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8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | If you need to perform transactions and full-text against a single table in MySQL, you have a few options. But really the salient point to take away from this entire discussion is that databases are not good at doing full-text search to begin with (especially MySQL!) and ideally you want to offload this work to a compo... | there is no way to have both in the same database engine, these are the constraints given by the design how MySQL works. You can not change physics. ;-)
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/innodb-restrictions.html>
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ansi-diff-transactions.html>
when you're still in design... |
8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | Possible workarounds:
1. Use Sphinx or Solr or some other external text search engine for your text searches and use InnoDB engine.
2. Write your own search code - and use InnoDB. This is not really an option, unless you search needs are limited or your budget is huge.
3. Use both engines, MyISAM and InnoDB. Keep the ... | there is no way to have both in the same database engine, these are the constraints given by the design how MySQL works. You can not change physics. ;-)
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/innodb-restrictions.html>
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ansi-diff-transactions.html>
when you're still in design... |
8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | there is no way to have both in the same database engine, these are the constraints given by the design how MySQL works. You can not change physics. ;-)
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/innodb-restrictions.html>
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ansi-diff-transactions.html>
when you're still in design... | One another option is to use MySQL's support for replication:
For example you can setup master server with InnoDB storage engine. Then replicate to another read-only server with the MyISAM storage engine.
You can use almost any MySQL storage engine and there might be some that support better search features than MyI... |
8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | Possible workarounds:
1. Use Sphinx or Solr or some other external text search engine for your text searches and use InnoDB engine.
2. Write your own search code - and use InnoDB. This is not really an option, unless you search needs are limited or your budget is huge.
3. Use both engines, MyISAM and InnoDB. Keep the ... | If you need to perform transactions and full-text against a single table in MySQL, you have a few options. But really the salient point to take away from this entire discussion is that databases are not good at doing full-text search to begin with (especially MySQL!) and ideally you want to offload this work to a compo... |
8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | If you need to perform transactions and full-text against a single table in MySQL, you have a few options. But really the salient point to take away from this entire discussion is that databases are not good at doing full-text search to begin with (especially MySQL!) and ideally you want to offload this work to a compo... | The MyISAM full-text index probably isn't as good as you think. It works ok(ish) on small data, but is lousy on bigger data.
In MySQL 5.6 we may have full-text on InnoDB, however it still does not support most of the features that a real full-text search engine would have. |
8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | If you need to perform transactions and full-text against a single table in MySQL, you have a few options. But really the salient point to take away from this entire discussion is that databases are not good at doing full-text search to begin with (especially MySQL!) and ideally you want to offload this work to a compo... | One another option is to use MySQL's support for replication:
For example you can setup master server with InnoDB storage engine. Then replicate to another read-only server with the MyISAM storage engine.
You can use almost any MySQL storage engine and there might be some that support better search features than MyI... |
8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | Possible workarounds:
1. Use Sphinx or Solr or some other external text search engine for your text searches and use InnoDB engine.
2. Write your own search code - and use InnoDB. This is not really an option, unless you search needs are limited or your budget is huge.
3. Use both engines, MyISAM and InnoDB. Keep the ... | The MyISAM full-text index probably isn't as good as you think. It works ok(ish) on small data, but is lousy on bigger data.
In MySQL 5.6 we may have full-text on InnoDB, however it still does not support most of the features that a real full-text search engine would have. |
8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | Possible workarounds:
1. Use Sphinx or Solr or some other external text search engine for your text searches and use InnoDB engine.
2. Write your own search code - and use InnoDB. This is not really an option, unless you search needs are limited or your budget is huge.
3. Use both engines, MyISAM and InnoDB. Keep the ... | One another option is to use MySQL's support for replication:
For example you can setup master server with InnoDB storage engine. Then replicate to another read-only server with the MyISAM storage engine.
You can use almost any MySQL storage engine and there might be some that support better search features than MyI... |
8,272,917 | There are two MySQL database features that I want to use in my application. The first is FULL-TEXT-SEARCH and TRANSACTIONS.
Now, the dilemma here is that I cannot get this feature in one storage engine. It's either I use MyIsam (which has the FULL-TEXT-SEARCH feature) or I use InnoDB (which supports the TRANSACTION fe... | 2011/11/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8272917",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/471064/"
] | The MyISAM full-text index probably isn't as good as you think. It works ok(ish) on small data, but is lousy on bigger data.
In MySQL 5.6 we may have full-text on InnoDB, however it still does not support most of the features that a real full-text search engine would have. | One another option is to use MySQL's support for replication:
For example you can setup master server with InnoDB storage engine. Then replicate to another read-only server with the MyISAM storage engine.
You can use almost any MySQL storage engine and there might be some that support better search features than MyI... |
427,819 | There are some good geocoding plugins (e.g. geokit) but can you recommend a googlemaps plugin for "the view" in rails?
I used YM4R/GM before but I don't know if its still up to date... | 2009/01/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/427819",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/46999/"
] | I've always just used GeoKit for all things GoogleMaps... it's a little old, but all the source code for "Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails" is available at <http://googlemapsbook.com/source/>. It should walk you through pretty well on how to write the code for the front end. [Advanced Rails Recipes](http:/... | Looking on Github I found [google\_maps](http://github.com/bhedana/google_maps/tree/master) plugin. I haven't tried it but it seems ok. |
3,337,255 | I know I can use Pythagoras Theorem to calculate the sides of a right triangle.
But so, how and what for the formula can be used in real life? I need some practical examples. | 2019/08/28 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3337255",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/699204/"
] | Is a cut corner square? One way to find out with only a ruler is to mark off the point three units away on one side and four units away on the perpendicular side. Then measure between the marks. A square corner = five units. | Pythagoras's Theorem is used to compute distances in Euclidean space parametrised with Cartesian co-ordinates.
For many purposes, therefore, it secures the validity of the mathematical model which is used to describe and reason about the "real world" (for some purposes this model is insufficiently accurate and ideas ... |
558,361 | I bumped into this:
[Can a shadow move faster than the speed of light?](https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/335537/)
while trying to see if I could find out anything about what I'd been thinking for 2 years now.
Bear with me here, cause I'm only gonna copy-paste what I'd written at another location where no one bothere... | 2020/06/10 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/558361",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/267050/"
] | >
> shadow does indeed happen to be information
>
>
>
Yes, but who is *sending* that information?
You can send information by pointing a laser at a screen twitching the projected spot back and forth between two different points on the screen, but the information does not originate at one point on the screen and f... | >
> it's not how fast we're hitting the code, it's how fast we're sending it
>
>
>
One can never send the code faster than the velocity of light. You could encode a signal on the flat plane so that the shadow carries a meaning. But the creation of the shadow relies on the lack of light, and to "see" the shadow, li... |
13,265,234 | I have an iPad app in the App Store and I'm currently converting it to iPhone as an Universal app.
I'm wondering if this app will appear in the App Store as a new app for iPhone? | 2012/11/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13265234",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1805350/"
] | This is being tracked in issue <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5102>. You should "star" the issue to be notified of progress. | There is also this one:
<https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1834>
And this design document:
<http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/advancedspellchecker>
The design looks a bit overkill, I hope they implement something simpler sooner. |
1,403,090 | Is there any effect in WPF I could Make an image shiny etc.?
(I want to use it for a hovered image)
A mask or something like this would be great. | 2009/09/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1403090",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/75500/"
] | Try applying a [BitmapEffect](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms743435.aspx) to the image, just keep in mind that they can be expensive to use.
OuterGlowBitmapEffect might help you. | It depends on what do you mean by "shiny". A simple way is to have each image opacity set to 0.5 and change it to 1 when mouse is in. |
75,465 | My questions are:
1. Is "tink" is a verb, meaning the action of a tinker?
2. Is "terry" is an adj. meaning gentle?
From the book ["A History of the Cries of London"](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37114/37114-h/37114-h.htm), page 99.
>
> Have you any work for a tinker, mistriss?
>
> Old brass, old pots, or ket... | 2012/07/22 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/75465",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/23898/"
] | The original poem:
>
> *Have you any work for the tinker, brisk maids? Old brass, old pots, old kettles.
>
> I'll mend 'em all with a **tink terry tink** and never hurt your metals.
>
> First let me have but a touch of your ale, 'Twill steel me 'gainst cold weather.
>
> Or tinkers freeze, or vintner's lee... | I don't believe *terry* is an adjective. "Tink, terry tink" is a written form of the cry of a tinker. Earlier in the book it reports the cry as "tara-tink" (page 81):
>
> ...I’ll mend them all with a tara-tink...
>
>
>
*Tara* is recorded as an exclamation1, so *terry* and *tara* could easily be the same word, sli... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | In [this interview](http://www.ams.org/notices/199704/arnold.pdf), Arnol'd says the following:
>
> My personal relation with Pontriagin
> was rather good. He invited me to his
> house and to his seminar and showed
> genuine interest in my work,
> especially on singularity theory. This
> was partially due to our ... | Arnold himself confirmed what you wrote in your question:
V.I.Arnold "Yesterday and long ago", Springer, 2007 (translated from Russian), p. 94:
"...while having dinner he (L.S.Pontryagin) explained to me that he had to go to an international meeting and talk against me..."
So basically what you cited seems to ... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | Pontryagin wrote a book "Biography of Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, a mathematician, composed by himself". It is available online at <http://www.ega-math.narod.ru/LSP/book.htm>, in the original Russian. Google does a fairly good job of translation, although it refuses to translate the individual chapters completely becaus... | A curious footnote to the blocking of Arnold's Fields Medal by Pontryagin
(if that is what it was) is the comment Arnold made following the award of
medals to three French mathematicians (mainly for work in PDE) in 1994:
>
> Unlike the Nobel Prizes, the Fields Medals pass by many of the truly outstanding
> people, an... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | Hard to say. There are strange reasons for certain mathematicians being passed on the Fields Medal. According to the Langlands memorial talk, Harish Chandra was passed over (1958) because a member of the committee felt he was "too much of a Bourbakite". Maybe there were strange political reasons for Arnold being passed... | Arnold himself confirmed what you wrote in your question:
V.I.Arnold "Yesterday and long ago", Springer, 2007 (translated from Russian), p. 94:
"...while having dinner he (L.S.Pontryagin) explained to me that he had to go to an international meeting and talk against me..."
So basically what you cited seems to ... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | A curious footnote to the blocking of Arnold's Fields Medal by Pontryagin
(if that is what it was) is the comment Arnold made following the award of
medals to three French mathematicians (mainly for work in PDE) in 1994:
>
> Unlike the Nobel Prizes, the Fields Medals pass by many of the truly outstanding
> people, an... | Hard to say. There are strange reasons for certain mathematicians being passed on the Fields Medal. According to the Langlands memorial talk, Harish Chandra was passed over (1958) because a member of the committee felt he was "too much of a Bourbakite". Maybe there were strange political reasons for Arnold being passed... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | In [this interview](http://www.ams.org/notices/199704/arnold.pdf), Arnol'd says the following:
>
> My personal relation with Pontriagin
> was rather good. He invited me to his
> house and to his seminar and showed
> genuine interest in my work,
> especially on singularity theory. This
> was partially due to our ... | In 1974, also, Pierre Deligne had a Fields Medal "withheld", after his proof of the Weil conjectures. That was hypothesised to be prejudice against non-peer reviewed aspects of the proof. I wouldn't read too much into this report about Arnold. I happen to have had a brief conversation with the late Frank Adams about th... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | In [this interview](http://www.ams.org/notices/199704/arnold.pdf), Arnol'd says the following:
>
> My personal relation with Pontriagin
> was rather good. He invited me to his
> house and to his seminar and showed
> genuine interest in my work,
> especially on singularity theory. This
> was partially due to our ... | A curious footnote to the blocking of Arnold's Fields Medal by Pontryagin
(if that is what it was) is the comment Arnold made following the award of
medals to three French mathematicians (mainly for work in PDE) in 1994:
>
> Unlike the Nobel Prizes, the Fields Medals pass by many of the truly outstanding
> people, an... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | A curious footnote to the blocking of Arnold's Fields Medal by Pontryagin
(if that is what it was) is the comment Arnold made following the award of
medals to three French mathematicians (mainly for work in PDE) in 1994:
>
> Unlike the Nobel Prizes, the Fields Medals pass by many of the truly outstanding
> people, an... | In 1974, also, Pierre Deligne had a Fields Medal "withheld", after his proof of the Weil conjectures. That was hypothesised to be prejudice against non-peer reviewed aspects of the proof. I wouldn't read too much into this report about Arnold. I happen to have had a brief conversation with the late Frank Adams about th... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | A curious footnote to the blocking of Arnold's Fields Medal by Pontryagin
(if that is what it was) is the comment Arnold made following the award of
medals to three French mathematicians (mainly for work in PDE) in 1994:
>
> Unlike the Nobel Prizes, the Fields Medals pass by many of the truly outstanding
> people, an... | Arnold himself confirmed what you wrote in your question:
V.I.Arnold "Yesterday and long ago", Springer, 2007 (translated from Russian), p. 94:
"...while having dinner he (L.S.Pontryagin) explained to me that he had to go to an international meeting and talk against me..."
So basically what you cited seems to ... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | Pontryagin wrote a book "Biography of Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, a mathematician, composed by himself". It is available online at <http://www.ega-math.narod.ru/LSP/book.htm>, in the original Russian. Google does a fairly good job of translation, although it refuses to translate the individual chapters completely becaus... | Arnold himself confirmed what you wrote in your question:
V.I.Arnold "Yesterday and long ago", Springer, 2007 (translated from Russian), p. 94:
"...while having dinner he (L.S.Pontryagin) explained to me that he had to go to an international meeting and talk against me..."
So basically what you cited seems to ... |
27,144 | As you all probably know, Vladimir I. Arnold passed away yesterday. In the obituaries, I found the following statement (AFP)
>
> In 1974 the Soviet Union opposed Arnold's award of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious recognition in work in mathematics that is often compared to the Nobel Prize, making him one of the... | 2010/06/05 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/27144",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/4925/"
] | In [this interview](http://www.ams.org/notices/199704/arnold.pdf), Arnol'd says the following:
>
> My personal relation with Pontriagin
> was rather good. He invited me to his
> house and to his seminar and showed
> genuine interest in my work,
> especially on singularity theory. This
> was partially due to our ... | Hard to say. There are strange reasons for certain mathematicians being passed on the Fields Medal. According to the Langlands memorial talk, Harish Chandra was passed over (1958) because a member of the committee felt he was "too much of a Bourbakite". Maybe there were strange political reasons for Arnold being passed... |
9,327 | I'm sure many of us have seen the [blog post](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/) about the death of meta-tags on Stack Overflow.
One of the tags included in the aforementioned blog post is [beginner](/questions/tagged/beginner "show questions tagged 'beginner'").
However, this tag seems to... | 2019/09/13 | [
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9327",
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/users/202498/"
] | [pacmaninbw](https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9328/52915) wrote a decent answer already, but let's clarify this further by an overly long answer.
People come here to get their code reviewed. Enthusiasts, starting professionals and veterans, all on the same site. Advice useful to somebody without background ... | We review code differently for beginners. We try to point out what they should know at their level. The point of the code review website is to provide pointers on how the code can be improved, not to provide answers on how to implement something.
On SO and other sites users are asking how to questions. Here on code re... |
9,327 | I'm sure many of us have seen the [blog post](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/) about the death of meta-tags on Stack Overflow.
One of the tags included in the aforementioned blog post is [beginner](/questions/tagged/beginner "show questions tagged 'beginner'").
However, this tag seems to... | 2019/09/13 | [
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9327",
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/users/202498/"
] | We review code differently for beginners. We try to point out what they should know at their level. The point of the code review website is to provide pointers on how the code can be improved, not to provide answers on how to implement something.
On SO and other sites users are asking how to questions. Here on code re... | Code Review is different to Stack Overflow in several ways, some of which are addressed in other answers.
One important difference is that Stack Overflow is a repository of useful answers to specific problems - the value is to *all* the people, now and future, who have the same problem. In contrast, Code Review answer... |
9,327 | I'm sure many of us have seen the [blog post](https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/) about the death of meta-tags on Stack Overflow.
One of the tags included in the aforementioned blog post is [beginner](/questions/tagged/beginner "show questions tagged 'beginner'").
However, this tag seems to... | 2019/09/13 | [
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9327",
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/users/202498/"
] | [pacmaninbw](https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9328/52915) wrote a decent answer already, but let's clarify this further by an overly long answer.
People come here to get their code reviewed. Enthusiasts, starting professionals and veterans, all on the same site. Advice useful to somebody without background ... | Code Review is different to Stack Overflow in several ways, some of which are addressed in other answers.
One important difference is that Stack Overflow is a repository of useful answers to specific problems - the value is to *all* the people, now and future, who have the same problem. In contrast, Code Review answer... |
13,646 | Say I have given the robot a map of the place, it needs to navigate it. I need a odometer to keep track of its current position in the map. I need it to be precise up to a cm.
Can I simply use the motor's RPM and the diameter of the wheel to calculate how much distance the robot has travelled, or is there any catch?
... | 2015/07/23 | [
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/13646",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com",
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] | I had the idea to use a computer mouse (optical) to do this - cheap, easily available. You would need two, if you want to be able to measure turning rate, one on the left and one on the right.
You don't even need the whole mouse - if you pull it apart you can ditch the case, the buttons, and about half the circuitry. ... | I think the catch is that the wheel will slip, particularly when starting up. The slightest slip and you are counting a rotation that didn't move the robot forwards. Also if it skids when stopping that is more movement that you didn't detect.
You are probably best off with a non-powered wheel (stuck out the side perha... |
11,977 | I installed a new door on an old frame. However, when I attached the hinges the door doesn't want to close even though I still have plenty of room on the door handle side for it to close. How do I know if I need to adjust the hinges on the frame or plane the frame down? The door will shut if I force it and that puts pr... | 2012/02/04 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/11977",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/5158/"
] | If the door resists being closed just as it is almost closed, then you certainly have a hinge problem. I've seen a lot of this particular problem in old houses I've lived in, where it is usually caused by excessive paint thickness on the frame and door edges at the hinge side. These faces meet before the hinges are clo... | Your door sounds as if it is "Hinge bound" ie.. there is insufficient clearance on your hinge side .....the door is binding on the door frame( door is hitting frame on hinge side and thus not allowing hinges to fully close...
Ideally the hinge side of the door should have a back bevel,cut/planed down the full length of... |
33,747 | I need to squeeze an ethernet cable under a door (as I can't drill a wall, Powerline adapters are out of the question, and Wi-Fi has too much of a packet loss to use here), but it doesn't fit whole. If I remove the coating from a small section and pass the four pairs paralel under the door, would it cause any problems?... | 2016/08/04 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/33747",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/29394/"
] | There are flat Ethernet cables. Maybe they'll work for you. Just google for "flat Ethernet cable". | yes, this may cause issues. The wires inside the insulator (what you are calling coating) is twisted to prevent any interference.
As a network engineer, I have been in situation where everything works fine with a network cable without the insulator. But I would not recommend having it as it may cause degradation in yo... |
255,209 | We're calling an external REST service from Salesforce and are receiving a JSON response of more than 45 MB. Has anyone attempted anything like this? | 2019/03/25 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/255209",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
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] | There's just no way to cram that much data into Salesforce as-is.
I'd imagine you'd need to introduce a layer in the middle to break that JSON up into more manageable pieces, and also make use of async processing (probably using Queueable).
As I'm sure you know, the transaction limit on heap size is 6MB (12MB Async),... | In Apex, no chance. The maximum response size is limited to 6/12/36MB (depending on context). You'd have to do client-side processing (e.g. Visualforce via the [AJAX Proxy](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.ajax.meta/ajax/sforce_api_ajax_proxy.htm)) in order to handle this amount of data. |
3,620,864 | The situation is as follows: there's a website that connects sellers and buyers, like Ebay.
Among other things the owner of the website needs to know the details of each transaction initialized from there. Essentially I am looking for a payment method that returns a digital receipt.
Is it possible to do something lik... | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3620864",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/426379/"
] | Of course you can do it like this.
Couple of things that you will have to do:
1. Have sellers register their PayPal information with. Lets say in "sellers" table, with merchant email/ merchant id as primary key.
2. Sellers will have to setup IPN URL on their PayPal accounts. There url will have to point to the IPN h... | This has nothing to do with PayPal. Your notification of this "market website" needs to be done in your own code.
So yes, it is possible. |
2,854,311 | I have a web setup project built using VS2008. I've converted my solution to VS2010 and now when I build my new installer and run the install from the MSI it installs fine, then at the last step, removes all the files it's just installed.
I have RemovePreviousVersions set to true. If I turn this off the files remain i... | 2010/05/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2854311",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14537/"
] | I haven't tried porting a setup from VS2008 to 2010, but having the same upgrade code for different build versions will cause problems; simple explanation is the msiexec installer fails when it tries to remove the old components because the older components have the same upgrade version as the newer components being in... | What I've discovered is that changing the UpgradeCode will prevent the files from being removed, however it's then treated as a separate installed program - i.e. in the control panel (Programs and Features) my program appears twice. Logically, I think, this is because it's not the same program.
My only option seems to... |
2,854,311 | I have a web setup project built using VS2008. I've converted my solution to VS2010 and now when I build my new installer and run the install from the MSI it installs fine, then at the last step, removes all the files it's just installed.
I have RemovePreviousVersions set to true. If I turn this off the files remain i... | 2010/05/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2854311",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14537/"
] | I haven't tried porting a setup from VS2008 to 2010, but having the same upgrade code for different build versions will cause problems; simple explanation is the msiexec installer fails when it tries to remove the old components because the older components have the same upgrade version as the newer components being in... | I've submitted a bug to [Microsoft Connect](https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/559738/web-setup-project-removes-files-after-upgrade-from-vs2008-to-vs2010) and they've confirmed it's reproducible. |
2,854,311 | I have a web setup project built using VS2008. I've converted my solution to VS2010 and now when I build my new installer and run the install from the MSI it installs fine, then at the last step, removes all the files it's just installed.
I have RemovePreviousVersions set to true. If I turn this off the files remain i... | 2010/05/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2854311",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14537/"
] | I just encountered this error. Had the exact problem when upgrading. I tried the solution at:
<https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/559575>
I edited my MSI-file in Orca resequenced *RemoveExistingProducts* right after *InstallInitialize* (sequence number 1501). This was found in the *InstallExe... | What I've discovered is that changing the UpgradeCode will prevent the files from being removed, however it's then treated as a separate installed program - i.e. in the control panel (Programs and Features) my program appears twice. Logically, I think, this is because it's not the same program.
My only option seems to... |
2,854,311 | I have a web setup project built using VS2008. I've converted my solution to VS2010 and now when I build my new installer and run the install from the MSI it installs fine, then at the last step, removes all the files it's just installed.
I have RemovePreviousVersions set to true. If I turn this off the files remain i... | 2010/05/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2854311",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14537/"
] | I just encountered this error. Had the exact problem when upgrading. I tried the solution at:
<https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/559575>
I edited my MSI-file in Orca resequenced *RemoveExistingProducts* right after *InstallInitialize* (sequence number 1501). This was found in the *InstallExe... | I've submitted a bug to [Microsoft Connect](https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/559738/web-setup-project-removes-files-after-upgrade-from-vs2008-to-vs2010) and they've confirmed it's reproducible. |
4,031,825 | My problem:
I have a pdf with lots of roman characters with complex diacritical marks (e.g., ṣ, ś, ṝ, ǎ, etc.). To make it easier to search within the pdf, I would like to add an additional layer, much as one does with hocr, where the same text is present without the diacritics.
When using full-text search engines I ... | 2010/10/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4031825",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/88411/"
] | Well I have a (slightly ugly and hackish) solution, so I thought I'd share it.
I'm using [PDFMiner](http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html) to extract the text, along with the co-ordinates. Then I'm using [ReportLab](http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/) to write the normalized versions of ... | I have written something similar to add searchable text by OCR'ing images and converting it to PDF in C#. I used QuickPDF from www.quickpdf.com to create hidden white text objects on top of the image and this worked reasonably well.
In your case QuickPDF would allow you to extract the text strings along with bounding ... |
451,799 | My simple goal is to have two instances. one is for database, second for just a site.
Undoubtedly those 2 instances must have minimum network latency to communicate.
I know that there are so called **placement groups** but the problem is, they require expensive instance types to use.
Another option (to my mind) would... | 2012/11/24 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/451799",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/61470/"
] | >
> My simple goal is to have two instances. one is for database, second for just a site. Undoubtedly those 2 instances must have minimum network latency to communicate.
>
>
> My question is. If I just create instances in the same region, would it work?
>
>
>
As long as the instances are in the same availability... | That screenshot is not where you would go to create a VPC. You need to go to the VPC section of AWS, not the EC2 section, and create a VPC. Then create an Internet gateway. Then create a routing table and set it to route via the Internet gateway. Then create some subnets. Then, and only then, will you be able to create... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | Turnover point doesn't need a period of zero-g or any kind of noticeable effect on the passengers. Simply *don't stop thrusting*.
That is, when you get to the halfway point of the trajectory you start slowly turning the ship around while keeping your thrust at normal level. If you do your turn slowly enough, your pass... | Your passengers would experience less and less gravity, weightlessness, and then more and more gravity as the spacecraft stopped accelerating, flipped over, and then decelerated. It would be somewhat like a ride on the Vomit Comet, albeit for a much longer duration. [Here's a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9h... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
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] | They should be fine.
Slowing down in a train is more uncomfortable than speeding up because the acceleration is directed outward through your chest and face, pushing them ahead of you, rather than pushing you back into your seat, which people can generally tolerate a little better. If your seats rotated around 180 deg... | It should be noted that (unlike a train) a ship can reverse the direction of thrust relative to its destination, *without* significantly changing the direction *or amount* of relative thrust (/acceleration/gravity) experienced by it's occupants. The ship merely needs to slowly swing it's tail around while continuing to... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | Turnover point doesn't need a period of zero-g or any kind of noticeable effect on the passengers. Simply *don't stop thrusting*.
That is, when you get to the halfway point of the trajectory you start slowly turning the ship around while keeping your thrust at normal level. If you do your turn slowly enough, your pass... | It should be noted that (unlike a train) a ship can reverse the direction of thrust relative to its destination, *without* significantly changing the direction *or amount* of relative thrust (/acceleration/gravity) experienced by it's occupants. The ship merely needs to slowly swing it's tail around while continuing to... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | You don't shut down for the flip and you don't adjust the orbit other than in a tiny amount around the time of flip. I first read about this in Heinlein as a *torchship skew turn*.
Basically, think of it as an exercise in symmetry - within a short segment of the trajectory, you have to *over-rotate* after turning, eno... | Your passengers would experience less and less gravity, weightlessness, and then more and more gravity as the spacecraft stopped accelerating, flipped over, and then decelerated. It would be somewhat like a ride on the Vomit Comet, albeit for a much longer duration. [Here's a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9h... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/36974/"
] | You don't shut down for the flip and you don't adjust the orbit other than in a tiny amount around the time of flip. I first read about this in Heinlein as a *torchship skew turn*.
Basically, think of it as an exercise in symmetry - within a short segment of the trajectory, you have to *over-rotate* after turning, eno... | Lack of gravity is only a problem for the human body if has to be endured for an extended period of time. If your ships have high power drives then presumably their maneuvering thrusters should be fairly efficient as well. So no problems winding down the main engines just long enough to flip. The whole process would at... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
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] | Turnover point doesn't need a period of zero-g or any kind of noticeable effect on the passengers. Simply *don't stop thrusting*.
That is, when you get to the halfway point of the trajectory you start slowly turning the ship around while keeping your thrust at normal level. If you do your turn slowly enough, your pass... | They should be fine.
Slowing down in a train is more uncomfortable than speeding up because the acceleration is directed outward through your chest and face, pushing them ahead of you, rather than pushing you back into your seat, which people can generally tolerate a little better. If your seats rotated around 180 deg... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/36974/"
] | They should be fine.
Slowing down in a train is more uncomfortable than speeding up because the acceleration is directed outward through your chest and face, pushing them ahead of you, rather than pushing you back into your seat, which people can generally tolerate a little better. If your seats rotated around 180 deg... | Your passengers would experience less and less gravity, weightlessness, and then more and more gravity as the spacecraft stopped accelerating, flipped over, and then decelerated. It would be somewhat like a ride on the Vomit Comet, albeit for a much longer duration. [Here's a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9h... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/36974/"
] | They should be fine.
Slowing down in a train is more uncomfortable than speeding up because the acceleration is directed outward through your chest and face, pushing them ahead of you, rather than pushing you back into your seat, which people can generally tolerate a little better. If your seats rotated around 180 deg... | You don't shut down for the flip and you don't adjust the orbit other than in a tiny amount around the time of flip. I first read about this in Heinlein as a *torchship skew turn*.
Basically, think of it as an exercise in symmetry - within a short segment of the trajectory, you have to *over-rotate* after turning, eno... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/36974/"
] | They should be fine.
Slowing down in a train is more uncomfortable than speeding up because the acceleration is directed outward through your chest and face, pushing them ahead of you, rather than pushing you back into your seat, which people can generally tolerate a little better. If your seats rotated around 180 deg... | Lack of gravity is only a problem for the human body if has to be endured for an extended period of time. If your ships have high power drives then presumably their maneuvering thrusters should be fairly efficient as well. So no problems winding down the main engines just long enough to flip. The whole process would at... |
181,442 | My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that [it can](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/157220/would-there-be-artificial-gravity-on-a-spaceship-that-undergoes-constant-acceler). I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical tran... | 2020/07/26 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/181442",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/36974/"
] | Turnover point doesn't need a period of zero-g or any kind of noticeable effect on the passengers. Simply *don't stop thrusting*.
That is, when you get to the halfway point of the trajectory you start slowly turning the ship around while keeping your thrust at normal level. If you do your turn slowly enough, your pass... | Lack of gravity is only a problem for the human body if has to be endured for an extended period of time. If your ships have high power drives then presumably their maneuvering thrusters should be fairly efficient as well. So no problems winding down the main engines just long enough to flip. The whole process would at... |
39,146 | Since thrusters have no matter to push off of, how can a spacecraft generate thrust in the vacuum of space? | 2012/10/05 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/39146",
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] | By conservation of momentum.
When the thruster expels high velocity gas in one direction, that gas has momentum.
Since there is no *external* force acting on the system, the *total* momentum of the system (thruster and expelled gas) cannot change.
Thus, the thruster must acquire an opposing momentum such that the to... | Yes, the spacecraft pushes off of the expelled gas. That's correct. |
44,654 | I'm trying to fill in the gap in a sentence like this:
>
> John's true skills were stagnating, even regressing, and in his \_\_\_, he increasingly indulged in fanciful daydreams where he would save the day, instead of facing his difficulties head-on.
>
>
>
I'm thinking of the word "decadence", but I feel like the... | 2011/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44654",
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] | *Decline* was the first word that came to me, too.
If you're looking for a word to describe his funk itself, though, what about something like *indifference* or *lassitude*? Even *malaise* might fit.
These aren't synonyms of decadence, of course, but when I read your sentence, decadence isn't the word that jumps out ... | As alternatives, my ‘Collins Thesaurus’ gives *degeneration, decline, corruption, fall, decay, deterioration, dissolution, perversion, dissipation, debasement* and *retrogression*. But then again, perhaps you don’t mean *decadence* at all. |
44,654 | I'm trying to fill in the gap in a sentence like this:
>
> John's true skills were stagnating, even regressing, and in his \_\_\_, he increasingly indulged in fanciful daydreams where he would save the day, instead of facing his difficulties head-on.
>
>
>
I'm thinking of the word "decadence", but I feel like the... | 2011/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44654",
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] | As alternatives, my ‘Collins Thesaurus’ gives *degeneration, decline, corruption, fall, decay, deterioration, dissolution, perversion, dissipation, debasement* and *retrogression*. But then again, perhaps you don’t mean *decadence* at all. | How about "and as his X dulled", where X is a a [metonymy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy) for activity John had been skilled in? |
44,654 | I'm trying to fill in the gap in a sentence like this:
>
> John's true skills were stagnating, even regressing, and in his \_\_\_, he increasingly indulged in fanciful daydreams where he would save the day, instead of facing his difficulties head-on.
>
>
>
I'm thinking of the word "decadence", but I feel like the... | 2011/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44654",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | *Decline* was the first word that came to me, too.
If you're looking for a word to describe his funk itself, though, what about something like *indifference* or *lassitude*? Even *malaise* might fit.
These aren't synonyms of decadence, of course, but when I read your sentence, decadence isn't the word that jumps out ... | The word I'd put into that sentence is "decline". "Downward spiral" could work, or if you want to express more of a mood, "funk" or "rut" might work. "Decay" hints at "decadence" without the moralistic overtones. |
44,654 | I'm trying to fill in the gap in a sentence like this:
>
> John's true skills were stagnating, even regressing, and in his \_\_\_, he increasingly indulged in fanciful daydreams where he would save the day, instead of facing his difficulties head-on.
>
>
>
I'm thinking of the word "decadence", but I feel like the... | 2011/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44654",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | The word I'd put into that sentence is "decline". "Downward spiral" could work, or if you want to express more of a mood, "funk" or "rut" might work. "Decay" hints at "decadence" without the moralistic overtones. | How about "and as his X dulled", where X is a a [metonymy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy) for activity John had been skilled in? |
44,654 | I'm trying to fill in the gap in a sentence like this:
>
> John's true skills were stagnating, even regressing, and in his \_\_\_, he increasingly indulged in fanciful daydreams where he would save the day, instead of facing his difficulties head-on.
>
>
>
I'm thinking of the word "decadence", but I feel like the... | 2011/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44654",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | *Decline* was the first word that came to me, too.
If you're looking for a word to describe his funk itself, though, what about something like *indifference* or *lassitude*? Even *malaise* might fit.
These aren't synonyms of decadence, of course, but when I read your sentence, decadence isn't the word that jumps out ... | If you wish to attribute John's decline in skills to age, you might use words like [dotage](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dotage), [senescence](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/senescence), and [wane](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wane) or [waning](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waning) years. |
44,654 | I'm trying to fill in the gap in a sentence like this:
>
> John's true skills were stagnating, even regressing, and in his \_\_\_, he increasingly indulged in fanciful daydreams where he would save the day, instead of facing his difficulties head-on.
>
>
>
I'm thinking of the word "decadence", but I feel like the... | 2011/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44654",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | *Decline* was the first word that came to me, too.
If you're looking for a word to describe his funk itself, though, what about something like *indifference* or *lassitude*? Even *malaise* might fit.
These aren't synonyms of decadence, of course, but when I read your sentence, decadence isn't the word that jumps out ... | How about "and as his X dulled", where X is a a [metonymy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy) for activity John had been skilled in? |
44,654 | I'm trying to fill in the gap in a sentence like this:
>
> John's true skills were stagnating, even regressing, and in his \_\_\_, he increasingly indulged in fanciful daydreams where he would save the day, instead of facing his difficulties head-on.
>
>
>
I'm thinking of the word "decadence", but I feel like the... | 2011/10/09 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44654",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/13756/"
] | If you wish to attribute John's decline in skills to age, you might use words like [dotage](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dotage), [senescence](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/senescence), and [wane](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wane) or [waning](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waning) years. | How about "and as his X dulled", where X is a a [metonymy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy) for activity John had been skilled in? |
434,414 | What is the most evil or dangerous code fragment you have ever seen in a production environment at a company? I've never encountered production code that I would consider to be deliberately malicious and evil, so I'm quite curious to see what others have found.
The most dangerous code I have ever seen was a stored pro... | 2009/01/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/434414",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/38332/"
] | In a system which took credit card payments we used to store the full credit card number along with name, expiration date etc.
Turns out this is illegal, which is ironic given the we were writing the program for the Justice Department at the time. | Years ago I had joined a multi-company loyalty rewards company where these reached production. What should have been a quick assessment & getting to know the biz, turned out on revealing & leading critical fixes to some of the mess:
* 2 on a third party built application in kiosks around the country (it operated on bo... |
193,756 | I want to be able to listen to my own music/podcasts while playing Halo: The Master Chief Collection online but the lobby music drowns out the audio.
There doesn't appear to be any options in the audio section of the menu to either mute the music or at least turn it down.
Is there a way to mute the lobby music in Ha... | 2014/11/30 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/193756",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/8266/"
] | Try muting the sound on your headphones and use the TV volume instead if you're using headphones. | there isn't a way man, it's part of the game, the only option is to wait for the creators to fix the audio option |
8,875 | From what I see some Sambo fighters practice BJJ too, Khabib Nurmagomedov for example. Why would they do that? | 2019/02/19 | [
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/8875",
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"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/users/9919/"
] | Presumably, they do so for the same reason most MMA fighters cross-train, to increase their breadth of techniques and to get practice fighting against other styles. For example, an often under-appreciated benefit to cross-training with other styles is that it gets you to try techniques against people who don't know how... | There is a lot of crossover between the different grappling arts.
& when people fight, they more often than naught have a specific "game" they play. Some prefer leglocks, and some go more for chokes. Some play defense, others... you get the idea.
By training in different styles of grappling, practitioners can expose... |
57,639 | Should you avoid introducing characters that talk one time and never talk again? I wrote a scene in a chapter where the main characters talks to a technician, and then the technician is never seen again, and I am not sure if I should remove it, because the scene gives a lot of information about the world and the techno... | 2021/07/29 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/57639",
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] | Based on your description, while the technician is not pivotal the story, the main characters' interaction with the technician is important. This new information about the technology and the world informs your readers. I would only have concern if there is an in-depth back story of the technician that does not tell the... | Who says one off characters aren't relative to the story?
Say you have a story where the main character is the head of a company. Several hundred people work for this guy - you're not going to introduce all 351 employees in your story. You might have a handful of characters who routinely interact with your main charac... |
57,639 | Should you avoid introducing characters that talk one time and never talk again? I wrote a scene in a chapter where the main characters talks to a technician, and then the technician is never seen again, and I am not sure if I should remove it, because the scene gives a lot of information about the world and the techno... | 2021/07/29 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/57639",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
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] | Based on your description, while the technician is not pivotal the story, the main characters' interaction with the technician is important. This new information about the technology and the world informs your readers. I would only have concern if there is an in-depth back story of the technician that does not tell the... | As they say in show biz:
There are no small parts, only small actors.
Take this person and make their one line memorable. Think of it as a cameo by a famous actor past his or her prime. |
57,639 | Should you avoid introducing characters that talk one time and never talk again? I wrote a scene in a chapter where the main characters talks to a technician, and then the technician is never seen again, and I am not sure if I should remove it, because the scene gives a lot of information about the world and the techno... | 2021/07/29 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/57639",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/49648/"
] | Based on your description, while the technician is not pivotal the story, the main characters' interaction with the technician is important. This new information about the technology and the world informs your readers. I would only have concern if there is an in-depth back story of the technician that does not tell the... | Make the Scene Work Harder, or Cut it
-------------------------------------
You can absolutely introduce a character for one scene. The real question is whether the scene is worthwhile as it is.
You describe the scene as if all it does is world-building. I would either expand it or cut it. Scenes need to do multiple ... |
57,639 | Should you avoid introducing characters that talk one time and never talk again? I wrote a scene in a chapter where the main characters talks to a technician, and then the technician is never seen again, and I am not sure if I should remove it, because the scene gives a lot of information about the world and the techno... | 2021/07/29 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/57639",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/49648/"
] | Who says one off characters aren't relative to the story?
Say you have a story where the main character is the head of a company. Several hundred people work for this guy - you're not going to introduce all 351 employees in your story. You might have a handful of characters who routinely interact with your main charac... | As they say in show biz:
There are no small parts, only small actors.
Take this person and make their one line memorable. Think of it as a cameo by a famous actor past his or her prime. |
57,639 | Should you avoid introducing characters that talk one time and never talk again? I wrote a scene in a chapter where the main characters talks to a technician, and then the technician is never seen again, and I am not sure if I should remove it, because the scene gives a lot of information about the world and the techno... | 2021/07/29 | [
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/57639",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com",
"https://writers.stackexchange.com/users/49648/"
] | Make the Scene Work Harder, or Cut it
-------------------------------------
You can absolutely introduce a character for one scene. The real question is whether the scene is worthwhile as it is.
You describe the scene as if all it does is world-building. I would either expand it or cut it. Scenes need to do multiple ... | As they say in show biz:
There are no small parts, only small actors.
Take this person and make their one line memorable. Think of it as a cameo by a famous actor past his or her prime. |
12,390 | The [Mitsubishi MU-2B has a very long & detailed SFAR 108](http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part91-108-SFAR.shtml) that details the trained and currency requirements for anyone who wishes to manipulate the controls of the plane. I'm wondering what incidents or accidents and unusual handling characteristics required a ... | 2015/02/04 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12390",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/3504/"
] | According to Wikipedia (or at least my reading of the article) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_MU-2>
It looks like there were a lot of incidents in the plane, enough that the FAA seems to have investigated the plane specifically and now advises/requires some special training for it. As any government agency w... | The MU-2 has had a very bad safety record. From various sources I've talked with over the years, if you lose an engine, you need an excessive amount of altitude to recover. Various design issues I've heard are related to it, from possibly overpowered engines, to short wings. All these things coupled basically put the F... |
12,390 | The [Mitsubishi MU-2B has a very long & detailed SFAR 108](http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part91-108-SFAR.shtml) that details the trained and currency requirements for anyone who wishes to manipulate the controls of the plane. I'm wondering what incidents or accidents and unusual handling characteristics required a ... | 2015/02/04 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12390",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/3504/"
] | Since the MU-2 weighs less than 12,500 lb, a type rating is not required to fly the plane, so pilots only need a multi-engine rating. However, it is a high performance pressurized aircraft that requires more skill to fly. [Mitsubishi Heavy Industries asked the FAA to create a type rating requirement for the MU-2](https... | According to Wikipedia (or at least my reading of the article) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_MU-2>
It looks like there were a lot of incidents in the plane, enough that the FAA seems to have investigated the plane specifically and now advises/requires some special training for it. As any government agency w... |
12,390 | The [Mitsubishi MU-2B has a very long & detailed SFAR 108](http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part91-108-SFAR.shtml) that details the trained and currency requirements for anyone who wishes to manipulate the controls of the plane. I'm wondering what incidents or accidents and unusual handling characteristics required a ... | 2015/02/04 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12390",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/3504/"
] | Since the MU-2 weighs less than 12,500 lb, a type rating is not required to fly the plane, so pilots only need a multi-engine rating. However, it is a high performance pressurized aircraft that requires more skill to fly. [Mitsubishi Heavy Industries asked the FAA to create a type rating requirement for the MU-2](https... | The MU-2 has had a very bad safety record. From various sources I've talked with over the years, if you lose an engine, you need an excessive amount of altitude to recover. Various design issues I've heard are related to it, from possibly overpowered engines, to short wings. All these things coupled basically put the F... |
11,184,407 | I have created a library project which can be used as reference project in any application.
Now i want to create jar file of that library project so that instead of referencing the library project,i can add that created external jar file to build path and can use the library project component.Is there any way in eclips... | 2012/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11184407",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1287627/"
] | **JAR file using Eclipse IDE**
Creating JAR file using Eclipse IDE is pretty much easy. Follow the simple steps.
Right click on your project, which you want to create a JAR file of. And select Export from the context menu.
Select JAR file from Java... | You will need to export that project in eclipse. here are the steps:
1) right click the project in project explorer view.
2) click on exprot and type jar.
3) select the jar option and by giving appropriate name click on export.
The jar file will be created which u can use by adding it in the build path of another proj... |
11,184,407 | I have created a library project which can be used as reference project in any application.
Now i want to create jar file of that library project so that instead of referencing the library project,i can add that created external jar file to build path and can use the library project component.Is there any way in eclips... | 2012/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11184407",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1287627/"
] | You will need to export that project in eclipse. here are the steps:
1) right click the project in project explorer view.
2) click on exprot and type jar.
3) select the jar option and by giving appropriate name click on export.
The jar file will be created which u can use by adding it in the build path of another proj... | yes, You can do it in Eclipse...
//Exporting project to jar file
Right Click the desired project->Export the project->Choose java->jarFile->Select the project to the export and choose the destination for the jar file to be saved->Click finish-> jar file will be created in desired destination
//Including jar file
Ag... |
11,184,407 | I have created a library project which can be used as reference project in any application.
Now i want to create jar file of that library project so that instead of referencing the library project,i can add that created external jar file to build path and can use the library project component.Is there any way in eclips... | 2012/06/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11184407",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1287627/"
] | **JAR file using Eclipse IDE**
Creating JAR file using Eclipse IDE is pretty much easy. Follow the simple steps.
Right click on your project, which you want to create a JAR file of. And select Export from the context menu.
Select JAR file from Java... | yes, You can do it in Eclipse...
//Exporting project to jar file
Right Click the desired project->Export the project->Choose java->jarFile->Select the project to the export and choose the destination for the jar file to be saved->Click finish-> jar file will be created in desired destination
//Including jar file
Ag... |
56,190 | In Boruto episode 136, I noticed that Jiraiya's tomb is in the woods and not in Konoha Cemetery. Jiraiya is a leaf ninja so I assume his remains should be in Konoha cemetery and in fact he died because he was trying to save the village. The place doesn't also resemble [Mount Myōboku](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Moun... | 2019/12/20 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/56190",
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] | As JNat stated in the comments, this is a memorial for [Jiraiya](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Jiraiya) rather than an actual grave. Jiraiya's body was unrecoverable at the bottom of the sea, so there was no body to bury in the cemetery.
But given Jiraiya's importance and status, why *wasn't* he given a proper funer... | Jiraiya's body was killed in the water, he was thrown into the water at the time of his death, and the sight was too deep to find his body. It was Naruto who made him a statue in the woods just outside the Leaf Village |
17,262,125 | I read about the Apache Hadoop. They said that in HDFS, tasks are any process, that is, mapper or reducer. And they together called jobs.
They have two things, **JOBTRACKER, and TASKTRACKER** , tasktracker is on each node that manages mapper or reducer tasks.
And, Jobtracker is the one, who manges all task-trackers.... | 2013/06/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17262125",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1340736/"
] | AVRO has nothing to do with this. It is just a serialization framework, which folks usually use if they feel that Hadoop's serialization is not helping them much. Otherwise it is just another member of the Hadoop ecosystem.
Coming to your original question, it is done through heartbeats, as @thiru\_k has specified abo... | The TaskTrackers sends out heartbeat messages to the JobTracker, usually every few minutes, to reassure the JobTracker that it is still alive. These message also inform the JobTracker of the number of available slots, so the JobTracker can stay up to date with where in the cluster work can be delegated |
29,636,715 | I have two enterprise servers which need to communicate in a secure way, and am comparing using SSL (with client/server certs to validate both sides) vs two-legged authentication using OAuth 2.0 (optionally with MAC tokens or JWT tokens).
Historically OAuth seems to have been created for a totally different purpose (... | 2015/04/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29636715",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/787684/"
] | Apologies if you already know this but it isn't clear in your post.
OAuth and SSL\TLS are two separate layers of the OSI model. OAuth is for authentication and is at the top in Layer 7 while SSL\TLS is for transport security in layer 4. It's easy to confuse SSL with client certificates because they both use PKI.
You ... | I'll respond to this comment:
>
> My question is that, assuming I am using SSL with proper client/server certs to identify each machine, what value would using OAuth (2 legged or similar) on top of that to authorize the servers to one another (assuming there is no user involved). Thanks – Locksleyu
>
>
>
Summary:... |
29,636,715 | I have two enterprise servers which need to communicate in a secure way, and am comparing using SSL (with client/server certs to validate both sides) vs two-legged authentication using OAuth 2.0 (optionally with MAC tokens or JWT tokens).
Historically OAuth seems to have been created for a totally different purpose (... | 2015/04/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29636715",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/787684/"
] | Apologies if you already know this but it isn't clear in your post.
OAuth and SSL\TLS are two separate layers of the OSI model. OAuth is for authentication and is at the top in Layer 7 while SSL\TLS is for transport security in layer 4. It's easy to confuse SSL with client certificates because they both use PKI.
You ... | To answer your question "what value would using OAuth (2 legged or similar) on top of that to authorize the servers to one another (assuming there is no user involved)."
You may refer below
<https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/93887/mutual-authentication-two-way-ssl-oauth> |
29,636,715 | I have two enterprise servers which need to communicate in a secure way, and am comparing using SSL (with client/server certs to validate both sides) vs two-legged authentication using OAuth 2.0 (optionally with MAC tokens or JWT tokens).
Historically OAuth seems to have been created for a totally different purpose (... | 2015/04/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/29636715",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/787684/"
] | I'll respond to this comment:
>
> My question is that, assuming I am using SSL with proper client/server certs to identify each machine, what value would using OAuth (2 legged or similar) on top of that to authorize the servers to one another (assuming there is no user involved). Thanks – Locksleyu
>
>
>
Summary:... | To answer your question "what value would using OAuth (2 legged or similar) on top of that to authorize the servers to one another (assuming there is no user involved)."
You may refer below
<https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/93887/mutual-authentication-two-way-ssl-oauth> |
68,538 | The OOTB Approval workflow sends task notifications to the CC line you specify when triggered from a workflow.
I've noticed in the email notification the Due By is None, even though I specify the due date when triggering the workflow.
How do I set this so it includes my List... | 2013/05/17 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/68538",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/10608/"
] | Found It.
1) In the Approval, click on "Change the behavior of the overall task process"
2) Scroll down in the "When the Task Process Starts" step and look for the "Email Workflow Context:Initiator" action.
3) Click on the action to open the Define E-mail Message.
4) Change the Due By field to whatever date you p... | I wasn't able to get it working with @April Drake's solution as I was kept on getting the Due Date as **None**. Upon further search, I stumble upon [this post](https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/6452e868-39a9-41d8-9406-b77be8c621ec/sharpoint-2010-sp1-ootb-approval-workflow-missing-due-date?forum=shar... |
14,132 | I would like to create some visual aids for illustrating principles in statistics, similar to the kind of graphic found here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression#/media/File:Anscombe%27s_quartet_3.svg>.
One choice is manually drawing such graphics in google slides or other slide/presentation software. Are... | 2018/06/03 | [
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] | The style of your example graphics is very similar to [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/), an extremely popular graphics package for the Python computer language. The package was designed to produce "publication quality figures" and version 2 made this even more so than version 1.
The main disadvantage of matplotlib... | MS Excel is one way... eh... just for things like box plots and (non linear) regressions ... doesn't look nice - personal opinion.
I guess the graphics you linked to are made using [tinkerplots](https://www.tinkerplots.com).
But any good stat's program will allow you to create graphics. Usually I teach with [R](http... |
14,132 | I would like to create some visual aids for illustrating principles in statistics, similar to the kind of graphic found here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression#/media/File:Anscombe%27s_quartet_3.svg>.
One choice is manually drawing such graphics in google slides or other slide/presentation software. Are... | 2018/06/03 | [
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"https://matheducators.stackexchange.com",
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] | The style of your example graphics is very similar to [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/), an extremely popular graphics package for the Python computer language. The package was designed to produce "publication quality figures" and version 2 made this even more so than version 1.
The main disadvantage of matplotlib... | Use MSFT Excel. It is the defacto standard (even for people with fancier programs). Download the Analysis addin, if it is not active already (free, but often not enabled because of saving disk space).
The presentation may be a little ugly but you can pretty it up (adjust the default colors, eliminate gridlines, etc.) ... |
26,823 | Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/26823",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
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] | One important factor was the warmer weather in most parts of the south. That led to two important effects: 1) the cultivability of cash crops such as cotton and sugar, and 2) relatively short winters. The cash crops were important because that's how slave labor was transformed into profits. Long winters were a liabilit... | There was slavery in New England. That's who built all the walls. The full name of Rhode Island is **Rhode Island and Providence PLANTATIONS**. If you visit, you will see stone walls everywhere, all built by slaves. I used to work in Rhode Island and every day at lunch I would go walking in the woods past those endless... |
26,823 | Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/26823",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
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] | Because keeping a slave costs money 24/7 whether they're working or not: it's like owning a limousine that you only use a few times a year rather than hiring one on an as-needed basis. Hired hands only have to be paid when they're actually working.
As the North was becoming more and more industrial, it became less and... | There was slavery in New England. That's who built all the walls. The full name of Rhode Island is **Rhode Island and Providence PLANTATIONS**. If you visit, you will see stone walls everywhere, all built by slaves. I used to work in Rhode Island and every day at lunch I would go walking in the woods past those endless... |
26,823 | Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/26823",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/1242/"
] | The answer is mainly that [the South is where cotton grows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture_in_the_United_States#Cotton) , also [this](http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/161/cotton-in-a-global-economy-mississippi-1800-1860) and [this](http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536601340.html).... | There was slavery in New England. That's who built all the walls. The full name of Rhode Island is **Rhode Island and Providence PLANTATIONS**. If you visit, you will see stone walls everywhere, all built by slaves. I used to work in Rhode Island and every day at lunch I would go walking in the woods past those endless... |
26,823 | Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/26823",
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] | Of course there's the whole growth of manufacturing in the North as others have stated. Moreover, the farther south you go, the more labor intensive the act of yielding the commodities (rice, indigo, sugar, tobacco) are. The South and the West Indies kept slaves because indentured servants (who were mostly white immigr... | There was slavery in New England. That's who built all the walls. The full name of Rhode Island is **Rhode Island and Providence PLANTATIONS**. If you visit, you will see stone walls everywhere, all built by slaves. I used to work in Rhode Island and every day at lunch I would go walking in the woods past those endless... |
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] | One important factor was the warmer weather in most parts of the south. That led to two important effects: 1) the cultivability of cash crops such as cotton and sugar, and 2) relatively short winters. The cash crops were important because that's how slave labor was transformed into profits. Long winters were a liabilit... | Because keeping a slave costs money 24/7 whether they're working or not: it's like owning a limousine that you only use a few times a year rather than hiring one on an as-needed basis. Hired hands only have to be paid when they're actually working.
As the North was becoming more and more industrial, it became less and... |
26,823 | Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/26823",
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] | One important factor was the warmer weather in most parts of the south. That led to two important effects: 1) the cultivability of cash crops such as cotton and sugar, and 2) relatively short winters. The cash crops were important because that's how slave labor was transformed into profits. Long winters were a liabilit... | The answer is mainly that [the South is where cotton grows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture_in_the_United_States#Cotton) , also [this](http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/161/cotton-in-a-global-economy-mississippi-1800-1860) and [this](http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536601340.html).... |
26,823 | Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/26823",
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] | One important factor was the warmer weather in most parts of the south. That led to two important effects: 1) the cultivability of cash crops such as cotton and sugar, and 2) relatively short winters. The cash crops were important because that's how slave labor was transformed into profits. Long winters were a liabilit... | Of course there's the whole growth of manufacturing in the North as others have stated. Moreover, the farther south you go, the more labor intensive the act of yielding the commodities (rice, indigo, sugar, tobacco) are. The South and the West Indies kept slaves because indentured servants (who were mostly white immigr... |
26,823 | Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves? | 2015/12/15 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/26823",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
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] | Because keeping a slave costs money 24/7 whether they're working or not: it's like owning a limousine that you only use a few times a year rather than hiring one on an as-needed basis. Hired hands only have to be paid when they're actually working.
As the North was becoming more and more industrial, it became less and... | Of course there's the whole growth of manufacturing in the North as others have stated. Moreover, the farther south you go, the more labor intensive the act of yielding the commodities (rice, indigo, sugar, tobacco) are. The South and the West Indies kept slaves because indentured servants (who were mostly white immigr... |
26,823 | Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves? | 2015/12/15 | [
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] | The answer is mainly that [the South is where cotton grows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture_in_the_United_States#Cotton) , also [this](http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/161/cotton-in-a-global-economy-mississippi-1800-1860) and [this](http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536601340.html).... | Of course there's the whole growth of manufacturing in the North as others have stated. Moreover, the farther south you go, the more labor intensive the act of yielding the commodities (rice, indigo, sugar, tobacco) are. The South and the West Indies kept slaves because indentured servants (who were mostly white immigr... |
273,535 | This is my first question -- I realize I may have done something wrong here, so please point me in the right direction if I have.
I'm interested in figuring out which programs on my machine are using swap, and how much each is using. I realize this can probably be done with top, but I am having trouble figuring how ho... | 2011/04/20 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/273535",
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] | There are two columns to pay attention to: VIRT and RES. VIRT tells you how much memory has been reserved for the process. This does NOT necessarily mean that it's allocated or in use, but simply available should the process request it. The other to look at is RES which tells you the amount of space in resident memory.... | Unfortunately it isn't that simple.
"swap" is really considered to be "non-resident anonymous pages". That is, pages which are not backed by any disc file (not mmap'd file-backed pages).
When the kernel gets a bit short of memory, it tends to discard pages which haven't been used much recently. It might choose to dis... |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
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] | The closest thing I know of to what you are looking for is [Clone Detective.](http://clonedetectivevs.codeplex.com/) It is a Visual Studio plug-in.
>
> Clone Detective is a Visual Studio
> integration that allows you to analyze
> C# projects for source code that is
> duplicated somewhere else. Having
> duplicates... | I really like how [CCFinderX](http://www.ccfinder.net/ccfinderxos.html) visualizes similarity, so you might want to check that one too. Supports quite a few of languages, it's free and fairly easy to setup (Python 2.6). |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | When I was teaching software engineering, I used the (free) service at [Stanford called MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity).](http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/) This allowed me to detect plagiarism between student projects very easily. The system also allowed me to enter "known good" code examples that I had us... | This [article on wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_code) on the subject also includes links to several tools that can be used to find similar or duplicate code. We have an internal tool for this, so I'm not familiar with the external tools mentioned in the article. |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | It sounds like you want to compute the difference between two abstract syntax trees (AST), so you might be interested in the [Smart Differencer tool](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SmartDifferencer).
Found on <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/974855/eclipse-abstract-syntax-tree-diff>. | Even if you're not talking about a diff tool, you can still use one for this, to a certain extent at least. If I see two sections of code that look similar, for example, I frequently paste both into BeyondCompare to see how much work it would be to simplify it by refactoring the common functionality out.
On the other ... |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The closest thing I know of to what you are looking for is [Clone Detective.](http://clonedetectivevs.codeplex.com/) It is a Visual Studio plug-in.
>
> Clone Detective is a Visual Studio
> integration that allows you to analyze
> C# projects for source code that is
> duplicated somewhere else. Having
> duplicates... | It sounds like you want to compute the difference between two abstract syntax trees (AST), so you might be interested in the [Smart Differencer tool](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SmartDifferencer).
Found on <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/974855/eclipse-abstract-syntax-tree-diff>. |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | The closest thing I know of to what you are looking for is [Clone Detective.](http://clonedetectivevs.codeplex.com/) It is a Visual Studio plug-in.
>
> Clone Detective is a Visual Studio
> integration that allows you to analyze
> C# projects for source code that is
> duplicated somewhere else. Having
> duplicates... | Even if you're not talking about a diff tool, you can still use one for this, to a certain extent at least. If I see two sections of code that look similar, for example, I frequently paste both into BeyondCompare to see how much work it would be to simplify it by refactoring the common functionality out.
On the other ... |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | It sounds like you want to compute the difference between two abstract syntax trees (AST), so you might be interested in the [Smart Differencer tool](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SmartDifferencer).
Found on <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/974855/eclipse-abstract-syntax-tree-diff>. | This [article on wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_code) on the subject also includes links to several tools that can be used to find similar or duplicate code. We have an internal tool for this, so I'm not familiar with the external tools mentioned in the article. |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | When I was teaching software engineering, I used the (free) service at [Stanford called MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity).](http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/) This allowed me to detect plagiarism between student projects very easily. The system also allowed me to enter "known good" code examples that I had us... | Even if you're not talking about a diff tool, you can still use one for this, to a certain extent at least. If I see two sections of code that look similar, for example, I frequently paste both into BeyondCompare to see how much work it would be to simplify it by refactoring the common functionality out.
On the other ... |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | When I was teaching software engineering, I used the (free) service at [Stanford called MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity).](http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/) This allowed me to detect plagiarism between student projects very easily. The system also allowed me to enter "known good" code examples that I had us... | What you really want to do is see if there is code cloned (copied) across the two projects (both projects consisting of possibly large sets of files). You can do this by running a clone detection tool. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_code) lists a variety of them.
To decide grossly if there is lot o... |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | You might be able to use the [PMD tool](http://pmd.sourceforge.net/) to find what you are looking for. It is meant to detect cut and paste within a code base but if you include the suspected origin project source it might help you see where code was copied from it. | It sounds like you want to compute the difference between two abstract syntax trees (AST), so you might be interested in the [Smart Differencer tool](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SmartDifferencer).
Found on <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/974855/eclipse-abstract-syntax-tree-diff>. |
5,748 | I'm not talking about a diff tool. I'm really looking to see if a project contains code that may have been "refactored" from another project. It would be likely that function names, variable names and whatnot would be changed. Conditionals might be reversed, etc. | 2010/09/21 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5748",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | It sounds like you want to compute the difference between two abstract syntax trees (AST), so you might be interested in the [Smart Differencer tool](http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/SmartDifferencer).
Found on <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/974855/eclipse-abstract-syntax-tree-diff>. | What you really want to do is see if there is code cloned (copied) across the two projects (both projects consisting of possibly large sets of files). You can do this by running a clone detection tool. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_code) lists a variety of them.
To decide grossly if there is lot o... |
47,616 | I have an established 16 mile mountain bike loop I've been riding for a long time. I recently purchased a Magellan Cyclo 315 bike computer which I load files to Strava Premium from. Everything works great except the distance data. The distance value on the computer is always very close to 16 miles, but when I upload th... | 2017/06/28 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/47616",
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"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/33491/"
] | It might have to do with how frequently the computer writes your GPS location to file. To optimize storage some write out a location to file once every few seconds, but carry out its own calculations on a higher resolution dataset in-memory before purging. If your route is quite twisty this can result in a shorter dist... | Strava has a proprietary secret algorithm for internally calculating distance, which involves smoothing the GPS data internally, although the original GPS data points are still stored in your history. If that Strava-calculated distance varies from the device distance more than a threshold, Strava replaces the device di... |
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