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508 | It is very tempting to assign extra credit problems that are (a) substantially more difficult than others on the problem set, (b) ask for the history of something we discussed in class, or (c) are related to something just barely outside of the scope of the class.
However, I have never done so because, in my experience, very few professors give extra credit.
* **Why do so few professors assign extra credit (or is this not the case)?**
* **What are the arguments against assigning extra credit problems?** | 2014/03/19 | [
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> **Why do so few professors assign extra credit?**
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In my experience, the attitude towards extra credit is consistent throughout the department. Nearly every professor in the education department at my university puts extra credit questions on the test, but only a few in the math department do. After chatting with other students and professors, this seems to be common in other universities as well.
According to [this article on Faculty Focus](http://www.facultyfocus.com/seminars/extra-credit-an-undeserved-gift-or-a-second-chance-to-learn/), *of the 362 people who answered the question “Do you give extra credit?” 42 percent said sometimes, 31 percent said often and 27 percent said never.* While this doesn't give a breakdown of what type of extra credit, it's interesting to see that 73% of respondents give extra credit at least some of the time.
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> **What are the arguments against assigning extra credit problems?**
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From [an article on that seminar](http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/does-extra-credit-have-a-place-in-the-college-classroom/):
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> According to Weimer, some instructors oppose extra credit because they believe that:
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> * It reinforces students’ beliefs that they don’t have to work hard because whatever they miss they can make up with extra credit.
> * Students who ask for extra credit tend to be those who aren’t working very hard — or those who hope they won’t have to work hard — because some easy extra credit options will be available to them.
> * Time spent on extra credit means less time spent on regular assignments.
> * Extra credit (especially if it’s easy) lowers academic standards.
> * It’s inherently unfair to students who work hard and get it done right the first time.
> * It means more work for already busy teachers.
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**But I disagree with those issues!**
I like giving extra credit problems. I believe extra credit problems that are significantly more difficult and require more analytic thinking on the part of the student are fantastic as long as they're used properly. If you're planning on using extra credit problems, consider what you're trying to achieve by providing those problems. Personally, I want to use extra credit to separate the best students and provide those who have worked extremely hard to understand the concepts some leeway on simple mistakes.
* **Don't weigh them too heavily** - Extra credit should give a good student some extra points to offset "stupid" mistakes but not allow a student to pass without understanding the basics.
* **Do make them difficult** - You're not giving away free points. You want to reward students who understand the concepts you've taught them above and beyond what is required.
* **Do put them at the end and label them properly** - It would be terrible for a student to get stuck on the more difficult extra credit and not have time to finish the main problems in a test. | I dislike "extra credit" for many reasons, many of which have been mentioned already. But mostly, I think that the argument of *Students like bonus problems...I think they [with the reward of extra credit] encourage doing more than was necessary while studying* (which I believe to be roughly the standard argument, but this is (essentially) a quote from Tim Seguine in the comments) just isn't good enough. In the real world money is not the only motivation, and I would not like it if, for example, the police force was driven by money rather than a desire to make where I live a safe place. Similarly, if we replace "money" with "final grade" then I do not think it is healthy to motivate students solely by their final grade. I believe an alternative motivation can and should be used in place of "extra credit". For example: Chocolate.
More concretely, I tell my students that if they can find an error in my notes or in my problem sheets then they should come to my office and I will reward them with chocolate (in their answer, vonbrand says that they reward this with extra credit). This means that they can argue all they like about whether or not they deserve chocolate (they point out the errors, but they do it in lectures!), but ultimately the arguments are in good humour as they are arguing over...a piece of chocolate. Additional "extra credit" questions which are meant to motivate the students now become competitions where the winners get, say, a not-quite-the-cheapest box of chocolates. Now, because the rewards are chocolate everything is fun while the students remain motivated (well, enough of them remain motivated to keep me happy), so this all adds to the student experience. I believe that if I replaced "chocolate" with "extra credit" then there would be no improvement in the student's grasping of the subject and I would enjoy lecturing *much* less. |
508 | It is very tempting to assign extra credit problems that are (a) substantially more difficult than others on the problem set, (b) ask for the history of something we discussed in class, or (c) are related to something just barely outside of the scope of the class.
However, I have never done so because, in my experience, very few professors give extra credit.
* **Why do so few professors assign extra credit (or is this not the case)?**
* **What are the arguments against assigning extra credit problems?** | 2014/03/19 | [
"https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/508",
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**Student:** *I got 88% overall, I think I deserve an A.*
**Teacher:** *But lots of other students got 90's by answering extra credit.*
Here the grade without extra credit is being compared against a standard of grades with extra credit. So the credit was not "extra" at all, but just a badly-labeled part of the class.
To avoid this, keep two sets of grade books, and don't look at the one with extra credit until you've set grade cutoffs from the one without extra credit.
Or, more easily and more transparently, don't give extra credit at all. Your suggestions a, b, and c sound good for short required written assignments. | I give extra credits routinely, mostly to reward not-asked-for work (point out an error in the class notes, suggest an interesting alternative solution for an exam or homework problem, ...) and sometimes for extra homework assigned. In my (by now extensive) experience, students who go the mile to get extra credit would get good or outstanding grades even without the extra points. A very few of those hanging in the balance get over the bump by this, but then they have shown enough insight to merit a passing grade.
In exams I asign a few extra points, but not a problem marked specially. That gives some leeway for mistakes and still getting a perfect score. My exams are typically a fairly simple, general question ("do you even know what we are talking about?") and the remainder several more difficult problems covering the material about evenly. Sometimes questions have a "bonus track" part, if it makes sense to look somewhat further. |
508 | It is very tempting to assign extra credit problems that are (a) substantially more difficult than others on the problem set, (b) ask for the history of something we discussed in class, or (c) are related to something just barely outside of the scope of the class.
However, I have never done so because, in my experience, very few professors give extra credit.
* **Why do so few professors assign extra credit (or is this not the case)?**
* **What are the arguments against assigning extra credit problems?** | 2014/03/19 | [
"https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/508",
"https://matheducators.stackexchange.com",
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More concretely, I tell my students that if they can find an error in my notes or in my problem sheets then they should come to my office and I will reward them with chocolate (in their answer, vonbrand says that they reward this with extra credit). This means that they can argue all they like about whether or not they deserve chocolate (they point out the errors, but they do it in lectures!), but ultimately the arguments are in good humour as they are arguing over...a piece of chocolate. Additional "extra credit" questions which are meant to motivate the students now become competitions where the winners get, say, a not-quite-the-cheapest box of chocolates. Now, because the rewards are chocolate everything is fun while the students remain motivated (well, enough of them remain motivated to keep me happy), so this all adds to the student experience. I believe that if I replaced "chocolate" with "extra credit" then there would be no improvement in the student's grasping of the subject and I would enjoy lecturing *much* less. | I give extra credits routinely, mostly to reward not-asked-for work (point out an error in the class notes, suggest an interesting alternative solution for an exam or homework problem, ...) and sometimes for extra homework assigned. In my (by now extensive) experience, students who go the mile to get extra credit would get good or outstanding grades even without the extra points. A very few of those hanging in the balance get over the bump by this, but then they have shown enough insight to merit a passing grade.
In exams I asign a few extra points, but not a problem marked specially. That gives some leeway for mistakes and still getting a perfect score. My exams are typically a fairly simple, general question ("do you even know what we are talking about?") and the remainder several more difficult problems covering the material about evenly. Sometimes questions have a "bonus track" part, if it makes sense to look somewhat further. |
84,296 | [Intelligent Items [SRD]](http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/intelligentItems.htm) & DMG 3.5 mention: "In general, less than 1% of magic items have intelligence."
Like artifacts, intelligent items are never encountered as random treasure [d%] AFAIK.
Let's use a *player* Wiz-17 as an example, with access to all arcane spells in the PHB, with the *Craft Magic Arms & Armour* and *Craft Wondrous* feats and with enough XP/gp to spare. The PC has a +3 Animated Mithral Small Shield that he wants to imbue with sentience. The questions;
1. How do I manage this *as a DM* according to RAW? Source?
2. If allowed, are there any limitations for this player? (e.g. regarding alignment, access to divine spells, etc)
3. Where does the intelligence/sentience actually originate?
Another (related) question, from a DM-standpoint only;
4. Can an Artifact be imbued with intelligence according to RAW? (*Devious plans are forming here..*)
Or is this just *it-has-no-statistics-thus-at-DM-discretion-only* stuff?
Answers with (any) sources/references would be appreciated. Even sources from other versions are welcome at this point, although it's intended for 3.5. Much obliged. | 2016/07/18 | [
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* **Intelligent items can be randomly rolled.** A DM adhering strictly to random treasure generation will find that nearly *any* permanent magic item can be at random an intelligent item. That is, the *Dungeon Master's Guide* says on page 216 that 1% of armor, 1% of shields, 5% of ranged weapons, and 15% of melee weapons that are randomly generated are intelligent items; likewise on page 229 it says 1% of rings, on page 234 1% of rods, and on page 246 1% of wondrous items that are randomly generated are intelligent items.
While that may *seem* like a lot of intelligent items waiting to be looted (and, depending on one's point of view, *enslaved*), it ends up being surprising few: the *Dungeon Master's Guide*'s rules for random treasure generation (see Table 3–5: Treasure on 52-3) are fairly tight-fisted magic-wise. Even a CR 20 creature like a [pit fiend](http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/resources/systems/pennpaper/dnd35/soveliorsage/monstersDtoDe.html#pit-fiend-devil), for example, has a 25% chance of possessing *no* magic items *at all* in its hoard. Create a few sample hoards using the *DMG*'s rules (I suggest a good rules-bound online generator—[this one](https://donjon.bin.sh/d20/treasure/)'s pretty good, for instance—instead of actual dice; doing so by hand gets tedious otherwise), and you'll rarely roll up an intelligent magic item.
* **The *DMG* has no special rules for creating intelligent items.** Except for mandating a minimum caster level of 15 and that the ensuing intelligent item have its creator's alignment (288), if a craftsman adds the cost from Table 7–30: Item Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and Capabilities (269) and maybe at least one power from the Intelligent Item Powers chart (*ibid.*) to a permanent magic item, the magic item's intelligent. However, keep in mind that the *Dungeon Master's Guide* on 268-72 focuses primarily on how the Dungeon Master should add intelligent weapons to the campaign instead of on how the PCs can. Without consulting the *DMG*—y'know, a book for *Dungeon Masters*—, PCs don't even *really* know the price of a *+1 dagger*. Although the metagame lets players know a lot of things, the PCs themselves need never learn in *your* campaign that crafting intelligent items is even a thing if you don't want them to.
I say this not to rain on anyone's parade but because [intelligent magic items with special powers can severely disrupt the action economy](https://rpg.stackexchange.com/a/67806/8610). Moreover—and, perhaps, more importantly—, a DM probably doesn't *want* PCs crafting intelligent magic items willy-nilly because, each time a PC does, the PC adds another NPC the DM must manage. It's a little like having the feat [Leadership](http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/resources/systems/pennpaper/dnd35/soveliorsage/featsAll.html#leadership), except every magic sword, amulet, rod, and boot a magical craftsman creates can become like a little cohort.
* **The *DMG* doesn't say where an intelligent item's sentience comes from.** However, this rules gap is filled in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting by the 6th-level Sor/Wiz spell *Nybor's psychic imprint* [trans] (Magic Books of Faerun column ["*Nybor's Small Codex*: Spells from a Former Zulkir"](http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mb/20041215a)), which, metaphorically, takes photograph of a creature's personality and uploads it into a magic item. That spell or one like it is as good an answer as any.
* **PCs can't create artifacts and can modify them only with the DM's permission.** The *Epic Level Handbook* says that "[m]ajor artifacts… are beyond the means of even epic characters to create" (73) and "minor artifacts are… magic items that no longer can be made by common mortal means—even by the hands of epic creators" (151). Even in the magic-saturated Forgotten Realms campaign setting, the *Ars Factum* chapter of the *Nether Scrolls* which "reputedly… taught the reader how to create artifacts" remains locked with all unable to discover the key to its powers (*Lost Empires of Faerûn* 156-7).
Nonetheless, a generous DM may allow a PC to *upgrade* an artifact to sentience in the same way that a creature can pay to have a magic item further ensorcelled with more powers. This seems unlikely and dangerous, as artifacts—especially *major* artifacts—are *important*, and messing around with their magics is liable to alert someone or, worse, *irritate* someone.
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*More information about intelligent magic items—like how they can gain class levels but also much more than that (honestly, I went a bit overboard)—is available in answer to this [question](https://rpg.stackexchange.com/a/45801/8610).* | Monte Cook's *Book of Eldritch Might III* (also in *The Complete Book of Eldritch Might*) has rules for creating intelligent items, and they can even gain experience and increase in level. |
4,995 | It seems there are the beginnings of an edit war going on with [how can counting the number of cracks in glass tell you about the speed of imact?](https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/78191).
Now the question has a few problems:
* It doesn't stand particularly well on its own, requiring reading an external link for background.
* It doesn't discuss the question in such a way as to guide answers to the desired level of detail.
* It is partially phrased in the imperative, rather than the interrogative.
**However**, as far as I can tell, **it has nothing to do with homework**, either in actuality or conceptually. Someone was reading a scientific news article and had a question about the physics behind a phenomenon. It certainly doesn't sound like someone wants a particular problem solved - I read it as asking for the concepts behind some claim.
So **why was this tagged as homework?** Is the new policy to use [homework](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homework "show questions tagged 'homework'") to filter out questions certain users don't particularly like? | 2013/09/23 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4995",
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First, don't start edit wars. If you put something on a question, and somebody later removes it, don't just go back in and put it back again and leave comments about it. Take it to meta, take it to chat, and actually discuss it rather than take it out to 7 revisions. When people disagree, use the channels we have to resolve it face-to-face (or I suppose keyboard-to-keyboard).
Second, I do not think that is a homework question. Not just in the strict sense but in the sense we defined. OP is looking for a physical concept that is not understood to be explained. It's no different than the myriad of questions about how we know gravity exists, why there are only 4 dimensions in space-time, etc.. To me, the OP doesn't understand the physical correlation between impact velocity and fracture in glass and would like an understanding of the concepts behind it.
So I do not think it should be tagged as homework. All that said, I think the question is poorly formed because it doesn't mention what part is confusing, asks answers to go read an article rather than summarize it, and shows very little effort. It should be downvoted, maybe closed, but that's a different conversation. | Dimension10 has given the [link](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/714/how-do-i-ask-homework-questions-on-physics-stack-exchange) to where the policy is laid out clearly in David's answer:
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> What kinds of questions are considered homework questions?
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> A "homework question" is any question whose value lies in helping you understand the method by which the question can be solved, rather than getting the answer itself. This includes not just questions from actual homework assignments, but also self-study problems, puzzles, etc.
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> On the other hand, questions that come up in the course of doing a homework problem, but are separate from the main point of the problem, might not be considered homework questions. There's a bit of a judgment call to be made, depending on the context of the problem. If you're not sure, it's probably safer to treat your question as a homework question and later find out that it isn't, than the other way around.
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Which points out that the dividing line is rather vague, and therefore could make most of the questions here homework if we relied on this definition, rather than our own personal view based upon common experience
As I understand it, the whole point of the homework tag is to enable people to filter out the tedious **unoriginal** questions found in most text books. Therefore, I don't think any problem thought up by someone for themselves should be tagged homework, unless it's universally recognized as a standard text book problem designed for students.
update:
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It turns out that the main purpose behind the homework tag is to prevent students cheating on their homework assignments, which should make things considerably clearer on when to tag a question as homework: **Does this question look as if it could be given to a student by a teacher as a graded exercise?** |
4,995 | It seems there are the beginnings of an edit war going on with [how can counting the number of cracks in glass tell you about the speed of imact?](https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/78191).
Now the question has a few problems:
* It doesn't stand particularly well on its own, requiring reading an external link for background.
* It doesn't discuss the question in such a way as to guide answers to the desired level of detail.
* It is partially phrased in the imperative, rather than the interrogative.
**However**, as far as I can tell, **it has nothing to do with homework**, either in actuality or conceptually. Someone was reading a scientific news article and had a question about the physics behind a phenomenon. It certainly doesn't sound like someone wants a particular problem solved - I read it as asking for the concepts behind some claim.
So **why was this tagged as homework?** Is the new policy to use [homework](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homework "show questions tagged 'homework'") to filter out questions certain users don't particularly like? | 2013/09/23 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4995",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | My take on this is two-fold:
First, don't start edit wars. If you put something on a question, and somebody later removes it, don't just go back in and put it back again and leave comments about it. Take it to meta, take it to chat, and actually discuss it rather than take it out to 7 revisions. When people disagree, use the channels we have to resolve it face-to-face (or I suppose keyboard-to-keyboard).
Second, I do not think that is a homework question. Not just in the strict sense but in the sense we defined. OP is looking for a physical concept that is not understood to be explained. It's no different than the myriad of questions about how we know gravity exists, why there are only 4 dimensions in space-time, etc.. To me, the OP doesn't understand the physical correlation between impact velocity and fracture in glass and would like an understanding of the concepts behind it.
So I do not think it should be tagged as homework. All that said, I think the question is poorly formed because it doesn't mention what part is confusing, asks answers to go read an article rather than summarize it, and shows very little effort. It should be downvoted, maybe closed, but that's a different conversation. | I'm late to the party but I want to say this.
The original phrasing for this question closely matched a very common pattern seen in real homework questions:
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> [Statement of a homework or other textbook problem.]
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> Solve this please.
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There are a number of variations of this (see e.g. [this](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/763/amount-of-2-amperage) or [this](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/77769/how-can-you-prove-generalised-jacobi-identity) or [this](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/69991/what-is-the-alternative-of-pmg-permanent-magnet-generator-in-a-horizontal-axis) question) but they generally give a feeling of entitlement: the OP *demands* (even if they do it politely) that some expert drop what she's doing and give him exactly the explanation - without overdoing it and using only the right hints - that will get them an A.
I do not think this should have the homework tag on it, but I can definitely understand a certain trigger-happiness on the part of the people that wanted that. |
4,995 | It seems there are the beginnings of an edit war going on with [how can counting the number of cracks in glass tell you about the speed of imact?](https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/78191).
Now the question has a few problems:
* It doesn't stand particularly well on its own, requiring reading an external link for background.
* It doesn't discuss the question in such a way as to guide answers to the desired level of detail.
* It is partially phrased in the imperative, rather than the interrogative.
**However**, as far as I can tell, **it has nothing to do with homework**, either in actuality or conceptually. Someone was reading a scientific news article and had a question about the physics behind a phenomenon. It certainly doesn't sound like someone wants a particular problem solved - I read it as asking for the concepts behind some claim.
So **why was this tagged as homework?** Is the new policy to use [homework](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homework "show questions tagged 'homework'") to filter out questions certain users don't particularly like? | 2013/09/23 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4995",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I'm late to the party but I want to say this.
The original phrasing for this question closely matched a very common pattern seen in real homework questions:
>
> [Statement of a homework or other textbook problem.]
>
>
> Solve this please.
>
>
>
There are a number of variations of this (see e.g. [this](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/763/amount-of-2-amperage) or [this](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/77769/how-can-you-prove-generalised-jacobi-identity) or [this](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/69991/what-is-the-alternative-of-pmg-permanent-magnet-generator-in-a-horizontal-axis) question) but they generally give a feeling of entitlement: the OP *demands* (even if they do it politely) that some expert drop what she's doing and give him exactly the explanation - without overdoing it and using only the right hints - that will get them an A.
I do not think this should have the homework tag on it, but I can definitely understand a certain trigger-happiness on the part of the people that wanted that. | Dimension10 has given the [link](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/714/how-do-i-ask-homework-questions-on-physics-stack-exchange) to where the policy is laid out clearly in David's answer:
>
> What kinds of questions are considered homework questions?
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> A "homework question" is any question whose value lies in helping you understand the method by which the question can be solved, rather than getting the answer itself. This includes not just questions from actual homework assignments, but also self-study problems, puzzles, etc.
>
>
> On the other hand, questions that come up in the course of doing a homework problem, but are separate from the main point of the problem, might not be considered homework questions. There's a bit of a judgment call to be made, depending on the context of the problem. If you're not sure, it's probably safer to treat your question as a homework question and later find out that it isn't, than the other way around.
>
>
>
Which points out that the dividing line is rather vague, and therefore could make most of the questions here homework if we relied on this definition, rather than our own personal view based upon common experience
As I understand it, the whole point of the homework tag is to enable people to filter out the tedious **unoriginal** questions found in most text books. Therefore, I don't think any problem thought up by someone for themselves should be tagged homework, unless it's universally recognized as a standard text book problem designed for students.
update:
-------
It turns out that the main purpose behind the homework tag is to prevent students cheating on their homework assignments, which should make things considerably clearer on when to tag a question as homework: **Does this question look as if it could be given to a student by a teacher as a graded exercise?** |
153,999 | Using fSpy - How can you tell exactly where to align an object with the picture?
All 3 of these planes match the top of the table in the picture, but when you rotate the scene, they are all in different locations.
I'm guessing there could be an infinite number of possibilities along the vector, but how do you choose the correct one?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8tjHJ.jpg)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tutcq.jpg) | 2019/09/28 | [
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In your screen shot, I didn’t see a wall on the right side of your model.
I think if you place that wall, you will have a good reference to the right side of your counter top.
And then the front and back of the counter can be approximated. from the sink position on the left side of the scene. | This is the problem of the perspective projection.
It’s impossible to find all three coordinates from a flat image. You need to know at least one to determine the other two. Therefore you need to set origin in fSpy and then start modeling from that point (knowing which planes have one of there coordinates set to 0). The more aligned objects you have the more reference points you get. You’ll get a perfect match then.
Keep in mind that the proper focal length is also important. Otherwise you’ll get wrong proportions.
Take a look at my tutorial on fSpy. It covers all its parameters and also presents the case you’re having problem with.
<https://youtu.be/daiMOYR8GS8>
Good luck |
3,622 | I was arguing with my colleague about this matter (I'm not going to mention which side I fall on).
Would death be immediate in the vacuum of space? For example, if I was suddenly teleported into the vacuum of space would I die straight away? Or would I experience a suffocating sensation? | 2012/09/20 | [
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] | Nope, you wouldn't die *instantly*. While explosive decompression has never been tested on humans (for obvious reasons), the dangers of a vacuum have mostly to do with the pressure differential between your body and the now pressure-less void around you. The most fragile parts of the biological system would be the lungs and ears, and the instantaneous transportation would cause a severe case of the Bends if you were rescued quickly enough. You would pass out within a few seconds [stated by NASA when an experiment went awry](http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html), and death might be from lack of oxygen to the brain, although after a few minutes everything bad starts to happen so nobody really knows what you would die of:
>
> At NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (now renamed Johnson Space Center) we had a test subject accidentally exposed to a near vacuum (less than 1 psi) in an incident involving a leaking space suit in a vacuum chamber back in '65. He remained conscious for about 14 seconds, which is about the time it takes for O2 deprived blood to go from the lungs to the brain. The suit probably did not reach a hard vacuum, and we began repressurizing the chamber within 15 seconds. The subject regained consciousness at around 15,000 feet equivalent altitude. The subject later reported that he could feel and hear the air leaking out, and his last conscious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil.
>
>
> | If an astronaut were teleported into space without her spacesuit/helmet, she would feel a suffocation feeling, likely making breathing motions even though there is no air to breathe. She would also feel her sweat, saliva, tears, mucous, and any other water on her body boil off, though her body would maintain blood pressure, at least until her heart stopped. She would be unconscious within 15-20 seconds and dead within 90-120 seconds. |
59,118,660 | So i am trying to wrap my head around what indexes in postgresql, I have understood so far that indexes help for faster querying and that all primary keys have an index, I was wondering if all foreign keys(referring to a primary key of another table) should also have an index or is it just the attributes in a table that we are querying that need indexes?
Thanks. | 2019/11/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/59118660",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11198363/"
] | Indexes should be based primarily on queries that are being used. If you are going to be filtering or aggregating or sorting by the foreign key, then it is sensible as an index.
The other use is using indexes to enforce unique constraints.
In other words, there is no rule that foreign keys should always be indexed. It is often a good idea, but that depends on the queries you want to run. | It is not mandatory to index the foreign key. But if you ever delete from the referenced table, or update it in a way that changes the primary key, then it will have to search for rows in the referencing table by the foreign key column to make sure it will be left with no violations (or to set them to null, or delete them, depending on what action was defined in the foreign key). Without an index on the foreign key column this will likely be slow.
Also, it is likely you will want to run queries like "Show me all the detail rows of this master row", and without a index that will also be slow.
If you never delete from the referenced table and never run that kind of query, then you probably do not need the index. |
29,201,029 | I set up a small business website which is only displaying informations about the offered services and some contact informations. It is not interactive at all and no user is enabled to submit any data.
We are now monitoring the visits and pis with the tools offered by google. Since the first days after the going public we are observing a lot of ips from places in the world we have absolutely no relation to (like Russia, China, Brazil, even some african states...). Also the overall number of visits is much higher than we expected.
Now I'm wondering where these "exotic" visitors may come from. And if this is some kind of attack we should be aware of and protect somehow. Does anybody know what might be happening here? | 2015/03/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29201029",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2616173/"
] | This is a common situation, Websites with the default Google Analytics tracking code like UA-XXXXXXX-1 have been receiving attacks from what is known as "Ghost referrals". These ghosts are often coming from Russia through different **sources** such as forum.topic59010277.darodar.com, humanorightswatch.org, o-o-6-o-o.com and s.click.aliexpress.com.
Most recently I have noticed another source **simple-share-buttons.com** coming from different countries like USA, China, Finland, Singapore and Argentina.
They distort metrics like bounce rate and session duration. Google might deliver a solution soon, meanwhile you can use view-filters to block them from appearing in your GA reports.
Create a filter that only excludes ghosts from your view. Go to your view and set up the Filter as follow:
* Filter type: Custom
* Exclude
* Filter Field: Referral
* Filter patter use the following regex:
.\*spammer1.tld|.\*spammer2.tld|.\*spammer3.tld|.\*spammer4.tld
Check the tld (com, net, co, etc) of the spammer\* and change it accordantly inside the regex. \*Find the list of spammers in Google Analytics in the Acquisition>All Traffic>Referrals report (You will need to monitor this section just in case new spammers arrive) | Your domain may be a reason - if it had been used on another site. Or someone used it early. Look at backlinks for your domain. It`s only my humble opinion. |
65,500 | I am a developer and I work for a start up. My boss assigned me a task of checking two career-related networking sites. I need to programmatically visit these sites, and check whether they have a link for each entity in our database or not. If yes, I need to save their link to our database. The task description he wrote contained some strange wording that raised my suspicion. I learned that the companies in question not only did not give their consent to be queried, but also they already turned our approach down. I am within my probationary period, generally I liked the job. I had some interesting and completely OK tasks in the recent months only this last assignment seems to be fishy. I am not a lawyer. I work and live in a foreign country and I have limited knowledge of the language. It would be extremely hard for me to research whether it is legally OK, or not. We -as a company- have no legal department (As a matter of fact I never worked for any company that had one.). What I do have is a general bad feeling. I believe in business relationships based on **mutual consent** (and mutual benefit) and the lack thereof compromises my moral compass and grossly reduces my enthusiasm.
The bottom line: I do not want to do anything that may later fall back on me. Nor do I want to act unethically. How can I handle this situation?
Update:
>
> So you're just scraping third-party sites? Is the scraped data just
> used internally, or is it incorporated into one of your products? Is
> the data private/behind a login screen?
>
>
>
Yes, the scraped data will be incorporated into our product, and will be visible online.
Is the data private/behind a login screen? I think available without logging in, but I am not sure.
Update: I just had a conversation with my boss, and I politely refused the task. We agreed that I leave the company. | 2016/04/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65500",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/49311/"
] | **Have you asked your employer's legal department?** This sort of question is ***exactly*** why they are there; they can look at all the details and give you an expert opinion, and if the answer is "don't" they are in a position to argue this with your boss.
We don't (and probsbly shouldn't) have all the details, can't give you legal advice, and have no sway with your boss. | Querying public accessible data from websites is most probably no big deal from a legal perspective (but don't nail me on that, I am no lawyer nor do I work in the internet business).
More general advise would be to document the task description he gave you. As I understood it is already in writing. If the queried companies start legal actions against your employer you can point at the task description and say "hey, I only followed orders!". But as stated in the comments, liability may vary between countries.
You are of course not protected if you act in gross negligence or deliberately break the law. But I don't see that this would apply here.
I suspect you are overthinking this. Of course you can act brave and refuse to do the task. But this could result in them firing you. All boils down to a personal decision. If you feel strong enough about the whole topic. The best course of action would be to talk to your boss about it (you already did, that's good). If he insists, you also can talk to your legal department if you have one (I suspect not). |
65,500 | I am a developer and I work for a start up. My boss assigned me a task of checking two career-related networking sites. I need to programmatically visit these sites, and check whether they have a link for each entity in our database or not. If yes, I need to save their link to our database. The task description he wrote contained some strange wording that raised my suspicion. I learned that the companies in question not only did not give their consent to be queried, but also they already turned our approach down. I am within my probationary period, generally I liked the job. I had some interesting and completely OK tasks in the recent months only this last assignment seems to be fishy. I am not a lawyer. I work and live in a foreign country and I have limited knowledge of the language. It would be extremely hard for me to research whether it is legally OK, or not. We -as a company- have no legal department (As a matter of fact I never worked for any company that had one.). What I do have is a general bad feeling. I believe in business relationships based on **mutual consent** (and mutual benefit) and the lack thereof compromises my moral compass and grossly reduces my enthusiasm.
The bottom line: I do not want to do anything that may later fall back on me. Nor do I want to act unethically. How can I handle this situation?
Update:
>
> So you're just scraping third-party sites? Is the scraped data just
> used internally, or is it incorporated into one of your products? Is
> the data private/behind a login screen?
>
>
>
Yes, the scraped data will be incorporated into our product, and will be visible online.
Is the data private/behind a login screen? I think available without logging in, but I am not sure.
Update: I just had a conversation with my boss, and I politely refused the task. We agreed that I leave the company. | 2016/04/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65500",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/49311/"
] | I am not a lawyer, but I *believe* that scraping a website without permission will just get your company into legal trouble, and not you personally. But you should consult a lawyer to make sure.
But even when the risk is only for your company, it's a bad idea. Building a business based on scraping websites which don't want to be scraped is not going to work. They will take both legal and technical actions to prevent your company from doing this, so your service will break any day. When this is the main product of your company, then it will soon go bankrupt and be unable to pay your wage. So no matter if you get fired for not obeying or get sacked for obeying, you will need a new job soon.
If you are insistent on keeping your job, your only option is to convince your boss to look for a more viable business model. | Querying public accessible data from websites is most probably no big deal from a legal perspective (but don't nail me on that, I am no lawyer nor do I work in the internet business).
More general advise would be to document the task description he gave you. As I understood it is already in writing. If the queried companies start legal actions against your employer you can point at the task description and say "hey, I only followed orders!". But as stated in the comments, liability may vary between countries.
You are of course not protected if you act in gross negligence or deliberately break the law. But I don't see that this would apply here.
I suspect you are overthinking this. Of course you can act brave and refuse to do the task. But this could result in them firing you. All boils down to a personal decision. If you feel strong enough about the whole topic. The best course of action would be to talk to your boss about it (you already did, that's good). If he insists, you also can talk to your legal department if you have one (I suspect not). |
65,500 | I am a developer and I work for a start up. My boss assigned me a task of checking two career-related networking sites. I need to programmatically visit these sites, and check whether they have a link for each entity in our database or not. If yes, I need to save their link to our database. The task description he wrote contained some strange wording that raised my suspicion. I learned that the companies in question not only did not give their consent to be queried, but also they already turned our approach down. I am within my probationary period, generally I liked the job. I had some interesting and completely OK tasks in the recent months only this last assignment seems to be fishy. I am not a lawyer. I work and live in a foreign country and I have limited knowledge of the language. It would be extremely hard for me to research whether it is legally OK, or not. We -as a company- have no legal department (As a matter of fact I never worked for any company that had one.). What I do have is a general bad feeling. I believe in business relationships based on **mutual consent** (and mutual benefit) and the lack thereof compromises my moral compass and grossly reduces my enthusiasm.
The bottom line: I do not want to do anything that may later fall back on me. Nor do I want to act unethically. How can I handle this situation?
Update:
>
> So you're just scraping third-party sites? Is the scraped data just
> used internally, or is it incorporated into one of your products? Is
> the data private/behind a login screen?
>
>
>
Yes, the scraped data will be incorporated into our product, and will be visible online.
Is the data private/behind a login screen? I think available without logging in, but I am not sure.
Update: I just had a conversation with my boss, and I politely refused the task. We agreed that I leave the company. | 2016/04/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65500",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/49311/"
] | It is quite likely that scraping, and especially reusing the data in your product, breaks their terms of service, and therefore is illegal.
The question of whether you, personally, would be legally liable as an employee is one for a lawyer. However, I would not be comfortable participating in something illegal in any case. Here is how I would handle it:
* **Check the site terms of service to see if it is indeed a problem.** Even if the company has a legal department, I would probably check myself first to see if I think there is a real problem, before raising this as an issue. Raising the task the boss just asked me to do with the legal department would be perceived as rather hostile to my boss--I would not want to do this until I thought there was a problem and had discussed it with the boss first.
* **Raise it as a concern with my boss.** Assume good faith on everyone's part (assume that they just hadn't noticed they were breaking the TOS, rather than intentionally circumventing it).
* **If the boss's position doesn't change, raise it with your boss's boss if there is one.**
* **If the company position does not change, refuse to work on the task.** Obviously this may have some serious consequences for you--but in my mind this is the right thing to do and will be worth it in the long run.
Also I would **start looking for a new job** as soon as I had established that something fishy was going on. This is not the work environment I would want to be in, nor does it bode well for the startup. | Querying public accessible data from websites is most probably no big deal from a legal perspective (but don't nail me on that, I am no lawyer nor do I work in the internet business).
More general advise would be to document the task description he gave you. As I understood it is already in writing. If the queried companies start legal actions against your employer you can point at the task description and say "hey, I only followed orders!". But as stated in the comments, liability may vary between countries.
You are of course not protected if you act in gross negligence or deliberately break the law. But I don't see that this would apply here.
I suspect you are overthinking this. Of course you can act brave and refuse to do the task. But this could result in them firing you. All boils down to a personal decision. If you feel strong enough about the whole topic. The best course of action would be to talk to your boss about it (you already did, that's good). If he insists, you also can talk to your legal department if you have one (I suspect not). |
65,500 | I am a developer and I work for a start up. My boss assigned me a task of checking two career-related networking sites. I need to programmatically visit these sites, and check whether they have a link for each entity in our database or not. If yes, I need to save their link to our database. The task description he wrote contained some strange wording that raised my suspicion. I learned that the companies in question not only did not give their consent to be queried, but also they already turned our approach down. I am within my probationary period, generally I liked the job. I had some interesting and completely OK tasks in the recent months only this last assignment seems to be fishy. I am not a lawyer. I work and live in a foreign country and I have limited knowledge of the language. It would be extremely hard for me to research whether it is legally OK, or not. We -as a company- have no legal department (As a matter of fact I never worked for any company that had one.). What I do have is a general bad feeling. I believe in business relationships based on **mutual consent** (and mutual benefit) and the lack thereof compromises my moral compass and grossly reduces my enthusiasm.
The bottom line: I do not want to do anything that may later fall back on me. Nor do I want to act unethically. How can I handle this situation?
Update:
>
> So you're just scraping third-party sites? Is the scraped data just
> used internally, or is it incorporated into one of your products? Is
> the data private/behind a login screen?
>
>
>
Yes, the scraped data will be incorporated into our product, and will be visible online.
Is the data private/behind a login screen? I think available without logging in, but I am not sure.
Update: I just had a conversation with my boss, and I politely refused the task. We agreed that I leave the company. | 2016/04/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65500",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/49311/"
] | **Have you asked your employer's legal department?** This sort of question is ***exactly*** why they are there; they can look at all the details and give you an expert opinion, and if the answer is "don't" they are in a position to argue this with your boss.
We don't (and probsbly shouldn't) have all the details, can't give you legal advice, and have no sway with your boss. | I am not a lawyer, but I *believe* that scraping a website without permission will just get your company into legal trouble, and not you personally. But you should consult a lawyer to make sure.
But even when the risk is only for your company, it's a bad idea. Building a business based on scraping websites which don't want to be scraped is not going to work. They will take both legal and technical actions to prevent your company from doing this, so your service will break any day. When this is the main product of your company, then it will soon go bankrupt and be unable to pay your wage. So no matter if you get fired for not obeying or get sacked for obeying, you will need a new job soon.
If you are insistent on keeping your job, your only option is to convince your boss to look for a more viable business model. |
65,500 | I am a developer and I work for a start up. My boss assigned me a task of checking two career-related networking sites. I need to programmatically visit these sites, and check whether they have a link for each entity in our database or not. If yes, I need to save their link to our database. The task description he wrote contained some strange wording that raised my suspicion. I learned that the companies in question not only did not give their consent to be queried, but also they already turned our approach down. I am within my probationary period, generally I liked the job. I had some interesting and completely OK tasks in the recent months only this last assignment seems to be fishy. I am not a lawyer. I work and live in a foreign country and I have limited knowledge of the language. It would be extremely hard for me to research whether it is legally OK, or not. We -as a company- have no legal department (As a matter of fact I never worked for any company that had one.). What I do have is a general bad feeling. I believe in business relationships based on **mutual consent** (and mutual benefit) and the lack thereof compromises my moral compass and grossly reduces my enthusiasm.
The bottom line: I do not want to do anything that may later fall back on me. Nor do I want to act unethically. How can I handle this situation?
Update:
>
> So you're just scraping third-party sites? Is the scraped data just
> used internally, or is it incorporated into one of your products? Is
> the data private/behind a login screen?
>
>
>
Yes, the scraped data will be incorporated into our product, and will be visible online.
Is the data private/behind a login screen? I think available without logging in, but I am not sure.
Update: I just had a conversation with my boss, and I politely refused the task. We agreed that I leave the company. | 2016/04/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65500",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/49311/"
] | **Have you asked your employer's legal department?** This sort of question is ***exactly*** why they are there; they can look at all the details and give you an expert opinion, and if the answer is "don't" they are in a position to argue this with your boss.
We don't (and probsbly shouldn't) have all the details, can't give you legal advice, and have no sway with your boss. | It is quite likely that scraping, and especially reusing the data in your product, breaks their terms of service, and therefore is illegal.
The question of whether you, personally, would be legally liable as an employee is one for a lawyer. However, I would not be comfortable participating in something illegal in any case. Here is how I would handle it:
* **Check the site terms of service to see if it is indeed a problem.** Even if the company has a legal department, I would probably check myself first to see if I think there is a real problem, before raising this as an issue. Raising the task the boss just asked me to do with the legal department would be perceived as rather hostile to my boss--I would not want to do this until I thought there was a problem and had discussed it with the boss first.
* **Raise it as a concern with my boss.** Assume good faith on everyone's part (assume that they just hadn't noticed they were breaking the TOS, rather than intentionally circumventing it).
* **If the boss's position doesn't change, raise it with your boss's boss if there is one.**
* **If the company position does not change, refuse to work on the task.** Obviously this may have some serious consequences for you--but in my mind this is the right thing to do and will be worth it in the long run.
Also I would **start looking for a new job** as soon as I had established that something fishy was going on. This is not the work environment I would want to be in, nor does it bode well for the startup. |
65,500 | I am a developer and I work for a start up. My boss assigned me a task of checking two career-related networking sites. I need to programmatically visit these sites, and check whether they have a link for each entity in our database or not. If yes, I need to save their link to our database. The task description he wrote contained some strange wording that raised my suspicion. I learned that the companies in question not only did not give their consent to be queried, but also they already turned our approach down. I am within my probationary period, generally I liked the job. I had some interesting and completely OK tasks in the recent months only this last assignment seems to be fishy. I am not a lawyer. I work and live in a foreign country and I have limited knowledge of the language. It would be extremely hard for me to research whether it is legally OK, or not. We -as a company- have no legal department (As a matter of fact I never worked for any company that had one.). What I do have is a general bad feeling. I believe in business relationships based on **mutual consent** (and mutual benefit) and the lack thereof compromises my moral compass and grossly reduces my enthusiasm.
The bottom line: I do not want to do anything that may later fall back on me. Nor do I want to act unethically. How can I handle this situation?
Update:
>
> So you're just scraping third-party sites? Is the scraped data just
> used internally, or is it incorporated into one of your products? Is
> the data private/behind a login screen?
>
>
>
Yes, the scraped data will be incorporated into our product, and will be visible online.
Is the data private/behind a login screen? I think available without logging in, but I am not sure.
Update: I just had a conversation with my boss, and I politely refused the task. We agreed that I leave the company. | 2016/04/19 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65500",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/49311/"
] | It is quite likely that scraping, and especially reusing the data in your product, breaks their terms of service, and therefore is illegal.
The question of whether you, personally, would be legally liable as an employee is one for a lawyer. However, I would not be comfortable participating in something illegal in any case. Here is how I would handle it:
* **Check the site terms of service to see if it is indeed a problem.** Even if the company has a legal department, I would probably check myself first to see if I think there is a real problem, before raising this as an issue. Raising the task the boss just asked me to do with the legal department would be perceived as rather hostile to my boss--I would not want to do this until I thought there was a problem and had discussed it with the boss first.
* **Raise it as a concern with my boss.** Assume good faith on everyone's part (assume that they just hadn't noticed they were breaking the TOS, rather than intentionally circumventing it).
* **If the boss's position doesn't change, raise it with your boss's boss if there is one.**
* **If the company position does not change, refuse to work on the task.** Obviously this may have some serious consequences for you--but in my mind this is the right thing to do and will be worth it in the long run.
Also I would **start looking for a new job** as soon as I had established that something fishy was going on. This is not the work environment I would want to be in, nor does it bode well for the startup. | I am not a lawyer, but I *believe* that scraping a website without permission will just get your company into legal trouble, and not you personally. But you should consult a lawyer to make sure.
But even when the risk is only for your company, it's a bad idea. Building a business based on scraping websites which don't want to be scraped is not going to work. They will take both legal and technical actions to prevent your company from doing this, so your service will break any day. When this is the main product of your company, then it will soon go bankrupt and be unable to pay your wage. So no matter if you get fired for not obeying or get sacked for obeying, you will need a new job soon.
If you are insistent on keeping your job, your only option is to convince your boss to look for a more viable business model. |
20,243 | I think I have a problem and I want some advice from parents; I think there is no one better to talk to. I have already talked to my dad and mom, but that was not very helpful.
My problem is, I'm 20 years old, and I date a girl who is 3 years and 10 months younger than me, and somehow, there is a lot of resistance from her stepfather about our relationship. We know each other and became friends, for six months we have spent lots of time together and with our friends. Her mom and stepfather knew everything and had no problem with it, but we started liking each other, and then I have became her boyfriend, here the problem began.
She told her mother about us, and then her mother told to her stepfather, and he is very angry about it and now he prohibited us from seeing each other. I tried to talk to him, but he avoids the subject. We have both been very careful in our conversations, but five months have passed and he is still pissed.
I really love her, we are very good friends. We dont have problems with each other, and her mom help us sometimes, lying to her stepfather that she is going out with friends that doesn't include me. Yesterday her stepfather said to her that if she was lying she would be in trouble.
I live in Brazil, go to university, have a nice job for my age. I've never had a girlfriend before, I'm not the kind of guy who like to date girls just for fun if it doesn't seems to lead to a concrete relationship, however, I look OK to me, but not to him.
The fact is, I dont know how to get through to him with words and make him more confortable about us. If you a are father or mother maybe you could help me with this. I've been worried for several days and I'm looking for answers all over the internet. Sorry for any language mistakes.
**Update:** What I want to know is what you, fathers and mothers, expects from us, sons in law, who wants to have a relationship with your daughters.
**Update:** Her stepfather is 10 years older than her mother. | 2015/05/18 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/20243",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/16269/"
] | >
> What I want to know is what you, fathers and mothers, expects from us, sons in law, who wants to have a relationship with your daughters.
>
>
>
I don't have daughters, but I hope to some day. But I'll write my answer neutrally: my expectations would be the same for sons and daughters and whatever gender their romantic interest is.
I would expect those who want to be romantically involved with my children to ***respect my wishes***. If I don't want you to see each other, then I would expect you to not conspire with my spouse to secretly meet with my child.
Secretive behavior such as this is divisive. It needlessly pits family members against each other. In your scenario, the father's wife *and* his daughter *and* you are all lying to him.
I can't cite you evidence, but I believe that when people are engaging in such secretive behavior they give off non-verbal cues that make it clear that something is "not right". The father may not know what's going on, but he may know *something* is going on. To me, the father clearly suspects something, or he would not have just only said, "If you're lying to me..." to his daughter! That's the kind of thing you say when you have a feeling there's lying going on.
I would consider such behavior a complete and total violation of trust and interference with my family.
Now, if *both* children were younger teenagers, I might be inclined to be more lenient with the relationship in general. I know that for teenagers it can be very hard to make mature, rational decisions in the face of such powerful emotions. It's biology. So, I'd have some allowance for that.
However, I would not make the same allowances for a 20-year-old adult making the same irresponsible or disrespectful choices. I would expect a higher level of maturity. A 20-year-old should not be behaving the same way my 16-year-old would.
If it's not yet clear, I would also expect *honesty* from my child's romantic interest.
Ideally, I would have raised my children well enough that by 16 years I would be able to mostly respect their judgment on choosing relationship partners. However, in my mind, that likely means they wouldn't choose a person that is:
1. Significantly older than them, considering their younger ages.
2. On the opposite side of the "adult age" line.
3. Willing to help them undermine one of their parents
---
If you want a relationship with this young lady, then I think you need to change your approach and your behavior.
I would stop *seeing* the girl, immediately.
However, I think phone calls, texting, emails, IMs, whatever, can still be acceptable. As long as you're ending the possibility of physical interaction.
You may also try to build a genuine relationship with the mother. Instead of using her as a wedge to divide the family, you could simply get to know her. If she likes you well enough, and trusts you enough, she may be able to slowly convince the father to allow you some in-person contact with their daughter.
You may have to give this a lot of time. Trying to rush it or force it to happen isn't going to persuade the father. Rather, it's going to make him dig in his heels and be more resistant! Tempered romance doesn't need such immediate gratification.
If you want to show him you're a respectable adult capable of being responsibly and romantically involved with his daughter, then you need to behave that way. Even if he won't be able to observe you *right now*, you'll be able to point to your behavior in the future and say, "I know you were worried, but you had nothing to be worried about." | >
> What I want to know is what you, fathers and mothers, expect from us, sons in law, who want to have a relationship with your daughter.
>
>
>
Patience, empathy, and more patience.
Your young lady is approximately 16, if I did the arithmetic right. Her step father may feel that spending a lot of time with someone older will push her into a different stage of life prematurely. He may want to give her the gift of a full childhood. |
20,243 | I think I have a problem and I want some advice from parents; I think there is no one better to talk to. I have already talked to my dad and mom, but that was not very helpful.
My problem is, I'm 20 years old, and I date a girl who is 3 years and 10 months younger than me, and somehow, there is a lot of resistance from her stepfather about our relationship. We know each other and became friends, for six months we have spent lots of time together and with our friends. Her mom and stepfather knew everything and had no problem with it, but we started liking each other, and then I have became her boyfriend, here the problem began.
She told her mother about us, and then her mother told to her stepfather, and he is very angry about it and now he prohibited us from seeing each other. I tried to talk to him, but he avoids the subject. We have both been very careful in our conversations, but five months have passed and he is still pissed.
I really love her, we are very good friends. We dont have problems with each other, and her mom help us sometimes, lying to her stepfather that she is going out with friends that doesn't include me. Yesterday her stepfather said to her that if she was lying she would be in trouble.
I live in Brazil, go to university, have a nice job for my age. I've never had a girlfriend before, I'm not the kind of guy who like to date girls just for fun if it doesn't seems to lead to a concrete relationship, however, I look OK to me, but not to him.
The fact is, I dont know how to get through to him with words and make him more confortable about us. If you a are father or mother maybe you could help me with this. I've been worried for several days and I'm looking for answers all over the internet. Sorry for any language mistakes.
**Update:** What I want to know is what you, fathers and mothers, expects from us, sons in law, who wants to have a relationship with your daughters.
**Update:** Her stepfather is 10 years older than her mother. | 2015/05/18 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/20243",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/16269/"
] | >
> What I want to know is what you, fathers and mothers, expect from us, sons in law, who want to have a relationship with your daughter.
>
>
>
Patience, empathy, and more patience.
Your young lady is approximately 16, if I did the arithmetic right. Her step father may feel that spending a lot of time with someone older will push her into a different stage of life prematurely. He may want to give her the gift of a full childhood. | It's not about having a relationship, it's about having a relationship with someone the right age. A 20 year old should be pursuing girls who are **at least** 18 years old, and I think you might know that's the stumbling block here. And saying you think he sounds jealous doesn't sound like the whole truth either, if you're really trying to understand the father. |
20,243 | I think I have a problem and I want some advice from parents; I think there is no one better to talk to. I have already talked to my dad and mom, but that was not very helpful.
My problem is, I'm 20 years old, and I date a girl who is 3 years and 10 months younger than me, and somehow, there is a lot of resistance from her stepfather about our relationship. We know each other and became friends, for six months we have spent lots of time together and with our friends. Her mom and stepfather knew everything and had no problem with it, but we started liking each other, and then I have became her boyfriend, here the problem began.
She told her mother about us, and then her mother told to her stepfather, and he is very angry about it and now he prohibited us from seeing each other. I tried to talk to him, but he avoids the subject. We have both been very careful in our conversations, but five months have passed and he is still pissed.
I really love her, we are very good friends. We dont have problems with each other, and her mom help us sometimes, lying to her stepfather that she is going out with friends that doesn't include me. Yesterday her stepfather said to her that if she was lying she would be in trouble.
I live in Brazil, go to university, have a nice job for my age. I've never had a girlfriend before, I'm not the kind of guy who like to date girls just for fun if it doesn't seems to lead to a concrete relationship, however, I look OK to me, but not to him.
The fact is, I dont know how to get through to him with words and make him more confortable about us. If you a are father or mother maybe you could help me with this. I've been worried for several days and I'm looking for answers all over the internet. Sorry for any language mistakes.
**Update:** What I want to know is what you, fathers and mothers, expects from us, sons in law, who wants to have a relationship with your daughters.
**Update:** Her stepfather is 10 years older than her mother. | 2015/05/18 | [
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/20243",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com",
"https://parenting.stackexchange.com/users/16269/"
] | >
> What I want to know is what you, fathers and mothers, expects from us, sons in law, who wants to have a relationship with your daughters.
>
>
>
I don't have daughters, but I hope to some day. But I'll write my answer neutrally: my expectations would be the same for sons and daughters and whatever gender their romantic interest is.
I would expect those who want to be romantically involved with my children to ***respect my wishes***. If I don't want you to see each other, then I would expect you to not conspire with my spouse to secretly meet with my child.
Secretive behavior such as this is divisive. It needlessly pits family members against each other. In your scenario, the father's wife *and* his daughter *and* you are all lying to him.
I can't cite you evidence, but I believe that when people are engaging in such secretive behavior they give off non-verbal cues that make it clear that something is "not right". The father may not know what's going on, but he may know *something* is going on. To me, the father clearly suspects something, or he would not have just only said, "If you're lying to me..." to his daughter! That's the kind of thing you say when you have a feeling there's lying going on.
I would consider such behavior a complete and total violation of trust and interference with my family.
Now, if *both* children were younger teenagers, I might be inclined to be more lenient with the relationship in general. I know that for teenagers it can be very hard to make mature, rational decisions in the face of such powerful emotions. It's biology. So, I'd have some allowance for that.
However, I would not make the same allowances for a 20-year-old adult making the same irresponsible or disrespectful choices. I would expect a higher level of maturity. A 20-year-old should not be behaving the same way my 16-year-old would.
If it's not yet clear, I would also expect *honesty* from my child's romantic interest.
Ideally, I would have raised my children well enough that by 16 years I would be able to mostly respect their judgment on choosing relationship partners. However, in my mind, that likely means they wouldn't choose a person that is:
1. Significantly older than them, considering their younger ages.
2. On the opposite side of the "adult age" line.
3. Willing to help them undermine one of their parents
---
If you want a relationship with this young lady, then I think you need to change your approach and your behavior.
I would stop *seeing* the girl, immediately.
However, I think phone calls, texting, emails, IMs, whatever, can still be acceptable. As long as you're ending the possibility of physical interaction.
You may also try to build a genuine relationship with the mother. Instead of using her as a wedge to divide the family, you could simply get to know her. If she likes you well enough, and trusts you enough, she may be able to slowly convince the father to allow you some in-person contact with their daughter.
You may have to give this a lot of time. Trying to rush it or force it to happen isn't going to persuade the father. Rather, it's going to make him dig in his heels and be more resistant! Tempered romance doesn't need such immediate gratification.
If you want to show him you're a respectable adult capable of being responsibly and romantically involved with his daughter, then you need to behave that way. Even if he won't be able to observe you *right now*, you'll be able to point to your behavior in the future and say, "I know you were worried, but you had nothing to be worried about." | It's not about having a relationship, it's about having a relationship with someone the right age. A 20 year old should be pursuing girls who are **at least** 18 years old, and I think you might know that's the stumbling block here. And saying you think he sounds jealous doesn't sound like the whole truth either, if you're really trying to understand the father. |
303,456 | I am a newbie in the software development field. I am hungry for more avenues through which I can develop, nurture, and mature in my development, scripting, and programming skills, more so outside of work time. I'd like to know what type of set-up (hardware and/or software) would be extremely beneficial or that others have found necessary for this endeavor.
I want to be able to equip my home 'office' with tools that will enable me to progress and grow as a developer. | 2008/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/303456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37804/"
] | Personally, I would recommend starting with Linux - just about every programming language has good free tools on Linux. Then I would use VMWare to make virtual machines with various other platforms you might want to test your software on - Windows, other Linux distros, maybe OpenSolaris, etc. Again, in my experience Linux with a Windows VM works better than Windows with a Linux VM. | I recommend KATE (part of KDE) as an editor. It's a lightweight and easy editor with syntax highlighting, multiple files, and a built-in terminal. It's not imposing like emacs or vim, and it is great for all sorts of projects, because of the terminal. It's sort of like a mini-IDE. |
303,456 | I am a newbie in the software development field. I am hungry for more avenues through which I can develop, nurture, and mature in my development, scripting, and programming skills, more so outside of work time. I'd like to know what type of set-up (hardware and/or software) would be extremely beneficial or that others have found necessary for this endeavor.
I want to be able to equip my home 'office' with tools that will enable me to progress and grow as a developer. | 2008/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/303456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37804/"
] | Personally, I would recommend starting with Linux - just about every programming language has good free tools on Linux. Then I would use VMWare to make virtual machines with various other platforms you might want to test your software on - Windows, other Linux distros, maybe OpenSolaris, etc. Again, in my experience Linux with a Windows VM works better than Windows with a Linux VM. | Nothing will help more than picking a project that uses the technologies you're most interested in and building it. You could decide you're going to learn X language or read a book on Y for no other reason than to increase your knowledge, but even if you have the willpower to follow through all the way I'm willing to bet you'll learn just as much and get much more satisfaction out of basing your learning around something practical.
As far as specific tools, well, the only answer depends on what you want to do. You could end up using Visual C# Express from Microsoft, NetBeans IDE for Java, or Xcode on a Mac. All of these are free, but it's really what you plan to do with the tools that matters, not that you have them installed on your hard drive. The same thing goes for hardware and OS too, you might want to have a good Windows PC for building a game in C#, or use a Mac for web development, etc. Decide what you want to do, and pick the best tools that allow you to accomplish that goal.
One thing that is pretty much independent of everything is some kind of version control; it's a good idea no matter what project or technology you use. Git and Subversion are two popular, cross platform choices. |
303,456 | I am a newbie in the software development field. I am hungry for more avenues through which I can develop, nurture, and mature in my development, scripting, and programming skills, more so outside of work time. I'd like to know what type of set-up (hardware and/or software) would be extremely beneficial or that others have found necessary for this endeavor.
I want to be able to equip my home 'office' with tools that will enable me to progress and grow as a developer. | 2008/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/303456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37804/"
] | **Write Code:**
In this [article](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001160.html) [Jeff Atwood](http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood) talks about how to become better at designing and writing software by designing and writing a lot of software. His is stated more elegantly, but it is a valid point. The more you do something, the better you will get at it.
**Hardware:**
Any modern PC/Mac hardware should suffice. If you plan to run Windows or Linux I would use a PC over Mac. There is a lot of clamor over which is better, but use the one you like the best.
It should be a moot point in this day and age, but make sure you have some sort of reliable internet connectivity (cable, dsl, whatever...). Then you will have access to [Google](http://www.google.com/) and
[stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/); both good resources for programmers.
Make sure you have a keyboard and mouse which are comfortable to you. This includes setting up your desk and chair to accommodate your height and hand position. You will be at the computer for long stretches of time, and you want to be comfortable.
**Editor/IDE:**
Choose an editor: Vim, EMACS, KATE, Eclipse, *whatever*. It doesn't really matter which one, but whichever one you do pick learn it well. The editor is your main tool and you want to be comfortable and knowledgeable when using it. The better you know your editor the faster you can create/edit code.
It helps to have an editor that runs on all platforms you may be developing on, but it is not necessary.
**Build Tools:**
At some point you will find your self face to face with having to create or fix a build stystem. Make is pretty standard for \*nix and C/C++, but for your own personal projects find the one that suits you best. There are a lot to choose from: Scons, Ant, Make, Jam, ...
I personally use SCons, since it is python based, and I like python.
**Books:**
When learning a new topic I would recommend getting a good book on it. This will generally give you a good overview of what you are getting into, and give you a good foundation to learn from. Google and Stackoverflow are good for specific questions, but a general overview of a topic is harder to get.
This of course assumes you have the luxury of time and money. For the monetarily constrained you can often find free versions of electronic books online.
**Languages:**
I used to have strong feelings about which languages to learn, but now I realize you should write in the language you enjoy most. However don't be afraid to try new languages. I personally like C++, python, and C# in no particular order.
Since you are just starting out pick the languages which you can get for free, which I actually think is most languages these days.
In the business world the language of choice tends to fluctuate on about a 5-7 year cycle. However you can find a job (at least currently) in all the "big" languages (C++, JAVA, C# VB.net, python, ruby, perl, ...). If you learn one of the modern languages well, it is typically not a problem to transition to another language quickly. The libraries tend to take longer to learn than the language itself. So pick a language you like learning in and learn it.
**Miscellaneous Thoughts:**
As Marc Charbonneau said set up source control. There are plenty of free source control offerings, so pick the one you like best. Personally I use [Perforce](http://www.perforce.com/), which is free for two or less people. I ahve heard good things about [Subversion](http://subversion.tigris.org/) and [git](http://git.or.cz/) as well. The specific one is not as important, but choose one of them.
If you want to get a deeper knowledge of computing I would recommend Sipser's [Book](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0534950973) and [Knuth](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0201485419).
Whichever language you choose I would spend time learning the debugger for it as well.
If you are doing web development, then make sure you know how to minimally setup and run Apachie (or IIS).
Avoid holy wars if you can. They are a waste of time, and you don't learn anything from it except that people are stubborn. Some Holy war topics (bracket style, editors, endianess, "best" language, "best" OS, ...).
**My personal setup:**
Standard PC (Windows XP Pro)
* Visual Studio 2007 (a little behind).
* VIM
* Python
* C/C++
* C#
* Scons
Standard PC (FreeBSD runs headless: no GUI)
* gnu tool chain (Make, C/C++ etc)
* VIM
* python
* Scons | Personally, I would recommend starting with Linux - just about every programming language has good free tools on Linux. Then I would use VMWare to make virtual machines with various other platforms you might want to test your software on - Windows, other Linux distros, maybe OpenSolaris, etc. Again, in my experience Linux with a Windows VM works better than Windows with a Linux VM. |
303,456 | I am a newbie in the software development field. I am hungry for more avenues through which I can develop, nurture, and mature in my development, scripting, and programming skills, more so outside of work time. I'd like to know what type of set-up (hardware and/or software) would be extremely beneficial or that others have found necessary for this endeavor.
I want to be able to equip my home 'office' with tools that will enable me to progress and grow as a developer. | 2008/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/303456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37804/"
] | Personally, I would recommend starting with Linux - just about every programming language has good free tools on Linux. Then I would use VMWare to make virtual machines with various other platforms you might want to test your software on - Windows, other Linux distros, maybe OpenSolaris, etc. Again, in my experience Linux with a Windows VM works better than Windows with a Linux VM. | A fast connection (for downloading linux), and a safari.oreilly.com account! |
303,456 | I am a newbie in the software development field. I am hungry for more avenues through which I can develop, nurture, and mature in my development, scripting, and programming skills, more so outside of work time. I'd like to know what type of set-up (hardware and/or software) would be extremely beneficial or that others have found necessary for this endeavor.
I want to be able to equip my home 'office' with tools that will enable me to progress and grow as a developer. | 2008/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/303456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37804/"
] | **Write Code:**
In this [article](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001160.html) [Jeff Atwood](http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood) talks about how to become better at designing and writing software by designing and writing a lot of software. His is stated more elegantly, but it is a valid point. The more you do something, the better you will get at it.
**Hardware:**
Any modern PC/Mac hardware should suffice. If you plan to run Windows or Linux I would use a PC over Mac. There is a lot of clamor over which is better, but use the one you like the best.
It should be a moot point in this day and age, but make sure you have some sort of reliable internet connectivity (cable, dsl, whatever...). Then you will have access to [Google](http://www.google.com/) and
[stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/); both good resources for programmers.
Make sure you have a keyboard and mouse which are comfortable to you. This includes setting up your desk and chair to accommodate your height and hand position. You will be at the computer for long stretches of time, and you want to be comfortable.
**Editor/IDE:**
Choose an editor: Vim, EMACS, KATE, Eclipse, *whatever*. It doesn't really matter which one, but whichever one you do pick learn it well. The editor is your main tool and you want to be comfortable and knowledgeable when using it. The better you know your editor the faster you can create/edit code.
It helps to have an editor that runs on all platforms you may be developing on, but it is not necessary.
**Build Tools:**
At some point you will find your self face to face with having to create or fix a build stystem. Make is pretty standard for \*nix and C/C++, but for your own personal projects find the one that suits you best. There are a lot to choose from: Scons, Ant, Make, Jam, ...
I personally use SCons, since it is python based, and I like python.
**Books:**
When learning a new topic I would recommend getting a good book on it. This will generally give you a good overview of what you are getting into, and give you a good foundation to learn from. Google and Stackoverflow are good for specific questions, but a general overview of a topic is harder to get.
This of course assumes you have the luxury of time and money. For the monetarily constrained you can often find free versions of electronic books online.
**Languages:**
I used to have strong feelings about which languages to learn, but now I realize you should write in the language you enjoy most. However don't be afraid to try new languages. I personally like C++, python, and C# in no particular order.
Since you are just starting out pick the languages which you can get for free, which I actually think is most languages these days.
In the business world the language of choice tends to fluctuate on about a 5-7 year cycle. However you can find a job (at least currently) in all the "big" languages (C++, JAVA, C# VB.net, python, ruby, perl, ...). If you learn one of the modern languages well, it is typically not a problem to transition to another language quickly. The libraries tend to take longer to learn than the language itself. So pick a language you like learning in and learn it.
**Miscellaneous Thoughts:**
As Marc Charbonneau said set up source control. There are plenty of free source control offerings, so pick the one you like best. Personally I use [Perforce](http://www.perforce.com/), which is free for two or less people. I ahve heard good things about [Subversion](http://subversion.tigris.org/) and [git](http://git.or.cz/) as well. The specific one is not as important, but choose one of them.
If you want to get a deeper knowledge of computing I would recommend Sipser's [Book](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0534950973) and [Knuth](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0201485419).
Whichever language you choose I would spend time learning the debugger for it as well.
If you are doing web development, then make sure you know how to minimally setup and run Apachie (or IIS).
Avoid holy wars if you can. They are a waste of time, and you don't learn anything from it except that people are stubborn. Some Holy war topics (bracket style, editors, endianess, "best" language, "best" OS, ...).
**My personal setup:**
Standard PC (Windows XP Pro)
* Visual Studio 2007 (a little behind).
* VIM
* Python
* C/C++
* C#
* Scons
Standard PC (FreeBSD runs headless: no GUI)
* gnu tool chain (Make, C/C++ etc)
* VIM
* python
* Scons | I recommend KATE (part of KDE) as an editor. It's a lightweight and easy editor with syntax highlighting, multiple files, and a built-in terminal. It's not imposing like emacs or vim, and it is great for all sorts of projects, because of the terminal. It's sort of like a mini-IDE. |
303,456 | I am a newbie in the software development field. I am hungry for more avenues through which I can develop, nurture, and mature in my development, scripting, and programming skills, more so outside of work time. I'd like to know what type of set-up (hardware and/or software) would be extremely beneficial or that others have found necessary for this endeavor.
I want to be able to equip my home 'office' with tools that will enable me to progress and grow as a developer. | 2008/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/303456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37804/"
] | **Write Code:**
In this [article](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001160.html) [Jeff Atwood](http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood) talks about how to become better at designing and writing software by designing and writing a lot of software. His is stated more elegantly, but it is a valid point. The more you do something, the better you will get at it.
**Hardware:**
Any modern PC/Mac hardware should suffice. If you plan to run Windows or Linux I would use a PC over Mac. There is a lot of clamor over which is better, but use the one you like the best.
It should be a moot point in this day and age, but make sure you have some sort of reliable internet connectivity (cable, dsl, whatever...). Then you will have access to [Google](http://www.google.com/) and
[stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/); both good resources for programmers.
Make sure you have a keyboard and mouse which are comfortable to you. This includes setting up your desk and chair to accommodate your height and hand position. You will be at the computer for long stretches of time, and you want to be comfortable.
**Editor/IDE:**
Choose an editor: Vim, EMACS, KATE, Eclipse, *whatever*. It doesn't really matter which one, but whichever one you do pick learn it well. The editor is your main tool and you want to be comfortable and knowledgeable when using it. The better you know your editor the faster you can create/edit code.
It helps to have an editor that runs on all platforms you may be developing on, but it is not necessary.
**Build Tools:**
At some point you will find your self face to face with having to create or fix a build stystem. Make is pretty standard for \*nix and C/C++, but for your own personal projects find the one that suits you best. There are a lot to choose from: Scons, Ant, Make, Jam, ...
I personally use SCons, since it is python based, and I like python.
**Books:**
When learning a new topic I would recommend getting a good book on it. This will generally give you a good overview of what you are getting into, and give you a good foundation to learn from. Google and Stackoverflow are good for specific questions, but a general overview of a topic is harder to get.
This of course assumes you have the luxury of time and money. For the monetarily constrained you can often find free versions of electronic books online.
**Languages:**
I used to have strong feelings about which languages to learn, but now I realize you should write in the language you enjoy most. However don't be afraid to try new languages. I personally like C++, python, and C# in no particular order.
Since you are just starting out pick the languages which you can get for free, which I actually think is most languages these days.
In the business world the language of choice tends to fluctuate on about a 5-7 year cycle. However you can find a job (at least currently) in all the "big" languages (C++, JAVA, C# VB.net, python, ruby, perl, ...). If you learn one of the modern languages well, it is typically not a problem to transition to another language quickly. The libraries tend to take longer to learn than the language itself. So pick a language you like learning in and learn it.
**Miscellaneous Thoughts:**
As Marc Charbonneau said set up source control. There are plenty of free source control offerings, so pick the one you like best. Personally I use [Perforce](http://www.perforce.com/), which is free for two or less people. I ahve heard good things about [Subversion](http://subversion.tigris.org/) and [git](http://git.or.cz/) as well. The specific one is not as important, but choose one of them.
If you want to get a deeper knowledge of computing I would recommend Sipser's [Book](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0534950973) and [Knuth](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0201485419).
Whichever language you choose I would spend time learning the debugger for it as well.
If you are doing web development, then make sure you know how to minimally setup and run Apachie (or IIS).
Avoid holy wars if you can. They are a waste of time, and you don't learn anything from it except that people are stubborn. Some Holy war topics (bracket style, editors, endianess, "best" language, "best" OS, ...).
**My personal setup:**
Standard PC (Windows XP Pro)
* Visual Studio 2007 (a little behind).
* VIM
* Python
* C/C++
* C#
* Scons
Standard PC (FreeBSD runs headless: no GUI)
* gnu tool chain (Make, C/C++ etc)
* VIM
* python
* Scons | Nothing will help more than picking a project that uses the technologies you're most interested in and building it. You could decide you're going to learn X language or read a book on Y for no other reason than to increase your knowledge, but even if you have the willpower to follow through all the way I'm willing to bet you'll learn just as much and get much more satisfaction out of basing your learning around something practical.
As far as specific tools, well, the only answer depends on what you want to do. You could end up using Visual C# Express from Microsoft, NetBeans IDE for Java, or Xcode on a Mac. All of these are free, but it's really what you plan to do with the tools that matters, not that you have them installed on your hard drive. The same thing goes for hardware and OS too, you might want to have a good Windows PC for building a game in C#, or use a Mac for web development, etc. Decide what you want to do, and pick the best tools that allow you to accomplish that goal.
One thing that is pretty much independent of everything is some kind of version control; it's a good idea no matter what project or technology you use. Git and Subversion are two popular, cross platform choices. |
303,456 | I am a newbie in the software development field. I am hungry for more avenues through which I can develop, nurture, and mature in my development, scripting, and programming skills, more so outside of work time. I'd like to know what type of set-up (hardware and/or software) would be extremely beneficial or that others have found necessary for this endeavor.
I want to be able to equip my home 'office' with tools that will enable me to progress and grow as a developer. | 2008/11/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/303456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/37804/"
] | **Write Code:**
In this [article](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001160.html) [Jeff Atwood](http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood) talks about how to become better at designing and writing software by designing and writing a lot of software. His is stated more elegantly, but it is a valid point. The more you do something, the better you will get at it.
**Hardware:**
Any modern PC/Mac hardware should suffice. If you plan to run Windows or Linux I would use a PC over Mac. There is a lot of clamor over which is better, but use the one you like the best.
It should be a moot point in this day and age, but make sure you have some sort of reliable internet connectivity (cable, dsl, whatever...). Then you will have access to [Google](http://www.google.com/) and
[stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/); both good resources for programmers.
Make sure you have a keyboard and mouse which are comfortable to you. This includes setting up your desk and chair to accommodate your height and hand position. You will be at the computer for long stretches of time, and you want to be comfortable.
**Editor/IDE:**
Choose an editor: Vim, EMACS, KATE, Eclipse, *whatever*. It doesn't really matter which one, but whichever one you do pick learn it well. The editor is your main tool and you want to be comfortable and knowledgeable when using it. The better you know your editor the faster you can create/edit code.
It helps to have an editor that runs on all platforms you may be developing on, but it is not necessary.
**Build Tools:**
At some point you will find your self face to face with having to create or fix a build stystem. Make is pretty standard for \*nix and C/C++, but for your own personal projects find the one that suits you best. There are a lot to choose from: Scons, Ant, Make, Jam, ...
I personally use SCons, since it is python based, and I like python.
**Books:**
When learning a new topic I would recommend getting a good book on it. This will generally give you a good overview of what you are getting into, and give you a good foundation to learn from. Google and Stackoverflow are good for specific questions, but a general overview of a topic is harder to get.
This of course assumes you have the luxury of time and money. For the monetarily constrained you can often find free versions of electronic books online.
**Languages:**
I used to have strong feelings about which languages to learn, but now I realize you should write in the language you enjoy most. However don't be afraid to try new languages. I personally like C++, python, and C# in no particular order.
Since you are just starting out pick the languages which you can get for free, which I actually think is most languages these days.
In the business world the language of choice tends to fluctuate on about a 5-7 year cycle. However you can find a job (at least currently) in all the "big" languages (C++, JAVA, C# VB.net, python, ruby, perl, ...). If you learn one of the modern languages well, it is typically not a problem to transition to another language quickly. The libraries tend to take longer to learn than the language itself. So pick a language you like learning in and learn it.
**Miscellaneous Thoughts:**
As Marc Charbonneau said set up source control. There are plenty of free source control offerings, so pick the one you like best. Personally I use [Perforce](http://www.perforce.com/), which is free for two or less people. I ahve heard good things about [Subversion](http://subversion.tigris.org/) and [git](http://git.or.cz/) as well. The specific one is not as important, but choose one of them.
If you want to get a deeper knowledge of computing I would recommend Sipser's [Book](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0534950973) and [Knuth](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0201485419).
Whichever language you choose I would spend time learning the debugger for it as well.
If you are doing web development, then make sure you know how to minimally setup and run Apachie (or IIS).
Avoid holy wars if you can. They are a waste of time, and you don't learn anything from it except that people are stubborn. Some Holy war topics (bracket style, editors, endianess, "best" language, "best" OS, ...).
**My personal setup:**
Standard PC (Windows XP Pro)
* Visual Studio 2007 (a little behind).
* VIM
* Python
* C/C++
* C#
* Scons
Standard PC (FreeBSD runs headless: no GUI)
* gnu tool chain (Make, C/C++ etc)
* VIM
* python
* Scons | A fast connection (for downloading linux), and a safari.oreilly.com account! |
436,942 | I got a mbp with Touch Bar and now I'm sure I don't like it. What can I do to make it look and behave less like a Touch Bar? Is it possible to make it hold just two sets of buttons, the function keys and the volume keys (and other keys we use to have when pressing fn)?
Here it looks like every time I switch apps the Touch Bar will show something different. I just want volume up/down and screen brightness up/down there all the time at one click distance. Is this still possible?
To access volume I have to 1st press the volume slider to get access to up/down buttons. I would like to volume up/down in just one click. | 2022/02/13 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/436942",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/189386/"
] | In **System Preferences > Keyboard**, set "Touch Bar shows" to "Expanded Control Strip" | To access the volume or brightness in just 1 tap, just press on the desired icon and start sliding your finger left or right without raising your finger.
I run my computer with the brightness slider, volume slider, mute, and quick actions. I see them in all of the apps that I'm in at all times. You'll find those default settings in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Customize Touch Bar.. |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143968",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52876/"
] | Do you have a genuine **anarchy** or is it more a tribal or organized crime setting?
* The "families" do not want any city government to interfere with their business.
* The "families" want to do business with each other, so in the absence of law they must gain a *reputation for keeping their word*, and for punishing betrayals.
* The "families" want tourists to spend money.
So they put the word out, first within the family and then on the street -- anyone who touches a tourist without explicit permission from a family boss will **suffer**. Not for breaking the law, but for costing the family face.
Tourists might still be at a higher risk than in a truly law-abiding town, but to balance that they can buy all the sin they want. The rules don't protect the locals, unless the locals have family connections. In your setting, kinky demands are a matter of price. | A resort in the middle of the city.
A mid-sized resort where people can "look" at the city's chaos, abuse, and anarchy, be it with binoculars, cameras on screens, or any other apparatus or sci-fi-ish mechanism, all of this enbaled by the families, of course. They keep the show running, and people keep pouring in to watch "the spectacle" (So unciviliced!) Reminds me of something similar from the videogame MadWorld, for the Wii. I'm sure there's other similar examples in media.
You could pair this with tours, as other answers have suggested, for a truly detached experience for the tourists. It's like a play for them. Like watching animals at a zoo. That could give for an interesting world perspective, as well. (Commentary, or something?) |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143968",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52876/"
] | >
> causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and
> such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and
> drugs.
>
>
>
So basically, the major change is that assassinations are now hitting the body instead of the character, and everything else is mostly as before, maybe a bit pronounced?
Which means the reasons for your tourists are still the very same:
>
> It's Vegas, baby!
>
>
>
There just isn't any other place like it in what's left of the civilized world. Even more so than before. If you want all the things you can get (only) in Vegas, you have to got to Vegas.
>
> What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
>
>
>
You don't describe what your post-apocalyptic society looks like, but large army and strong government sounds like a police state in the making, so its inhabitants would certainly welcome an opportunity to do ... things. Things that might be illegal, or considered unethical or just frowned upon in their homes. Where probably populations are now smaller which means less anonymity, which means your reputation is more valuable again. Basically: If you're caught cheating on your wife with a prostitute while doing drugs you can't just move to a different neighbourhood and nobody will know you there. But in Vegas...
There's plenty of reasons for people to visit your Vegas, and they aren't much different from the reasons today. | A resort in the middle of the city.
A mid-sized resort where people can "look" at the city's chaos, abuse, and anarchy, be it with binoculars, cameras on screens, or any other apparatus or sci-fi-ish mechanism, all of this enbaled by the families, of course. They keep the show running, and people keep pouring in to watch "the spectacle" (So unciviliced!) Reminds me of something similar from the videogame MadWorld, for the Wii. I'm sure there's other similar examples in media.
You could pair this with tours, as other answers have suggested, for a truly detached experience for the tourists. It's like a play for them. Like watching animals at a zoo. That could give for an interesting world perspective, as well. (Commentary, or something?) |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143968",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52876/"
] | Organized Tours
===============
If the Families can agree to jointly fund and protect a tourist agency (or at least agree not to gun them down), the agency can setup organized tours for adventure seekers.
Our modern-day Vegas has hotels, casinos, restaurants, and shows. Any tourist can just show up and enjoy what the city has to offer (which even today is quite possibly "prostitutes, gambling, and drugs"). But post-apocalypse Vegas isn't ready for that.
Bus in each group from Los Angeles (or partner with a New Californian company and do a bus switch at the border) then give them a 5 day (or whatever length) worldwind tour of historic Vegas.
Set them up in set-aside floor of a building that used to be a hotel (use whatever real or made-up story about that hotel's history you want), feed them well, and take them out daily to a variety of places that fit the theme of the tour. Use plenty of security (and costume them well).
Bus them back to California and bring in the next set of tourists.
One hundred years isn't long enough to lose all the stories of Vegas floating around. Play those up and mix them with exclusive tours. People will line up. You can increase the number of tours later, but your target audience will still think of them as hard to get.
If the tours are successful (no deaths), eventually some old hotels and restaurants can be opened up to general tourists. Perhaps they're open as such now, but they'll be perceived as safe (or safe enough). There can still be docent-led tours with security staff if the tourists want to go outside the "safe" zone.
Play up the danger element, but reassure people that you'll take care of them. That combo is irresistible to many who will love for you to take their money. For others, just the change to see beautiful old buildings that weren't bombed into smithereens is worth a small amount of risk. | While anarchy can be an impediment to tourism, it does not have to be if
a) Outside society possesses resources to protect themselves while visiting (i.e. the rich hire bodyguards they bring with them). If the nearby established government does not provide adequate internal security, this is likely the case.
b) Bodyguards are for hire within the city. Any tourist who is wealthy enough will hire one and those that don't will bring their own forms of protection. If someone is too stupid for either of these, then they likely get killed or robbed. This would not impact tourism because the thought is that those killed "had it coming."
c) There is something worth the danger to attract people. Being avoided by nukes, Vegas likely already has this quality. If it did not, the reputation of Vegas is such that people would come if prostitution, drugs, and gambling is still available. This is especially true if the nearby government outlaws or restricts any of these things.
d) People can get to the city. This does not need to be caused by any of the families efforts, but can be from outside agencies.
Any of the families can promote one or more of these things to attract tourists, and if these things already exist, the city may have tourists without any effort on the families' part.
However, a family could sabotage the tourism industry by targeting tourists and tourist bodyguards specifically. |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143968",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52876/"
] | **Vegas is beautiful.**
All that Road Warrior post apocalyptic wasteland Fallout stuff. Bah. It is like a stew that has pepper as its only spice. Nothing wrong with pepper but your fiction has plenty of that.
Make New Vegas clean and beautiful; an oasis in the desert. The competing families are Mormon families, with family values and they all promote that as a reason Vegas is safe and fun for visitors. Just like people might trust a Jewish diamond shop because it is run by Jews, so people trust Mormon gambling and prostitution houses because of the reputation for tables that are fair and prostitutes that are clean. Some proselytizing goes on of course but the Mormons are good at it and keep that aspect of Vegas at a low volume.
The blood and killing is an unpleasant cost of business, not personal and they do their best to clean up quick and keep collateral damage to a minimum. | While anarchy can be an impediment to tourism, it does not have to be if
a) Outside society possesses resources to protect themselves while visiting (i.e. the rich hire bodyguards they bring with them). If the nearby established government does not provide adequate internal security, this is likely the case.
b) Bodyguards are for hire within the city. Any tourist who is wealthy enough will hire one and those that don't will bring their own forms of protection. If someone is too stupid for either of these, then they likely get killed or robbed. This would not impact tourism because the thought is that those killed "had it coming."
c) There is something worth the danger to attract people. Being avoided by nukes, Vegas likely already has this quality. If it did not, the reputation of Vegas is such that people would come if prostitution, drugs, and gambling is still available. This is especially true if the nearby government outlaws or restricts any of these things.
d) People can get to the city. This does not need to be caused by any of the families efforts, but can be from outside agencies.
Any of the families can promote one or more of these things to attract tourists, and if these things already exist, the city may have tourists without any effort on the families' part.
However, a family could sabotage the tourism industry by targeting tourists and tourist bodyguards specifically. |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143968",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52876/"
] | >
> causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and
> such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and
> drugs.
>
>
>
So basically, the major change is that assassinations are now hitting the body instead of the character, and everything else is mostly as before, maybe a bit pronounced?
Which means the reasons for your tourists are still the very same:
>
> It's Vegas, baby!
>
>
>
There just isn't any other place like it in what's left of the civilized world. Even more so than before. If you want all the things you can get (only) in Vegas, you have to got to Vegas.
>
> What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
>
>
>
You don't describe what your post-apocalyptic society looks like, but large army and strong government sounds like a police state in the making, so its inhabitants would certainly welcome an opportunity to do ... things. Things that might be illegal, or considered unethical or just frowned upon in their homes. Where probably populations are now smaller which means less anonymity, which means your reputation is more valuable again. Basically: If you're caught cheating on your wife with a prostitute while doing drugs you can't just move to a different neighbourhood and nobody will know you there. But in Vegas...
There's plenty of reasons for people to visit your Vegas, and they aren't much different from the reasons today. | Bit of a nitpick, but what you are describing is more 'chaotic' or a 'failed state' than 'anarchic'. But anyways,...
>
> how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people
>
>
>
You answered your own question. By promoting...
>
> prostitution, gambling, and drugs.
>
>
>
People going to Vegas in 2019 certainly aren't going there for the bible classes, after all.
Other possible motivations:
* Cheaper medicine or medical care, or to access medical services that are unavailable in California (in a sci-fi context, this could mean illegal cybernetics).
* Perhaps its cheaper consumer goods (no sales tax, hard to find items).
* Some people are going back to visit family.
* Sometimes its just a rite of passage for a group of guys.
So long as your tourists are *reasonably* safe if they behave themselves and don't stick their noses where they don't belong, there will be a constant appeal to visiting. |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143968",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52876/"
] | Do you have a genuine **anarchy** or is it more a tribal or organized crime setting?
* The "families" do not want any city government to interfere with their business.
* The "families" want to do business with each other, so in the absence of law they must gain a *reputation for keeping their word*, and for punishing betrayals.
* The "families" want tourists to spend money.
So they put the word out, first within the family and then on the street -- anyone who touches a tourist without explicit permission from a family boss will **suffer**. Not for breaking the law, but for costing the family face.
Tourists might still be at a higher risk than in a truly law-abiding town, but to balance that they can buy all the sin they want. The rules don't protect the locals, unless the locals have family connections. In your setting, kinky demands are a matter of price. | What about some sort of fusion of concepts from Discworld and Westworld?
The excessively rich can come and live out their fantasy in this haven of crime and unrest (Westworld). The 'families' agree that an influx of money is important so they form an agreement that the tourists can obtain licensed tourist status (more money) and be immune from the harder crimes that they might otherwise be vulnerable (the inverse of the Thieves Guild approach).
They could also offer ride-along/internship type holidays where they get to participate in the running of the 'families'.
All of this of course with large insurance premiums and airtight contracts. It might be small number of tourists can afford this method but they would be whales! |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143968",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52876/"
] | Do you have a genuine **anarchy** or is it more a tribal or organized crime setting?
* The "families" do not want any city government to interfere with their business.
* The "families" want to do business with each other, so in the absence of law they must gain a *reputation for keeping their word*, and for punishing betrayals.
* The "families" want tourists to spend money.
So they put the word out, first within the family and then on the street -- anyone who touches a tourist without explicit permission from a family boss will **suffer**. Not for breaking the law, but for costing the family face.
Tourists might still be at a higher risk than in a truly law-abiding town, but to balance that they can buy all the sin they want. The rules don't protect the locals, unless the locals have family connections. In your setting, kinky demands are a matter of price. | While anarchy can be an impediment to tourism, it does not have to be if
a) Outside society possesses resources to protect themselves while visiting (i.e. the rich hire bodyguards they bring with them). If the nearby established government does not provide adequate internal security, this is likely the case.
b) Bodyguards are for hire within the city. Any tourist who is wealthy enough will hire one and those that don't will bring their own forms of protection. If someone is too stupid for either of these, then they likely get killed or robbed. This would not impact tourism because the thought is that those killed "had it coming."
c) There is something worth the danger to attract people. Being avoided by nukes, Vegas likely already has this quality. If it did not, the reputation of Vegas is such that people would come if prostitution, drugs, and gambling is still available. This is especially true if the nearby government outlaws or restricts any of these things.
d) People can get to the city. This does not need to be caused by any of the families efforts, but can be from outside agencies.
Any of the families can promote one or more of these things to attract tourists, and if these things already exist, the city may have tourists without any effort on the families' part.
However, a family could sabotage the tourism industry by targeting tourists and tourist bodyguards specifically. |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/143968",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/52876/"
] | Organized Tours
===============
If the Families can agree to jointly fund and protect a tourist agency (or at least agree not to gun them down), the agency can setup organized tours for adventure seekers.
Our modern-day Vegas has hotels, casinos, restaurants, and shows. Any tourist can just show up and enjoy what the city has to offer (which even today is quite possibly "prostitutes, gambling, and drugs"). But post-apocalypse Vegas isn't ready for that.
Bus in each group from Los Angeles (or partner with a New Californian company and do a bus switch at the border) then give them a 5 day (or whatever length) worldwind tour of historic Vegas.
Set them up in set-aside floor of a building that used to be a hotel (use whatever real or made-up story about that hotel's history you want), feed them well, and take them out daily to a variety of places that fit the theme of the tour. Use plenty of security (and costume them well).
Bus them back to California and bring in the next set of tourists.
One hundred years isn't long enough to lose all the stories of Vegas floating around. Play those up and mix them with exclusive tours. People will line up. You can increase the number of tours later, but your target audience will still think of them as hard to get.
If the tours are successful (no deaths), eventually some old hotels and restaurants can be opened up to general tourists. Perhaps they're open as such now, but they'll be perceived as safe (or safe enough). There can still be docent-led tours with security staff if the tourists want to go outside the "safe" zone.
Play up the danger element, but reassure people that you'll take care of them. That combo is irresistible to many who will love for you to take their money. For others, just the change to see beautiful old buildings that weren't bombed into smithereens is worth a small amount of risk. | What about some sort of fusion of concepts from Discworld and Westworld?
The excessively rich can come and live out their fantasy in this haven of crime and unrest (Westworld). The 'families' agree that an influx of money is important so they form an agreement that the tourists can obtain licensed tourist status (more money) and be immune from the harder crimes that they might otherwise be vulnerable (the inverse of the Thieves Guild approach).
They could also offer ride-along/internship type holidays where they get to participate in the running of the 'families'.
All of this of course with large insurance premiums and airtight contracts. It might be small number of tourists can afford this method but they would be whales! |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
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> causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and
> such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and
> drugs.
>
>
>
So basically, the major change is that assassinations are now hitting the body instead of the character, and everything else is mostly as before, maybe a bit pronounced?
Which means the reasons for your tourists are still the very same:
>
> It's Vegas, baby!
>
>
>
There just isn't any other place like it in what's left of the civilized world. Even more so than before. If you want all the things you can get (only) in Vegas, you have to got to Vegas.
>
> What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
>
>
>
You don't describe what your post-apocalyptic society looks like, but large army and strong government sounds like a police state in the making, so its inhabitants would certainly welcome an opportunity to do ... things. Things that might be illegal, or considered unethical or just frowned upon in their homes. Where probably populations are now smaller which means less anonymity, which means your reputation is more valuable again. Basically: If you're caught cheating on your wife with a prostitute while doing drugs you can't just move to a different neighbourhood and nobody will know you there. But in Vegas...
There's plenty of reasons for people to visit your Vegas, and they aren't much different from the reasons today. | The target of such tourism is people that are attracted to what Vegas can give, and have the power to take care of themselves:
1. They can engage in many activies that would be considered illegal in New California (something that might be extra appealing for the rich)
2. They boast higher technology than Vegas and are therefore not phased by the threat low level criminals might bring.
3. They are rich and therefore have the same social status as the 'families'. They are similarly overbearing, proud and arrogant. They do what they like. They might even find it fun putting some 'criminals' in their place. |
143,968 | So, in my Post-Apocalyptic world, there’s a city down in South Nevada known as Vegas. Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity. But, over the last 100 years, society in the city has devolved considerably.
Vegas lives in a state of near constant anarchy. The only government-like forces are the families, but they often cause more trouble than they stop, causing gang wars in the streets and political assassinations and such. Mostly, Vegas’s economy consists of prostitutes, gambling, and drugs.
Back far west, in the region of New California, the USC (United States of California) has arisen, and now boasts a large army and strong government. But, like the Vegas of old, these inhabitants, especially the crime families, want tourists, mainly Californian tourists, to come to their city, as they bring valuable currency that can be used to buy more weapons and armaments.
So, my question is, how can you market an anarchic city as a tourism spot to people (mainly people living in civilized government)? | 2019/04/14 | [
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>
> Unlike the rest of the majority of North America, Vegas was not hit by nuclear warheads in its near vicinity.
>
>
>
Even though the citizens of the USC live somewhat comfortably and securely under an organized government, they are unfamiliar with real pre-war cities. They live in stable and secure towns and cities of their own, but many things have changed since the war and cities in the USC just don't match the grandeur and scale of pre-war cities. In fact for many tourists from the USC, visiting Vegas skews their perception of pre-war society and their impression is that before the war cities were much more dangerous and anarchic. In their minds society has settled into peace and order only under the stable hand of the USC government. But in any case, they see the trip as visiting a real pre-war city and the danger is almost expected as part of the experience - "that's just how pre-war cities are."
For others who couldn't care less about seeing a living pre-war city, the same thing draws them to Vegas as anyone present day. Drugs, prostitution, gambling are all effectively limited or outlawed by the USC, and so many people are willing to risk their safety for a hedonistic binge every once in a while in Vegas. Despite the fact that the policing forces don't really protect tourists, and that there is occasional open combat in the streets, chances of dying in Vegas are statistically quite low for a tourist and it's worth it for an experience they won't find in New California. | A resort in the middle of the city.
A mid-sized resort where people can "look" at the city's chaos, abuse, and anarchy, be it with binoculars, cameras on screens, or any other apparatus or sci-fi-ish mechanism, all of this enbaled by the families, of course. They keep the show running, and people keep pouring in to watch "the spectacle" (So unciviliced!) Reminds me of something similar from the videogame MadWorld, for the Wii. I'm sure there's other similar examples in media.
You could pair this with tours, as other answers have suggested, for a truly detached experience for the tourists. It's like a play for them. Like watching animals at a zoo. That could give for an interesting world perspective, as well. (Commentary, or something?) |
531,085 | So I haven't soldered in years and only have experience with through hole soldering and large components. Today I attempted a repair with a HTC Vive controller. I know where to solder and managed to do one side but the others points where I had to solder I think I've screwed up. So my question is how do I fix this? (If it's even possible) And was it the result of too much heat?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/64dpa.jpg)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IoYMT.jpg)
I know how to repair trace points and pads that lead to obvious places but these pads I think which are test pads I don't have a schematic, any ideas?
EDIT
For reference this is what I intended to do to fix my broken power cable. <https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+fix+broken+power+button+ribbon/119514?permalink=1#comment-694934>
I know they are test points. I need to solder to them because the ribbon cable connection on the main board on the other side was damaged, this bypasses that. If I have lifted the pads is it possible to fix ? | 2020/11/07 | [
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Depending on the frequency of the trace, lifting a pad can mean a new board for me. But if these are just test points (which I agree I think they are) and you don't know where they lead to, then you couldn't get any use out of them anyway... so I wouldn't sweat it.
As far as fixing lifted pads, I think the best bet is to try and flow solder into the pad area. Make sure the solder is also connected to the incoming trace. You should scratch some of the soldermask away from the trace to ensure a good connection. It's not nearly as nice, and you will burn the dielectric doing it. And if its a trace carrying a +100MHz signal I would be very wary. | First of all, hold the board up against a light and see if you can see the copper traces through the blue solder mask. This is most often possible. From there on, you might be able to figure out where the broken pad connected to and then attach a wire to that component instead of the pad.
If you can't manage this, then use a scalpel to carefully remove the solder mask around the damaged pad. You'll end up exposing copper, it is most often quite possible to solder directly onto that copper using a very thin wire. Or alternatively, use an Ohm meter and try to figure out where the exposed copper connects to, using trial & error.
Note that the pads don't necessarily go anywhere, they could have just been added there to make things symmetric. If they aren't connected anywhere, those pads would come off very easy when heated. But in that case, you don't need to even repair the board since the pad did nothing.
Needless to say, clean up the board with isopropyl before doing anything else. |
45,806 | Can a US citizen born in America be denied a passport if that person lost more than 3 passports. If so, what should he do in order to obtain a passport?
I am planning a travel but now missplaced my passport. Tried to expedite, but they told me I have to wait for clearance, however with no bad intent but I am a very forgetful person. What should I do? | 2015/04/08 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/45806",
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The reasons why one might be denied a US passport include:
* [Submitting low quality passport photos](https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/news/picture-perfect-passport.html)
* [Failing to fill out the application completely](http://traveltips.usatoday.com/reasons-passport-would-denied-61703.html)
* [Failing to include payment](http://traveltips.usatoday.com/reasons-passport-would-denied-61703.html)
* [Failing to include legible and valid supporting documents](http://traveltips.usatoday.com/reasons-passport-would-denied-61703.html)
* [Not being a US citizen](http://traveltips.usatoday.com/reasons-denial-us-passports-63314.html)
* [Owing more than $2500 in child support payments](http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/information/legal-matters/child-support.html)
* [Owing back federal income taxes, in some cases](http://traveltips.usatoday.com/can-still-us-passport-owe-irs-back-taxes-100657.html)
* [Having pending felony criminal charges](http://traveltips.usatoday.com/reasons-denial-us-passports-63314.html)
* [Being on probation or parole for a felony](http://traveltips.usatoday.com/reasons-denial-us-passports-63314.html)
If you had such a circumstance apply to you and your circumstances recently changed, it might not be possible to get expedited processing as the change in circumstances will need to be verified.
Further, if you have a history of lost/stolen passports, and you lose a passport while overseas, [the embassy or consulate may issue a limited validity emergency passport](http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/emergencies/lost-or-stolen-passports-abroad.html) which is only good for one year, rather than a full 10-year validity passport. | While I know we dislike link only answers but do we really want to reproduce the relevant, lengthy sections of the US Code of Federal Regulations here? If not, then [22 CFR 51.60 - Denial and restriction of passports](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/22/51.60) is the answer. (The main reason I wrote this one is because Michael Hampton's otherwise excellent answer links to the USA Today which I find slightly less trustworthy than the CFR itself.)
What is notably missing from Michael Hampton's list for someone who tends to lose their passport:
>
> The applicant is in default on a loan received from the United States under 22 U.S.C. 2671(b)(2)(B) for the repatriation of the applicant and, where applicable, the applicant's spouse, minor child(ren), and/or other immediate family members, from a foreign country (see 22 U.S.C. 2671(d)); or
>
>
>
So if the embassy loaned you money to get you home because you were destitute then you can't get another passport until you paid back the loan.
Also, if your forgetfulness reaches really badly serious levels and
>
> The applicant has been legally declared incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States
>
>
>
then you also won't get a passport. |
44,162,988 | My school has blocked literally everything on my windows laptop, I can't access cmd, gpedit.msc, regedit, setting/control panel and pretty much anything else you could think of that could disable admin restrictions. So how would i disable admin restrictions, i'm uses windows 10 (can find edition as info is blocked).i just need to be able to access one of the above mentioned things | 2017/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/44162988",
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The Administrator is the account who can change any configuration in your computer.
There is a group called "Administrators" those accounts can change any configuration in your computer too if they have the administrator role asigned to that group.
By default the first account in your PC is the administrator.
Check this [link](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14028/windows-7-how-log-on-as-an-administrator) for a better explanation. | try opening cmd using powershell by typing
"start cmd" |
427,051 | Now I'm trying to create KVM templates with CentOS and I'm not sure should I create swap partition on guest OS or not. In future it will be lot's of small VPS with 256-1024Mb RAM and if swap partition is a good idea will be 256Mb of swap enough for making them more stable? | 2012/09/13 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/427051",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/119872/"
] | Sure. Go for it... Those sound like low-memory virtual machines. It may be helpful to have swap in place in the event memory is exhausted. If not, you can always add swap files later. | One other thing to consider... some applications, databases most notably, try to consume all the physical RAM they can. Unfortunately, if your database is large enough, your database server will take your server to the brink of no memory. If things get to constrained, the kernel will pull out its pistol and start shooting processes in the head to recover memory. In my experience, it seems the RAM munching database is the first go.
Add a little swap. |
981 | We use a semitransparent grid layer (.mig file) to show 'hotspot' intensity in MapBasic (MapInfo). Because the grid is just a rectangle, this looks ugly. See for instance:
.
Now MapInfo allows grid cells to be invisible (NULL), which would result in round-like hotspot regions.
But we would prefer to extend the grid. Of course we could just add extra rows and columns, but that would require a lot of extra memory. And it would still show a boundary at some zoom level.
Is it possible to infinitely extend a grid layer with a constant value? | 2010/08/09 | [
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We use MIGrid.dll. I found one (old) [reference](http://georezo.net/jparis/mb_r/doc/migrid_MB_calls/GE_MB_calls.pdf "MIGrid MapBasic calls").
A grid is mapped to a rectangular region (GE\_GRID\_INFO stuct). Every cell has equal size. So I'm afraid it's just impossible with grids.
If anyone knows of a workable alternative, using MapInfo... | The grid is created on the extents of the thematic data (selection or table). Therefore you could add two points of dummy data (top left and bottom right) of the extents of the projection. |
981 | We use a semitransparent grid layer (.mig file) to show 'hotspot' intensity in MapBasic (MapInfo). Because the grid is just a rectangle, this looks ugly. See for instance:
.
Now MapInfo allows grid cells to be invisible (NULL), which would result in round-like hotspot regions.
But we would prefer to extend the grid. Of course we could just add extra rows and columns, but that would require a lot of extra memory. And it would still show a boundary at some zoom level.
Is it possible to infinitely extend a grid layer with a constant value? | 2010/08/09 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/981",
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"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/418/"
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We use MIGrid.dll. I found one (old) [reference](http://georezo.net/jparis/mb_r/doc/migrid_MB_calls/GE_MB_calls.pdf "MIGrid MapBasic calls").
A grid is mapped to a rectangular region (GE\_GRID\_INFO stuct). Every cell has equal size. So I'm afraid it's just impossible with grids.
If anyone knows of a workable alternative, using MapInfo... | <http://acidmaps.org>
the good thing is it integrates with Geoserver. Geoserver is the GIS server of choice at vtsPN. Since I am involved with Sherpa now, I might be able to pull a few strings ;-) |
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Although I have had no experience moderating on StackExchange before, I believe that I can be a valued member of the community helping to shape our site. Most importantly, I am willing to learn from the more experienced mods of the StackExchange world.
Currently I am working on site improvements and publishing, having recently achieved booster and two announcer badges. I am also very active answering, commenting and reviewing.
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I am still desperately waiting for my own Raspberry Pi and hardly consider myself a valuable contributor in regards to questions and answers.
I do, however, read every new question while I'm awake and keep an eye on our tags and chat.
I'm very passionate about StackExchange and the Raspberry Pi as well. Hopefully, you'll give me the opportunity to help keep order within our community. |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
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> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
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> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
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* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
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I like make sure the site is putting its best foot forward and demonstrates its valuable contribution to the wider Raspberry Pi community. I have done this by carefully editing posts and reviewing others' suggested edits.
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I am still desperately waiting for my own Raspberry Pi and hardly consider myself a valuable contributor in regards to questions and answers.
I do, however, read every new question while I'm awake and keep an eye on our tags and chat.
I'm very passionate about StackExchange and the Raspberry Pi as well. Hopefully, you'll give me the opportunity to help keep order within our community. |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
>
> About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are
> deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:
>
>
> * Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent
> participation.
> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
> activities.
> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
* Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
* If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
* The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.
* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-supreme-council-of-the-pi) where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called [The Assembly](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly) was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions. | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | I, dunsmoreb, nominate myself, dunsmoreb, as a community moderator, dunsmoreb.
---
[SE Rep: 3.9k http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/341481.png](http://stackexchange.com/users/341481/dunsmoreb)
[](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/46/dunsmoreb)
[](https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/flair/46.png)
---
While I may not answer the most questions on the main Raspberry Pi site, I am very active in editing. I've edited over 100 posts and 25 tag wikis. I believe that the quality of questions is a reflection on how much a community cares about a particular subject, and ergo I try to edit and retag questions and answers to their best.
I am also very active on the meta site. I love discussing topics related to the site and it's community on meta. As exhibited by me being ranked top user by participation and votes on meta. I've also had experience with Stack Overflow Meta, so I know the rules and expectations of meta.
---
If I were nominated as a community moderator, I would listen to my fellow community members and see what their opinion on issues are. As I feel a community is more successful when **all** of its members are involved in it's success. Oh yeah, and I would: handle flags, suggested edits, and etc.; I guess. =P
Either way, I will not stop contributing to the community no matter the decision. As I believe this community is a great idea that has even greater potential. Thank you for listening to my rambling! =D | After a recommendation on chat, I'm nominating myself as well.
---
[profile for ACarter on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/1113893.png](http://stackexchange.com/users/1113893/acarter)
[](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/186/acarter)
[](https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/186/acarter)
---
I may not have the most Rep, or have given the most answers or whatever, but I'm certainly active enough.
I believe I do exibit all the traits required to be a moderator.
I can keep a cool head. An answer of mine was recently offensively commented, and I just flagged the commment and asked the commenter to stop being rude and tell me how I could improve the answer. (Okay your 'perfect moderator' might have just ignored it, but I've **learnt from the experience** and will know what to do better next time)
I have done a load of editing, and **I'm not scared to dig in and try and help**.
A few words on other sites. I have experience over on Stack Overflow, I'm an administrator over on a fairly high profile wiki at [wikia.com](http://wikia.com), and have experience with moderation/administration/whatever on other similar systems.
I am obviously not all amazing though, we all have things we could do better with. For example, I recently asked a question that received quite 4 close votes in a short space of time. But after hearing an explanation, I saw why, and ended casting the final close vote myself.
It's probably not very good for my social life, but if I see a list of flags waiting to be reviewed, or similar, I will not stop reviewing them until there are none left (or I've used up all my internet usage and am about to be cut off). |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
>
> About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are
> deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:
>
>
> * Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent
> participation.
> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
> activities.
> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
* Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
* If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
* The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.
* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-supreme-council-of-the-pi) where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called [The Assembly](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly) was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions. | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | I would like to nominate myself for the position. Here are my credentials:
---
[profile for Jivings on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/133139.png](http://stackexchange.com/users/133139)
[](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/40/jivings)[](https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/jivings)
---
I am a recent Computer Science Graduate. My forte is in programming and Linux.
However, as can be seen from my Raspberry Pi answers, I am keen to answer other questions as best I can.
Although I have had no experience moderating on StackExchange before, I believe that I can be a valued member of the community helping to shape our site. Most importantly, I am willing to learn from the more experienced mods of the StackExchange world.
Currently I am working on site improvements and publishing, having recently achieved booster and two announcer badges. I am also very active answering, commenting and reviewing.
---
As well as the site, I am passionate about the Raspberry Pi. I have clocked up a stupid number of hours experimenting with my little electronic friend. Although I mainly hack about with Arch Linux, I am looking to understand GPIO programming to complement my existing knowledge.
---
If I am appointed, know that I will always be interested in *listening*. I also enjoy taking care of the site; reading wiki edits, retagging and discussing our controversial topics. I'll be happy to take this further by dealing with flags and disputes.
Appointed or not, know that I will be working towards making the Raspberry Pi StackExchange a great place to be. Hopefully allowing it to grow and flourish. | After a recommendation on chat, I'm nominating myself as well.
---
[profile for ACarter on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/1113893.png](http://stackexchange.com/users/1113893/acarter)
[](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/186/acarter)
[](https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/186/acarter)
---
I may not have the most Rep, or have given the most answers or whatever, but I'm certainly active enough.
I believe I do exibit all the traits required to be a moderator.
I can keep a cool head. An answer of mine was recently offensively commented, and I just flagged the commment and asked the commenter to stop being rude and tell me how I could improve the answer. (Okay your 'perfect moderator' might have just ignored it, but I've **learnt from the experience** and will know what to do better next time)
I have done a load of editing, and **I'm not scared to dig in and try and help**.
A few words on other sites. I have experience over on Stack Overflow, I'm an administrator over on a fairly high profile wiki at [wikia.com](http://wikia.com), and have experience with moderation/administration/whatever on other similar systems.
I am obviously not all amazing though, we all have things we could do better with. For example, I recently asked a question that received quite 4 close votes in a short space of time. But after hearing an explanation, I saw why, and ended casting the final close vote myself.
It's probably not very good for my social life, but if I see a list of flags waiting to be reviewed, or similar, I will not stop reviewing them until there are none left (or I've used up all my internet usage and am about to be cut off). |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
>
> About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are
> deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:
>
>
> * Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent
> participation.
> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
> activities.
> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
* Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
* If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
* The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.
* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-supreme-council-of-the-pi) where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called [The Assembly](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly) was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions. | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | I, dunsmoreb, nominate myself, dunsmoreb, as a community moderator, dunsmoreb.
---
[SE Rep: 3.9k http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/341481.png](http://stackexchange.com/users/341481/dunsmoreb)
[](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/46/dunsmoreb)
[](https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/flair/46.png)
---
While I may not answer the most questions on the main Raspberry Pi site, I am very active in editing. I've edited over 100 posts and 25 tag wikis. I believe that the quality of questions is a reflection on how much a community cares about a particular subject, and ergo I try to edit and retag questions and answers to their best.
I am also very active on the meta site. I love discussing topics related to the site and it's community on meta. As exhibited by me being ranked top user by participation and votes on meta. I've also had experience with Stack Overflow Meta, so I know the rules and expectations of meta.
---
If I were nominated as a community moderator, I would listen to my fellow community members and see what their opinion on issues are. As I feel a community is more successful when **all** of its members are involved in it's success. Oh yeah, and I would: handle flags, suggested edits, and etc.; I guess. =P
Either way, I will not stop contributing to the community no matter the decision. As I believe this community is a great idea that has even greater potential. Thank you for listening to my rambling! =D | I would like to nominate myself as a pro-tem moderator:
[](http://stackexchange.com/users/290516)
I would make it clear that I'm not the most experienced RPi user (or even linux), however this is not what I'm bringing to the table here:
Over on SO I have both the Copy Editor (1018 reviews, and 698 revisions) and Marshall badges (516 helpful flags raised and only 1 declined).
Out of the year and 5 months I've been a member on SO, I've visited on 429 days (jeez I need a holiday).
My experience of what makes a good question on an SE site should help the RPi site succeed in its beta phase.
Finally, the other element that I feel will be useful, is that I'm a good representative of what a lot of the RPi site users will be - people with maybe little / no hardware or linux experience. I bought my RPi to help fill knowledge gaps in these areas. From this standpoint I can help keep the RPi site useful for a lot of the users who will visit, and balance up the more experienced users/mods, using my wider technical experience to bridge the gap between the new users and the experts. |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
>
> About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are
> deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:
>
>
> * Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent
> participation.
> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
> activities.
> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
* Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
* If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
* The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.
* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-supreme-council-of-the-pi) where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called [The Assembly](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly) was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions. | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | I would like to nominate myself for the position. Here are my credentials:
---
[profile for Jivings on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/133139.png](http://stackexchange.com/users/133139)
[](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/40/jivings)[](https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/jivings)
---
I am a recent Computer Science Graduate. My forte is in programming and Linux.
However, as can be seen from my Raspberry Pi answers, I am keen to answer other questions as best I can.
Although I have had no experience moderating on StackExchange before, I believe that I can be a valued member of the community helping to shape our site. Most importantly, I am willing to learn from the more experienced mods of the StackExchange world.
Currently I am working on site improvements and publishing, having recently achieved booster and two announcer badges. I am also very active answering, commenting and reviewing.
---
As well as the site, I am passionate about the Raspberry Pi. I have clocked up a stupid number of hours experimenting with my little electronic friend. Although I mainly hack about with Arch Linux, I am looking to understand GPIO programming to complement my existing knowledge.
---
If I am appointed, know that I will always be interested in *listening*. I also enjoy taking care of the site; reading wiki edits, retagging and discussing our controversial topics. I'll be happy to take this further by dealing with flags and disputes.
Appointed or not, know that I will be working towards making the Raspberry Pi StackExchange a great place to be. Hopefully allowing it to grow and flourish. | I would also like to nominate myself.
---
[profile for Alex Chamberlain on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/931546.png](http://stackexchange.com/users/931546/alex-chamberlain)
[](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/86/alex-chamberlain)
[](https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/86/alex-chamberlain)
---
I am a recent Mathematics graduate, with A levels in Electronics and Computing. I have a job lined up in November as a software developer, and have loads of time to kill before then! I want to make an active contribution to our growing community.
Similar to others, I don't have previous moderating experience from other SE sites, but I am very willing to learn, and I have been very active on the Beta. I have been able to apply my knowledge of Linux - which I use on a day to day basis - to the specific case of the Pi.
I like make sure the site is putting its best foot forward and demonstrates its valuable contribution to the wider Raspberry Pi community. I have done this by carefully editing posts and reviewing others' suggested edits.
I look forward to contributing actively to the community in the future. |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
>
> About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are
> deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:
>
>
> * Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent
> participation.
> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
> activities.
> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
* Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
* If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
* The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.
* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-supreme-council-of-the-pi) where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called [The Assembly](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly) was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions. | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | I would also like to nominate myself.
---
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[](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/86/alex-chamberlain)
[](https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/86/alex-chamberlain)
---
I am a recent Mathematics graduate, with A levels in Electronics and Computing. I have a job lined up in November as a software developer, and have loads of time to kill before then! I want to make an active contribution to our growing community.
Similar to others, I don't have previous moderating experience from other SE sites, but I am very willing to learn, and I have been very active on the Beta. I have been able to apply my knowledge of Linux - which I use on a day to day basis - to the specific case of the Pi.
I like make sure the site is putting its best foot forward and demonstrates its valuable contribution to the wider Raspberry Pi community. I have done this by carefully editing posts and reviewing others' suggested edits.
I look forward to contributing actively to the community in the future. | I would like to nominate myself as a pro-tem moderator:
[](http://stackexchange.com/users/290516)
I would make it clear that I'm not the most experienced RPi user (or even linux), however this is not what I'm bringing to the table here:
Over on SO I have both the Copy Editor (1018 reviews, and 698 revisions) and Marshall badges (516 helpful flags raised and only 1 declined).
Out of the year and 5 months I've been a member on SO, I've visited on 429 days (jeez I need a holiday).
My experience of what makes a good question on an SE site should help the RPi site succeed in its beta phase.
Finally, the other element that I feel will be useful, is that I'm a good representative of what a lot of the RPi site users will be - people with maybe little / no hardware or linux experience. I bought my RPi to help fill knowledge gaps in these areas. From this standpoint I can help keep the RPi site useful for a lot of the users who will visit, and balance up the more experienced users/mods, using my wider technical experience to bridge the gap between the new users and the experts. |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
>
> About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are
> deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:
>
>
> * Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent
> participation.
> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
> activities.
> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
* Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
* If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
* The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.
* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-supreme-council-of-the-pi) where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called [The Assembly](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly) was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions. | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | I would like to nominate myself for the position.
---
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I may not yet have quite so high of a reputation score as some other users, but I have been reasonably active in the beta, especially in the meta and in discussions regarding on-topic and off-topic questions. I've followed the site from definition phase into the beta, and have a general idea of the direction the community is headed. I've earned the Convention badge, a requirement of moderation on Stack Overflow, and began a lot of the initial necessary discussion for a successful beta.
In addition to participation in the site, I'm also highly interested in outreach. This may not, strictly speaking, be the responsibility of moderators, though speaking from an official capacity may give outreach some more weight. I think as the site grows and gains popularity it will be important to directly contact the foundation and open a one-on-one dialog with their PR representative to discuss any possibility of their support or participation.
Why you should vote for me
==========================
* Upon appointment as a moderator I would immediately set aside my own personal convictions for the direction of the site in favor of representing the community as a whole. Thus far a lot of my input has been discussion and disagreement with other beta users. While the discussion could continue, **my intervention and actions themselves, as well as the reasoning and explanation for these actions, would be as a representative of the community at-large**.
* In representing the community, I would provide guidance with **respect and fairness.** If an action is representative of the site's community I would not hesitate to do it, but would always couple this firmness with respect.
* I would be careful to make sure I comment, in detail, on posts that I either take an action on or consider taking an action on. Since my participation in the Stack Exchange community as a whole, I have paid close attention to Robert Cartaino's example in doing this and would follow it carefully. The difference between a frustrating experience and an understanding one for a user can be as simple as **polite, prompt communication**.
* Though I do not post answers, questions or comments every day, I make sure to visit the site at least once but usually **multiple times daily** to see if I can contribute. This behavior makes me ideal for a moderator position because I check frequently and am eager to take action if I'm able. | I nominate myself as a moderator for our community.
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I like to believe that, over the past months, I've become an active contributor to [superuser.com](http://superuser.com). I hope I've picked up many valuable lessons from the moderators over there about what is required from a moderator.
I am still desperately waiting for my own Raspberry Pi and hardly consider myself a valuable contributor in regards to questions and answers.
I do, however, read every new question while I'm awake and keep an eye on our tags and chat.
I'm very passionate about StackExchange and the Raspberry Pi as well. Hopefully, you'll give me the opportunity to help keep order within our community. |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
>
> About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are
> deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:
>
>
> * Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent
> participation.
> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
> activities.
> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
* Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
* If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
* The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.
* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-supreme-council-of-the-pi) where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called [The Assembly](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly) was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions. | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | I would like to nominate myself for the position. Here are my credentials:
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I am a recent Computer Science Graduate. My forte is in programming and Linux.
However, as can be seen from my Raspberry Pi answers, I am keen to answer other questions as best I can.
Although I have had no experience moderating on StackExchange before, I believe that I can be a valued member of the community helping to shape our site. Most importantly, I am willing to learn from the more experienced mods of the StackExchange world.
Currently I am working on site improvements and publishing, having recently achieved booster and two announcer badges. I am also very active answering, commenting and reviewing.
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As well as the site, I am passionate about the Raspberry Pi. I have clocked up a stupid number of hours experimenting with my little electronic friend. Although I mainly hack about with Arch Linux, I am looking to understand GPIO programming to complement my existing knowledge.
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If I am appointed, know that I will always be interested in *listening*. I also enjoy taking care of the site; reading wiki edits, retagging and discussing our controversial topics. I'll be happy to take this further by dealing with flags and disputes.
Appointed or not, know that I will be working towards making the Raspberry Pi StackExchange a great place to be. Hopefully allowing it to grow and flourish. | I would like to nominate myself as a pro-tem moderator:
[](http://stackexchange.com/users/290516)
I would make it clear that I'm not the most experienced RPi user (or even linux), however this is not what I'm bringing to the table here:
Over on SO I have both the Copy Editor (1018 reviews, and 698 revisions) and Marshall badges (516 helpful flags raised and only 1 declined).
Out of the year and 5 months I've been a member on SO, I've visited on 429 days (jeez I need a holiday).
My experience of what makes a good question on an SE site should help the RPi site succeed in its beta phase.
Finally, the other element that I feel will be useful, is that I'm a good representative of what a lot of the RPi site users will be - people with maybe little / no hardware or linux experience. I bought my RPi to help fill knowledge gaps in these areas. From this standpoint I can help keep the RPi site useful for a lot of the users who will visit, and balance up the more experienced users/mods, using my wider technical experience to bridge the gap between the new users and the experts. |
178 | Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the ["Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/):
>
> About a week into the public beta, we will seek out members who are
> deeply engaged in the community’s development; members who:
>
>
> * Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent
> participation.
> * Show an interest in their meta’s community-building
> activities.
> * Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their
> fellow community members in everything they write.
> * Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/).
>
>
>
Each beta site has three moderators on a temporary, short-term appointment.
Moderators Pro Tem focus and expedite the essential needs of each new site, both in terms of [regular moderator activies](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) and as a liaison of the growing community with the Stack Exchange team. By the end of Beta, the community will be better suited to hold their own elections.
The moderators pro tempore will ultimately be selected by Stack Exchange Although during beta moderators will, the purpose of this post is to seek out and propose candidates:
* Each nomination should be posted as an answer and it should include (at minimum) a link to the user's main and meta profile so we can check out their activity.
* Self nominations are encouraged, step up if you feel you can help.
* If you are nominated by someone else you should edit the answer and let us know if you accept or decline (explanation optional). If a nominee declines we will not delete the answer, as to not have someone else nominate them again.
* The nominations are not binding to Stack Exchange or the nominees.
* Before nominating someone or accept / decline a nomination, you should read [A Theory of Moderation](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) thoroughly to find out what's generally expected from moderators.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please drop into our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-supreme-council-of-the-pi) where you can ask about the role from other moderators (they appear with a blue name in the chat room). Another chatroom called [The Assembly](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2691/the-assembly) was created specifically for users and moderators to discuss moderation activities, moderators from all over the network are there to answer your questions. | 2012/06/26 | [
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/40/"
] | I would also like to nominate myself.
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I am a recent Mathematics graduate, with A levels in Electronics and Computing. I have a job lined up in November as a software developer, and have loads of time to kill before then! I want to make an active contribution to our growing community.
Similar to others, I don't have previous moderating experience from other SE sites, but I am very willing to learn, and I have been very active on the Beta. I have been able to apply my knowledge of Linux - which I use on a day to day basis - to the specific case of the Pi.
I like make sure the site is putting its best foot forward and demonstrates its valuable contribution to the wider Raspberry Pi community. I have done this by carefully editing posts and reviewing others' suggested edits.
I look forward to contributing actively to the community in the future. | After a recommendation on chat, I'm nominating myself as well.
---
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I may not have the most Rep, or have given the most answers or whatever, but I'm certainly active enough.
I believe I do exibit all the traits required to be a moderator.
I can keep a cool head. An answer of mine was recently offensively commented, and I just flagged the commment and asked the commenter to stop being rude and tell me how I could improve the answer. (Okay your 'perfect moderator' might have just ignored it, but I've **learnt from the experience** and will know what to do better next time)
I have done a load of editing, and **I'm not scared to dig in and try and help**.
A few words on other sites. I have experience over on Stack Overflow, I'm an administrator over on a fairly high profile wiki at [wikia.com](http://wikia.com), and have experience with moderation/administration/whatever on other similar systems.
I am obviously not all amazing though, we all have things we could do better with. For example, I recently asked a question that received quite 4 close votes in a short space of time. But after hearing an explanation, I saw why, and ended casting the final close vote myself.
It's probably not very good for my social life, but if I see a list of flags waiting to be reviewed, or similar, I will not stop reviewing them until there are none left (or I've used up all my internet usage and am about to be cut off). |
62,665,126 | In a reputable Algorithmic book , it was mentioned that breadth first search is a greedy algorithm. But I searched for it but I found many links that doesn't say so.
My question:
Is breadth first search a **Greedy Algorithm** and why ?
Can you give me a notable reference for your answer ?! | 2020/06/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/62665126",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8714915/"
] | The term "greedy algorithm" refers to algorithms that solve optimization problems.
BFS is not specifically for solving optimization problems, so it doesn't make sense (i.e., it's not even wrong) to say that BFS is a greedy algorithm unless you are *applying* it to an optimization problem. In that case, the statement is true or not depending on how it is applied.
The "reputable algorithm book" probably refers to BFS in the context of a specific optimization problem, and is probably correct to say that it is a greedy algorithm in that context... which you have omitted in your question. | I think there's a confusion here.
Maybe you read BFS Greedy and you think it's Breadth First Search Greedy, but the truth is it's Best First Search Greedy. This is another way to call the usual Greedy algorithm applied to searches. |
62,665,126 | In a reputable Algorithmic book , it was mentioned that breadth first search is a greedy algorithm. But I searched for it but I found many links that doesn't say so.
My question:
Is breadth first search a **Greedy Algorithm** and why ?
Can you give me a notable reference for your answer ?! | 2020/06/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/62665126",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8714915/"
] | I understand greedy as "try the best you've got for a given moment".
A BFS, when visiting a node, just adds its children to a queue. There isn't really a "better child" in a BFS since it travels the graph by covering layer by layer. When a node is visited, any order of its children can be added to the queue, so no child seem to be a better choice, hence it doesn't make sense to me that it is greedy, once there is no necessarily a better choice for each moment of the algorithm. | I think there's a confusion here.
Maybe you read BFS Greedy and you think it's Breadth First Search Greedy, but the truth is it's Best First Search Greedy. This is another way to call the usual Greedy algorithm applied to searches. |
62,665,126 | In a reputable Algorithmic book , it was mentioned that breadth first search is a greedy algorithm. But I searched for it but I found many links that doesn't say so.
My question:
Is breadth first search a **Greedy Algorithm** and why ?
Can you give me a notable reference for your answer ?! | 2020/06/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/62665126",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/8714915/"
] | The simple answer is **YES**. To better understand this I would suggest reading on greedy vs heuristics algorithm.
>
> Greedy algorithms supply an exact solution! Heuristic algorithms use probability and statistics in order to avoid running through all the possibilities and provide an "estimated best solution" (which means that if a better solution exists, it will be only slightly better).
>
>
>
A greedy algorithms follow locally optimal solution at each stage. While searching for the best solution, the best so far solution is only updated if the search finds a better solution. Whereas this is not always the case with heuristic algorithms (e.g. genetic, evolutionary, Tabu search, ant search, and so forth). Heuristic algorithms may update the best so far even if it's worse than the best so far to avoid getting trapped in a local optimal solution.
Therefore, in nutshell BFS/DFS generally fall under greedy algorithms. | I think there's a confusion here.
Maybe you read BFS Greedy and you think it's Breadth First Search Greedy, but the truth is it's Best First Search Greedy. This is another way to call the usual Greedy algorithm applied to searches. |
38,722 | We are trying to set up a webform to open a case and assign a case role (manager).
I configured two contacts - coordinator and client - and assigned them to the case in the webform. The client as client and creator and the coordinator to the managing role of the case. For the coordinator contatc I set a static field with a default contact value.
The open case part works fine, but assigning the coordinator as manager does not work. Instead, the first contact (client) is also assigned as manager.
I also tried opening a case without a manager being set. But in this case, the manager role is also assigned to the client contact.
Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be?
**System**
CiviCRM v5.28.2
Drupal v7.78
Webform CiviCRM Integration v7.x-5.4
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jxBpS.png)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n3Re9.png)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uh1mu.png)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qijkr.png) | 2021/01/30 | [
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/38722",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/users/8805/"
] | **Finally it is working!**
Two where important:
1. Disable "Enforce Permissions" for the contact field in the webform config, filled with a default value.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u1NAf.png)
2. Look out for the field "Update Existing Case" on the CiviCRM tab. It was set to a case status value, so it would change an existing case.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KoeMr.png)
Many thanks to @AndyClark and @RayWright! | All the screenshots are super helpful. I think because you have set it to be a static contact but did not tell it which contact, you are seeing an issue. Can you place the ID number of the desired case manager in the Contact (Kontakt) field right below "Set default contact from: Specified Contact"?
To test that it's working, you might turn on Display Contact Name - just to check that then the form is dispalying the name of the contact you set. |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [Agile Zen](http://www.agilezen.com) is one of my favorites. Very simple and easy to use. | **[Done Done](http://www.getdonedone.com/)**
Been looking for some bug tracking software for ages and came across this. It's actually really nice to use and looks friendly unlike the majority of the others. Having used everything from Bugzilla to 16bugs it's a joy to use.
Also their pricing plan is based on the amount of users NOT the amount of projects like most others. We have a small team but lot's of projects so it started becoming very expensive with other tracking software.
**The amount of projects are unlimited for ALL packages, even the free package which has up to 3 users!** |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [Agile Zen](http://www.agilezen.com) is one of my favorites. Very simple and easy to use. | I've been using PivotalTracker.com and am quite happy with it. |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [**FogBugz**](http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/)
It is intended as software bug tracker and project management but works for just about any use.
It is free for one or two person teams. For more users it is $25 a month. | If you need to plan using Gantt diagram like in MS Project, [try this: SpiderPlan](http://www.spider-plan.com) |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [LiquidPlanner](http://www.liquidplanner.com/) seems quite good. It has a nice feature that shows the spread of task completion times based on past performance.
The again there is always [FogBugz](http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/) ;-)
Neither are free, although FogBugz does have various free for academic use options. | I've been using PivotalTracker.com and am quite happy with it. |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [CodeBase](http://www.codebasehq.com/)
>
> Codebase is your software project management tool with fast, reliable Git, Mercurial & Subversion hosting baked right it.
>
>
> | [Teambox](http://teambox.com) is not bad either. Email-centric too. :) You could self-host it or use their hosted solution. It has a calendar and Gantt charts. No game mechanics though :( |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | **[BaseCamp](http://basecamphq.com/)**
By 37Signals, the company of Ruby-On-Rails inventor David Heinemeier Hansson. | [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org) if you don't mind self-hosting |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org) if you don't mind self-hosting | Bright Green Projects is very new to the project management market. Their UI is pretty amazing .. nice simple, clean app for both agile and waterfall implementations.
Check 'em out: <http://www.brightgreenprojects.com> |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [CodeBase](http://www.codebasehq.com/)
>
> Codebase is your software project management tool with fast, reliable Git, Mercurial & Subversion hosting baked right it.
>
>
> | I've been using PivotalTracker.com and am quite happy with it. |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org) if you don't mind self-hosting | If you need to plan using Gantt diagram like in MS Project, [try this: SpiderPlan](http://www.spider-plan.com) |
728 | Google Reader tends in my opinion to be a bit over-eager to mark posts as read - if you click on a post or scroll over the top of it it will be marked as read.
Is there a setting to control the conditions for a post being marked as read? | 2010/07/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/728",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/168/"
] | [LiquidPlanner](http://www.liquidplanner.com/) seems quite good. It has a nice feature that shows the spread of task completion times based on past performance.
The again there is always [FogBugz](http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/) ;-)
Neither are free, although FogBugz does have various free for academic use options. | [Teambox](http://teambox.com) is not bad either. Email-centric too. :) You could self-host it or use their hosted solution. It has a calendar and Gantt charts. No game mechanics though :( |
6,412 | Hi I'm pretty new with math.se, well I think I am, I have been getting a lot of great answers from a lot of smart and reliable people. However, I am starting to feel kinda bad because I never answer questions. It just seems like whenever there's a question that I can answer, it's already answered. Is it (for lack of a better word) "annoying" that I dont answer questions and just ask? | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6412",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/users/43372/"
] | In a word, the answer is 'no.' As long as you are asking thoughtful questions that are coming from a real desire to learn (and have not already been asked), you will find that people are pleased to answer. Remember that the questions that you ask, and their answers, stick around for years to come and will benefit others on down the line. | Kyle, use this forum to learn. As you gain expertise, you will be able to answer questions too. Good questions are the grist that makes this forum go. |
6,412 | Hi I'm pretty new with math.se, well I think I am, I have been getting a lot of great answers from a lot of smart and reliable people. However, I am starting to feel kinda bad because I never answer questions. It just seems like whenever there's a question that I can answer, it's already answered. Is it (for lack of a better word) "annoying" that I dont answer questions and just ask? | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6412",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/users/43372/"
] | Kyle, use this forum to learn. As you gain expertise, you will be able to answer questions too. Good questions are the grist that makes this forum go. | If nobody asked, not much would happen. I might suggest that you do read all the answers and upvote the ones that are useful. And, quite important, do accept an answer. Of course, if you feel uncertain or that your question has not been resolved, then ask further. |
6,412 | Hi I'm pretty new with math.se, well I think I am, I have been getting a lot of great answers from a lot of smart and reliable people. However, I am starting to feel kinda bad because I never answer questions. It just seems like whenever there's a question that I can answer, it's already answered. Is it (for lack of a better word) "annoying" that I dont answer questions and just ask? | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6412",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/users/43372/"
] | In a word, the answer is 'no.' As long as you are asking thoughtful questions that are coming from a real desire to learn (and have not already been asked), you will find that people are pleased to answer. Remember that the questions that you ask, and their answers, stick around for years to come and will benefit others on down the line. | If nobody asked, not much would happen. I might suggest that you do read all the answers and upvote the ones that are useful. And, quite important, do accept an answer. Of course, if you feel uncertain or that your question has not been resolved, then ask further. |
95,168 | I have heard that benzene is a dangerous chemical for humans; it causes cancer and so it's use is restricted/regulated. But many organic compounds that we use contain benzene in some form such as oils, foods, even medicines (paracetomol). So is benzene really harmful to people's health? | 2018/04/14 | [
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/95168",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/users/55008/"
] | As Ivan Neretin commented, parts of a compound can never dictate its own properties to the entire molecule's properties. Additionally benzene is not a very effective functional group by itself.
In short, a restricted use is only applied when that certain chemical is exposed by itself. In paracetamol or any other thing including benzene, you will not see any benzene vapor emanating from them or something. It would also be meaningful if benzene containing compounds degradation products included benzene, like in environmental degradation of chlorobenzenes, though this is not a usual case as I see. | First let us make clear that the products you mentioned do not contain benzene. Likely you intended that plenty of products are aromatic compounds and, as such, contain at least a phenyl ring (or contain at least a benzene-like motif, for those less familiar with chemical nomenclature).
After reading the following, that gives some anecdotal notes as well, it will be clear that the presence of a specific part of a molecule does not necessarily dictates its properties (toxicological in the specific discussion) to the whole.
Translated from my old university notes:
>
> .... many aromatic compounds are carcinogenic. After the London fire,
> a law imposing the maintenance of chimneys was promulgated. As a
> result it was noted that sweeper kids were at high risk of developing
> scrotum cancer. This was lately connected to benzo[a]pyrene present in
> the soot, and clearly established in the 1900s.
>
>
> Benzo[c]anthracene is carcinogenic as well, and *benzene* is among the
> most powerful agents inducing leukemia.
>
>
> In general strong carcinogens are strong electrophiles, such as
> alkylants. On the contrary, benzene is electron rich.
>
>
> Again in England, around 1960, a kind of plague was causing the mass
> death of turkeys due to leaver cancer. It was established that as due
> to to a toxin present in the feeds that, once metabolized, gave
> epoxides as strong electrophiles.
>
>
> A link to aromatic carcinogenic properties was then made and
> established. Rather than aromatic themselves, the real carcinogens are
> their epoxides formed during metabolism. They act as substrate for the
> nucleophilic attack by DNA bases as we will see in......
>
>
>
Anything altering the stability or geometry of the metabolite epoxides will therefore modulate their reacivity and in turn the hazard posed by that specific aromatic compound.
This is also the case for [PAH](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbon) were, at least, a particular structure (*bay*) is linked to strong carcinogenicity.
Edit. As this answer received a comment pointing to the fact that not all aromatics are carcinogenic I invite you to consider that the above
* *many aromatics* does not mean that all aromatic compounds are carcinogenic
* *anything altering....* means that each molecule must be considered as a whole. Functionalisation of benzene by a methyl group leads to toluene, for instance. The latter does not qualify as carcinogenic and should replace benzene whenever possible
* PAH is of course a subset of arenes. Among PAHs, again, not all compounds are carcinogens. However, in this case, a specific feature regarding the shape rather generally point to carcinogenicity (see link).
*yes benzene is very harmful to human health* |
95,168 | I have heard that benzene is a dangerous chemical for humans; it causes cancer and so it's use is restricted/regulated. But many organic compounds that we use contain benzene in some form such as oils, foods, even medicines (paracetomol). So is benzene really harmful to people's health? | 2018/04/14 | [
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/95168",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/users/55008/"
] | As Ivan Neretin commented, parts of a compound can never dictate its own properties to the entire molecule's properties. Additionally benzene is not a very effective functional group by itself.
In short, a restricted use is only applied when that certain chemical is exposed by itself. In paracetamol or any other thing including benzene, you will not see any benzene vapor emanating from them or something. It would also be meaningful if benzene containing compounds degradation products included benzene, like in environmental degradation of chlorobenzenes, though this is not a usual case as I see. | Benzene is toxic to humans, it can be oxidised by enzymes in the body (might be a P450 enzyme) to form benzene oxide which is an epoxide. This is 7-oxabicyclo[4.1.0]hepta-2,4-diene which can then react with DNA or other molecules in the body. If the epoxide reacts with water to form cyclohexa-3,5-diene-1,2-diol. Then this can be oxidised again to form 7-oxabicyclo[4.1.0]hept-4-ene-2,3-diol which can react with the DNA.
As a result of this DNA damage benzene is able to cause cancer, it is important to keep in mind that many carcinogens are in fact precursors of the carcinogen. They require some metabolic activation to be able to cause cancer.
Another example is hydrazine which is converted in the liver by formaldehyde and oxidation into diazomethane. As a result the liver is damaged. |
95,168 | I have heard that benzene is a dangerous chemical for humans; it causes cancer and so it's use is restricted/regulated. But many organic compounds that we use contain benzene in some form such as oils, foods, even medicines (paracetomol). So is benzene really harmful to people's health? | 2018/04/14 | [
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/95168",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/users/55008/"
] | As Ivan Neretin commented, parts of a compound can never dictate its own properties to the entire molecule's properties. Additionally benzene is not a very effective functional group by itself.
In short, a restricted use is only applied when that certain chemical is exposed by itself. In paracetamol or any other thing including benzene, you will not see any benzene vapor emanating from them or something. It would also be meaningful if benzene containing compounds degradation products included benzene, like in environmental degradation of chlorobenzenes, though this is not a usual case as I see. | Containing a benzene-like (phenyl) group does not make a compound have the same biological activity as benzene itself. Nearly all proteins in your body contain the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine, both of which have a phenyl group. Your blood constantly carries these amino acids in their free forms. However, these amino acids are not metabolized by enzymes the same way as benzene and therefore are not metabolized into the epoxide-bearing molecules (described in other answers) responsible for DNA damage. |
95,168 | I have heard that benzene is a dangerous chemical for humans; it causes cancer and so it's use is restricted/regulated. But many organic compounds that we use contain benzene in some form such as oils, foods, even medicines (paracetomol). So is benzene really harmful to people's health? | 2018/04/14 | [
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/95168",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/users/55008/"
] | First let us make clear that the products you mentioned do not contain benzene. Likely you intended that plenty of products are aromatic compounds and, as such, contain at least a phenyl ring (or contain at least a benzene-like motif, for those less familiar with chemical nomenclature).
After reading the following, that gives some anecdotal notes as well, it will be clear that the presence of a specific part of a molecule does not necessarily dictates its properties (toxicological in the specific discussion) to the whole.
Translated from my old university notes:
>
> .... many aromatic compounds are carcinogenic. After the London fire,
> a law imposing the maintenance of chimneys was promulgated. As a
> result it was noted that sweeper kids were at high risk of developing
> scrotum cancer. This was lately connected to benzo[a]pyrene present in
> the soot, and clearly established in the 1900s.
>
>
> Benzo[c]anthracene is carcinogenic as well, and *benzene* is among the
> most powerful agents inducing leukemia.
>
>
> In general strong carcinogens are strong electrophiles, such as
> alkylants. On the contrary, benzene is electron rich.
>
>
> Again in England, around 1960, a kind of plague was causing the mass
> death of turkeys due to leaver cancer. It was established that as due
> to to a toxin present in the feeds that, once metabolized, gave
> epoxides as strong electrophiles.
>
>
> A link to aromatic carcinogenic properties was then made and
> established. Rather than aromatic themselves, the real carcinogens are
> their epoxides formed during metabolism. They act as substrate for the
> nucleophilic attack by DNA bases as we will see in......
>
>
>
Anything altering the stability or geometry of the metabolite epoxides will therefore modulate their reacivity and in turn the hazard posed by that specific aromatic compound.
This is also the case for [PAH](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbon) were, at least, a particular structure (*bay*) is linked to strong carcinogenicity.
Edit. As this answer received a comment pointing to the fact that not all aromatics are carcinogenic I invite you to consider that the above
* *many aromatics* does not mean that all aromatic compounds are carcinogenic
* *anything altering....* means that each molecule must be considered as a whole. Functionalisation of benzene by a methyl group leads to toluene, for instance. The latter does not qualify as carcinogenic and should replace benzene whenever possible
* PAH is of course a subset of arenes. Among PAHs, again, not all compounds are carcinogens. However, in this case, a specific feature regarding the shape rather generally point to carcinogenicity (see link).
*yes benzene is very harmful to human health* | Benzene is toxic to humans, it can be oxidised by enzymes in the body (might be a P450 enzyme) to form benzene oxide which is an epoxide. This is 7-oxabicyclo[4.1.0]hepta-2,4-diene which can then react with DNA or other molecules in the body. If the epoxide reacts with water to form cyclohexa-3,5-diene-1,2-diol. Then this can be oxidised again to form 7-oxabicyclo[4.1.0]hept-4-ene-2,3-diol which can react with the DNA.
As a result of this DNA damage benzene is able to cause cancer, it is important to keep in mind that many carcinogens are in fact precursors of the carcinogen. They require some metabolic activation to be able to cause cancer.
Another example is hydrazine which is converted in the liver by formaldehyde and oxidation into diazomethane. As a result the liver is damaged. |
95,168 | I have heard that benzene is a dangerous chemical for humans; it causes cancer and so it's use is restricted/regulated. But many organic compounds that we use contain benzene in some form such as oils, foods, even medicines (paracetomol). So is benzene really harmful to people's health? | 2018/04/14 | [
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/95168",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com",
"https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/users/55008/"
] | First let us make clear that the products you mentioned do not contain benzene. Likely you intended that plenty of products are aromatic compounds and, as such, contain at least a phenyl ring (or contain at least a benzene-like motif, for those less familiar with chemical nomenclature).
After reading the following, that gives some anecdotal notes as well, it will be clear that the presence of a specific part of a molecule does not necessarily dictates its properties (toxicological in the specific discussion) to the whole.
Translated from my old university notes:
>
> .... many aromatic compounds are carcinogenic. After the London fire,
> a law imposing the maintenance of chimneys was promulgated. As a
> result it was noted that sweeper kids were at high risk of developing
> scrotum cancer. This was lately connected to benzo[a]pyrene present in
> the soot, and clearly established in the 1900s.
>
>
> Benzo[c]anthracene is carcinogenic as well, and *benzene* is among the
> most powerful agents inducing leukemia.
>
>
> In general strong carcinogens are strong electrophiles, such as
> alkylants. On the contrary, benzene is electron rich.
>
>
> Again in England, around 1960, a kind of plague was causing the mass
> death of turkeys due to leaver cancer. It was established that as due
> to to a toxin present in the feeds that, once metabolized, gave
> epoxides as strong electrophiles.
>
>
> A link to aromatic carcinogenic properties was then made and
> established. Rather than aromatic themselves, the real carcinogens are
> their epoxides formed during metabolism. They act as substrate for the
> nucleophilic attack by DNA bases as we will see in......
>
>
>
Anything altering the stability or geometry of the metabolite epoxides will therefore modulate their reacivity and in turn the hazard posed by that specific aromatic compound.
This is also the case for [PAH](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbon) were, at least, a particular structure (*bay*) is linked to strong carcinogenicity.
Edit. As this answer received a comment pointing to the fact that not all aromatics are carcinogenic I invite you to consider that the above
* *many aromatics* does not mean that all aromatic compounds are carcinogenic
* *anything altering....* means that each molecule must be considered as a whole. Functionalisation of benzene by a methyl group leads to toluene, for instance. The latter does not qualify as carcinogenic and should replace benzene whenever possible
* PAH is of course a subset of arenes. Among PAHs, again, not all compounds are carcinogens. However, in this case, a specific feature regarding the shape rather generally point to carcinogenicity (see link).
*yes benzene is very harmful to human health* | Containing a benzene-like (phenyl) group does not make a compound have the same biological activity as benzene itself. Nearly all proteins in your body contain the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine, both of which have a phenyl group. Your blood constantly carries these amino acids in their free forms. However, these amino acids are not metabolized by enzymes the same way as benzene and therefore are not metabolized into the epoxide-bearing molecules (described in other answers) responsible for DNA damage. |
392,473 | The issue is simple really. Instead of creating folders in Visual Studio, I create a directory structure for my project on the file system. How do I include all the folders and files in a project, keeping the structure?
If I "Add Existing File" on a folder named Services and navigate to a file in the directory structure .. Services > AccountManagement > CreateAccount.cs, it appears in Visual Studio like so: Services > CreateAccount.cs. I do not want this.
I have an entire directory structure worked out already, as I am mimicking our client developers using the same structure for organization. How do I add all the folders and files to the project in Visual Studio? Or do I have to do what most Microsoft users do and "put up with it" and recreate each and every folder through Visual Studio? | 2008/12/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/392473",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/580/"
] | You can also drag and drop the folder from [Windows Explorer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Explorer) onto your Visual Studio solution window. | I found no answer to my satisfaction, so I figured out myself.
Here is the answer to you if you want to add external source codes to your project and don't want to copy over the entire codes. I have many dependencies on other gits and they are updated hourly if not minutely. I can't do copy every hour to sync up. Here is what you need to do.
Assume this is structure:
/root/projA/src
/root/projA/includes
/root/projB/src
/root/projB/includes
/root/yourProj/src
/root/yourProj/includes
1. Start your VS solution.
2. Right-click the project name right below the Solution.
3. Then click the "Add", "New Filter", put the name "projA" for projA.
4. Right-click on the "projA", click "Add", "New Filter", enter name "src"
5. Right-click on the "projA", click "Add", "New Filter", enter name "includes"
6. Right-click "projA"/"src", click "Add", "Existing Item", then browse to the /root/projA/src to add all source codes or one by one for the ones you want.
7. Do same for "projA"/"includes"
8. Do same for projB.
Now the external/existing projects outside yours are present in your solution/project. The VS will compile them together.
Here is an trick. Since the projA and projB are virtual folders under your project, the compiler may not find the projA/includes.
9. If it doesn't find the projA/includes, then right click the project, select the "Properties".
10. Navigate to "C/C++". Edit "Additional Include Directories", add your projA/include as such "../projA/includes", relative path.
One caveat, if there are duplicated include/header files, the "exclude from project" on the "Header file" doesn't really work. It's a bug in VS. |
392,473 | The issue is simple really. Instead of creating folders in Visual Studio, I create a directory structure for my project on the file system. How do I include all the folders and files in a project, keeping the structure?
If I "Add Existing File" on a folder named Services and navigate to a file in the directory structure .. Services > AccountManagement > CreateAccount.cs, it appears in Visual Studio like so: Services > CreateAccount.cs. I do not want this.
I have an entire directory structure worked out already, as I am mimicking our client developers using the same structure for organization. How do I add all the folders and files to the project in Visual Studio? Or do I have to do what most Microsoft users do and "put up with it" and recreate each and every folder through Visual Studio? | 2008/12/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/392473",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/580/"
] | In Visual Studio 2013, I couldn't get "Include in Project" to work when right-clicking on a folder. What did work is expanding the folder, selecting all the files then choosing "Include in Project". It was quite tedious as you have to do each folder one by one (but at least you can do all files in each folder in one go), and it appears to store the file path (you can see this by viewing properties on the file and looking at the "Relative Path" option.)
I am hoping to use this to deploy some data files in a Visual Studio Installer project, and it seems to pick up the included files and preserve their paths. | I found no answer to my satisfaction, so I figured out myself.
Here is the answer to you if you want to add external source codes to your project and don't want to copy over the entire codes. I have many dependencies on other gits and they are updated hourly if not minutely. I can't do copy every hour to sync up. Here is what you need to do.
Assume this is structure:
/root/projA/src
/root/projA/includes
/root/projB/src
/root/projB/includes
/root/yourProj/src
/root/yourProj/includes
1. Start your VS solution.
2. Right-click the project name right below the Solution.
3. Then click the "Add", "New Filter", put the name "projA" for projA.
4. Right-click on the "projA", click "Add", "New Filter", enter name "src"
5. Right-click on the "projA", click "Add", "New Filter", enter name "includes"
6. Right-click "projA"/"src", click "Add", "Existing Item", then browse to the /root/projA/src to add all source codes or one by one for the ones you want.
7. Do same for "projA"/"includes"
8. Do same for projB.
Now the external/existing projects outside yours are present in your solution/project. The VS will compile them together.
Here is an trick. Since the projA and projB are virtual folders under your project, the compiler may not find the projA/includes.
9. If it doesn't find the projA/includes, then right click the project, select the "Properties".
10. Navigate to "C/C++". Edit "Additional Include Directories", add your projA/include as such "../projA/includes", relative path.
One caveat, if there are duplicated include/header files, the "exclude from project" on the "Header file" doesn't really work. It's a bug in VS. |
346,129 | Where can I find a mystery box in Pokémon Go? I saw the news about the upcoming event involving shiny Meltan and want one, but I don’t have a mystery box. | 2019/02/05 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/346129",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/226789/"
] | You can't just find that box in PoGo, you need to trade with a Pokémon Let's Go account to get it. If you don't have it and don't know anyone who does either, you'll be able to get a single Meltan from the Special Study I imagine - I haven't completed it myself, but like other Special Studies (Mew, etc.) it should provide you with one Pokémon to catch and a bunch of Candy. Since Meltan requires 400 Candy to evolve though, it's going to be a pain to evolve it without the Mystery Box. | With the release of [Pokémon Go and Pokémon Home integration](https://niantic.helpshift.com/a/pokemon-go/?p=all&s=accessories-and-services&f=sending-pokemon-to-pokemon-home), you can receive a Mystery Box by transferring Pokémon into your Pokémon Home storage. This requires you to connect your Pokémon Go account with a Nintendo Account.
**Linking Accounts**
1. Click on the Pokéball icon and go to settings on the top-right of the screen
2. Scroll to the bottom and click "Pokémon Home"
3. Follow the on-screen sign-on options to sign into your Nintendo account
**Transferring Pokémon**
1. Click on the Pokéball icon and go to settings on the top-right of the screen
2. Scroll to the bottom and click "Pokémon Home"
3. Click "Send Pokemon", and then follow the on-screen steps to transfer your Pokémon into Pokémon Home.
After you transfer Pokémon over to Pokémon Home, you will receive a Mystery Box. |
61,734,165 | I understand and very much appreciate the practice of separating header (.h, .hpp) and source files (.cpp).
However, many simple classes can be expressed entirely in the header file itself. I could define some methods within the class and others (e.g. template methods, inline methods) below the class.
What advantage is there to creating a .cpp file when I could just declare *and* define the entire class in the header file? (Do I even need to?) | 2020/05/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/61734165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1180930/"
] | If you have the code in the header file, whenever the header changes, the client code that includes the header must also be recompiled. With a separate cpp file, only re-linking is needed. On large projects, the difference may be in hours.
Putting the code in the .cpp file hides it from the user, if you build a library and distribute only the header file. Sometimes this is necessary.
By having a header file, you can leave the client code unchanged and replace the library (say between debug and release, or regular and call-tracing versions). This is useful for debugging or investigating problems.
Leaving the header file aside makes for a smaller file that is easier to understand by the class user. You can hide complexity away in the .cpp file. | Nothing holds you back from having everything in header files. But doing otherwise can have various effects on the project itself, in certain cases improving readability and positively improving compilation speed due to not having compile everything that has a dependency on files you just made changes to.
Usually, for small classes or classes which change very rarely, it has almost no impact whatsoever.
I would note that with > c++20 and inclusion of modules things will slowly change and we will start seeing more code that is purely written in header files (if they will still be called like that).
Nonetheless, it is too opinion based question to have a good answer. |
61,734,165 | I understand and very much appreciate the practice of separating header (.h, .hpp) and source files (.cpp).
However, many simple classes can be expressed entirely in the header file itself. I could define some methods within the class and others (e.g. template methods, inline methods) below the class.
What advantage is there to creating a .cpp file when I could just declare *and* define the entire class in the header file? (Do I even need to?) | 2020/05/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/61734165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1180930/"
] | As already mentioned compilation time is one reason for having separate translation units. Especially if you have many cores parallelization can dramatically decrease compile time. Another reason is that non-template classes and functions as well as variables in header files would lead to duplicate symbols when included in different translation units. As soon as you use virtual functions inlining is no viable option.
You could use templates to avoid the duplicate symbol issue but in addition to higher compilation times this also leads to higher linking time because the linker has to collapse the template-instances (see <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Template-Instantiation.html>). Nevertheless STL and many other header-only libraries do exactly this. | Nothing holds you back from having everything in header files. But doing otherwise can have various effects on the project itself, in certain cases improving readability and positively improving compilation speed due to not having compile everything that has a dependency on files you just made changes to.
Usually, for small classes or classes which change very rarely, it has almost no impact whatsoever.
I would note that with > c++20 and inclusion of modules things will slowly change and we will start seeing more code that is purely written in header files (if they will still be called like that).
Nonetheless, it is too opinion based question to have a good answer. |
61,734,165 | I understand and very much appreciate the practice of separating header (.h, .hpp) and source files (.cpp).
However, many simple classes can be expressed entirely in the header file itself. I could define some methods within the class and others (e.g. template methods, inline methods) below the class.
What advantage is there to creating a .cpp file when I could just declare *and* define the entire class in the header file? (Do I even need to?) | 2020/05/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/61734165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1180930/"
] | If you have the code in the header file, whenever the header changes, the client code that includes the header must also be recompiled. With a separate cpp file, only re-linking is needed. On large projects, the difference may be in hours.
Putting the code in the .cpp file hides it from the user, if you build a library and distribute only the header file. Sometimes this is necessary.
By having a header file, you can leave the client code unchanged and replace the library (say between debug and release, or regular and call-tracing versions). This is useful for debugging or investigating problems.
Leaving the header file aside makes for a smaller file that is easier to understand by the class user. You can hide complexity away in the .cpp file. | Compilation speed. Keeping implementation away from definition gives you flexibility of modifying small code without having to re-compile all sources which include that header. This is the way a makefile work, it detects changes in the prerequisites. |
61,734,165 | I understand and very much appreciate the practice of separating header (.h, .hpp) and source files (.cpp).
However, many simple classes can be expressed entirely in the header file itself. I could define some methods within the class and others (e.g. template methods, inline methods) below the class.
What advantage is there to creating a .cpp file when I could just declare *and* define the entire class in the header file? (Do I even need to?) | 2020/05/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/61734165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1180930/"
] | If you have the code in the header file, whenever the header changes, the client code that includes the header must also be recompiled. With a separate cpp file, only re-linking is needed. On large projects, the difference may be in hours.
Putting the code in the .cpp file hides it from the user, if you build a library and distribute only the header file. Sometimes this is necessary.
By having a header file, you can leave the client code unchanged and replace the library (say between debug and release, or regular and call-tracing versions). This is useful for debugging or investigating problems.
Leaving the header file aside makes for a smaller file that is easier to understand by the class user. You can hide complexity away in the .cpp file. | As already mentioned compilation time is one reason for having separate translation units. Especially if you have many cores parallelization can dramatically decrease compile time. Another reason is that non-template classes and functions as well as variables in header files would lead to duplicate symbols when included in different translation units. As soon as you use virtual functions inlining is no viable option.
You could use templates to avoid the duplicate symbol issue but in addition to higher compilation times this also leads to higher linking time because the linker has to collapse the template-instances (see <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Template-Instantiation.html>). Nevertheless STL and many other header-only libraries do exactly this. |
61,734,165 | I understand and very much appreciate the practice of separating header (.h, .hpp) and source files (.cpp).
However, many simple classes can be expressed entirely in the header file itself. I could define some methods within the class and others (e.g. template methods, inline methods) below the class.
What advantage is there to creating a .cpp file when I could just declare *and* define the entire class in the header file? (Do I even need to?) | 2020/05/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/61734165",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1180930/"
] | As already mentioned compilation time is one reason for having separate translation units. Especially if you have many cores parallelization can dramatically decrease compile time. Another reason is that non-template classes and functions as well as variables in header files would lead to duplicate symbols when included in different translation units. As soon as you use virtual functions inlining is no viable option.
You could use templates to avoid the duplicate symbol issue but in addition to higher compilation times this also leads to higher linking time because the linker has to collapse the template-instances (see <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Template-Instantiation.html>). Nevertheless STL and many other header-only libraries do exactly this. | Compilation speed. Keeping implementation away from definition gives you flexibility of modifying small code without having to re-compile all sources which include that header. This is the way a makefile work, it detects changes in the prerequisites. |
548,453 | Another read I come across in which a guy has written, "I wish you could see that young restless orphan who has no house to live in, none to get food from, whose pshychological centre has been damaged to the hilt. I wish you could see the pain of that abandoned girl on road who has set huge ambitions, but not priviliged enough to reach them, whose each tear drop brings earthquakes in the place on which it has fallen. **I wish some magic happens and brings** back all your lost senses and you start loving each and every human being going through hardships.
Is this at all correct to say **happens** after **wish** as the author has written above?
The writer is Indian. Not native. | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/548453",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/400670/"
] | No, you cannot have a present-tense verb following *I wish that **X***.
That’s because you always have to ***backshift*** that next verb in **X** to make it unreal or hypothetical. After all, it’s a wish; it isn’t real. Therefore using the present tense won’t work there. (By the way, *wish* is pretty much the last verb in English that still works this way. Even *hope* can take a non-backshifted present tense.)
Here though are valid and commonly used forms that are available to you for *wish*:
### Present Tense: *I wish that...*
1. I **wish** she **called** first, but she **doesn’t**.
2. I **wish** she **would call** first, but she **doesn’t**.
3. I **wish** she **would call** first, but she **hasn’t**.
4. I **wish** she **had called** first, but she **didn’t**.
5. I **wish** she **would have called** first, but she **didn’t**.
### Past Tense: *I wished that...*
6. I **wished** she **had called** first, but she **didn’t**.
7. I **had wished** she **would have called** first, but she **hadn’t**.
The most important thing is the last word in each version, the ones matching *X* in the parenthetical afterthought, *“but she **X**n’t”*. I don’t mean to say that we actually *say* that last part, but we always have its status in mind so that we know exactly what to choose for the two earlier clauses’ verb forms to convey the meaning given by the parenthetical.
Examples (1) and (2) with *doesn’t* are both talking about something habitual. It’s like she never does call first even though you wish she would do so. Maybe you’ve even asked her to do so, but it does no good to ask.
In example (3) with *hasn’t*, you’re still hoping she might call first. The event you’re wishing would happen still lies in the future, its outcome still unknown.
In examples (4) and (5) with *didn’t*, there is no chance of your wish coming true because it’s too late: the possibility lay in the past and she already did not call first. It can never come to pass.
In example (6) with *wished* and *didn’t*, the wishing itself is now in the past, but the outcome is the same: it did not happen. It’s too late for it to yet occur, just as in (4) and (5). Only when the wishing is taking place has moved into the past from the present.
The final example (7) with *had wished* and *hadn’t*, is far less common than the others because it’s using a more complex construction, the past perfect, which we often don’t bother with in English. Usually a simple past suffices. But the place you would be more apt to use this one is when you were narrating something in the past and needed to set up a condition that was even further back than the time you were narrating.
But what about “the subjunctive”?
=================================
It was easier to explain how to use *wish* along with the simple verb *call*.
But with *be*
you **do** have another choice, and people who are fussy about using *were* for
hypotheticals instead of *was* when backshifting into the unreal will also elect to
use that special form here as well.
8. I always **wish** she **were** here now, but she never **is**.
9. I **wish** she **were** here now, but she **isn’t**.
10. I **wish** she **had been** here now, but she **isn’t**.
11. I **wish** she **had been** there then, but she **wasn’t**.
12. I **wished** she **had been** there then, but she **wasn’t**.
13. I **had wished** she **had been** there then, but she **wasn’t**.
Just as you cannot use present-tense *calls* after *I wish*, you also
cannot use the present-tense *can be* or *is able to be* following it,
either; You always have to backshift.
Here’s a backshifted *can be*, where present-tense *can* becomes past-tense *could*:
14. I always **wish** she **could be** here now, but she never **can (be)**.
15. I **wish** she **could be** here now, but she **can’t**.
16. I **wish** she **could have been** here now, but she **can’t**.
17. I **wish** she **could have been** there then, but she **couldn’t**.
18. I **wished** she **could have been** there then, but she **couldn’t**.
19. I **had wished** she **could have been** there then, but she **couldn’t**.
And here’s how you would do that same thing with the periphrastic version where we reword *can* + ɪɴꜰɪɴɪᴛɪᴠᴇ into an inflected form of *be able to* + ɪɴꜰɪɴɪᴛɪᴠᴇ, with allows the form of *be* chosen to now carry person, number, and inflectional tense or mood:
20. I always **wish** she **were** able to be here now, but she never **is**.
21. I **wish** she **were** able to be here now, but she **isn’t**.
22. I **wish** she **were** able to have been here now, but she **isn’t**.
23. I **wish** she **were** able to have been there then, but she **wasn’t**.
24. I **wished** she **were** able to have been there then, but she **wasn’t**.
25. I **had wished** she **had been** able to have been there then, but she **wasn’t**.
In some ways, it’s easier to use that last set than the set immediately previous to it. | It's correct, but it's a contraction. The writer appears to be saying "I wish that something magical happens...", which has "happens" after "wish". There's nothing wrong with that : "happens" is the verb in a subordinate / dependent clause.
Separating the main verb from the dependent clauses, we have "I wish / some magic happens / and brings back all your lost senses...". |
368,625 | The monitor for my desktop hums/buzzes when a have a white background with a lot of black text maximized. I'm sure it would do it in other cases but this is the most obvious. I usually hear it when I am looking at a text file in an SSH client.
What causes this? Is it clear that it is time for a new monitor?
I can provide details about my hardware if that will help.
It's a Dell 2001FP. | 2011/12/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/368625",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/102201/"
] | If its a CRT, try degaussing it (it'll be an option upon the on screen menu built into it usually). That sometimes used to help for me, anyhow.
If its an LCD, try lowering the brightness setting to 60% (which is usually easier on the eyes also) as they usually leave the shop cranked right up. | Obviously it's NOT a CRT, the model no that you kindly posted says FP at the end (mind you that is if I was too lazy to google it)... Pay attention folks. Aside from that, the thing is a tiny LCD - Buy a new decent sized one unless yer broke. Yes the buzz is indicative of an impending failure but it could be in five minutes or five years. It's Christmas time, spoil yerself and recycle this one properly. |
368,625 | The monitor for my desktop hums/buzzes when a have a white background with a lot of black text maximized. I'm sure it would do it in other cases but this is the most obvious. I usually hear it when I am looking at a text file in an SSH client.
What causes this? Is it clear that it is time for a new monitor?
I can provide details about my hardware if that will help.
It's a Dell 2001FP. | 2011/12/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/368625",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/102201/"
] | LCD monitor's backlight is a fluorescent tube (The [specs](http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/2001fp/EN/specs.htm) specifically say CCFL). The backlight's power inverter sometimes hums, or makes other noises. This is only indicative of low quality of the some of its components, usually it **does not** mean the monitor is about to fail soon.
How to fix
----------
Adjusting the brightness nearly always helps to at least reduce the humming, or change its frequency to make it less irritating. The exact best brightness level can only be found by experimentation. E.g. start with 100%, reduce one step, wait 2-3 secs and listen... You'll find a couple of brightness levels that will sound better than the rest.
Unfortunately, there is not much else you can do about it. | If its a CRT, try degaussing it (it'll be an option upon the on screen menu built into it usually). That sometimes used to help for me, anyhow.
If its an LCD, try lowering the brightness setting to 60% (which is usually easier on the eyes also) as they usually leave the shop cranked right up. |
368,625 | The monitor for my desktop hums/buzzes when a have a white background with a lot of black text maximized. I'm sure it would do it in other cases but this is the most obvious. I usually hear it when I am looking at a text file in an SSH client.
What causes this? Is it clear that it is time for a new monitor?
I can provide details about my hardware if that will help.
It's a Dell 2001FP. | 2011/12/16 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/368625",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/102201/"
] | LCD monitor's backlight is a fluorescent tube (The [specs](http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/2001fp/EN/specs.htm) specifically say CCFL). The backlight's power inverter sometimes hums, or makes other noises. This is only indicative of low quality of the some of its components, usually it **does not** mean the monitor is about to fail soon.
How to fix
----------
Adjusting the brightness nearly always helps to at least reduce the humming, or change its frequency to make it less irritating. The exact best brightness level can only be found by experimentation. E.g. start with 100%, reduce one step, wait 2-3 secs and listen... You'll find a couple of brightness levels that will sound better than the rest.
Unfortunately, there is not much else you can do about it. | Obviously it's NOT a CRT, the model no that you kindly posted says FP at the end (mind you that is if I was too lazy to google it)... Pay attention folks. Aside from that, the thing is a tiny LCD - Buy a new decent sized one unless yer broke. Yes the buzz is indicative of an impending failure but it could be in five minutes or five years. It's Christmas time, spoil yerself and recycle this one properly. |
12,820,652 | Does Wicket notifies a Panel when this Panel is removed/replaced in the Page?
I add JavaScript (initialization code) in Panel's constructor and need to release some resources when Panel is removed. | 2012/10/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12820652",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/288406/"
] | Later versions of Wicket (1.4.0+) have Component#onRemove() method, which is needed to notify the component that it's being removed from the component hierarchy. | There is also PubSub system at the client side where you can do what you need.
See <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WICKET/Wicket+Ajax#WicketAjax-GlobalAjaxcalllisteners> and event '/dom/node/removing'. |
332,891 | I picked up the 2018 15" MacBook Pro recently, and right away I'm noticing the slightest amount of input delay on the keyboard. It doesn't always happen, but it's noticeable when it does - the typing cursor sometimes visibly lags behind when I'm typing.
It seems like it's happening a lot in Chrome specifically, though it happens in other applications. I could just be using Chrome a lot more than other applications.
Sometimes I can't tell if it's even input delay or just general slowness, for example when switching windows with CMD+TAB sometimes the window change animation is slower (it looks like I can briefly see the current window go from opaque to semi-transparent).
Has anybody run into the same problem, or does anybody have any ideas on how to verify whether this is happening? I notice it very clearly when I'm using my Mac, but since it's so unpredictable I'm skeptical of how reliable my observations actually are. | 2018/08/04 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332891",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/219200/"
] | I think I remember a problem from long ago related to the Dock. Try opening /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, then executing "killall Dock" (It comes right back). This may just be a workaround and you might have to do it whenever you experience the problem. | Try using Safari instead of Chrome for a bit. Literally, ensure that it is NOT in the Dock or Activity Monitor at all. I'm betting the problem goes away. (Yes, I'm serious unfortunately). Chrome is an intense memory hog and has internal memory garbage collection that tries to run when the machine is idle. If you happen to begin typing or interacting just as it begins garbage collection, everything will lag for a very short time. If your lag is greater than 3 seconds though, you have other problems.
You'll find many complaints that battery life is horrible when running Chrome, but is magically restored when running Safari. The two problems are intertwined. |
332,891 | I picked up the 2018 15" MacBook Pro recently, and right away I'm noticing the slightest amount of input delay on the keyboard. It doesn't always happen, but it's noticeable when it does - the typing cursor sometimes visibly lags behind when I'm typing.
It seems like it's happening a lot in Chrome specifically, though it happens in other applications. I could just be using Chrome a lot more than other applications.
Sometimes I can't tell if it's even input delay or just general slowness, for example when switching windows with CMD+TAB sometimes the window change animation is slower (it looks like I can briefly see the current window go from opaque to semi-transparent).
Has anybody run into the same problem, or does anybody have any ideas on how to verify whether this is happening? I notice it very clearly when I'm using my Mac, but since it's so unpredictable I'm skeptical of how reliable my observations actually are. | 2018/08/04 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332891",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/219200/"
] | I think I remember a problem from long ago related to the Dock. Try opening /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, then executing "killall Dock" (It comes right back). This may just be a workaround and you might have to do it whenever you experience the problem. | Yes, the keyboard lag exists, you're not imagining things … nor are you the first to notice this behaviour. This fluctuating-delay happens because there's a T2 chip in the way, and the keyboard and trackpad are processed by the T2's own BridgeOS first before reaching the rest of the system that macOS can see and have influence over. Oh, and before you ask, using a Bluetooth keyboard is not going to be faster.
Sadly, until Apple actually acknowledge this additional annoyance caused by the T2, nothing will be done about it. |
332,891 | I picked up the 2018 15" MacBook Pro recently, and right away I'm noticing the slightest amount of input delay on the keyboard. It doesn't always happen, but it's noticeable when it does - the typing cursor sometimes visibly lags behind when I'm typing.
It seems like it's happening a lot in Chrome specifically, though it happens in other applications. I could just be using Chrome a lot more than other applications.
Sometimes I can't tell if it's even input delay or just general slowness, for example when switching windows with CMD+TAB sometimes the window change animation is slower (it looks like I can briefly see the current window go from opaque to semi-transparent).
Has anybody run into the same problem, or does anybody have any ideas on how to verify whether this is happening? I notice it very clearly when I'm using my Mac, but since it's so unpredictable I'm skeptical of how reliable my observations actually are. | 2018/08/04 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332891",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/219200/"
] | I think I remember a problem from long ago related to the Dock. Try opening /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, then executing "killall Dock" (It comes right back). This may just be a workaround and you might have to do it whenever you experience the problem. | Just to add to this - my lag was actually the bluetooth keyboard which I use separately - the battery level was at 52% but plugging it directly in instantly resolved the keyboard lag issue. |
332,891 | I picked up the 2018 15" MacBook Pro recently, and right away I'm noticing the slightest amount of input delay on the keyboard. It doesn't always happen, but it's noticeable when it does - the typing cursor sometimes visibly lags behind when I'm typing.
It seems like it's happening a lot in Chrome specifically, though it happens in other applications. I could just be using Chrome a lot more than other applications.
Sometimes I can't tell if it's even input delay or just general slowness, for example when switching windows with CMD+TAB sometimes the window change animation is slower (it looks like I can briefly see the current window go from opaque to semi-transparent).
Has anybody run into the same problem, or does anybody have any ideas on how to verify whether this is happening? I notice it very clearly when I'm using my Mac, but since it's so unpredictable I'm skeptical of how reliable my observations actually are. | 2018/08/04 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332891",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/219200/"
] | Yes, the keyboard lag exists, you're not imagining things … nor are you the first to notice this behaviour. This fluctuating-delay happens because there's a T2 chip in the way, and the keyboard and trackpad are processed by the T2's own BridgeOS first before reaching the rest of the system that macOS can see and have influence over. Oh, and before you ask, using a Bluetooth keyboard is not going to be faster.
Sadly, until Apple actually acknowledge this additional annoyance caused by the T2, nothing will be done about it. | Try using Safari instead of Chrome for a bit. Literally, ensure that it is NOT in the Dock or Activity Monitor at all. I'm betting the problem goes away. (Yes, I'm serious unfortunately). Chrome is an intense memory hog and has internal memory garbage collection that tries to run when the machine is idle. If you happen to begin typing or interacting just as it begins garbage collection, everything will lag for a very short time. If your lag is greater than 3 seconds though, you have other problems.
You'll find many complaints that battery life is horrible when running Chrome, but is magically restored when running Safari. The two problems are intertwined. |
332,891 | I picked up the 2018 15" MacBook Pro recently, and right away I'm noticing the slightest amount of input delay on the keyboard. It doesn't always happen, but it's noticeable when it does - the typing cursor sometimes visibly lags behind when I'm typing.
It seems like it's happening a lot in Chrome specifically, though it happens in other applications. I could just be using Chrome a lot more than other applications.
Sometimes I can't tell if it's even input delay or just general slowness, for example when switching windows with CMD+TAB sometimes the window change animation is slower (it looks like I can briefly see the current window go from opaque to semi-transparent).
Has anybody run into the same problem, or does anybody have any ideas on how to verify whether this is happening? I notice it very clearly when I'm using my Mac, but since it's so unpredictable I'm skeptical of how reliable my observations actually are. | 2018/08/04 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332891",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/219200/"
] | Just to add to this - my lag was actually the bluetooth keyboard which I use separately - the battery level was at 52% but plugging it directly in instantly resolved the keyboard lag issue. | Try using Safari instead of Chrome for a bit. Literally, ensure that it is NOT in the Dock or Activity Monitor at all. I'm betting the problem goes away. (Yes, I'm serious unfortunately). Chrome is an intense memory hog and has internal memory garbage collection that tries to run when the machine is idle. If you happen to begin typing or interacting just as it begins garbage collection, everything will lag for a very short time. If your lag is greater than 3 seconds though, you have other problems.
You'll find many complaints that battery life is horrible when running Chrome, but is magically restored when running Safari. The two problems are intertwined. |
9,897 | I like to become game developer.. I already work as web developer for the past year. There I used php, jQuery, mysql and some framework also. It's little boring now same thing again and again. So I start to learn Android application development.
My question is:
1. If want to become a game developer
what skills should I have (like
java, c++, etc) ?
2. Where can I get good tutorials (online)?
3. Is previous knowledge will help me? | 2011/03/18 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/9897",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/6165/"
] | I would ask you to refer [this](http://www.sloperama.com/advice.html) site. It is the ultimate reference and eye opener for anyone who would like to become a game developer. Let us know if it is helpful to you. | To answer your questions, with an Android flavor:
1. Knowledge of C++ will not hurt you, my theory is the more languages you know, the better, period. To develop for Android specifically, Java is important, since even with the NDK, you must use some Java.
2. This really is dependent on what you're looking for, specifically for Android, the article [here](http://www.rbgrn.net/content/54-getting-started-android-game-development), has a lot of good getting started information.
3. Yes, good games will incorporate all kinds of knowledge. Strong math (trig,linera algebra, etc) is helpful. Your mysql experience will be useful for persiting game state to database, though Android uses [SQLite](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/sqlite/package-summary.html).
All that said though, there are several similar type questions on this site, which are geared toward starting game development, which you should check out:
1. <https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/4011/getting-started-questions>
2. <https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/41/what-are-some-good-resources-for-getting-a-beginner-started-in-developing-games>
3. [How do I get started making Android games?](https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/3401/how-do-i-get-started-making-android-games)
4. [What things should an indie game developer never do?](https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/765/what-things-should-an-indie-game-developer-never-do)
5. [What are good games to "earn your wings" with?](https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/854/what-are-good-games-to-earn-your-wings-with) |
9,897 | I like to become game developer.. I already work as web developer for the past year. There I used php, jQuery, mysql and some framework also. It's little boring now same thing again and again. So I start to learn Android application development.
My question is:
1. If want to become a game developer
what skills should I have (like
java, c++, etc) ?
2. Where can I get good tutorials (online)?
3. Is previous knowledge will help me? | 2011/03/18 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/9897",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/6165/"
] | To answer your questions, with an Android flavor:
1. Knowledge of C++ will not hurt you, my theory is the more languages you know, the better, period. To develop for Android specifically, Java is important, since even with the NDK, you must use some Java.
2. This really is dependent on what you're looking for, specifically for Android, the article [here](http://www.rbgrn.net/content/54-getting-started-android-game-development), has a lot of good getting started information.
3. Yes, good games will incorporate all kinds of knowledge. Strong math (trig,linera algebra, etc) is helpful. Your mysql experience will be useful for persiting game state to database, though Android uses [SQLite](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/sqlite/package-summary.html).
All that said though, there are several similar type questions on this site, which are geared toward starting game development, which you should check out:
1. <https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/4011/getting-started-questions>
2. <https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/41/what-are-some-good-resources-for-getting-a-beginner-started-in-developing-games>
3. [How do I get started making Android games?](https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/3401/how-do-i-get-started-making-android-games)
4. [What things should an indie game developer never do?](https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/765/what-things-should-an-indie-game-developer-never-do)
5. [What are good games to "earn your wings" with?](https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/854/what-are-good-games-to-earn-your-wings-with) | Tank sleep. If you thought 60 hour workweeks were bad before, they'll be distant memories of the easy times pretty soon.
Also, define "game developer". The majority of any programming job is grunt work, programming the bread and butter stuff.
The job "game developer" might appear glamorous to you from a distance, but it's just another programming job (you sound like a junior programmer).
The only difference is that you're programming what happens to a sprite moving across a screen rather than an algorithm to calculate some business data. |
9,897 | I like to become game developer.. I already work as web developer for the past year. There I used php, jQuery, mysql and some framework also. It's little boring now same thing again and again. So I start to learn Android application development.
My question is:
1. If want to become a game developer
what skills should I have (like
java, c++, etc) ?
2. Where can I get good tutorials (online)?
3. Is previous knowledge will help me? | 2011/03/18 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/9897",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/6165/"
] | I would ask you to refer [this](http://www.sloperama.com/advice.html) site. It is the ultimate reference and eye opener for anyone who would like to become a game developer. Let us know if it is helpful to you. | Tank sleep. If you thought 60 hour workweeks were bad before, they'll be distant memories of the easy times pretty soon.
Also, define "game developer". The majority of any programming job is grunt work, programming the bread and butter stuff.
The job "game developer" might appear glamorous to you from a distance, but it's just another programming job (you sound like a junior programmer).
The only difference is that you're programming what happens to a sprite moving across a screen rather than an algorithm to calculate some business data. |
338,240 | So I'm trying to model email openings over the course of a day.
For example, I have a data set for one individual that simply has a bunch of time-stamps of when he has opened an email. I don't care about the date, just the time of day.
So over the course of a 24 hour day, there will be events along the time-series (X) axis. I want to model this so that I can plug in a time and it will give me the probability of the event (email opening) occurring at that specific time given the historical data. So the Y axis has no magnitude, it's just an event happened at that specific time or it didn't.
Not sure how to represent this mathematically. Any help would be appreciated! | 2013/03/22 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/338240",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/68059/"
] | You may be interested in this article about Steven Wolfram's analysis of 2 decades worth of timestamped emails: <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/mining-our-personal-data-for-our-own-good.html>.
The state space is a cylinder, since the X axis representing time of day is a (periodic) phase variable, but I disagree that the Y axis has no magnitude. Rather, the Y axis will initially be a count of the # of emails that were opened/sent occurring within a narrow time window, say, every hour or every minute.
This count histogram by time of day can then be normalized (by the total count) to obtain the rate (ie fraction of all emails opened/sent in any time window), which has a direct interpretation as a probability distribution. | First off, if you consider time to be continuous then the answer is trivial. The chance of opening an email at a particular instance is precisely 0. That is one of the fundamental properties of continuous random variables.
What I think you are interested in is the probability of an email being opened during the time between two instants.
You need to refine your question to consider:
* the duration you are interested in
* are you interested in one and only one or one and more than one |
556,676 | Why is the word-order different with 'already' and never' in the following cases:
* *I should never have done it*
and
* *I should have already done it*
Can there be any changes in the word order?
Can 'already' and 'never' break the perfect infinitive? Is it correct to say:
* *They seem to have already done it*
and
* *They seem to have never done it before* | 2021/01/05 | [
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] | "The" doesn't necessarily refer to something previously identified. Rather, it implies something that is (at least relatively) unique. | Yes, the sentence needs to use **a** in place of **the** to be correct. It is incorrect because there is no prior reference (to establish which beautiful scene), and *the beautiful scene* is a general concept, not a specific or definite thing. [A/an is an indefinite article; the is a definite article](https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/using_articles.html). |
200,021 | I used to own Dewalt DWE575 (*7-1/4, 15 amp*) and liked it quite a bit. Unfortunately, my garage got broken into and it was stolen.
I bought a used DWE575SB, which is similar, but with electrical brake.
I put on a new blade but it cannot cut through a 2x6 without getting stuck.
The other day I tried to cut through a 1x12 pine board and it couldn't complete the cut. I don't recall the previous one had such issues.
Can I conclude that I bought a lemon and it's at the end of its life?
What other signs should I look out for before spending money on a new saw? | 2020/07/31 | [
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] | After the saw has failed to complete a cut quickly unplug the power, remove it from the work piece, and test whether the blade still turns freely. That'll check whether there is some drag that develops while the saw is in use. If so, repair might not be economical.
Assuming that it's a normal AC or universal motor (ie, not a brushless DC motor) then it's worth taking a few minutes to inspect the brushes. A motor can start acting weird when the brushes are nearly worn away. A new set of brushes is usually an inexpensive repair. | Make sure you don't have the blade in backwards. Every circular saw on Amazon has a few one star reviews from people that put the blade in backwards. |
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