146608/"
] | * For the first case: [hashtag](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/hashtag "show questions tagged 'hashtag'") existed before you asked your question.
* For the second case: [fragment-identifier](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fragment-identifier "show questions tagged 'fragment-identifier'") existed... | You seem very confused about the relationship between hash functions and cryptographic hash functions.
Namely, you appear to think they are different and unrelated ideas. Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Algorithmic method of fingerprinting objects" is **exactly** what a cryptographic hash function is. There... |
36,517 | Is it permissible to donate blood as a Muslim? I wish to donate blood but I don't know if this is acceptable in islam. | 2016/11/28 | [
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/36517",
"https://islam.stackexchange.com",
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/users/20213/"
] | We survey online fatawa below.
All of the surveyed fatawa say blood donation is permissible in order to save a life, using the maxim *necessity overrides prohibition*. However, blood donations are not so black and white. Blood transfusions are ordinarily performed well before a patient gets to a life-or-death stage; b... | Very interesting question.
You will not find anything in the holy texts that speaks about blood donation, for the same obvious reason you will not find anything about vaccines : on one hand it did not exist in the prophet's time, and on the other hand it is a purely material topic, not a spiritual one.
However, you ... |
80,503 | I know it has been asked before, but I'm still not sure if I understand the focal length issues of EF-lenses on APSC cameras in Canon system. I already have the EF-S 55-250 IS STM and I'd like to buy a longer telephoto - if I get the EF 70-200 will it give me effectively more range than EF-S 55-250 (200 x 1.6 = 320 mm)... | 2016/07/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/80503",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/25592/"
] | No, a 70-200mm lens will give you less range than a 55-250mm lens on both ends of the focal lengths. In order to understand the comparative fields of view yielded by an EF-S and an EF lens on an APS-C camera body in terms of the same field of view on a full frame/35mm camera, **you must multiply the focal length of *bo... | No, it'll give you a smaller range. The numbers quoted on any system camera lens are the actual focal length, not the equivalent.
You can get a longer range with a 70-300mm fairly easily, but the difference won't be huge - you'd barely notice it in reality. More than that is available but expensive and heavy.
I'd sug... |
80,503 | I know it has been asked before, but I'm still not sure if I understand the focal length issues of EF-lenses on APSC cameras in Canon system. I already have the EF-S 55-250 IS STM and I'd like to buy a longer telephoto - if I get the EF 70-200 will it give me effectively more range than EF-S 55-250 (200 x 1.6 = 320 mm)... | 2016/07/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/80503",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/25592/"
] | No, a 70-200mm lens will give you less range than a 55-250mm lens on both ends of the focal lengths. In order to understand the comparative fields of view yielded by an EF-S and an EF lens on an APS-C camera body in terms of the same field of view on a full frame/35mm camera, **you must multiply the focal length of *bo... | A full-frame lens of any focal length (let's say 200mm) and an APS-C lens of the same focal length (i.e. 200mm) are the same (in this context). The difference is only in the size of the 'image circle' that the lens projects; the full-frame lens projects a larger image circle to cover the larger size of the full-frame s... |
80,503 | I know it has been asked before, but I'm still not sure if I understand the focal length issues of EF-lenses on APSC cameras in Canon system. I already have the EF-S 55-250 IS STM and I'd like to buy a longer telephoto - if I get the EF 70-200 will it give me effectively more range than EF-S 55-250 (200 x 1.6 = 320 mm)... | 2016/07/27 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/80503",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/25592/"
] | A full-frame lens of any focal length (let's say 200mm) and an APS-C lens of the same focal length (i.e. 200mm) are the same (in this context). The difference is only in the size of the 'image circle' that the lens projects; the full-frame lens projects a larger image circle to cover the larger size of the full-frame s... | No, it'll give you a smaller range. The numbers quoted on any system camera lens are the actual focal length, not the equivalent.
You can get a longer range with a 70-300mm fairly easily, but the difference won't be huge - you'd barely notice it in reality. More than that is available but expensive and heavy.
I'd sug... |
13,458,053 | I build HTML5/CSS3 websites that are cross-browser compliant and responsive. My clients want the ability to edit text areas and upload new stories into the news section and images to the photo gallery. What is my best option to continue building (clean, SEO friendly) websites while giving my clients the option to updat... | 2012/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13458053",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1723908/"
] | Sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but feel I have to chime in.
I'm the CEO of [Webpop](http://www.webpop.com), a fully hosted CMS that's made with frontend developers and web designers in mind.
We built Webpop exactly for solving this problem and have done a lot of work on making sure that you can keep your HTML... | I would opt for a MVC framework. You can find all information about all different frameworks [here](http://www.phpframeworks.com/).
The advantage of this is that you can keep your HTML5/CSS3 as the "views" while moving the business logic to controllers and models of your MVC framework. I personally used CakePHP and Co... |
13,458,053 | I build HTML5/CSS3 websites that are cross-browser compliant and responsive. My clients want the ability to edit text areas and upload new stories into the news section and images to the photo gallery. What is my best option to continue building (clean, SEO friendly) websites while giving my clients the option to updat... | 2012/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13458053",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1723908/"
] | Sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but feel I have to chime in.
I'm the CEO of [Webpop](http://www.webpop.com), a fully hosted CMS that's made with frontend developers and web designers in mind.
We built Webpop exactly for solving this problem and have done a lot of work on making sure that you can keep your HTML... | I have found Get Simple CMS <http://get-simple.info/> to be great for this. It PHP based but doesn't require a database. It comes with a few templates, but it's not too tricky to edit or create your own template from your CSS and HTML. |
13,458,053 | I build HTML5/CSS3 websites that are cross-browser compliant and responsive. My clients want the ability to edit text areas and upload new stories into the news section and images to the photo gallery. What is my best option to continue building (clean, SEO friendly) websites while giving my clients the option to updat... | 2012/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13458053",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1723908/"
] | Sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but feel I have to chime in.
I'm the CEO of [Webpop](http://www.webpop.com), a fully hosted CMS that's made with frontend developers and web designers in mind.
We built Webpop exactly for solving this problem and have done a lot of work on making sure that you can keep your HTML... | I always liked Perch for exactly this kind of stuff. Editable fields, real simple stuff. However I eventually did migrate to Wordpress, simply because my clients started demanding more blog-life features. If the sites you build are going to remain simple, Perch is quite wonderful.
<http://grabaperch.com/> |
13,458,053 | I build HTML5/CSS3 websites that are cross-browser compliant and responsive. My clients want the ability to edit text areas and upload new stories into the news section and images to the photo gallery. What is my best option to continue building (clean, SEO friendly) websites while giving my clients the option to updat... | 2012/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13458053",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1723908/"
] | Sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but feel I have to chime in.
I'm the CEO of [Webpop](http://www.webpop.com), a fully hosted CMS that's made with frontend developers and web designers in mind.
We built Webpop exactly for solving this problem and have done a lot of work on making sure that you can keep your HTML... | Well basically i always use wordpress , it's not so hard to learn... you slice your site up into the areas you need ... the menu's are generated automatically as you add pages to your site . Wordpress also has lots of plug-ins wich are easy to implement . Wordpress is not only a blog , major sites use it for contentman... |
25,022,425 | 1. Push(): add an element into the collection.
2. Pop(): return and remove the minimal element from this collection.
3. Min(): return but do not remove the minimal element from this collection. | 2014/07/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/25022425",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1657564/"
] | Suppose such a data structure existed.
Then here is an O(n) comparison-based sorting algorithm:
1. Push() every item into this data structure.
2. Pop() them all off in sorted order.
No O(n) comparison-based sorting algorithm can exist, therefore no such data structure can exist. | Constant time push(), pop() and remove is possible in Stack. The below post demonstrates it:
[design a stack such that getMinimum( ) should be O(1)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/685060/design-a-stack-such-that-getminimum-should-be-o1) |
719 | I found many answers to my deleted questions extremely useful and interesting.
Can't the copy of deleted threads be email-ed to all authors?
or authors be warned to backup them before deleting?
**Update:**
Failing to fit to very vaguely defined tematics/subjects of this board is not synonym of bad behavior. ... | 2011/02/19 | [
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/719",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3085/"
] | If you're asking questions that are being deleted, you shouldn't be asking these questions in the first place. They're deleted because they don't belong here. Emailing the OP the original answers would only encourage the bad behavior. | No. If your questions are being deleted, that means they were not appropriate for the site and ultimately *should not have been asked here*.
If your posts are continually deleted and/or downvoted this is a strong sign you are in the wrong place. |
2,616,888 | I want to read web service data from a website and display it into my website.
i have these data:
* address: WebService/TsePublic.asmx
* service name : InstrumentDetailOneIns
* input parameters :UserName,Password,CIsin
is there any available code for use? | 2010/04/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2616888",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/169549/"
] | PHP has a native [SoapClient](http://php.net/manual/en/class.soapclient.php) extension. Failing that I would recommend the open-source [nuSoap](http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/files/nusoap/0.7.3/nusoap-0.7.3.zip/download) package. | I see from the tags you are using PHP. The webservice you are talking about is .NET, you could use something similar as: <http://randompost.ca/random/php-calling-c-net-webservice/>
to get it to work. |
989 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [What was Stack Overflow built with?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with)
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Does anybody know which PHP script Super User is using? I plan to set-up a web site for college education issues. But I want it to have a script like su... | 2009/10/17 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/989",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | It's not PHP, it's ASP.NET.
See here: <http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/> | As already mentioned, StackOverflow/ServerFault/SuperUser/... uses ASP.NET and the whole Microsoft Stack.
You might want to read the discussion about [SO clones](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2267/so-clones) one meta.stackoverflow.com (which is where your question belongs IMHO). |
989 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
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> [What was Stack Overflow built with?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with)
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Does anybody know which PHP script Super User is using? I plan to set-up a web site for college education issues. But I want it to have a script like su... | 2009/10/17 | [
"https://meta.superuser.com/questions/989",
"https://meta.superuser.com",
"https://meta.superuser.com/users/-1/"
] | It's not PHP, it's ASP.NET.
See here: <http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/> | Complex PHP websites are made of more than one script. A website *like* SU wouldn't be very difficult with PHP and a database, but SU was made with love :3
So, you want something like SU? Get learning PHP, it'll be great fun :) |
436,033 | I have the choice between:
1. 35x35mm GPS antenna 71% efficiency glonass, tested on 70x70 GND plane
60% gps
2. 25x25mm GPS antenna 83% GPS, 84% glonass, tested on 50x50 GND plane
I have read somewhere by a GPS manufacturer that antenna size is more important than efficiency but I feel doubtful about that. Would like ... | 2019/04/29 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/436033",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/212712/"
] | In principle bigger is better *but* we are talking about a GHz signal here (I don't remember the exact frequency); since we are not talking about short antennas (in the electrical sense) I think that matching and a proper lobe would be more important than raw size.
I guess that being bigger *should* have a slightly be... | Everything else being equal (same type of antenna, same gain...), a 35x35 mm antenna should receive nearly twice the power compared to a 25x25 mm antenna. That means that even if the smaller one is slightly more efficient, the larger one still results in a much higher output power.
But there are lots of other paramete... |
4,432,040 | Without getting into details, I am updating ID3 tags outside of iTunes and would like to import all of that data into iTunes. Before iTunes 10 I was able to select all songs and click "Get Info" - this would automatically pull all the updated ID3 tags for every song. It seems like the only way to do that now is to eith... | 2010/12/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4432040",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/460794/"
] | Found exactly what I needed here: <http://marv.kordix.com/archives/000860.html> It's an Applescript called "Refresh Selected Tags". You select whatever songs you want and click "Refresh Selected Tags" - simple as that! | how about trying this with a few songs first:
select the songs, right click and select 'convert id3 tags'. select the most recent version.
not sure if that will work.
otherwise make a new automator workflow, press the record button at the top, switch to itunes press command+i (get info) then command+n (next button), t... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | The [vote up privilege page](https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-up) explains it pretty well, and there's a [blog entry](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/10/19/vote-early-vote-often/) about voting in general that applies to answers. Besides rewarding people who post good answers (which encourages them to post... | If no one votes how are other users going to know what are the good answers and perhaps more importantly what are the bad answers?
As @jjnguy points out it shows that at least one other set of eyes has seen and reviewed the answer. It's a form of peer review as well as being a rating system. The default view is for an... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | **Voting is probably the third most important aspect of the site.** (Right behind asking and answering)
Voting is important because it shows that other people have 'vetted' the answer. Anyone can post an answer on the site, so how do we know if it is any good? By the votes it gets.
Voting changes the order that answe... | If no one votes how are other users going to know what are the good answers and perhaps more importantly what are the bad answers?
As @jjnguy points out it shows that at least one other set of eyes has seen and reviewed the answer. It's a form of peer review as well as being a rating system. The default view is for an... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | If no one votes how are other users going to know what are the good answers and perhaps more importantly what are the bad answers?
As @jjnguy points out it shows that at least one other set of eyes has seen and reviewed the answer. It's a form of peer review as well as being a rating system. The default view is for an... | I find myself agreeing with this somewhat:
>
> Actually I strongly disagree about the (2), many (if not most) people who can vote doesn't know the right answer which is a major issue.
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I don't think it's *most* voters who don't know the right answer, but this is the reason why I personally don't use all my v... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | If no one votes how are other users going to know what are the good answers and perhaps more importantly what are the bad answers?
As @jjnguy points out it shows that at least one other set of eyes has seen and reviewed the answer. It's a form of peer review as well as being a rating system. The default view is for an... | I've decided to answer, despite being absolutely unwilling to go into a political (which voting is) argument.
For starters, I am the original user who doesn't vote.
Why? I see no reason to.
Most importantly: votes are anonymous. So there is exactly zero motivation on my part to cheer up based on whether the crowd lik... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | **Voting is probably the third most important aspect of the site.** (Right behind asking and answering)
Voting is important because it shows that other people have 'vetted' the answer. Anyone can post an answer on the site, so how do we know if it is any good? By the votes it gets.
Voting changes the order that answe... | The [vote up privilege page](https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-up) explains it pretty well, and there's a [blog entry](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/10/19/vote-early-vote-often/) about voting in general that applies to answers. Besides rewarding people who post good answers (which encourages them to post... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | The [vote up privilege page](https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-up) explains it pretty well, and there's a [blog entry](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/10/19/vote-early-vote-often/) about voting in general that applies to answers. Besides rewarding people who post good answers (which encourages them to post... | I find myself agreeing with this somewhat:
>
> Actually I strongly disagree about the (2), many (if not most) people who can vote doesn't know the right answer which is a major issue.
>
>
>
I don't think it's *most* voters who don't know the right answer, but this is the reason why I personally don't use all my v... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | The [vote up privilege page](https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-up) explains it pretty well, and there's a [blog entry](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/10/19/vote-early-vote-often/) about voting in general that applies to answers. Besides rewarding people who post good answers (which encourages them to post... | I've decided to answer, despite being absolutely unwilling to go into a political (which voting is) argument.
For starters, I am the original user who doesn't vote.
Why? I see no reason to.
Most importantly: votes are anonymous. So there is exactly zero motivation on my part to cheer up based on whether the crowd lik... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | **Voting is probably the third most important aspect of the site.** (Right behind asking and answering)
Voting is important because it shows that other people have 'vetted' the answer. Anyone can post an answer on the site, so how do we know if it is any good? By the votes it gets.
Voting changes the order that answe... | I find myself agreeing with this somewhat:
>
> Actually I strongly disagree about the (2), many (if not most) people who can vote doesn't know the right answer which is a major issue.
>
>
>
I don't think it's *most* voters who don't know the right answer, but this is the reason why I personally don't use all my v... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | **Voting is probably the third most important aspect of the site.** (Right behind asking and answering)
Voting is important because it shows that other people have 'vetted' the answer. Anyone can post an answer on the site, so how do we know if it is any good? By the votes it gets.
Voting changes the order that answe... | I've decided to answer, despite being absolutely unwilling to go into a political (which voting is) argument.
For starters, I am the original user who doesn't vote.
Why? I see no reason to.
Most importantly: votes are anonymous. So there is exactly zero motivation on my part to cheer up based on whether the crowd lik... |
80,368 | Honestly, I thought this was a stupid question until I [interacted with another user](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092182/java-object-creation-vs-string-parsing/5092293#5092293) on a particular question. The question is, should users vote on answers? If so, why? This other user claims to have a policy for himse... | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80368",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/156526/"
] | I find myself agreeing with this somewhat:
>
> Actually I strongly disagree about the (2), many (if not most) people who can vote doesn't know the right answer which is a major issue.
>
>
>
I don't think it's *most* voters who don't know the right answer, but this is the reason why I personally don't use all my v... | I've decided to answer, despite being absolutely unwilling to go into a political (which voting is) argument.
For starters, I am the original user who doesn't vote.
Why? I see no reason to.
Most importantly: votes are anonymous. So there is exactly zero motivation on my part to cheer up based on whether the crowd lik... |
2,982 | Recently i came across this [question](https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/111991/how-to-turn-on-block-or-panel-from-old-site-to-the-new-one) where OP is unable to resolve his issue related to migration of view. It seems off topic for me.
He offered bounty of 20$ and asked to share contact information so that o... | 2014/05/03 | [
"https://drupal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2982",
"https://drupal.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://drupal.meta.stackexchange.com/users/7372/"
] | You can share your contact information in the about me section of your profile, which people can obviously use if you choose to do so.
Facilitating that connection is not what the site is for, though, so comments like the one you mentioned are inappropriate. I've deleted it.
Regarding the question you linked to - it ... | To add what Clive said, offering money bounty is not in the spirit of Stack Exchange. If you see any user offering money, edit that part away from the question; it is something not strictly related to the question, and it should be removed. |
4,544,838 | In the [resolution comments](http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?rc=12266) for bug report [12266](http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=12266) ("Error on socket connect causes resource leak"), Robert Ehteshamzadeh wrote
>
> TClientSocket is deprecated. This
> report is left open to allow for
> suggested ... | 2010/12/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4544838",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/80901/"
] | TClientSocket and TServerSocket use ineffective design based on Windows messages. This scheme was introduced in Windows 3.11 (or did it happen in 3.1?), when there was no true multitasking and multithreaded socket handling was impossible. Deprecation took place due to more powerful and high-performing solutions appeare... | Well, it depends on what you call deprecated. If "no longer included in any of the source folders" counts as being deprecated, then yes, it is still deprecated (D2009).
**Update**
The source for TClientSocket and TServerSocket is actually present. @mjn and @Eugene pointed me towards it. Just goes to show once again t... |
4,544,838 | In the [resolution comments](http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?rc=12266) for bug report [12266](http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=12266) ("Error on socket connect causes resource leak"), Robert Ehteshamzadeh wrote
>
> TClientSocket is deprecated. This
> report is left open to allow for
> suggested ... | 2010/12/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4544838",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/80901/"
] | To answer your question specifically:
Yes, TClientSocket and TServerSocket are still deprecated, and I can't imagine that this situation will change. | Well, it depends on what you call deprecated. If "no longer included in any of the source folders" counts as being deprecated, then yes, it is still deprecated (D2009).
**Update**
The source for TClientSocket and TServerSocket is actually present. @mjn and @Eugene pointed me towards it. Just goes to show once again t... |
4,544,838 | In the [resolution comments](http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?rc=12266) for bug report [12266](http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=12266) ("Error on socket connect causes resource leak"), Robert Ehteshamzadeh wrote
>
> TClientSocket is deprecated. This
> report is left open to allow for
> suggested ... | 2010/12/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4544838",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/80901/"
] | To answer your question specifically:
Yes, TClientSocket and TServerSocket are still deprecated, and I can't imagine that this situation will change. | TClientSocket and TServerSocket use ineffective design based on Windows messages. This scheme was introduced in Windows 3.11 (or did it happen in 3.1?), when there was no true multitasking and multithreaded socket handling was impossible. Deprecation took place due to more powerful and high-performing solutions appeare... |
21,660 | I am trying to use my MS plan for resource calculations.
What I want is to put a few resources against a task based on their different % allocations and want the MS project to automatically calculate the total duration of the task.
Example:
I have resource A available 50% and resource B available 50%.
My initial ... | 2017/05/24 | [
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/21660",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com",
"https://pm.stackexchange.com/users/28640/"
] | I am going to answer this question in a completely different way. My answer will not technically answer your question but may provide you with another alternative in building your schedule.
First, I prefer to keep all / most of my work packages as fixed duration since in most cases we as PMs have to communicate a fir... | First, define the task type as "Fixed work". This is done in the "Advanced" tab of the task information dialog (that appears by double-clicking the task). Alternatively, you can add the "Type" column to any tasks table in order to define the task type directly there. This action tells MS Project to calculate either dur... |
9,464 | We know [why Han Solo had to pay off Jabba](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9460/why-did-han-solo-have-to-pay-off-jabba).
But [*Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back*](http://Star%20Wars%20Episode%20V:%20The%20Empire%20Strikes%20Back) is set **three years** after the destruction of the Death Star, but... | 2012/01/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9464",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/"
] | **UPDATE from New Disney Canon**
According to "*Heir to the Jedi*" book by Kevin Hearne, they "lost" the money (new canon didn't elaborate how, as of yet):
>
> Han and Chewie are off somewhere trying to earn enough credits to pay off Jabba the Hutt. **They lost all their reward money from the Battle of Yavin** and t... | According to *Scoundrels* by Timothy Zahn, he got jacked by pirates shortly after Yavin. |
9,464 | We know [why Han Solo had to pay off Jabba](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9460/why-did-han-solo-have-to-pay-off-jabba).
But [*Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back*](http://Star%20Wars%20Episode%20V:%20The%20Empire%20Strikes%20Back) is set **three years** after the destruction of the Death Star, but... | 2012/01/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9464",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/"
] | Jabba was a drug lord but only in a relative backwater like Tatooine. With the Imperial Navy gunning after Han and his merry band, Han probably thought it reasonable that he'd never have to deal with the likes of Jabba again. Too bad for him that Vader took a play right out of the CIA handbook. | According to *Scoundrels* by Timothy Zahn, he got jacked by pirates shortly after Yavin. |
8,695 | I am having below href , unable to call test function in scholarship(component) controller,this href redirects to same page
<http://192.168.1.9/joomla2/administrator/index.php?option=com_scholarships&task=scholarships/test> | 2015/02/19 | [
"https://joomla.stackexchange.com/questions/8695",
"https://joomla.stackexchange.com",
"https://joomla.stackexchange.com/users/3713/"
] | The controller function test is called like this:
index.php?option=com\_scholarships&task=**scholarships.test** | Joomla mostly works with POST form actions. For instance, task buttons have a tiny JavaScript to submit a POST. Addtionally , most forms also submit a token for security.
To sum up, you cannot craft an Url to test a controller. At least, you have to define an action button in the toolbar. |
21,076,009 | We plan to do some performance test on a web site hosted on some Amazon EC2 instances. The question is, if all the HTTP traffic come from the same IP addresses (say, in the case of many different client hosts sharing the same public IP), will the EC2 loadbalancer forward all traffic to only one of the web servers (inst... | 2014/01/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21076009",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/893185/"
] | This used to be a problem due to DNS caching by clients indeed (see my answer to [Can Elastic Load Balancers correctly distribute traffic to different size instances](https://serverfault.com/a/386527/10305) for more on the previous state of affairs), but has mostly been remedied apparently with the recent introduction ... | This has been the case in the past, I presume it still may be an issue. Its not so much that it will forward all traffic to a single instance, but it can send all traffic to a single zone.
The ELB does some load balancing with DNS round robin. A cached DNS lookup, could result in multiple requests being routed to the ... |
19,732,699 | My tool needs to intake data from an EPIC EMR. My understanding is that the hospital can write a script that will push the data to a secure FTP, where I can pull the data down and load it into my system. Is this correct? Also - my understanding is that this data will be in HL7 - is this correct? Thank you for your help... | 2013/11/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19732699",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2945927/"
] | Firstly , befor pulling data from a hospital EMR get an approval with the hospital's **CMO, CIO, CMIO** (if they have one) and **HIPAA** officials.
(**HL7** support is a core requirement of every inpatient **EMR RFP**.)
Two examples: (1) Cerner runs on Oracle and provides both **HL7** support and an **API** to an abs... | EPIC can output to a couple of different database management systems, Oracle and SQL Server are the ones I've heard of being used. The hospital could write a script to push the data to secure FTP, but it doesn't have to be in HL7. |
298,271 | For example: "This has led to a reduction **in/of** the severity of poverty."
I tend to think "a reduction **in**" refers more to intensity and number, whereas "a reduction **of**" emphasizes the action.
As in:
1) "The President called for a reduction **of** troops in the region." (Emphasis on what he wants the Pen... | 2016/01/07 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/298271",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/67227/"
] | As @lauir has mentioned in the comments, this is probably a result vs action comparison.
>
> reduction of troops
>
>
>
Somebody reduced the troops; **action**.
>
> reduction in troops
>
>
>
Something occurred to reduce the number of troops e.g. virus, losing war badly; **result**.
Although this can actuall... | **To answer the question first:**
1. A Google books ngram search shows both *‘in’* and *‘of’* are used by different writers in different circumstances.
2. Certainly ‘reduction *in* the number‘ is more frequently used than ‘reduction *of* the number’, but I find the suggestion that *‘of’* pertains to the action of the ... |
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