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1,861,377 | RIA services allows you to add an attribute to a domain service method like: RequiresRole("Admin"). This will automatically check if the user calling that method has the correct security to do so. I would like to do something similar for a property on an entity. For example, only users in the role "Manager" are allowed to change the "Rate" property, but any user can change the "Comments" property. Is this possible? | 2009/12/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1861377",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3291/"
] | A better way to support security for properties is by overriding DomainService.Query method, this way you'll avoid loading lots of excessive data. Blogged more about it [here](http://www.blog.yumasoft.com/node/69). | You could do this using a [Custom Validation attribute](http://blogs.msdn.com/bursteg/archive/2009/04/14/net-ria-services-custom-validation.aspx). You could create an attribute such as RequiresManagerRole that would check to see if the user is in the Manager role and would not allow the change if the user wasn't.
That might not be a very good experience for the user however. You'd probably want to somehow bind the readonly property in the form to figure out if the property was editable. You might be able to do that with an IValueConverter and in your value converter check the role of the user to determine if it is read only.
**Update:** Ok I think Brad saw this question and [wrote this blog post to address it](http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/12/08/field-level-access-with-ria-services.aspx). This should address what you want to do but takes a different approach to it. |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | E. Wigner, "On Unitary Representations of the Inhomogeneous Lorentz Group"
Because of the apocryphal story of how it got published.
Edit: It was originally rejected by one of the leading physics journals as not being of general interest. Then Wigner mentioned it to von Neumann (his classmate from school back in Hungary). J. von Neumann told Wigner to send it to the Annals of Math., where von Neumann was the chief editor. It was immediately accepted there! Years later, Wigner received a leter from the AMS, saying that after a survey his paper had been found to be one of the most influential papers. | The number of citations a paper receives is a good indicator of its importance.
Top Cited Articles of All Time (2010 edition) can be found at:
<http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/topcites/2010/alltime.shtml>
1.37791
Review of Particle Physics
By Particle Data Group (Claude Amsler et al.).
Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
Published in:Phys.Lett.B667:1-1340,2008
[3679 Total citations in HEP]
[37799 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
2.7328
A Model of Leptons
By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
[7328 Total citations in HEP]
3.7135
The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
By Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.).
Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998, Int.J.Theor.Phys.38:1113-1133,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9711200)
[7192 Total citations in HEP] |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | The two papers of fundamentals of **Density Functional Theory**.
1. P. Hohenberg and W. Kohn. [*Phys. Rev.* 136, B864–B871 (1964)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.136.B864)
2. W. Kohn and L. J. Sham. [*Phys. Rev.* 140, A1133–A1138 (1965)](https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.140.A1133)
The Kohn-Sham paper have 10,575 citations and the Hohenberg-Kohn have 8,714 citations. These papers are importants for Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Quantum Chemistry and Nanoscience in general. It is a prime example of interdisciplinarity. | The number of citations a paper receives is a good indicator of its importance.
Top Cited Articles of All Time (2010 edition) can be found at:
<http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/topcites/2010/alltime.shtml>
1.37791
Review of Particle Physics
By Particle Data Group (Claude Amsler et al.).
Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
Published in:Phys.Lett.B667:1-1340,2008
[3679 Total citations in HEP]
[37799 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
2.7328
A Model of Leptons
By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
[7328 Total citations in HEP]
3.7135
The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
By Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.).
Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998, Int.J.Theor.Phys.38:1113-1133,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9711200)
[7192 Total citations in HEP] |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | I know it's been mentioned already here, but:
[A Model of Leptons](http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v19/i21/p1264_1)
is worth every bit of its (almost) 4 pages.
Recently, the one that changed everything in theoretical physics is:
[The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity](http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200)
perhaps it already deserves to be in this listing. | In the field of statistical physics there is nothing more famous than Onsager's solution for the [Ising ferromagnet on a square lattice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-lattice_Ising_model).
[Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.65.117)
The paper itself isn't that important nowadays because there are both better solutions and better pedagogical approaches to the problem. Nevertheless, historically it was the first full solution of a non-trivial physical system which exhibits phase transitions. |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | E. Wigner, "On Unitary Representations of the Inhomogeneous Lorentz Group"
Because of the apocryphal story of how it got published.
Edit: It was originally rejected by one of the leading physics journals as not being of general interest. Then Wigner mentioned it to von Neumann (his classmate from school back in Hungary). J. von Neumann told Wigner to send it to the Annals of Math., where von Neumann was the chief editor. It was immediately accepted there! Years later, Wigner received a leter from the AMS, saying that after a survey his paper had been found to be one of the most influential papers. | In the field of statistical physics there is nothing more famous than Onsager's solution for the [Ising ferromagnet on a square lattice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-lattice_Ising_model).
[Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.65.117)
The paper itself isn't that important nowadays because there are both better solutions and better pedagogical approaches to the problem. Nevertheless, historically it was the first full solution of a non-trivial physical system which exhibits phase transitions. |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | The birth of computational physics:
N. Metropolis, A.W. Rosenbluth, M.N. Rosenbluth, A.H. Teller, and E. Teller (1953). "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines". Journal of Chemical Physics 21 (6): 1087–1092. doi:10.1063/1.1699114. | In the field of statistical physics there is nothing more famous than Onsager's solution for the [Ising ferromagnet on a square lattice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-lattice_Ising_model).
[Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.65.117)
The paper itself isn't that important nowadays because there are both better solutions and better pedagogical approaches to the problem. Nevertheless, historically it was the first full solution of a non-trivial physical system which exhibits phase transitions. |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | E. Wigner, "On Unitary Representations of the Inhomogeneous Lorentz Group"
Because of the apocryphal story of how it got published.
Edit: It was originally rejected by one of the leading physics journals as not being of general interest. Then Wigner mentioned it to von Neumann (his classmate from school back in Hungary). J. von Neumann told Wigner to send it to the Annals of Math., where von Neumann was the chief editor. It was immediately accepted there! Years later, Wigner received a leter from the AMS, saying that after a survey his paper had been found to be one of the most influential papers. | These days, the most important papers are generally the ones that get the most citations.
Papers' citations are listed at Spires (or Inspires) at [Inspires](http://inspirebeta.net/).
Simply look up an author then click on his/her name and go to citations. They rank the papers by means of citations from "unknown papers" to "renowned papers". It is hard to rank the older guard of physicists this way.
Stephen Hawking collected what he regards as important original papers of the greats(I note that you have that) in ["On the Shoulders of Giants"](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/076241698X) and a similar book of original math papers [And God Created the Integers](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0762430044)
As an aside, Sidney Coleman said that if he had seen farther than others it was because he was standing behind the shoulders of dwarfs....:)
Oh, I see you have On the Shoulders,...well others are George Johnson's , The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, or The Great Equations, by Robert Crease. |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | The two papers of fundamentals of **Density Functional Theory**.
1. P. Hohenberg and W. Kohn. [*Phys. Rev.* 136, B864–B871 (1964)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.136.B864)
2. W. Kohn and L. J. Sham. [*Phys. Rev.* 140, A1133–A1138 (1965)](https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.140.A1133)
The Kohn-Sham paper have 10,575 citations and the Hohenberg-Kohn have 8,714 citations. These papers are importants for Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Quantum Chemistry and Nanoscience in general. It is a prime example of interdisciplinarity. | In the field of statistical physics there is nothing more famous than Onsager's solution for the [Ising ferromagnet on a square lattice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-lattice_Ising_model).
[Crystal Statistics. I. A Two-Dimensional Model with an Order-Disorder Transition](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.65.117)
The paper itself isn't that important nowadays because there are both better solutions and better pedagogical approaches to the problem. Nevertheless, historically it was the first full solution of a non-trivial physical system which exhibits phase transitions. |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | I know it's been mentioned already here, but:
[A Model of Leptons](http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v19/i21/p1264_1)
is worth every bit of its (almost) 4 pages.
Recently, the one that changed everything in theoretical physics is:
[The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity](http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200)
perhaps it already deserves to be in this listing. | The number of citations a paper receives is a good indicator of its importance.
Top Cited Articles of All Time (2010 edition) can be found at:
<http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/topcites/2010/alltime.shtml>
1.37791
Review of Particle Physics
By Particle Data Group (Claude Amsler et al.).
Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
Published in:Phys.Lett.B667:1-1340,2008
[3679 Total citations in HEP]
[37799 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
2.7328
A Model of Leptons
By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
[7328 Total citations in HEP]
3.7135
The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
By Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.).
Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998, Int.J.Theor.Phys.38:1113-1133,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9711200)
[7192 Total citations in HEP] |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | The two papers of fundamentals of **Density Functional Theory**.
1. P. Hohenberg and W. Kohn. [*Phys. Rev.* 136, B864–B871 (1964)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.136.B864)
2. W. Kohn and L. J. Sham. [*Phys. Rev.* 140, A1133–A1138 (1965)](https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.140.A1133)
The Kohn-Sham paper have 10,575 citations and the Hohenberg-Kohn have 8,714 citations. These papers are importants for Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Quantum Chemistry and Nanoscience in general. It is a prime example of interdisciplinarity. | These days, the most important papers are generally the ones that get the most citations.
Papers' citations are listed at Spires (or Inspires) at [Inspires](http://inspirebeta.net/).
Simply look up an author then click on his/her name and go to citations. They rank the papers by means of citations from "unknown papers" to "renowned papers". It is hard to rank the older guard of physicists this way.
Stephen Hawking collected what he regards as important original papers of the greats(I note that you have that) in ["On the Shoulders of Giants"](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/076241698X) and a similar book of original math papers [And God Created the Integers](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0762430044)
As an aside, Sidney Coleman said that if he had seen farther than others it was because he was standing behind the shoulders of dwarfs....:)
Oh, I see you have On the Shoulders,...well others are George Johnson's , The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, or The Great Equations, by Robert Crease. |
4,502 | Recently I got the book "On the Shoulders of Giant" from Stephen Hawkings. It consists of more than 1000 pages of classical publications in physics. However 900 pages are given to the work of Copernicus, Galilei and Newton and 100 pages are given to the papers of Einstein. Therefore I think this books gives a wrong impression about what is really important for our knowledge in physics today.
If you could fill a book with the most important papers relevant for our knowledge in physics today, which ones would you select? | 2011/02/02 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4502",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1648/"
] | The birth of computational physics:
N. Metropolis, A.W. Rosenbluth, M.N. Rosenbluth, A.H. Teller, and E. Teller (1953). "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines". Journal of Chemical Physics 21 (6): 1087–1092. doi:10.1063/1.1699114. | These days, the most important papers are generally the ones that get the most citations.
Papers' citations are listed at Spires (or Inspires) at [Inspires](http://inspirebeta.net/).
Simply look up an author then click on his/her name and go to citations. They rank the papers by means of citations from "unknown papers" to "renowned papers". It is hard to rank the older guard of physicists this way.
Stephen Hawking collected what he regards as important original papers of the greats(I note that you have that) in ["On the Shoulders of Giants"](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/076241698X) and a similar book of original math papers [And God Created the Integers](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0762430044)
As an aside, Sidney Coleman said that if he had seen farther than others it was because he was standing behind the shoulders of dwarfs....:)
Oh, I see you have On the Shoulders,...well others are George Johnson's , The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, or The Great Equations, by Robert Crease. |
12,045,915 | I'm totally new to Entity Framework and have done some reading, and as a test I have put together a very brief test framework with just two small Entities. I then right clicked and selected "Generate Database from Model" which takes me to the SQL Connections page. However, none of the previous connections I have used appear in the drop down list, and when I select Create New Connection I only have the options to use 'SQL Server Compact 3.5' or 'SQL Server Database File'.
I have come across this before with SQL Express and the work around is to create my own Connection String to access the required Database. However, with me using Entity Framework to create the database, it is impossible to write an appropraite connetion string.
I therefore seem to be in a Catch 22 situation.
1. I cannot write a connection string until the database is created.
2. I cannot create the database from EF without accessing SQL Server (via a connection string).
Anyone come across this or can point out what I'm doing wrong. Like I said I'm totally new to EF so I apologise if this is a very basic question. | 2012/08/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12045915",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1109750/"
] | Unless you want to use a database file in a user instance, you need to either use SQL Management Studio Express, or use the SQLCMD command line tool to create the database. I would recommend SQL Management Studio Express as it is easy to learn in my opinion.
The Entity Framework tools are intended to be used to create the database **schema**, not the database itself. You still need to define the file groups, security information, and other basics of creating and configuring a blank database.
See this Q/A for appropriate links:
[How to create DB in SQL Express using SQL commands?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1597606/how-to-create-db-in-sql-express-using-sql-commands) | Thanks @psuedocoder, your assistance helped me resolve the problem. The answer in the end was simple, but not intuitive to me, hence my difficulty. I thought some elaboration on the answer might help others who are equally new to Entity Framework as me.
*From Visual Studio*
1. Create your EF model in Visual Studio.
2. Right click the model canvas and select 'Generate Database from Model'.
3. You are then asked to select the database connection. Select 'New Connection'.
4. In the 'Add Connection' dialog box, rather than 'Browse' for an existing database, just simply type the name of your new database in the Database text box and Click Connect.
5. When you try to connect you will get a warning saying the database does not exist, but you will be asked if you want VS to 'Create It'. Select Yes.
As @psuedocoder states this does not actually create the database in SQL Server, but it does create an object in your VS soluton which contains the TSQL script required in order to create your database.
*From SSMS*
1. Go to SQL Server Management Studio and create a blank database of the same name used in step 4 above.
2. In SSMS select open file and navigate to the windows folder containing your VS solution files.
3. Open the TSQL script file. This will have a DB Script icon and have an .edmx extension.
4. Click Execute, and you will have your new database created from your EF model. |
44,116 | I'm aware of BerryBoot, but this only allows the multi-booting of two or more Linux based OSes, So is there anyway to boot two different OSes? If not, can you please explain why not, as well, please? | 2016/03/15 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/44116",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/43155/"
] | You're looking for NOOBS. As long as you're ok with Raspbian, or you're able to modify it to install another OS. NOOBS will allow you to install a few different OSs that are available if you have an internet connection and enough room on your sd card.
Windows 10 IoT is available (at least for the Pi2 and Pi3, haven't used NOOBS with my B+ in a long time) and can be installed alongside linux-based distros. | I'd suggest getting NOOBS. You can get the Windows 10 IoT Preview OS, but you can't get the full Windows experience you'd expect to get. I'd suggest getting the OS 'Raspbian', as it is similar to Windows and is purely designed for the Pi. You could also Dual-Boot into the OS 'Kodi', a media-streaming OS that can act as an AirPlay device if set up correctly, which allows for streaming from Apple devices. |
1,014,053 | Which shared storage solutions are common for Kubernetes cluster to implement shared storage persistence for containers? NFS on NAS / iSCSI somehow?
How do you backup the data on a Kubernetes with this type of storage? | 2020/04/24 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/1014053",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/212866/"
] | It’s the same storage you use as a backend for your running virtual machines, say NFSv3/v4, iSCSI and FC. Concepts behind are very similar.
You might want to read the Docker/Kubernetes backup overview here:
<https://www.networkworld.com/article/3514560/how-to-back-up-kubernetes-and-docker.amp.html>
It won’t be acceptable by ServerFault to recommend any particular product as its opinion-based answer, obviously. | It depends upon you environment (public cloud Vs. on premises).
<https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/> |
83,524 | We have some preferences for our mobile application that a user can change (such as choosing between miles and kilometers for distance information). We plan to store these preferences as unique to a user (meaning that if the user logs out, and someone else logs in, the preferences are reset to the default).
**The question is, if that first user were to log back in, should we show their originally-set preferences, or revert to the default?**
Is there such thing as an assumption that preferences are meant to be cleared on logout? | 2015/08/24 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/83524",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/17142/"
] | No, the general assumption is not that preferences are meant to be cleared. I'd say that the opposite is the case: when you need to log in to use an application, you expect the application to remember you when you return.
A few considerations:
**User expectation** - most users expect personalisation and a constant experience - especially in the mobile domain it is important that you can continue where you left.
**Predict what the user wants** - in the case of miles vs kilometers there is very little chance that a user's preference will change from one day to another so it makes sense to keep the settings across sessions. There might be other situations where a user needs a one-time exception to the normal settings - but in that case this should not get stored in the preferences at all.
**Privacy and security** - for sensitive information there might be strong reasons to restore the empty slate more often. | For preferences like these, I would always set them once (preferably when a user signs up/logs in for the first time). So, once a user has set his preferences, he gets to see everything using those, every time he logs in, unless he makes a change to those preferences.
For long-lived preferences, as a user, it would get annoying pretty quickly to have to make the same defaults over and over again. There are no assumptions, as far as I know, that a user's preferences must be cleared on logout. |
119,808 | Is there any Schema.org type that I should use on my category page of my WordPress blogsite for the blogposts that are listed in the category?
[`ItemList`](https://schema.org/ItemList) doesnt seem apropriate. Any other suggestions? | 2018/12/23 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/119808",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/96862/"
] | If it is a list of items that have their own pages (like this), then Google does recommend ItemList with just the URLs marked up.
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/mark-up-listings>
You could extend it with a name, description, additionalType etc.
It's probably more valuable (with Google) to make sure you mark up the BlogPosting pages correctly. It's a sub type of Article, so those rules apply:
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/article> | <https://schema.org/Blog> for the list of posts, with the nested data type for single post <https://schema.org/BlogPosting>.
Make use of <https://pending.schema.org/category> as an <https://schema.org/additionalType> too. |
119,808 | Is there any Schema.org type that I should use on my category page of my WordPress blogsite for the blogposts that are listed in the category?
[`ItemList`](https://schema.org/ItemList) doesnt seem apropriate. Any other suggestions? | 2018/12/23 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/119808",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/96862/"
] | If it is a list of items that have their own pages (like this), then Google does recommend ItemList with just the URLs marked up.
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/mark-up-listings>
You could extend it with a name, description, additionalType etc.
It's probably more valuable (with Google) to make sure you mark up the BlogPosting pages correctly. It's a sub type of Article, so those rules apply:
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/article> | Since you're using Wordpress, the best plugin you can use for this purpose is Schema (<https://wordpress.org/plugins/schema/>). This article is not good if your website has products or reviews but it's good for a Blogsite, so do try it. Just install, set it up and let the plug in do the rest for you. |
119,808 | Is there any Schema.org type that I should use on my category page of my WordPress blogsite for the blogposts that are listed in the category?
[`ItemList`](https://schema.org/ItemList) doesnt seem apropriate. Any other suggestions? | 2018/12/23 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/119808",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/96862/"
] | If it is a list of items that have their own pages (like this), then Google does recommend ItemList with just the URLs marked up.
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/mark-up-listings>
You could extend it with a name, description, additionalType etc.
It's probably more valuable (with Google) to make sure you mark up the BlogPosting pages correctly. It's a sub type of Article, so those rules apply:
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/article> | Current setup that seems best is: Collectionpage with HasPart |
305,107 | We have a lot of dll-libraries written in both delphi and c++ builder, and use sharemem and borlndmm.dll.
An aligment-issue in a 3thparty library forces us over to the new memorymanager in delphi 2007.
Can someone please explain 'shared memory manager' for me?
Is SimpleShareMem a dropin replacement for ShareMem ?
Can we then stop deploying borlndmm.dll?
Do we have to do something with the c++-libraries as well?
Can some libraries use ShareMem and some SimpleShareMem?
Thanks,
-Vegar | 2008/11/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/305107",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11956/"
] | I think I found the answer to most of my questions in this thread: [borland.public.delphi.language.basm](http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.delphi.language.basm/browse_frm/thread/8b70a36f331f137e?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=Re:+FastMM+questions "borland.public.delphi.language.basm"):
>
> Either use
>
> (a) SimpleShareMem.pas/FastMM4.pas, or use
>
> (b) ShareMem.pas (i.e. borlndmm.dll)
>
> You cannot mix the two different sharing methods.
>
>
> | Just have a look at <https://forums.codegear.com/thread.jspa?threadID=6608> for an interesting discussion about this subject. |
133,777 | This is my first question.
So I was reading about expansion of the universe and from what I've seen, the only way that we know that universe is expanding is by measuring redshift.
Also, [here](https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/133246/) it says that energy is lost both in photons and other particles.
So my understanding is that we know that universe is expanding by measuring energy lost in light coming from distant stars.
Is there any other proof except from that?
Is it possible that energy is lost due to something else? | 2014/09/03 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/133777",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/58454/"
] | There's an old theory called "tired light" where the momentum is lost due to *waves hands* some other reason, but as far as I'm aware this has been pretty much discounted these days.
The background behind the current-best-theory is this:
When you look at light from a star it's not a smooth spectrum, it has a series of dark lines in it, an "emission spectrum". These lines appear in very specific positions depending on the atoms that spat out the photons - Hydrogen, for example, produces a "fingerprint" of lines that are unique and can easily be identified. (You can make your own spectrometer to view these lines using a CD and a cereal packet, lots of guides if you google it, it's a cool little project, just don't go staring directly at the sun!)
These lines, however, don't appear exactly where they should when you look at light from distant galaxies, they're moved a little to the red end of the spectrum, and this happens for all the lines - Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon etc.
This happens because the star/s producing the light are moving away from us and we observe a Doppler shift, the classic analogy being the way that a police siren changes pitch as it's driving away from you.
Hubble discovered this "red-shift" (frequently referred to as the "Z value" or just "Z") obeys a linear relationship with distance, suggesting the entire universe is expanding at a steady rate. The distance, incidentally, is found using a number of different methods, such as "standard candles", objects which emit a known amount of lights, so we can work out distance by measuring how much fainter it is. Redshift doesn't directly measure distance, it measures relative velocity, but once the relationship between redshift and distance was discovered and "calibrated" by using standard candles etc then it became a "proxy" for distance, a good rough-and-ready estimate for observations that had no other easy way to measure distance directly.
Later work showed that this isn't 100% correct, the expansion is actually accelerating (the "Dark Energy" problem), but the general interpretation of red-shift as a sign of an expanding universe is still the one that fits all of the data the best.
Note that some objects are blue-shifted - the conventional explanation being that they are moving towards us, and any alternative theory is going to have to explain how and why some light gains energy instead of losing it. | As far as I understand, it has something to do with Hubble's Law.
Essentially, based on looking back at energy density of a distant star at one point, and then looking at it again, and determining that it has diminished, or something along those lines.
I assume it's a far fancier version of looking at a light you just passed as you drive down the road. If after a few seconds you look again, you will note that the light seems dimmer. If you really want, I am sure someone could provide you with a fancy formula for all that. |
61,775 | The journal that I have chosen for submitting my paper doesn't use double-blind review
(double blind review means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process).
Can I ask editors via email, or make a request for one? Is it difficult for them to organise the editing of the paper afterwards if it is approved or it is appropriate to do that? | 2016/01/16 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/61775",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/41198/"
] | With the submission management systems of most journals, it will be an incredibly obnoxious hassle for the editors to support a double-blind review if the journal's policy is normally single-blind review.
The reason is that, even if you remove names from the manuscript, most review systems present the reviewers with all of the key meta-data about the paper, including the author identities. This information is tied to author accounts in the system, the paper production and publication process for accepted papers, and possibly also external systems such as [ORCID](http://orcid.org/). This is configured right into the software, so the only method most editors would have for supporting double-blind would be to have the authors create pseudonymous accounts and then later work with the production staff to manually intervene and change all of the metadata (likely screwing up their records as well) before the paper actually appeared. Thus, given the degree of hassle and problems involved, I would expect most editors to refuse without some sort of exceedingly unusual extenuating circumstance.
You can always ask politely, of course, but you should expect the answer to be no. | To make unnecessary associations with the manuscript, you can ask for this possibility separately, before submitting the paper itself. You can also do this even anonymously (say making the phone call). They will answer. If no, then no.
I think it would be unethical and unprofessional for the editor to judge about your work negatively in advance just because of asking a quite, polite question about the possible reviewing processes.
Journals that used the double blinded review simply required an additional manuscript version from me, without the author and institution headers. |
6,497,185 | I must create administration panel for web site and i want to know which wysiwyg Editor with file upload features is the best and FREE? | 2011/06/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6497185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/667776/"
] | You said it yourself.
<http://ckeditor.com/> | Surprised no one has mentioned that this is very similar to [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4585161/jquery-wysiwyg-editor-with-file-upload-capabilities) for which, a valid answer seems to be [ckeditor](http://ckeditor.com) with [ckuploader](http://ckuploader.com/) (albeit ckuploader is NOT free).
Due to the nature of file uploads it depends up the server that you are running as to which solution is best, which is why answers to this question are forever elusive. Most text editors will have some kind of support for 'write your own', but not go any further than that.
So to answer (as much for myself as for @Faraona):
* Perhaps [Redactor](http://imperavi.com/redactor/) is suitable and has a clean uncluttered UI. They have 'demo' [code for php](http://imperavi.com/redactor/docs/images/) as well as [python/django](http://paltman.com/2012/08/15/how-to-setup-upload-handler-for-redactor/).
* There is also [jqrte](http://jqframework.com/jqrte/), which has support for php built in (by the looks of it).
Alas, I am actually looking for a .NET solution myself...
(Wow! seven links in one answer - do I get a new badge for that? ;) ) |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | **Non-Mobile:**
* <http://www.brunildo.org/test/>
* <http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/>
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/>
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/>
* <http://www.positioniseverything.net/>
* <http://reference.sitepoint.com/css>
* <http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/>
* <http://haslayout.net/>
* <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Main_Page>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100323052222/http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/InternetExplorerSupportForCSS/>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100125012019/http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/InternetExplorerBugs>
* <http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/ie-bugs.htm>
* <http://perfectionkills.com/category/cft/> (and <http://kangax.github.com/cft/>)
* <http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support/>
* <http://www.css-lab.com/>
* <http://www.iecss.com/> ( Jonathan Neal's roundup of default IE styles )
* <http://marc.baffl.co.uk/bugs.php>
* <http://dev.moonhenge.net/bugs/>
* <http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/search/label/IE7>
* <http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/bugs.asp>
* <http://dean.edwards.name/ie7/compatibility/>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20101219060238/http://the-dees.webs.com/iepp1>
* <http://edskes.net/ie8overflowandexpandingboxbugs.htm>
* <http://simon.html5.org/test/ie8rc1-bugs/>
* <http://magicm.awardspace.com/ie/>
* <http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ie8.html>
* <http://www.designdetector.com/2006/08/ie7-old-bugs-for-new.php>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20130531191603/http://jhop.me/ie8-bugs>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100218123106/http://test.rowanw.com/reports>
**Mobile:**
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/> | Here's one that covers browser inconsistencies on File Inputs, w/ a nice color coded table and everything.
<http://gordon-myers.com/?p=170> |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | **Non-Mobile:**
* <http://www.brunildo.org/test/>
* <http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/>
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/>
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/>
* <http://www.positioniseverything.net/>
* <http://reference.sitepoint.com/css>
* <http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/>
* <http://haslayout.net/>
* <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Main_Page>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100323052222/http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/InternetExplorerSupportForCSS/>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100125012019/http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/InternetExplorerBugs>
* <http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/ie-bugs.htm>
* <http://perfectionkills.com/category/cft/> (and <http://kangax.github.com/cft/>)
* <http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support/>
* <http://www.css-lab.com/>
* <http://www.iecss.com/> ( Jonathan Neal's roundup of default IE styles )
* <http://marc.baffl.co.uk/bugs.php>
* <http://dev.moonhenge.net/bugs/>
* <http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/search/label/IE7>
* <http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/bugs.asp>
* <http://dean.edwards.name/ie7/compatibility/>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20101219060238/http://the-dees.webs.com/iepp1>
* <http://edskes.net/ie8overflowandexpandingboxbugs.htm>
* <http://simon.html5.org/test/ie8rc1-bugs/>
* <http://magicm.awardspace.com/ie/>
* <http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ie8.html>
* <http://www.designdetector.com/2006/08/ie7-old-bugs-for-new.php>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20130531191603/http://jhop.me/ie8-bugs>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100218123106/http://test.rowanw.com/reports>
**Mobile:**
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/> | Not been updated in a while but was good till last year: <http://www.webdevout.net/> |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | **Non-Mobile:**
* <http://www.brunildo.org/test/>
* <http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/>
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/>
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/>
* <http://www.positioniseverything.net/>
* <http://reference.sitepoint.com/css>
* <http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/>
* <http://haslayout.net/>
* <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Main_Page>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100323052222/http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/InternetExplorerSupportForCSS/>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100125012019/http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/InternetExplorerBugs>
* <http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/ie-bugs.htm>
* <http://perfectionkills.com/category/cft/> (and <http://kangax.github.com/cft/>)
* <http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support/>
* <http://www.css-lab.com/>
* <http://www.iecss.com/> ( Jonathan Neal's roundup of default IE styles )
* <http://marc.baffl.co.uk/bugs.php>
* <http://dev.moonhenge.net/bugs/>
* <http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/search/label/IE7>
* <http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/bugs.asp>
* <http://dean.edwards.name/ie7/compatibility/>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20101219060238/http://the-dees.webs.com/iepp1>
* <http://edskes.net/ie8overflowandexpandingboxbugs.htm>
* <http://simon.html5.org/test/ie8rc1-bugs/>
* <http://magicm.awardspace.com/ie/>
* <http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ie8.html>
* <http://www.designdetector.com/2006/08/ie7-old-bugs-for-new.php>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20130531191603/http://jhop.me/ie8-bugs>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100218123106/http://test.rowanw.com/reports>
**Mobile:**
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/> | Here are some about my [favorite browser](https://web.archive.org/web/20201125193300/http://www.ihateinternetexplorer.com/) (apart from those already mentioned):
* [9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them](https://web.archive.org/web/20131224085745/http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/9-most-common-ie-bugs-and-how-to-fix-them/)
* [Six Things Your Mom Never Told You About Debugging Javascript](https://web.archive.org/web/20100216221224/http://devlunch.smart.fm:80/2009/07/29/six-things-your-mom-never-told-you-about-debugging-javascript/)
* [CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//cc351024%28v=vs.85%29)
* [Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable](https://www.zachleat.com/web/array-sort/)
* [Site Compatibility and IE8](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/site-compatibility-and-ie8)
* [Internet Explorer Programming Bugs](https://channel9.msdn.com/Wiki/InternetExplorerProgrammingBugs) |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | **Non-Mobile:**
* <http://www.brunildo.org/test/>
* <http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/>
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/>
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/>
* <http://www.positioniseverything.net/>
* <http://reference.sitepoint.com/css>
* <http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/>
* <http://haslayout.net/>
* <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Main_Page>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100323052222/http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/InternetExplorerSupportForCSS/>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100125012019/http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/wiki/InternetExplorerBugs>
* <http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/ie-bugs.htm>
* <http://perfectionkills.com/category/cft/> (and <http://kangax.github.com/cft/>)
* <http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support/>
* <http://www.css-lab.com/>
* <http://www.iecss.com/> ( Jonathan Neal's roundup of default IE styles )
* <http://marc.baffl.co.uk/bugs.php>
* <http://dev.moonhenge.net/bugs/>
* <http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/search/label/IE7>
* <http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/bugs.asp>
* <http://dean.edwards.name/ie7/compatibility/>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20101219060238/http://the-dees.webs.com/iepp1>
* <http://edskes.net/ie8overflowandexpandingboxbugs.htm>
* <http://simon.html5.org/test/ie8rc1-bugs/>
* <http://magicm.awardspace.com/ie/>
* <http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ie8.html>
* <http://www.designdetector.com/2006/08/ie7-old-bugs-for-new.php>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20130531191603/http://jhop.me/ie8-bugs>
* <https://web.archive.org/web/20100218123106/http://test.rowanw.com/reports>
**Mobile:**
* <http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/> | <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/14/css-differences-in-internet-explorer-6-7-and-8/> |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | Not been updated in a while but was good till last year: <http://www.webdevout.net/> | Here's one that covers browser inconsistencies on File Inputs, w/ a nice color coded table and everything.
<http://gordon-myers.com/?p=170> |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | Here's one that covers browser inconsistencies on File Inputs, w/ a nice color coded table and everything.
<http://gordon-myers.com/?p=170> | <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/14/css-differences-in-internet-explorer-6-7-and-8/> |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | Not been updated in a while but was good till last year: <http://www.webdevout.net/> | Here are some about my [favorite browser](https://web.archive.org/web/20201125193300/http://www.ihateinternetexplorer.com/) (apart from those already mentioned):
* [9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them](https://web.archive.org/web/20131224085745/http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/9-most-common-ie-bugs-and-how-to-fix-them/)
* [Six Things Your Mom Never Told You About Debugging Javascript](https://web.archive.org/web/20100216221224/http://devlunch.smart.fm:80/2009/07/29/six-things-your-mom-never-told-you-about-debugging-javascript/)
* [CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//cc351024%28v=vs.85%29)
* [Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable](https://www.zachleat.com/web/array-sort/)
* [Site Compatibility and IE8](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/site-compatibility-and-ie8)
* [Internet Explorer Programming Bugs](https://channel9.msdn.com/Wiki/InternetExplorerProgrammingBugs) |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | Not been updated in a while but was good till last year: <http://www.webdevout.net/> | <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/14/css-differences-in-internet-explorer-6-7-and-8/> |
3,033,330 | I'm about to develop my own browser inconsistency/bug compendium site but I'm wondering if I really need to - can we get a wiki of sites that do this already? I'm aware of a lot of them but I hope I'm not missing out on some major ones.
I wanted mine to be more intuitive and social-like for most people, powered by tags and screenshots and test-case pages. | 2010/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3033330",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145190/"
] | Here are some about my [favorite browser](https://web.archive.org/web/20201125193300/http://www.ihateinternetexplorer.com/) (apart from those already mentioned):
* [9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them](https://web.archive.org/web/20131224085745/http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/9-most-common-ie-bugs-and-how-to-fix-them/)
* [Six Things Your Mom Never Told You About Debugging Javascript](https://web.archive.org/web/20100216221224/http://devlunch.smart.fm:80/2009/07/29/six-things-your-mom-never-told-you-about-debugging-javascript/)
* [CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//cc351024%28v=vs.85%29)
* [Internet Explorer Array.sort Unreliable](https://www.zachleat.com/web/array-sort/)
* [Site Compatibility and IE8](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/site-compatibility-and-ie8)
* [Internet Explorer Programming Bugs](https://channel9.msdn.com/Wiki/InternetExplorerProgrammingBugs) | <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/14/css-differences-in-internet-explorer-6-7-and-8/> |
18,219,449 | WordPress has been great, but I want to simplify and speed up my website and remove the db component required. Since most of my pages don't change that often, I thought moving it to a static site generator would be a good choice.
I have no experience with them, and I spent a lot of time researching different options. <http://middlemanapp.com/> looks like a good one even though I have zero Ruby experience.
**Question 1**. Does it make sense to manage a 50+ page site with a static site generator?
**Question 2**. Is there any sort of gain of using a js/node-based generator vs. a ruby generator? | 2013/08/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18219449",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/602055/"
] | [Assemble](http://assemble.io) is exactly for this purpose, it's very easy to use (compared to other solutions), and it runs on [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com) | **Question 1.**
I had a very bad experience (project had to be cancelled after one week of work) trying to migrate a small website but with a lot of content from Wordpress to Middleman. The main issue was that the content (book reviews) were updated daily and consisted of thousands of records which caused the site generation builds to be extremely slow.
We also had problems with pagination of different types of resources (Middleman only supports pagination of blog posts).
Features like "Random posts" had to be taken away as the content is static.
So it was not about the number of pages but about the content itself (size, domain complexity and change frequency) which caused the project to fail. Middleman is great for not data intensive with relatively simple data domains, like for example personal or company websites, blogs or simple catalogues.
If you are running a WP site try debugging the problems you may be facing (like performance, code maintenance, etc.) and fixing them instead of rewriting the whole website. If the database is slow try creating indexes, caching responses, etc.
**Question 2.**
There is any sort of gain in my opinion. |
18,219,449 | WordPress has been great, but I want to simplify and speed up my website and remove the db component required. Since most of my pages don't change that often, I thought moving it to a static site generator would be a good choice.
I have no experience with them, and I spent a lot of time researching different options. <http://middlemanapp.com/> looks like a good one even though I have zero Ruby experience.
**Question 1**. Does it make sense to manage a 50+ page site with a static site generator?
**Question 2**. Is there any sort of gain of using a js/node-based generator vs. a ruby generator? | 2013/08/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18219449",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/602055/"
] | I'm one of the maintainers of Middleman. 50 pages is not much at all - I have several sites with hundreds of pages, and it works great. Definitely for a personal blog it'll do fine. A site with thousands of pages that changes frequently would definitely see slow builds, though - Middleman does a lot, and some of what it does is ugly, slow black magic. I'd encourage you to try it out and see - there are Wordpress-migration tools intended for use with Jekyll which will work well to get your posts out and into Markdown, and from there you can just experiment. | **Question 1.**
I had a very bad experience (project had to be cancelled after one week of work) trying to migrate a small website but with a lot of content from Wordpress to Middleman. The main issue was that the content (book reviews) were updated daily and consisted of thousands of records which caused the site generation builds to be extremely slow.
We also had problems with pagination of different types of resources (Middleman only supports pagination of blog posts).
Features like "Random posts" had to be taken away as the content is static.
So it was not about the number of pages but about the content itself (size, domain complexity and change frequency) which caused the project to fail. Middleman is great for not data intensive with relatively simple data domains, like for example personal or company websites, blogs or simple catalogues.
If you are running a WP site try debugging the problems you may be facing (like performance, code maintenance, etc.) and fixing them instead of rewriting the whole website. If the database is slow try creating indexes, caching responses, etc.
**Question 2.**
There is any sort of gain in my opinion. |
167,345 | I need to download all attachments of a list item from *gridview* in a *visual webpart*. I tried **hyperlink** but unable to get it.
Can anyone tell me how to use anchor tag and use `href` or any other solution to download attachments from *gridview*. | 2016/01/15 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/167345",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/45624/"
] | If you're not going to use InfoPath then you're definitely going to be looking at creating a custom form using HTML and some other custom logic to do the submission for you. The lowest barriers to entry will be JavaScript on the client, or C# in a provider hosted Add-in or server solution.
I strongly recommend you consider JavaScript (REST or the JavaScript Object Model) or C# (also REST or the Client Object Model) from a provider hosted add-in.
Once you make your decision you'll have a number of other choices to make. If you decide to go with JavaScript you can integrate a framework like Angular, Knockout, or React (among others) to render data retrieved using the REST or JSOM APIs. For submitting multiple items, I find the JSOM a bit easier to work with than the REST API, which can only submit batch network requests in the most recent versions of SharePoint Online (not in 2013).
Hopefully this helps a bit - the question is a rather broad one but this should give you some areas where you can start looking.
I would also suggest taking a look at the [OfficeDev Patterns and Practices Github Repo](https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP) for some examples using these techniques. | If you are using on-premise SharePoint version, writing a visual web part would be easier in terms of writing code. Otherwise, I would say REST API is the way to go. |
222,503 | I'v developed an internal singe-page web-app (unix, apache & postgresql) protected by a simple login page. Currently, the users have their own login role with a password.
This is starting to get cumbersome for a couple reasons:
1. Users have multiple passwords (for my web-app and Active Directory, the company-network is windows).
2. Storing user information in two different places (would like to centralize).
I've been looking into Kerberos to the point, I've set-up a KDC and am able connect to the database through GSSAPI authentication (command-line only).
From what I understand I should be able to use my own KDC that will integrate with Active Directory.
My problem I'm working through at the moment is web-app authentication via kerberos:
If a user is on the web - how can I obtain/verify kerberos credentials? Can I store the credentials in a cookie? Do I have
to resort using OAuth,Webauth, or something similar?
To clarify, What I want to do is:
If a user doesn't have valid credentials, give them the login page to obtain credentials (via kinit, but how through the browser?) and return valid credentials.
(how can I store credentials in browser, can I create a cookie from the Kerberos credentials?).
I've googled, and read a fair-few pdf's and web-resources, but unfortunately none of them were able to dumb it down enough for me to get a solid grasp of how to accomplish kerberos web authentication.
If you didn't notice, I'm confused on how to piece everything together and would appreciate a conceptual over-view of how everything fits together. | 2013/12/28 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/222503",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/69063/"
] | The usual way you would go about this, is just whenever processing authentication requests in your web application, you would authenticate against Kerberos to check for valid login/password.
I do not think you will find another way to check for current user's authentication details in e.g. Windows session, as that wouldn't be secure by design. If you would store the user/password combination, you would have to store it in accessible form, and that would also make it open for hijacking. | Simplify. Have you considered using AD's LDAP interface and performing an ldap\_bind against the user with the given password? This is a very easy way to validate user credentials against an AD server without storing the password or adding extra layers.
Apache even has an auth plugin that does this bit for you: <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html> or <https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/en/mod/mod_auth_ldap.html>
Kerberos is great for those times when you don't want to prompt the user for their password (you request a token from the daemon running in their environment instead). I've not seen this working with web apps before; I imagine it would require the app to break out of the browser's sandbox. |
222,503 | I'v developed an internal singe-page web-app (unix, apache & postgresql) protected by a simple login page. Currently, the users have their own login role with a password.
This is starting to get cumbersome for a couple reasons:
1. Users have multiple passwords (for my web-app and Active Directory, the company-network is windows).
2. Storing user information in two different places (would like to centralize).
I've been looking into Kerberos to the point, I've set-up a KDC and am able connect to the database through GSSAPI authentication (command-line only).
From what I understand I should be able to use my own KDC that will integrate with Active Directory.
My problem I'm working through at the moment is web-app authentication via kerberos:
If a user is on the web - how can I obtain/verify kerberos credentials? Can I store the credentials in a cookie? Do I have
to resort using OAuth,Webauth, or something similar?
To clarify, What I want to do is:
If a user doesn't have valid credentials, give them the login page to obtain credentials (via kinit, but how through the browser?) and return valid credentials.
(how can I store credentials in browser, can I create a cookie from the Kerberos credentials?).
I've googled, and read a fair-few pdf's and web-resources, but unfortunately none of them were able to dumb it down enough for me to get a solid grasp of how to accomplish kerberos web authentication.
If you didn't notice, I'm confused on how to piece everything together and would appreciate a conceptual over-view of how everything fits together. | 2013/12/28 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/222503",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/69063/"
] | 1. If the user does not have a valid id in their cookie, they are redirected to a login page.
2. They submit credentials in a form / ajax post to the server which checks they are valid via any means (Kerberos, database, etc.)
3. If they are valid, set their username in their session (which should have a unique id) and send them back the session id in a cookie.
As far as the contents of the cookie, you NEVER want to store the credentials in it or any other sensitive information. You only need to store a unique and random identifier. When the user makes another request to your page you use this identifier to access their session data. It can look something like this
auth-id: abc123
If they are authenticated, their session data should contain the username they authenticated under. You also don't need to store the kerberos credentials server-side either, you only need them to check if they are valid, then store the username in the session.
Again it's important to understand that HOW the authentication is done on the server is irrelevant to how you maintain their session / authenticated state. | Simplify. Have you considered using AD's LDAP interface and performing an ldap\_bind against the user with the given password? This is a very easy way to validate user credentials against an AD server without storing the password or adding extra layers.
Apache even has an auth plugin that does this bit for you: <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html> or <https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/en/mod/mod_auth_ldap.html>
Kerberos is great for those times when you don't want to prompt the user for their password (you request a token from the daemon running in their environment instead). I've not seen this working with web apps before; I imagine it would require the app to break out of the browser's sandbox. |
58,327,651 | I have a google form that is linked to a google sheet.
When I submit the actual form, onFormSubmit is triggered and my logs show " e.source Spreadsheet"
I was also using the simulated onFormSubmit code from this link ([How can I test a trigger function in GAS?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16089041/how-can-i-test-a-trigger-function-in-gas/16089067#16089067?newreg=8903a9e4e2834d15ad6a7e4a21688a4b)) to debug and everything **was working fine**.
**Suddenly** I am getting an error "e.source undefined" but e.values is working fine when I use the simulated onFormSubmit code.
What could have caused this sudden error, particularly since it seemed to have been working fine before for exactly the same scenario?
TIA | 2019/10/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/58327651",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/12196522/"
] | [onFormSubmit](https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/triggers/events#form-submit) for spreadsheet doesn't a source
parameter.
>
> [onFormSubmit](https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/triggers/events#form-submit_1) for forms does have source parameter
>
>
>
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BP3P1.jpg)
onFormSubmit event object for Spreadsheet Above:
>
> onFormSubmit event object for Forms Below:
>
>
>
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zEXsh.jpg)
>
> Upon further investigation, there appears to be a source parameter in both objects according to Logger.log(JSON.stringify(e));
>
>
> The is the Log for the Spreadsheet:
>
>
>
[19-10-10 10:34:03:681 PDT] {"authMode":{},"values":["10/10/2019 11:34:03","url"],"namedValues":{"Timestamp":["10/10/2019 11:34:03"],"UploadTesting":["url"]},"range":{"columnStart":1,"rowStart":27,"rowEnd":27,"columnEnd":2},**"source"**:{},"triggerUid":"id"}
>
> This is the log for the form:
>
>
>
[19-10-10 11:34:04:636 MDT] {"authMode":{},"response":{},"source":{},"triggerUid":"id"} | Thank you!
The above answers helped me find out my mistake.
I had added a line of code which referenced "e.source".
I was getting an error when executing this code from the simulated onformsubmit which was generated from spreadsheet data. The eventObject being called in this case does not have a "source" parameter (as pointed out in answers above) and hence the error.
When I ran code by submitting an actual form, it was working fine since the eventObject in this case does have a source parameter.
Thank you once again! |
291,841 | I have full server control (WHM, CPanel, CentOS 5). I set up a sub domain in CPanel.
Now, a very odd problem to me. <http://subdomain.site.com> is properly going to its root path and displaying as such.
However, <https://subdomain.site.com>, although the url remains looking just like that, displays the content from the path linked to www.site.com. Has anyone seen behavior like this? If so, what could the culprit be?
I'll need some somewhat detailed responses if I'm going to be editing anything in WHM or via SSH as root - I want to be very careful I don't mess anything up...and this is semi new to me.
Thanks!
---
**update:**
Apache Server! | 2011/07/19 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/291841",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/78582/"
] | It's a common limitation of Apache/SSL using standard SSL certificates (you can avoid this using wildcard or multi-domain certs as Shane mentioned above)
Since everything is encrypted, Apache doesn't know what is the host header, so he doesn't know which certificate to load.
The first/default vhost binded to the IP of www.site.com (Which is most likely shared with subdomain.site.com) will be used.
You need to use a dedicated IP for each SSL vhosts. | From what I understand you can only have one SSL per cpanel, the way around this seems to be to have a wildcard SSL certificate
Take a look at these
<http://regx.dgswa.com/html/content/howto-setup-a-wildcard-ssl-cert-cpanel-whm-running-apache-2>
<http://forums.hostgator.com/ssl-subdomain-t75423.html> |
102,958 | What's the deal with this "burn on deployment"? almost every deflationary token is bragging about the number of tokens they've burned before providing liquidity and isn't this useless?
For example, Alice buys the X token, then sends it to the burn address.
X price was raised because Alice bought the token, not because of her sending it to a dead address, it happened to avoid these tokens coming back to circulation.
In the same way, if there is no liquidity provided, so there is no trading happening, if Alice (X token deployer) just sends a certain amount of tokens to the dead address, this won't affect absolutely anything, because simply there is nothing to be affected apart from total supply.
So there is no difference between deploying then burning and just deploying without the amount that should have been burned.
Correct me if I'm wrong. | 2021/07/04 | [
"https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/102958",
"https://ethereum.stackexchange.com",
"https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/users/64937/"
] | I believe you're searching for logic in a place where it does not exist. Burning tokens before token "launch" is actually a shitcoin trend which makes zero sense and in general something doesn't have to make sense if everyone does it. Burning tokens which are not backed up by any kind of liquidity is useless. Shitcoins cannot offer much in the way of project functionality, development or roadmap, simply because the majority of them are made by:
* people who do not have the needed knowledge to bring greater scalability to the project
* people who are starting the project as a joke
* or people who are starting the project in order to scam
So what I'm trying to say is they're basically looking for any type of announcement to make the project to look like it's alive for the investors. Also don't forget that shitcoins are copy cats, they're strictly following and copying one another - same websites with different logos, colors etc, same nonce coin burn before "launching" and the very same smart contract code. I did some research lately and from 30 shitcoins about 20-25 used the exact same smart contract just different contract names. I cannot wait for this shitcoin era to end, because too many new investors are losing money in this speculative trading of nonsense tokens. | It's an effective form of marketing. From a mathematical point of view burning tokens on deployment is the same as never creating those tokens at all, but from a marketing perspective:
* It creates the headline of "We burned x% of tokens" with the implied, but not actually true implication: smaller supply -> higher price
* It makes the "premine" that the founders keep look smaller. If I deploy 1000 tokens, burn 990 of them, keep 3 of them, and distribute the rest I can claim that the founders share is only 0.3%, while actually it is 30%. |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | I'd check out the coast as much as possible. I drove in from New Brunswick, such a beautiful ride. There are a lot of little islands with strong French heritage and stuff. Try to see as much as possible. One of my favorite places, really. If you're a golfer, there are some great courses out there as well. | **Two more recommendations:**
* Visit Digby and have Scallops.
* Rent a car and drive around the Cabot Trail. |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | [Lunenburg](http://www.explorelunenburg.ca/) is a UNESCO world heritage site. Tourists go there from all over. You could also walk the [Cabot Trail](http://www.cabottrail.com/) (not that Cape Breton is super close to Halifax, but if you're outdoorsy you'll love it) or go see the tides in the [Bay of Fundy](http://bayoffundytourism.com/). The [provincial tourism board](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/default.aspx) is not a bad place to start for details and more ideas. | I would highly recommend making a trip out to Martinique Beach. It is about an hour and fifteen minutes away from Halifax. Giant beautiful beach. But be warned it is usually about 10 degrees colder than in Halifax. Bring your sweatshirt!
* [Nova Scotia Tourism Link](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/thingstoseeanddo/listingdetails.aspx/martinique-beach-provincial-park/1745)
* [Google Maps picture](http://www.google.ca/maps?q=Martinique%20beach,%20nova%20scotia&hl=en&ll=44.691402,-63.135836&spn=0.010236,0.016823&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=37.958411,68.90625&hq=Martinique%20beach,&hnear=Nova%20Scotia&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=44.691402,-63.135836&cbp=12,0,,0,0&photoid=po-15317242)
Depending on the season it is also possible to rent surfboards and wetsuits. Check out the [Happy Dudes surf shop](http://www.happydudes.ca/). |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | [Lunenburg](http://www.explorelunenburg.ca/) is a UNESCO world heritage site. Tourists go there from all over. You could also walk the [Cabot Trail](http://www.cabottrail.com/) (not that Cape Breton is super close to Halifax, but if you're outdoorsy you'll love it) or go see the tides in the [Bay of Fundy](http://bayoffundytourism.com/). The [provincial tourism board](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/default.aspx) is not a bad place to start for details and more ideas. | I'd check out the coast as much as possible. I drove in from New Brunswick, such a beautiful ride. There are a lot of little islands with strong French heritage and stuff. Try to see as much as possible. One of my favorite places, really. If you're a golfer, there are some great courses out there as well. |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | When we last visited Nova Scotia, I made sure to take a quick trip to Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, toured the lighthouse and toured the memorial built to honor the SwissAir jetliner with 228 people aboard that crashed off Nova Scotia in [September 1998](http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/science-technology/transportation/swissair-111-joined-to-the-sea-and-the-sky/swissair-111-crashes-off-of-nova-scotia.html). Morbid, maybe, but I had never been in the vicinity of a tragedy like this before. | **Two more recommendations:**
* Visit Digby and have Scallops.
* Rent a car and drive around the Cabot Trail. |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | I would highly recommend making a trip out to Martinique Beach. It is about an hour and fifteen minutes away from Halifax. Giant beautiful beach. But be warned it is usually about 10 degrees colder than in Halifax. Bring your sweatshirt!
* [Nova Scotia Tourism Link](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/thingstoseeanddo/listingdetails.aspx/martinique-beach-provincial-park/1745)
* [Google Maps picture](http://www.google.ca/maps?q=Martinique%20beach,%20nova%20scotia&hl=en&ll=44.691402,-63.135836&spn=0.010236,0.016823&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=37.958411,68.90625&hq=Martinique%20beach,&hnear=Nova%20Scotia&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=44.691402,-63.135836&cbp=12,0,,0,0&photoid=po-15317242)
Depending on the season it is also possible to rent surfboards and wetsuits. Check out the [Happy Dudes surf shop](http://www.happydudes.ca/). | When we last visited Nova Scotia, I made sure to take a quick trip to Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, toured the lighthouse and toured the memorial built to honor the SwissAir jetliner with 228 people aboard that crashed off Nova Scotia in [September 1998](http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/science-technology/transportation/swissair-111-joined-to-the-sea-and-the-sky/swissair-111-crashes-off-of-nova-scotia.html). Morbid, maybe, but I had never been in the vicinity of a tragedy like this before. |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | I would highly recommend making a trip out to Martinique Beach. It is about an hour and fifteen minutes away from Halifax. Giant beautiful beach. But be warned it is usually about 10 degrees colder than in Halifax. Bring your sweatshirt!
* [Nova Scotia Tourism Link](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/thingstoseeanddo/listingdetails.aspx/martinique-beach-provincial-park/1745)
* [Google Maps picture](http://www.google.ca/maps?q=Martinique%20beach,%20nova%20scotia&hl=en&ll=44.691402,-63.135836&spn=0.010236,0.016823&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=37.958411,68.90625&hq=Martinique%20beach,&hnear=Nova%20Scotia&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=44.691402,-63.135836&cbp=12,0,,0,0&photoid=po-15317242)
Depending on the season it is also possible to rent surfboards and wetsuits. Check out the [Happy Dudes surf shop](http://www.happydudes.ca/). | **Two more recommendations:**
* Visit Digby and have Scallops.
* Rent a car and drive around the Cabot Trail. |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | [Lunenburg](http://www.explorelunenburg.ca/) is a UNESCO world heritage site. Tourists go there from all over. You could also walk the [Cabot Trail](http://www.cabottrail.com/) (not that Cape Breton is super close to Halifax, but if you're outdoorsy you'll love it) or go see the tides in the [Bay of Fundy](http://bayoffundytourism.com/). The [provincial tourism board](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/default.aspx) is not a bad place to start for details and more ideas. | When we last visited Nova Scotia, I made sure to take a quick trip to Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, toured the lighthouse and toured the memorial built to honor the SwissAir jetliner with 228 people aboard that crashed off Nova Scotia in [September 1998](http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/science-technology/transportation/swissair-111-joined-to-the-sea-and-the-sky/swissair-111-crashes-off-of-nova-scotia.html). Morbid, maybe, but I had never been in the vicinity of a tragedy like this before. |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | I'd check out the coast as much as possible. I drove in from New Brunswick, such a beautiful ride. There are a lot of little islands with strong French heritage and stuff. Try to see as much as possible. One of my favorite places, really. If you're a golfer, there are some great courses out there as well. | I would highly recommend making a trip out to Martinique Beach. It is about an hour and fifteen minutes away from Halifax. Giant beautiful beach. But be warned it is usually about 10 degrees colder than in Halifax. Bring your sweatshirt!
* [Nova Scotia Tourism Link](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/thingstoseeanddo/listingdetails.aspx/martinique-beach-provincial-park/1745)
* [Google Maps picture](http://www.google.ca/maps?q=Martinique%20beach,%20nova%20scotia&hl=en&ll=44.691402,-63.135836&spn=0.010236,0.016823&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=37.958411,68.90625&hq=Martinique%20beach,&hnear=Nova%20Scotia&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=44.691402,-63.135836&cbp=12,0,,0,0&photoid=po-15317242)
Depending on the season it is also possible to rent surfboards and wetsuits. Check out the [Happy Dudes surf shop](http://www.happydudes.ca/). |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | If you are a geek (and what are you doing on this site if not?) try the Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck. In his spare time after inventing the telephone, Bell organized the first powered flight in the British Empire right here on the frozen Lake Bras d'Or. | I would highly recommend making a trip out to Martinique Beach. It is about an hour and fifteen minutes away from Halifax. Giant beautiful beach. But be warned it is usually about 10 degrees colder than in Halifax. Bring your sweatshirt!
* [Nova Scotia Tourism Link](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/thingstoseeanddo/listingdetails.aspx/martinique-beach-provincial-park/1745)
* [Google Maps picture](http://www.google.ca/maps?q=Martinique%20beach,%20nova%20scotia&hl=en&ll=44.691402,-63.135836&spn=0.010236,0.016823&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=37.958411,68.90625&hq=Martinique%20beach,&hnear=Nova%20Scotia&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=44.691402,-63.135836&cbp=12,0,,0,0&photoid=po-15317242)
Depending on the season it is also possible to rent surfboards and wetsuits. Check out the [Happy Dudes surf shop](http://www.happydudes.ca/). |
1,618 | Looking to be in New Scotland in middle of September on business, and while I'm there, I'd like to see more of the province then what little I've seen so far (aka downtown Halifax). However, outside of Peggy's Cove, it seems the tourism planners seem to think Nova Scotia's appeal ends at Halifax's city limits.
So I bring it to you, does anyone have any recommendations of what to see, what to do, and where to go in Nova Scotia? | 2011/08/19 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/1618",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/398/"
] | [Lunenburg](http://www.explorelunenburg.ca/) is a UNESCO world heritage site. Tourists go there from all over. You could also walk the [Cabot Trail](http://www.cabottrail.com/) (not that Cape Breton is super close to Halifax, but if you're outdoorsy you'll love it) or go see the tides in the [Bay of Fundy](http://bayoffundytourism.com/). The [provincial tourism board](http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/default.aspx) is not a bad place to start for details and more ideas. | **Two more recommendations:**
* Visit Digby and have Scallops.
* Rent a car and drive around the Cabot Trail. |
1,880,694 | Could you propose **open source, but commercial-friendly licensed (non-GPL)** Javascript trees?
Please take into account that I need it for an existing Web application, so I am not sure whether other tools such as GWT or Echo would be appropriate.
I have already checked:
* Dojo Tree
* jQuery.Dynatree.js (JQuery)
* JSTree (JQuery)
* Mif.Tree (Mootools)
* YUI Tree (Yahoo User Interface)
I have ruled out DHTMLX and ExtJS (both GPL, they require the whole project to be GPLed).
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
**UPDATE:**
This question is old, the above list should no longer be taken into account. I'm sure there are more and better alternatives now. | 2009/12/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1880694",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/125713/"
] | [jsTree](https://www.jstree.com/) seems best.
* Open source: MIT license
* Features: lazy loading, context-menu, keyboard navigation, drag & drop, inline editing, customizable, CDN hosted.
* Stackoverflow has 1,551 questions [tagged](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jstree)
with jsTree
* Alexa page rank of jstree.com is better than others
Other close contenders:
1. [Fancytree](https://github.com/mar10/fancytree) (upgraded version of Dynatree)
2. [zTree](http://www.ztree.me/v3/main.php) | I use this one:
<http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-treeview/> |
35,989 | I'd like to buy a full frame camera. I'm not sure if I'm ready for the 5DMIII. 6D seems to be okay with me, as I'm not interested about having two card slots and I don't shoot a lot of videos.
However, I would like to know the following. Given that I'm not going to do sport shooting, what would be the disadvantage of having only one cross point focus? Where would I notice it?
Additionally, can someone explain the 1/80 flash sync issue? I could not quite get what the issue is. | 2013/03/21 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/35989",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/8312/"
] | The focus-point issue depends on your personal habits. Many people who shoot a variety of non-action photography, only ever use one focus point. Yes, one focus point, not one cross-type, one focus point in total. You do that using the focus-lock and recompose technique.
On the other hand, having multiple focus points and particularly more sensitive ones is very beneficial when using continuous or tracking autofocus. You say that sports is not what you will be shooting, so I'd consider it less important.
The most significant difference feature between these cameras is that the 5D Mark III has a 100% coverage viewfinder. If you want to frame precisely and not have to crop all your images afterwards, this is essential and neither the 6D or 5D Mark II offers this.
The flash-sync issue is probably a non-issue if you are not aware of it :) What it means is the the 5D Mark III can use flash with a higher shutter-speed which is needed to augment the relative flash contribution when shooting in bright light. | Even though you aren't shooting sports, you may be shooting things that are fast moving. For that, only one cross-type point in the center is going to be weak, but whether or not it matters depends on the style of shooting. The 6D is a very good option for full frame consumer users looking to do traditional, family style, photography. You get very good quality for a very good price, but it's not a powerhouse for anything else.
The sync speed issue, which may not mean much to your shooting, is the speed at which the shutter can synchronize with the flash. The slower that speed, the less you can use the flash to overpower ambient light. Basically, a flash is a short, intense, burst of light and the longer the shutter is open outside of the time of that burst, the more ambient light will strike the sensor. Shorten the sync and less ambient hits. That's the issue. There were a lot of Canon professional users that considered the 6D as an inexpensive backup camera to a 5D mk III or 1Dx, but the sync held many of them back. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | I work as a consultant, and I've seen a lot of projects where the devs started out with servlets+JSP because that's what they knew, and it's pretty simple to get started with. However, it gives the team an opportunity/excuse to write a platform of their own, [which is more fun than using someone else's and just writing an application](http://thedailywtf.com/articles/programming-sucks!-or-at-least,-it-ought-to-.aspx).
As the project grows, the team reinvents more and more wheels, quite a few of which end up [square](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel#Related_phrases). That's where I enter the picture - adding new stuff to this semi-flexible platform has become so complicated that the devs can't keep up adding features *and* fixing bugs without calling in reinforcements. Just to add insult to injury, the internal devs are usually the ones who get assigned to do the boring bug fixes because bug fixes require more knowledge of the gory entrails of what has become the team's proprietary persistence-and-web framework, and so those gosh-danged consultants get to do the new, fun stuff.
Now, you shouldn't use a framework just because people have been regurgitating each other's blog posts about the awesomeness of it, but you should also realize that there are very good reasons why those frameworks exist (and why they're used). If you haven't used any web frameworks at all, I'd recommend you to take Spring MVC, Wicket or whatever for a test drive. They don't solve all problems, and they do cause some of their own, but the grand total is usually a productivity increase, especially if you're making advanced user interfaces.
I have been on projects where plain JDBC has been quite sufficient for persistence, and where no more advanced web frameworks than servlets+JSP have been needed, but those projects are a minority. Without having used a framework or two, you'll never whether your project is part of that minority that doesn't need one, or if it is part of the grand majority that does. | **Beware the lure of cool new frameworks!** I'm currently hacking on a tiny little web app that just has a login, a few mostly static pages, and a few forms to request some information by email. It would have taken me maybe two days to do as traditional Servlet/JSP in MVC style. Instead, since there was slack in the schedule, I decided to use this project to get up to speed in Spring, Spring MVC, and Spring WebFlow. While it's quite possible that I'm just dense, it took me *several weeks* to get my head around the right way of doing things, I'm still not totally confident that I'm doing everything correctly, and the application is still not done. Fortunately, due to slack, I'm not in danger of the overall project schedule slipping, but I'm always asking myself if I'm going to have to scrap it and start over.
I have learned my lesson, though: next time, I won't be the one pushing a new framework unless its one I've used for production projects before. That said, I'm glad I now understand Spring (or at least I think I do) and will not hesitate to use it again next time.
So how would I learn a new framework next time? If there's a project lead (in this case I'm a project lead of a team of one, no help there) I'd use the framework that they put in place. If there isn't, or if I want to learn a framework that the project lead isn't using, I'd use it for a side project on my own time. Learning is good. Putting company work at risk by throwing untested technology at it is not so good. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | Don't try everything all at once - take on one new technology at a time. | When starting a new project limit the number of unfamiliar technologies / frameworks to use. Every framework takes time to learn and every framework has issues especially if not implemented correctly.
If you can I would recommend you look into the [Play framework](http://www.playframework.org/). It is a web framework for Java that focuses on developer productivity. You can choose to use Spring / Hibernate if you want but you are not bound by that. It has a very easy to learn implementation and you should be able to get a good idea within a day of playing around with it if it is what you are looking for. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | Don't try everything all at once - take on one new technology at a time. | i personally would definitely recommend looking into spring, i've found it's saved me countless hours. hibernate is also useful if you need an ORM layer (and spring has nice integrations with hibernate too). they're certainly not the 'only' or even the 'right' way to do things (that's quite subjective) but they have both saved me time and effort, especially spring. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | I can say for sure that Spring is worth considering. It gives you as much as you can take, but it doesn't bother you with things you don't need.
For example, at the very beginning you probably need dependency injection only. Then you'll need help with database interactions and transaction management. Then you'll decide to apply MVC patter to your web-application. After that may be you'll realize that components of your system are to send JMS to each other. And so on and so forth.
For all this cases Spring has it's own simple, intuitive, light-weight solution. | i personally would definitely recommend looking into spring, i've found it's saved me countless hours. hibernate is also useful if you need an ORM layer (and spring has nice integrations with hibernate too). they're certainly not the 'only' or even the 'right' way to do things (that's quite subjective) but they have both saved me time and effort, especially spring. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | I work as a consultant, and I've seen a lot of projects where the devs started out with servlets+JSP because that's what they knew, and it's pretty simple to get started with. However, it gives the team an opportunity/excuse to write a platform of their own, [which is more fun than using someone else's and just writing an application](http://thedailywtf.com/articles/programming-sucks!-or-at-least,-it-ought-to-.aspx).
As the project grows, the team reinvents more and more wheels, quite a few of which end up [square](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel#Related_phrases). That's where I enter the picture - adding new stuff to this semi-flexible platform has become so complicated that the devs can't keep up adding features *and* fixing bugs without calling in reinforcements. Just to add insult to injury, the internal devs are usually the ones who get assigned to do the boring bug fixes because bug fixes require more knowledge of the gory entrails of what has become the team's proprietary persistence-and-web framework, and so those gosh-danged consultants get to do the new, fun stuff.
Now, you shouldn't use a framework just because people have been regurgitating each other's blog posts about the awesomeness of it, but you should also realize that there are very good reasons why those frameworks exist (and why they're used). If you haven't used any web frameworks at all, I'd recommend you to take Spring MVC, Wicket or whatever for a test drive. They don't solve all problems, and they do cause some of their own, but the grand total is usually a productivity increase, especially if you're making advanced user interfaces.
I have been on projects where plain JDBC has been quite sufficient for persistence, and where no more advanced web frameworks than servlets+JSP have been needed, but those projects are a minority. Without having used a framework or two, you'll never whether your project is part of that minority that doesn't need one, or if it is part of the grand majority that does. | Don't try everything all at once - take on one new technology at a time. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | I work as a consultant, and I've seen a lot of projects where the devs started out with servlets+JSP because that's what they knew, and it's pretty simple to get started with. However, it gives the team an opportunity/excuse to write a platform of their own, [which is more fun than using someone else's and just writing an application](http://thedailywtf.com/articles/programming-sucks!-or-at-least,-it-ought-to-.aspx).
As the project grows, the team reinvents more and more wheels, quite a few of which end up [square](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel#Related_phrases). That's where I enter the picture - adding new stuff to this semi-flexible platform has become so complicated that the devs can't keep up adding features *and* fixing bugs without calling in reinforcements. Just to add insult to injury, the internal devs are usually the ones who get assigned to do the boring bug fixes because bug fixes require more knowledge of the gory entrails of what has become the team's proprietary persistence-and-web framework, and so those gosh-danged consultants get to do the new, fun stuff.
Now, you shouldn't use a framework just because people have been regurgitating each other's blog posts about the awesomeness of it, but you should also realize that there are very good reasons why those frameworks exist (and why they're used). If you haven't used any web frameworks at all, I'd recommend you to take Spring MVC, Wicket or whatever for a test drive. They don't solve all problems, and they do cause some of their own, but the grand total is usually a productivity increase, especially if you're making advanced user interfaces.
I have been on projects where plain JDBC has been quite sufficient for persistence, and where no more advanced web frameworks than servlets+JSP have been needed, but those projects are a minority. Without having used a framework or two, you'll never whether your project is part of that minority that doesn't need one, or if it is part of the grand majority that does. | It depends what the customer wants (in the world of consultancy).
You have to learn new technologies. Does the customer wants to pay for that?
Not all the caveats of the new ones are known, whereas the older ones are proven a lot more.
Of course, if everybody thought like this we would all be stuck with VB these days. You have to look for the right balance, and learn a lot yourself too so you can get an objective view on the technologies available, their up and downsides. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | When starting a new project limit the number of unfamiliar technologies / frameworks to use. Every framework takes time to learn and every framework has issues especially if not implemented correctly.
If you can I would recommend you look into the [Play framework](http://www.playframework.org/). It is a web framework for Java that focuses on developer productivity. You can choose to use Spring / Hibernate if you want but you are not bound by that. It has a very easy to learn implementation and you should be able to get a good idea within a day of playing around with it if it is what you are looking for. | It depends what the customer wants (in the world of consultancy).
You have to learn new technologies. Does the customer wants to pay for that?
Not all the caveats of the new ones are known, whereas the older ones are proven a lot more.
Of course, if everybody thought like this we would all be stuck with VB these days. You have to look for the right balance, and learn a lot yourself too so you can get an objective view on the technologies available, their up and downsides. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | I can say for sure that Spring is worth considering. It gives you as much as you can take, but it doesn't bother you with things you don't need.
For example, at the very beginning you probably need dependency injection only. Then you'll need help with database interactions and transaction management. Then you'll decide to apply MVC patter to your web-application. After that may be you'll realize that components of your system are to send JMS to each other. And so on and so forth.
For all this cases Spring has it's own simple, intuitive, light-weight solution. | There is one major trap with any unknown technology. You do not know where the dragons are, and you do not know how to rub the new technology "with the hairs".
Learning that *will* take time, and you need to have that in your estimates. Also your estimates will most likely be too low... |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | Don't try everything all at once - take on one new technology at a time. | I can say for sure that Spring is worth considering. It gives you as much as you can take, but it doesn't bother you with things you don't need.
For example, at the very beginning you probably need dependency injection only. Then you'll need help with database interactions and transaction management. Then you'll decide to apply MVC patter to your web-application. After that may be you'll realize that components of your system are to send JMS to each other. And so on and so forth.
For all this cases Spring has it's own simple, intuitive, light-weight solution. |
2,903,185 | I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project.
It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past.
However my experience doing web-apps involved JSP, Servlets and JSTL... I know the ideas behind newer technologies like Hibernate/Spring but have never used them. So we wrote our own DAOs, handled AJAX by writing special mini-JSP pages that generated XML/JSON pages, etc.
I'm not hugely into the idea that Spring/Hibernate are the 'only' or 'right' way to do any Java web-project, but they are widely used. On the other hand, not only would trying to learn these increase initial development time, but I'd be using my learning attempts to build a production system.
I remember one of Joel's early articles said (I'll paraphrase since I can't find it)
>
> "regardless what's cool, *always* use
> the technologies that the lead
> developer (or dev team?) knows best"
>
>
>
I wondered what people thought about that?
ps: should this be CW? | 2010/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2903185",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/197229/"
] | I work as a consultant, and I've seen a lot of projects where the devs started out with servlets+JSP because that's what they knew, and it's pretty simple to get started with. However, it gives the team an opportunity/excuse to write a platform of their own, [which is more fun than using someone else's and just writing an application](http://thedailywtf.com/articles/programming-sucks!-or-at-least,-it-ought-to-.aspx).
As the project grows, the team reinvents more and more wheels, quite a few of which end up [square](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel#Related_phrases). That's where I enter the picture - adding new stuff to this semi-flexible platform has become so complicated that the devs can't keep up adding features *and* fixing bugs without calling in reinforcements. Just to add insult to injury, the internal devs are usually the ones who get assigned to do the boring bug fixes because bug fixes require more knowledge of the gory entrails of what has become the team's proprietary persistence-and-web framework, and so those gosh-danged consultants get to do the new, fun stuff.
Now, you shouldn't use a framework just because people have been regurgitating each other's blog posts about the awesomeness of it, but you should also realize that there are very good reasons why those frameworks exist (and why they're used). If you haven't used any web frameworks at all, I'd recommend you to take Spring MVC, Wicket or whatever for a test drive. They don't solve all problems, and they do cause some of their own, but the grand total is usually a productivity increase, especially if you're making advanced user interfaces.
I have been on projects where plain JDBC has been quite sufficient for persistence, and where no more advanced web frameworks than servlets+JSP have been needed, but those projects are a minority. Without having used a framework or two, you'll never whether your project is part of that minority that doesn't need one, or if it is part of the grand majority that does. | i personally would definitely recommend looking into spring, i've found it's saved me countless hours. hibernate is also useful if you need an ORM layer (and spring has nice integrations with hibernate too). they're certainly not the 'only' or even the 'right' way to do things (that's quite subjective) but they have both saved me time and effort, especially spring. |
594 | I am not too good at memorizing stuff. Is there any starting hand set of rules or chart that is easy to remember?
A little bit of context:
* No Limit Hold'em
* the number of players is not really a parameter, since in any game one will go from 9 or 10 to (hopefully) 2 players
* Usually weak opponents, since I am kind of a beginner
**Further edit:** what about the Chen formula? I discovered it after asking this question. I personally find it not too difficult to apply, is it good? | 2012/04/20 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/594",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/16/"
] | I have something that I call the Q-T-8 standard. Among starting hands, no unsuited hands where the lower card is lower than a Q (that is A-Q and K-Q only), no suited hands where the lower card is less than a ten (that is down to J-T), and no pairs lower than 8s. | <http://pokerstrategy.com/> makes a lot of really good starting hands charts and learning stuff for newbies. I personally started my poker carrier there.(now playing 5.50$ HU SNG) All of these charts are made to help newbies crush microstakes easily.
As I searched for Chen formula, this strategy advice to openlimp in early position with some hands and dont care, if these hands play well postflop or not. That is not good strategy, especially at lower limits. You want to protect your stronger hands and don't want multiway pots. You also want to extract value from your stronger hands preflop from your loose opponents.
My ref link.(not sure if it is allowed, feel free to remove if so.) : <http://cs.pokerstrategy.com/#u56DJM> |
594 | I am not too good at memorizing stuff. Is there any starting hand set of rules or chart that is easy to remember?
A little bit of context:
* No Limit Hold'em
* the number of players is not really a parameter, since in any game one will go from 9 or 10 to (hopefully) 2 players
* Usually weak opponents, since I am kind of a beginner
**Further edit:** what about the Chen formula? I discovered it after asking this question. I personally find it not too difficult to apply, is it good? | 2012/04/20 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/594",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/16/"
] | This is a tiny little chart I made for a few friends who are *very* new to the game and often can't get their head around how much of a difference one or two pips can make!
Reading the chart: If your hand is unsuited, match your hole cards in the lower left half of the table. If your hand is suited, match your hole cards in the upper right half of the table. If you have a pair, you're looking at the dividing line going diagonally.
Notes about the chart:
* Anything that doesn't have a number, don't play.
* Red => Yellow => Green // Worse => Better => Best
* Odds are based off of a 4 person game (But the same guidelines apply to other games)
* "Tighten up" or play **less** of the reds when there are **more** players and
* "Loosen up" or play **more** of the reds when there are **less** players.
It's important that there is no "formula for winning". Just take some guidelines, practice practice practice, and you'll start to know when you can afford to play the "reds" and how hard you should be pushing those yellows. | I have something that I call the Q-T-8 standard. Among starting hands, no unsuited hands where the lower card is lower than a Q (that is A-Q and K-Q only), no suited hands where the lower card is less than a ten (that is down to J-T), and no pairs lower than 8s. |
594 | I am not too good at memorizing stuff. Is there any starting hand set of rules or chart that is easy to remember?
A little bit of context:
* No Limit Hold'em
* the number of players is not really a parameter, since in any game one will go from 9 or 10 to (hopefully) 2 players
* Usually weak opponents, since I am kind of a beginner
**Further edit:** what about the Chen formula? I discovered it after asking this question. I personally find it not too difficult to apply, is it good? | 2012/04/20 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/594",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/16/"
] | Having such a memorization mechanism that allows you to have a decent starting hand chart in your head is only going to help you in very very early stages of learning the game.
There are a lot of books and poker strategy websites where such charts can be found. I've noticed that those charts encourage you to play your hand if it's strong (medium to big pocket pairs, AK, AQ, KQ, even AJ). There are 2 main problems with this:
* you get hands that fit that criteria rarely. Maybe 1 in 30 hands. Playing very few hands like this is a guaranteed loss because in tournaments for example blinds keep going up and they'll kill your stack very quickly.
* if you only play those strong hands, you become extremely predictable. Your opponnents may just all fold preflop when they see you limp or raise instead of folding. They know you have a good hand, otherwise you wouldn't be playing it. You only win a few blinds and antes like this (which usually is not very much).
Like I said in the beginning: these starting hand charts are only good if you're completely new to the game and need to learn its very basic mechanics first. Once you know that, relying on those charts is extremely dangerous and unprofitable. You can't just wait for premium hands to show up (because they rarely do), you have to get your chips in the middle and be more aggressive with a wider range. On top of all this, poker is not so much about your hand, it's more about your opponent(s) hand(s) and his/their behaviour (but this is a completely new topic, outside of the scope of this answer).
If, after reading all this, you still want a memorization trick for this kind of thing, use Tom Au's answer, it's close enough. | <http://pokerstrategy.com/> makes a lot of really good starting hands charts and learning stuff for newbies. I personally started my poker carrier there.(now playing 5.50$ HU SNG) All of these charts are made to help newbies crush microstakes easily.
As I searched for Chen formula, this strategy advice to openlimp in early position with some hands and dont care, if these hands play well postflop or not. That is not good strategy, especially at lower limits. You want to protect your stronger hands and don't want multiway pots. You also want to extract value from your stronger hands preflop from your loose opponents.
My ref link.(not sure if it is allowed, feel free to remove if so.) : <http://cs.pokerstrategy.com/#u56DJM> |
594 | I am not too good at memorizing stuff. Is there any starting hand set of rules or chart that is easy to remember?
A little bit of context:
* No Limit Hold'em
* the number of players is not really a parameter, since in any game one will go from 9 or 10 to (hopefully) 2 players
* Usually weak opponents, since I am kind of a beginner
**Further edit:** what about the Chen formula? I discovered it after asking this question. I personally find it not too difficult to apply, is it good? | 2012/04/20 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/594",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/16/"
] | This is a tiny little chart I made for a few friends who are *very* new to the game and often can't get their head around how much of a difference one or two pips can make!
Reading the chart: If your hand is unsuited, match your hole cards in the lower left half of the table. If your hand is suited, match your hole cards in the upper right half of the table. If you have a pair, you're looking at the dividing line going diagonally.
Notes about the chart:
* Anything that doesn't have a number, don't play.
* Red => Yellow => Green // Worse => Better => Best
* Odds are based off of a 4 person game (But the same guidelines apply to other games)
* "Tighten up" or play **less** of the reds when there are **more** players and
* "Loosen up" or play **more** of the reds when there are **less** players.
It's important that there is no "formula for winning". Just take some guidelines, practice practice practice, and you'll start to know when you can afford to play the "reds" and how hard you should be pushing those yellows. | Having such a memorization mechanism that allows you to have a decent starting hand chart in your head is only going to help you in very very early stages of learning the game.
There are a lot of books and poker strategy websites where such charts can be found. I've noticed that those charts encourage you to play your hand if it's strong (medium to big pocket pairs, AK, AQ, KQ, even AJ). There are 2 main problems with this:
* you get hands that fit that criteria rarely. Maybe 1 in 30 hands. Playing very few hands like this is a guaranteed loss because in tournaments for example blinds keep going up and they'll kill your stack very quickly.
* if you only play those strong hands, you become extremely predictable. Your opponnents may just all fold preflop when they see you limp or raise instead of folding. They know you have a good hand, otherwise you wouldn't be playing it. You only win a few blinds and antes like this (which usually is not very much).
Like I said in the beginning: these starting hand charts are only good if you're completely new to the game and need to learn its very basic mechanics first. Once you know that, relying on those charts is extremely dangerous and unprofitable. You can't just wait for premium hands to show up (because they rarely do), you have to get your chips in the middle and be more aggressive with a wider range. On top of all this, poker is not so much about your hand, it's more about your opponent(s) hand(s) and his/their behaviour (but this is a completely new topic, outside of the scope of this answer).
If, after reading all this, you still want a memorization trick for this kind of thing, use Tom Au's answer, it's close enough. |
594 | I am not too good at memorizing stuff. Is there any starting hand set of rules or chart that is easy to remember?
A little bit of context:
* No Limit Hold'em
* the number of players is not really a parameter, since in any game one will go from 9 or 10 to (hopefully) 2 players
* Usually weak opponents, since I am kind of a beginner
**Further edit:** what about the Chen formula? I discovered it after asking this question. I personally find it not too difficult to apply, is it good? | 2012/04/20 | [
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/594",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com",
"https://poker.stackexchange.com/users/16/"
] | This is a tiny little chart I made for a few friends who are *very* new to the game and often can't get their head around how much of a difference one or two pips can make!
Reading the chart: If your hand is unsuited, match your hole cards in the lower left half of the table. If your hand is suited, match your hole cards in the upper right half of the table. If you have a pair, you're looking at the dividing line going diagonally.
Notes about the chart:
* Anything that doesn't have a number, don't play.
* Red => Yellow => Green // Worse => Better => Best
* Odds are based off of a 4 person game (But the same guidelines apply to other games)
* "Tighten up" or play **less** of the reds when there are **more** players and
* "Loosen up" or play **more** of the reds when there are **less** players.
It's important that there is no "formula for winning". Just take some guidelines, practice practice practice, and you'll start to know when you can afford to play the "reds" and how hard you should be pushing those yellows. | <http://pokerstrategy.com/> makes a lot of really good starting hands charts and learning stuff for newbies. I personally started my poker carrier there.(now playing 5.50$ HU SNG) All of these charts are made to help newbies crush microstakes easily.
As I searched for Chen formula, this strategy advice to openlimp in early position with some hands and dont care, if these hands play well postflop or not. That is not good strategy, especially at lower limits. You want to protect your stronger hands and don't want multiway pots. You also want to extract value from your stronger hands preflop from your loose opponents.
My ref link.(not sure if it is allowed, feel free to remove if so.) : <http://cs.pokerstrategy.com/#u56DJM> |
13,115 | How credible is [the theory](http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/retellings/enkininhur.htm) that the Sumerian story of [Enki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki) and [Ninhursag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninhursag) influenced or inspired Genesis 2 and 3?
>
> the literature created by the Sumerians left its deep imprint on the Hebrews, and one of the thrilling aspects of reconstructing and translating Sumerian belles-lettres consists in tracing resemblances and parallels between Sumerian and Biblical motifs. To be sure, Sumerians could not have influenced the Hebrews directly, for they had ceased to exist long before the Hebrew people came into existence. But there is little doubt that the Sumerians deeply influenced the Canaanites, who preceded the Hebrews in the land later known as Palestine’ (Kramer, 1981:142)
>
>
> | 2014/08/18 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/13115",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/695/"
] | This theory is pretty credible. There a great deal of scholars which entertain this idea who are collectively known as [Panbabylonists](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panbabylonism). This seems to raise the ire of many purists who would like to believe that Genesis was influenced by God alone.
In my opinion, however many fail to consider the idea that perhaps sections of Genesis were not derived *from* other texts such as the [Epic of Atra-hasis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Atra-Hasis), or the [Enûma Eliš](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1) but instead are a [polemic, corrective response **to** these alternate creation narratives.](https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/1252/what-are-the-similarities-and-differences-between-the-genesis-creation-account-a/20436#20436) For example in [Enûma Eliš](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1) mankind is created because the gods are lazy and do not want to work. They therefore create mankind in order to work the earth and bring them (the gods) offerings. Instead, in the creation story of Genesis, the earth is created for mankind and they are placed as kings over creation. It is almost as if Genesis is saying "we all know that the earth was created in 6 days and that it was created from these waters. We all know a mound was formed and then creation proceeded and so forth, but let me tell you WHY it was created because you others have all gotten the why wrong. Oh, by the way, Yahweh is more powerful than your puny gods." This is tentatively coming to be known as the [framework view](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_interpretation_(Genesis)), interpretation or hypothesis. Accordingly, how one regards this idea of Panbabylonism tends to be closely linked with how an individual interprets Genesis.
Viewing Genesis as a response to creative texts of other cultures also allows us to preserve the ideal that God divinely inspired Genesis - specifically as God's response and corrective to the widely agreed upon (at least by ancient Mediterranean people) creation events. Thus, it is plausible that Enki and Ninhursag influenced Genesis 2 and 3, but perhaps not in the way you would think. | With any theory like this its just as credible that the influence goes the other way. The argument that the Sumerians could not influence the Hebrews directly is bunk, in that perhaps they could not directly influence the author of Genesis, but since they would have been contemporary with Abraham they could have influenced the stream of Hebrew thought at an earlier stage. But this is just the problem, namely, that Abraham and people associated with him could just as well have influenced them. Furthermore, if we conceive the story as coming to the author through a tradition going back to Abraham, and possibly through Abraham back to Adam, or some such, then both the Hebrews and the Summerians would have been influenced at a much earlier time than either of the literary remains. In short, nothing can be proven one way or another.
But more importantly than any of this, if you actually read these Pagan epics that scholars love to claim are so similar to the Biblical stories, you will find that the ***differences*** stand out much more than the similarities: the gross polytheism, for instance, or the mythologizing of characters to the point that they're more like Superman than a real human character with flaws. |
13,115 | How credible is [the theory](http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/retellings/enkininhur.htm) that the Sumerian story of [Enki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki) and [Ninhursag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninhursag) influenced or inspired Genesis 2 and 3?
>
> the literature created by the Sumerians left its deep imprint on the Hebrews, and one of the thrilling aspects of reconstructing and translating Sumerian belles-lettres consists in tracing resemblances and parallels between Sumerian and Biblical motifs. To be sure, Sumerians could not have influenced the Hebrews directly, for they had ceased to exist long before the Hebrew people came into existence. But there is little doubt that the Sumerians deeply influenced the Canaanites, who preceded the Hebrews in the land later known as Palestine’ (Kramer, 1981:142)
>
>
> | 2014/08/18 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/13115",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/695/"
] | With any theory like this its just as credible that the influence goes the other way. The argument that the Sumerians could not influence the Hebrews directly is bunk, in that perhaps they could not directly influence the author of Genesis, but since they would have been contemporary with Abraham they could have influenced the stream of Hebrew thought at an earlier stage. But this is just the problem, namely, that Abraham and people associated with him could just as well have influenced them. Furthermore, if we conceive the story as coming to the author through a tradition going back to Abraham, and possibly through Abraham back to Adam, or some such, then both the Hebrews and the Summerians would have been influenced at a much earlier time than either of the literary remains. In short, nothing can be proven one way or another.
But more importantly than any of this, if you actually read these Pagan epics that scholars love to claim are so similar to the Biblical stories, you will find that the ***differences*** stand out much more than the similarities: the gross polytheism, for instance, or the mythologizing of characters to the point that they're more like Superman than a real human character with flaws. | I would say impossilbe because:-
>
> 1 Chronicles 16:26
> All the gods of the peoples are worthless gods,. . .
>
>
> Psalm 96:5
> All the gods of the peoples are worthless gods,. . .
>
>
> Isaiah 2:8
> Their land is filled with worthless gods. They bow down to ***the work of their own hands***, To what their own fingers have made.
>
>
> Isaiah 37:19
> And they have thrown their gods into the fire, because they were not gods but ***the work of human hands***, wood and stone. That is why they could destroy them.
>
>
>
Besides the gods of Sumer, the Bible Shiner, were not invented by humans until AFTER the Flood of Noah's day; Gen. 5 onward.
The myths of Sumer were taught in Egypt but rejected by Moses the penman of
Genesis, beside God would not alow pagan myths to soil his word The Bible.
The pagans took concepts from the Bible account via the confusion of Babel onward and retold them using various gods and demigods. |
13,115 | How credible is [the theory](http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/retellings/enkininhur.htm) that the Sumerian story of [Enki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki) and [Ninhursag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninhursag) influenced or inspired Genesis 2 and 3?
>
> the literature created by the Sumerians left its deep imprint on the Hebrews, and one of the thrilling aspects of reconstructing and translating Sumerian belles-lettres consists in tracing resemblances and parallels between Sumerian and Biblical motifs. To be sure, Sumerians could not have influenced the Hebrews directly, for they had ceased to exist long before the Hebrew people came into existence. But there is little doubt that the Sumerians deeply influenced the Canaanites, who preceded the Hebrews in the land later known as Palestine’ (Kramer, 1981:142)
>
>
> | 2014/08/18 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/13115",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/695/"
] | This theory is pretty credible. There a great deal of scholars which entertain this idea who are collectively known as [Panbabylonists](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panbabylonism). This seems to raise the ire of many purists who would like to believe that Genesis was influenced by God alone.
In my opinion, however many fail to consider the idea that perhaps sections of Genesis were not derived *from* other texts such as the [Epic of Atra-hasis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Atra-Hasis), or the [Enûma Eliš](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1) but instead are a [polemic, corrective response **to** these alternate creation narratives.](https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/1252/what-are-the-similarities-and-differences-between-the-genesis-creation-account-a/20436#20436) For example in [Enûma Eliš](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1) mankind is created because the gods are lazy and do not want to work. They therefore create mankind in order to work the earth and bring them (the gods) offerings. Instead, in the creation story of Genesis, the earth is created for mankind and they are placed as kings over creation. It is almost as if Genesis is saying "we all know that the earth was created in 6 days and that it was created from these waters. We all know a mound was formed and then creation proceeded and so forth, but let me tell you WHY it was created because you others have all gotten the why wrong. Oh, by the way, Yahweh is more powerful than your puny gods." This is tentatively coming to be known as the [framework view](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_interpretation_(Genesis)), interpretation or hypothesis. Accordingly, how one regards this idea of Panbabylonism tends to be closely linked with how an individual interprets Genesis.
Viewing Genesis as a response to creative texts of other cultures also allows us to preserve the ideal that God divinely inspired Genesis - specifically as God's response and corrective to the widely agreed upon (at least by ancient Mediterranean people) creation events. Thus, it is plausible that Enki and Ninhursag influenced Genesis 2 and 3, but perhaps not in the way you would think. | The view one takes on the *credibility* of the assertion is going to depend largely on one's presuppositions and level of allowance for the Bible text to speak for itself.
If the [Torah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah) (Law, i.e. "teaching" is the idea in Hebrew, not just the actual commands and prohibitions), which ***includes Genesis***, was formed contra what critical scholars claim, and instead ...
1. was in fact essentially [singly authored by Moses](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_authorship) (with possibly a few final editorial editions by Joshua [about Moses's death? Dt 34:5-8], who is recorded to have added further information to the Law in his own time in [Josh 24:26](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=josh%2024%3A26&version=NASB), though that only sets a precedent for his additions, as the passage itself is more specific to the renewed covenant vows of the people in v.19-23), and
2. was largely "dictated to Moses by God" (quoted from above link on Mosaic authorship), some being written both before ever ascending to Sinai ([Ex 24:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2024%3A4&version=NASB)), some upon Sinai (actually stated there to be *given* by God initially; [Ex 24:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2024%3A4&version=NASB)), and most likely after the fact during the tabernacle meetings with God (of which Joshua was also privy to; [Ex 33:7-11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ex%2033%3A7-11&version=NASB)), and
3. was essentially complete at the time of his death, and entrusted to the priests for reading to the congregation every seven years ([Dt 31:9-13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2031%3A9-13&version=NASB); whether this was ever practiced or not in its entirety is questionable—later tradition only read "[selections from the Torah](http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14185-tabernacles-feast-of#anchor10)."), ...
**then there is no credibility to the assertion at all** (disclaimer: this is my view). This indicates that the history contained in Genesis, Scripture declares God *revealed* to Moses. Such an account from "the God of truth" ([Isa 65:16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ex%2033%3A7-11&version=NASB)), the One who is and does right ([Gen 18:25](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen%2018%3A25&version=NASB), [Ps 7:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps%207%3A9&version=NASB), [11:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps%2011%3A7&version=NASB)), and was there ([Gen 1:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen%201%3A1&version=NASB)), is then the *true* account of creation, which being *mankind's history*, those events did become a basis for the various morphed forms of that history by various cultures across the planet (including Sumerians).
Of course, if one rejects points 1-3 above (in line with critical scholars), and rather favors more direct pagan influence on the Hebrew scriptures, then there is at least plausible credibility for the assertion that the Sumerian works influenced the Hebrew works. There is of course some pagan *influence*, as the Bible addresses aspects of paganism both in the nations around Israel and within Israel itself, but that is a different category of influence than what is asserted with the early chapters of Genesis—the former idea condemns the paganism, whereas the latter would attribute pagan ideas as an "imprint on the Hebrews" (per your quote), rather than looking further back to the history itself that *imprinted them both*.
So presuppositions drive how one reads the evidence, and thus will lead to differing views on the credibility (and nature of) the relationship between the two. |
13,115 | How credible is [the theory](http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/retellings/enkininhur.htm) that the Sumerian story of [Enki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki) and [Ninhursag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninhursag) influenced or inspired Genesis 2 and 3?
>
> the literature created by the Sumerians left its deep imprint on the Hebrews, and one of the thrilling aspects of reconstructing and translating Sumerian belles-lettres consists in tracing resemblances and parallels between Sumerian and Biblical motifs. To be sure, Sumerians could not have influenced the Hebrews directly, for they had ceased to exist long before the Hebrew people came into existence. But there is little doubt that the Sumerians deeply influenced the Canaanites, who preceded the Hebrews in the land later known as Palestine’ (Kramer, 1981:142)
>
>
> | 2014/08/18 | [
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] | The view one takes on the *credibility* of the assertion is going to depend largely on one's presuppositions and level of allowance for the Bible text to speak for itself.
If the [Torah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah) (Law, i.e. "teaching" is the idea in Hebrew, not just the actual commands and prohibitions), which ***includes Genesis***, was formed contra what critical scholars claim, and instead ...
1. was in fact essentially [singly authored by Moses](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_authorship) (with possibly a few final editorial editions by Joshua [about Moses's death? Dt 34:5-8], who is recorded to have added further information to the Law in his own time in [Josh 24:26](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=josh%2024%3A26&version=NASB), though that only sets a precedent for his additions, as the passage itself is more specific to the renewed covenant vows of the people in v.19-23), and
2. was largely "dictated to Moses by God" (quoted from above link on Mosaic authorship), some being written both before ever ascending to Sinai ([Ex 24:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2024%3A4&version=NASB)), some upon Sinai (actually stated there to be *given* by God initially; [Ex 24:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2024%3A4&version=NASB)), and most likely after the fact during the tabernacle meetings with God (of which Joshua was also privy to; [Ex 33:7-11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ex%2033%3A7-11&version=NASB)), and
3. was essentially complete at the time of his death, and entrusted to the priests for reading to the congregation every seven years ([Dt 31:9-13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2031%3A9-13&version=NASB); whether this was ever practiced or not in its entirety is questionable—later tradition only read "[selections from the Torah](http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14185-tabernacles-feast-of#anchor10)."), ...
**then there is no credibility to the assertion at all** (disclaimer: this is my view). This indicates that the history contained in Genesis, Scripture declares God *revealed* to Moses. Such an account from "the God of truth" ([Isa 65:16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ex%2033%3A7-11&version=NASB)), the One who is and does right ([Gen 18:25](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen%2018%3A25&version=NASB), [Ps 7:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps%207%3A9&version=NASB), [11:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps%2011%3A7&version=NASB)), and was there ([Gen 1:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen%201%3A1&version=NASB)), is then the *true* account of creation, which being *mankind's history*, those events did become a basis for the various morphed forms of that history by various cultures across the planet (including Sumerians).
Of course, if one rejects points 1-3 above (in line with critical scholars), and rather favors more direct pagan influence on the Hebrew scriptures, then there is at least plausible credibility for the assertion that the Sumerian works influenced the Hebrew works. There is of course some pagan *influence*, as the Bible addresses aspects of paganism both in the nations around Israel and within Israel itself, but that is a different category of influence than what is asserted with the early chapters of Genesis—the former idea condemns the paganism, whereas the latter would attribute pagan ideas as an "imprint on the Hebrews" (per your quote), rather than looking further back to the history itself that *imprinted them both*.
So presuppositions drive how one reads the evidence, and thus will lead to differing views on the credibility (and nature of) the relationship between the two. | I would say impossilbe because:-
>
> 1 Chronicles 16:26
> All the gods of the peoples are worthless gods,. . .
>
>
> Psalm 96:5
> All the gods of the peoples are worthless gods,. . .
>
>
> Isaiah 2:8
> Their land is filled with worthless gods. They bow down to ***the work of their own hands***, To what their own fingers have made.
>
>
> Isaiah 37:19
> And they have thrown their gods into the fire, because they were not gods but ***the work of human hands***, wood and stone. That is why they could destroy them.
>
>
>
Besides the gods of Sumer, the Bible Shiner, were not invented by humans until AFTER the Flood of Noah's day; Gen. 5 onward.
The myths of Sumer were taught in Egypt but rejected by Moses the penman of
Genesis, beside God would not alow pagan myths to soil his word The Bible.
The pagans took concepts from the Bible account via the confusion of Babel onward and retold them using various gods and demigods. |
13,115 | How credible is [the theory](http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/retellings/enkininhur.htm) that the Sumerian story of [Enki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki) and [Ninhursag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninhursag) influenced or inspired Genesis 2 and 3?
>
> the literature created by the Sumerians left its deep imprint on the Hebrews, and one of the thrilling aspects of reconstructing and translating Sumerian belles-lettres consists in tracing resemblances and parallels between Sumerian and Biblical motifs. To be sure, Sumerians could not have influenced the Hebrews directly, for they had ceased to exist long before the Hebrew people came into existence. But there is little doubt that the Sumerians deeply influenced the Canaanites, who preceded the Hebrews in the land later known as Palestine’ (Kramer, 1981:142)
>
>
> | 2014/08/18 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/13115",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
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] | This theory is pretty credible. There a great deal of scholars which entertain this idea who are collectively known as [Panbabylonists](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panbabylonism). This seems to raise the ire of many purists who would like to believe that Genesis was influenced by God alone.
In my opinion, however many fail to consider the idea that perhaps sections of Genesis were not derived *from* other texts such as the [Epic of Atra-hasis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Atra-Hasis), or the [Enûma Eliš](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1) but instead are a [polemic, corrective response **to** these alternate creation narratives.](https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/1252/what-are-the-similarities-and-differences-between-the-genesis-creation-account-a/20436#20436) For example in [Enûma Eliš](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C3%BBma_Eli%C5%A1) mankind is created because the gods are lazy and do not want to work. They therefore create mankind in order to work the earth and bring them (the gods) offerings. Instead, in the creation story of Genesis, the earth is created for mankind and they are placed as kings over creation. It is almost as if Genesis is saying "we all know that the earth was created in 6 days and that it was created from these waters. We all know a mound was formed and then creation proceeded and so forth, but let me tell you WHY it was created because you others have all gotten the why wrong. Oh, by the way, Yahweh is more powerful than your puny gods." This is tentatively coming to be known as the [framework view](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_interpretation_(Genesis)), interpretation or hypothesis. Accordingly, how one regards this idea of Panbabylonism tends to be closely linked with how an individual interprets Genesis.
Viewing Genesis as a response to creative texts of other cultures also allows us to preserve the ideal that God divinely inspired Genesis - specifically as God's response and corrective to the widely agreed upon (at least by ancient Mediterranean people) creation events. Thus, it is plausible that Enki and Ninhursag influenced Genesis 2 and 3, but perhaps not in the way you would think. | I would say impossilbe because:-
>
> 1 Chronicles 16:26
> All the gods of the peoples are worthless gods,. . .
>
>
> Psalm 96:5
> All the gods of the peoples are worthless gods,. . .
>
>
> Isaiah 2:8
> Their land is filled with worthless gods. They bow down to ***the work of their own hands***, To what their own fingers have made.
>
>
> Isaiah 37:19
> And they have thrown their gods into the fire, because they were not gods but ***the work of human hands***, wood and stone. That is why they could destroy them.
>
>
>
Besides the gods of Sumer, the Bible Shiner, were not invented by humans until AFTER the Flood of Noah's day; Gen. 5 onward.
The myths of Sumer were taught in Egypt but rejected by Moses the penman of
Genesis, beside God would not alow pagan myths to soil his word The Bible.
The pagans took concepts from the Bible account via the confusion of Babel onward and retold them using various gods and demigods. |
197,009 | im working on a mostly earthlike planet (aside from atmosphere) have a sky that looks green at noon to humans and pink during a sunset? could it be done via airborne algae? would the atmosphere still be breathable to humans? | 2021/03/01 | [
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] | There are a few options to make the color of the sky change. To really get into the physics of this, you will need to get comfortable with [scattering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_sky_radiation) and [emission spectra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#Composition_and_power).
Firstly, the star hitting that system could just not emit as much blue light, resulting in the next color being more diffracted (and more visible) than blue. This has some downsides, such as blue things appearing black or very much darker than here on earth. If you went the route of having a less hot star or a star with significant amounts of certain elements, you could get a mostly-green emission spectrum. (The less intense heat can cause an issue here, though!)
Secondly, as you point out, you could simply have something in the atmosphere that reflects more green than blue. This has the added bonus of letting blue items remain visibly blue.
For instance, [Algae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom) are noted to be frequently green and occur in blooms- but then you simply have the problem of how they get their nutrients and stay aloft! It does seem reasonable that some enterprising micro-organism stumbles upon a way to ride the wind - they experience a much different [Reynolds number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number#Object_in_a_fluid) than we do!
Finally, pink/red skies often happen because of particulates in the air. These conditions happen on earth already! You see odd colors of sunset when storm systems, large forest fires, or other particulates in the air are west of you during sunset. | >
> is there any way to make an earthlike planet (aside from the atmosphere) have a green sky at noon and a pink sky at dusk
>
>
>
Maybe!
>
> would the atmosphere still be breathable to humans?
>
>
>
Erm, briefly?
There's a book called "*Under A Green Sky*" by someone named [Peter Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_(paleontologist)), who is attempting to describe how Earth would have looked during the [boring billion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_Billion), according to the [Canfield Ocean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_ocean) model.
Roughly speaking, the oceans were anoxic and filled with an interesting bacteria soup rich with [sulphate-reducing bacteria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate-reducing_microorganism) and [purple sulphur bacteria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_sulfur_bacteria). The former group thrive in the oxygen-free oceans and generate vast quantities of deadly hydrogen sulphide. It filles the air and wrecks the ozone layer. Ward suggests that the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere results in a greenish sky, though I must confess I haven't been able to find any supporting evidence for that claim or how he worked it out.
The ocean surface is covered with a thick mat of the purple sulphur bacteria who photosynthesise and consume some of the hydrogen sulphide reducing it to elemental sulphur but producing no oxygen.
The colour of the Earth's surface often has influence on the colour of the sky and clouds above it, and certainly an ocean sunset on such a world would be pretty pinky-purple.
So! If Ward was right, not only is your world possible, but it has happened before and if the most pessimistic models of destructive climate change come true, it can happen again! It just isn't really somewhere that people are really going to want to visit, and not much is going to live there. |
197,009 | im working on a mostly earthlike planet (aside from atmosphere) have a sky that looks green at noon to humans and pink during a sunset? could it be done via airborne algae? would the atmosphere still be breathable to humans? | 2021/03/01 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/197009",
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"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/82039/"
] | There are a few options to make the color of the sky change. To really get into the physics of this, you will need to get comfortable with [scattering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_sky_radiation) and [emission spectra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#Composition_and_power).
Firstly, the star hitting that system could just not emit as much blue light, resulting in the next color being more diffracted (and more visible) than blue. This has some downsides, such as blue things appearing black or very much darker than here on earth. If you went the route of having a less hot star or a star with significant amounts of certain elements, you could get a mostly-green emission spectrum. (The less intense heat can cause an issue here, though!)
Secondly, as you point out, you could simply have something in the atmosphere that reflects more green than blue. This has the added bonus of letting blue items remain visibly blue.
For instance, [Algae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom) are noted to be frequently green and occur in blooms- but then you simply have the problem of how they get their nutrients and stay aloft! It does seem reasonable that some enterprising micro-organism stumbles upon a way to ride the wind - they experience a much different [Reynolds number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number#Object_in_a_fluid) than we do!
Finally, pink/red skies often happen because of particulates in the air. These conditions happen on earth already! You see odd colors of sunset when storm systems, large forest fires, or other particulates in the air are west of you during sunset. | **Insectoids**
Every day after dawn, vast hordes of insect-like creatures with green-tinted, diaphanous wings fly up beyond the cloud layer to soak in the sunlight. The green in their wings is chlorophyll, and the sunlight helps them break down nutrients they have eaten through the night. In the evening, when sunlight fades, they descend to the ground to feed through the night, leaving the sky clear for a typical pink sunset. Their shit and decaying bodies fertilize the ground. It is a sort of symbiosis where plants get the use of photosynthesis secondhand instead of firsthand. Imagine plants sending their leaves up in the air to gather sunlight, and you're not far off. This symbiosis may have evolved because thick cloud layers often block out the sunlight or have in the past. |
197,009 | im working on a mostly earthlike planet (aside from atmosphere) have a sky that looks green at noon to humans and pink during a sunset? could it be done via airborne algae? would the atmosphere still be breathable to humans? | 2021/03/01 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/197009",
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"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/82039/"
] | >
> is there any way to make an earthlike planet (aside from the atmosphere) have a green sky at noon and a pink sky at dusk
>
>
>
Maybe!
>
> would the atmosphere still be breathable to humans?
>
>
>
Erm, briefly?
There's a book called "*Under A Green Sky*" by someone named [Peter Ward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_(paleontologist)), who is attempting to describe how Earth would have looked during the [boring billion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_Billion), according to the [Canfield Ocean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_ocean) model.
Roughly speaking, the oceans were anoxic and filled with an interesting bacteria soup rich with [sulphate-reducing bacteria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate-reducing_microorganism) and [purple sulphur bacteria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_sulfur_bacteria). The former group thrive in the oxygen-free oceans and generate vast quantities of deadly hydrogen sulphide. It filles the air and wrecks the ozone layer. Ward suggests that the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere results in a greenish sky, though I must confess I haven't been able to find any supporting evidence for that claim or how he worked it out.
The ocean surface is covered with a thick mat of the purple sulphur bacteria who photosynthesise and consume some of the hydrogen sulphide reducing it to elemental sulphur but producing no oxygen.
The colour of the Earth's surface often has influence on the colour of the sky and clouds above it, and certainly an ocean sunset on such a world would be pretty pinky-purple.
So! If Ward was right, not only is your world possible, but it has happened before and if the most pessimistic models of destructive climate change come true, it can happen again! It just isn't really somewhere that people are really going to want to visit, and not much is going to live there. | **Insectoids**
Every day after dawn, vast hordes of insect-like creatures with green-tinted, diaphanous wings fly up beyond the cloud layer to soak in the sunlight. The green in their wings is chlorophyll, and the sunlight helps them break down nutrients they have eaten through the night. In the evening, when sunlight fades, they descend to the ground to feed through the night, leaving the sky clear for a typical pink sunset. Their shit and decaying bodies fertilize the ground. It is a sort of symbiosis where plants get the use of photosynthesis secondhand instead of firsthand. Imagine plants sending their leaves up in the air to gather sunlight, and you're not far off. This symbiosis may have evolved because thick cloud layers often block out the sunlight or have in the past. |
54,118 | I want to create a file that I could give to 3 trusted friends, and allow any two of them to decrypt it when together (or in sequence when not physically in the same place). This is similar to a multi-signature crypto wallet, but I just want to do it with a file.
The use case is to create a document that would contain my sensitive passwords, bank accounts, life insurance etc... in the event of death or illness. I would give it to three people in advance. | 2017/12/20 | [
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/54118",
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] | This is precisely the domain of [secret sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing), of which there are various popular schemes like [Shamir's secret-sharing scheme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing), and there are many widely available implementations of it in various forms which you can find with exactly those keywords. | If this is for fun, definitely look at Shamir's secret sharing. But if the data is as tiny as it sounds and you want something low tech, you can just do this. Name the three people A, B, C. Create three secret keys, one for each, a, b, c. let m be the password file, e be your favorite encryption program. Give A two files: e(e(m,b),a) and e(e(m,c),a). Give C one file: e(e(m,b),c).
(Optional: let them keep their original names in case they don't like going by "A", "B", or "C". This also results in less paperwork.) |
71,160 | While running the Beginner Adventure some of my players were rolling a lot of advantage symbols (but without a success) and trying to maximize the chance of success for other players by using their advantage to give out Boost dice. During one such roll a player had six advantage and wanted to give out 3 boost dice to the same player, I made a session ruling that a player could only spend advantage in that way once per turn, but I wanted to find out what it should be for the long run of the game as we intend to continue playing. | 2015/11/17 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/71160",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
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] | Using Advantages this way is a part of the system
-------------------------------------------------
Using the dice pool for the *FFG Star Wars roleplaying games* is a collaborative process with all the players, and assigning the narrative outcome of the results is a part of that. It is quite possible for a roll that includes numerous Advantages to be passed on in the form of Boost to the next Active character.
>
> The key here is that how the Advantages gained from that roll are
> narrated into being a Boost for the subsequent player.
>
>
>
It is quite common for a combat to include quite a few Boost Dice (and Setback dice from Threats) being passed around from player to player and to GM with a well-described rationale from the scene as to why that would be so.
**Step 4** of the **Combat Check Process** for the system (page 205 in *Edge of the Empire*) discusses the use of the two charts (6-2, 6-3) for Spending Advantages and Triumphs, and Spending Threats and Despair. This spells out that the charts are intended as examples, and the group is expected to use those examples as benchmarks for narrating the outcomes of their rolls. The GM is expected to let the group narrate these outcomes, unless there is a specific reason pertinent to the scene (such as a detail about a location or person that they do not know and so cannot use to properly narrate a specific result). This whole process is intended to be part of the fun and is a significant aspect of what brings about the feeling of Star Wars in the game.
Having players narrating and coordinating together as players and as characters is a part of the intended process, and will allow for some spectacular scenes (for and against the group) as you play. Sometimes, those Boost dice will come up blank...
If you really must restrict the use of Advantages...
----------------------------------------------------
As the GM, remembering to apply Strain appropriately, and recognizing the importance of activating Item Qualities and Criticals can help in reducing the volume of Advantages turned into Boost dice to pass on, but there are times when the group will want all the Boosts it can get. | I perfer to do it a bit differently, though it gets a bit easier since my players tend to prefer using their advantages for weapon abilities.
When a player wants to use a non weapon ability (for example giving allys Boost dice) I ask them to exactly explain what they are doing. If it makes sense, actualy helps and is (relativly) new, aka "rule of cool", I try to give appropriate bonuses. These bonuses usualy just consume the rest of the advantage dice, as i rarely let the players reduce strain with them (personal preferance).
Another option is to use the advantages to make the players aware of something. Though it was not in one of my adventures, or even my idea, as we were attacked by a large group of gamborians(I hope they are called that in english), eventually a character missed, but had a ton of advantages. Instead he hit the water tower, which shuddered (but did not fall). This made us reevaluate our surroundings and shoot down the watertower, letting us escape in the ensuing chaos.
This is, in my oppinion the best way to use advantages and disadvantages. Let the players shoot the pipes, drenching the enemies in hot steam, giving them disadvantage. Let them see the enemy sneeking up on their friend. Give them information about their surroundings they can use to make the fight more interesting.
Once you start doing this, your players will eventually start to realize the fun they can have with the advantage dice and start making their own explainations. Of course you sometimes need to reign them in, but if you give the enemies the same chances, you suddenly have much more dynamic fights and a whole lot of "THAT WAS AWESOME" moments.
Naturally you dont want to overdo it, so when it's just a small confrontation, just let it roll. You know the players aren't in any real danger and dont try to fudge it with some random stuff that happens to them. When the stakes are hight though, start to have some fun. Especially for the big final fight, plan the terrain, and think of the awesome stuff you could let happen. Having something in the backhand means that, in case you can't think of anything, you have something to fall back on instead of "you regain 1 strain".
Finally, remember it is not just your job to do the imagining. Let the players do their part.
Sorry for the long answer, but we had pretty much the same problem in some of the early adventures... |
2,330 | I have a quadcopter equipped with PX4FMU board. You may download its datasheet from [HERE](http://pixhawk.org/_media/modules/px4fmu-manual-v1.6.pdf).
I wonder whether it is possible to program the quadcopter to autonomously follow a path like circular motion without any human interference. Are the built-in sensors enough for this task?
I also wonder how accurate the built-in GPS is? I read that it gives coordinates with a radius of 5m as error. | 2014/01/20 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/2330",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/2533/"
] | There is everything on that board that you'd need for basic autonomous flight:
A gyro (MPU6000) + an accelerometer (L3GD20) + a compass/magnetometer (HMC5883L) to measure your roll, pitch and yaw angles and a barometric pressure sensor (MS5611) to measure the altitude.
There is no GPS sensor though - Only the connector to use easily add one. You're right though, GPS will only give you 5/10 meter resolution (but that's not due to the sensor being in accurate, but rather the technique/method itself - Don't forget that it's using satellite in space (!) to do that measurement, so it's pretty good really!)
What that means is that GPS is only good for large scale flight path. Achieving autonomous motion like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ) is a lot more difficult of course (in the video, they are "cheating", as they have cameras up in the ceiling watching down and tracking exactly where the quad is located).
The board comes will lots of other goodies such as a buzzer, GPIO ports... but if you don't care about these, you're probably better off getting each sensors separately. | I think the answer depends upon the degree of autonomy you require. If, by "fully autonomous route", you mean just the ability to "autonomously follow a path like circular motion without any human interference"... then yes, that kind of function has been built into quadcopters with even less processing power and with almost identical sensor suite. But if your definition of autonomous route following widens, it is hard to say.
Btw... most GPS typically have an error radius of +/- 5m. |
2,330 | I have a quadcopter equipped with PX4FMU board. You may download its datasheet from [HERE](http://pixhawk.org/_media/modules/px4fmu-manual-v1.6.pdf).
I wonder whether it is possible to program the quadcopter to autonomously follow a path like circular motion without any human interference. Are the built-in sensors enough for this task?
I also wonder how accurate the built-in GPS is? I read that it gives coordinates with a radius of 5m as error. | 2014/01/20 | [
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/2330",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com",
"https://robotics.stackexchange.com/users/2533/"
] | There is everything on that board that you'd need for basic autonomous flight:
A gyro (MPU6000) + an accelerometer (L3GD20) + a compass/magnetometer (HMC5883L) to measure your roll, pitch and yaw angles and a barometric pressure sensor (MS5611) to measure the altitude.
There is no GPS sensor though - Only the connector to use easily add one. You're right though, GPS will only give you 5/10 meter resolution (but that's not due to the sensor being in accurate, but rather the technique/method itself - Don't forget that it's using satellite in space (!) to do that measurement, so it's pretty good really!)
What that means is that GPS is only good for large scale flight path. Achieving autonomous motion like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ) is a lot more difficult of course (in the video, they are "cheating", as they have cameras up in the ceiling watching down and tracking exactly where the quad is located).
The board comes will lots of other goodies such as a buzzer, GPIO ports... but if you don't care about these, you're probably better off getting each sensors separately. | Has anyone tried hooking a soloshot camera base to a quadcopter? That could give you accurate mapping of an area without requiring a GPS. Just a half a minute of scanning with a camera and the base can track anyone with a tag. Find some way to take that data and map flight paths would be amazing. |
1,719,280 | Is there a new model or best-practise for creating complex controls in asp.net MVC?
Do you use code-behind or inline to mirror your view pages? | 2009/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1719280",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68183/"
] | My model is this:
I tend to use Partial Views when there is a view element that I'll need to use more than once. Or if I need to display multiple complex object in a view.
I use RenderAction from the futures assembly when I need a "reusable widget" of sorts. It has it's own controller and is better at handling more complex logic than a Partial View.
Finally, I tend to write Html Helper methods for things I may use in other projects (like paging links, etc). | I would use a partial view for complex things. Check out [this article](http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/asp-net-mvc-and-the-templated-partial-view-death-to-ascx/) |
1,719,280 | Is there a new model or best-practise for creating complex controls in asp.net MVC?
Do you use code-behind or inline to mirror your view pages? | 2009/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1719280",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68183/"
] | I would use a partial view for complex things. Check out [this article](http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/asp-net-mvc-and-the-templated-partial-view-death-to-ascx/) | I've been writing a lot of my own HtmlHelper extension functions. The November meeting of <http://www.c4mvc.net/> that was recorded today gives some great examples of control type code placed in HtmlHelper extension functions. The recording should be online soon.
You may also want to check out the [Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.](http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-mvc.aspx) They're open source, so even if you don't use their controls, you can get some insight into controls in ASP.NET MVC by taking a look at how a commercial control vendor approached the problem. |
1,719,280 | Is there a new model or best-practise for creating complex controls in asp.net MVC?
Do you use code-behind or inline to mirror your view pages? | 2009/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1719280",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68183/"
] | I would use a partial view for complex things. Check out [this article](http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/asp-net-mvc-and-the-templated-partial-view-death-to-ascx/) | Coming from a PHP turned webforms turned ASP.NET MVC background, I find myself relying a lot more on basic html/css/javascript.
I've never been a fan of controls, even with webforms because they always ended up being messy compared to js/html/css counterparts. |
1,719,280 | Is there a new model or best-practise for creating complex controls in asp.net MVC?
Do you use code-behind or inline to mirror your view pages? | 2009/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1719280",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68183/"
] | My model is this:
I tend to use Partial Views when there is a view element that I'll need to use more than once. Or if I need to display multiple complex object in a view.
I use RenderAction from the futures assembly when I need a "reusable widget" of sorts. It has it's own controller and is better at handling more complex logic than a Partial View.
Finally, I tend to write Html Helper methods for things I may use in other projects (like paging links, etc). | Controls in MVC don't generally have (any) code behind. You use PartialViews as ascx controls, you pass them a model and you display the contents of the model.
You can create custom controls in mvc and these compile to a dll which is moveable between projects etc and these are a little more complex but essentially they spit out html like the partial view does.
You can also create jQuery plugins that are pretty cool and again, they can spit out html based on a model.
So a typical mvc view may be comprised of several partial views each of which are dedicated to a model or hierarchy of models.
Partial views can also display partial views so you can send a complex model to a partial view which in turn renders other partial views each of which deal with a more atomic part of your model. |
1,719,280 | Is there a new model or best-practise for creating complex controls in asp.net MVC?
Do you use code-behind or inline to mirror your view pages? | 2009/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1719280",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68183/"
] | Controls in MVC don't generally have (any) code behind. You use PartialViews as ascx controls, you pass them a model and you display the contents of the model.
You can create custom controls in mvc and these compile to a dll which is moveable between projects etc and these are a little more complex but essentially they spit out html like the partial view does.
You can also create jQuery plugins that are pretty cool and again, they can spit out html based on a model.
So a typical mvc view may be comprised of several partial views each of which are dedicated to a model or hierarchy of models.
Partial views can also display partial views so you can send a complex model to a partial view which in turn renders other partial views each of which deal with a more atomic part of your model. | I've been writing a lot of my own HtmlHelper extension functions. The November meeting of <http://www.c4mvc.net/> that was recorded today gives some great examples of control type code placed in HtmlHelper extension functions. The recording should be online soon.
You may also want to check out the [Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.](http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-mvc.aspx) They're open source, so even if you don't use their controls, you can get some insight into controls in ASP.NET MVC by taking a look at how a commercial control vendor approached the problem. |
1,719,280 | Is there a new model or best-practise for creating complex controls in asp.net MVC?
Do you use code-behind or inline to mirror your view pages? | 2009/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1719280",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68183/"
] | Controls in MVC don't generally have (any) code behind. You use PartialViews as ascx controls, you pass them a model and you display the contents of the model.
You can create custom controls in mvc and these compile to a dll which is moveable between projects etc and these are a little more complex but essentially they spit out html like the partial view does.
You can also create jQuery plugins that are pretty cool and again, they can spit out html based on a model.
So a typical mvc view may be comprised of several partial views each of which are dedicated to a model or hierarchy of models.
Partial views can also display partial views so you can send a complex model to a partial view which in turn renders other partial views each of which deal with a more atomic part of your model. | Coming from a PHP turned webforms turned ASP.NET MVC background, I find myself relying a lot more on basic html/css/javascript.
I've never been a fan of controls, even with webforms because they always ended up being messy compared to js/html/css counterparts. |
1,719,280 | Is there a new model or best-practise for creating complex controls in asp.net MVC?
Do you use code-behind or inline to mirror your view pages? | 2009/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1719280",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68183/"
] | My model is this:
I tend to use Partial Views when there is a view element that I'll need to use more than once. Or if I need to display multiple complex object in a view.
I use RenderAction from the futures assembly when I need a "reusable widget" of sorts. It has it's own controller and is better at handling more complex logic than a Partial View.
Finally, I tend to write Html Helper methods for things I may use in other projects (like paging links, etc). | I've been writing a lot of my own HtmlHelper extension functions. The November meeting of <http://www.c4mvc.net/> that was recorded today gives some great examples of control type code placed in HtmlHelper extension functions. The recording should be online soon.
You may also want to check out the [Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.](http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-mvc.aspx) They're open source, so even if you don't use their controls, you can get some insight into controls in ASP.NET MVC by taking a look at how a commercial control vendor approached the problem. |
1,719,280 | Is there a new model or best-practise for creating complex controls in asp.net MVC?
Do you use code-behind or inline to mirror your view pages? | 2009/11/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1719280",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/68183/"
] | My model is this:
I tend to use Partial Views when there is a view element that I'll need to use more than once. Or if I need to display multiple complex object in a view.
I use RenderAction from the futures assembly when I need a "reusable widget" of sorts. It has it's own controller and is better at handling more complex logic than a Partial View.
Finally, I tend to write Html Helper methods for things I may use in other projects (like paging links, etc). | Coming from a PHP turned webforms turned ASP.NET MVC background, I find myself relying a lot more on basic html/css/javascript.
I've never been a fan of controls, even with webforms because they always ended up being messy compared to js/html/css counterparts. |
1,129,517 | While reconfiguring my home server, I discovered why my data drive isn't detected anymore:
[](https://i.imgur.com/QrhLWCj.jpg?1)
This is an expensive 6-terabyte drive. I'm not asking *whether* it can be salvaged, I'm asking **how?**
I can think of a few ways, but please help me choose the one with the highest chance of success! I'm very open to better ideas of course:
* Carefully try to plug it back in, then use epoxy to keep it in place. Afraid that the connectors won't touch well, or bend the leads. This is a one-shot chance.
* Cut the cable open to salvage the broken off connector, then use instant glue(?) to put it back in place to connect a new cable. Afraid that glueing that tiny bit of plastic isn't going to be reliable enough for use.
* Cut off the blocked cable end and then solder the cable leads directly onto the connector leads. Best chance of electrical connection, but requires delicate work. (I'm good with soldering, and I have heatshrinks.)
I have seen [this similar question](https://superuser.com/questions/367719/how-do-i-connect-a-hard-drive-with-a-broken-sata-connector) and I see that glueing helped him, but I can't tell from the page whether his situation was really similar. Also, the external USB dock is a nice try but not reliable and not suited as permanent solution.
I am aware that I need to be ultra careful with this weak spot in the future. I don't like this situation, but I have to deal with it. | 2016/09/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1129517",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/9350/"
] | I knew someone salvaged a drive by taking a SATA cable, stripping off one end, and soldered the cable directly to the plug. The drive worked, but he didn't keep using it. It was just an experiment.
This was one of the suggestion you listed, but I can confirm that it really will work. It'll give you the most reliable way of accessing the data, since the other methods of repair will be unreliable at best. | First of all: Being expensive is no technical property. Be prepared for this drive to fail again, don't put anything important on it.
Now: Your second options seems the one with the best ration of success likelyhood vs. hassle:
* it doesn't block you from falling back top the third option
* glued plastic is actually quite strong |
1,129,517 | While reconfiguring my home server, I discovered why my data drive isn't detected anymore:
[](https://i.imgur.com/QrhLWCj.jpg?1)
This is an expensive 6-terabyte drive. I'm not asking *whether* it can be salvaged, I'm asking **how?**
I can think of a few ways, but please help me choose the one with the highest chance of success! I'm very open to better ideas of course:
* Carefully try to plug it back in, then use epoxy to keep it in place. Afraid that the connectors won't touch well, or bend the leads. This is a one-shot chance.
* Cut the cable open to salvage the broken off connector, then use instant glue(?) to put it back in place to connect a new cable. Afraid that glueing that tiny bit of plastic isn't going to be reliable enough for use.
* Cut off the blocked cable end and then solder the cable leads directly onto the connector leads. Best chance of electrical connection, but requires delicate work. (I'm good with soldering, and I have heatshrinks.)
I have seen [this similar question](https://superuser.com/questions/367719/how-do-i-connect-a-hard-drive-with-a-broken-sata-connector) and I see that glueing helped him, but I can't tell from the page whether his situation was really similar. Also, the external USB dock is a nice try but not reliable and not suited as permanent solution.
I am aware that I need to be ultra careful with this weak spot in the future. I don't like this situation, but I have to deal with it. | 2016/09/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1129517",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/9350/"
] | I knew someone salvaged a drive by taking a SATA cable, stripping off one end, and soldered the cable directly to the plug. The drive worked, but he didn't keep using it. It was just an experiment.
This was one of the suggestion you listed, but I can confirm that it really will work. It'll give you the most reliable way of accessing the data, since the other methods of repair will be unreliable at best. | Option #1 probably won't work, you'll bend the pins with the cable header which is still inside the broken off part. Try pulling that part off with a flat screwdriver, then carefully put it back on the drive and fix with super glue. A few pointers:
* Avoid cheap glues and "super-gel" glues
* Avoid touching the crack surface with your fingers, you'll get water and grease in there.
* Even if the super glue holds stuff in place in seconds, let it dry for several hours (I'd suggest a day) before attempting to plug the cable back.
Should this fail, #3 will still be an option. |
1,129,517 | While reconfiguring my home server, I discovered why my data drive isn't detected anymore:
[](https://i.imgur.com/QrhLWCj.jpg?1)
This is an expensive 6-terabyte drive. I'm not asking *whether* it can be salvaged, I'm asking **how?**
I can think of a few ways, but please help me choose the one with the highest chance of success! I'm very open to better ideas of course:
* Carefully try to plug it back in, then use epoxy to keep it in place. Afraid that the connectors won't touch well, or bend the leads. This is a one-shot chance.
* Cut the cable open to salvage the broken off connector, then use instant glue(?) to put it back in place to connect a new cable. Afraid that glueing that tiny bit of plastic isn't going to be reliable enough for use.
* Cut off the blocked cable end and then solder the cable leads directly onto the connector leads. Best chance of electrical connection, but requires delicate work. (I'm good with soldering, and I have heatshrinks.)
I have seen [this similar question](https://superuser.com/questions/367719/how-do-i-connect-a-hard-drive-with-a-broken-sata-connector) and I see that glueing helped him, but I can't tell from the page whether his situation was really similar. Also, the external USB dock is a nice try but not reliable and not suited as permanent solution.
I am aware that I need to be ultra careful with this weak spot in the future. I don't like this situation, but I have to deal with it. | 2016/09/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1129517",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/9350/"
] | I knew someone salvaged a drive by taking a SATA cable, stripping off one end, and soldered the cable directly to the plug. The drive worked, but he didn't keep using it. It was just an experiment.
This was one of the suggestion you listed, but I can confirm that it really will work. It'll give you the most reliable way of accessing the data, since the other methods of repair will be unreliable at best. | Depending on the drive type, size and how bad the damage is, there are a couple of options that are more permanent.
One of them is to find on eBay or elsewhere a compatible PCB for your drive (there is a part number etched onto the PCB). swap out the old with the new. If the data is not important, then a new drive may be cheaper in many cases.
The second option is to replace the entire sata/sas connector on the drive for a new one. you can buy them online like on alibaba... or you can get them from dead drives. SAS drive connectors are similar, but not the same... so make sure you get the correct type for yours.
Soldering skills will be required, but this is the preferred method I currently use and even though it is time consuming (specially waiting for the parts), I have had great success with it, so far.
But, McGivering the connector to a cable is also a good enough solution. Gluing to a very thin piece of plastic could help keep the pins aligned.... or solder the cable directly to the PCB. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | I have been working here for 20 years- present perfect continuous tense
I have worked here for 20 years- present perfect tense
There is little difference in meaning.
I **have been working** here for 20 years (I am still working)
I **have worked** here for 20 years (I am still working)
The present perfect continuous focuses on the activity. The present perfect focuses on the result.
simple past tense- I worked here for 20 years (I no longer work here) | I Think it's just a matter of emphasis...in the Present Perfect Continuous you want to emphasize the action. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | I have been working here for 20 years- present perfect continuous tense
I have worked here for 20 years- present perfect tense
There is little difference in meaning.
I **have been working** here for 20 years (I am still working)
I **have worked** here for 20 years (I am still working)
The present perfect continuous focuses on the activity. The present perfect focuses on the result.
simple past tense- I worked here for 20 years (I no longer work here) | There is difference.
Present perfect tense is employed in sentences describing some experience from the past.The exact time is not higlighted.
2nd sentence " I have worked here for 20 years " is an experience of working " here" for 20 years.
Which 20 years? 1980-2000? 1992-2012? You can't get the information regarding "exact time" from present perfect tense.
1st sentence " I have been working here for 20 years" is present perfect progressive. It means you are currently working there for past 20 years i.e. from 1993-2013(current year). "Exact time" is implicit here. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | Both sentences communicate the facts that you started working here twenty years ago, worked here over the course of the past twenty years, and that your status of working here has not changed.
The difference is one of emphasis.
The lyrics from the old song,
>
> I've been working on the railroad all the live-long day.
>
>
>
emphasizes the continuity and ongoingness of this work. If the song lyrics were
>
> I have worked on the railroad all the live-long day.
>
>
>
then the same material facts would be presented: the speaker started working on the railroad at the beginning of the live-long day and continues to do so now. But the first construction emphasizes the enduring nature of the work does not. | As a native speaker, I would say that in this particular context (for + time or since + time) there is very little difference and you could probably employ either tense.
However, if we added something like "all day" (I've been working here all day), the PPC is more appropriate as you're really trying to emphasise that the work has been ongoing and you're now really tired as a result. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | Both sentences communicate the facts that you started working here twenty years ago, worked here over the course of the past twenty years, and that your status of working here has not changed.
The difference is one of emphasis.
The lyrics from the old song,
>
> I've been working on the railroad all the live-long day.
>
>
>
emphasizes the continuity and ongoingness of this work. If the song lyrics were
>
> I have worked on the railroad all the live-long day.
>
>
>
then the same material facts would be presented: the speaker started working on the railroad at the beginning of the live-long day and continues to do so now. But the first construction emphasizes the enduring nature of the work does not. | I Think it's just a matter of emphasis...in the Present Perfect Continuous you want to emphasize the action. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | During my English course I was told that the present perfect tense and the present perfect continuous tense can be used interchangeably in many situations, and it appears to be one of them. However, there is a subtle difference: #1 focuses more on the very activity of working, whereas #2 concentrates on the state (*i.e.* a job). Therefore, it would probably be more justified to use #1 when talking about a person who carries the same task on and on, endlessly (the Danaides? Sisyphus?); and #2 is somewhat closer to "I have been employed here for 20 years." Still, I am not a native speaker of English ang my arguments may prove wrong. | There is difference.
Present perfect tense is employed in sentences describing some experience from the past.The exact time is not higlighted.
2nd sentence " I have worked here for 20 years " is an experience of working " here" for 20 years.
Which 20 years? 1980-2000? 1992-2012? You can't get the information regarding "exact time" from present perfect tense.
1st sentence " I have been working here for 20 years" is present perfect progressive. It means you are currently working there for past 20 years i.e. from 1993-2013(current year). "Exact time" is implicit here. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | As a native speaker, I would say that in this particular context (for + time or since + time) there is very little difference and you could probably employ either tense.
However, if we added something like "all day" (I've been working here all day), the PPC is more appropriate as you're really trying to emphasise that the work has been ongoing and you're now really tired as a result. | The present perfect tense is used for repetitive or constant actions that began in the past and **completed in near future**. The perfect progressive tense is used for continuous actions that began in the past and continue to the present. You are almost very near to the answer. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | In this case, the two cases mean exactly the same thing, although maybe with slightly different nuances.
English can be quite tricky when it comes to deciding between tenses such as the pair you mentioned. Often it is a case of convention and using the wrong one will make you come across as a non-native speaker.
As a native speaker, I'll probably tend to say "I've been working here for 20 years". | I Think it's just a matter of emphasis...in the Present Perfect Continuous you want to emphasize the action. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | In this case, the two cases mean exactly the same thing, although maybe with slightly different nuances.
English can be quite tricky when it comes to deciding between tenses such as the pair you mentioned. Often it is a case of convention and using the wrong one will make you come across as a non-native speaker.
As a native speaker, I'll probably tend to say "I've been working here for 20 years". | A big difference :
**I have been working here for 20 years**. (Present perfect continuous tense).
It shows an action that started in the past continued without breaks up until now and is still continuing.
**I have worked here for 20 years**. (Present perfect tense). It means the action with a duration of 20 years started and finished at an unspecific time in the past. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | Both sentences communicate the facts that you started working here twenty years ago, worked here over the course of the past twenty years, and that your status of working here has not changed.
The difference is one of emphasis.
The lyrics from the old song,
>
> I've been working on the railroad all the live-long day.
>
>
>
emphasizes the continuity and ongoingness of this work. If the song lyrics were
>
> I have worked on the railroad all the live-long day.
>
>
>
then the same material facts would be presented: the speaker started working on the railroad at the beginning of the live-long day and continues to do so now. But the first construction emphasizes the enduring nature of the work does not. | A big difference :
**I have been working here for 20 years**. (Present perfect continuous tense).
It shows an action that started in the past continued without breaks up until now and is still continuing.
**I have worked here for 20 years**. (Present perfect tense). It means the action with a duration of 20 years started and finished at an unspecific time in the past. |
106,238 | Here are some examples:
>
> * Meanings **have been are** still in constant flux. ([Source](https://english.stackexchange.com/a/17012/33604))
> * I'm afraid to say that in the past the police **have been are** too keen to caution people. ([Source](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20529438))
> * That's because those overseas clubs **have been are** able to negotiate those domestic rights themselves and not collectively as the Premier League clubs do. ([Source](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6740607.stm))
>
>
>
Are these sentences grammatically correct? Why was **have been** not used? | 2013/03/06 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/106238",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/33604/"
] | In this case, the two cases mean exactly the same thing, although maybe with slightly different nuances.
English can be quite tricky when it comes to deciding between tenses such as the pair you mentioned. Often it is a case of convention and using the wrong one will make you come across as a non-native speaker.
As a native speaker, I'll probably tend to say "I've been working here for 20 years". | There is a big difference between both phrases. The 1st sentence tells us, he is still in his work and will continue.
2nd sentence tells us, he just quit from that work.
Thanks |
3,604,532 | Rails 3 is out and every one is excited (etc etc).
However, I'm not ready to update to it yet for a couple reasons:
* Not all gems I use are supported.
* Just finally got my head around 2.3.x.
* My client expects software that is reliable.
So, right now I'm running 2.3.5 and will be upgrading to 2.3.8 soon. But what about any security patches or parallel feature updates that 3 might get? Will there be a 2.3.9? Will there be a 2.4? Does anyone know? | 2010/08/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3604532",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/43792/"
] | You can see from the commit log that there are still [commits to the 2.3 branc](http://github.com/rails/rails/tree/2-3-stable)h eventhough it's not as active as the 3.x branch. 37signals are still using 2.3 on many of their apps that's why you will see many patches/commits coming from [Jeremy](http://bitsweat.net/), one of 37signals employee. I don't think they will make any major changes that will break your apps though. | Judging by the lastest commit to 2.3.9pre ("[preparing for 2.3.9](http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b2c91983dcb5e2a21ea2c0be28f86ad33b48f660)") and the open tickets ([none](https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/milestones/73534-239)), it looks like Rails 2.3.9 will be released any day now. |
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