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185,783 | I just started learning Haskell and it seems like you can't get too far in the language without being comfortable ( or at least exposed ) to certain branches of mathematics. Unfortunately I have major holes in such areas and am wondering what is a good introductory textbook that covers all the concepts Haskell uses?
F... | 2013/02/04 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/185783",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/75810/"
] | ["Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists"](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0262660717) by Benjamin C. Pierce is a pretty good introduction to elementary category theory. It's been a while seen I've looked through it but I think the code examples are in Haskell. If you're trying to learn the fundamentals... | I doubt any such book exists, and the closest you'll get would be from a book about Haskell.
The problem is that Haskell makes shallow use of concepts from a wide range of relatively deep mathematics. For anyone who isn't already a mathematician, learning enough of the math to help understand Haskell is very unlikely ... |
5,457,993 | Python: Clustering Search Engine Keywords
Hi,
I have a CSV, up to 20,000 rows (I have had 100,000+ for different websites), each row containing a referring keyword (i.e. a keyword someone typed into a search engine to find the website in question), and a number of visits.
What I'm looking to do is cluster these keyw... | 2011/03/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5457993",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/679134/"
] | I like Woosh a lot. It is a pure python search engine that provides, among other things, that kind of functionality. Check it out.
<http://packages.python.org/Whoosh/index.html>
The feature that you are looking is call "faceted search results"
<http://packages.python.org/Whoosh/facets.html>
Hernan | Well I am a noob myself..But I think the way to go about it is nltk and wordnet.(as you already said)
First remove all the numbers and any special characters (basically clean up the keywords)
Check for basic string matches/substring matches
Tag POS tags, (take default tagger as noun)
If its other than a noun then u... |
40,826,725 | The past couple of iphone apps I have released have gotten clicks on admob before they even get released to the appstore! I do not know what's going on. Every time I test I always use the xcode simulator which uses test ads and I never install on my iphone! I do not want to get my admob account banned. Does anybody hav... | 2016/11/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/40826725",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3554599/"
] | There are various possibilities:
It is possible that also the test ads are counted.
Apple review team may be playing with the app.
You are not always connected to the test Ad service. | i think that making sure that test ads are turned on and not counted on Admob's side would be a solution. also this link might be useful <https://support.google.com/admob/answer/2753860?hl=en> |
63,701,904 | Presto coordinator does not have inbuilt support for High Availability.Its a **SPOF**, single point of failure.
Is there an approach to overcome this ? | 2020/09/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/63701904",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1387142/"
] | HA can mean multiple things.
There is no HA for ongoing queries and Presto project provides no HA for coordinator, as this inherently needs to be tied to deployment and monitoring system.
Your options include:
* use Starburst for deployment, it provides coordinator's quick fail over for more than a year now
* AWS's ... | **Presto Coordinator HA setup**
**( Ongoing queries will be impacted if a coordinator goes down )**
**Active/Active**
**Requirements**
* *N+1 hostnames for the ELB.*
Or
* *N+1 ports on the ELB.*
N is the number of presto clusters.
[](https://i.s... |
63,701,904 | Presto coordinator does not have inbuilt support for High Availability.Its a **SPOF**, single point of failure.
Is there an approach to overcome this ? | 2020/09/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/63701904",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1387142/"
] | **Presto Coordinator HA setup**
**( Ongoing queries will be impacted if a coordinator goes down )**
**Active/Active**
**Requirements**
* *N+1 hostnames for the ELB.*
Or
* *N+1 ports on the ELB.*
N is the number of presto clusters.
[](https://i.s... | Since you asked about Prestodb, the issue of the single coordinator is being investigated to come up with a design for multiple coordinators for prestodb.
It is a hard problem to solve given the current coordinator design.
<https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/3918>
As you mention, using HA proxy on two coordina... |
63,701,904 | Presto coordinator does not have inbuilt support for High Availability.Its a **SPOF**, single point of failure.
Is there an approach to overcome this ? | 2020/09/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/63701904",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1387142/"
] | HA can mean multiple things.
There is no HA for ongoing queries and Presto project provides no HA for coordinator, as this inherently needs to be tied to deployment and monitoring system.
Your options include:
* use Starburst for deployment, it provides coordinator's quick fail over for more than a year now
* AWS's ... | Since you asked about Prestodb, the issue of the single coordinator is being investigated to come up with a design for multiple coordinators for prestodb.
It is a hard problem to solve given the current coordinator design.
<https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/3918>
As you mention, using HA proxy on two coordina... |
841,529 | I need to remotely access 100+ work computers (Windows XP, Vista and 8).
The PCs are all on the same local network, their dynamic IPs set by DHCP. They're behind a NAT and the public IP address is fixed.
We have chosen to use VNC. From a local computer I can provide the local IP and connect just fine. How can I conne... | 2014/11/18 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/841529",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/165442/"
] | Ideally, you could use an open source VPN (OpenVPN being one example) to tunnel into the network, then VNC to any PC you wish. More secure IMO, and less holes opened in the firewall. | Try VNC'ing into the machine you want but specifying the port in the connection. i.e. "10.0.0.2:5901"<>b
"10.0.0.2:5902"
etc.
That seemed to work for me. |
163,964 | When Obi Wan kills Darth Maul, he uses his master's lightsaber to defeat the Sith Lord. After that, the lightsaber's fate is unknown according to this [answer.](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/75855/70135) Anakin becomes Obi Wan's Apprentice after the death of Qui-Gon Jinn. When Anakin is now a Jedi Padawan, he has c... | 2017/07/17 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163964",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/70135/"
] | Why would he?
In the clone wars episodes [The Gathering](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2493136/) and [A Test of Strength](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2493138/) we see that lightsaber construction is an expected part of a Jedi youngling's training, and that each uses a crystal that is uniquely suited to them. One would a... | At least in *Legends*, it was a Jedi tradition to travel to Ilum and take part in a ritual called the Gathering. During the days of the Jedi Order, lightsabers were not generally inherited from a Jedi to Jedi, but initiates had to find the crystal that "spoke to them", and then construct their own unique weapon. Like O... |
16,130 | I've been asked to create a website for a *very* small church. Given the limited budget and lack of technical staff, what is the best option for building a site that is low-cost (or preferably free) which a church member can easily maintain and modify?
The church's previous site was hosted on Geocities if that gives ... | 2011/06/29 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/16130",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) is very easy to use as a CMS. It provide a GUI that allows them to create new pages and content with little knowledge of how the Web works required. You could then get a cheap hosting plan from a reliable web hosting provider like [Hostgator](http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml) for... | WordPress is best option for small to medium business.
Can easy installed by hosting provider hostrivers.com etc
In other hand Joomla is fantastic option for a website that requires multiple user privileges or custom database work.. |
16,130 | I've been asked to create a website for a *very* small church. Given the limited budget and lack of technical staff, what is the best option for building a site that is low-cost (or preferably free) which a church member can easily maintain and modify?
The church's previous site was hosted on Geocities if that gives ... | 2011/06/29 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/16130",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) is very easy to use as a CMS. It provide a GUI that allows them to create new pages and content with little knowledge of how the Web works required. You could then get a cheap hosting plan from a reliable web hosting provider like [Hostgator](http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml) for... | Guess, [Google Apps](http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/nonprofit/index.html) for non-profit organization will suits your needs. |
16,130 | I've been asked to create a website for a *very* small church. Given the limited budget and lack of technical staff, what is the best option for building a site that is low-cost (or preferably free) which a church member can easily maintain and modify?
The church's previous site was hosted on Geocities if that gives ... | 2011/06/29 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/16130",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) is very easy to use as a CMS. It provide a GUI that allows them to create new pages and content with little knowledge of how the Web works required. You could then get a cheap hosting plan from a reliable web hosting provider like [Hostgator](http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml) for... | I have no experience of [Church123](http://www.church123.com/welcome.htm), but they are trying to do what you want - keeping it simple. Whether you count it low cost ($370/year plus more for domain names) is your call. |
16,130 | I've been asked to create a website for a *very* small church. Given the limited budget and lack of technical staff, what is the best option for building a site that is low-cost (or preferably free) which a church member can easily maintain and modify?
The church's previous site was hosted on Geocities if that gives ... | 2011/06/29 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/16130",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Guess, [Google Apps](http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/nonprofit/index.html) for non-profit organization will suits your needs. | WordPress is best option for small to medium business.
Can easy installed by hosting provider hostrivers.com etc
In other hand Joomla is fantastic option for a website that requires multiple user privileges or custom database work.. |
16,130 | I've been asked to create a website for a *very* small church. Given the limited budget and lack of technical staff, what is the best option for building a site that is low-cost (or preferably free) which a church member can easily maintain and modify?
The church's previous site was hosted on Geocities if that gives ... | 2011/06/29 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/16130",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I have no experience of [Church123](http://www.church123.com/welcome.htm), but they are trying to do what you want - keeping it simple. Whether you count it low cost ($370/year plus more for domain names) is your call. | WordPress is best option for small to medium business.
Can easy installed by hosting provider hostrivers.com etc
In other hand Joomla is fantastic option for a website that requires multiple user privileges or custom database work.. |
16,130 | I've been asked to create a website for a *very* small church. Given the limited budget and lack of technical staff, what is the best option for building a site that is low-cost (or preferably free) which a church member can easily maintain and modify?
The church's previous site was hosted on Geocities if that gives ... | 2011/06/29 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/16130",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Guess, [Google Apps](http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/nonprofit/index.html) for non-profit organization will suits your needs. | I have no experience of [Church123](http://www.church123.com/welcome.htm), but they are trying to do what you want - keeping it simple. Whether you count it low cost ($370/year plus more for domain names) is your call. |
332,232 | I have a MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I wish to upgrade it to macOS Sierra, but it requires at-least OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 which is not available anymore in the App Store.
Is there any other way to update the OS? | 2018/07/28 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332232",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/297008/"
] | I figured out I can still download El Capitan so should solve the problem. | If you aren't specifically looking to run macOS Sierra, Apple recommends upgrading to macOS High Sierra.
You can find the instructions to download and install macOS Sierra here:
[How to download macOS Sierra](https://support.apple.com/HT208202) |
191,693 | I am interested in studying abroad in America. I am currently doing a M.Sc. in Quantum Science and Technology in Germany and would like to start a Ph.D. in the same subject at one of the big American universities (MIT, Harvard, Caltech ...) after I've finished my degree. I noticed that every one of these programs has a... | 2022/12/16 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/191693",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/165922/"
] | This question's in a bit of a gray area in that the main answer is, as a comment points out: Whether you can skip any courses, requirements, or recommendations tends to vary on a program-by-program basis. You'll need to contact Departments individually if this is a serious consideration.
To add a quick anecdote that m... | You would transfer classes you already took in Germany into the program at the US. Rules for transferring are specific to the university and will depend on the class you took and the class you want to transfer. There are also rules about the amount of classes (credit units) you are allowed to transfer into a program.
... |
191,693 | I am interested in studying abroad in America. I am currently doing a M.Sc. in Quantum Science and Technology in Germany and would like to start a Ph.D. in the same subject at one of the big American universities (MIT, Harvard, Caltech ...) after I've finished my degree. I noticed that every one of these programs has a... | 2022/12/16 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/191693",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/165922/"
] | Most US doctoral students start with only a bachelors. Few require a masters at any point, though many make one available along the way, sometimes just by filing paperwork and sometimes by writing a masters thesis (my case).
Actual requirements vary. In my doctoral program (math, but long ago), there were only two req... | You would transfer classes you already took in Germany into the program at the US. Rules for transferring are specific to the university and will depend on the class you took and the class you want to transfer. There are also rules about the amount of classes (credit units) you are allowed to transfer into a program.
... |
191,693 | I am interested in studying abroad in America. I am currently doing a M.Sc. in Quantum Science and Technology in Germany and would like to start a Ph.D. in the same subject at one of the big American universities (MIT, Harvard, Caltech ...) after I've finished my degree. I noticed that every one of these programs has a... | 2022/12/16 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/191693",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/165922/"
] | This question's in a bit of a gray area in that the main answer is, as a comment points out: Whether you can skip any courses, requirements, or recommendations tends to vary on a program-by-program basis. You'll need to contact Departments individually if this is a serious consideration.
To add a quick anecdote that m... | Most US doctoral students start with only a bachelors. Few require a masters at any point, though many make one available along the way, sometimes just by filing paperwork and sometimes by writing a masters thesis (my case).
Actual requirements vary. In my doctoral program (math, but long ago), there were only two req... |
30,638,540 | I want to serialize several C++ objects into JSON, and deserialize them back. Obviously since C++ is lacking reflection, this can't be done automatically. I will need to somehow tell the serializer which data member goes into which JSON property.
I can do that with C++, but I'd rather use something like Protobuf's `me... | 2015/06/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/30638540",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/871910/"
] | You can simply use the JSON cpp or C files and use them as API. That is what I have done for my previous project. C++ does not come with inbuilt JSON support like JAVA.
So include the files and use the JSON function as APIs. You can build it separately and link it statically to your program. Go to the JSON home page f... | The ASN.1 tools from OSS Nokalva support JSON encoding rules for ASN.1 schemae.
You write an ASN.1 schema (protobufs schema are similar but inferior), compile it to whatever language you want (C++ in your case), and you get the bunch of classes that can serialise to/from JSON.
Not free I'm afraid.
ASN.1 is great -... |
37,114 | Think *action movie*. Think two heavily-armed men - one chasing the other over rooftops, down through buildings and into the mean streets of a crowded city. Think big guns, explosions and other loud noises. Think danger. Think high-octane thrills.
The scene fades, the noise ends and then we are seeing a child being ch... | 2018/06/21 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/37114",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/31570/"
] | I wouldn't call this innovative, just borrowing a technique from other walks of life.
**The Sandwich method**. You start with something they like, then something they might like less, then immediately follow up with something they like again.
So, take your chase scene. Start with bullets flying and things exploding. ... | Movies and books are different mediums. With a skillfully engineered scene, a movie director can deliver *enormous* amounts of information in seconds; a 30 second chase scene tells us all we need to know about good guy & bad guy & setting & time period & character. We don't need their names or a single word of dialogue... |
37,114 | Think *action movie*. Think two heavily-armed men - one chasing the other over rooftops, down through buildings and into the mean streets of a crowded city. Think big guns, explosions and other loud noises. Think danger. Think high-octane thrills.
The scene fades, the noise ends and then we are seeing a child being ch... | 2018/06/21 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/37114",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/31570/"
] | I wouldn't call this innovative, just borrowing a technique from other walks of life.
**The Sandwich method**. You start with something they like, then something they might like less, then immediately follow up with something they like again.
So, take your chase scene. Start with bullets flying and things exploding. ... | In the book I'm reading right now, [The Bone Clocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bone_Clocks), David Mitchell does an excellent job of giving background information without it feeling like an information dump. In the first section of the book, "A Hot Spell", he switches between the primary story and a background ... |
37,114 | Think *action movie*. Think two heavily-armed men - one chasing the other over rooftops, down through buildings and into the mean streets of a crowded city. Think big guns, explosions and other loud noises. Think danger. Think high-octane thrills.
The scene fades, the noise ends and then we are seeing a child being ch... | 2018/06/21 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/37114",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/31570/"
] | The least obtrusive way to deliver background information is to leave it out. ...for now.
You are painting an action scene with your words. Your goal is to keep the reader spellbound, excited and emotionally involved. This is no time to delve into the psychological roots of why the characters are fighting. One of the... | Movies and books are different mediums. With a skillfully engineered scene, a movie director can deliver *enormous* amounts of information in seconds; a 30 second chase scene tells us all we need to know about good guy & bad guy & setting & time period & character. We don't need their names or a single word of dialogue... |
37,114 | Think *action movie*. Think two heavily-armed men - one chasing the other over rooftops, down through buildings and into the mean streets of a crowded city. Think big guns, explosions and other loud noises. Think danger. Think high-octane thrills.
The scene fades, the noise ends and then we are seeing a child being ch... | 2018/06/21 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/37114",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/31570/"
] | The least obtrusive way to deliver background information is to leave it out. ...for now.
You are painting an action scene with your words. Your goal is to keep the reader spellbound, excited and emotionally involved. This is no time to delve into the psychological roots of why the characters are fighting. One of the... | In the book I'm reading right now, [The Bone Clocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bone_Clocks), David Mitchell does an excellent job of giving background information without it feeling like an information dump. In the first section of the book, "A Hot Spell", he switches between the primary story and a background ... |
37,114 | Think *action movie*. Think two heavily-armed men - one chasing the other over rooftops, down through buildings and into the mean streets of a crowded city. Think big guns, explosions and other loud noises. Think danger. Think high-octane thrills.
The scene fades, the noise ends and then we are seeing a child being ch... | 2018/06/21 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/37114",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/31570/"
] | Movies and books are different mediums. With a skillfully engineered scene, a movie director can deliver *enormous* amounts of information in seconds; a 30 second chase scene tells us all we need to know about good guy & bad guy & setting & time period & character. We don't need their names or a single word of dialogue... | In the book I'm reading right now, [The Bone Clocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bone_Clocks), David Mitchell does an excellent job of giving background information without it feeling like an information dump. In the first section of the book, "A Hot Spell", he switches between the primary story and a background ... |
1,244,619 | Our company has a handful of Mac users. I recently built a Winform application and now my main user is using a Mac. Is it possible to run this application on a Mac? What would have to be done to convert it? If it is too much, I may just rebuild it is asp.net as a web application.
Thanks in advance!
JCC | 2009/08/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1244619",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Maybe. Many .Net programs can be compiled with mono as well, winforms usually is not a problem, but some libraries (e. g. MS Office libraries for editing Excel files). I am not sure about VB, as mono coders mostly use C#, but you can analyse your code with the [Mono Migration Analyzer](http://mono-project.com/Moma) for... | Depending a bit on features and controls used, it may run on [Mono](http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page). Since you can run Mono on Windows as well it's rather easy to download and test it. |
1,244,619 | Our company has a handful of Mac users. I recently built a Winform application and now my main user is using a Mac. Is it possible to run this application on a Mac? What would have to be done to convert it? If it is too much, I may just rebuild it is asp.net as a web application.
Thanks in advance!
JCC | 2009/08/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1244619",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Depending a bit on features and controls used, it may run on [Mono](http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page). Since you can run Mono on Windows as well it's rather easy to download and test it. | Your basic options are (from least intrusive to most intrusive, from the point of view of a Mac user):
1. Convert it to a web app.
2. Run it on a Terminal Server and have them use Remote Desktop.
3. Run the application in a virtual machine (VMWare or Parallels) that is running Windows.
4. Try to get it running under M... |
1,244,619 | Our company has a handful of Mac users. I recently built a Winform application and now my main user is using a Mac. Is it possible to run this application on a Mac? What would have to be done to convert it? If it is too much, I may just rebuild it is asp.net as a web application.
Thanks in advance!
JCC | 2009/08/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1244619",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Maybe. Many .Net programs can be compiled with mono as well, winforms usually is not a problem, but some libraries (e. g. MS Office libraries for editing Excel files). I am not sure about VB, as mono coders mostly use C#, but you can analyse your code with the [Mono Migration Analyzer](http://mono-project.com/Moma) for... | Your basic options are (from least intrusive to most intrusive, from the point of view of a Mac user):
1. Convert it to a web app.
2. Run it on a Terminal Server and have them use Remote Desktop.
3. Run the application in a virtual machine (VMWare or Parallels) that is running Windows.
4. Try to get it running under M... |
148,200 | In my grammar book the following examples for present perfect continuous (PPC) are given:
Example no. 1:
>
> Is it raining?
>
> No, but the ground is wet.
>
> It'**s been** raining. ( = It **has been** ... )
>
>
>
In this example, it is **not raining any longer** at the present moment.
Example no. 2:
... | 2017/11/24 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/148200",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/64727/"
] | I believe that the phrase "in its purest form" is a translation of the Latin **"per se"** (by itself) or "not mixed with anything else." | The language of the texts suggests that the leadership provided by most people is ***adulterated*** by lesser things (self-interest, power-seeking, hypocrisy, or whatever). On the other hand, leadership that is not contaminated by these other things (and is therefore pure) consists of leading by setting an example.
No... |
3,726 | Martin Gardener was a great recreational mathematics expert and his column "Mathematical Games" is an all time hit. But is there any archive available online consisting of his articles (preferably in PDF format)? I searched online but I got only one or two articles in PDF format. | 2016/05/04 | [
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/3726",
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com",
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com/users/2891/"
] | About 20 of Martin Gardner's books are available. In print, in iBooks, in Kindle, and probably other sources. Is there some reason you cannot pay for them?
**added**
All the "Mathematical Games" columns from Scientific American: you can get them on one [CD](http://www.maa.org/press/books/martin-gardner-s-mathematic... | Not strictly an archive, but some related materials to Martin Gardner and his history can be found at <https://www.gathering4gardner.org/> |
3,726 | Martin Gardener was a great recreational mathematics expert and his column "Mathematical Games" is an all time hit. But is there any archive available online consisting of his articles (preferably in PDF format)? I searched online but I got only one or two articles in PDF format. | 2016/05/04 | [
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**added**
All the "Mathematical Games" columns from Scientific American: you can get them on one [CD](http://www.maa.org/press/books/martin-gardner-s-mathematic... | Try here: <https://z-lib.org/>
In this site, just by typing 'Martin Gardner', you'll find almost all the books and papers written by Gardner, in particular, all the 'Mathematical Games' articles published in 'Scientific American'. |
3,726 | Martin Gardener was a great recreational mathematics expert and his column "Mathematical Games" is an all time hit. But is there any archive available online consisting of his articles (preferably in PDF format)? I searched online but I got only one or two articles in PDF format. | 2016/05/04 | [
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/3726",
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com",
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com/users/2891/"
] | Not strictly an archive, but some related materials to Martin Gardner and his history can be found at <https://www.gathering4gardner.org/> | Try here: <https://z-lib.org/>
In this site, just by typing 'Martin Gardner', you'll find almost all the books and papers written by Gardner, in particular, all the 'Mathematical Games' articles published in 'Scientific American'. |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | Basically you should never find yourself in such a situation under normal circumstances. Tents are supposed to keep you warm, and not the other way round. If you are doing that more often then I'd say you have the wrong gear being used at the wrong place.
Yet, there may rise a situation when you need to do it, there ar... | First of all a tent is made from two thin layers of fabric, expecting it to have sufficient thermal efficiency to retain heat, even with the door closed is perhaps a bit ambitious. Any heat built up in the daytime will be long gone before it even gets to the wee hours. A tent is a shelter that keeps off the rain and th... |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | Basically you should never find yourself in such a situation under normal circumstances. Tents are supposed to keep you warm, and not the other way round. If you are doing that more often then I'd say you have the wrong gear being used at the wrong place.
Yet, there may rise a situation when you need to do it, there ar... | You can dig a hole then burn wood in it when it turns to coals put dirt back on it then tent over that believe me it works good |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | You don't.
The tent is not an insulated structure. It protects from the wind and the rain.
Inside your tent, you need insulation, such as a sleeping bag or warm clothes. That's what you warm up. A good trick to warm your sleeping bag is to fill a nalgene with boiling water, put it in a sock, and put that in your slee... | The question is how to ***quickly*** warm a tent.
Answer is: use the most efficient way to turn material into heat energy, which will speedily bring up the temperature in the tent.
I have used a fuel stove to warm the air inside the tent before, the draw back on this is that you need to bring extra fuel. This method... |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | I spent every night in my tent with temperatures between -15 °C to -35 °C. However, I only have a sleeping bag for +3 °C. This is how I keep myself warm anyway:
* I have a crappy foamy which I put inside my bag
* I put a huge pile of pine branches and ...
* ... a blanket on top of that underneath me
* I have 2 1-quar... | You can dig a hole then burn wood in it when it turns to coals put dirt back on it then tent over that believe me it works good |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | A lot of good and correct things have been said here. However I want to add something:
When I used to sleep in a tent, I took a UCO candle lantern (<http://www.amazon.de/Relags-UCO-Kerzenlaterne/dp/B0028BY9N8>) to give me light, but also heat. It works similar to the hot stone, but is much more safe and easy to operat... | You can dig a hole then burn wood in it when it turns to coals put dirt back on it then tent over that believe me it works good |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | One way I was taught in the uk armed forces (a very long time ago) was to use dry rocks.
Heat the rock in your camp fire, then carefully just before bed time, place the rock inside your shelter, the rock releases it's heat slowly and acts very much like a radiator producing a consistent source of dry heat.
A word of ... | You can dig a hole then burn wood in it when it turns to coals put dirt back on it then tent over that believe me it works good |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | To warm a tent, you need to produce more heat. There is a fun way to do this if you're sharing with another person. If this question is aimed at settling an argument with your girlfriend, I would definitely advocate this method. Other than generating more heat with your body, you could burn fossil fuels (risky, poisono... | You don't.
The tent is not an insulated structure. It protects from the wind and the rain.
Inside your tent, you need insulation, such as a sleeping bag or warm clothes. That's what you warm up. A good trick to warm your sleeping bag is to fill a nalgene with boiling water, put it in a sock, and put that in your slee... |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | One way I was taught in the uk armed forces (a very long time ago) was to use dry rocks.
Heat the rock in your camp fire, then carefully just before bed time, place the rock inside your shelter, the rock releases it's heat slowly and acts very much like a radiator producing a consistent source of dry heat.
A word of ... | First of all a tent is made from two thin layers of fabric, expecting it to have sufficient thermal efficiency to retain heat, even with the door closed is perhaps a bit ambitious. Any heat built up in the daytime will be long gone before it even gets to the wee hours. A tent is a shelter that keeps off the rain and th... |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
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] | First of all a tent is made from two thin layers of fabric, expecting it to have sufficient thermal efficiency to retain heat, even with the door closed is perhaps a bit ambitious. Any heat built up in the daytime will be long gone before it even gets to the wee hours. A tent is a shelter that keeps off the rain and th... | You don't.
The tent is not an insulated structure. It protects from the wind and the rain.
Inside your tent, you need insulation, such as a sleeping bag or warm clothes. That's what you warm up. A good trick to warm your sleeping bag is to fill a nalgene with boiling water, put it in a sock, and put that in your slee... |
6,753 | Some background links to Aravona's question [here](https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6748/how-to-clean-vomit-from-camping-gear). Basically I am her other half and over the course of the night the tent was opened many times. As people will know opening a tent in the wee hours of the morning will lose all the ... | 2014/09/15 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/6753",
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"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/3673/"
] | Basically you should never find yourself in such a situation under normal circumstances. Tents are supposed to keep you warm, and not the other way round. If you are doing that more often then I'd say you have the wrong gear being used at the wrong place.
Yet, there may rise a situation when you need to do it, there ar... | The question is how to ***quickly*** warm a tent.
Answer is: use the most efficient way to turn material into heat energy, which will speedily bring up the temperature in the tent.
I have used a fuel stove to warm the air inside the tent before, the draw back on this is that you need to bring extra fuel. This method... |
134,393 | Good day, I know very little about this topic and need some advice on where to start.
I have two Microsoft SQL production databases that I would like to replicate so that I can run my reporting on them instead of the production databases.
Question 1: Does it make sense to use replication for the above scenario?
Quest... | 2016/04/05 | [
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] | Transactional replication works well in this scenario for replicating your data to your reporting databases.
It's cheaper than availability groups as you can replicate back to your single server instance to create a reporting database, rather than having an availability group where you have to pay for a second licence... | It does make sense, actually it's a rather common scenario. Both servers have to be fully licensed.
Alternatively, with AGs, you can use read-only replica for reporting. It does have it's limitation (eg, you cannot modify schema to suit the reporting needs), not least being an enterprise-only feature (but not any more ... |
1,497,074 | What are the settings required to access network for those who dont have ADSL connection?
Thanks... | 2009/09/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1497074",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | If your network connection goes through a proxy to get out to the internet, you will need to set the proxy for the android emulator:
If using eclipse on windows,do the following:
Window -> Preferences -> Android -> Launch -> Default Emulator Options
-http-proxy="http://w.x.y.z:8080" | If your Computer has an internet connection your Emulator should also have an internet connection by default. It does not matter what kind of internet connection you have. |
135,595 | I am currently creating a Spacefaring Race that regularly travels between planetary systems in order to harvest resources, but due to the fact that the conditions required for them to Breed are fairly specific, they must regularly return to their homeworld in order to reproduce, in much the same way Salmon on Earth do.... | 2019/01/04 | [
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] | **Most likely not**
To simplify smell, a creature is taking in atoms or molecules into a sensor, and those atoms or molecules stimulate the sensor.
Searching the web it seems it's generally accepted that there are approximately 100,000 - 1,000,000 atoms per cubic meter in Space. Contrast this with Earth's atmosphere ... | Smelling is almost the exact same as tasting with your tongue and they are very closely linked. It happens because particles react with certain cells, and those cells send a signal telling you what you are tasting/smelling.
Because it's space, there's almost no particles to interact with. You also can't create a lower... |
135,595 | I am currently creating a Spacefaring Race that regularly travels between planetary systems in order to harvest resources, but due to the fact that the conditions required for them to Breed are fairly specific, they must regularly return to their homeworld in order to reproduce, in much the same way Salmon on Earth do.... | 2019/01/04 | [
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] | If I wanted to "smell" space I'd use a mass spectrometer
with such a long mean free path, smelling would be highly directional with all the limitations that implies (like line of sight) | Smelling is almost the exact same as tasting with your tongue and they are very closely linked. It happens because particles react with certain cells, and those cells send a signal telling you what you are tasting/smelling.
Because it's space, there's almost no particles to interact with. You also can't create a lower... |
135,595 | I am currently creating a Spacefaring Race that regularly travels between planetary systems in order to harvest resources, but due to the fact that the conditions required for them to Breed are fairly specific, they must regularly return to their homeworld in order to reproduce, in much the same way Salmon on Earth do.... | 2019/01/04 | [
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] | **Most likely not**
To simplify smell, a creature is taking in atoms or molecules into a sensor, and those atoms or molecules stimulate the sensor.
Searching the web it seems it's generally accepted that there are approximately 100,000 - 1,000,000 atoms per cubic meter in Space. Contrast this with Earth's atmosphere ... | There's a YT video of a former space station astronaut. Amongst the things he discusses is what he believes is the "smell" of outer space. Basically he said if you broke seal in the airlock before the space properly re-pressurized, you would smell "slightly burned meat." He explains why he thinks that odor is detected.... |
135,595 | I am currently creating a Spacefaring Race that regularly travels between planetary systems in order to harvest resources, but due to the fact that the conditions required for them to Breed are fairly specific, they must regularly return to their homeworld in order to reproduce, in much the same way Salmon on Earth do.... | 2019/01/04 | [
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] | **Most likely not**
To simplify smell, a creature is taking in atoms or molecules into a sensor, and those atoms or molecules stimulate the sensor.
Searching the web it seems it's generally accepted that there are approximately 100,000 - 1,000,000 atoms per cubic meter in Space. Contrast this with Earth's atmosphere ... | Believe it or not, there are aromatic molecules in space, and these molecules come in a number of fun flavors which vary depending on where you are. [There is a dust cloud near the center of our galaxy that contains ethyl formate, the same chemical that gives raspberries their smell](https://www.theguardian.com/science... |
135,595 | I am currently creating a Spacefaring Race that regularly travels between planetary systems in order to harvest resources, but due to the fact that the conditions required for them to Breed are fairly specific, they must regularly return to their homeworld in order to reproduce, in much the same way Salmon on Earth do.... | 2019/01/04 | [
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"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | **Most likely not**
To simplify smell, a creature is taking in atoms or molecules into a sensor, and those atoms or molecules stimulate the sensor.
Searching the web it seems it's generally accepted that there are approximately 100,000 - 1,000,000 atoms per cubic meter in Space. Contrast this with Earth's atmosphere ... | **You could have them smell the solar wind.**
<https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/what-is-the-solar-wind-made-of/>
>
> The solar wind is a stream of energetic particles ejected by the Sun.
> These include electrons and protons from hydrogen, along with atomic
> nuclei like helium, otherwise known as alpha particle... |
135,595 | I am currently creating a Spacefaring Race that regularly travels between planetary systems in order to harvest resources, but due to the fact that the conditions required for them to Breed are fairly specific, they must regularly return to their homeworld in order to reproduce, in much the same way Salmon on Earth do.... | 2019/01/04 | [
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] | If I wanted to "smell" space I'd use a mass spectrometer
with such a long mean free path, smelling would be highly directional with all the limitations that implies (like line of sight) | There's a YT video of a former space station astronaut. Amongst the things he discusses is what he believes is the "smell" of outer space. Basically he said if you broke seal in the airlock before the space properly re-pressurized, you would smell "slightly burned meat." He explains why he thinks that odor is detected.... |
135,595 | I am currently creating a Spacefaring Race that regularly travels between planetary systems in order to harvest resources, but due to the fact that the conditions required for them to Breed are fairly specific, they must regularly return to their homeworld in order to reproduce, in much the same way Salmon on Earth do.... | 2019/01/04 | [
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] | If I wanted to "smell" space I'd use a mass spectrometer
with such a long mean free path, smelling would be highly directional with all the limitations that implies (like line of sight) | Believe it or not, there are aromatic molecules in space, and these molecules come in a number of fun flavors which vary depending on where you are. [There is a dust cloud near the center of our galaxy that contains ethyl formate, the same chemical that gives raspberries their smell](https://www.theguardian.com/science... |
135,595 | I am currently creating a Spacefaring Race that regularly travels between planetary systems in order to harvest resources, but due to the fact that the conditions required for them to Breed are fairly specific, they must regularly return to their homeworld in order to reproduce, in much the same way Salmon on Earth do.... | 2019/01/04 | [
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] | If I wanted to "smell" space I'd use a mass spectrometer
with such a long mean free path, smelling would be highly directional with all the limitations that implies (like line of sight) | **You could have them smell the solar wind.**
<https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/what-is-the-solar-wind-made-of/>
>
> The solar wind is a stream of energetic particles ejected by the Sun.
> These include electrons and protons from hydrogen, along with atomic
> nuclei like helium, otherwise known as alpha particle... |
2,570,761 | Is there a way to sort Devexpress QuantumGrid rows on data from a different column other than the one whose header has been clicked? For example, when the header of column A is clicked the rows of the grid are sorted on the data from column B. Visually it should still appear that it is column A that has been sorted as ... | 2010/04/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2570761",
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] | @norgepaul you must check the [DevExpress Support Center](http://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/) for the questions related to the DevExress products, This site has thousands of answers and articles related to its products.
check theses links
* [Sorting by other field (when clicking header) in ExpressGrid 6](http... | I don't have DevExpress here to check, but i would look to see if there is a custom sort event. like OnCustomSort, where you get to decide whether a value or cell sorts higher or lower. I think you'll have the ability to know what rows are being compared, so you could look across to B cells, and make your own comparisi... |
39,684,411 | I am using the latest iOS platform and plugins in my cordova application. The app works fine on older versions of iOS but not on iOS 10. I am getting timeout error. Tried removing platform and adding again. Also created a fresh project. Still no luck. The app works fine on Android as well. | 2016/09/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/39684411",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6367129/"
] | I ran into the same Problem and apparently there is no fix at this time. Here is the current thread with this bug in the apple forum: <https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/64526> | This is a similar issue to this one : [Cordova whitelist iOS 10 SSL error: Failed to load resource: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39501523/cordova-whitelist-ios-10-ssl-error-failed-to-load-resource-an-ssl-error-has-oc)
I found that i... |
53,632 | Which of the following is correct to indicate a key signature change from D Major to G Major? [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GCaE.png) | 2017/02/21 | [
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] | I would say both of them are correct. I have seen many publications where key changes are written by first naturalizing all accidentals that are not required and then adding whatever additional accidentals are required (as in the second one). A publication that uses this convention is the G. Schirmir Library of Classic... | Actually, only the first is correct. Key signature indicators would never naturalize a note only to follow it immediately with a sharp. It would be permissible to naturalize just the C, though. |
53,632 | Which of the following is correct to indicate a key signature change from D Major to G Major? [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GCaE.png) | 2017/02/21 | [
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] | Neither is typical. It would be typical to first cancel the C sharp (or actually any accidentals that aren't at least as "strong" in the right "direction", so f sharp to f double sharp does not need a cancellation)
and then repeat the F sharp, like
[](https://i.stac... | Actually, only the first is correct. Key signature indicators would never naturalize a note only to follow it immediately with a sharp. It would be permissible to naturalize just the C, though. |
53,632 | Which of the following is correct to indicate a key signature change from D Major to G Major? [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GCaE.png) | 2017/02/21 | [
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] | I summarize from *Behind bars* by Elaine Gould ("The Definitive Guide to Music Notation", as its cover claims):
* **Traditional practice** cancels a key signature before a new one is created. There are slight variations, whether the cancelling happens before or after the bar line introducing the new signature as well ... | Actually, only the first is correct. Key signature indicators would never naturalize a note only to follow it immediately with a sharp. It would be permissible to naturalize just the C, though. |
53,632 | Which of the following is correct to indicate a key signature change from D Major to G Major? [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GCaE.png) | 2017/02/21 | [
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] | Neither is typical. It would be typical to first cancel the C sharp (or actually any accidentals that aren't at least as "strong" in the right "direction", so f sharp to f double sharp does not need a cancellation)
and then repeat the F sharp, like
[](https://i.stac... | I would say both of them are correct. I have seen many publications where key changes are written by first naturalizing all accidentals that are not required and then adding whatever additional accidentals are required (as in the second one). A publication that uses this convention is the G. Schirmir Library of Classic... |
53,632 | Which of the following is correct to indicate a key signature change from D Major to G Major? [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GCaE.png) | 2017/02/21 | [
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] | Neither is typical. It would be typical to first cancel the C sharp (or actually any accidentals that aren't at least as "strong" in the right "direction", so f sharp to f double sharp does not need a cancellation)
and then repeat the F sharp, like
[](https://i.stac... | I summarize from *Behind bars* by Elaine Gould ("The Definitive Guide to Music Notation", as its cover claims):
* **Traditional practice** cancels a key signature before a new one is created. There are slight variations, whether the cancelling happens before or after the bar line introducing the new signature as well ... |
8,325 | Why do some people say that biofuels are renewable energy source if producing biofuels requires nitrogen fertilizers that are produced from natural gas (and energy output of biofuels is less than that of burning natural gas directly)?
They also require phosphates which are scarce. | 2019/06/12 | [
"https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/questions/8325",
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] | They're called renewable because it's possible to do them in a renewable manner. Specifically, the energy in them comes from the sun, in a fairly short time span (i.e. years, rather than millennia or longer). So the original energy source is renewable, and the route from original source to usable power is short.
It is... | There are dozens of sources that say that ethanol from corn is not carbon neutral.
But then ethanol from sorghum is carbon neutral. And hydrogen from ethanol from sorghum might be carbon neutral.
Now sorghum can be grown in areas of 25" of annual rainfall without irrigation and doesn't need to be grown in corn-belt a... |
434,604 | Has the pronoun "me" been discarded from general usage? More and more, I hear people say something like, "He served pizza to my sister and I" or "Between you and I, that dinner was not very good." It seems the nominative is out of favor. | 2018/03/08 | [
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> Has the pronoun "me" been discarded from general usage?
>
>
>
Quite the contrary. In ordinary colloquial English object-form *me* has largely usurped the function of subject-form *I*. *I* is almost never encountered as a predicate these days—"It is I" is insufferably pompous—and is increasingly rare in conjun... | A construction such as *to my sister and I* is often rationalized as a [hypercorrection](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection#Personal_pronouns), the application of a grammar rule in the wrong context, the assumption being that having been taught to avoid something like:
>
> My sister and me went shopping.... |
434,604 | Has the pronoun "me" been discarded from general usage? More and more, I hear people say something like, "He served pizza to my sister and I" or "Between you and I, that dinner was not very good." It seems the nominative is out of favor. | 2018/03/08 | [
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> Has the pronoun "me" been discarded from general usage?
>
>
>
Quite the contrary. In ordinary colloquial English object-form *me* has largely usurped the function of subject-form *I*. *I* is almost never encountered as a predicate these days—"It is I" is insufferably pompous—and is increasingly rare in conjun... | You hear "between you and I" more and more these days because most people have no idea what is correct. You even hear professionals say, "Call the nurse and I." Or worse,"Call the doctor and myself," because people assume (Wrongly!) that me/myself/I are interchangeable.
They are not. They have their own specific uses.... |
434,604 | Has the pronoun "me" been discarded from general usage? More and more, I hear people say something like, "He served pizza to my sister and I" or "Between you and I, that dinner was not very good." It seems the nominative is out of favor. | 2018/03/08 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/434604",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/285689/"
] | A construction such as *to my sister and I* is often rationalized as a [hypercorrection](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection#Personal_pronouns), the application of a grammar rule in the wrong context, the assumption being that having been taught to avoid something like:
>
> My sister and me went shopping.... | You hear "between you and I" more and more these days because most people have no idea what is correct. You even hear professionals say, "Call the nurse and I." Or worse,"Call the doctor and myself," because people assume (Wrongly!) that me/myself/I are interchangeable.
They are not. They have their own specific uses.... |
45,438 | C.W Lewis's Narnia and J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-Earth series all had creation myths for their characters to believe.
I want to have a go for one of my projects but I'm stuck.
I would like suggestions, What do creation myths involve? What themes do I need to remember to put into one? | 2016/06/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/45438",
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] | Creation myths need to include an idea of the structure of the world - its size, the sky, the seas - who made it, and how. The why isn't usually important, it's assumed that creating worlds is what creators *do*.
The Wikipedia articles on [Creation Myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth) and [List of Creati... | Think about what you want the creators to be? are they(he) good? bad? smart? stupid? creative? boring? mischievous? cleaver? What do they value? Your creation story should be written in such a way that it helps the reader understand the creators.
As a side I try to create worlds with multiple creation stories (each on... |
45,438 | C.W Lewis's Narnia and J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-Earth series all had creation myths for their characters to believe.
I want to have a go for one of my projects but I'm stuck.
I would like suggestions, What do creation myths involve? What themes do I need to remember to put into one? | 2016/06/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/45438",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/22153/"
] | Creation myths need to include an idea of the structure of the world - its size, the sky, the seas - who made it, and how. The why isn't usually important, it's assumed that creating worlds is what creators *do*.
The Wikipedia articles on [Creation Myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth) and [List of Creati... | Before you do this, you need to make some basic determinations about your world.
Is it flat or is it a sphere (or something else entirely)? Is the sun a ball of plasma and gas or a great crystal in the sky? Is the sun the center of the universe or does the universe centered on your world?
All of these questions and ... |
45,438 | C.W Lewis's Narnia and J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-Earth series all had creation myths for their characters to believe.
I want to have a go for one of my projects but I'm stuck.
I would like suggestions, What do creation myths involve? What themes do I need to remember to put into one? | 2016/06/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/45438",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/22153/"
] | Creation myths need to include an idea of the structure of the world - its size, the sky, the seas - who made it, and how. The why isn't usually important, it's assumed that creating worlds is what creators *do*.
The Wikipedia articles on [Creation Myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth) and [List of Creati... | The examples you give are not creation myths as such, they are background stories for the setting written in the format of a creation myth. So you you should write, design, and use them as any other background story you give to characters, places, or important factions, but using mythological language and conventions.
... |
45,438 | C.W Lewis's Narnia and J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-Earth series all had creation myths for their characters to believe.
I want to have a go for one of my projects but I'm stuck.
I would like suggestions, What do creation myths involve? What themes do I need to remember to put into one? | 2016/06/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/45438",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/22153/"
] | Creation myths need to include an idea of the structure of the world - its size, the sky, the seas - who made it, and how. The why isn't usually important, it's assumed that creating worlds is what creators *do*.
The Wikipedia articles on [Creation Myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth) and [List of Creati... | Creation myths also, sometimes, have a kernel of truth to them.
You have an incident, you tell your friend about it, he tells others, if it's a funny/sad/romantic etc enough story it is turned into a tale or a song sung through the centuries. Then you have people forgetting parts and adding extra verses. Someone come... |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | For most implementations of a hash, you'd need to synchronize. What if the hash table needs to be expanded/rehashed? What if two threads are trying to add something to the hash table where the keys are different, but the hashes collide? They could both be modifying the same slot in the hash table in different ways at t... | As long as the cost for acquiring and releasing a lock is less than the cost for recreating the object (from a file or database or whatever) all accesses to a cache should indeed be synchronized. If it’s not you don’t really need a cache at all. :) |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | Writes aren't always atomic. You must either use atomic data types or provide some synchronization (RCU, locks etc.). No shared data is thread-safe per se. Or make this go away by sticking to lock-free algorithms (that is, where possible and feasible). | As long as the cost for acquiring and releasing a lock is less than the cost for recreating the object (from a file or database or whatever) all accesses to a cache should indeed be synchronized. If it’s not you don’t really need a cache at all. :) |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | As long as the cost for acquiring and releasing a lock is less than the cost for recreating the object (from a file or database or whatever) all accesses to a cache should indeed be synchronized. If it’s not you don’t really need a cache at all. :) | If you are using Java 5 or above you can use a ConcurrentHashMap. This supports multiple readers and writers in a threadsafe manner. |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | For most implementations of a hash, you'd need to synchronize. What if the hash table needs to be expanded/rehashed? What if two threads are trying to add something to the hash table where the keys are different, but the hashes collide? They could both be modifying the same slot in the hash table in different ways at t... | Writes aren't always atomic. You must either use atomic data types or provide some synchronization (RCU, locks etc.). No shared data is thread-safe per se. Or make this go away by sticking to lock-free algorithms (that is, where possible and feasible). |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | For most implementations of a hash, you'd need to synchronize. What if the hash table needs to be expanded/rehashed? What if two threads are trying to add something to the hash table where the keys are different, but the hashes collide? They could both be modifying the same slot in the hash table in different ways at t... | If you want to avoid data corruption, you must synchronize. This is especially true when the cache contains multiple tables that must be updated atomically. Imagine you have a database for a DMV (department of motor vehicles). You add a new person to the database, that person will have records for auto registrations pl... |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | For most implementations of a hash, you'd need to synchronize. What if the hash table needs to be expanded/rehashed? What if two threads are trying to add something to the hash table where the keys are different, but the hashes collide? They could both be modifying the same slot in the hash table in different ways at t... | If you are using Java 5 or above you can use a ConcurrentHashMap. This supports multiple readers and writers in a threadsafe manner. |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | Writes aren't always atomic. You must either use atomic data types or provide some synchronization (RCU, locks etc.). No shared data is thread-safe per se. Or make this go away by sticking to lock-free algorithms (that is, where possible and feasible). | If you want to avoid data corruption, you must synchronize. This is especially true when the cache contains multiple tables that must be updated atomically. Imagine you have a database for a DMV (department of motor vehicles). You add a new person to the database, that person will have records for auto registrations pl... |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | Writes aren't always atomic. You must either use atomic data types or provide some synchronization (RCU, locks etc.). No shared data is thread-safe per se. Or make this go away by sticking to lock-free algorithms (that is, where possible and feasible). | If you are using Java 5 or above you can use a ConcurrentHashMap. This supports multiple readers and writers in a threadsafe manner. |
497,063 | This seems like perhaps a naive question, but I got into a discussion with a co-worker where I argued that there is no real need for a cache to be thread-safe/synchronized as I would assume that it does not matter who is putting in a value, as the value for a given key should be "constant" (in that it is coming from th... | 2009/01/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/497063",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/22752/"
] | If you want to avoid data corruption, you must synchronize. This is especially true when the cache contains multiple tables that must be updated atomically. Imagine you have a database for a DMV (department of motor vehicles). You add a new person to the database, that person will have records for auto registrations pl... | If you are using Java 5 or above you can use a ConcurrentHashMap. This supports multiple readers and writers in a threadsafe manner. |
24,631 | I'm starting to go through the book "freedom of the hills". Somewhere in the initial pages, it states that a climbing party must consist of a minimum of three members. A bit later it states that during glacier travel, there should be a minimum of two rope teams.
Near the end of the first chapter, in the subsection "G... | 2020/01/06 | [
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> A bit later it states that during glacier travel, there should be a minimum of two rope teams.
>
>
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Is there any explanation why there should be 2 teams? The only case where this makes really sense is that a whole team falls into a crevasse. This must not happen under any circumstances.
If the idea is that ... | You are not going to like the answer, but a 5 member team should recruit a 6th person. I think 3 people per rope is ideal. 4 people always seems like too many and 2 people makes stopping a fall really hard. A one person rope team is not a rope team.
The way I would break things down:
1 person - Find more people to cl... |
24,631 | I'm starting to go through the book "freedom of the hills". Somewhere in the initial pages, it states that a climbing party must consist of a minimum of three members. A bit later it states that during glacier travel, there should be a minimum of two rope teams.
Near the end of the first chapter, in the subsection "G... | 2020/01/06 | [
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] | You are not going to like the answer, but a 5 member team should recruit a 6th person. I think 3 people per rope is ideal. 4 people always seems like too many and 2 people makes stopping a fall really hard. A one person rope team is not a rope team.
The way I would break things down:
1 person - Find more people to cl... | I went ahead and fished out my copy of [Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills](https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/mountaineering-the-freedom-of-the-hills-9th-edition-1), which happens to be the 50th anniversary 8th edition.
The reason there isn't much detail in the list you quote is that it's in the primer ch... |
24,631 | I'm starting to go through the book "freedom of the hills". Somewhere in the initial pages, it states that a climbing party must consist of a minimum of three members. A bit later it states that during glacier travel, there should be a minimum of two rope teams.
Near the end of the first chapter, in the subsection "G... | 2020/01/06 | [
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> A bit later it states that during glacier travel, there should be a minimum of two rope teams.
>
>
>
Is there any explanation why there should be 2 teams? The only case where this makes really sense is that a whole team falls into a crevasse. This must not happen under any circumstances.
If the idea is that ... | I went ahead and fished out my copy of [Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills](https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/mountaineering-the-freedom-of-the-hills-9th-edition-1), which happens to be the 50th anniversary 8th edition.
The reason there isn't much detail in the list you quote is that it's in the primer ch... |
24,631 | I'm starting to go through the book "freedom of the hills". Somewhere in the initial pages, it states that a climbing party must consist of a minimum of three members. A bit later it states that during glacier travel, there should be a minimum of two rope teams.
Near the end of the first chapter, in the subsection "G... | 2020/01/06 | [
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"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com",
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/users/17115/"
] | >
> A bit later it states that during glacier travel, there should be a minimum of two rope teams.
>
>
>
Is there any explanation why there should be 2 teams? The only case where this makes really sense is that a whole team falls into a crevasse. This must not happen under any circumstances.
If the idea is that ... | I would not agree that 4 members is a bad number. Having 4 roped together during glacier travel with the risk of creavasses is still quite good and not much worse than 3 but if things become more technical (with the need for belaying) they can split into two parties of two which is the ideal number for climbing with be... |
24,631 | I'm starting to go through the book "freedom of the hills". Somewhere in the initial pages, it states that a climbing party must consist of a minimum of three members. A bit later it states that during glacier travel, there should be a minimum of two rope teams.
Near the end of the first chapter, in the subsection "G... | 2020/01/06 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/24631",
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] | I would not agree that 4 members is a bad number. Having 4 roped together during glacier travel with the risk of creavasses is still quite good and not much worse than 3 but if things become more technical (with the need for belaying) they can split into two parties of two which is the ideal number for climbing with be... | I went ahead and fished out my copy of [Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills](https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/mountaineering-the-freedom-of-the-hills-9th-edition-1), which happens to be the 50th anniversary 8th edition.
The reason there isn't much detail in the list you quote is that it's in the primer ch... |
7,385,357 | I want to find out what win message is / are sent when we change the locale settings, Date Time and Language in particular.
I know when window Theme is changed we receive WM\_THEMECHANGED. | 2011/09/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7385357",
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] | [WM\_SETTINGSCHANGE](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725497%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) for locale settings and [WM\_TIMECHANGE](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725498%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) for time changes.
You will get [WM\_INPUTLANGCHANGEREQUEST](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632630%28v=vs.85%29... | [WM\_TIMECHANGE](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725498%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) is sent whenever system time is changed.
[WM\_SETTINGCHANGE](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725497%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) is also sent upon change of some modifications. However, it's done on a volunteer base by the app that ch... |
85,626 | Looking at signing up for <http://www.opendns.com/start/> but was hoping someone who has used it can shed some light.
Basically, where privacy is concered, OpenDNS will know each and every website you go to correct?
Do they have access to all the data that is transfered also or just the domain/ip's you visit? | 2009/12/20 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/85626",
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] | I've used OpenDNS and really like it. DNS is basically just a phonebook service for URLs. You give it a url (well, domain name) and it gives you back the IP address. That does mean OpenDNS will have knowledge of every domain you've visited, but right now your ISP does so it's just shifting who knows that information. T... | DNS is a little like a phone book - you use it for lookups, but your data does not pass through them. So it would just be the latter. There's a load of decent public DNS servers as an alternative, or you could run our own- the main advantage of OpenDNS is their filtering system IMO |
85,626 | Looking at signing up for <http://www.opendns.com/start/> but was hoping someone who has used it can shed some light.
Basically, where privacy is concered, OpenDNS will know each and every website you go to correct?
Do they have access to all the data that is transfered also or just the domain/ip's you visit? | 2009/12/20 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/85626",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/3183/"
] | I've used OpenDNS and really like it. DNS is basically just a phonebook service for URLs. You give it a url (well, domain name) and it gives you back the IP address. That does mean OpenDNS will have knowledge of every domain you've visited, but right now your ISP does so it's just shifting who knows that information. T... | This question is about **OpenDNS**, but since Google (also) offers a competing service, it might also help to understand *their* DNS resolution "product":
from <https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/>
>
> The DNS protocol is an important part of the web's infrastructure,
> serving as **the Internet's phone... |
3,866 | There's a [work](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/work "show questions tagged 'work'") tag. Looks like it was missed in the [Posse request: jobs/career/etc. tag cleanup](https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1963/posse-request-jobs-career-etc-tag-cleanup)
Burninate/... | 2012/08/03 | [
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] | I have gone through and re-tagged the closed questions and put more appropriate tags where possible. I have also re-tagged a few of the questions that didn't really need improvement.
Will work on looking at the other questions in the list and editing/tagging/flagging where appropriate, and try not to spam the home pag... | All questions have been retagged or destroyed. |
19,740,180 | What I mean is, if I want to compile and distribute my program, do I have to include folders in the download that have the images and then link a relative path to those folders in my code? Or if I include the images as a resource, is their data saved in the machine code of the program, allowing me to just handout out a... | 2013/11/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/19740180",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2813824/"
] | [Resources](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_%28Windows%29) are embedded into the EXE / DLL.
* [MSDN: Using Resources](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms648008%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) | Windows uses a resource section so technically its not part of the machine code, it just handled elsewhere within the exe.
Resource compilation is by default unconditional ( opposed to some compiler/linker settings when code only gets compiled/linked when it's used ) so if you specify the binary file as a resource the ... |
185,533 | I've been looking at the [DropBox](http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=mac) Mac client and I'm currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service.
How exactly do they interface with finder like this? I highly doubt these objects represented in the folder are actual documents downloaded on... | 2008/10/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/185533",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3415/"
] | Dropbox is likely using [FSEvents](http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/FSEvents_Ref/FSEvents/index.html) to watch for changes to the file system. It's a great API and can even bundle up changes that happened while your app was not running. It's the same API that Spotlight uses. The menubar app lik... | To me it feels like a heavily modified revision control system. It has all the features: updates files based on deltas, options to recover or restore old revisions of files. It almost feels like they are using git ([GitFS](http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/gitfs/)?), or some filesystem they designed. |
185,533 | I've been looking at the [DropBox](http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=mac) Mac client and I'm currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service.
How exactly do they interface with finder like this? I highly doubt these objects represented in the folder are actual documents downloaded on... | 2008/10/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/185533",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3415/"
] | Dropbox is not powered by either MacFUSE or WebDAV, although those might be perfectly fine solutions for what you're trying to accomplish.
If it were powered by those things, it wouldn't work when you weren't connected, as both of those rely on the server to store the actual information and Dropbox does not. If I quit... | Dropbox on the client is written in python.
The client seems to use a sqlite3 database to index files.
I suppose Dropobox split a file in chunks, to reduce bandwith usage.
By the way, it two people has the same file, even if they do not know each other, the server can optimize and avoid to transfer the file more time... |
185,533 | I've been looking at the [DropBox](http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=mac) Mac client and I'm currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service.
How exactly do they interface with finder like this? I highly doubt these objects represented in the folder are actual documents downloaded on... | 2008/10/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/185533",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3415/"
] | Two suggestions:
* [MacFUSE](http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/)
* [WebDAV](http://www.webdav.org/)
The former will allow you to write an app that appears as a filesystem and does all the right things; the latter will allow you move everything server-side and let the user just mount your service as a file share. | Dropbox on the client is written in python.
The client seems to use a sqlite3 database to index files.
I suppose Dropobox split a file in chunks, to reduce bandwith usage.
By the way, it two people has the same file, even if they do not know each other, the server can optimize and avoid to transfer the file more time... |
185,533 | I've been looking at the [DropBox](http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=mac) Mac client and I'm currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service.
How exactly do they interface with finder like this? I highly doubt these objects represented in the folder are actual documents downloaded on... | 2008/10/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/185533",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3415/"
] | Two suggestions:
* [MacFUSE](http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/)
* [WebDAV](http://www.webdav.org/)
The former will allow you to write an app that appears as a filesystem and does all the right things; the latter will allow you move everything server-side and let the user just mount your service as a file share. | To me it feels like a heavily modified revision control system. It has all the features: updates files based on deltas, options to recover or restore old revisions of files. It almost feels like they are using git ([GitFS](http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/gitfs/)?), or some filesystem they designed. |
185,533 | I've been looking at the [DropBox](http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=mac) Mac client and I'm currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service.
How exactly do they interface with finder like this? I highly doubt these objects represented in the folder are actual documents downloaded on... | 2008/10/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/185533",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3415/"
] | Dropbox is likely using [FSEvents](http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/FSEvents_Ref/FSEvents/index.html) to watch for changes to the file system. It's a great API and can even bundle up changes that happened while your app was not running. It's the same API that Spotlight uses. The menubar app lik... | Dropbox on the client is written in python.
The client seems to use a sqlite3 database to index files.
I suppose Dropobox split a file in chunks, to reduce bandwith usage.
By the way, it two people has the same file, even if they do not know each other, the server can optimize and avoid to transfer the file more time... |
185,533 | I've been looking at the [DropBox](http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=mac) Mac client and I'm currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service.
How exactly do they interface with finder like this? I highly doubt these objects represented in the folder are actual documents downloaded on... | 2008/10/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/185533",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3415/"
] | Dropbox is not powered by either MacFUSE or WebDAV, although those might be perfectly fine solutions for what you're trying to accomplish.
If it were powered by those things, it wouldn't work when you weren't connected, as both of those rely on the server to store the actual information and Dropbox does not. If I quit... | Dropbox is likely using [FSEvents](http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/FSEvents_Ref/FSEvents/index.html) to watch for changes to the file system. It's a great API and can even bundle up changes that happened while your app was not running. It's the same API that Spotlight uses. The menubar app lik... |
185,533 | I've been looking at the [DropBox](http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=mac) Mac client and I'm currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service.
How exactly do they interface with finder like this? I highly doubt these objects represented in the folder are actual documents downloaded on... | 2008/10/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/185533",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3415/"
] | Dropbox is not powered by either MacFUSE or WebDAV, although those might be perfectly fine solutions for what you're trying to accomplish.
If it were powered by those things, it wouldn't work when you weren't connected, as both of those rely on the server to store the actual information and Dropbox does not. If I quit... | Two suggestions:
* [MacFUSE](http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/)
* [WebDAV](http://www.webdav.org/)
The former will allow you to write an app that appears as a filesystem and does all the right things; the latter will allow you move everything server-side and let the user just mount your service as a file share. |
128,189 | Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended version, but I would rathe... | 2019/04/15 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/128189",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Your feelings and the journal citation rules might not align the way you want them to be. Therefore, I suggest you stick with the accepted norms and go with author a et al., even if it is an informal conversation or blog.
Using any author other than the first author in citation would not only do injustice to that auth... | Not enough reputation to comment, hence writing as answer.
The other answers didn't address the "I've also only communicated with author D." part.
If that personal communication yielded information that is not in the paper, you can cite (in addition to the paper) "D: Personal Communication". |
128,189 | Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended version, but I would rathe... | 2019/04/15 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/128189",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The only situation when this is common is if you're referring to multiple papers at once. However, even then you'd probably want to use formal citations in parentheses (like mentioned by LarrySnyder):
*LAST AUTHOR et al. have done a lot of work showing phenomenon X (AUTHOR A et al., year; AUTHOR B et al., year).* | When using citations in an informal text, one often refers to papers in the form (Author A *et al.*, 2018) mainly **to make it easy for the reader to know which paper is being addressed** without the need to scroll to the end and see the full list of citations (which you should always include, be it a blog post, Powerp... |
128,189 | Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended version, but I would rathe... | 2019/04/15 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/128189",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | When using citations in an informal text, one often refers to papers in the form (Author A *et al.*, 2018) mainly **to make it easy for the reader to know which paper is being addressed** without the need to scroll to the end and see the full list of citations (which you should always include, be it a blog post, Powerp... | It just isn't that much work to name everyone. Think of all the work all the authors put into that paper. We can all afford to spend one extra second reading all of their names. And that extra second might make someone recognize the name on a file and result in someone getting a job they otherwise wouldn't have. There'... |
128,189 | Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended version, but I would rathe... | 2019/04/15 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/128189",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I think in an informal medium like a blog post, you could convey that author D is the main character in the “story” you are trying to tell while still maintaining proper citation standards by saying something like, “Author D and his/her colleagues (Author A, et al., 2018) have shown that...” | Not enough reputation to comment, hence writing as answer.
The other answers didn't address the "I've also only communicated with author D." part.
If that personal communication yielded information that is not in the paper, you can cite (in addition to the paper) "D: Personal Communication". |
128,189 | Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended version, but I would rathe... | 2019/04/15 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/128189",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I think in an informal medium like a blog post, you could convey that author D is the main character in the “story” you are trying to tell while still maintaining proper citation standards by saying something like, “Author D and his/her colleagues (Author A, et al., 2018) have shown that...” | When using citations in an informal text, one often refers to papers in the form (Author A *et al.*, 2018) mainly **to make it easy for the reader to know which paper is being addressed** without the need to scroll to the end and see the full list of citations (which you should always include, be it a blog post, Powerp... |
128,189 | Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended version, but I would rathe... | 2019/04/15 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/128189",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I think in an informal medium like a blog post, you could convey that author D is the main character in the “story” you are trying to tell while still maintaining proper citation standards by saying something like, “Author D and his/her colleagues (Author A, et al., 2018) have shown that...” | The only situation when this is common is if you're referring to multiple papers at once. However, even then you'd probably want to use formal citations in parentheses (like mentioned by LarrySnyder):
*LAST AUTHOR et al. have done a lot of work showing phenomenon X (AUTHOR A et al., year; AUTHOR B et al., year).* |
128,189 | Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended version, but I would rathe... | 2019/04/15 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/128189",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Not enough reputation to comment, hence writing as answer.
The other answers didn't address the "I've also only communicated with author D." part.
If that personal communication yielded information that is not in the paper, you can cite (in addition to the paper) "D: Personal Communication". | When using citations in an informal text, one often refers to papers in the form (Author A *et al.*, 2018) mainly **to make it easy for the reader to know which paper is being addressed** without the need to scroll to the end and see the full list of citations (which you should always include, be it a blog post, Powerp... |
128,189 | Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended version, but I would rathe... | 2019/04/15 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/128189",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The only situation when this is common is if you're referring to multiple papers at once. However, even then you'd probably want to use formal citations in parentheses (like mentioned by LarrySnyder):
*LAST AUTHOR et al. have done a lot of work showing phenomenon X (AUTHOR A et al., year; AUTHOR B et al., year).* | Not enough reputation to comment, hence writing as answer.
The other answers didn't address the "I've also only communicated with author D." part.
If that personal communication yielded information that is not in the paper, you can cite (in addition to the paper) "D: Personal Communication". |
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