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14,960 | A while ago, I asked [In what war would one modern military vehicle make a difference?](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/12219/in-what-war-would-one-modern-military-vehicle-make-a-difference) I have now come up with a sort-of sequel.
A modern, Challenger II battle tank has been sent back in time to a ... | 2015/04/22 | [
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] | Other have pointed out what the weaknesses of this one tank are. But the big game changer here, especially when talking about the two world wars, is not the tank, but the "unlimited knowledge" about the tank.
Although it can be assumed to be impossible to re-create the challenger2 or a leopard2, or even an abrams, all ... | Depending on availability of spare parts?
A tanks as good as it's parts, no parts, no service.
A modern tank is really not all that different than a past tank, subtle differences in armor, the biggest change is sensor technology to find targets.
So your hypothetical, if a Abrams M1 went back to the Battle of the Bulge,... |
15,562,420 | Today I received code review comments from a senior developer, one thing he pointed out is that each function should have only one return statement. I wonder whether this is just code style issue or there is security issue, i.e. potential function stack problem or uninitialized variables. Can anyone provide an example(... | 2013/03/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15562420",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1437741/"
] | That flag was introduced in iOS 5.1, so you'll have to change your deployment target to 5.1 to be able to do that. | Use it:
* Double-click on your Target's name in Xcode to bring up the Target Info.
* Go to the Build/Summary tab and search for "iPhone OS Deployment Target".
* Pick whichever SDK you want to use as your minimum requirements.
One thing is that it won't tell you if it doesn't work on a certain version. You'll have to ... |
8,724,909 | I recently started to learn Clojure and my intention is to build a simple CMS using it for practice. Since Clojure is a purely functional language and it requires a new way of thinking it just came up for me that what if I use a NO-SQL database for my application like MongoDB?
Do you have any comparison in this topic... | 2012/01/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8724909",
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] | Whatever the language, you will gain a lot from using a no-sql database if you observe some OOP principles that Domain Driven Design brings to the table. The idea of an Aggregate and the Aggregate Root allow you to form organization in a more document-centric way. Since no-sql data manipulation is tailored to key-value... | I don't think this is really a Clojure question, or am I misinterpreting it? Are you looking for the pros and cons of using a NOSQL vs. SQL database for your web application?
Either way both approaches are easy to use in Clojure, there are libraries out there.
Check out: -
[congomongo](https://github.com/aboekhoff/c... |
53,475 | I'm stuck. Can't figure out how I can extrude a closed curve onto a NURBS curve without it looking tapered.
I notice that when it's set to "2D" there is no tapering, but I want to do it on 3d.
Thanks for help.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1JFVa.png) | 2016/05/26 | [
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] | It's a known limitation of the current system, there is currently no elegant workaround for this as far as I know.
1. Either use only separate 2D curves for each segment (rotate them in object mode to their correct positions)
2. Add extra control vertex close to corners to minimize the tapering distance (clumsy and ma... | In the *Object Data* tab in the *Properties panel* (pictured in your screen shot), under *Shape > Resolution: > Preview U:*, change the number from 1 to 64 (the max). Leaving the *Render U:* at zero will cause it to use the *Preview U:* (just fine).
Also, make sure that you have added enough loop cuts to your cylinder... |
66,627 | I am a newbie in photoshop and learning it all by myself, recently I came across of this image and tried to recreate the effect (I used another image though). What I did:
1. Loaded the image on one layer
2. With the Marquee tool I selected bottom part of the image and layered via copy in a new layer
3. I converted it ... | 2016/02/07 | [
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] | First of all, it depends on the region but the most common of all copyright "laws" is [**the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention).
Which basically states that you automatically have the copyright to any work you create even without notice... | This may be a long ago answered question but on reading the content I noticed there was no reference to "file info". This exists in AI (found under File> file info) and mirrors the way photoshop users add metadata to each file so that it follows the digital version at least where ever that goes. No protection from thie... |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38765/"
] | Post code, data, and results on the Internet. Write the URL in the paper.
Also, submit your code to "contests". For example, in music information retrieval, there is [MIREX](http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2009/index.php/Main_Page). | Perhaps this is slightly off topic, but to follow @Jacques Carette lead regarding scientific computing specifics, it may be helpful to consult Verification & Validation ("V&V") literature for some specific questions, especially those that blur the line between reproducibility and correctness. Now that cloud computing i... |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
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] | I'm a software engineer embedded in a team of research geophysicists and we're currently (as always) working to improve our ability to reproduce results upon demand. Here are a few pointers gleaned from our experience:
1. Put everything under version control: source code, input data sets, makefiles, etc
2. When buildi... | Plenty of good suggestions already. I'll add (both from bitter experience---*before* publication, thankfully!),
1) Check your results for stability:
------------------------------------
* try several different subsets of the data
* rebin the input
* rebin the output
* tweak the grid spacing
* try several random seed... |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38765/"
] | I'm a software engineer embedded in a team of research geophysicists and we're currently (as always) working to improve our ability to reproduce results upon demand. Here are a few pointers gleaned from our experience:
1. Put everything under version control: source code, input data sets, makefiles, etc
2. When buildi... | Post code, data, and results on the Internet. Write the URL in the paper.
Also, submit your code to "contests". For example, in music information retrieval, there is [MIREX](http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2009/index.php/Main_Page). |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | publish the program code, make it available for review.
This is not directed at you by any means, but here is my rant:
If you do work sponsored by taxpayer money, if you publish the results in peer-reviewed journal, provide the source code, under open source license or in public domain.
I am tired of reading about th... | Record configuration parameters somehow (eg if you can set a certain variable to a certain value). This may be in the data output, or in version control.
If you're changing your program all the time (I am!), make sure you record what version of your program you're using. |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38765/"
] | Plenty of good suggestions already. I'll add (both from bitter experience---*before* publication, thankfully!),
1) Check your results for stability:
------------------------------------
* try several different subsets of the data
* rebin the input
* rebin the output
* tweak the grid spacing
* try several random seed... | Post code, data, and results on the Internet. Write the URL in the paper.
Also, submit your code to "contests". For example, in music information retrieval, there is [MIREX](http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2009/index.php/Main_Page). |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38765/"
] | I'm a software engineer embedded in a team of research geophysicists and we're currently (as always) working to improve our ability to reproduce results upon demand. Here are a few pointers gleaned from our experience:
1. Put everything under version control: source code, input data sets, makefiles, etc
2. When buildi... | I think a lot of the previous answers missed the "scientific computing" part of your question, and answered with very general stuff that applies to any science (make the data and method public, specialized to CS).
What they're missing is that you have to be even more specialized: you have to specific which version of ... |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38765/"
] | I'm a software engineer embedded in a team of research geophysicists and we're currently (as always) working to improve our ability to reproduce results upon demand. Here are a few pointers gleaned from our experience:
1. Put everything under version control: source code, input data sets, makefiles, etc
2. When buildi... | Perhaps this is slightly off topic, but to follow @Jacques Carette lead regarding scientific computing specifics, it may be helpful to consult Verification & Validation ("V&V") literature for some specific questions, especially those that blur the line between reproducibility and correctness. Now that cloud computing i... |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38765/"
] | * Publish the original raw data online and make it freely available for download.
* Make the code base open source and available online for download.
* If randomization is used in optimization, then repeat the optimization several times, choosing the best value that results or use a fixed random seed, so that the same ... | Record configuration parameters somehow (eg if you can set a certain variable to a certain value). This may be in the data output, or in version control.
If you're changing your program all the time (I am!), make sure you record what version of your program you're using. |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38765/"
] | Record configuration parameters somehow (eg if you can set a certain variable to a certain value). This may be in the data output, or in version control.
If you're changing your program all the time (I am!), make sure you record what version of your program you're using. | Perhaps this is slightly off topic, but to follow @Jacques Carette lead regarding scientific computing specifics, it may be helpful to consult Verification & Validation ("V&V") literature for some specific questions, especially those that blur the line between reproducibility and correctness. Now that cloud computing i... |
2,734,157 | Along with producing incorrect results, one of the worst fears in scientific programming is not being able to reproduce the results you've generated. What best practices help ensure your analysis is reproducible? | 2010/04/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2734157",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38765/"
] | I'm a software engineer embedded in a team of research geophysicists and we're currently (as always) working to improve our ability to reproduce results upon demand. Here are a few pointers gleaned from our experience:
1. Put everything under version control: source code, input data sets, makefiles, etc
2. When buildi... | Record configuration parameters somehow (eg if you can set a certain variable to a certain value). This may be in the data output, or in version control.
If you're changing your program all the time (I am!), make sure you record what version of your program you're using. |
497,807 | The sentence, "A younger me sat outside," though colloquially acceptable appears to be contrary to the rules of English pronomial declension. However, the allegedly more correct sentence "A younger I sat outside" seems jarringly wrong.
Is there citation for the former in formal prose, or the latter at all? Do any sty... | 2019/05/09 | [
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] | This phrasing appears a lot. In a subject position, phrases like "a younger me" function as ordinary singular noun phrases rather than as pronouns.
First, from Wil McCarthy. "The Policeman's Daughter." *Analog*, vol. 125, iss. 6, June 2005, p. 8-34, as found on the [Corpus of Contemporary American English](https://www... | *The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language* by Huddleston and Pullum has a subsection "Pre-head internal dependents normally excluded too" (Page 430):
>
> Pronouns do not normally allow internal pre-head dependents: \**Extravagant he bought a new car*; \**I met interesting them all*. The qualification ‘normally’ ... |
620,835 | As an layman and outsider who has read some of Dirac, I want an understanding of how important absolute size is to quantum mechanics - like wondering if it is a necessary or sufficient condition (along these lines).
As far as I understand things, like all good theories, quantum mechanics is a mix of empirical data (ma... | 2021/03/13 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/620835",
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] | There is a fundamental constant of nature that establishes the scale over which quantum effects become dominant and readily measured with special tools. It is called *Planck's constant* and it is a very, very tiny number, which means that quantum effects like uncertainty only kick in at very, very tiny length scales.
... | When you go bowling do you invariably score a strike every time? I would guess not.
All the inaccuracies in your aiming and throwing of the ball are quantum effects becoming visible in the chaotic system that your body is. By practicing you can improve the signal to noise ratio of your performance, but you can never r... |
8,475,265 | I need to copy files to and from some windows network share, like \\compname\admin$ for example.
Right now we use JNI and open a connection using WNetAddConnection2 and then WinAPIs CopyFile to operate.
Source machine has Windows OS.
Isn't there another simpler Java way? | 2011/12/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8475265",
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] | [JCIFS](http://jcifs.samba.org/) is an Open Source client library that implements the CIFS/SMB networking protocol in 100% Java. | A solution we have involves the j-interop library and WMI. May be worth a look. However, we are coming from Linux copying to Windows. I don't know what platform your source is from the question. |
456,690 | I have a KY-005 infrared transmitter connected to my Arduino Uno. But currently I can't get it to work. On [this](https://arduinomodules.info/ky-005-infrared-transmitter-sensor-module/) website it says that you must connect the led directly to a digital pin on the Arduino, which I have not done (I connected it in serie... | 2019/09/08 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/456690",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | According to your link "The KY-005 Infrared Transmitter Module consists of **just** a 5mm IR LED.". This is confirmed in [this YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYw4CTPsUNg) (image below is from the video).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jb... | The operating voltage of the KY-005 is 5V, according to the web site, and it can be driven directly from an Arduino output. You should be able to detect it with the series resistor, perhaps you have a software problem. |
107,827 | First of all, I am aware that its impossible for a planet with less gravity than the Earth, to naturally maintain an atmosphere with the same terrestrial gases, in an equal or greater proportion. Therefore, this proportion of gases is maintained artificially.
Second, although I have notions of what the ballistic coef... | 2018/03/25 | [
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] | >
> an atmosphere with the same terrestrial gases, in an equal or greater proportion.
>
>
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78% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
01% Other stuff (mostly Argon)
>
> the atmospheric pressure of this planet, whose atmosphere is being altered artificially, is approximately **2 atm**.
>
>
>
Note that since the *partial press... | Firearms were adopted because they were easier to train large numbers of people to use quickly than long or recurve bows. They replaced crossbows because a crossbow bolt, fired from a steel crossbow and drawn with a spanning mechanism could provide about 200J of energy at the target, while an arquebus imparted enough e... |
107,827 | First of all, I am aware that its impossible for a planet with less gravity than the Earth, to naturally maintain an atmosphere with the same terrestrial gases, in an equal or greater proportion. Therefore, this proportion of gases is maintained artificially.
Second, although I have notions of what the ballistic coef... | 2018/03/25 | [
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] | >
> Would the effect of this atmosphere be enough to significantly affect the ballistic coefficient
>
>
>
No, and at a first glance neither would the higher oxygen pressure.
But you might imagine have large quantities of dry pollen floating in the denser atmosphere. This would require a great care in lighting fir... | Firearms were adopted because they were easier to train large numbers of people to use quickly than long or recurve bows. They replaced crossbows because a crossbow bolt, fired from a steel crossbow and drawn with a spanning mechanism could provide about 200J of energy at the target, while an arquebus imparted enough e... |
23,439 | I need to run 4 instances of Mac OS X desktop (10.4 to 10.7) for our continuous integration setup (so they need to be on all the time). I've used PC hypervisors in the past (XenServer, ESXi, etc) but never for a Mac.
Is it possible to run those guest operating systems on a Mac Mini hypervisor?
***Edit:*** Ideally, it... | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23439",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
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] | You might take a look at VirtualBox which includes a GNU GPL version as well. It offers limited/experimental capabilities to run virtualized OS X VMs, but I think Apple generally forbids virtualizing OS X via their licensing/usage terms. | There are licensing issues with the scheme that you propose. See this [previous answer](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19939/where-can-i-read-the-full-lion-eula) regarding the Mac OS X EULA, which will lead you to additional information. Summary: you can't do what you want as virtualization, as versions prio... |
23,439 | I need to run 4 instances of Mac OS X desktop (10.4 to 10.7) for our continuous integration setup (so they need to be on all the time). I've used PC hypervisors in the past (XenServer, ESXi, etc) but never for a Mac.
Is it possible to run those guest operating systems on a Mac Mini hypervisor?
***Edit:*** Ideally, it... | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23439",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
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] | You might take a look at VirtualBox which includes a GNU GPL version as well. It offers limited/experimental capabilities to run virtualized OS X VMs, but I think Apple generally forbids virtualizing OS X via their licensing/usage terms. | You have confusion between PC and Mac, they are both x86/x64, they are the same as John Hodgman and Justin Long have demonstrated before. The compatibility concern should only arise with older PowerPC based Macs, and the EFI boot process instead of BIOS.
Therefore XenServer would run fine, ESX 4.0 does not support EFI... |
23,439 | I need to run 4 instances of Mac OS X desktop (10.4 to 10.7) for our continuous integration setup (so they need to be on all the time). I've used PC hypervisors in the past (XenServer, ESXi, etc) but never for a Mac.
Is it possible to run those guest operating systems on a Mac Mini hypervisor?
***Edit:*** Ideally, it... | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23439",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/10732/"
] | You might take a look at VirtualBox which includes a GNU GPL version as well. It offers limited/experimental capabilities to run virtualized OS X VMs, but I think Apple generally forbids virtualizing OS X via their licensing/usage terms. | I currently run 10.7 (was originally 10.6 then upgraded it) in ESXi 5 on my Mac Mini (Upgraded from 4GB RAM to 16GB) without any issues.
The performance isn't great when using the actual desktop, but for your requirement (I'm doing the same, using the VMs as build bots) it works absolutely fine. |
23,439 | I need to run 4 instances of Mac OS X desktop (10.4 to 10.7) for our continuous integration setup (so they need to be on all the time). I've used PC hypervisors in the past (XenServer, ESXi, etc) but never for a Mac.
Is it possible to run those guest operating systems on a Mac Mini hypervisor?
***Edit:*** Ideally, it... | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23439",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/10732/"
] | There are licensing issues with the scheme that you propose. See this [previous answer](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19939/where-can-i-read-the-full-lion-eula) regarding the Mac OS X EULA, which will lead you to additional information. Summary: you can't do what you want as virtualization, as versions prio... | You have confusion between PC and Mac, they are both x86/x64, they are the same as John Hodgman and Justin Long have demonstrated before. The compatibility concern should only arise with older PowerPC based Macs, and the EFI boot process instead of BIOS.
Therefore XenServer would run fine, ESX 4.0 does not support EFI... |
23,439 | I need to run 4 instances of Mac OS X desktop (10.4 to 10.7) for our continuous integration setup (so they need to be on all the time). I've used PC hypervisors in the past (XenServer, ESXi, etc) but never for a Mac.
Is it possible to run those guest operating systems on a Mac Mini hypervisor?
***Edit:*** Ideally, it... | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23439",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/10732/"
] | There are licensing issues with the scheme that you propose. See this [previous answer](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19939/where-can-i-read-the-full-lion-eula) regarding the Mac OS X EULA, which will lead you to additional information. Summary: you can't do what you want as virtualization, as versions prio... | I currently run 10.7 (was originally 10.6 then upgraded it) in ESXi 5 on my Mac Mini (Upgraded from 4GB RAM to 16GB) without any issues.
The performance isn't great when using the actual desktop, but for your requirement (I'm doing the same, using the VMs as build bots) it works absolutely fine. |
23,439 | I need to run 4 instances of Mac OS X desktop (10.4 to 10.7) for our continuous integration setup (so they need to be on all the time). I've used PC hypervisors in the past (XenServer, ESXi, etc) but never for a Mac.
Is it possible to run those guest operating systems on a Mac Mini hypervisor?
***Edit:*** Ideally, it... | 2011/08/28 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/23439",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/10732/"
] | You have confusion between PC and Mac, they are both x86/x64, they are the same as John Hodgman and Justin Long have demonstrated before. The compatibility concern should only arise with older PowerPC based Macs, and the EFI boot process instead of BIOS.
Therefore XenServer would run fine, ESX 4.0 does not support EFI... | I currently run 10.7 (was originally 10.6 then upgraded it) in ESXi 5 on my Mac Mini (Upgraded from 4GB RAM to 16GB) without any issues.
The performance isn't great when using the actual desktop, but for your requirement (I'm doing the same, using the VMs as build bots) it works absolutely fine. |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | The goal of collecting these statistics is to judge people by the color of their skin, the particular genitals they possess, or the gender they state rather than by the content of their character. We know this to be the case because any disparity found in the data is immediately attributed to prejudice, rather than fur... | The demographic data harvested by the survey is patently unfit for any purpose. Even assuming everyone who completed the survey filled in the demographic section absolutely honestly, there's no guarantee that those people are proportionally representative of Stack Overflow's userbase - i.e. the survey suffers from an i... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | The goal of collecting these statistics is to judge people by the color of their skin, the particular genitals they possess, or the gender they state rather than by the content of their character. We know this to be the case because any disparity found in the data is immediately attributed to prejudice, rather than fur... | **TL;DR** Did the Code of Conduct changes work, or are the problems they were supposed to address still there?
I'm going to take a contrary position to what the question is advocating and say that the value of this data really depends on what Stack Exchange does with it. (I don't have much confidence that they will, i... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | The goal of collecting these statistics is to judge people by the color of their skin, the particular genitals they possess, or the gender they state rather than by the content of their character. We know this to be the case because any disparity found in the data is immediately attributed to prejudice, rather than fur... | I'm not going to defend SE/SO and say that they doing this purely for the best of intentions, but evidently there's a lot of people that aren't being served well by the [Code of Conduct](https://stackoverflow.com/conduct).
The company recently released a response to a letter they received about the Code of Conduct.
[... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | Fundamentally, the nature of a field such as software development, or any kind of software/hardware interaction, is that neither the software nor the hardware *care* about the race, gender, age, or background that their operator is taking part of programming them in.
[Not gonna deny that it'd be *smart* every now and ... | **TL;DR** Did the Code of Conduct changes work, or are the problems they were supposed to address still there?
I'm going to take a contrary position to what the question is advocating and say that the value of this data really depends on what Stack Exchange does with it. (I don't have much confidence that they will, i... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | Fundamentally, the nature of a field such as software development, or any kind of software/hardware interaction, is that neither the software nor the hardware *care* about the race, gender, age, or background that their operator is taking part of programming them in.
[Not gonna deny that it'd be *smart* every now and ... | >
> Instead of separating people into demographic groups and attempting to achieve some utopian state of absolute equality, how about improving the onboarding process for new users? Or getting to know your communities better?
>
>
>
In theory, this information can be used to do both of those things, or at least to ... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | The demographic data harvested by the survey is patently unfit for any purpose. Even assuming everyone who completed the survey filled in the demographic section absolutely honestly, there's no guarantee that those people are proportionally representative of Stack Overflow's userbase - i.e. the survey suffers from an i... | I'm not going to defend SE/SO and say that they doing this purely for the best of intentions, but evidently there's a lot of people that aren't being served well by the [Code of Conduct](https://stackoverflow.com/conduct).
The company recently released a response to a letter they received about the Code of Conduct.
[... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | >
> Instead of separating people into demographic groups and attempting to achieve some utopian state of absolute equality, how about improving the onboarding process for new users? Or getting to know your communities better?
>
>
>
In theory, this information can be used to do both of those things, or at least to ... | **TL;DR** Did the Code of Conduct changes work, or are the problems they were supposed to address still there?
I'm going to take a contrary position to what the question is advocating and say that the value of this data really depends on what Stack Exchange does with it. (I don't have much confidence that they will, i... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | **TL;DR** Did the Code of Conduct changes work, or are the problems they were supposed to address still there?
I'm going to take a contrary position to what the question is advocating and say that the value of this data really depends on what Stack Exchange does with it. (I don't have much confidence that they will, i... | I'm not going to defend SE/SO and say that they doing this purely for the best of intentions, but evidently there's a lot of people that aren't being served well by the [Code of Conduct](https://stackoverflow.com/conduct).
The company recently released a response to a letter they received about the Code of Conduct.
[... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | Fundamentally, the nature of a field such as software development, or any kind of software/hardware interaction, is that neither the software nor the hardware *care* about the race, gender, age, or background that their operator is taking part of programming them in.
[Not gonna deny that it'd be *smart* every now and ... | I'm not going to defend SE/SO and say that they doing this purely for the best of intentions, but evidently there's a lot of people that aren't being served well by the [Code of Conduct](https://stackoverflow.com/conduct).
The company recently released a response to a letter they received about the Code of Conduct.
[... |
401,807 | The new survey is chock full of the usual questions trying to determine which demographic groups (race, age, sex, etc.) I belong to.
Apparently there haven't been any lessons learned from the last demographic debacle.
Stack Overflow was, is, and should forever be free of these kinds of demographic distinctions. By fo... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/401807",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/102937/"
] | The demographic data harvested by the survey is patently unfit for any purpose. Even assuming everyone who completed the survey filled in the demographic section absolutely honestly, there's no guarantee that those people are proportionally representative of Stack Overflow's userbase - i.e. the survey suffers from an i... | >
> We don't care whether those people are black, white, female or Martian, because those personal characteristics are irrelevant.
>
>
>
If we as a community are truly judging content based solely on the content itself, where are all the black, white, female or Martian contributors?
The demographics of those part... |
36,478 | I accidentally left a delivery of NADPH Tetrasodium Salt (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) at room temperature for a little over half an hour.
In addition, when I opened up the package, I briefly held the bottle by the body instead of the cap (which would have prevented body heat from contacting it).
It was packed with air... | 2015/07/30 | [
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/36478",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/users/15955/"
] | In my experience, half an hour at room temperature will make absolutely no difference. Boehringer Mannheim (now [part of Roche](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/27/business/roche-plans-an-11-billion-acquisition.html)), who at one time supplied the best NADPH, used to recommend storage at 4o C.
By A340 callibration, NAD... | I think when they sent it to you without dry ice, it is probably OK to store it at room temperature.
Sigma seems to advise on their [NADPH](https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/content/dam/sigma-aldrich/docs/Sigma/Product_Information_Sheet/2/n7505pis.pdf) to store [dehydrated NADPH](http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product... |
36,478 | I accidentally left a delivery of NADPH Tetrasodium Salt (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) at room temperature for a little over half an hour.
In addition, when I opened up the package, I briefly held the bottle by the body instead of the cap (which would have prevented body heat from contacting it).
It was packed with air... | 2015/07/30 | [
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/36478",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com",
"https://biology.stackexchange.com/users/15955/"
] | In my experience, half an hour at room temperature will make absolutely no difference. Boehringer Mannheim (now [part of Roche](http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/27/business/roche-plans-an-11-billion-acquisition.html)), who at one time supplied the best NADPH, used to recommend storage at 4o C.
By A340 callibration, NAD... | You could measure OD at 340nm. If OD340 is much lower than expected, NADPH is oxidized and does not have much biochemical activity.
<http://www.bmglabtech.com/media/35216/1043734.pdf> |
226,626 | I created a live Kali USB for my Chromebook which single boots ubuntu mate. I was wondering, if I made a live kali(or other linux distribution) for booting on a Mac, so using .img instead of .iso would the .img still work on my Chromebook?
In simpler terms will a live USB for OSX still work on a Chromebook or windows... | 2016/02/08 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/226626",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/169373/"
] | No, the disk should still be able to boot.
There isn't actually a difference between the operating system in the .img and .iso. They're just different ways of storing the same information.
Kali(or any other \*nix) distro is an operating system, just as Windows and OS X are. Whether or not an operating system will ru... | If your USB "drive" is large enough you should be able to partition it into two volumes. Then install a linux distribution that will run on Mac hardware on one and your ubuntu for your Chromebook on the other. I'm not familiar enough with the boot process of the Chromebook to know if there would be any other snags. |
15,298 | Most of the commenters at my WordPress blog do not have a Gravatar account. Hence the comment section is almost always filled with the same old mystery man avatars.
I am looking for custom gravatar generators for commenters without their own avatar. So far I have only found Identicons, MonsterID’s, and Wavatars. I fi... | 2011/04/21 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/15298",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/2587/"
] | It depends on what you call "nice" of course - it's hard to create something meaningful with an algorithm.
Someone once created [a unicorn-generator](https://unicornify.appspot.com/), which was [used on April 1, 2010 all over Stack Overflow](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns). Y... | The only other one supported by Gravatar is the retro generator. This is built into newer versions of WP, just select it in Settings->Discussion. |
270,813 | For liable, a sentence in which it is used correctly;
>
> Such a figure is liable to be attacked as a blasphemer.
>
>
>
For likely:
>
> What he told me is likely to be true. (Not liable. It sounds weird)
>
>
>
Ok I know I can't be 100% sure of things just because of how it sounds. I want a reason from a gra... | 2015/09/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/270813",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/128704/"
] | 'Liable' means (in one sense), 'open to', 'capable of', with no necessary connotation of the likelihood or probability of the event. So, "Such a figure is open to/capable of being [= liable to be] attacked ....".
'Likely', on the other hand, so far as I can imagine right now, always suggests a connotation of probabil... | The reason for this is that liable has negative implications. From The American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster we have [this usage note](http://edl.byu.edu/webster/term/2261351) for this sense of the word:
>
> Liable, in this sense, is always applied to evils. We never say, a man is liable to happ... |
270,813 | For liable, a sentence in which it is used correctly;
>
> Such a figure is liable to be attacked as a blasphemer.
>
>
>
For likely:
>
> What he told me is likely to be true. (Not liable. It sounds weird)
>
>
>
Ok I know I can't be 100% sure of things just because of how it sounds. I want a reason from a gra... | 2015/09/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/270813",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/128704/"
] | 'Liable' means (in one sense), 'open to', 'capable of', with no necessary connotation of the likelihood or probability of the event. So, "Such a figure is open to/capable of being [= liable to be] attacked ....".
'Likely', on the other hand, so far as I can imagine right now, always suggests a connotation of probabil... | I have always interpreted that "liable" formally implied "legal responsibility" for one's actions when they cause damage to people, or people's property, so that compensation or even punishment would be required if the case were to be judged by an authorised "party".
In my case of learning &understanding "liable" I ne... |
270,813 | For liable, a sentence in which it is used correctly;
>
> Such a figure is liable to be attacked as a blasphemer.
>
>
>
For likely:
>
> What he told me is likely to be true. (Not liable. It sounds weird)
>
>
>
Ok I know I can't be 100% sure of things just because of how it sounds. I want a reason from a gra... | 2015/09/02 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/270813",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/128704/"
] | The reason for this is that liable has negative implications. From The American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster we have [this usage note](http://edl.byu.edu/webster/term/2261351) for this sense of the word:
>
> Liable, in this sense, is always applied to evils. We never say, a man is liable to happ... | I have always interpreted that "liable" formally implied "legal responsibility" for one's actions when they cause damage to people, or people's property, so that compensation or even punishment would be required if the case were to be judged by an authorised "party".
In my case of learning &understanding "liable" I ne... |
4,040,652 | Looking around my understanding, Sencha is purely JS based.
I am wondering if there is any way for me to use content from PHP + MySql driven website? | 2010/10/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4040652",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/344631/"
] | In short: yes, through [XMLHttpRequests](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/xmlhttprequest) to your server. Sencha Touch is a Javascript framework that runs on your *frontend*, since it's mobile probably on the phone your'e targeting. PHP (& MySQL) runs on a *backend*, your server. Your phone app would then access the we... | You could try using Zend\_Rest\_Server on PHP side and Ext.RestProxy in order to integrate SenchaTouch with PHP. |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Negative feedback and correction should almost *always* be done in private when it concerns a single, identifiable individual.
The "it depends" is pretty minimal in situations like what you are describing. If it's a *single* employee, you really need to deal with it directly to that individual.
No one likes being re... | If someone doesn't want to be "The person who takes a two hour lunch break." then they need to stop doing it. The boss isn't mentioning names and is just taking the most efficient route of addressing this in front of everyone so they all know the rules. It can help a manager to have group buy-in for the rules. Also, it... |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Is it really a problem where the group is letting standards slip and needs to be reigned in even if one or two people are pushing the envelope further or is it really an issue with a single person?
With your two hour lunch example, I'd be hard-pressed to believe that would really be something that only one person was ... | Speaking, now, *"strictly as an individual ..."*
>
> "If you mean to talk to ME, then, *by gawd,* talk to *ME!*"
>
>
>
**Don't you dare(!)** put me into a "group-meeting situation" in which I, *growing ever more red-in-the-face by the second,* am subjected to the **public(!) humiliation** of "being referred-to *o... |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Is it really a problem where the group is letting standards slip and needs to be reigned in even if one or two people are pushing the envelope further or is it really an issue with a single person?
With your two hour lunch example, I'd be hard-pressed to believe that would really be something that only one person was ... | There is a simple rule of thumb that I used when addressing my team. This is, of course, assuming that the issue is not major, in which case you immediately do a one on one, or depending what happened with HR involved.
Otherwise:
* For the first offence or two, then I would address the group. Make it general and mod... |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Speaking, now, *"strictly as an individual ..."*
>
> "If you mean to talk to ME, then, *by gawd,* talk to *ME!*"
>
>
>
**Don't you dare(!)** put me into a "group-meeting situation" in which I, *growing ever more red-in-the-face by the second,* am subjected to the **public(!) humiliation** of "being referred-to *o... | Praise in public, criticize in private. Simple. |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | There is a simple rule of thumb that I used when addressing my team. This is, of course, assuming that the issue is not major, in which case you immediately do a one on one, or depending what happened with HR involved.
Otherwise:
* For the first offence or two, then I would address the group. Make it general and mod... | Praise in public, criticize in private. Simple. |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Is it really a problem where the group is letting standards slip and needs to be reigned in even if one or two people are pushing the envelope further or is it really an issue with a single person?
With your two hour lunch example, I'd be hard-pressed to believe that would really be something that only one person was ... | If someone doesn't want to be "The person who takes a two hour lunch break." then they need to stop doing it. The boss isn't mentioning names and is just taking the most efficient route of addressing this in front of everyone so they all know the rules. It can help a manager to have group buy-in for the rules. Also, it... |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Negative feedback and correction should almost *always* be done in private when it concerns a single, identifiable individual.
The "it depends" is pretty minimal in situations like what you are describing. If it's a *single* employee, you really need to deal with it directly to that individual.
No one likes being re... | Speaking, now, *"strictly as an individual ..."*
>
> "If you mean to talk to ME, then, *by gawd,* talk to *ME!*"
>
>
>
**Don't you dare(!)** put me into a "group-meeting situation" in which I, *growing ever more red-in-the-face by the second,* am subjected to the **public(!) humiliation** of "being referred-to *o... |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Negative feedback and correction should almost *always* be done in private when it concerns a single, identifiable individual.
The "it depends" is pretty minimal in situations like what you are describing. If it's a *single* employee, you really need to deal with it directly to that individual.
No one likes being re... | Praise in public, criticize in private. Simple. |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Is it really a problem where the group is letting standards slip and needs to be reigned in even if one or two people are pushing the envelope further or is it really an issue with a single person?
With your two hour lunch example, I'd be hard-pressed to believe that would really be something that only one person was ... | Praise in public, criticize in private. Simple. |
72,113 | There's a team lead who chooses to address the entire team whenever there is a problem with one employee. It's usually trivial to tell who is being referred to because the issue will be with something like, "two hour lunches", "chatting too much with staff who are not on break", "forgetting to clock out", etc. Situatio... | 2016/07/26 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/72113",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/48146/"
] | Is it really a problem where the group is letting standards slip and needs to be reigned in even if one or two people are pushing the envelope further or is it really an issue with a single person?
With your two hour lunch example, I'd be hard-pressed to believe that would really be something that only one person was ... | Negative feedback and correction should almost *always* be done in private when it concerns a single, identifiable individual.
The "it depends" is pretty minimal in situations like what you are describing. If it's a *single* employee, you really need to deal with it directly to that individual.
No one likes being re... |
566 | In principle, by placing a GNSS-receiver on all extremities of a spacecraft (or aircraft, for that matter), one can determine the orientation of the satellite. Google [lists some studies](https://www.google.com/search?q=gnss+based+attitude+determination), but have such systems been used in real spacecraft? On the one h... | 2013/07/21 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/566",
"https://space.stackexchange.com",
"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/33/"
] | The ISS does it. Source: <http://spacestationlive.jsc.nasa.gov/handbooks/adcoHandbook.pdf>
>
> Attitude Determination
>
>
> How am I currently oriented?
>
>
> The ISS also uses GPS to determine how the ISS is
> oriented, or facing, as it orbits the Earth. **This
> orientation, or attitude, can be determined by
... | The new Soyuz MS does too.
See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS>
>
> Instead of relying on ground stations for orbital determination and
> correction, the now included Satellite Navigation System ASN-K
> (Russian: (АСН-К, Аппаратура Спутниковой Навигации) relying on GLONASS
> and GPS signals for navigation... |
2,533,981 | I am a long time agile advocated but one of the things that bothers me about Agile is that a lot of agile practitioners, especially the younger ones, have thrown out or are missing a whole lot of good (non Scrum, non XP) practices. Alistair Cockburn's style of writing Use Cases springs to mind; orthogonal arrays (pairw... | 2010/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2533981",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/228721/"
] | It might be interesting in 5-10 years time to see how maintainable these systems are when nobody wrote down why a particular decision was made and all the people involved have left. | >
> (...) have thrown out or are missing a whole lot of good (non Scrum, non XP) practices.
>
>
>
Scrum is not prescriptive, it's up to you to choose how to do things. In other words, nothing forces you to use User Stories for example (even if User Stories work for lots of teams, there is no consensus) so feel fre... |
2,533,981 | I am a long time agile advocated but one of the things that bothers me about Agile is that a lot of agile practitioners, especially the younger ones, have thrown out or are missing a whole lot of good (non Scrum, non XP) practices. Alistair Cockburn's style of writing Use Cases springs to mind; orthogonal arrays (pairw... | 2010/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2533981",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/228721/"
] | It might be interesting in 5-10 years time to see how maintainable these systems are when nobody wrote down why a particular decision was made and all the people involved have left. | Iterative development.
In practice, agile teams may do iterations (or anything for that matter, agile is a kind of "true scotsman"), but agile processes don't require or define iterative development sufficiently.
Take RUP, for example - clumsy and bloated, it does compile a few good methods for long-term development... |
2,533,981 | I am a long time agile advocated but one of the things that bothers me about Agile is that a lot of agile practitioners, especially the younger ones, have thrown out or are missing a whole lot of good (non Scrum, non XP) practices. Alistair Cockburn's style of writing Use Cases springs to mind; orthogonal arrays (pairw... | 2010/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2533981",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/228721/"
] | It might be interesting in 5-10 years time to see how maintainable these systems are when nobody wrote down why a particular decision was made and all the people involved have left. | >
> is there anything I'm missing?
>
>
>
Yes, I think a lot, but only if you are interested in Softawre Development Processes.
I like this paraphrase:
>
> Each project should be as agile as possible but not more agile.
>
>
>
Not every project can be agile... but I think 80%+ can.
I see Agile as "[car of t... |
2,533,981 | I am a long time agile advocated but one of the things that bothers me about Agile is that a lot of agile practitioners, especially the younger ones, have thrown out or are missing a whole lot of good (non Scrum, non XP) practices. Alistair Cockburn's style of writing Use Cases springs to mind; orthogonal arrays (pairw... | 2010/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2533981",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/228721/"
] | >
> is there anything I'm missing?
>
>
>
Yes, I think a lot, but only if you are interested in Softawre Development Processes.
I like this paraphrase:
>
> Each project should be as agile as possible but not more agile.
>
>
>
Not every project can be agile... but I think 80%+ can.
I see Agile as "[car of t... | >
> (...) have thrown out or are missing a whole lot of good (non Scrum, non XP) practices.
>
>
>
Scrum is not prescriptive, it's up to you to choose how to do things. In other words, nothing forces you to use User Stories for example (even if User Stories work for lots of teams, there is no consensus) so feel fre... |
2,533,981 | I am a long time agile advocated but one of the things that bothers me about Agile is that a lot of agile practitioners, especially the younger ones, have thrown out or are missing a whole lot of good (non Scrum, non XP) practices. Alistair Cockburn's style of writing Use Cases springs to mind; orthogonal arrays (pairw... | 2010/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2533981",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/228721/"
] | >
> is there anything I'm missing?
>
>
>
Yes, I think a lot, but only if you are interested in Softawre Development Processes.
I like this paraphrase:
>
> Each project should be as agile as possible but not more agile.
>
>
>
Not every project can be agile... but I think 80%+ can.
I see Agile as "[car of t... | Iterative development.
In practice, agile teams may do iterations (or anything for that matter, agile is a kind of "true scotsman"), but agile processes don't require or define iterative development sufficiently.
Take RUP, for example - clumsy and bloated, it does compile a few good methods for long-term development... |
9,739,114 | I've got a problem with my old app and would like to know how to fix it. I found some advices, but I don't understand them. I need step-by-step instructions.
When I open my app: <http://apps.facebook.com/ako-dobre-poz-jeadci/> it says: "This application does not yet support secure browsing (HTTPS)."
And when I open ... | 2012/03/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9739114",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1274220/"
] | Your app has to support https. They sent out notifications for this about 6 months ago.
As mentioned in the comments, you probably also need to [migrate to OAuth 2.0](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/oauth2-https-migration/).
You really have to keep on top of your facebook apps, as they are notorious for quickly d... | Your app (and all of its resources) needs to be hosted on a secured domain (e.g.: <https://www.example.com>) with a valid SSL certificate |
9,739,114 | I've got a problem with my old app and would like to know how to fix it. I found some advices, but I don't understand them. I need step-by-step instructions.
When I open my app: <http://apps.facebook.com/ako-dobre-poz-jeadci/> it says: "This application does not yet support secure browsing (HTTPS)."
And when I open ... | 2012/03/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9739114",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1274220/"
] | Your app has to support https. They sent out notifications for this about 6 months ago.
As mentioned in the comments, you probably also need to [migrate to OAuth 2.0](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/oauth2-https-migration/).
You really have to keep on top of your facebook apps, as they are notorious for quickly d... | In order to fix it, you have to buy and setup an SSL certificate. (it is now required since 1 October 2011 : [News](http://www.wpcode.net/fb-ssl.html/))
After, you have to add your https url in your app settings.
Check Facebook authentification guide for dev for more information about it:
[Authentification G... |
9,739,114 | I've got a problem with my old app and would like to know how to fix it. I found some advices, but I don't understand them. I need step-by-step instructions.
When I open my app: <http://apps.facebook.com/ako-dobre-poz-jeadci/> it says: "This application does not yet support secure browsing (HTTPS)."
And when I open ... | 2012/03/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9739114",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1274220/"
] | Your app has to support https. They sent out notifications for this about 6 months ago.
As mentioned in the comments, you probably also need to [migrate to OAuth 2.0](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/oauth2-https-migration/).
You really have to keep on top of your facebook apps, as they are notorious for quickly d... | You need to purchase and setup an SSL certificate and then plug your https url into your app's settings page. See their [migration guide](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/oauth2-https-migration/) where it says this is now required.
Source: [Secure browsing is not supported in my app](https://stackoverflow.com/quest... |
9,739,114 | I've got a problem with my old app and would like to know how to fix it. I found some advices, but I don't understand them. I need step-by-step instructions.
When I open my app: <http://apps.facebook.com/ako-dobre-poz-jeadci/> it says: "This application does not yet support secure browsing (HTTPS)."
And when I open ... | 2012/03/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9739114",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1274220/"
] | Your app has to support https. They sent out notifications for this about 6 months ago.
As mentioned in the comments, you probably also need to [migrate to OAuth 2.0](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/oauth2-https-migration/).
You really have to keep on top of your facebook apps, as they are notorious for quickly d... | You need to edit the settings in your app to supply an https URL. I created a very nice step by step guide that takes you through this and many other setup steps, setting up a Java WebService, Persistence, and registering for FREE web hosting (that you can use for your https address), resulting in a completed demo App ... |
9,739,114 | I've got a problem with my old app and would like to know how to fix it. I found some advices, but I don't understand them. I need step-by-step instructions.
When I open my app: <http://apps.facebook.com/ako-dobre-poz-jeadci/> it says: "This application does not yet support secure browsing (HTTPS)."
And when I open ... | 2012/03/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9739114",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1274220/"
] | You need to edit the settings in your app to supply an https URL. I created a very nice step by step guide that takes you through this and many other setup steps, setting up a Java WebService, Persistence, and registering for FREE web hosting (that you can use for your https address), resulting in a completed demo App ... | Your app (and all of its resources) needs to be hosted on a secured domain (e.g.: <https://www.example.com>) with a valid SSL certificate |
9,739,114 | I've got a problem with my old app and would like to know how to fix it. I found some advices, but I don't understand them. I need step-by-step instructions.
When I open my app: <http://apps.facebook.com/ako-dobre-poz-jeadci/> it says: "This application does not yet support secure browsing (HTTPS)."
And when I open ... | 2012/03/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9739114",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1274220/"
] | You need to edit the settings in your app to supply an https URL. I created a very nice step by step guide that takes you through this and many other setup steps, setting up a Java WebService, Persistence, and registering for FREE web hosting (that you can use for your https address), resulting in a completed demo App ... | In order to fix it, you have to buy and setup an SSL certificate. (it is now required since 1 October 2011 : [News](http://www.wpcode.net/fb-ssl.html/))
After, you have to add your https url in your app settings.
Check Facebook authentification guide for dev for more information about it:
[Authentification G... |
9,739,114 | I've got a problem with my old app and would like to know how to fix it. I found some advices, but I don't understand them. I need step-by-step instructions.
When I open my app: <http://apps.facebook.com/ako-dobre-poz-jeadci/> it says: "This application does not yet support secure browsing (HTTPS)."
And when I open ... | 2012/03/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9739114",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1274220/"
] | You need to edit the settings in your app to supply an https URL. I created a very nice step by step guide that takes you through this and many other setup steps, setting up a Java WebService, Persistence, and registering for FREE web hosting (that you can use for your https address), resulting in a completed demo App ... | You need to purchase and setup an SSL certificate and then plug your https url into your app's settings page. See their [migration guide](http://developers.facebook.com/docs/oauth2-https-migration/) where it says this is now required.
Source: [Secure browsing is not supported in my app](https://stackoverflow.com/quest... |
16,053 | How do Electronic & Mechanical Voting machines work? And how do they provide accurate votes? Is it overly complicated machine, or is it surprisingly simple? | 2017/03/02 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/16053",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/12707/"
] | This is a very broad question, so any answers are going to be either very high-level or really long. I'm going to go for the former, but I encourage you to read the links I'm including, and then ask followup questions either here or on [Information Security](https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/electroni... | I can think of at least three kinds of voting machines.
1. [Mechanical, with levers](http://www.fec.gov/pages/lever.htm). You pull down the lever for the candidate or option that you want. There usually are restrictions keeping you from selecting multiple choices in the same race (unless of course you are allowed to ... |
12,854 | If the FBI reopens the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server or they open an investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material, is it possible to postpone the election? Either to allow the democrats to come up with another candidate or for Hillary to get cleared of the... | 2016/10/30 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/12854",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/9930/"
] | The Current President's Term Must End
-------------------------------------
No matter what else happens, [Article II](https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii), Section I of the Constitution sets the President and Vice President's terms at 4 years. Whether there is a new election or not, they must vacate the... | It appears that federal elections could be postponed via an act of congress:
<http://classroom.synonym.com/can-federal-election-postponed-20816.html>
I'll leave it to you to decide how plausible that would be with our current congress. |
52,735 | The tags [xsl](/questions/tagged/xsl "show questions tagged 'xsl'") and [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") seem to be used pretty interchangeably on StackOverflow. In most, if not all cases, I feel that [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") is how the question should b... | 2010/06/06 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52735",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/147400/"
] | The semantic distinction between "XSL" and "XSLT" may be useful in some contexts, but SO's tag taxonomy isn't one of them.
I browsed through the top 30 or so questions tagged with "xsl" to see if I could find one that was about XSL and not XSLT, and couldn't. In all cases, the questioner was using "XSL" and "XSLT" in... | XSL and XSLT are two separate things. XSL is "Extensible Stylesheet Language", while XSLT is specifically "XSL Transforms". People can (and often do, on SO) use XSL alone to refer to XSLT, but it can also be used for XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects).
Think of it like how we have a separate C# tag and a C#4.0 tag. That... |
52,735 | The tags [xsl](/questions/tagged/xsl "show questions tagged 'xsl'") and [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") seem to be used pretty interchangeably on StackOverflow. In most, if not all cases, I feel that [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") is how the question should b... | 2010/06/06 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52735",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/147400/"
] | From <http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/>
>
> XSL is a family of recommendations for
> defining XML document transformation
> and presentation. It consists of three
> parts:
>
>
> * XSL Transformations (XSLT) a language for transforming XML
> * the XML Path Language (XPath) an expression language used by XSLT to acces... | Since that all the tag leaders agreed that it makes sense to have this synonym in place. I went ahead and created the synonym AND merged the tags.
In the vast majority of cases users mean xslt when they tag stuff xsl, hence I placed this synonym and merged. |
52,735 | The tags [xsl](/questions/tagged/xsl "show questions tagged 'xsl'") and [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") seem to be used pretty interchangeably on StackOverflow. In most, if not all cases, I feel that [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") is how the question should b... | 2010/06/06 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52735",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/147400/"
] | XSL and XSLT are two separate things. XSL is "Extensible Stylesheet Language", while XSLT is specifically "XSL Transforms". People can (and often do, on SO) use XSL alone to refer to XSLT, but it can also be used for XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects).
Think of it like how we have a separate C# tag and a C#4.0 tag. That... | Since that all the tag leaders agreed that it makes sense to have this synonym in place. I went ahead and created the synonym AND merged the tags.
In the vast majority of cases users mean xslt when they tag stuff xsl, hence I placed this synonym and merged. |
52,735 | The tags [xsl](/questions/tagged/xsl "show questions tagged 'xsl'") and [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") seem to be used pretty interchangeably on StackOverflow. In most, if not all cases, I feel that [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") is how the question should b... | 2010/06/06 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52735",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/147400/"
] | The semantic distinction between "XSL" and "XSLT" may be useful in some contexts, but SO's tag taxonomy isn't one of them.
I browsed through the top 30 or so questions tagged with "xsl" to see if I could find one that was about XSL and not XSLT, and couldn't. In all cases, the questioner was using "XSL" and "XSLT" in... | **We must be practical**. We are not academic writers preparing a scientific tome on the origin and meanings of words in a particular topic-world.
**The vast majority** (much more than 90%) **of questions tagged "xsl" are xslt questions**. People, who ask xsl-fo questions typically tag them "xsl-fo" and such questions... |
52,735 | The tags [xsl](/questions/tagged/xsl "show questions tagged 'xsl'") and [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") seem to be used pretty interchangeably on StackOverflow. In most, if not all cases, I feel that [xslt](/questions/tagged/xslt "show questions tagged 'xslt'") is how the question should b... | 2010/06/06 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52735",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/147400/"
] | The semantic distinction between "XSL" and "XSLT" may be useful in some contexts, but SO's tag taxonomy isn't one of them.
I browsed through the top 30 or so questions tagged with "xsl" to see if I could find one that was about XSL and not XSLT, and couldn't. In all cases, the questioner was using "XSL" and "XSLT" in... | From <http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/>
>
> XSL is a family of recommendations for
> defining XML document transformation
> and presentation. It consists of three
> parts:
>
>
> * XSL Transformations (XSLT) a language for transforming XML
> * the XML Path Language (XPath) an expression language used by XSLT to acces... |
31,654 | From the beginning of the film, it looks that Yubaba is searching for Chihiro with the clear intention to turn her into animal.
What reasons prevent Yubaba to do so when Chihiro suddenly comes to her office? While being rude, Yubaba still talks to Chihiro and at the end offers to sign the job contract. Looks like Yub... | 2016/04/24 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/31654",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/23662/"
] | She cannot refuse her as long as chihiro asks. Yubaba also has a rule not to turn down anyone asking for a job and therefore has to give her the job and can't be turned into a piglet as she is under her service. | It was two reasons actually: Yubaba's oath and...... Big Baby's tantrum!
In the English dub, Yubaba said: "*I cant believe I took that oath. To give a job to anyone who asks. Ridiculous! I hate being so nice all the time.*"
So yeah she can't turn down a job request but she can intimidate you to change your mind.
Yub... |
6,982,607 | I am planning to build a website for courses online, teachers can create their courses and put their exams, students can enroll, view courses and apply for exams ..
I am a bit confused, to build it with DDN or Drupal ? which is easier and more powerful ?
I have no problem with .NET C# or PHP, although I see C# more ea... | 2011/08/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6982607",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396681/"
] | Based on what you are trying to build DotNetNuke will only really give you authentication and basic page creation out of the box. All those other elements will have to be custom coded in .NET.
If you use Drupal 7 you can build majority of that using CCK, Views and workflow without really having to do a ton of program... | DNN is now built on C# but has always been on .NET. I'm in a similar position as I code in PHP and .NET and have used Drupal and have been working on DNN for the last 4 years. I find that Module Development in DNN is wonderful.
i hope that helps. |
6,982,607 | I am planning to build a website for courses online, teachers can create their courses and put their exams, students can enroll, view courses and apply for exams ..
I am a bit confused, to build it with DDN or Drupal ? which is easier and more powerful ?
I have no problem with .NET C# or PHP, although I see C# more ea... | 2011/08/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6982607",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396681/"
] | Of course, either platform has its pros and cons. What you're looking at building is essentially a Learning Management System, or LMS. There are a few existing LMS solutions built specifically for DotNetNuke. They include [Engage: Campus](http://www.engagesoftware.com/Products/Modules/Engage_Campus.aspx), [NetLearn](ht... | DNN is now built on C# but has always been on .NET. I'm in a similar position as I code in PHP and .NET and have used Drupal and have been working on DNN for the last 4 years. I find that Module Development in DNN is wonderful.
i hope that helps. |
6,982,607 | I am planning to build a website for courses online, teachers can create their courses and put their exams, students can enroll, view courses and apply for exams ..
I am a bit confused, to build it with DDN or Drupal ? which is easier and more powerful ?
I have no problem with .NET C# or PHP, although I see C# more ea... | 2011/08/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6982607",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396681/"
] | Of course, either platform has its pros and cons. What you're looking at building is essentially a Learning Management System, or LMS. There are a few existing LMS solutions built specifically for DotNetNuke. They include [Engage: Campus](http://www.engagesoftware.com/Products/Modules/Engage_Campus.aspx), [NetLearn](ht... | Based on what you are trying to build DotNetNuke will only really give you authentication and basic page creation out of the box. All those other elements will have to be custom coded in .NET.
If you use Drupal 7 you can build majority of that using CCK, Views and workflow without really having to do a ton of program... |
6,982,607 | I am planning to build a website for courses online, teachers can create their courses and put their exams, students can enroll, view courses and apply for exams ..
I am a bit confused, to build it with DDN or Drupal ? which is easier and more powerful ?
I have no problem with .NET C# or PHP, although I see C# more ea... | 2011/08/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6982607",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396681/"
] | Based on what you are trying to build DotNetNuke will only really give you authentication and basic page creation out of the box. All those other elements will have to be custom coded in .NET.
If you use Drupal 7 you can build majority of that using CCK, Views and workflow without really having to do a ton of program... | Full featured Learning Management Systems (LMS) require substantial development (man decades), especially if you want to support SCORM eLearning content. Both DNN and Drupal will offer you most of the add on functionality that you will need in addition to the LMS features - the ability to build web pages, rich text edi... |
6,982,607 | I am planning to build a website for courses online, teachers can create their courses and put their exams, students can enroll, view courses and apply for exams ..
I am a bit confused, to build it with DDN or Drupal ? which is easier and more powerful ?
I have no problem with .NET C# or PHP, although I see C# more ea... | 2011/08/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6982607",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/396681/"
] | Of course, either platform has its pros and cons. What you're looking at building is essentially a Learning Management System, or LMS. There are a few existing LMS solutions built specifically for DotNetNuke. They include [Engage: Campus](http://www.engagesoftware.com/Products/Modules/Engage_Campus.aspx), [NetLearn](ht... | Full featured Learning Management Systems (LMS) require substantial development (man decades), especially if you want to support SCORM eLearning content. Both DNN and Drupal will offer you most of the add on functionality that you will need in addition to the LMS features - the ability to build web pages, rich text edi... |
41,425 | A spaceship of several kilometers length is accelerating to a very high fraction of $c$ (basically as close as they can possibly get).
***Which problems can the machinery and the crew encounter?***
And as follow-up question resulting from this:
***Is a multiple kilometer long ship traveling at near light-speed feasi... | 2016/05/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41425",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/108/"
] | Travelling at near-light speed is **indistinguishable** from being at rest.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the [principle of Galilean relativity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_invariance), and is preserved under special relativity: there is no feasible expe... | AndreiROM is right, thanks to our friend inertia the only time you'd notice anything is while the ship is actively thrusting during acceleration and deceleration, or if you turned really sharply.
This actually has something of a beneficial nature because you could build the ship to where the floor is "down" during th... |
41,425 | A spaceship of several kilometers length is accelerating to a very high fraction of $c$ (basically as close as they can possibly get).
***Which problems can the machinery and the crew encounter?***
And as follow-up question resulting from this:
***Is a multiple kilometer long ship traveling at near light-speed feasi... | 2016/05/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41425",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/108/"
] | Travelling at near-light speed is **indistinguishable** from being at rest.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the [principle of Galilean relativity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_invariance), and is preserved under special relativity: there is no feasible expe... | One rather big problem that you haven't mentioned is the impact of material in the interstellar medium. While gas and dust in space is extremely diffuse, at near-light speeds even a few hydrogen atoms, let alone dust particles or micrometeors, will carry significant energy that will wear away the hull of the ship over ... |
41,425 | A spaceship of several kilometers length is accelerating to a very high fraction of $c$ (basically as close as they can possibly get).
***Which problems can the machinery and the crew encounter?***
And as follow-up question resulting from this:
***Is a multiple kilometer long ship traveling at near light-speed feasi... | 2016/05/09 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/41425",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/108/"
] | AndreiROM is right, thanks to our friend inertia the only time you'd notice anything is while the ship is actively thrusting during acceleration and deceleration, or if you turned really sharply.
This actually has something of a beneficial nature because you could build the ship to where the floor is "down" during th... | One rather big problem that you haven't mentioned is the impact of material in the interstellar medium. While gas and dust in space is extremely diffuse, at near-light speeds even a few hydrogen atoms, let alone dust particles or micrometeors, will carry significant energy that will wear away the hull of the ship over ... |
5,742 | I know that keeping /home in different partitions will preserve my data.
But what about the user-specific configuration files? Are always forward-compatible?
Are there other issues as well? | 2009/05/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/5742",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2165/"
] | I'd like to add a me-too to Mike Arthur's answer. I've used a Linux desktop since 1997 and have migrated my home directory along the way. Most apps just work.
The only problems I've had was when I switched distributions. Upgrading from RedHat to newer RedHat or RedHat to Fedora or Fedora to newer Fedora is usually rea... | It's mostly up to the individual apps to upgrade their per-user config files. Upgrading a server is mostly dependent upon the distro you're using, and can range from having to pick out individual apps to rebuild and reinstall (a al Slackware) to simply telling the package manager to upgrade everything to the latest rev... |
5,742 | I know that keeping /home in different partitions will preserve my data.
But what about the user-specific configuration files? Are always forward-compatible?
Are there other issues as well? | 2009/05/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/5742",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2165/"
] | It's mostly up to the individual apps to upgrade their per-user config files. Upgrading a server is mostly dependent upon the distro you're using, and can range from having to pick out individual apps to rebuild and reinstall (a al Slackware) to simply telling the package manager to upgrade everything to the latest rev... | For config files:
Some GNU/Linux distributions have a system in place that will show you diff's as it updates the configuration files. (eg: gentoo has etc-update which will show you a diff and ask you to keep the old config, use the new one, or interactively merge the two.)
If you don't have such luxery with the dist... |
5,742 | I know that keeping /home in different partitions will preserve my data.
But what about the user-specific configuration files? Are always forward-compatible?
Are there other issues as well? | 2009/05/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/5742",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2165/"
] | I'd like to add a me-too to Mike Arthur's answer. I've used a Linux desktop since 1997 and have migrated my home directory along the way. Most apps just work.
The only problems I've had was when I switched distributions. Upgrading from RedHat to newer RedHat or RedHat to Fedora or Fedora to newer Fedora is usually rea... | I've been using Linux on desktop and server for about 5 years and had the same home directory for pretty much that whole time and had pretty much flawless upgrades of the dotfiles in my home directory. |
5,742 | I know that keeping /home in different partitions will preserve my data.
But what about the user-specific configuration files? Are always forward-compatible?
Are there other issues as well? | 2009/05/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/5742",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2165/"
] | I've been using Linux on desktop and server for about 5 years and had the same home directory for pretty much that whole time and had pretty much flawless upgrades of the dotfiles in my home directory. | For config files:
Some GNU/Linux distributions have a system in place that will show you diff's as it updates the configuration files. (eg: gentoo has etc-update which will show you a diff and ask you to keep the old config, use the new one, or interactively merge the two.)
If you don't have such luxery with the dist... |
5,742 | I know that keeping /home in different partitions will preserve my data.
But what about the user-specific configuration files? Are always forward-compatible?
Are there other issues as well? | 2009/05/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/5742",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2165/"
] | I'd like to add a me-too to Mike Arthur's answer. I've used a Linux desktop since 1997 and have migrated my home directory along the way. Most apps just work.
The only problems I've had was when I switched distributions. Upgrading from RedHat to newer RedHat or RedHat to Fedora or Fedora to newer Fedora is usually rea... | For config files:
Some GNU/Linux distributions have a system in place that will show you diff's as it updates the configuration files. (eg: gentoo has etc-update which will show you a diff and ask you to keep the old config, use the new one, or interactively merge the two.)
If you don't have such luxery with the dist... |
1,994,174 | Am very to new to web development.
I have the web pages; web pages are developed in html, CSS Style sheet.
For Example
I have the ftp domain or crystal.com for hosting my web page
For hosting my web pages, I have to create setup file for hosting my web page or simply post my html files.
Can any one tell the proce... | 2010/01/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1994174",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/128071/"
] | Ftp is the best way to publish your files. Use something like [filezilla](http://filezilla-project.org) and read the help docs. You will upload the files to a folder (usually something like public\_html) and then the files correspond to your domain. Example:
you upload a file:
/public\_html/blog/index.htm
then go to... | You need to set up your domain provider's DNS server to point to the server where your files are located. For example, I have my domain (brasee.com) through GoDaddy.com, and I host my site locally. So I go to the GoDaddy website and update their DNS server to forward brasee.com requests to my server's IP address. |
5,711,407 | I have a screen that I need to remove some items on smaller screens because they will not fit.
I search for items in the layout to populate with live data in code, such as populating names etc. There are 5 items that need to be populated in my large layout but only 2 in my small layout as three I removed because they w... | 2011/04/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5711407",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/467569/"
] | It looks like in this circumstance the widgets will return null when I attempt to find them if the layout chosen doesn't support that widget. So I can just detect if its null and if so skip populating the widget. | You will want to utilize a combo of the resource directories (high, medium, low) and follow the guidelines on how to support multiple screen sizes from the android documentation. Also you can get the screen dimensions if you need to anything specific in the code. See these links.
[Get screen dimensions in pixels](http... |
2,548,841 | I want to create a high performance server in C# which could take about ~10k clients. Now i started writing a TcpServer with C# and for each client-connection i open a new thread. I also use one thread to accept the connections. So far so good, works fine.
The server has to deserialize AMF incoming objects do some log... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2548841",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/284401/"
] | You're going to run into a number of problems.
1. You can't spin up 10,000 threads for a couple of reasons. It'll trash the kernel scheduler. If you're running a 32-bit, then the default stack address space of 1MB means that 10k threads will reserve about 10GB of address space. That'll fail.
2. You can't use a simple ... | You definitely don't want a thread per request. Even if you have fewer clients, the overhead of creating and destroying threads will cripple the server, and there's no way you'll get to 10,000 threads; the OS scheduler will die a horrible death long before then.
There are numerous articles online about asynchronous se... |
2,548,841 | I want to create a high performance server in C# which could take about ~10k clients. Now i started writing a TcpServer with C# and for each client-connection i open a new thread. I also use one thread to accept the connections. So far so good, works fine.
The server has to deserialize AMF incoming objects do some log... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2548841",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/284401/"
] | The way to write an efficient multithreaded server is to use I/O completion ports (using a thread per request is quite inefficient, as @Marcelo mentions).
If you use the asynchronous version of the .NET socket class, you get this for free. See [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/539940/how-does-net-ma... | You definitely don't want a thread per request. Even if you have fewer clients, the overhead of creating and destroying threads will cripple the server, and there's no way you'll get to 10,000 threads; the OS scheduler will die a horrible death long before then.
There are numerous articles online about asynchronous se... |
2,548,841 | I want to create a high performance server in C# which could take about ~10k clients. Now i started writing a TcpServer with C# and for each client-connection i open a new thread. I also use one thread to accept the connections. So far so good, works fine.
The server has to deserialize AMF incoming objects do some log... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2548841",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/284401/"
] | You're going to run into a number of problems.
1. You can't spin up 10,000 threads for a couple of reasons. It'll trash the kernel scheduler. If you're running a 32-bit, then the default stack address space of 1MB means that 10k threads will reserve about 10GB of address space. That'll fail.
2. You can't use a simple ... | You want to look into using [IO completion ports](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365198(VS.85).aspx). You basically have a threadpool and a queue of IO operations.
>
> I/O completion ports provide an
> efficient threading model for
> processing multiple asynchronous I/O
> requests on a multiprocessor sy... |
2,548,841 | I want to create a high performance server in C# which could take about ~10k clients. Now i started writing a TcpServer with C# and for each client-connection i open a new thread. I also use one thread to accept the connections. So far so good, works fine.
The server has to deserialize AMF incoming objects do some log... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2548841",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/284401/"
] | You're going to run into a number of problems.
1. You can't spin up 10,000 threads for a couple of reasons. It'll trash the kernel scheduler. If you're running a 32-bit, then the default stack address space of 1MB means that 10k threads will reserve about 10GB of address space. That'll fail.
2. You can't use a simple ... | The way to write an efficient multithreaded server is to use I/O completion ports (using a thread per request is quite inefficient, as @Marcelo mentions).
If you use the asynchronous version of the .NET socket class, you get this for free. See [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/539940/how-does-net-ma... |
2,548,841 | I want to create a high performance server in C# which could take about ~10k clients. Now i started writing a TcpServer with C# and for each client-connection i open a new thread. I also use one thread to accept the connections. So far so good, works fine.
The server has to deserialize AMF incoming objects do some log... | 2010/03/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2548841",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/284401/"
] | The way to write an efficient multithreaded server is to use I/O completion ports (using a thread per request is quite inefficient, as @Marcelo mentions).
If you use the asynchronous version of the .NET socket class, you get this for free. See [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/539940/how-does-net-ma... | You want to look into using [IO completion ports](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365198(VS.85).aspx). You basically have a threadpool and a queue of IO operations.
>
> I/O completion ports provide an
> efficient threading model for
> processing multiple asynchronous I/O
> requests on a multiprocessor sy... |
48,630 | So I am tired of having to do 2 clicks in Chrome to go forward but not backwards.
Are there any web browsers that look and work as close to Apple's safari?
Ideally I would like the navigation bar(back,home,recent apps buttons) to be hidden at the bottom similar to Android Games. | 2018/02/13 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/6490/"
] | [Opera mini](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.mini.native) has it. It also looks a little like Safari.
(You can see the forward button on the bottom left of the screenshot)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lx8qOm.jpg) | [CM Browser](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ksmobile.cb&hl=en) is a very good browser that has forward and backward buttons in plain sight. I'm using it for at least 4 years and I'm really happy with it and also its security features. |
48,630 | So I am tired of having to do 2 clicks in Chrome to go forward but not backwards.
Are there any web browsers that look and work as close to Apple's safari?
Ideally I would like the navigation bar(back,home,recent apps buttons) to be hidden at the bottom similar to Android Games. | 2018/02/13 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/6490/"
] | [CM Browser](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ksmobile.cb&hl=en) is a very good browser that has forward and backward buttons in plain sight. I'm using it for at least 4 years and I'm really happy with it and also its security features. | My app [Subhash Browser & Feed Reader](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vsubhash.droid.subhashbrowser&hl=en) has a toolbar with all kinds of functions including Back and Forward history navigation. The home button is used to quit the browser but there is a Favorites button that you can use. The toolbar... |
48,630 | So I am tired of having to do 2 clicks in Chrome to go forward but not backwards.
Are there any web browsers that look and work as close to Apple's safari?
Ideally I would like the navigation bar(back,home,recent apps buttons) to be hidden at the bottom similar to Android Games. | 2018/02/13 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/6490/"
] | [Opera mini](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.mini.native) has it. It also looks a little like Safari.
(You can see the forward button on the bottom left of the screenshot)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lx8qOm.jpg) | My app [Subhash Browser & Feed Reader](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vsubhash.droid.subhashbrowser&hl=en) has a toolbar with all kinds of functions including Back and Forward history navigation. The home button is used to quit the browser but there is a Favorites button that you can use. The toolbar... |
59,625,210 | I want to automatically Re-trigger a failed pipeline using the If Condition Activity (dynamic content).
Process :
* Pipeline 1 running at a schedule time with trigger 1 - works
* If pipeline 1 fails, scheduled trigger 2 will run pipeline 2 - works
* **Pipeline 2 should contain if condition to check if pipeline 1 fail... | 2020/01/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/59625210",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8865285/"
] | I can give you an idea,
For example. Your pipeline1 failed by some reasons. At this time, you can create a file to Azure Storage Blob.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dVeT.png)
(Here is an example, you can use the activities what you want to use.)
Th... | can't you do it with "Execute Pipeline" activity?
For example:
You create a simple pipeline named "Rerun main pipeline" and use "Execute Pipeline" inside that and link it to "main pipeline". Then in main pipeline, you add failure output and link it to "Rerun main pipeline". |
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