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83,669 | I need to represent a stat for a weight loss stat. Right now I have this wording:
*2% weight loss*
the client hasn't think of the logical scenario of no weight loss or even worse, weight gain. So I'm working on this but still dubious on wording between these two:
**0% weight loss**
or
**No weight loss**
I reall... | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/83669",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/54669/"
] | The most appropriate is **NO**
According to one of the 10 [Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design](http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/) by Nielsen:
>
> The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. ... | Neither
=======
Taking Max's (great) answer further:
>
> **Who on earth measures weight changes in percentages?**
>
>
>
The problem with percentages
----------------------------
* In general, percentages are always a **proxy variable** and mostly little intuitive.
* Everyone has to **expand some cognitive effor... |
83,669 | I need to represent a stat for a weight loss stat. Right now I have this wording:
*2% weight loss*
the client hasn't think of the logical scenario of no weight loss or even worse, weight gain. So I'm working on this but still dubious on wording between these two:
**0% weight loss**
or
**No weight loss**
I reall... | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/83669",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/54669/"
] | The most appropriate is **NO**
According to one of the 10 [Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design](http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/) by Nielsen:
>
> The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. ... | 0% could potentially mean a small percentage, but not completely immeasurable. A 200-pound being losing just under 1 pound would have lost 0%, but it is by no means nothing at all. Use No weight change when nothing has been lost or gained within normal variation. Saying "No weight loss" sounds like "Well, you didn't *l... |
83,669 | I need to represent a stat for a weight loss stat. Right now I have this wording:
*2% weight loss*
the client hasn't think of the logical scenario of no weight loss or even worse, weight gain. So I'm working on this but still dubious on wording between these two:
**0% weight loss**
or
**No weight loss**
I reall... | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/83669",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/54669/"
] | Is there room for
**no weight change**
This is then easy to understand, and is clear that it's not any gain either.
Like the answer, I think you'd more than likely say something like "my weight hasn't changed since last week"
On a similar note, a 2% loss doesn't mean much to most, so would it be better to say
... | Neither
=======
Taking Max's (great) answer further:
>
> **Who on earth measures weight changes in percentages?**
>
>
>
The problem with percentages
----------------------------
* In general, percentages are always a **proxy variable** and mostly little intuitive.
* Everyone has to **expand some cognitive effor... |
83,669 | I need to represent a stat for a weight loss stat. Right now I have this wording:
*2% weight loss*
the client hasn't think of the logical scenario of no weight loss or even worse, weight gain. So I'm working on this but still dubious on wording between these two:
**0% weight loss**
or
**No weight loss**
I reall... | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/83669",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/54669/"
] | Is there room for
**no weight change**
This is then easy to understand, and is clear that it's not any gain either.
Like the answer, I think you'd more than likely say something like "my weight hasn't changed since last week"
On a similar note, a 2% loss doesn't mean much to most, so would it be better to say
... | 0% could potentially mean a small percentage, but not completely immeasurable. A 200-pound being losing just under 1 pound would have lost 0%, but it is by no means nothing at all. Use No weight change when nothing has been lost or gained within normal variation. Saying "No weight loss" sounds like "Well, you didn't *l... |
83,669 | I need to represent a stat for a weight loss stat. Right now I have this wording:
*2% weight loss*
the client hasn't think of the logical scenario of no weight loss or even worse, weight gain. So I'm working on this but still dubious on wording between these two:
**0% weight loss**
or
**No weight loss**
I reall... | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/83669",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/54669/"
] | Neither
=======
Taking Max's (great) answer further:
>
> **Who on earth measures weight changes in percentages?**
>
>
>
The problem with percentages
----------------------------
* In general, percentages are always a **proxy variable** and mostly little intuitive.
* Everyone has to **expand some cognitive effor... | 0% could potentially mean a small percentage, but not completely immeasurable. A 200-pound being losing just under 1 pound would have lost 0%, but it is by no means nothing at all. Use No weight change when nothing has been lost or gained within normal variation. Saying "No weight loss" sounds like "Well, you didn't *l... |
159,434 | I remember watching a movie/CGI animated film, years ago but sadly I do not remember the name.
All I remember is, that it is set in space/sky (can't say for sure which one, all I can remember is they were flying). There were some space pirates or something, and some weird bugs attacked them (machine bugs, like flying... | 2017/05/14 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159434",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/83483/"
] | Could the movie be [Titan AE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_A.E.)?
It's got pirates, and what you could consider bug-looking robots. | Maybe it is *Aero-Troopers: The Nemeclous Crusade*.
I have the same vivid memory and this is the only film I've found that seems to tickle the memory, though I haven't re-watched it. |
23,091,601 | I currently have about 50 or more includes in my cpp file. I wanted to know whats the best policy of organizing this situation. Should I continue adding more includes ? or should I take another approach ? If so what should that be ? | 2014/04/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23091601",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1305891/"
] | Split the cpp file into various smaller cpp files. If this cannot be done in a way that reduces the number of included files that each resulting cpp file needs to include, refactor your application. When refactoring, pay special attention to the [S](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principle)-part of ... | Go through your header list and remove all those not needed in that compilation unit. If you only need a pointer to a class, that is no reason to include the full header of the class.
If there are still so many headers after the cleanup, it *might* be appropriate to break up you `.cpp`-file, especially if you can make... |
23,091,601 | I currently have about 50 or more includes in my cpp file. I wanted to know whats the best policy of organizing this situation. Should I continue adding more includes ? or should I take another approach ? If so what should that be ? | 2014/04/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23091601",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1305891/"
] | **1) Limit the scope of each file to one class, or to a small group of related classes with related behavior.**
If your cpp file is only 400 to 1000 lines of code, it'll be pretty hard to require dozens of includes.
Also, as you move things around and make modifications, re-evaluate headers included in each file. If ... | Split the cpp file into various smaller cpp files. If this cannot be done in a way that reduces the number of included files that each resulting cpp file needs to include, refactor your application. When refactoring, pay special attention to the [S](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principle)-part of ... |
23,091,601 | I currently have about 50 or more includes in my cpp file. I wanted to know whats the best policy of organizing this situation. Should I continue adding more includes ? or should I take another approach ? If so what should that be ? | 2014/04/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23091601",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1305891/"
] | **1) Limit the scope of each file to one class, or to a small group of related classes with related behavior.**
If your cpp file is only 400 to 1000 lines of code, it'll be pretty hard to require dozens of includes.
Also, as you move things around and make modifications, re-evaluate headers included in each file. If ... | Go through your header list and remove all those not needed in that compilation unit. If you only need a pointer to a class, that is no reason to include the full header of the class.
If there are still so many headers after the cleanup, it *might* be appropriate to break up you `.cpp`-file, especially if you can make... |
284,124 | I am trying to get this kind of gradient map.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RPQBa.png)
I am getting this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vPifk.png)
And I want to control the falloff a... | 2023/01/19 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/284124",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/123423/"
] | set solidify offset to 1.000 (-1.000 is the default) | In the *Solidify* modifier change the offset to -1.000 |
284,124 | I am trying to get this kind of gradient map.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RPQBa.png)
I am getting this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vPifk.png)
And I want to control the falloff a... | 2023/01/19 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/284124",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/123423/"
] | Andrew has disabled the modifier visibility for *Edit Mode* that's usually enabled by default, which means when he switches to *Edit Mode* he can only see the base mesh, not the thickness added by the modifier. He explains it after 1:05 in the video. I can only recommend to watch tutorials thoroughly to not miss any de... | In the *Solidify* modifier change the offset to -1.000 |
284,124 | I am trying to get this kind of gradient map.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RPQBa.png)
I am getting this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vPifk.png)
And I want to control the falloff a... | 2023/01/19 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/284124",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/123423/"
] | Check your Normal direction. *Viewport overlays> Geometry: Face orientation*. Blue should be on the outside. If it's red on the outside, go to *Edit Mode*, select all vertices, and go to *Mesh > Normals > Flip*. | In the *Solidify* modifier change the offset to -1.000 |
284,124 | I am trying to get this kind of gradient map.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RPQBa.png)
I am getting this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vPifk.png)
And I want to control the falloff a... | 2023/01/19 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/284124",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/123423/"
] | set solidify offset to 1.000 (-1.000 is the default) | Check your Normal direction. *Viewport overlays> Geometry: Face orientation*. Blue should be on the outside. If it's red on the outside, go to *Edit Mode*, select all vertices, and go to *Mesh > Normals > Flip*. |
284,124 | I am trying to get this kind of gradient map.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RPQBa.png)
I am getting this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vPifk.png)
And I want to control the falloff a... | 2023/01/19 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/284124",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/123423/"
] | Andrew has disabled the modifier visibility for *Edit Mode* that's usually enabled by default, which means when he switches to *Edit Mode* he can only see the base mesh, not the thickness added by the modifier. He explains it after 1:05 in the video. I can only recommend to watch tutorials thoroughly to not miss any de... | Check your Normal direction. *Viewport overlays> Geometry: Face orientation*. Blue should be on the outside. If it's red on the outside, go to *Edit Mode*, select all vertices, and go to *Mesh > Normals > Flip*. |
639,039 | Clouds are present in the troposphere . So the radiation from the Sun first needs to pass this layer of the atmosphere to come down which means that the clouds above are constantly being radiated from the Sun in daytime with *higher intensity* than what reaches down the earth but if that's true **why don't the clouds g... | 2021/05/26 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/639039",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/271783/"
] | **Light from the sun heats the earth’s surface, which in turn heats the atmosphere**.
The atmosphere is made up of air and water vapour etc (when that vapour is thick enough we get clouds). The light coming from the sun is reflected back into space by clouds, and some light completely passes through them (though there... | I assume you mean to ask Why cloud don't evaporate?
First,
### How clouds are formed?
Assuming a hot sunny day with clear sky, water on surface of a water body evaporates. Assuming still air evaporated water remains at same site.
Till now it is in gaseous state.
Now, As Sun is going down condition for condensation a... |
639,039 | Clouds are present in the troposphere . So the radiation from the Sun first needs to pass this layer of the atmosphere to come down which means that the clouds above are constantly being radiated from the Sun in daytime with *higher intensity* than what reaches down the earth but if that's true **why don't the clouds g... | 2021/05/26 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/639039",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/271783/"
] | **Light from the sun heats the earth’s surface, which in turn heats the atmosphere**.
The atmosphere is made up of air and water vapour etc (when that vapour is thick enough we get clouds). The light coming from the sun is reflected back into space by clouds, and some light completely passes through them (though there... | Clouds do evaporate when the temperature and irradiation is high enough, but only to condense again at greater height where the temperature is lower. |
50,631 | [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2011/12/13/im-going-to-jail-for-what/?sh=509fe9c4e639) states that:
>
> Abner Schoenwetter was importing seafood to sell to U.S. restaurants for over 12 years from Honduras. Those shipments were overseen by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who inspected the... | 2021/04/24 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50631",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/56734/"
] | To summarize: Honduras has regulations about what lobsters can be fished (to prevent over-exploitation). The defendants knowingly broke these regulations and then tried to hide their illegal activities by breaking more laws to smuggle the lobsters into the US.
---
Archive.org has the [DoJ article](https://web.archive... | Yes, but only as one of the charges and the fact that the lobster tails were undersized was considered the bigger issue(however, he could technically have been jailed just for the bags).
>
> [Prosecutors insist the packaging issue is misleading at best, in part because the primary basis of the prosecution was on the ... |
48,396 | My boss today was provided with a cup of coffee when she was expecting tea. I find the brain has a pre-expectation of taste and, when confronted with an unexpected but familiar taste, struggles for a moment to process this. Is this a concept anyone is familiar with and, if so, is anyone aware of a term for it? | 2011/11/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/48396",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/14857/"
] | There is no term specific to an unexpected taste. An appropriate term for the general reaction is simply:
>
> **surprise**.
>
>
> | While *à propos* but unrelated term *[presque vu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presque_vu)* (or, "tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon") may first come to mind, *[jamais vu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu)* ("when a person momentarily does not recognise [something] he or she already knows") surely is more appropriate.
... |
48,396 | My boss today was provided with a cup of coffee when she was expecting tea. I find the brain has a pre-expectation of taste and, when confronted with an unexpected but familiar taste, struggles for a moment to process this. Is this a concept anyone is familiar with and, if so, is anyone aware of a term for it? | 2011/11/15 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/48396",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/14857/"
] | There is no term specific to an unexpected taste. An appropriate term for the general reaction is simply:
>
> **surprise**.
>
>
> | **Startled** carries a reasonable mix of surprise and disorientation I think. |
6,099,629 | I get a fast stream of data (objects) and I would like to write it to a file.
This is a stand alone process so it doesn't do anything but read the data from a socket parse it to csv and write all to a file.
What is the best way to write a lot of csv lines to a file?
Is a buffer writing my solution?
Is there a... | 2011/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6099629",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/450602/"
] | [Fastest way to write huge data in text file Java](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1062113/fastest-way-to-write-huge-data-in-text-file-java) | If you're dealing with a huge throughput of data then I suggest you use a set of in-memory buffers where you deposit the data arriving and then have a thread/threadpool which uses Java NIO to "consume" these buffers and write them onto disk. You will however be limited by the disk writing speed -- bear in mind that it'... |
6,099,629 | I get a fast stream of data (objects) and I would like to write it to a file.
This is a stand alone process so it doesn't do anything but read the data from a socket parse it to csv and write all to a file.
What is the best way to write a lot of csv lines to a file?
Is a buffer writing my solution?
Is there a... | 2011/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6099629",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/450602/"
] | [Fastest way to write huge data in text file Java](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1062113/fastest-way-to-write-huge-data-in-text-file-java) | As mentioned above, chances are that its disk I/O that limits you, not Java abstractions.
But beyond using a good lib to deal with CSV, you might consider using other (even more) efficient formats like JSON; as well as compression. GZIP is good at compressing things, but relatively slow; but there are faster ones too.... |
6,099,629 | I get a fast stream of data (objects) and I would like to write it to a file.
This is a stand alone process so it doesn't do anything but read the data from a socket parse it to csv and write all to a file.
What is the best way to write a lot of csv lines to a file?
Is a buffer writing my solution?
Is there a... | 2011/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6099629",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/450602/"
] | If you're dealing with a huge throughput of data then I suggest you use a set of in-memory buffers where you deposit the data arriving and then have a thread/threadpool which uses Java NIO to "consume" these buffers and write them onto disk. You will however be limited by the disk writing speed -- bear in mind that it'... | As mentioned above, chances are that its disk I/O that limits you, not Java abstractions.
But beyond using a good lib to deal with CSV, you might consider using other (even more) efficient formats like JSON; as well as compression. GZIP is good at compressing things, but relatively slow; but there are faster ones too.... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | Git is very fast, scales very well, and is very transparent about its concepts. The down side of this is that it has a relatively steep learning curve. A Win32 port is available, but not quite a first-class citizen. Git exposes hashes as version numbers to users; this provides guarantees (in that a single hash always r... | This is a big question that depends a lot on context that would take you a lot of time to type into one of these little text boxes. Also, all three of these appear substantially similar when used for the usual stuff most programmers do, so even understanding the differences requires some fairly esoteric knowledge.
You... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | This is a big question that depends a lot on context that would take you a lot of time to type into one of these little text boxes. Also, all three of these appear substantially similar when used for the usual stuff most programmers do, so even understanding the differences requires some fairly esoteric knowledge.
You... | Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) solve different problems than Centralized VCSs. Comparing them is like comparing hammers and screwdrivers.
[Centralized VCS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control) systems are designed with the intent that there is One True Source that is Blessed, and therefore Good.... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | I was using Bazaar for a while which I liked a lot but it was only smaller projects and even then it was pretty slow. So easy to learn, but not super fast. It is very x-platform though.
I currently use Git which I like a lot since version 1.6 made it much more similar to other VCS in terms of the commands to use.
I t... | Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) solve different problems than Centralized VCSs. Comparing them is like comparing hammers and screwdrivers.
[Centralized VCS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control) systems are designed with the intent that there is One True Source that is Blessed, and therefore Good.... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | Take a look at the comparison made recently by the Python developers: <http://wiki.python.org/moin/DvcsComparison>. They chose Mercurial based on three important reasons:
>
> The choice to go with Mercurial was made for three important reasons:
>
>
> * According to a small survey, Python developers are more interes... | ddaa.myopenid.com mentioned it in passing, but I think it's worth mentioning again: Bazaar can read and write to remote SVN repositories. That means you could use Bazaar locally as a proof-of-concept while the rest of the team is still using Subversion.
EDIT: Pretty much all the tool now have *some* way of interacting... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | Take a look at the comparison made recently by the Python developers: <http://wiki.python.org/moin/DvcsComparison>. They chose Mercurial based on three important reasons:
>
> The choice to go with Mercurial was made for three important reasons:
>
>
> * According to a small survey, Python developers are more interes... | Bazaar is IMHO easier to learn than git.
Git has a nice support in github.com.
I think you should try to use both and decide which suits you most. |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | Sun did an evaluation of [git](http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/git-eval.txt), [Mercurial](http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/mercurial-eval.html), and [Bazaar](http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/bzr-eval/) as candidates to replace the Sun Teamware VCS for the Solaris code base. I fou... | Your major issue is going to be that these are **Distributed** SCMs, and as such require a bit of a change to the user's mindset. Once people get used to the idea the technical details and usage patterns will fall into place, but don't underestimate that initial hurdle, especially in a corporate setting. Remember, all ... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | Your major issue is going to be that these are **Distributed** SCMs, and as such require a bit of a change to the user's mindset. Once people get used to the idea the technical details and usage patterns will fall into place, but don't underestimate that initial hurdle, especially in a corporate setting. Remember, all ... | Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) solve different problems than Centralized VCSs. Comparing them is like comparing hammers and screwdrivers.
[Centralized VCS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control) systems are designed with the intent that there is One True Source that is Blessed, and therefore Good.... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | Sun did an evaluation of [git](http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/git-eval.txt), [Mercurial](http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/mercurial-eval.html), and [Bazaar](http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/bzr-eval/) as candidates to replace the Sun Teamware VCS for the Solaris code base. I fou... | This is a big question that depends a lot on context that would take you a lot of time to type into one of these little text boxes. Also, all three of these appear substantially similar when used for the usual stuff most programmers do, so even understanding the differences requires some fairly esoteric knowledge.
You... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | Git is very fast, scales very well, and is very transparent about its concepts. The down side of this is that it has a relatively steep learning curve. A Win32 port is available, but not quite a first-class citizen. Git exposes hashes as version numbers to users; this provides guarantees (in that a single hash always r... | There is good video by Linus Torvalds on git. He is creator of Git so this is what he promotes but in the video he explain what distributed SCMs are and why they are better then centralized ones. There is a good deal of comparing git (mercurial is considered to be OK) and cvs/svn/perforce. There are also questions from... |
77,485 | What do folks here see as the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
In considering each of them with one another and against version control systems like SVN and Perforce, what issues should be considered?
In planning a migration from SVN to one of these distributed version control systems,... | 2008/09/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/77485",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13750/"
] | Steve Streeting of the Ogre 3D project just (9/28/2009) published a blog entry on this topic where he does a great and even handed [comparison of Git, Mercurial and Bazaar](http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/09/28/early-stage-gitmercurialbazaar-evaluation-thoughts/).
In the end he finds strengths and weaknesses with a... | A very important **missing** thing in bazaar is cp. You cannot have multiple files sharing the same history, as you have in SVN, see for example [here](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2007q3/029792.html) and [here](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/269095). If you don't plan to use cp, bzr is a great (and ve... |
14,665 | I sometimes see people answering a question in the comments and then being asked to convert their comment into an answer, however in some of those cases someone comes along and sees that answer and in a really obvious way copies and pastes the answer from the comments into an actual answer (this is not to be confused w... | 2015/11/11 | [
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14665",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/users/-1/"
] | **Nothing.** The commenter should have posted an answer instead of messing around in the comments' section. | I have a fundamentally different thought to the accepted answer so I will leave this here as a counter-idea to each of those points:
1. One of the greatest features of SE is the ability for anybody to edit and improve content. Invoking the word stealing makes no sense to me and in fact we should be encouraging people ... |
14,665 | I sometimes see people answering a question in the comments and then being asked to convert their comment into an answer, however in some of those cases someone comes along and sees that answer and in a really obvious way copies and pastes the answer from the comments into an actual answer (this is not to be confused w... | 2015/11/11 | [
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14665",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/users/-1/"
] | **Nothing.** The commenter should have posted an answer instead of messing around in the comments' section. | This may not be popular and I think that this *only* applies to me - I'd not speak on behalf of others. I just recently posted a comment (I figured it was the solution but I like to check in the comments where applicable) and, shortly afterwards, a person took my comment and turned it into an answer.
Now, they also ph... |
14,665 | I sometimes see people answering a question in the comments and then being asked to convert their comment into an answer, however in some of those cases someone comes along and sees that answer and in a really obvious way copies and pastes the answer from the comments into an actual answer (this is not to be confused w... | 2015/11/11 | [
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14665",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/users/-1/"
] | I have a fundamentally different thought to the accepted answer so I will leave this here as a counter-idea to each of those points:
1. One of the greatest features of SE is the ability for anybody to edit and improve content. Invoking the word stealing makes no sense to me and in fact we should be encouraging people ... | This may not be popular and I think that this *only* applies to me - I'd not speak on behalf of others. I just recently posted a comment (I figured it was the solution but I like to check in the comments where applicable) and, shortly afterwards, a person took my comment and turned it into an answer.
Now, they also ph... |
59,698 | My background is from User Interface design and now I want to pursue further to study about how user interact with interface and also devices. Thus I'm looking for suitable master program in European University, but most of them are in Computer Science faculty.
Such as:
- Human Media Interaction from University of Tw... | 2014/06/10 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/59698",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/42650/"
] | If your goal is as you mention: "to study about how user interact with interface and also devices." Then I would recommend you to pursue studies on research methods, I would go for Social Sciences research methods made for psychologist, anthropologist, sociologist, etc. probably it would be out of your comfort zone sin... | I followed TU delft Design for Interaction program and my bachelor was product design in METU. The program is for two years.
There are several courses about user centered design, usability and design projects. Last semester, the student works for his/her master thesis within a company.
You can apply these programs ... |
15,129,709 | I have found some tools that can help the developers to find out the memory leaks like FastMM4. But can a QA person use it to determine memory leaks after we take a build? or is there any tool available that can aid a QA person to find out memory leaks then it would be great.
currently what we follow is like run the ... | 2013/02/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15129709",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/462467/"
] | Lots of functionality in FastMM4 can be enabled or disabled depending on a presence of FastMM\_FullDebugMode.dll in system. This way you can have only one build, where leak detection will be enabled by copying FastMM\_FullDebugMode.dll to program folder. Similar functionality you can achieve by using ShareMem unit toge... | Your QA testers can equally use FastMM to detect memory leaks. You just need to give them a build which enables memory leak detection. |
15,129,709 | I have found some tools that can help the developers to find out the memory leaks like FastMM4. But can a QA person use it to determine memory leaks after we take a build? or is there any tool available that can aid a QA person to find out memory leaks then it would be great.
currently what we follow is like run the ... | 2013/02/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15129709",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/462467/"
] | Your QA testers can equally use FastMM to detect memory leaks. You just need to give them a build which enables memory leak detection. | SouceGuard is a lite and effective leakproof and bug reporting tool in Delphi.
It was formerly known as UMLD. |
15,129,709 | I have found some tools that can help the developers to find out the memory leaks like FastMM4. But can a QA person use it to determine memory leaks after we take a build? or is there any tool available that can aid a QA person to find out memory leaks then it would be great.
currently what we follow is like run the ... | 2013/02/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15129709",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/462467/"
] | Lots of functionality in FastMM4 can be enabled or disabled depending on a presence of FastMM\_FullDebugMode.dll in system. This way you can have only one build, where leak detection will be enabled by copying FastMM\_FullDebugMode.dll to program folder. Similar functionality you can achieve by using ShareMem unit toge... | SouceGuard is a lite and effective leakproof and bug reporting tool in Delphi.
It was formerly known as UMLD. |
219 | I have a couple questions that I hope the community can help me in understanding the closing of a question I posted just a few hours ago - <https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3951/should-a-ui-designer-use-a-mac-closed>
First and foremost, I'm not sure I understand why it would be closed with such a cryptic message... | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/219",
"https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/users/557/"
] | >
> I was not expecting to see a "subjective" close reason on a subjective site
>
>
>
You basically asked "should programmers use Emacs?" here, and you're wondering why it was closed?
Pretty self explanatory to me. | One thing I would say about your question is that it is VERY off topic for this site. This is a site for UI experts, not designers. |
219 | I have a couple questions that I hope the community can help me in understanding the closing of a question I posted just a few hours ago - <https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3951/should-a-ui-designer-use-a-mac-closed>
First and foremost, I'm not sure I understand why it would be closed with such a cryptic message... | 2011/03/08 | [
"https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/219",
"https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/users/557/"
] | >
> I was not expecting to see a "subjective" close reason on a subjective site
>
>
>
You basically asked "should programmers use Emacs?" here, and you're wondering why it was closed?
Pretty self explanatory to me. | I apologize for posting such a cryptic comment. That was probably more frustrating than if I hadn't given any reason. Mea culpa.
Your interpretation is correct. You know that some questions are *too* subjective, even on a site where most questions have an element of subjectivity. You asked a question that -- if you're... |
23,906 | Does anyone know what Rory says to the Roman soldier in his first appearance in the [Pandorica Opens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pandorica_Opens) episode of Doctor Who? | 2014/08/15 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/23906",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/5619/"
] | According to both Wikipedia and Websters, "subtitle" is used for both the phrase after the colon, **and** the text which appears at the bottom of a movie that is in a foreign language. So, your assumption is correct.
Thanks to Sonny Burnett for pointing that out. | It is called as Caption. Which represents the story of movie or differentiates the movie from same series of movies |
23,906 | Does anyone know what Rory says to the Roman soldier in his first appearance in the [Pandorica Opens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pandorica_Opens) episode of Doctor Who? | 2014/08/15 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/23906",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/5619/"
] | According to both Wikipedia and Websters, "subtitle" is used for both the phrase after the colon, **and** the text which appears at the bottom of a movie that is in a foreign language. So, your assumption is correct.
Thanks to Sonny Burnett for pointing that out. | It's called a "tagline". |
7,081,900 | What are (If there are) the differences between a Simulink library and a model reference. There's advantadges in using either of them in different situations? | 2011/08/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7081900",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/614949/"
] | The main purpose of libraries and model reference are the same: facilitate the reuse of simulink models. When you work with libraries, simulink "imports" the content of the referenced models in to the main model. Sometimes, this leads to the developer dealing with gigantic models (more than 50k blocks), which can be ti... | Adding some more to danielmsd's answer:
* Configuration Management: Model references can be put easily into
version control and developers can work independently from each other. A library is one file, so the blocks
cannot be versioned individually and developers cannot work in parallel.
* You can protect model refere... |
7,081,900 | What are (If there are) the differences between a Simulink library and a model reference. There's advantadges in using either of them in different situations? | 2011/08/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7081900",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/614949/"
] | The main purpose of libraries and model reference are the same: facilitate the reuse of simulink models. When you work with libraries, simulink "imports" the content of the referenced models in to the main model. Sometimes, this leads to the developer dealing with gigantic models (more than 50k blocks), which can be ti... | From a system design perspective model references should be used for components of your system. That is the different parts your system is made from. Libraries should be used as utilities. That is reuable blocks that are used through out your design.
For example a robot control system includes components: navigation, ... |
7,081,900 | What are (If there are) the differences between a Simulink library and a model reference. There's advantadges in using either of them in different situations? | 2011/08/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7081900",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/614949/"
] | The main purpose of libraries and model reference are the same: facilitate the reuse of simulink models. When you work with libraries, simulink "imports" the content of the referenced models in to the main model. Sometimes, this leads to the developer dealing with gigantic models (more than 50k blocks), which can be ti... | Advantages of mdl ref:
- Code generation: Model references allow partial builds when using the coder product. Assuming you have a really large model with 100k blocks and it takes 20 minutes to build, splitting it up in model references will reduce the build time since only the changed model will need to rebuild.
* Mo... |
7,081,900 | What are (If there are) the differences between a Simulink library and a model reference. There's advantadges in using either of them in different situations? | 2011/08/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7081900",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/614949/"
] | Adding some more to danielmsd's answer:
* Configuration Management: Model references can be put easily into
version control and developers can work independently from each other. A library is one file, so the blocks
cannot be versioned individually and developers cannot work in parallel.
* You can protect model refere... | From a system design perspective model references should be used for components of your system. That is the different parts your system is made from. Libraries should be used as utilities. That is reuable blocks that are used through out your design.
For example a robot control system includes components: navigation, ... |
7,081,900 | What are (If there are) the differences between a Simulink library and a model reference. There's advantadges in using either of them in different situations? | 2011/08/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7081900",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/614949/"
] | Adding some more to danielmsd's answer:
* Configuration Management: Model references can be put easily into
version control and developers can work independently from each other. A library is one file, so the blocks
cannot be versioned individually and developers cannot work in parallel.
* You can protect model refere... | Advantages of mdl ref:
- Code generation: Model references allow partial builds when using the coder product. Assuming you have a really large model with 100k blocks and it takes 20 minutes to build, splitting it up in model references will reduce the build time since only the changed model will need to rebuild.
* Mo... |
69,132 | D3's lore books are broken into People, Quest, Bestiary, and World lore book categories, though they are discovered in areas/zones, not by those categories. You'll see the one I'm missing below (**"Battlefield Reports"**), but I thought it would be more useful to make a full list instead of only asking for the one I ne... | 2012/05/23 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/69132",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/21177/"
] | This [forum post](https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5271599310) includes details on how to find most but not all of the lore books for "Primary Sources", "History of Arreat" and "Espionage".
>
> **Primary Sources**
>
>
> Bloodstained Letter - The Keep (Needs confirmation)
>
>
> Ghom's Log - The Larder
>
> ... | The last time I tried to get the Battlefield Reports they were bugged; I don't know if this has been fixed yet.
I do know that some of the quest books and random spawns were bugged and fixed - Some of these were fixed but the battlefield reports werent fixed at that time.
They're supposed to spawn within the Battlef... |
69,132 | D3's lore books are broken into People, Quest, Bestiary, and World lore book categories, though they are discovered in areas/zones, not by those categories. You'll see the one I'm missing below (**"Battlefield Reports"**), but I thought it would be more useful to make a full list instead of only asking for the one I ne... | 2012/05/23 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/69132",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/21177/"
] | This [forum post](https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5271599310) includes details on how to find most but not all of the lore books for "Primary Sources", "History of Arreat" and "Espionage".
>
> **Primary Sources**
>
>
> Bloodstained Letter - The Keep (Needs confirmation)
>
>
> Ghom's Log - The Larder
>
> ... | Battlefield Reports are now in the game after patch 1.0.4 They actually spawn in the Battle Fields (Go figure ;P) Near Arreat Gate from an NPC with a blue ! over his head. There are quite a few of these guys but only one of them is your man, I made a quick youtube video showing where I found him, as well as where it se... |
371,452 | Since upgrading to iOS 13.1 on my iPad (5th Gen, 9.5"), whenever I close the Safari app or turn off iPad, my open tabs are NOT restored.
This was working fine before the upgrade. Anyone else or any suggestions? I keep tabs open till I’ve dealt with them. This behaviour is a blow for me. | 2019/10/02 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/371452",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/348278/"
] | While it’s not enabled by default, iPadOS has an option for Safari to automatically close open tabs if they’ve not been viewed for a while. Have you accidentally enabled that option and set it for one day? You’ll find it under Settings / Safari / Close Tabs. | I did some more checking - at the time of the upgrade I also set up **Safari iCloud tabs** for the first time. For some reason - maybe because my iMac is so old, I think the tabs disappeared.
Anyhow, I turned off iCloud Safari on the iPad (data from other devices was not showing anyway) then tried. Tabs remain, even ... |
162,512 | Suppose I write a paper that contains mostly results that I previously published in my M.Sc. or Ph.D. thesis. The paper contains another author that is not related to the thesis (not the supervisor), who contributed some other results. How should I relate to the thesis when writing the paper?
* Should I ignore it alto... | 2021/02/11 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/162512",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/787/"
] | Write something along the lines of:
>
> A preliminary version of this paper appeared in Segal-Halevi's thesis [1], new results include X, Y, and Z.
>
>
>
That could appear as a footnote on the opening page, in your related work section (perhaps at the end), or maybe even in the acknowledgements. (Placement in the... | First and foremost, you should fully explain the situation in detail in the cover letter for the article submission. Whether reviewers understand the situation is not as important as that the editor fully understand what is going on.
From your description, it seems that the current paper is essentially your thesis plu... |
101,037 | I had thought that if there is an interaction between 2 independent variables, then it is always the case that there will be main effect for both the independent variables.
However, I found out that this is not the case after reading this [site](http://courses.washington.edu/smartpsy/interactions.htm).
Can I have som... | 2014/06/03 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/101037",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/31661/"
] | When an interaction effect exists between two factors, it no longer makes sense to talk about main effects. There is no main effect, for the sort of considerations that you mention in your post. You've got the point: you only know the effect of a level of B if you also know the level of A -- so, no main effects.
In th... | For the sake of intuitive simplicity, pretend this isn't a statistical problem, but just a mathematical problem. Say that the "data" include every single point exactly on those lines in your example, so that the task is to describe those lines entirely as functions of *A* and *B*. Arguably, this is in fact the case, an... |
7,888,014 | Is search extensibility can be used for launching an application from a link?or this is only used for launching applications through bing search? | 2011/10/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7888014",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/790928/"
] | Search extensibility is only for integration with the serch results displayed by Bing. | According to [Silverlight SDK blog](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlight_sdk/archive/2011/12/20/updates-to-the-windows-phone-docs.aspx), search extensibility documentation just updated, so you can get information from primary source. |
96,977 | Summary
=======
The question of "How do you sum the values of an array in PHP?" has been asked and duplicated many times on Stack Overflow. Some Meta threads suggest to make a canonical answer.
What's the process? Should one of the existing questions be made into a community wiki (through editing, or moderator assist... | 2011/06/30 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96977",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> Should one of the existing questions be made into a community wiki (through editing, or mod assistance), or should a new question be asked from scratch?
>
>
>
An existing question should be used, in my opinion. Also, I don't see why it needs to be community wiki. If it's the canonical example of a common quest... | *(At the risk of repeating something that may already have been said)* I would go one step further and add a new flag or close reason: **flag as duplicate of canonical answer**. After enough flags or close votes a diamond mod could be the final arbiter who triggers the close - we don't want to be polluting the canonica... |
74,353 | 1 Peter 3:17-22 (ESV):
>
> 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
>
>
> 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh **but made alive in the spirit**, 19 **in whi... | 2022/02/11 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/74353",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | There are two translations matters in 1 Peter 3:18 & 19 -
**1. (V18) how to translate the dative, πνεύματι**
The word can be correctly translated "by the Spirit", or, "for the Spirit", or, "in the Spirit". However, the correct translation is actually given by the the previous clause to which it is an intended contras... | I would answer yes, Jesus' physical body was made alive in the Spirit. & I will address “**when**”, let me make my case:
>
> **1.)** Paul makes mention that believers body will one day be just like Christ's body:
>
>
> "But if the **Spirit of Him who raised Jesus** from the dead dwells in
> you, He who raised Chris... |
74,353 | 1 Peter 3:17-22 (ESV):
>
> 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
>
>
> 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh **but made alive in the spirit**, 19 **in whi... | 2022/02/11 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/74353",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | **Prepositions Drive Translators Crazy**
There are, broadly speaking, 2 common renderings of πνεύματι ("pneumati") (as already noted by Dottard, multiple prepositions--in English--are grammatically possible):
A. in the spirit
B. by the spirit
Among common English translations, "A" outnumbers "B" about 5 to 1 ([ex... | I would answer yes, Jesus' physical body was made alive in the Spirit. & I will address “**when**”, let me make my case:
>
> **1.)** Paul makes mention that believers body will one day be just like Christ's body:
>
>
> "But if the **Spirit of Him who raised Jesus** from the dead dwells in
> you, He who raised Chris... |
74,353 | 1 Peter 3:17-22 (ESV):
>
> 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
>
>
> 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh **but made alive in the spirit**, 19 **in whi... | 2022/02/11 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/74353",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit
>
>
>
* Jesus died as the fleshly man who returned his sprit to God at his death. Luke 23:46
* Jesus was raised by his Father and God and given eternal life and the promised holy spirit Acts 2:33
Jesus being 'made alive in the spirit' happened at hi... | I would answer yes, Jesus' physical body was made alive in the Spirit. & I will address “**when**”, let me make my case:
>
> **1.)** Paul makes mention that believers body will one day be just like Christ's body:
>
>
> "But if the **Spirit of Him who raised Jesus** from the dead dwells in
> you, He who raised Chris... |
74,353 | 1 Peter 3:17-22 (ESV):
>
> 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
>
>
> 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh **but made alive in the spirit**, 19 **in whi... | 2022/02/11 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/74353",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | There are two translations matters in 1 Peter 3:18 & 19 -
**1. (V18) how to translate the dative, πνεύματι**
The word can be correctly translated "by the Spirit", or, "for the Spirit", or, "in the Spirit". However, the correct translation is actually given by the the previous clause to which it is an intended contras... | **Prepositions Drive Translators Crazy**
There are, broadly speaking, 2 common renderings of πνεύματι ("pneumati") (as already noted by Dottard, multiple prepositions--in English--are grammatically possible):
A. in the spirit
B. by the spirit
Among common English translations, "A" outnumbers "B" about 5 to 1 ([ex... |
74,353 | 1 Peter 3:17-22 (ESV):
>
> 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
>
>
> 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh **but made alive in the spirit**, 19 **in whi... | 2022/02/11 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/74353",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit
>
>
>
* Jesus died as the fleshly man who returned his sprit to God at his death. Luke 23:46
* Jesus was raised by his Father and God and given eternal life and the promised holy spirit Acts 2:33
Jesus being 'made alive in the spirit' happened at hi... | **Prepositions Drive Translators Crazy**
There are, broadly speaking, 2 common renderings of πνεύματι ("pneumati") (as already noted by Dottard, multiple prepositions--in English--are grammatically possible):
A. in the spirit
B. by the spirit
Among common English translations, "A" outnumbers "B" about 5 to 1 ([ex... |
15,255 | I know that For an **American-style put option**, early exercise is a optimal for deep **in-the-money options.** In this case, it may make sense to exercise the option early in order to obtain the profit earlier so that it can start to earn interest immediately.\
but why it could be optimal to exercise prematurely an ... | 2014/11/02 | [
"https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/15255",
"https://quant.stackexchange.com",
"https://quant.stackexchange.com/users/13329/"
] | FX options are essentially the same mathematically as options on stocks that pay a continuous dividend. So the same arguments apply. If you are deeply in the money, it may be time to exercise a put. | Hi After searching Google I found some good reasons and I think that it might be useful for others also, So I post it here too.
The put’s payoff is bounded: at maturity, the maximal gain is K (less the premium) if the underlying is worth 0 (It is not the same with the call where the potential gain is unlimited). In th... |
11,056 | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hTU0e.jpg)
Hey guys, first time poster.
I'm trying to make this simple nightstand using hand tools.
I'm stuck on these angled planks. Is there any way I can cut these very long cuts without electric table saw? I have a few... | 2020/09/26 | [
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/questions/11056",
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com",
"https://woodworking.stackexchange.com/users/9199/"
] | Cuts like this are actually fairly straightforward to do by hand, using the right technique1.
But even so, it would be rare indeed for any cut like this done in hand-tool woodworking to be used straight from the saw — the sawn end surface is nearly always going to be refined by planing, to both perfect the angle and g... | Mitered cuts this wide are not necessarily sawn in hand-tools only methods of work. They're almost definitely shot on one of the shooting board types though. The idea is to remove bulk of the waste with a tool that can move lots of material quickly, so for example you could knock it off with a chisel leaving somewhere ... |
61,645 | I have a 2010 Chevy Cobalt that I am suspicious is having electrical issues. Here is the order of things I noticed happening
1. The turn signals stopped auto canceling, meaning that after making a turn I have to physically put the signal back, it doesn't auto stop.
2. A few weeks later the turn signals stopped making ... | 2018/12/06 | [
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/61645",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com",
"https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/users/14606/"
] | On our '07 Cobalt,
(1) I have the same non-canceling turn signal problem. I believe it's a mechanical issue. [This guy](https://www.chevyhhr.net/forums/how-tutorial-library-21/turn-signal-canceling-failure-fix-lots-pics-37992/) says he has a fix, and an explanation. (Long, lots of pix, I'm not going to quote it ... s... | It is possible the BCM "Body Control Module" is failing. The BCM is totally responsible for controlling turn signals and hazard lamps, down to the flash rate (as well as every other single thing on the vehicle, except the drivetrain! Even the instrument cluster gauges and odometer mileage is mastered by the BCM.)
The ... |
657,792 | I'm familiar with the the date and time classes in the JDK and their associated formatting methods. I may be blind, but I cannot find an equivalent set of classes for processing time intervals. For example, I would like to display the number of days for a given long value of milliseconds. I realize that the method to d... | 2009/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/657792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/33611/"
] | Have you tried [Joda Time](http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/)? | have a look at <http://commons.apache.org/> and the DateUtils class there |
657,792 | I'm familiar with the the date and time classes in the JDK and their associated formatting methods. I may be blind, but I cannot find an equivalent set of classes for processing time intervals. For example, I would like to display the number of days for a given long value of milliseconds. I realize that the method to d... | 2009/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/657792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/33611/"
] | have a look at <http://commons.apache.org/> and the DateUtils class there | Unfortunately there is nothing like this in the Standard Library, but as Tobiask points out the Apache Commons have a useful tool for this.
DurationFormatUtils has a few predefined formats (Hour:Minutes:Second, ISO) and allows you to specify your own. |
657,792 | I'm familiar with the the date and time classes in the JDK and their associated formatting methods. I may be blind, but I cannot find an equivalent set of classes for processing time intervals. For example, I would like to display the number of days for a given long value of milliseconds. I realize that the method to d... | 2009/03/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/657792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/33611/"
] | Have you tried [Joda Time](http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/)? | Unfortunately there is nothing like this in the Standard Library, but as Tobiask points out the Apache Commons have a useful tool for this.
DurationFormatUtils has a few predefined formats (Hour:Minutes:Second, ISO) and allows you to specify your own. |
5,732,465 | Guice is a great framework to separate API from implementation and to start modularizing your applications. OSGi is a great framework to load versioned services in their own secured environment and to offer these via an exported API.
Assuming an application has been developed with Guice and that its size now justifies... | 2011/04/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5732465",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/520957/"
] | OSGi already offers dependency injection for services when using Declarative Services (DS) (like [Felix SCR](http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-service-component-runtime.html "Felix SCR")). This is standard in OSGi, and for portability across different OSGi frameworks DS is the way to go. I think Peaberry is doi... | You could take a look at [Peaberry](http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/), which is intended for bridging the worlds of OSGi and Guice. |
3,302,364 | Question abou naming standards, following .NET standards.
How would you name a control that shows a grid of order objects? It is not an editor, but allows selection of one / more orders.
* OrderGrid
or
* OrdersGrid ?
Basically: Singular for the object shown, or plural?
We are in some quarrels here.
Note: the nam... | 2010/07/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3302364",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/285465/"
] | If the grid shows or represents multiple orders at once, i'd consider pluralizing. (That's not a hard rule, though -- "orders grid", "orders viewer" and the like sound odd to me.)
I'd opt for the singular by default, though, unless there's a reason to make it clear that there's multiple orders in there. | I'd pluralize:
* For the GridView, I'd use gvOrders
* For the DataGridView I'd use
dgvOrders
Since it's exposed to users why not simply use *Orders*? |
76,081 | <https://twitter.com/UN_HRC/status/1578407316583497729>
>
> #HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.28 Rev.1: “From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against #racism, racial
> discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” was ADOPTED.
>
>
>
What benefits would the U.S. gain from voting aga... | 2022/10/09 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/76081",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/38301/"
] | This resolution comes up time and time again
<https://digitallibrary.un.org/search?ln=en&p=From+rhetoric+to+reality%3A+a+global+call+for+concrete+action+against+racism&f=&action_search=Search>
The US has explained it's vote against before:
<https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-for-the-a-global-call-for-concr... | The (2021 version of the) resolution, A/HRC/RES/48/18, mentions "Durban" 33 times. The [Durban conferences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban_III) have an increasingly bad rep in "the West", with major European countries (France, Germany, and the UK) boycotting the later ones as well. ([According](https://www.al-mon... |
76,081 | <https://twitter.com/UN_HRC/status/1578407316583497729>
>
> #HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.28 Rev.1: “From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against #racism, racial
> discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” was ADOPTED.
>
>
>
What benefits would the U.S. gain from voting aga... | 2022/10/09 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/76081",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/38301/"
] | This resolution comes up time and time again
<https://digitallibrary.un.org/search?ln=en&p=From+rhetoric+to+reality%3A+a+global+call+for+concrete+action+against+racism&f=&action_search=Search>
The US has explained it's vote against before:
<https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-for-the-a-global-call-for-concr... | **Because it [endorses](https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-for-the-a-global-call-for-concrete-action-for-the-elimination-of-racism-racial-discrimination-xenophobia-and-related-intolerance/) Durban Declaration and Program of Action**.
USA has [concerns](https://geneva.usmission.gov/2011/09/27/durban-declara... |
146,982 | I have a wps file (Microsoft Works), but no Microsoft Works, and no Microsoft Office. Ultimately, I want to get a PDF but happy to convert to an intermediate format if I can. Preferably on OS X if possible, but would use a Windows solution if there is one.
Is there a converter tool I can use for this? Thanks. | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146982",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10980/"
] | I'm quite sure [OpenOffice](http://download.openoffice.org/) can open open `*.wps` files.
And OpenOffice have a *save as pdf option*
OpenOffice is avaliable on win and mac (among others). | I believe that you can send the file to www.freepdfconvert.com and they will e-mail it back to you as a PDF... |
146,982 | I have a wps file (Microsoft Works), but no Microsoft Works, and no Microsoft Office. Ultimately, I want to get a PDF but happy to convert to an intermediate format if I can. Preferably on OS X if possible, but would use a Windows solution if there is one.
Is there a converter tool I can use for this? Thanks. | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146982",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10980/"
] | Microsoft's free [Word Viewer](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac&displaylang=en) will view, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed.
Couple it with a virtual PDF printer, such as CutePDF, and the problem is solved. | I believe that you can send the file to www.freepdfconvert.com and they will e-mail it back to you as a PDF... |
146,982 | I have a wps file (Microsoft Works), but no Microsoft Works, and no Microsoft Office. Ultimately, I want to get a PDF but happy to convert to an intermediate format if I can. Preferably on OS X if possible, but would use a Windows solution if there is one.
Is there a converter tool I can use for this? Thanks. | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146982",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10980/"
] | Use [Zamzar](http://www.zamzar.com/ "Zamzar"). | I believe that you can send the file to www.freepdfconvert.com and they will e-mail it back to you as a PDF... |
146,982 | I have a wps file (Microsoft Works), but no Microsoft Works, and no Microsoft Office. Ultimately, I want to get a PDF but happy to convert to an intermediate format if I can. Preferably on OS X if possible, but would use a Windows solution if there is one.
Is there a converter tool I can use for this? Thanks. | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146982",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10980/"
] | I'm quite sure [OpenOffice](http://download.openoffice.org/) can open open `*.wps` files.
And OpenOffice have a *save as pdf option*
OpenOffice is avaliable on win and mac (among others). | There are many free PDF printer available that would suit your needs. [CutePDF](http://www.cutepdf.com/) is a good one. |
146,982 | I have a wps file (Microsoft Works), but no Microsoft Works, and no Microsoft Office. Ultimately, I want to get a PDF but happy to convert to an intermediate format if I can. Preferably on OS X if possible, but would use a Windows solution if there is one.
Is there a converter tool I can use for this? Thanks. | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146982",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10980/"
] | Microsoft's free [Word Viewer](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac&displaylang=en) will view, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed.
Couple it with a virtual PDF printer, such as CutePDF, and the problem is solved. | There are many free PDF printer available that would suit your needs. [CutePDF](http://www.cutepdf.com/) is a good one. |
146,982 | I have a wps file (Microsoft Works), but no Microsoft Works, and no Microsoft Office. Ultimately, I want to get a PDF but happy to convert to an intermediate format if I can. Preferably on OS X if possible, but would use a Windows solution if there is one.
Is there a converter tool I can use for this? Thanks. | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146982",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10980/"
] | Use [Zamzar](http://www.zamzar.com/ "Zamzar"). | There are many free PDF printer available that would suit your needs. [CutePDF](http://www.cutepdf.com/) is a good one. |
146,982 | I have a wps file (Microsoft Works), but no Microsoft Works, and no Microsoft Office. Ultimately, I want to get a PDF but happy to convert to an intermediate format if I can. Preferably on OS X if possible, but would use a Windows solution if there is one.
Is there a converter tool I can use for this? Thanks. | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146982",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10980/"
] | Use [Zamzar](http://www.zamzar.com/ "Zamzar"). | I'm quite sure [OpenOffice](http://download.openoffice.org/) can open open `*.wps` files.
And OpenOffice have a *save as pdf option*
OpenOffice is avaliable on win and mac (among others). |
146,982 | I have a wps file (Microsoft Works), but no Microsoft Works, and no Microsoft Office. Ultimately, I want to get a PDF but happy to convert to an intermediate format if I can. Preferably on OS X if possible, but would use a Windows solution if there is one.
Is there a converter tool I can use for this? Thanks. | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/146982",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/10980/"
] | Use [Zamzar](http://www.zamzar.com/ "Zamzar"). | Microsoft's free [Word Viewer](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac&displaylang=en) will view, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed.
Couple it with a virtual PDF printer, such as CutePDF, and the problem is solved. |
40,805 | I was shocked when I [read on a blog](https://incredblindia.blogspot.fr/2009/02/aryabhatta-and-evolution-of-zero.html) that Aryabahatta, an Indian guy born in 476 AD discovered zero.
Surely people knew about zero before that.
>
> But his greatest contribution has to be ZERO, for which he became immortal. He certainl... | 2018/02/27 | [
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/40805",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/users/44180/"
] | You are correct in thinking that the Indians were the first to implement the zero as it is currently used, as a place value, and also as a number that you can use to add, subtract, and multiply. They also understood that division by zero somehow resulted in infinities. Unlike Greek mathematicians they were not disturbe... | >
> Was Aryabhatta the first to invent the place value system with zero?
>
>
>
No. The use of a symbol as a placeholder in a place value representation predates Aryabhatta (aka Aryabhata) by millennia. The [Babylonians](http://www.storyofmathematics.com/sumerian.html), [Chinese](http://www.storyofmathematics.com/c... |
4,820,683 | I have a C# .net 2 win forms application that I want to publish with ClickOnce. The ClickOnce works perfectly on IE, but doesn't on Firefox (my application manifest gets downloaded as an xml). I did some research and saw that .net 3.5 SP1 is required for Firefox to work with ClickOnce - I have .net 4.0 installed. What ... | 2011/01/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4820683",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/592752/"
] | Be sure your MIME types are set correctly on your server.
<http://robindotnet.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/mime-types-for-clickonce-deployment/>
Also, there is a specific add-in for Firefox that does the same thing as the .NET 3.5 one; in fact it was created first.
Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant: <https://addons.m... | The ClickOnce team is gauging interest for a new FireFox plugin. Please reply to the thread over at [github:Microsoft/dotnet/issues/185](https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/issues/185#issuecomment-296322293) to voice your interest. |
6,831,826 | I am looking into solutions for Drag N Drop of items(images, textareas, etc). I need something that will also give the coordinates of the location the item was dropped on screen, saved, and later can be placed in that exact location.
I am looking for an end result of something similar to this: <https://gomockingbird.c... | 2011/07/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6831826",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/456850/"
] | Take a look at jQuery --> <http://jqueryui.com/demos/draggable/#handle> | For HTML5's canvas element you can use the fantastic [kinetic](http://www.kineticjs.com/) for all your drag and drop needs. Here's a [tutorial](http://www.html5canvastutorials.com/advanced/html5-canvas-drag-and-drop-tutorial/) to get you started. |
2,887,711 | It happens that I need the GD, SQLite and a few more extensions for php 5.1. But I can't find out where to get them.
I am using WinBinder to develop some desktop applications for Windows with php. The minimal php 5.1 pack has the winbinder extension only. I need other extensions for enhanced features like image editin... | 2010/05/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2887711",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/301107/"
] | Check here for your specific version: <http://www.php.net/releases/>
The 'Windows Binary' link will provide a .zip file containing the ext folder where you will find all standard extensions including php\_gd2.dll and the 'Collection of PECL modules...' link will allow you to source additional extensions you may requir... | GD Installation
---------------
>
> To enable GD-support configure PHP --with-gd[=DIR], where DIR is the GD base install directory. To use the recommended bundled version of the GD library (which was first bundled in PHP 4.3.0), use the configure option --with-gd. GD library requires libpng and libjpeg to compile.
... |
6,787 | 
What is Name or word for the edges in the top of windows outside the building/house which are marked in the pictures? In most buildings/houses which is big where a person can stand or even sit. Not I'm not referring cornice, balcony or porch.
---
I... | 2013/05/25 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/6787",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/1500/"
] | This used to be called a *pentice* (really the old spelling and pronunciation of *penthouse*) or a *pent(ice) roof* , but it appears that this term is no longer so widely known or used as it once was.
On Google I find many architects and builders calling it simply an *overhang* or a *window overhang*; and that is pro... | That slab or overhang above the window is called a CANOPY. |
6,787 | 
What is Name or word for the edges in the top of windows outside the building/house which are marked in the pictures? In most buildings/houses which is big where a person can stand or even sit. Not I'm not referring cornice, balcony or porch.
---
I... | 2013/05/25 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/6787",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/1500/"
] | This used to be called a *pentice* (really the old spelling and pronunciation of *penthouse*) or a *pent(ice) roof* , but it appears that this term is no longer so widely known or used as it once was.
On Google I find many architects and builders calling it simply an *overhang* or a *window overhang*; and that is pro... | If it's slopped it is a **[pediment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediment)** |
8,869,374 | I was wondering if it was possible to be able to check the amount of mobile data usage on the device and to remotly(from an app) reset those statistics.
Thank you. | 2012/01/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8869374",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/611295/"
] | No, it is not possible. Apple is very strict about apps accessing statistics, data and other apps' data.
Edit: it seems there is a way after all, see @Aalok's comment. | not at all possible through public APIs which means if you could use private APIs to fetch the data usage, you will not be able to submit the app to Appstore.. |
36,986,807 | I am interested in developing for Xamarin, but I only have a W10 laptop and no MAC. I have seen different answers to questions very similar to this one like these: [How to develop iOS app using Xamarin Studio on Windows?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16096218/how-to-develop-ios-app-using-xamarin-studio-on-window... | 2016/05/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/36986807",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1145114/"
] | Installing a Mac VM is not trivial, and not acceptable by the terms of the EULA from Apple. If you can swing it at all, I'd recommend picking up a Mac Mini ($500 ish). This will make you legit, and you can just hook it up in a corner - or like me use it as a media center and Steam streamer on my TV.
However, I once d... | If you don't have a mac and you don't plan on purchasing one, I would suggest you take a look at [Mac In the Cloud](http://www.macincloud.com/). I know some fellow developers who use that for Xamarin development. |
36,986,807 | I am interested in developing for Xamarin, but I only have a W10 laptop and no MAC. I have seen different answers to questions very similar to this one like these: [How to develop iOS app using Xamarin Studio on Windows?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16096218/how-to-develop-ios-app-using-xamarin-studio-on-window... | 2016/05/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/36986807",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1145114/"
] | Installing a Mac VM is not trivial, and not acceptable by the terms of the EULA from Apple. If you can swing it at all, I'd recommend picking up a Mac Mini ($500 ish). This will make you legit, and you can just hook it up in a corner - or like me use it as a media center and Steam streamer on my TV.
However, I once d... | No, the virtual hadrware and drivers in hyper-v are generics... MacOs X is for hardware select from Apple. |
36,986,807 | I am interested in developing for Xamarin, but I only have a W10 laptop and no MAC. I have seen different answers to questions very similar to this one like these: [How to develop iOS app using Xamarin Studio on Windows?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16096218/how-to-develop-ios-app-using-xamarin-studio-on-window... | 2016/05/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/36986807",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1145114/"
] | If you don't have a mac and you don't plan on purchasing one, I would suggest you take a look at [Mac In the Cloud](http://www.macincloud.com/). I know some fellow developers who use that for Xamarin development. | No, the virtual hadrware and drivers in hyper-v are generics... MacOs X is for hardware select from Apple. |
964 | Due probably to the policy rule "if you downvote, please explain", I find that downvoted or trivial questions in the site are actually answered in the comments to the question!
The problem is the contrary to " [Pseudo-answers are the enemy](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/627/pseudo-answers-are-the-en... | 2011/11/13 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/964",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1335/"
] | >
> Do you find that answers in comments are a problem?
>
>
>
Yes. Any time "answering information" is posted as a comment instead of as an answer, it makes it more difficult for people to find, and we also lose access to the mechanism of voting as an indicator of the quality of the answer.
>
> If so, what measu... | No, answers in comments are not a problem. If you are looking for an answer to a problem and find a question that seems to relate to your problem, you will comb the comments to find your answer anyway, so not really a problem. So no, not really a problem to people going to the site to get answers to their problems.
Fo... |
964 | Due probably to the policy rule "if you downvote, please explain", I find that downvoted or trivial questions in the site are actually answered in the comments to the question!
The problem is the contrary to " [Pseudo-answers are the enemy](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/627/pseudo-answers-are-the-en... | 2011/11/13 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/964",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1335/"
] | >
> Do you find that answers in comments are a problem?
>
>
>
Yes. Any time "answering information" is posted as a comment instead of as an answer, it makes it more difficult for people to find, and we also lose access to the mechanism of voting as an indicator of the quality of the answer.
>
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> Do you find that answers in comments are a problem?
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In my opinion, there isn't a simple answer to this question. Comments are intended to be a means to interact with the OP and others to, e.g., refine the question or an answer.
Thus, as such, comments are *transient*. On that view, a comment *isn't* an ... |
964 | Due probably to the policy rule "if you downvote, please explain", I find that downvoted or trivial questions in the site are actually answered in the comments to the question!
The problem is the contrary to " [Pseudo-answers are the enemy](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/627/pseudo-answers-are-the-en... | 2011/11/13 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/964",
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] | >
> Do you find that answers in comments are a problem?
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In my opinion, there isn't a simple answer to this question. Comments are intended to be a means to interact with the OP and others to, e.g., refine the question or an answer.
Thus, as such, comments are *transient*. On that view, a comment *isn't* an ... | No, answers in comments are not a problem. If you are looking for an answer to a problem and find a question that seems to relate to your problem, you will comb the comments to find your answer anyway, so not really a problem. So no, not really a problem to people going to the site to get answers to their problems.
Fo... |
32,795,360 | I've gone through the steps to setup App Invites as described [here](https://developers.google.com/app-invites/android/guides/app#set-up-your-project).
Out of curiosity, I tried without including the google-services.json and it still works depending upon the configuration in [Google Developer Console](https://develope... | 2015/09/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/32795360",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/444761/"
] | For detailed information about the inner workings of google-services gradle-plugin see my other answer:
<https://stackoverflow.com/a/33083898/433421> | I presume you are testing it on your own device. The thing is it'll work as long as you are using adb and uploading directly to your device but in order for it to work on other devices after releasing an apk, you would need to generate an sha key from your release keystore, and also include the google-services.json |
22,254 | I want to realize a project with sliding pages (horizontally or vertically) similar to the one shown on www.viasko.de.
Is that possible with Drupal due to a different navigation concept via anchors, and not with urls? Does the URL dispatcher allow anchors? | 2012/02/10 | [
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/22254",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com",
"https://drupal.stackexchange.com/users/3736/"
] | Looks like there is [a patch](http://drupal.org/node/1386294) for the jQuery Update module to update it to jQuery 1.7. | The [jQuery Multi](http://drupal.org/project/jqmulti) module, which you mention in your question, uses jQuery's noConflict() mode. If you installed jQuery Multi and jQuery didn't load, it's likely that you didn't specify any files to load with the new version of jQuery. If you don't specify and files or libraries using... |
15,109 | The [Dec 1996 Boskin report](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6d27XgslBsBZjU5UDE3S0g1MzA) ([May 1997 AER summary](http://web.stanford.edu/~boskin/Publications/CpiCommission.pdf))
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> concluded that the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) overstates the change in the cost of living by about 1.1 percentage point... | 2017/01/22 | [
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/15109",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Redding and Weinstein in their paper "[A Unified Approach to Estimating Demand and Welfare](http://www.columbia.edu/~dew35/Papers/Estimating-Demand-and-Welfare.pdf)" develop a unified price index that nests all existing major price indexes. Existing price indexes can be thought of as arising from the imposition of para... | There are two ways to see the CPI:
(1) A measure of price changes for a weighted basket of consumer goods
(2) A measure of the change in cost of obtaining a fixed level of utility (cost-of-living)
If you interpret it as the second one, then there are a number of crucial structural assumptions you need to make, mostl... |
86,167 | Suppose you are the leader of a team, and you want to ask about the progress made so far. Which of the following sentences is right, if any?
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> **What** percent of the work is done?
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> | 2016/03/31 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/86167",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/4809/"
] | We use "how many" for countables like apples and "how much" for uncountables like sugar or milk. So, of the first two, this one is the better (but still wrong):
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> How many percent of the work is done?
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We use the word **percent** only if it follows a number- 10%, five percent or whatever. If there is no nu... | The answer is very simple, but to explain why it is so, is a little tricky.
The best option is:
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The first sentence doesn't sound right. Even though percentages are numbers, they are not something you would in... |
333,132 | I'm confused about the use of the word "[Distinguish](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/distinguish)". The link shows an example sentence where the verb is used as an intransitive verb:
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> Can the child distinguish **between** right and wrong?
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But I find it difficult to see the difference between these two... | 2016/06/18 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/333132",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/181416/"
] | I am guided by the *OED*, which finds various meanings of *distinguish*, all of which are ultimately grounded in the sense of classification of things by their characteristics.
In a simple division into classes based on some, possibly unnamed, set of standards, we may say
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> English grammar *distinguishes* dependen... | Can the child distinguish between right and wrong?
Can the child distinguish right from wrong?
I find it hard to distinguish these two twins.
I find it hard to distinguish these twins. (Twins come in pairs.)
I find it hard to distinguish one twin from the other.
I find it hard to distinguish between these t... |
357 | I've lately seen a lot of people answering questions with identical or extremely similar answers. Why? Yes, some might do it order to increase the Area51 stats, but I do think it's most done to boost the personal stats.
I don't see this as a good thing, instead of having one good answer voted up, two or more answers s... | 2011/08/13 | [
"https://sharepoint.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357",
"https://sharepoint.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2868/"
] | I agree that it isn't constructive, and is already quite prolific on Stack Overflow itself.
However, since there are no limits on answer votes per question, it shouldn't harm the previous answer's upvote rate. Although I admit it may it less clear-cut which is the best answer.
I think almost exact answer duplication... | Lots of the times it boils down to people attacking questions as soon as they are asked (a good thing!). If it takes time to write an answer (good answers often do) you risk others posting within the same minute as yourself, having similar answers (an example [here](https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/17445/... |
357 | I've lately seen a lot of people answering questions with identical or extremely similar answers. Why? Yes, some might do it order to increase the Area51 stats, but I do think it's most done to boost the personal stats.
I don't see this as a good thing, instead of having one good answer voted up, two or more answers s... | 2011/08/13 | [
"https://sharepoint.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357",
"https://sharepoint.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2868/"
] | This is why we have the ability to vote up or down. We want to encourage good, thoughtful answers.
If the answers are identical, vote up the answer that was posted first. Encourage users to post helpful answers quickly, but don't reward someone who posts a dupe. (Referenced [this post](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q... | Lots of the times it boils down to people attacking questions as soon as they are asked (a good thing!). If it takes time to write an answer (good answers often do) you risk others posting within the same minute as yourself, having similar answers (an example [here](https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/17445/... |
513,637 | For reasons beyond my comprehension, GlassFish refuses to play ball with `iptables`. That is, with all the correct redirection rules in place, it won't receive any redirected traffic. So I'm at plan B which is to bind GlassFish to ports 80 and 443 rather than 8080 and 8181.
As I don't want to run GlassFish as root for... | 2013/06/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/513637",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/109746/"
] | No, you don't want to do this.
Instead, pick your favorite web server (I prefer nginx), and use that to proxy requests from port 80 to wherever glassfish is listening.
The config bits for doing this are very simple, and you'll end up with a far more secure and more manageable system. | You ought to be able to use capabilities (7) to accomplish this. See e.g. <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-l/414258#414258> for lots of information.
I'm not specifically familiar with GlassFish so my reservation with this approach is ... |
513,637 | For reasons beyond my comprehension, GlassFish refuses to play ball with `iptables`. That is, with all the correct redirection rules in place, it won't receive any redirected traffic. So I'm at plan B which is to bind GlassFish to ports 80 and 443 rather than 8080 and 8181.
As I don't want to run GlassFish as root for... | 2013/06/06 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/513637",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/109746/"
] | The authbind tool will work. Just install/unpack it and prepend it to your command. For my installation I edited /usr/share/java-utils/java-functions and called $JAVACMD with it and it worked with no problem. | You ought to be able to use capabilities (7) to accomplish this. See e.g. <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-l/414258#414258> for lots of information.
I'm not specifically familiar with GlassFish so my reservation with this approach is ... |
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