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76,595 | Can you make a TPM (or any piece of hardware) Completely tamper-proof?
The “regular” tamper resistant hardware has various physical attacks <http://www.milinda-perera.com/pdf/EKKLP12a.pdf>
I have been told that conducting-, air-tight-, pressurised- and gas containing metal boxes with sensor triggered explosives(or any... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | The only thing I can think of that might be considered tamper-proof is a memory cell (SD-RAM or alike) with a "reset when line break" lock (triggered by resistance change and line break) that is contained in a liquid like phosphor, which is contained in a liquid oxidizer (a.k.a. instant flash when opened with thermal r... | I don't think you will discover that kind of thing via Google as you have moved into the realm of the security services.
Certainly, I'm sure that someone is using that kind of tamper evident hardware somewhere though it is pretty extreme!
Of course, being electronics, there are other potential risks that would not r... |
76,595 | Can you make a TPM (or any piece of hardware) Completely tamper-proof?
The “regular” tamper resistant hardware has various physical attacks <http://www.milinda-perera.com/pdf/EKKLP12a.pdf>
I have been told that conducting-, air-tight-, pressurised- and gas containing metal boxes with sensor triggered explosives(or any... | 2014/12/21 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/76595",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
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] | The only thing I can think of that might be considered tamper-proof is a memory cell (SD-RAM or alike) with a "reset when line break" lock (triggered by resistance change and line break) that is contained in a liquid like phosphor, which is contained in a liquid oxidizer (a.k.a. instant flash when opened with thermal r... | I don't think it is useful to think of absolutes here. Tamper proofing is something that is done in degrees. What is more useful is to think of the level of tampering that is possible, and the level of determination a user needs to show in order to reverse engineer your product. Is the tamper proofing supposed to stop ... |
2,782 | Pregunta ejemplar: [¿Cuándo y cómo adquirió la palabra "follar" su acepción sexual?](https://spanish.stackexchange.com/q/23944/9385)
Sí, se pueden combinar las dos etiquetas --> vota a favor (+1)
No, de veras hay que mantener [historia](https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historia "show questions tagge... | 2018/01/24 | [
"https://spanish.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2782",
"https://spanish.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | Voy a explicar mi voto negativo: la etiqueta [historia](https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historia "show questions tagged 'historia'") se suele usar en preguntas acerca de la evolución de una palabra. Ejemplo: *[¿Por qué no existe una palabra escrita «hoder» (en vez de la versión con «j-»)?](https://sp... | He cambiado el *excerpt* de [etimología](https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/etimolog%c3%ada "show questions tagged 'etimología'") para que diga:
>
> Origen de las palabras, razón de su existencia, de su significación y de su forma.
>
>
>
Que es como se define en el DLE: [*etimología*](http://dle.r... |
2,782 | Pregunta ejemplar: [¿Cuándo y cómo adquirió la palabra "follar" su acepción sexual?](https://spanish.stackexchange.com/q/23944/9385)
Sí, se pueden combinar las dos etiquetas --> vota a favor (+1)
No, de veras hay que mantener [historia](https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historia "show questions tagge... | 2018/01/24 | [
"https://spanish.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2782",
"https://spanish.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | Voto en contra (con matices; ver abajo) porque no considero que se puedan fusionar, aunque es cierto que no se están usando bien.
Hay muchas preguntas sobre [historia](https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historia "show questions tagged 'historia'") del lenguaje que no tienen nada que ver con la [etimolo... | He cambiado el *excerpt* de [etimología](https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/etimolog%c3%ada "show questions tagged 'etimología'") para que diga:
>
> Origen de las palabras, razón de su existencia, de su significación y de su forma.
>
>
>
Que es como se define en el DLE: [*etimología*](http://dle.r... |
7,327 | So, I'm 18, making 50k+ a year. Living at home for now, and thankfully that's not costing me anything. Not going back to school next year, and I have no loans to pay off. Right now, I kinda suck at keeping a budget, and my mindset is kinda "I got the money, why not?" - I'm trying hard to correct that.
Anyways, one of ... | 2011/03/30 | [
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] | Assume you will need to retire with a few million in the bank to maintain an average lifestyle. I had an analysis done for me (at 33) that shows my family, to keep it up lifestyle will need to have 3.4MM in the bank so in retirement I can draw down enough cash.
This number reflects inflation.
Now that you are 18, if ... | I was in a similar situation at age 18/19, but not making quite as much money. I maxed out an IRA and bought savings bonds, although rates were decent then.
I did flitter away about half of what I earned, which in retrospect was probably dumb. But I had a good time! |
7,327 | So, I'm 18, making 50k+ a year. Living at home for now, and thankfully that's not costing me anything. Not going back to school next year, and I have no loans to pay off. Right now, I kinda suck at keeping a budget, and my mindset is kinda "I got the money, why not?" - I'm trying hard to correct that.
Anyways, one of ... | 2011/03/30 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/7327",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
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] | Assume you will need to retire with a few million in the bank to maintain an average lifestyle. I had an analysis done for me (at 33) that shows my family, to keep it up lifestyle will need to have 3.4MM in the bank so in retirement I can draw down enough cash.
This number reflects inflation.
Now that you are 18, if ... | If you're making big money at 18, you should be saving every penny you can in tax-advantaged retirement accounts. (If your employer offers it, see if you can do a Roth 401(k), as odds are good you'll be in a higher tax bracket at retirement than you are now and you will benefit from the Roth structure. Otherwise, use a... |
7,327 | So, I'm 18, making 50k+ a year. Living at home for now, and thankfully that's not costing me anything. Not going back to school next year, and I have no loans to pay off. Right now, I kinda suck at keeping a budget, and my mindset is kinda "I got the money, why not?" - I'm trying hard to correct that.
Anyways, one of ... | 2011/03/30 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/7327",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Assume you will need to retire with a few million in the bank to maintain an average lifestyle. I had an analysis done for me (at 33) that shows my family, to keep it up lifestyle will need to have 3.4MM in the bank so in retirement I can draw down enough cash.
This number reflects inflation.
Now that you are 18, if ... | The golden rule is "Pay yourself first."
This means that you should have some form of savings plan set up, preferably a monthly automatic withdrawal that comes out the day after your pay is deposited. 10% is a reasonable number to start with.
You are in a wonderful situation because you are thinking about this 10-15 ... |
7,327 | So, I'm 18, making 50k+ a year. Living at home for now, and thankfully that's not costing me anything. Not going back to school next year, and I have no loans to pay off. Right now, I kinda suck at keeping a budget, and my mindset is kinda "I got the money, why not?" - I'm trying hard to correct that.
Anyways, one of ... | 2011/03/30 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/7327",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | If you're making big money at 18, you should be saving every penny you can in tax-advantaged retirement accounts. (If your employer offers it, see if you can do a Roth 401(k), as odds are good you'll be in a higher tax bracket at retirement than you are now and you will benefit from the Roth structure. Otherwise, use a... | I was in a similar situation at age 18/19, but not making quite as much money. I maxed out an IRA and bought savings bonds, although rates were decent then.
I did flitter away about half of what I earned, which in retrospect was probably dumb. But I had a good time! |
7,327 | So, I'm 18, making 50k+ a year. Living at home for now, and thankfully that's not costing me anything. Not going back to school next year, and I have no loans to pay off. Right now, I kinda suck at keeping a budget, and my mindset is kinda "I got the money, why not?" - I'm trying hard to correct that.
Anyways, one of ... | 2011/03/30 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/7327",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The golden rule is "Pay yourself first."
This means that you should have some form of savings plan set up, preferably a monthly automatic withdrawal that comes out the day after your pay is deposited. 10% is a reasonable number to start with.
You are in a wonderful situation because you are thinking about this 10-15 ... | I was in a similar situation at age 18/19, but not making quite as much money. I maxed out an IRA and bought savings bonds, although rates were decent then.
I did flitter away about half of what I earned, which in retrospect was probably dumb. But I had a good time! |
10,141 | I know this question might have been around before like in this SO [thread](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2804001/panel-data-with-binary-dependent-variable-in-r), but maybe (hopefully) its answer has changed over time.
* Is there any package in R or an outline how to do panel regressions with a discrete dependen... | 2011/04/29 | [
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] | For "fixed effects" logit regression as understood in econometrics (also called Chamberlain's conditional logit), "clogit" in the "survival" package does the job. | What is wrong with using [plm](http://www.jstatsoft.org/v27/i02/paper) or [lme4](http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/slides/2009-07-07-Rennes/3Longitudinal-4.pdf) ([another link](http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/book/Ch4.pdf))? Particularly the `glmer` function? |
10,141 | I know this question might have been around before like in this SO [thread](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2804001/panel-data-with-binary-dependent-variable-in-r), but maybe (hopefully) its answer has changed over time.
* Is there any package in R or an outline how to do panel regressions with a discrete dependen... | 2011/04/29 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/10141",
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] | What is wrong with using [plm](http://www.jstatsoft.org/v27/i02/paper) or [lme4](http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/slides/2009-07-07-Rennes/3Longitudinal-4.pdf) ([another link](http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/book/Ch4.pdf))? Particularly the `glmer` function? | If your dependent variable is only binary, you could try out the package "bife".
Their [package description](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bife/bife.pdf) is:
"Estimates fixed effects binary choice models (logit and probit) with potentially many individual fixed effects and computes average partial effects. ... |
10,141 | I know this question might have been around before like in this SO [thread](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2804001/panel-data-with-binary-dependent-variable-in-r), but maybe (hopefully) its answer has changed over time.
* Is there any package in R or an outline how to do panel regressions with a discrete dependen... | 2011/04/29 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/10141",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/704/"
] | For "fixed effects" logit regression as understood in econometrics (also called Chamberlain's conditional logit), "clogit" in the "survival" package does the job. | pglm is now available and for e.g. conditional logit there is a closed form estimator that should be straightforward to implement. |
10,141 | I know this question might have been around before like in this SO [thread](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2804001/panel-data-with-binary-dependent-variable-in-r), but maybe (hopefully) its answer has changed over time.
* Is there any package in R or an outline how to do panel regressions with a discrete dependen... | 2011/04/29 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/10141",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/704/"
] | pglm is now available and for e.g. conditional logit there is a closed form estimator that should be straightforward to implement. | If your dependent variable is only binary, you could try out the package "bife".
Their [package description](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bife/bife.pdf) is:
"Estimates fixed effects binary choice models (logit and probit) with potentially many individual fixed effects and computes average partial effects. ... |
10,141 | I know this question might have been around before like in this SO [thread](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2804001/panel-data-with-binary-dependent-variable-in-r), but maybe (hopefully) its answer has changed over time.
* Is there any package in R or an outline how to do panel regressions with a discrete dependen... | 2011/04/29 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/10141",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/704/"
] | For "fixed effects" logit regression as understood in econometrics (also called Chamberlain's conditional logit), "clogit" in the "survival" package does the job. | If your dependent variable is only binary, you could try out the package "bife".
Their [package description](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bife/bife.pdf) is:
"Estimates fixed effects binary choice models (logit and probit) with potentially many individual fixed effects and computes average partial effects. ... |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | The longer I work with databases, the more I appreciate constraints. In the long run, they save me a lot of time. Only trusted constraints ensure 100% validity of data.
I wrote a chapter on usage of constraints vs. other ways of ensuring data integrity, available as free download [here](http://www.simple-talk.com/book... | I've spent a lot of time fix ng the crap data produced by incompetents who think the constraints belong in the application code. If a database is designed without these required things, it will have bad data. Do a quick check of any system like this that has been running for several years and you will find orphaned rec... |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | The longer I work with databases, the more I appreciate constraints. In the long run, they save me a lot of time. Only trusted constraints ensure 100% validity of data.
I wrote a chapter on usage of constraints vs. other ways of ensuring data integrity, available as free download [here](http://www.simple-talk.com/book... | Well it's certainly true that there are very few ultimate truths out there, and it's also true that many commerically successful products eschew declared referential integrity (DRI).
On the other hand, if you care about the data in your database, there is almost no better way to safeguard the integrity of that data th... |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | Database constraints are a great idea when you have users accessing the database whom may corrupt your data(i.e. any user). I tend to keep Foreign key constraints in place to ensure that anyone editing data in my database is aware that other tables are relying on the data in the current table. | I've spent a lot of time fix ng the crap data produced by incompetents who think the constraints belong in the application code. If a database is designed without these required things, it will have bad data. Do a quick check of any system like this that has been running for several years and you will find orphaned rec... |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | Database constraints are a great idea when you have users accessing the database whom may corrupt your data(i.e. any user). I tend to keep Foreign key constraints in place to ensure that anyone editing data in my database is aware that other tables are relying on the data in the current table. | Well it's certainly true that there are very few ultimate truths out there, and it's also true that many commerically successful products eschew declared referential integrity (DRI).
On the other hand, if you care about the data in your database, there is almost no better way to safeguard the integrity of that data th... |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | What you learned isn't just academic stuff. But yes **it's like Plato's Utopia at times**. It's the perfect condition your database can be in, the ideal design. But that ideal design isn't always possible.
Constraints should be as close to DB data as possible. Think about it this way. What if you wrote your constraint... | When I was in class, we accessed tables with raw SQL, and there is a lot of raw SQL or the equivalent out there. In these cases, constraints are generally good.
However, there are systems that use databases as back ends, and these databases are only accessed by that particular software system. In this case, the softwa... |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | If you think that constraints are merely about primary keys and foreign keys, then in fact you haven't been taught much of the "fundamentals" to begin with.
I suggest you take a look at ["An Introduction to Relational Database Theory"](http://bookboon.com/int/student/it/an-introduction-to-relational-database-theory) b... | Database constraints are a great idea when you have users accessing the database whom may corrupt your data(i.e. any user). I tend to keep Foreign key constraints in place to ensure that anyone editing data in my database is aware that other tables are relying on the data in the current table. |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | I've spent a lot of time fix ng the crap data produced by incompetents who think the constraints belong in the application code. If a database is designed without these required things, it will have bad data. Do a quick check of any system like this that has been running for several years and you will find orphaned rec... | When I was in class, we accessed tables with raw SQL, and there is a lot of raw SQL or the equivalent out there. In these cases, constraints are generally good.
However, there are systems that use databases as back ends, and these databases are only accessed by that particular software system. In this case, the softwa... |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | I think the constraints help you to have clean data. Performance is sometimes improved. In some cases, the performance can get affected by having the constraints. However, the answer to that is not removing the constraints. You have something called "denormalization" to help you deal with the performance issues (provid... | Database constraints are a great idea when you have users accessing the database whom may corrupt your data(i.e. any user). I tend to keep Foreign key constraints in place to ensure that anyone editing data in my database is aware that other tables are relying on the data in the current table. |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | If somebody told me to ignore keys and constraints on my databases, I would promptly ignore them and go about my business.
Primary keys, foreign keys, and constraints are there for a reason. Use them. They'll make your life easier and your database easier to understand (and, quite often, more performant). | I think the constraints help you to have clean data. Performance is sometimes improved. In some cases, the performance can get affected by having the constraints. However, the answer to that is not removing the constraints. You have something called "denormalization" to help you deal with the performance issues (provid... |
3,700,920 | When I was learning in university, they taught us the database fundamentals, basics and rules,
and one of the most important rules is the constraints (primary key, foreign key), and how to make 1-m, 1-1, m-n relationships.
Now when I move to real business environment they tell me: you should forget all you have been t... | 2010/09/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3700920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/418343/"
] | I think the constraints help you to have clean data. Performance is sometimes improved. In some cases, the performance can get affected by having the constraints. However, the answer to that is not removing the constraints. You have something called "denormalization" to help you deal with the performance issues (provid... | Primary keys are important. You need a way to uniquely ID rows.
But, its been my experience that if you properly encapsulate your database access within classes (ie, reading/writing objects to/from the db), constraints arent generally necessary. Yeah, I might use them if 50 different apps in 10 different languages wer... |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/79636",
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] | Make it explicit that the scheduled campaign will run in the LA timezone to reduce any confusion. MailChimp does it quite nicely with their Delivery by Time Zone feature <http://mailchimp.com/features/timewarp/>
 | The user will be expecting it to be, by default, in their time zone. Anything other than this will cause confusion. However as @RizwanJavaid has highlighted, for some markets/projects (and I would say social media is one) it is perfectly well expected to be able to change this. |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/79636",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
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] | Make it explicit that the scheduled campaign will run in the LA timezone to reduce any confusion. MailChimp does it quite nicely with their Delivery by Time Zone feature <http://mailchimp.com/features/timewarp/>
 | In my opinion, the best thing you can do in this case is the following:
1. The user configures the time to send the message according to HIS timezone.
2. The program immediately shows the corresponding time in the following zones:
* Pacific timezone;
* Atlantic US timezone;
* UK timezone
* Western Europe Timezone
... |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/79636",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
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] | Make it explicit that the scheduled campaign will run in the LA timezone to reduce any confusion. MailChimp does it quite nicely with their Delivery by Time Zone feature <http://mailchimp.com/features/timewarp/>
 | I often find myself one time zone away on trips, and dealing with my calendar on OS X *or* Windows Office is a mine field. I can summarize the problem as "too many choices": The calendar programs all try to do something clever, and not only do they not do what *I* need but I never quite know what to expect. Configurati... |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
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] | Make it explicit that the scheduled campaign will run in the LA timezone to reduce any confusion. MailChimp does it quite nicely with their Delivery by Time Zone feature <http://mailchimp.com/features/timewarp/>
 | As Golden Krishna says bes tinterface is no interface. So ask the user the localisation of the meeting and ask him the time of this meeting.
Take into account or ask him if it is local time.
Ask from where he comes and specifies him automatically the time in two formats its real localisation and the time of the local... |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/79636",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/66870/"
] | The user will be expecting it to be, by default, in their time zone. Anything other than this will cause confusion. However as @RizwanJavaid has highlighted, for some markets/projects (and I would say social media is one) it is perfectly well expected to be able to change this. | In my opinion, the best thing you can do in this case is the following:
1. The user configures the time to send the message according to HIS timezone.
2. The program immediately shows the corresponding time in the following zones:
* Pacific timezone;
* Atlantic US timezone;
* UK timezone
* Western Europe Timezone
... |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/79636",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/66870/"
] | The user will be expecting it to be, by default, in their time zone. Anything other than this will cause confusion. However as @RizwanJavaid has highlighted, for some markets/projects (and I would say social media is one) it is perfectly well expected to be able to change this. | I often find myself one time zone away on trips, and dealing with my calendar on OS X *or* Windows Office is a mine field. I can summarize the problem as "too many choices": The calendar programs all try to do something clever, and not only do they not do what *I* need but I never quite know what to expect. Configurati... |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/79636",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/66870/"
] | The user will be expecting it to be, by default, in their time zone. Anything other than this will cause confusion. However as @RizwanJavaid has highlighted, for some markets/projects (and I would say social media is one) it is perfectly well expected to be able to change this. | As Golden Krishna says bes tinterface is no interface. So ask the user the localisation of the meeting and ask him the time of this meeting.
Take into account or ask him if it is local time.
Ask from where he comes and specifies him automatically the time in two formats its real localisation and the time of the local... |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/79636",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/66870/"
] | I often find myself one time zone away on trips, and dealing with my calendar on OS X *or* Windows Office is a mine field. I can summarize the problem as "too many choices": The calendar programs all try to do something clever, and not only do they not do what *I* need but I never quite know what to expect. Configurati... | In my opinion, the best thing you can do in this case is the following:
1. The user configures the time to send the message according to HIS timezone.
2. The program immediately shows the corresponding time in the following zones:
* Pacific timezone;
* Atlantic US timezone;
* UK timezone
* Western Europe Timezone
... |
79,636 | I have a product where users can schedule content to post to social networks. The users may have their account set to their local timezone, while running a campaign which requires them to schedule content for another timezone.
An example of this would be a user who is running their account from an office in New York, ... | 2015/06/03 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/79636",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/66870/"
] | I often find myself one time zone away on trips, and dealing with my calendar on OS X *or* Windows Office is a mine field. I can summarize the problem as "too many choices": The calendar programs all try to do something clever, and not only do they not do what *I* need but I never quite know what to expect. Configurati... | As Golden Krishna says bes tinterface is no interface. So ask the user the localisation of the meeting and ask him the time of this meeting.
Take into account or ask him if it is local time.
Ask from where he comes and specifies him automatically the time in two formats its real localisation and the time of the local... |
39,265,641 | I am new to RISC-V, Rocket-Chip, and Chisel, and have been searching around for tutorials, and documents, to help me learn to write Chisel code. It seems to be spread out and new bits and pieces trickle in. I will answer this question with my list, what have you found? | 2016/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/39265641",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2472001/"
] | A Chisel 2 documentation page, including tutorial, manual, and cheat-sheet:
<https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/documentation.html>
Chisel 3 wiki: <https://github.com/ucb-bar/chisel3/wiki>
Style guide, which helps those new, like me, understand nuances and figure out how to do non-obvious things:
<https://github.com/cc... | Will update the answer with more link of various docs/tutorials regarding Chisel -
Chisel tutorial PDF file - <https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs250/sp17/handouts/chisel-tutorial.pdf> |
538 | As part of a homework assignment, we are implementing the Inverse Filter. Degrade an image then recover with an Inverse Filter.
I convolve the image in the spatial domain with a 5x5 box filter. I FFT the filter, FFT the degraded image, then divide the degraded image by the filter. Inverse FFT the result into an image ... | 2011/10/29 | [
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/538",
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com",
"https://dsp.stackexchange.com/users/340/"
] | There's a couple subquestions that I'll address separately:
* Convolution in the spatial domain (or correspondingly in the time domain for time-sampled signals) is equivalent to multiplication in the frequency domain. In sampled systems, there are some subtleties to boundary cases (i.e. when using the DFT, multiplicat... | I hope you have not made mistake in the way computation is done for -
>
> I convolve the image in the spatial domain with a 5x5 box filter. I
> FFT the filter, FFT the degraded image, then divide the degraded image
> by the filter. Inverse FFT the result into an image and I get garbage.
>
>
>
Suppose your imag... |
342,400 | How does a routing and remote access server pick up routes to advertise to clients, and where can a list of routes being provided be reviewed?
One of our users is reporting that the server is advertising a route which is valid, but has never been entered in the static routes section of the RRAS server, or told/provide... | 2011/12/19 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/342400",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/11087/"
] | There is no way to push routes from a PPTP server. The connection is established and configured using IPCP, the PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol defined in [RFC 1332](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1332.txt). In fact, its very name ("Point to Point") implies that you won't find any support for routing.
Which routes ... | Part of the pptp exchange can include a route. You can also configure windows to download a route-file which can have as many custom routes as you want. Honestly, I would not suggest using PPTP in a production environment, as it has some known security flaws and is not as reliable as L2TP over IPSEC. |
213,104 | I remember an old advert for the original Borderlands about how there were a "Bajillion" different guns you could find. Obviously this was for marketing purposes. (According to Gearbox the first Borderlands had 17,750,000 and Borderlands 2 had "many more" with a wider variety)
My question: How many different variation... | 2015/04/08 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/213104",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/106313/"
] | Finally I figured it out.
When you hit an enemy vehicle or player with the tracking dart, it appears highlighted in red and it is permanently marked on the minimap. But beyond that, if a vehicle is hit by a tracking dart it can be acquired as a target from smart aiming weapons.
![Battlefield Hardline - Tracking Dart]... | There can be 2 reasons even if i dont know if both get a red highlighting
**1. Hotwire Game Mode**
>
> Hotwire is an objective game mode in Battlefield Hardline. It's basically a mobile, high-speed version of Conquest.
>
>
> The criminals are trying to steal a list of marked Vehicles while the cops are trying to r... |
146,142 | There are 12 endings - 3 different narrations for each of the 4 choices... What exactly changes this?
Killing enemies? How many do you need to kill to get the neutral ending? What about "innocents"? Notable NPCs?
How do the quests factor into this (saving people, defusing the bomb near the start)? Dialogue? Does bein... | 2013/12/14 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/146142",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/63164/"
] | There are four separate endings based on what you choose at the end:
* "It was something in the water": follow Bill Taggart's ending and cover up the truth, blaming Neuropozyne poisoning as the reason for everything that happened
* "Terrorists did it": follow David Sarif's request and blame Humanity Front
* "I want to... | Actually I've got neutral ending after killing every killable NPC I've found, except for 'has to survive' quest-related NPCs, which I've killed after receiving quest reward.
Maybe my methods were wrong? I've mostly gone delicate takedown to get 'merciful soul' and keep quiet, then nailed 'em with silenced pistol. For ... |
46,431 | I live in the Caribbean, and while riding bike, I saw this tree:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sIReH.jpg)
So I cut a small branch:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4YdQu.jpg)
Can I replan... | 2019/06/22 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/46431",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/14590/"
] | From your pictures, it looks the leaves are from two different plants.
the top one is probably some species of lagerstromeria, maybe L. speciosa.....around here, they're called crepe myrtles.
the second pic is from something else, the leaves are completely different....maybe an albizia or acacia. Looks very much like... | It may need some rooting compound, and to prevent dehydration you should remove the leaves, but you're on the right track. |
85,993 | So, I was reading an article today, and I came across a sentence that went
>
> Keep walking, and you will find yourself walking past shops that **sell** everything, from steel trunks to conch shells.
>
>
>
And I was wondering, if I changed the sentence to
>
> Keep walking, and you will find yourself walking p... | 2016/03/29 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/85993",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/27312/"
] | **They have the same meaning.**
"Shops that sell everything" is describing the shops. 'They sell everything.'
"Shops selling everything" is having the shops perform an action. 'They are currently selling everything'
The only difference is that the second sentence seem to imply that they are currently selling, altho... | Yes they are equivalent in meaning.
The argument could be made by pendants that this only holds if the shops are currently engaged in business, but as a native speaker it would be a complete toss up which version I used, even if I was speaking at the dead of night, about shops that were closed. |
78,079 | I accidentally left my groceries out on the counter for an hour. Some frozen fish and frozen fruits and vegetables. Are they still good? Especially the fish? | 2017/02/03 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/78079",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/54303/"
] | It's all still safe, given that it was only an hour. Even very perishable food like fish and meat is safe for 2-4 hours in the danger zone (above 40F/5C), so even if it had fully thawed it'd be okay. If it was all still clearly frozen on the surface, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
If some of it was thawed... | If every thing is still cold you should be ok. If the fish is still a little frozen you can go ahead and put it in the freezer. If it is completely thawed I would eat it with in a couple of days. |
78,079 | I accidentally left my groceries out on the counter for an hour. Some frozen fish and frozen fruits and vegetables. Are they still good? Especially the fish? | 2017/02/03 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/78079",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/54303/"
] | It's all still safe, given that it was only an hour. Even very perishable food like fish and meat is safe for 2-4 hours in the danger zone (above 40F/5C), so even if it had fully thawed it'd be okay. If it was all still clearly frozen on the surface, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
If some of it was thawed... | you don't say how frozen/defrosted the fish is. Here is a guide to [shelf life](http://stilltasty.com/questions/index/132/page:1) which could help. Your fruits will, if defrosted and then re-frozen be a bit more mushy and possibly watery when defrosted again.
Your fish however is another matter, if it has de-frosted ... |
78,079 | I accidentally left my groceries out on the counter for an hour. Some frozen fish and frozen fruits and vegetables. Are they still good? Especially the fish? | 2017/02/03 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/78079",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/54303/"
] | It's all still safe, given that it was only an hour. Even very perishable food like fish and meat is safe for 2-4 hours in the danger zone (above 40F/5C), so even if it had fully thawed it'd be okay. If it was all still clearly frozen on the surface, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
If some of it was thawed... | During an ice storm, in 2009, we had no electricity for 2 weeks. A friend made it to my house to run a generator for me, to keep my frozen foods from going bad, and I wondered if it was all OK. I was told by the local farm bureau and food safety people that if it is still COLD, but thawed, it can be refrozen. Look clos... |
254,547 | I just finished a project and rebooted my computer. It didn't want to boot anymore so I had to use the Windows 7 system repair option. It ran for a minute and then booted up. Now most of my source code from the last 4 days of work is gone!
Background: sometimes (most often after installing new software) my notebook wo... | 2011/03/07 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/254547",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/70622/"
] | You should check and see if "Restore Previous Versions" shows anything on the folders in question. | It unlinks the references, your best guess is to go for a free combiantion of TestDisk and Photorec or a paid forensics solution like WinHEX. See my [**nearly finished recovery post here**](https://superuser.com/questions/241817/how-do-i-recover-lost-inacessible-data-from-my-storage-device), and set up version control ... |
254,547 | I just finished a project and rebooted my computer. It didn't want to boot anymore so I had to use the Windows 7 system repair option. It ran for a minute and then booted up. Now most of my source code from the last 4 days of work is gone!
Background: sometimes (most often after installing new software) my notebook wo... | 2011/03/07 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/254547",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/70622/"
] | AFAIK there's no way to recover your data without using "forensic tools" like [TestDisk](http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) assuming that
* you did not use version control (SVN, GIT, etc)
* you don't have a (recent) backup
Just a few tips for the future:
1. If you work on critical data always assure that you ... | You should check and see if "Restore Previous Versions" shows anything on the folders in question. |
254,547 | I just finished a project and rebooted my computer. It didn't want to boot anymore so I had to use the Windows 7 system repair option. It ran for a minute and then booted up. Now most of my source code from the last 4 days of work is gone!
Background: sometimes (most often after installing new software) my notebook wo... | 2011/03/07 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/254547",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/70622/"
] | AFAIK there's no way to recover your data without using "forensic tools" like [TestDisk](http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) assuming that
* you did not use version control (SVN, GIT, etc)
* you don't have a (recent) backup
Just a few tips for the future:
1. If you work on critical data always assure that you ... | It unlinks the references, your best guess is to go for a free combiantion of TestDisk and Photorec or a paid forensics solution like WinHEX. See my [**nearly finished recovery post here**](https://superuser.com/questions/241817/how-do-i-recover-lost-inacessible-data-from-my-storage-device), and set up version control ... |
254,547 | I just finished a project and rebooted my computer. It didn't want to boot anymore so I had to use the Windows 7 system repair option. It ran for a minute and then booted up. Now most of my source code from the last 4 days of work is gone!
Background: sometimes (most often after installing new software) my notebook wo... | 2011/03/07 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/254547",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/70622/"
] | If you're fortunate, the restore did not write over your existing data. Maybe I've been lucky in the past, but I've found Windows to write to empty sectors of the disk. This means that even though a file is deleted, its not really deleted; just the pointer to the file is deleted.
I've had great success in recovering f... | It unlinks the references, your best guess is to go for a free combiantion of TestDisk and Photorec or a paid forensics solution like WinHEX. See my [**nearly finished recovery post here**](https://superuser.com/questions/241817/how-do-i-recover-lost-inacessible-data-from-my-storage-device), and set up version control ... |
254,547 | I just finished a project and rebooted my computer. It didn't want to boot anymore so I had to use the Windows 7 system repair option. It ran for a minute and then booted up. Now most of my source code from the last 4 days of work is gone!
Background: sometimes (most often after installing new software) my notebook wo... | 2011/03/07 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/254547",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/70622/"
] | AFAIK there's no way to recover your data without using "forensic tools" like [TestDisk](http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) assuming that
* you did not use version control (SVN, GIT, etc)
* you don't have a (recent) backup
Just a few tips for the future:
1. If you work on critical data always assure that you ... | If you're fortunate, the restore did not write over your existing data. Maybe I've been lucky in the past, but I've found Windows to write to empty sectors of the disk. This means that even though a file is deleted, its not really deleted; just the pointer to the file is deleted.
I've had great success in recovering f... |
157,410 | I've got a number of machines to upgrade from Vista to Win 7, but the users have an option of also replacing their platter drives with (smaller) SSD's. Ideally I'd like to do these at the same time but I'm not sure what the best way to go about it is.
I would assume doing some sort of Norton Ghost-ian copy from HD to... | 2010/07/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/157410",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/-1/"
] | I recently did this exact same thing. I installed an SSD in my computer and upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. In my case, I installed the SSD side-by-side with the regular drive. I then used Ghost to copy the contents to the new SSD drive. I changed the BIOS to boot the new drive and I was done with the SSD install. I ... | I would do them separately, in the interest of simplicity.
It really doesn't matter which you do first, although I suspect that doing the SSD upgrades first would make the Win7 upgrade go faster. Depending on the brand, hard drives come with a utility to "clone" from the old drive to the new drive. Alternatively, the... |
157,410 | I've got a number of machines to upgrade from Vista to Win 7, but the users have an option of also replacing their platter drives with (smaller) SSD's. Ideally I'd like to do these at the same time but I'm not sure what the best way to go about it is.
I would assume doing some sort of Norton Ghost-ian copy from HD to... | 2010/07/04 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/157410",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/-1/"
] | Clean install and the tool Microsoft bundle with Windows to migrate user data from one machine to another. Not quite the kind of answer you might have been looking for but you'll thank me later I reckon. It still gives you a fallback plan if things go wrong and it gets around the problem of needing a Ghost clone but no... | I would do them separately, in the interest of simplicity.
It really doesn't matter which you do first, although I suspect that doing the SSD upgrades first would make the Win7 upgrade go faster. Depending on the brand, hard drives come with a utility to "clone" from the old drive to the new drive. Alternatively, the... |
13,349,749 | Alright so I have an app that I would like to have utilize other apps. For example I have an app that does quite a number of things except for a directory look up since there is already an app that does that for my school. I know I can launch the application with intents, but that also brings them away from the navigat... | 2012/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13349749",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/802302/"
] | This is technically possible by using widgets. You can implement an [AppWidgetHost](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/appwidget/AppWidgetHost.html), and other applications can create [App Widgets](http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html) to use inside your own app. This is how the l... | This not the Android design philosophy. You should send an Intent to the directory app, which I hope is designed to look up a result and then return it to you. The mechanism is startActivityForResult() in your app, and setResult() in the directory app. |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | Team lead can be a lot of different things, so I'm going to throw out some basic assumptions for your office:
* Someone contributes to the decisions and documentation regarding how well people do their jobs, and what the reward/penalty should be - that includes performance reviews, raises, incentive pay, promotions, t... | If I were you, I'd take the following approach :
1. Set deadlines on things that need to be completed.If you are in IT, then have a project plan, create status tickets and assign them to developers in question. If you are not in IT, then either maintain a white board or distribute an excel sheet keeping a track of wh... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | The key thing to realize here is that it's not your job to *make* people do their work. It's your job to remove impediments by answering questions, keeping people informed, and pro-actively removing distractions.
Work with your project manager to hold people accountable. It doesn't matter if they chit chat, as long a... | I feel you are being ambiguous and a little wishy-washy. I think you can use your personality to your advantage while still removing the ambiguity.
When you ask someone to complete a task, wait for a response.
You: Would you be able to get this done?
Co-worker: Okay.
Now you have their commitment.
You: This n... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | It is not always good to take responsility of leading the team.It is quite natural that all members of the team can't be of same temprament,there are some team members who are tough and respond aggressively.With reference to your situation I would suggest to be as much calm as possible.Listen properly and then give a m... | Per comment below, this answer is focused on software development projects. Much of it applies to other project oriented teams as well. The OP is a member of a number of software discussion areas. Other moderators have asked that this be made 'generic', much of the value of this discussion will be lost in doing so.
--... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | It is not always good to take responsility of leading the team.It is quite natural that all members of the team can't be of same temprament,there are some team members who are tough and respond aggressively.With reference to your situation I would suggest to be as much calm as possible.Listen properly and then give a m... | I feel you are being ambiguous and a little wishy-washy. I think you can use your personality to your advantage while still removing the ambiguity.
When you ask someone to complete a task, wait for a response.
You: Would you be able to get this done?
Co-worker: Okay.
Now you have their commitment.
You: This n... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | If I were you, I'd take the following approach :
1. Set deadlines on things that need to be completed.If you are in IT, then have a project plan, create status tickets and assign them to developers in question. If you are not in IT, then either maintain a white board or distribute an excel sheet keeping a track of wh... | I feel you are being ambiguous and a little wishy-washy. I think you can use your personality to your advantage while still removing the ambiguity.
When you ask someone to complete a task, wait for a response.
You: Would you be able to get this done?
Co-worker: Okay.
Now you have their commitment.
You: This n... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | The key thing to realize here is that it's not your job to *make* people do their work. It's your job to remove impediments by answering questions, keeping people informed, and pro-actively removing distractions.
Work with your project manager to hold people accountable. It doesn't matter if they chit chat, as long a... | It is not always good to take responsility of leading the team.It is quite natural that all members of the team can't be of same temprament,there are some team members who are tough and respond aggressively.With reference to your situation I would suggest to be as much calm as possible.Listen properly and then give a m... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | The key thing to realize here is that it's not your job to *make* people do their work. It's your job to remove impediments by answering questions, keeping people informed, and pro-actively removing distractions.
Work with your project manager to hold people accountable. It doesn't matter if they chit chat, as long a... | If I were you, I'd take the following approach :
1. Set deadlines on things that need to be completed.If you are in IT, then have a project plan, create status tickets and assign them to developers in question. If you are not in IT, then either maintain a white board or distribute an excel sheet keeping a track of wh... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | If I were you, I'd take the following approach :
1. Set deadlines on things that need to be completed.If you are in IT, then have a project plan, create status tickets and assign them to developers in question. If you are not in IT, then either maintain a white board or distribute an excel sheet keeping a track of wh... | Proper performance targets move butts. So if people are not moving fast enough or you always feel more can be done, revisiting the targets you've set or inherited is recommended.
Uncompetitive, easy, or difficult-but-vague targets will result in the first 3 symptoms you've described.
I've had my share of "Hmm, these ... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | The key thing to realize here is that it's not your job to *make* people do their work. It's your job to remove impediments by answering questions, keeping people informed, and pro-actively removing distractions.
Work with your project manager to hold people accountable. It doesn't matter if they chit chat, as long a... | Per comment below, this answer is focused on software development projects. Much of it applies to other project oriented teams as well. The OP is a member of a number of software discussion areas. Other moderators have asked that this be made 'generic', much of the value of this discussion will be lost in doing so.
--... |
16,899 | I recently joined as a team leader in a new company and the project manager assigned me five subordinates for this project. My problem is that I always feel afraid of handling the team as I don't know my powers and feel helpless. I am not aware what powers I have to make subordinates listen and follow my decisions.
I... | 2013/11/24 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/16899",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/788/"
] | Team lead can be a lot of different things, so I'm going to throw out some basic assumptions for your office:
* Someone contributes to the decisions and documentation regarding how well people do their jobs, and what the reward/penalty should be - that includes performance reviews, raises, incentive pay, promotions, t... | Per comment below, this answer is focused on software development projects. Much of it applies to other project oriented teams as well. The OP is a member of a number of software discussion areas. Other moderators have asked that this be made 'generic', much of the value of this discussion will be lost in doing so.
--... |
623,864 | I just rolled a small web application into production on a remote host. After it ran a while, I noticed that MS SQL Server started to consume most of the RAM on the server, starving out IIS and my application.
I have tried changing the "server maximum memory" setting, but eventually the memory usage begins to creep a... | 2009/03/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/623864",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10676/"
] | From the MS knowledge base:
>
> Note that the max server memory option
> only limits the size of the SQL Server
> buffer pool. The max server memory
> option does not limit a remaining
> unreserved memory area that SQL Server
> leaves for allocations of other
> components such as extended stored
> procedures, ... | Typically I recommend setting the max server memory to a couple of Gigs below the physical memory installed.
If you need to run IIS and an application server installed on the server then you'll want to give SQL Server less memory. |
18,975 | Even with detailed specifications for exchanging data between computer programs, chances are that data generated by older versions of programs do not conform 100% to the specification, or that they use old obscure features which few people know how to implement them. As a result, companies have to keep a library of "od... | 2010/11/15 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/18975",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/620/"
] | A Mac mini [will serve you just fine](http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/feb/10/gameculture-apple). I taught a course last semester that did iPod touch programming (another college had iPod touches available for educational use, so I figured programming them would be educational). The only thing I need... | You need a Mac. Almost any Intel based Mac will do, if it has memory enough, where "enough" depends on how willing you are to wait.
At least 2 Gb RAM and better if more.
You will need to download the appropriate iPhone SDK from Apple to write code. For any non-trivial application you will need a physical device too,... |
18,975 | Even with detailed specifications for exchanging data between computer programs, chances are that data generated by older versions of programs do not conform 100% to the specification, or that they use old obscure features which few people know how to implement them. As a result, companies have to keep a library of "od... | 2010/11/15 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/18975",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/620/"
] | You need a Mac. Almost any Intel based Mac will do, if it has memory enough, where "enough" depends on how willing you are to wait.
At least 2 Gb RAM and better if more.
You will need to download the appropriate iPhone SDK from Apple to write code. For any non-trivial application you will need a physical device too,... | I currently use a MacBook Air with the 258GB SSD, 1.8GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB and it's been serving me very well. I've also found compile time to be a lot faster with an SSD.
As for the basic hardware, obviously you need an Apple-labeled system running Mac OS X and a the latest version of Xcode (4). I would also... |
18,975 | Even with detailed specifications for exchanging data between computer programs, chances are that data generated by older versions of programs do not conform 100% to the specification, or that they use old obscure features which few people know how to implement them. As a result, companies have to keep a library of "od... | 2010/11/15 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/18975",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/620/"
] | You need a Mac. Almost any Intel based Mac will do, if it has memory enough, where "enough" depends on how willing you are to wait.
At least 2 Gb RAM and better if more.
You will need to download the appropriate iPhone SDK from Apple to write code. For any non-trivial application you will need a physical device too,... | Almost any Intel Mac that can run OS X 10.6 will do (even used Macs 2 or 3 years old). You will need around at least a dozen or so GB of free storage just to download and install the SDK. An Mini on a KVM will work just fine. Display size real estate is probably the most valuable hardware spec, but I've even been using... |
18,975 | Even with detailed specifications for exchanging data between computer programs, chances are that data generated by older versions of programs do not conform 100% to the specification, or that they use old obscure features which few people know how to implement them. As a result, companies have to keep a library of "od... | 2010/11/15 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/18975",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/620/"
] | A Mac mini [will serve you just fine](http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/feb/10/gameculture-apple). I taught a course last semester that did iPod touch programming (another college had iPod touches available for educational use, so I figured programming them would be educational). The only thing I need... | I currently use a MacBook Air with the 258GB SSD, 1.8GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB and it's been serving me very well. I've also found compile time to be a lot faster with an SSD.
As for the basic hardware, obviously you need an Apple-labeled system running Mac OS X and a the latest version of Xcode (4). I would also... |
18,975 | Even with detailed specifications for exchanging data between computer programs, chances are that data generated by older versions of programs do not conform 100% to the specification, or that they use old obscure features which few people know how to implement them. As a result, companies have to keep a library of "od... | 2010/11/15 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/18975",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/620/"
] | A Mac mini [will serve you just fine](http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/feb/10/gameculture-apple). I taught a course last semester that did iPod touch programming (another college had iPod touches available for educational use, so I figured programming them would be educational). The only thing I need... | Almost any Intel Mac that can run OS X 10.6 will do (even used Macs 2 or 3 years old). You will need around at least a dozen or so GB of free storage just to download and install the SDK. An Mini on a KVM will work just fine. Display size real estate is probably the most valuable hardware spec, but I've even been using... |
5,497,646 | During development of a new application, I was wondering how the most flexible solution of a dynamic, let's say ‘scriptable’, system would look like.
In general, I would need a file in plain text (e.g. TXT or XML) wherein I define a trigger (in my example a hex string) and a corresponding action (open a window, execu... | 2011/03/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5497646",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2686793/"
] | There are various scripting languages you can use inside your .NET application; IronPython being one obvious example, but others are available - javascript for example (talking to your .NET objects; not in a browser). One of these might have some application here? | Well you can embed a .NET language like [IronPython](http://secretgeek.net/host_ironpython.asp) or possibly [Boo](http://boo.codehaus.org/Boo+as+an+embedded+scripting+language) |
5,497,646 | During development of a new application, I was wondering how the most flexible solution of a dynamic, let's say ‘scriptable’, system would look like.
In general, I would need a file in plain text (e.g. TXT or XML) wherein I define a trigger (in my example a hex string) and a corresponding action (open a window, execu... | 2011/03/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5497646",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2686793/"
] | If you have only simple program flow you can use [Windows Workflow Foundation Rules Engine](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd554919.aspx).
Features
* Inlcuded in dotnet3.0 runtime, no extra costs
* *RuleSetDialog* can be integrated into your code to edit rules including intellisense
* persistable as xml-file... | Well you can embed a .NET language like [IronPython](http://secretgeek.net/host_ironpython.asp) or possibly [Boo](http://boo.codehaus.org/Boo+as+an+embedded+scripting+language) |
6,619,763 | I have a program in which an Ajax request goes out to a PHP script that does all the behind the scenes stuff of grabbing the data from the database and then returning it as responseText to be pasted into my HTML to update the page without refreshing. I do this request once every 250 milliseconds (so that means I get 4 ... | 2011/07/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6619763",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/834694/"
] | First of all firing that much ajax requests ain't a good idea. when the number of users increases, the server load will increase exponentially serving requests. Second thing you need to consider the possibilities of scaling the application and database. I guess you might be returning json\_encoded data from server, els... | 4 r/s is.. nothing for PHP. So in a short: in order to make PHP scalable; make your code scalable. |
167,772 | I have a Ruby on Rails application that I'm writing where a user has the option to edit an invoice. They need to be able to reassign the order of the rows. Right now I have an index column in the db which is used as the default sort mechanism. I just exposed that and allowed the user to edit it.
This is not very eleg... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/167772",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13968/"
] | I've used the Yahoo User Interface library to do this before:
<http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/dragdrop/> | Scriptaculous sortables seems like the way to go since it's built in.
<http://github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/wikis/sortable> |
167,772 | I have a Ruby on Rails application that I'm writing where a user has the option to edit an invoice. They need to be able to reassign the order of the rows. Right now I have an index column in the db which is used as the default sort mechanism. I just exposed that and allowed the user to edit it.
This is not very eleg... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/167772",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13968/"
] | I've used the Yahoo User Interface library to do this before:
<http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/dragdrop/> | The Yahoo interface was easier than I expected, had something snazzy working in less than four hours. |
167,772 | I have a Ruby on Rails application that I'm writing where a user has the option to edit an invoice. They need to be able to reassign the order of the rows. Right now I have an index column in the db which is used as the default sort mechanism. I just exposed that and allowed the user to edit it.
This is not very eleg... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/167772",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13968/"
] | I like jQuery <http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Sortables>
$("#myList").sortable({});
You will need to write some code to persist it but it isn't that tough. | The Yahoo interface was easier than I expected, had something snazzy working in less than four hours. |
167,772 | I have a Ruby on Rails application that I'm writing where a user has the option to edit an invoice. They need to be able to reassign the order of the rows. Right now I have an index column in the db which is used as the default sort mechanism. I just exposed that and allowed the user to edit it.
This is not very eleg... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/167772",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13968/"
] | The Yahoo interface was easier than I expected, had something snazzy working in less than four hours. | Scriptaculous sortables seems like the way to go since it's built in.
<http://github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/wikis/sortable> |
155,893 | I was wondering, to make a DOS attack you need to send something to the target you are DOS-ing. And to send something you need to use some protocol. My question is, are all protocols the same speed? And what are the protocols that DOS programms usually use? My guess the UDP because I saw online it was fatser, but I am ... | 2017/04/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/155893",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/144173/"
] | In principle a DDOS attack can send completely legitimate requests and thus overload the server. For example, just use a botnet to visit some persons blog and the server will potentially collapse under the load. There is no real way to protect against this because every request looks like a real request.
However, the ... | A answer has been accepted here - and it does make some valid points, but did not mention reflected amplification attacks; with tcp only small amounts of data are exchanged (and must be exchanged between both the attacker and victim) before processing, memory and io resources can be consumed. A slowloris type attack as... |
103,957 | I read [pp 13-14 of Tang Court's menu](http://www.langhamhotels.com/en/the-langham/hong-kong/dining/tang-court/) but they don't stipulate [this vegetable](https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/p-tang-court-p1653722)'s name.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.co... | 2019/12/07 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/103957",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | That appears to be [gai lan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gai_lan), or a closely related Chinese brassica like [yu choy](https://www.melissas.com/Yu-Choy-Sum-p/1102.htm), with the leaves removed. So just the stems.
I haven't seen (or found) a recipe for just the stems in broth, but it makes a certain amount of sense;... | Probably leeks. Almost all Asian meals use them. Similar to onions or cabbage
! |
103,564 | I'm looking into Bag of Holding and a friend of mine says that you can't put any sharp objects into it.
Rule as written: **If a bag of holding is overloaded, or if sharp objects pierce it (from inside or outside), the bag immediately ruptures and is ruined, and all contents are lost forever**
In my reading on the rul... | 2017/07/14 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/103564",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/11552/"
] | **The rules as written say only that a *bag of holding* can be pierced from the inside.** They don't say how hard a bag is to pierce. In other words, the rules don't actually answer this question explicitly... **But that doesn't mean we can't work out the answer.**
After all, we know that a *bag of holding* is a bag. ... | The Bag of holdings dimensions are roughly 2 feet in diameter at the mouth and 4 feet deep. This means if you try to shove a 6-ft spear or something similar with a sharp pointy edge you will pierce it. Further players tend to abuse the bag by placing items in it that have more than a 2 ft circumference.
Bottom line is... |
26,364,634 | When debugging in IntelliJ Idea if I put a break point on a method signature it warns me about slow performance. However, what I do instead is just put it on the first executable line of code in the function and it works fine for my purposes.
My understanding is that if I see the function I will for sure see right bef... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/26364634",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2744726/"
] | Using method breakpoints creates a need to check every time a method is called to determine whether it needs to be breaked for every method call on the application. They also disable JVM optimizations such as method inlining.
Regardless to say this issue is not IDEA related, might even be applicable for other programm... | Don't have IntelliJ IDEA in front of me, but based on [documentation](http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/types-of-breakpoints.html), I think with method breakpoints you aren't actually going inside method implementation, but rather step-by-step on method calls. Which is probably the reason for performance impact, si... |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/38518/"
] | I believe it's merely for the ergonomic benefit. Especially when touch typing.
Imagine if you want to type "A" and you would have to use the right shift key. Try it for yourself. I would need my both hands, because I can't reach it.
You can find more information on wiki: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing> ... | As someone who learnt to touch type only *some* of the duplicate keys are useful to a touch typist (such as Shift which existed on typewriter keyboards).
The history of keyboard design is really the history of the [IBM Keyboard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard) - which started out as a mainframe keyboard ... |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/38518/"
] | I believe it's merely for the ergonomic benefit. Especially when touch typing.
Imagine if you want to type "A" and you would have to use the right shift key. Try it for yourself. I would need my both hands, because I can't reach it.
You can find more information on wiki: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing> ... | The duplicate keys can usually be re-mapped to other useful shortcuts (like copy and paste instead of having to hit multiple keys to perform these shortcuts) or program specific controls to make certain functions easier (e.g. in gaming, you may map these buttons so they perform in-game commands). It's helpful to have a... |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/38518/"
] | I believe it's merely for the ergonomic benefit. Especially when touch typing.
Imagine if you want to type "A" and you would have to use the right shift key. Try it for yourself. I would need my both hands, because I can't reach it.
You can find more information on wiki: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing> ... | As a matter of fact, there aren't two `Enter` keys on a keyboard - one of them is 'Enter' and the other one 'Return'.
With some old machines (and even sometimes nowadays in applications) these keys had a different function. From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_key):
>
> For example, while using the ty... |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/38518/"
] | I believe it's merely for the ergonomic benefit. Especially when touch typing.
Imagine if you want to type "A" and you would have to use the right shift key. Try it for yourself. I would need my both hands, because I can't reach it.
You can find more information on wiki: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing> ... | All keys that need to be used in combination are duplicated on the keyboard. So that you can use both your hands easily for all the keys on the keyboard. For example, Alt A, will be used by pressing Alt with your right hand, and A with your left hand. Same logic for Alt L. |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/38518/"
] | As someone who learnt to touch type only *some* of the duplicate keys are useful to a touch typist (such as Shift which existed on typewriter keyboards).
The history of keyboard design is really the history of the [IBM Keyboard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard) - which started out as a mainframe keyboard ... | The duplicate keys can usually be re-mapped to other useful shortcuts (like copy and paste instead of having to hit multiple keys to perform these shortcuts) or program specific controls to make certain functions easier (e.g. in gaming, you may map these buttons so they perform in-game commands). It's helpful to have a... |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/38518/"
] | As someone who learnt to touch type only *some* of the duplicate keys are useful to a touch typist (such as Shift which existed on typewriter keyboards).
The history of keyboard design is really the history of the [IBM Keyboard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard) - which started out as a mainframe keyboard ... | All keys that need to be used in combination are duplicated on the keyboard. So that you can use both your hands easily for all the keys on the keyboard. For example, Alt A, will be used by pressing Alt with your right hand, and A with your left hand. Same logic for Alt L. |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/38518/"
] | As a matter of fact, there aren't two `Enter` keys on a keyboard - one of them is 'Enter' and the other one 'Return'.
With some old machines (and even sometimes nowadays in applications) these keys had a different function. From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_key):
>
> For example, while using the ty... | The duplicate keys can usually be re-mapped to other useful shortcuts (like copy and paste instead of having to hit multiple keys to perform these shortcuts) or program specific controls to make certain functions easier (e.g. in gaming, you may map these buttons so they perform in-game commands). It's helpful to have a... |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/38518/"
] | All keys that need to be used in combination are duplicated on the keyboard. So that you can use both your hands easily for all the keys on the keyboard. For example, Alt A, will be used by pressing Alt with your right hand, and A with your left hand. Same logic for Alt L. | The duplicate keys can usually be re-mapped to other useful shortcuts (like copy and paste instead of having to hit multiple keys to perform these shortcuts) or program specific controls to make certain functions easier (e.g. in gaming, you may map these buttons so they perform in-game commands). It's helpful to have a... |
48,518 | I am not a typing expert but I found it unusual to have some keys been repeated on keyboard. What's the logic behind this? | 2013/11/27 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/48518",
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] | As a matter of fact, there aren't two `Enter` keys on a keyboard - one of them is 'Enter' and the other one 'Return'.
With some old machines (and even sometimes nowadays in applications) these keys had a different function. From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_key):
>
> For example, while using the ty... | All keys that need to be used in combination are duplicated on the keyboard. So that you can use both your hands easily for all the keys on the keyboard. For example, Alt A, will be used by pressing Alt with your right hand, and A with your left hand. Same logic for Alt L. |
275,363 | I'm running Windows 7 on a laptop, and I'm having a bit of an issue with my CD-ROM drive. Each time I boot up my computer, for some reason, that device gets disabled. In other words, I can't access it from Windows Explorer and I can't use it at all.
So far, I've had to fix that each time by opening Device Manager, fin... | 2011/04/26 | [
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] | Go into your BIOS and make sure any option to the effect of "Plug and Play OS" is set to Yes. Also, if there is an option to clear anything similar to "Extended System Configuration Data", try it. You might also try resetting the BIOS to defaults. | I had the same problem: my audio and DVD were disabled even in BIOS. I went in to a repair shop and they told me that my NVIDIA graphic card chip was damaged. They repaired it and solved this problem. Please check your graphic card chip. |
34,366 | All throughout the series, specifically, within the second Arc of the story, there are references to Subaru smelling like the **Witch's Scent**, Giving us the knowledge that he is Definitely connected to her.
Why is this? It's well known that Subaru was pulled from modern day Japan into this Fantasy world, as well as ... | 2016/07/21 | [
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] | Satella The Jealous Witch is in love with Subaru. Why though is not known to the current arc of the latest source arc 6 (web) may change in the official version (Published book).
The first time we supposed to see her was supposed to be in the current anime arc which is arc 3 it is not shown during the anime but every... | Emilia was the Witch when she was younger. Emilia slowly becomes the witch who at some point goes back in time and "fucks everything up" which is why people think the current Emilia is related to the witch which she actually is. Older Subaru is basically the mental essence of all the finger, he went crazy in the future... |
34,366 | All throughout the series, specifically, within the second Arc of the story, there are references to Subaru smelling like the **Witch's Scent**, Giving us the knowledge that he is Definitely connected to her.
Why is this? It's well known that Subaru was pulled from modern day Japan into this Fantasy world, as well as ... | 2016/07/21 | [
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] | Satella The Jealous Witch is in love with Subaru. Why though is not known to the current arc of the latest source arc 6 (web) may change in the official version (Published book).
The first time we supposed to see her was supposed to be in the current anime arc which is arc 3 it is not shown during the anime but every... | This isnt a fact but a theory but I am starting to learn towards the idea that Emilia is Satella. Subaru is the flugel. Hence the flugel tree and why he planted it. I think Emilia will take the witch genes from Subaru possibly to save him from the insanity? Maybe all 7 witch genes was too much. This also may be why Sat... |
56,054 | I know that some books contain strong languages that aren't appropriate in stories but in the end, I think my book needs them for extra violent highlights that would do well for the villains. I aim for an audience level of middle grade and up, so I refrained from adding in any 'Curse' words. As my story drag on longer,... | 2021/05/27 | [
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] | Chilling Effects for Mid-grade:
-------------------------------
If you add the language, it does somewhat definitionally shift from [mid-grade](https://www.masterclass.com/articles/whats-the-difference-between-middle-grade-fiction-vs-young-adult-fiction#:%7E:text=Middle%2Dgrade%20fiction%20refers%20to,ages%20of%2012%2... | In dialogues for sure. Characters should swear the same way real people swear. But note that the more it is used, the less effect it has on the reader. If swearing is used in every sentence, the reader gets used to it and then it is much harder to emphasize a particularly tense situation. |
56,054 | I know that some books contain strong languages that aren't appropriate in stories but in the end, I think my book needs them for extra violent highlights that would do well for the villains. I aim for an audience level of middle grade and up, so I refrained from adding in any 'Curse' words. As my story drag on longer,... | 2021/05/27 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/56054",
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] | So I was growing up when the Harry Potter books were being released and had the benefit of maturing with the characters at about the same rate, given the gap between releases (books 1-3 were out when I got ahold of them but still weren't popular in the States just yet. My copy of Book One was "Philosopher's Stone" not ... | In dialogues for sure. Characters should swear the same way real people swear. But note that the more it is used, the less effect it has on the reader. If swearing is used in every sentence, the reader gets used to it and then it is much harder to emphasize a particularly tense situation. |
56,054 | I know that some books contain strong languages that aren't appropriate in stories but in the end, I think my book needs them for extra violent highlights that would do well for the villains. I aim for an audience level of middle grade and up, so I refrained from adding in any 'Curse' words. As my story drag on longer,... | 2021/05/27 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/56054",
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] | **Middle Grade book buyers are usually parents and teachers**. Children of that age read a lot, but are NOT typically making their own purchases. That means that parents and teachers are the gatekeepers. For that reason, Middle Grade books usually need to be squeaky clean.
**YA books are typically purchased by teenage... | In dialogues for sure. Characters should swear the same way real people swear. But note that the more it is used, the less effect it has on the reader. If swearing is used in every sentence, the reader gets used to it and then it is much harder to emphasize a particularly tense situation. |
56,054 | I know that some books contain strong languages that aren't appropriate in stories but in the end, I think my book needs them for extra violent highlights that would do well for the villains. I aim for an audience level of middle grade and up, so I refrained from adding in any 'Curse' words. As my story drag on longer,... | 2021/05/27 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/56054",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/49599/"
] | Chilling Effects for Mid-grade:
-------------------------------
If you add the language, it does somewhat definitionally shift from [mid-grade](https://www.masterclass.com/articles/whats-the-difference-between-middle-grade-fiction-vs-young-adult-fiction#:%7E:text=Middle%2Dgrade%20fiction%20refers%20to,ages%20of%2012%2... | So I was growing up when the Harry Potter books were being released and had the benefit of maturing with the characters at about the same rate, given the gap between releases (books 1-3 were out when I got ahold of them but still weren't popular in the States just yet. My copy of Book One was "Philosopher's Stone" not ... |
56,054 | I know that some books contain strong languages that aren't appropriate in stories but in the end, I think my book needs them for extra violent highlights that would do well for the villains. I aim for an audience level of middle grade and up, so I refrained from adding in any 'Curse' words. As my story drag on longer,... | 2021/05/27 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/56054",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/49599/"
] | Chilling Effects for Mid-grade:
-------------------------------
If you add the language, it does somewhat definitionally shift from [mid-grade](https://www.masterclass.com/articles/whats-the-difference-between-middle-grade-fiction-vs-young-adult-fiction#:%7E:text=Middle%2Dgrade%20fiction%20refers%20to,ages%20of%2012%2... | **Middle Grade book buyers are usually parents and teachers**. Children of that age read a lot, but are NOT typically making their own purchases. That means that parents and teachers are the gatekeepers. For that reason, Middle Grade books usually need to be squeaky clean.
**YA books are typically purchased by teenage... |
16,855 | What kind of module should I use to send content to a list of emails?
* I need to create a groups with list of emails.
* I need to send it to one or a few of these groups.
* I need for admins to be able to look at the email addresses which will receive the emails.
I am thinking about using mailchimp, but it does not ... | 2011/12/06 | [
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/16855",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com",
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] | You can use the new [Newsletter](http://drupal.org/project/newsletter) module for D7.
Features
>
> Multiple newsletters lists configurable on terms, not vocabularies
> Plain text or HTML out of the box
> Multiple schedules Each newsletter can have more than one schedule, e.g. Daily, Monthly, Weekly, manually or ev... | I think what you need is mailchimp integration (http://drupal.org/project/mailchimp). This module allows you to automatically send mails based on cron. But i am not sure whether you need to pay and use this. |
86,928 | Can you use canned tomato puree to make a simple tomato soup? I want to make my own tomato soup but all the recipes I find call for a blender to puree the soup, and I don't have one! So I was wondering if canned tomato puree and chicken broth will do the trick. | 2018/01/06 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/86928",
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] | Use pureed ingredients, or puree afterward...it makes little difference. With no blender, in a pinch you can push your product through a sieve. | A tomato soup made of fresh tomatoes is really the best. What causes trouble here is the skin and the middle part of the tomatoes, the rest of them becomes puree in the course of cooking. Boil water and immerse the whole tomatos for 1 min. Then you can remove their thin skin an effortless way. Cut out their green stalk... |
190,480 | I have 2 computers with the same OS setup, Windowx XP SP3 running firefox 3.6.10 and one has .Net Framework Assistant 1.0 installed and working on the firefox complements and the 2nd one has it saying that it is not compatible with firefox 3.6.10.
What can I do to fix it and/or reinstall the same or what should I do ? | 2010/09/19 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/190480",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/49575/"
] | The solution i found to re-install it was the follow:
1. Remove it completly using the 2nd method at <http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B963707&x=14&y=6>
2. Went to Windows Update Page and installed it once again.
With this it worked fine and there is no more conflict on firefox. | This extension requires version 3.5 SP1 of the .NET Framework to be installed. Is it possible you don't have that on the second computer? |
2,533,577 | Anyone got some good references for targeting web content to the iPad web browser? i know its still very early days but I havent got any good indicator on how to setup CSS to fix iphone/ipod touch versus the larger screen of the iPad? or do I just consider it to be like safari on the bigger Macs | 2010/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2533577",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10676/"
] | If you can't get the SDK to play with, 9to5 Mac posted a video of Safari in the iPad simulator: [iPad Safari walthrough](http://9to5mac.com/ipad-safari-walkthru-video-4650470). They seem to think it's closer to Safari on a mac and Google doesn't look like it does on an iPhone. | From looking at the apple webpage, seems that Safari will be the iPad's browser.
[Source](http://9to5mac.com/ipad-safari-walkthru-video-4650470). |
2,533,577 | Anyone got some good references for targeting web content to the iPad web browser? i know its still very early days but I havent got any good indicator on how to setup CSS to fix iphone/ipod touch versus the larger screen of the iPad? or do I just consider it to be like safari on the bigger Macs | 2010/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2533577",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10676/"
] | Safari for iPad is a hybrid between the desktop version of Safari and the Mobile iPhone version.
For example it supports inline video like the desktop, but scrollable div's are difficult for users to interact with just like the iPhone. (they require two fingers to scroll, which is not discoverable.
[Preparing your Co... | From looking at the apple webpage, seems that Safari will be the iPad's browser.
[Source](http://9to5mac.com/ipad-safari-walkthru-video-4650470). |
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