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13,417 | So there is a lot of teaching out there focuses on meditating on death. A lot of it talks about living life as if it was your last day, week, month... in that this way, you don't take life for granted and it wakes you up instead of just passing time...
These same teachings talk about how life should be lived in realit... | 2016/01/01 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/13417",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | The "meditating on death" sounds like it's meant to be a meditation on impermanence, and on the unattractiveness of the body (i.e. an antidote to lust); as well as on the "just seeing" and so on that may be an antithesis to a excessive mental fabrication.
But there may be another aspect to it (beware this is something... | It is not pretending, like Suminda said.
One way to very truly understand this is to enumerate the number of X you have.
You have X amount of breaths in your current life-body-mind.
You have X amount of times you will be able to visit Buddhism SE in your current life-body-mind.
You have X number of smiles you will ... |
13,417 | So there is a lot of teaching out there focuses on meditating on death. A lot of it talks about living life as if it was your last day, week, month... in that this way, you don't take life for granted and it wakes you up instead of just passing time...
These same teachings talk about how life should be lived in realit... | 2016/01/01 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/13417",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/4961/"
] | If a teaching seems contradictory it is probably because teachers of Dharma utilize both conceptual and ultimate realities at the same time and this can appear very confusing if the student doesn't understand the dance between conceptual reality and ultimate reality.
The purpose of conceptually reflecting on death is ... | It's a metaphor, another one of these is "you should strive as if you had your head on fire". Doesn't mean we have to pretend there's fire on our head! We often procrastinate meditation and/or reading, as if we had endless time - which we don't. |
13,417 | So there is a lot of teaching out there focuses on meditating on death. A lot of it talks about living life as if it was your last day, week, month... in that this way, you don't take life for granted and it wakes you up instead of just passing time...
These same teachings talk about how life should be lived in realit... | 2016/01/01 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/13417",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/4961/"
] | If a teaching seems contradictory it is probably because teachers of Dharma utilize both conceptual and ultimate realities at the same time and this can appear very confusing if the student doesn't understand the dance between conceptual reality and ultimate reality.
The purpose of conceptually reflecting on death is ... | It is not pretending, like Suminda said.
One way to very truly understand this is to enumerate the number of X you have.
You have X amount of breaths in your current life-body-mind.
You have X amount of times you will be able to visit Buddhism SE in your current life-body-mind.
You have X number of smiles you will ... |
91,536 | In the lower right corner of my Gmail page, there a link to see the access history and activities for my account. In the list, I discovered an entry of access from "Authorized Application (427071021612.apps.googleusercontent.com)" and its location is from Virginia. How to find out what really is that? | 2016/04/03 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/91536",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/19030/"
] | Go to <https://myaccount.google.com/security#connectedapps> and under Apps connected to your account, select Manage Apps and go through the list. There is no good way to interpret the code as what which specific app.
If you suspect something is out of whack, go through the [Google Security Checkup](https://security.g... | I found that it was linked to a work iphone that has not only my work emails on it, but my personal Gmail as well. If you have more than one device (tablet, laptop, smartphone, etc.), and they are all linked to your Google account, you will find this access information under that "details" for your Gmail account.
I thi... |
1,583,209 | In algebra, one lesson we took was about logic.
We learned that it is a true statement or logical expression to say that if a Beijing was the capital of the US then the moon existed last night, as this is convenient with a false statement implying a true one being a true statement.
Agree? | 2015/12/20 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1583209",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/299941/"
] | You want "real life", eh?
Let (P) be the statement
>
> If the policeman sees you speeding, then you will have to pay a fine.
>
>
>
This is true. But it could happen you have to pay a fine because you failed to shovel the snow from your sidewalk. So you have to pay a fine even though you did not speed. But this... | I agree. That is an impication. If you suppose a lie, you won't make a mistake whatever the result. |
284,873 | I have downloaded Ubuntu 12.04.2 64 bit, and I tried to install it with WUBI. I put the ubuntu ISO and WUBI in the same folder. When I installed it with WUBI, it starts downloading ubuntu-12.04.2-wubi-amd64.tar.xz, which took nearly 2 hours because my internet connection is slow.
I didn't face this problem with previo... | 2013/04/24 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/284873",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/151710/"
] | Yes. It's available here: <http://people.canonical.com/~evand/wubi/precise/wubi-r273-signed.exe>
It's been fixed for the bug you are experiencing, but not yet released. See [Wubi fails to detect 12.04.2 and 13.04 AMD64 ISO](https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770) | Now I installed 32 bit. Installation time is very fast. No need to extra download. I downloaded 32 bit iso and extract it. Then run the wubi.exe installer and follow the instructions. To complete the whole installation time is around 30 mins only.
I think 64 bits edition is something wrong with Wubi.exe ! |
106,892 | (not a commercial CD). I did some recordings of a band years ago and ran into one of the band members who asked me if I could make copies. I assumed that this would be easy. I know that I can rip the CD into iTunes and then burn a new CD, but I have two optical drives available, is there a way to simply copy the CD fro... | 2010/02/09 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/106892",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/11080/"
] | You can do this with [Burn](http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html), and free and open source tool for Mac:
>
> Already have discs you like to
> reproduce? Don't worry, Burn can help
> you. **Burn can copy discs or use disk
> images to recreate your discs. With
> one drive Burn still will be able... | When copying audio CDs I *highly* recommend ripping to hard disk first. The reason is quality control - ripping audio to disk allows your application to use error detection & correction mechanisms that a straight disc-to-disc copy won't perform. Additionally, it gives you a chance to play the tracks and make sure the r... |
10,341,679 | I'm trying to make a collision detection routine between circles (that coagulate), being very new to this I firstly made a detection that checked every single circle. Now I had the idea to create some sort of bounding boxes in order to only check more precisely the circle that are close enough (more efficient when ther... | 2012/04/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10341679",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/974790/"
] | OpenGL has no such built-in functionality, though you might be able to bastardize the "Feedback" render mode in older (<= 2.1) versions of OpenGL.
That said, for the special case of circles, there's a much quicker way to look for collisions. For a candidate pair of circles, if the distance between their centers is les... | >
> there someway that openGL can see if two objects are overlapping by detecting pixel overlapping ?
>
>
>
OpenGL has no collision detection routines.
OpenGL has [selection buffer](http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glSelectBuffer.xml) that could be used to get list of object rendered in certain region, bu... |
6,381,744 | I would like to know "anti-design". Please suggest an e-book for anti design pattern. | 2011/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6381744",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/673018/"
] | You may like to check out:
[**The daily wtf**](http://thedailywtf.com/Default.aspx) & [**Anti patterns**](http://www.antipatterns.com/AntiPatterns/Welcome.html) | I have seen books on refactoring.
But I don't think I have ever seen a book on presenting bad code.
The closest thing you can find that shows examples of bad code is in Code Complete by Steven McConnel. The author puts in these little snippets called "Coding Horror" that are examples of bad code. He then explains how ... |
6,381,744 | I would like to know "anti-design". Please suggest an e-book for anti design pattern. | 2011/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6381744",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/673018/"
] | Not an e-book, but the only book I know: “[AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiPatterns)” (the link is to Wikipedia's book review).
For some reason I always thought that book was by Martin Fowler, but it wasn’t.
Wikipedia also has an incomplete l... | I have seen books on refactoring.
But I don't think I have ever seen a book on presenting bad code.
The closest thing you can find that shows examples of bad code is in Code Complete by Steven McConnel. The author puts in these little snippets called "Coding Horror" that are examples of bad code. He then explains how ... |
6,381,744 | I would like to know "anti-design". Please suggest an e-book for anti design pattern. | 2011/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6381744",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/673018/"
] | You may like to check out:
[**The daily wtf**](http://thedailywtf.com/Default.aspx) & [**Anti patterns**](http://www.antipatterns.com/AntiPatterns/Welcome.html) | Not an e-book, but the only book I know: “[AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiPatterns)” (the link is to Wikipedia's book review).
For some reason I always thought that book was by Martin Fowler, but it wasn’t.
Wikipedia also has an incomplete l... |
6,381,744 | I would like to know "anti-design". Please suggest an e-book for anti design pattern. | 2011/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6381744",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/673018/"
] | You may like to check out:
[**The daily wtf**](http://thedailywtf.com/Default.aspx) & [**Anti patterns**](http://www.antipatterns.com/AntiPatterns/Welcome.html) | You may find the articles from [SourceMaking](http://sourcemaking.com/antipatterns) interesting. |
6,381,744 | I would like to know "anti-design". Please suggest an e-book for anti design pattern. | 2011/06/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6381744",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/673018/"
] | Not an e-book, but the only book I know: “[AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiPatterns)” (the link is to Wikipedia's book review).
For some reason I always thought that book was by Martin Fowler, but it wasn’t.
Wikipedia also has an incomplete l... | You may find the articles from [SourceMaking](http://sourcemaking.com/antipatterns) interesting. |
6,091 | How well does Google Docs work on the iPad via Safari? | 2011/01/07 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6091",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/2369/"
] | Google Docs has full view and edit functionality on the iPad (see [here](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20025375-1.html) and [here](http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/10/desktop-version-of-google-docs-now-on-ipad-but-still-disappoint/)). To be honest though, it's kind of like trying to chop down a tree with a plastic spo... | Current situation is much better than the one sketched in the answer of Tuaw although some essentials are still missing.
Basic editing works, including font types, headers, bullets, numbering. So you can definitely write a nice piece of text. Compared to the desktop browser experience however, many features are missing... |
2,749 | I have a LEGO collection consisting of a number of rarer sets such as the monorail and 9V train sets.
I want to clean the pieces but I am curious if cleaning the parts affects their value? I plan on putting a few drops of dish soap in a laundry tub with warm water, gently mixing the pieces around, and then rinsing the... | 2014/01/09 | [
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/2749",
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com",
"https://bricks.stackexchange.com/users/3288/"
] | Cleaning coins reduces their value because being metal they form a natural patina with age. The patina is an indication of the coin's age, and supports its authenticity. Removing any of the patina through cleaning reduces the value because it removes this sign of its authenticity.
Cleaning LEGO pieces does not affect... | It depends very much on how you clean them, and why.
Parts that were covered in mud or excrement will have lower value after that regardless of how you clean them, but I suggest it's not the cleaning that is the cause. Similarly for parts exposed to cigarette smoke or other toxic substances. If you check Bricklink, fo... |
104,842 | I am a software engineer in the United States, and I have a job interview coming up soon. I have a handful of questions about their backlog, which most of them would be answered by actually viewing the current sprint of one of the teams. I am not sure how I should phrase the request, nor am I sure of how that request w... | 2018/01/09 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/104842",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/81513/"
] | Probably not a good idea, for the same reasons stated in the linked question above.
The company are going to wonder why you feel you need to go through the backlog/sprints. They're generally going to assume that you're going to criticise everything you feel that they're doing wrong and the interview will turn into the... | I think you're better off working abstractly, for two reasons:
1 - the nature of the issues of the day is likely to have sensitive information on it that the group may not want to show to a new person. Certainly the sensitivity varies widely from company to company but it's pretty common to ask engineers not to public... |
35,059 | Hi I'm just seeking advice if it is possible to identify a Lama incarnation, whom to speak to etc. | 2019/09/16 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/35059",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | In Tibetan Buddhism, the procedure is AFAIK only documented for *Tulku* (high-ranking Lamas):
>
> When an old tulku dies, a committee of senior lamas convenes to find
> the young reincarnation. The group may employ a number of methods in
> their search. First, they will probably look for a letter left behind
> by the... | If you are asking in regards to yourself, no, you're not a reincarnated lama. Trust me. You are much more than that. You are buddha nature. That little bit of stirring inside of you isn't the bygone memories of some Tibetan master who used to live in the Himalayas and spent his mornings drying his laundry on his body. ... |
371,651 | I am making an infographic where I am comparing web traffic. Because the report will be highly visual, I only use short sentences and phrases.
For example, when I want to compare this month's traffic with the previous month, can I say:
"Up by 10% to December"
"Up by 10% to last January"
What do you think, any help w... | 2017/02/03 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/371651",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/218425/"
] | Maybe use "since" instead of "to"?
"Up by 10% since December"
"Up by 10% since last January"
It depends on exactly what you mean to say.
Also make sure to differentiate between "percent" and "percentage points". | >
> "Up by 10% to December
> " Up by 10% to last January"
>
>
>
I would prefer "through" or "thru"
>
> "Up by 10% through November" "Up by 10% through last December "
>
>
>
I think this the most common method.
Another way could be to use "up to December" and "up to last January", but there would be an... |
141,394 | I work in a team (~10) who follows Scrum, so we have daily stand ups and other scrum meetings.
I have this coworker who is a senior. This coworker is from a different department but we all work very close. Each time we meet, whether it was a daily stand up, a planning session or even a casual conversation, I notice th... | 2019/07/31 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141394",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/51224/"
] | It's very unlikely that you'll be able to prevent them from chiming in with their answer or opinion. But there are some simple tactics that will help.
Direct your question or comment to a specific individual or group of individuals by name (for example "John or Sue, what is ..."). This lets everyone know who you are a... | There are a few courses of action that you might consider independently or together and depending on your relationship with your colleague:
1. **Reply politely but directly to interruptions to your personal conversations.** When you're addressing a different colleague, and your talkative colleague jumps into the conve... |
141,394 | I work in a team (~10) who follows Scrum, so we have daily stand ups and other scrum meetings.
I have this coworker who is a senior. This coworker is from a different department but we all work very close. Each time we meet, whether it was a daily stand up, a planning session or even a casual conversation, I notice th... | 2019/07/31 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141394",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/51224/"
] | It's very unlikely that you'll be able to prevent them from chiming in with their answer or opinion. But there are some simple tactics that will help.
Direct your question or comment to a specific individual or group of individuals by name (for example "John or Sue, what is ..."). This lets everyone know who you are a... | The Ratchet Rule
================
To deal with overly negative feedback on my team, I promoted the "ratchet rule" exactly because I was sick and tired of people being "Negative Nancy" all the time. In particular, I once had a very toxic coworker that would start virtually every interaction with: "No, that's wrong!" ev... |
141,394 | I work in a team (~10) who follows Scrum, so we have daily stand ups and other scrum meetings.
I have this coworker who is a senior. This coworker is from a different department but we all work very close. Each time we meet, whether it was a daily stand up, a planning session or even a casual conversation, I notice th... | 2019/07/31 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141394",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/51224/"
] | There are a few courses of action that you might consider independently or together and depending on your relationship with your colleague:
1. **Reply politely but directly to interruptions to your personal conversations.** When you're addressing a different colleague, and your talkative colleague jumps into the conve... | The Ratchet Rule
================
To deal with overly negative feedback on my team, I promoted the "ratchet rule" exactly because I was sick and tired of people being "Negative Nancy" all the time. In particular, I once had a very toxic coworker that would start virtually every interaction with: "No, that's wrong!" ev... |
183,418 | I have a farm of IIS servers which provides something akin to domain parking sites, with thousands of domains assigned to the system, and content generated dynamically. I need a load balancing and cacheing solution. My intention is to use Apache 2.2 with mod\_cache and mod\_proxybalance to accomplish this.
My previous... | 2010/09/22 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/183418",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/6558/"
] | If you intend to replace the backend, mod\_vhost\_alias
Otherwise, if you are just putting caching in front of your existing solution, Varnish or Squid would be better suited. Varnish has built-in support for backend load balancing, health checks, etc. You could also run a pair of ipvs servers in front to load balance... | You might want to take a look at <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/mass.html> and especially the last paragraph. I've successfully run mass vhosting with mod\_rewrite. |
78,613 | i want to create **map editor** inside **blender game engine**, i know *python*,
I created game assets and i want to put them on terrain i created before, but the question is how...
How to make object add on the surface of terrain not in air | 2017/04/27 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/78613",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/15185/"
] | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WZs7c.png)
I've been asking the same questions for 3 years, and apparently nobody can give this answer :( No we cannot render Blender Curve as Freestyle, unless TK the developer make changes.
The "dirty workflow" is to us... | Dunstan :-)
Hopefully, I take it you want to create a mesh that is tight to the topology of an object?
When cutting into objects I use Ortho view and the Knife Project method. In my instance, when cutting a hatch into the back of the car, I use a plan view and create a curve as per plans.
I then project into the car... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124957",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/96905/"
] | >
> I work with an intern who .....
>
>
>
He is an intern, you are not. I had a similar situation in which an intern who was not at all a good coder (compared to his peers) instead of programming suddenly started to lecture his sub-par insights on the choice of programming languages and program structure in the pr... | Sadly, you can't always be the nice person everybody likes. Especially in a supervising position.
My subordinates often question why we do the things like we do. And this is absolutely fine, since I can explain it to them and they will learn out of it.
But this is not just questioning your methods, it's a straight in... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124957",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/96905/"
] | The following strategies might help:
* Explain why you are right
* Ask him to explain why he is right
If he continues to be overbearing, you might also remind him that you have more experience than he has, and that management has entrusted you with teaching him. And if even that doesn't cause him to respect your judg... | If it was me in this situation, I would specifically go back to the coding standards of the company. If you work in an established environment, 9 times out of 10 you will already have a standard that needs to be followed. Some places I have worked I agree with the standard and sometimes I don't agree with it. When I do... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124957",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/96905/"
] | If it was me in this situation, I would specifically go back to the coding standards of the company. If you work in an established environment, 9 times out of 10 you will already have a standard that needs to be followed. Some places I have worked I agree with the standard and sometimes I don't agree with it. When I do... | >
> I work with an intern who .....
>
>
>
He is an intern, you are not. I had a similar situation in which an intern who was not at all a good coder (compared to his peers) instead of programming suddenly started to lecture his sub-par insights on the choice of programming languages and program structure in the pr... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124957",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/96905/"
] | If it was me in this situation, I would specifically go back to the coding standards of the company. If you work in an established environment, 9 times out of 10 you will already have a standard that needs to be followed. Some places I have worked I agree with the standard and sometimes I don't agree with it. When I do... | Sadly, you can't always be the nice person everybody likes. Especially in a supervising position.
My subordinates often question why we do the things like we do. And this is absolutely fine, since I can explain it to them and they will learn out of it.
But this is not just questioning your methods, it's a straight in... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124957",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/96905/"
] | The following strategies might help:
* Explain why you are right
* Ask him to explain why he is right
If he continues to be overbearing, you might also remind him that you have more experience than he has, and that management has entrusted you with teaching him. And if even that doesn't cause him to respect your judg... | Throw pep 8 at them. Problem solved. Better to rip the "Your professors are just lying to you" band-aid off sooner rather than later.
Your intern probably doesn't have the ability to read code. I couldn't do that for a while when I was learning. I know you couldn't either when you first started out. Tell the intern to... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124957",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/96905/"
] | If it was me in this situation, I would specifically go back to the coding standards of the company. If you work in an established environment, 9 times out of 10 you will already have a standard that needs to be followed. Some places I have worked I agree with the standard and sometimes I don't agree with it. When I do... | Well you can shut him up quickly if you show the standards you follow in some of the numerous books written about programming standards...
oh wait...
**They are NOT laws, merely recommendations suggesting logical and easy to follow conventions**. *(unless they're actually part of the language or its syntax)*
**To ... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
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] | Your inexperienced co-worker is creating a real problem for himself, and that problem is that he makes you really dislike him. In his best interest, take him to a one-to-one meeting and discuss his behaviour.
Points would be that what he learned in introductory courses is meant to help beginners; there are rules that... | Throw pep 8 at them. Problem solved. Better to rip the "Your professors are just lying to you" band-aid off sooner rather than later.
Your intern probably doesn't have the ability to read code. I couldn't do that for a while when I was learning. I know you couldn't either when you first started out. Tell the intern to... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
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] | Sadly, you can't always be the nice person everybody likes. Especially in a supervising position.
My subordinates often question why we do the things like we do. And this is absolutely fine, since I can explain it to them and they will learn out of it.
But this is not just questioning your methods, it's a straight in... | Throw pep 8 at them. Problem solved. Better to rip the "Your professors are just lying to you" band-aid off sooner rather than later.
Your intern probably doesn't have the ability to read code. I couldn't do that for a while when I was learning. I know you couldn't either when you first started out. Tell the intern to... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124957",
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] | The following strategies might help:
* Explain why you are right
* Ask him to explain why he is right
If he continues to be overbearing, you might also remind him that you have more experience than he has, and that management has entrusted you with teaching him. And if even that doesn't cause him to respect your judg... | Well you can shut him up quickly if you show the standards you follow in some of the numerous books written about programming standards...
oh wait...
**They are NOT laws, merely recommendations suggesting logical and easy to follow conventions**. *(unless they're actually part of the language or its syntax)*
**To ... |
124,957 | I have been working in the software industry for more than 2 years now, and have been studying it in school for the last 4. I work with an intern who has taken 2 introductory classes (Python and Java), and has never worked in the industry before this job. He is constantly telling me that my code is too complex, my meth... | 2018/12/18 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/124957",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/96905/"
] | The following strategies might help:
* Explain why you are right
* Ask him to explain why he is right
If he continues to be overbearing, you might also remind him that you have more experience than he has, and that management has entrusted you with teaching him. And if even that doesn't cause him to respect your judg... | Your inexperienced co-worker is creating a real problem for himself, and that problem is that he makes you really dislike him. In his best interest, take him to a one-to-one meeting and discuss his behaviour.
Points would be that what he learned in introductory courses is meant to help beginners; there are rules that... |
308,916 | Is there a way to not re-send an email if it soft bounces during a deployment?
OR even if it bounces once to not to retry them?
I'm not too sure if this is even possible. I know the SFMC automatically retries soft bounced addresses every 15 mins.
Thank you | 2020/06/09 | [
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] | You can raise a support ticket to have the rules behind bounce mail management adjusted according to your requirements.
As per default, this is how bounces would be treated:
>
> To turn a subscriber status to *Held*, mail to that address has to
> have bounced 3+ times with at least 15 days between first bounce an... | For the record, the solution described above by Mr. Lunow is unfortunately not valid anymore since "Bounce Management settings customisation" is no longer supported :(
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/psODb.png) |
2,875 | I have many GWBasic programs peppered with Epson-specific escape sequences (ESC/P). Unfortunately I no longer have any printers that support these escape sequences.
Is there any way I can convert these programs to a more usable format whilst preserving the formatting described by the escape sequences?
[![esc\p codes | 2017/05/09 | [
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] | I use QPCPrint (as mentioned above) on my PC, but have also released my own ESC/P2 to PDF convertor - <https://github.com/RWAP/PrinterToPDF>, written in C, which is designed to run on Linux | You cannot expect accurate results because the basic units of these ESC/P commands depend on the printer. For example, 9-pin printers often used a basic line spacing of 1/216 inch (1/3 \* 1/72), while 24-pin printers used 1/360 inch (1/5 \* 1/72) instead. For the horizontal direction, the spacing may be anything from 1... |
2,875 | I have many GWBasic programs peppered with Epson-specific escape sequences (ESC/P). Unfortunately I no longer have any printers that support these escape sequences.
Is there any way I can convert these programs to a more usable format whilst preserving the formatting described by the escape sequences?
[![esc\p codes | 2017/05/09 | [
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] | You cannot expect accurate results because the basic units of these ESC/P commands depend on the printer. For example, 9-pin printers often used a basic line spacing of 1/216 inch (1/3 \* 1/72), while 24-pin printers used 1/360 inch (1/5 \* 1/72) instead. For the horizontal direction, the spacing may be anything from 1... | Converting the programs depends on
1. what platform you want to run the programs on;
2. how much of the Epson command set you depended on.
If you were doing fancy formatting relying on fixed width fonts and tabbing, that kind of formatting has mostly gone away. But if you're just doing bold and maybe centring, then o... |
2,875 | I have many GWBasic programs peppered with Epson-specific escape sequences (ESC/P). Unfortunately I no longer have any printers that support these escape sequences.
Is there any way I can convert these programs to a more usable format whilst preserving the formatting described by the escape sequences?
[![esc\p codes | 2017/05/09 | [
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] | There is a nice (commercial, but relatively cheap) program called *[QPCPrint](https://www.kilgus.net/qpcprint/)* that does on-the-fly translation from Epson ESC/P escape codes received on a virtual LPT port to whatever modern printer you might have connected to your PC. This program allows you to leave the programs tha... | Converting the programs depends on
1. what platform you want to run the programs on;
2. how much of the Epson command set you depended on.
If you were doing fancy formatting relying on fixed width fonts and tabbing, that kind of formatting has mostly gone away. But if you're just doing bold and maybe centring, then o... |
2,875 | I have many GWBasic programs peppered with Epson-specific escape sequences (ESC/P). Unfortunately I no longer have any printers that support these escape sequences.
Is there any way I can convert these programs to a more usable format whilst preserving the formatting described by the escape sequences?
[![esc\p codes | 2017/05/09 | [
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"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
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] | I use QPCPrint (as mentioned above) on my PC, but have also released my own ESC/P2 to PDF convertor - <https://github.com/RWAP/PrinterToPDF>, written in C, which is designed to run on Linux | Converting the programs depends on
1. what platform you want to run the programs on;
2. how much of the Epson command set you depended on.
If you were doing fancy formatting relying on fixed width fonts and tabbing, that kind of formatting has mostly gone away. But if you're just doing bold and maybe centring, then o... |
2,875 | I have many GWBasic programs peppered with Epson-specific escape sequences (ESC/P). Unfortunately I no longer have any printers that support these escape sequences.
Is there any way I can convert these programs to a more usable format whilst preserving the formatting described by the escape sequences?
[![esc\p codes | 2017/05/09 | [
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] | ESCParser (github: <https://github.com/nzeemin/ukncbtl-utils/wiki/ESCParser>, win32 binary: <https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/ukncbtl/ESCParser.zip>) converts a variant of ESC/P to PostScript and SVG. | You cannot expect accurate results because the basic units of these ESC/P commands depend on the printer. For example, 9-pin printers often used a basic line spacing of 1/216 inch (1/3 \* 1/72), while 24-pin printers used 1/360 inch (1/5 \* 1/72) instead. For the horizontal direction, the spacing may be anything from 1... |
2,875 | I have many GWBasic programs peppered with Epson-specific escape sequences (ESC/P). Unfortunately I no longer have any printers that support these escape sequences.
Is there any way I can convert these programs to a more usable format whilst preserving the formatting described by the escape sequences?
[![esc\p codes | 2017/05/09 | [
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] | Some other Windows versions that have not been suggested. SwIt Printfil [Printfil site](https://www.printfil.com/)
I couldn't get Printfil to work for my Epson esc files, the graphics didn't render correctly no matter what I did. Too bad because it will capture printer ports and create an archive of PDFs.
I also worke... | Converting the programs depends on
1. what platform you want to run the programs on;
2. how much of the Epson command set you depended on.
If you were doing fancy formatting relying on fixed width fonts and tabbing, that kind of formatting has mostly gone away. But if you're just doing bold and maybe centring, then o... |
2,875 | I have many GWBasic programs peppered with Epson-specific escape sequences (ESC/P). Unfortunately I no longer have any printers that support these escape sequences.
Is there any way I can convert these programs to a more usable format whilst preserving the formatting described by the escape sequences?
[![esc\p codes | 2017/05/09 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2875",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
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] | ESCParser (github: <https://github.com/nzeemin/ukncbtl-utils/wiki/ESCParser>, win32 binary: <https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/ukncbtl/ESCParser.zip>) converts a variant of ESC/P to PostScript and SVG. | Converting the programs depends on
1. what platform you want to run the programs on;
2. how much of the Epson command set you depended on.
If you were doing fancy formatting relying on fixed width fonts and tabbing, that kind of formatting has mostly gone away. But if you're just doing bold and maybe centring, then o... |
2,875 | I have many GWBasic programs peppered with Epson-specific escape sequences (ESC/P). Unfortunately I no longer have any printers that support these escape sequences.
Is there any way I can convert these programs to a more usable format whilst preserving the formatting described by the escape sequences?
[![esc\p codes | 2017/05/09 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2875",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
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] | ESCParser (github: <https://github.com/nzeemin/ukncbtl-utils/wiki/ESCParser>, win32 binary: <https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/ukncbtl/ESCParser.zip>) converts a variant of ESC/P to PostScript and SVG. | There is a nice (commercial, but relatively cheap) program called *[QPCPrint](https://www.kilgus.net/qpcprint/)* that does on-the-fly translation from Epson ESC/P escape codes received on a virtual LPT port to whatever modern printer you might have connected to your PC. This program allows you to leave the programs tha... |
524,650 | A UPS's output rating is shown as 2000VA/1800W. I understand that the power factor here is 0.9, but the device or load I will connect to the UPS might have pf<0.9 or pf=1 (for light bulb.) From my understanding, the real and reactive power will vary based on my load's pf. Then why does UPS specific a fixed pf? Isn't it... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/524650",
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] | Draw out a path for each wheel as the robot turns continuously. You will draw two concentric circles whose difference in radius is the wheel spacing. Stare at it for long enough and you will eventually realize the path traveled is the circumference of a circle that sits in the middle of the circumference of the two oth... | I don't think this is a well defined problem as you will end up in different locations depending upon the speed of the wheels.
I almost want to say you need to take a dynamic model into account because there will be wheel slip.
This is an example of a skid steer problem and cannot be modeled purely in terms of kinema... |
524,650 | A UPS's output rating is shown as 2000VA/1800W. I understand that the power factor here is 0.9, but the device or load I will connect to the UPS might have pf<0.9 or pf=1 (for light bulb.) From my understanding, the real and reactive power will vary based on my load's pf. Then why does UPS specific a fixed pf? Isn't it... | 2020/10/05 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/524650",
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] | Take a look at the picture below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eoG3h.png)
In full rotation (360 degrees), the wheel will move a distance equal to the circumference i.e. 2*pi*R. For partial rotation, you can use unitary method (divide by 360 degrees, multiply by rotation... | I don't think this is a well defined problem as you will end up in different locations depending upon the speed of the wheels.
I almost want to say you need to take a dynamic model into account because there will be wheel slip.
This is an example of a skid steer problem and cannot be modeled purely in terms of kinema... |
512,887 | Hi I am new to PCB design and Im still learning. I am wondering what is the reason behind copper fills? I searched online but I could not find an good explanation of the reason of using the copper fills. | 2020/07/29 | [
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] | It can be used to create a ground or power plane to where all your components ground and power pins can connect to usings vias and there is no need for traces.
It also works as noise innmunity and also a a thermal dissipator | If a single region of copper fill happens to overlap both a noisy region/trace and a sensitive region/trace, the capacitive coupling will upset the sensitive region.
Thus casually allowing copper\_fill can be bad. On a purely digital PCB, should be OK. |
512,887 | Hi I am new to PCB design and Im still learning. I am wondering what is the reason behind copper fills? I searched online but I could not find an good explanation of the reason of using the copper fills. | 2020/07/29 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/512887",
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] | It can be used to create a ground or power plane to where all your components ground and power pins can connect to usings vias and there is no need for traces.
It also works as noise innmunity and also a a thermal dissipator | On large PCB, the board can warp if there is a lot of copper on one side and not on the other. The different temperature coefficients of expansion between the copper and the fiberglass cause mechanical stress and strain. The effect is worse with thinner board material.
I once had a business-card sized board (demonstra... |
3,248,245 | In Outlook 2003, when you have a calendar event, it has an option to set its Label to Important, Business, Personal, etc, each having a different colour. This colour will be the colour of the scheduled event on your calendar.
My problem is I have no idea how to change it using an AppointmentItem. I've looked through t... | 2010/07/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3248245",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/375222/"
] | The term you are looking for is the item's Category. You can modify it using the [Categories property](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa211788%28office.11%29.aspx) on the AppointmentItem object. It's a string, so you can simply put the value you want in there.
The color displayed is customizable by the user, ... | VBA has no way to set the label color. You would need CDO for this. See <http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=139> for sample code. |
122,565 | I've made boards and seen more that use polygon pours that flow over pads that connect to the same net. However, I was tasked with making minor changes to an old board that I didn't design. On the original even though all the pours are set to solid they appear crosshatched over the pads on the LGA parts and several oth... | 2014/07/24 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/122565",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/49970/"
] | I would look at the thermal relief settings for the polygon. You can try changing the connect settings in the Design Rules to direct connect -- at first glance they all appeared set to relief. However, there are good reasons you may not want to do a solid pour under a BGA...
[TechDocs - Polygon Connect Style](http://te... | go to Design >>Rules >>Plane >>plane Clearance and reduce clearance to 10mil for example. |
47,033 | *A Wife's Rebellion Against Her Husband* is major sin 47 in al-Dhahabi's *Major Sins* ([pdf](http://www.islamtomorrow.com/books/major_sins/majorSins.pdf)). Generally, this is interpreted as meaning any sharia-compliant instruction:
>
> Obedience is the first right that Islam acknowledges for the husband over his wife... | 2018/03/30 | [
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/47033",
"https://islam.stackexchange.com",
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/users/17163/"
] | >
> [4:97] Indeed, those whom the angels take [in death] while wronging themselves - [the angels] will say, "In what [condition] were you?" They will say, "We were oppressed in the land." The angels will say, "Was not the earth of Allah spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?" For those, their refuge is Hell - ... | I don't think she should avoid getting married in general. She should, however, avoid *getting married* to the wrong person. Not every man is right for every woman, and vice versa.
There are many men who approve of and support their wives working outside the home. There are also men who expect their wives to be fullti... |
17,005 | I have an Apple dock for my iPhone 4 and find it beautiful so I like to have it in my desktop or my bed table while charging. The thing is I'd like to have a simple app that shows me the time, weather, maybe a small brief of my social network accounts, dunno just useful info so the phone isn't just standing there with ... | 2011/07/06 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17005",
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] | I'm using [Alarm Clock](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alarm-clock-pro/id335678373?mt=8) (there's a free version, but with an ad on the bottom, so not very "beautiful").
It shows the time of the day (obviously) and can also show the date, and the weather/tempera... | The easiest way to do this and get exactly the look you want is to create (or find) a web site that displays that. Go to it on Safari, and make a web clipping out of it. |
240,552 | I'm a web developer. I feel like I develop less resource-intensive functionality often times, because I have this feeling that if I ask too much of the web app (animation, calculation, connections, etc), it will get lagged for users with slower computers.
I've been curious for a while now about just how much differen... | 2014/05/19 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/240552",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> Is there a difference in available CPU & RAM between a web app and a compiled one?
>
>
>
You web app is running in the context of the browser and it's extensions, the browser requires some memory and CPU cycles for its housekeeping chores. That memory and those cycles are therefore unavailable to your applicat... | The current crop of Javascript interpreters are very, very fast as interpreters go.
Not many "good" benchmarks available this one seems to be the least dubious -[javascript vs C++](http://blog.famzah.net/2010/07/01/cpp-vs-python-vs-perl-vs-php-performance-benchmark/#comment-4607) showing Javascript taking only twice as... |
240,552 | I'm a web developer. I feel like I develop less resource-intensive functionality often times, because I have this feeling that if I ask too much of the web app (animation, calculation, connections, etc), it will get lagged for users with slower computers.
I've been curious for a while now about just how much differen... | 2014/05/19 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/240552",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Perhaps the easiest way to describe the difference ot a web developer is to highlight asm.js and Google's Native client.
If javascript web apps were almost as fast as compiled languages like C++ then nobody would be working on making web apps attempt to be as fast, the fact they are shows that there is a performance a... | The current crop of Javascript interpreters are very, very fast as interpreters go.
Not many "good" benchmarks available this one seems to be the least dubious -[javascript vs C++](http://blog.famzah.net/2010/07/01/cpp-vs-python-vs-perl-vs-php-performance-benchmark/#comment-4607) showing Javascript taking only twice as... |
240,552 | I'm a web developer. I feel like I develop less resource-intensive functionality often times, because I have this feeling that if I ask too much of the web app (animation, calculation, connections, etc), it will get lagged for users with slower computers.
I've been curious for a while now about just how much differen... | 2014/05/19 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/240552",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> Is there a difference in available CPU & RAM between a web app and a compiled one?
>
>
>
You web app is running in the context of the browser and it's extensions, the browser requires some memory and CPU cycles for its housekeeping chores. That memory and those cycles are therefore unavailable to your applicat... | Perhaps the easiest way to describe the difference ot a web developer is to highlight asm.js and Google's Native client.
If javascript web apps were almost as fast as compiled languages like C++ then nobody would be working on making web apps attempt to be as fast, the fact they are shows that there is a performance a... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
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] | Let him know that he is engaged in insubordination, and there will be consequences to his insubordination. Tell him that part of your job is protecting the integrity of the software engineering build process, and he is making a hash out of it.
If he continues, cut his access to the the Master and the Production server... | Summary:
* Apart from the technical & societal issues raised by others you have a major immediate need - the actions of this single person may be producing the chance of a single point catastrophic failure.
+ ie While most 'disasters' happen because several apparently unrelated and statistically improbable events h... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | There are 2 lines of attack necessary here:
1. You need a process that makes it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing.
2. You need the team to agree/accept what the right thing is.
The answer by moo already covers 1), so I'll focus on 2).
Your team should know that they need a stable branch, a so... | Summary:
* Apart from the technical & societal issues raised by others you have a major immediate need - the actions of this single person may be producing the chance of a single point catastrophic failure.
+ ie While most 'disasters' happen because several apparently unrelated and statistically improbable events h... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | You need proper code control and review. If he understands the process and violates it without excetionally good reason, you don't need him on the team. Tell him so.
Priorities: it is your responsibility to make the priorities clear. If he goes off in a different direction after you have done so and he has acknowledge... | Summary:
* Apart from the technical & societal issues raised by others you have a major immediate need - the actions of this single person may be producing the chance of a single point catastrophic failure.
+ ie While most 'disasters' happen because several apparently unrelated and statistically improbable events h... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | There are 2 lines of attack necessary here:
1. You need a process that makes it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing.
2. You need the team to agree/accept what the right thing is.
The answer by moo already covers 1), so I'll focus on 2).
Your team should know that they need a stable branch, a so... | There is one possibility that nobody has thought of: That this senior developer just doesn't understand how the workflow should work, and what he has to do to stay within that workflow. That he never learned how to use git properly in the first place.
If he uses git directly then all of the things he needs to do are ... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | There is one possibility that nobody has thought of: That this senior developer just doesn't understand how the workflow should work, and what he has to do to stay within that workflow. That he never learned how to use git properly in the first place.
If he uses git directly then all of the things he needs to do are ... | Summary:
* Apart from the technical & societal issues raised by others you have a major immediate need - the actions of this single person may be producing the chance of a single point catastrophic failure.
+ ie While most 'disasters' happen because several apparently unrelated and statistically improbable events h... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | The other answers cover a lot, but I will add something slightly different.
Why do your processes allow him access to any production server in an open manner?
You should be setting up your deployment system so it is automated, reproducible and closed - no one should be able to circumvent the deployment system.
1. Re... | There are 2 lines of attack necessary here:
1. You need a process that makes it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing.
2. You need the team to agree/accept what the right thing is.
The answer by moo already covers 1), so I'll focus on 2).
Your team should know that they need a stable branch, a so... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | Let him know that he is engaged in insubordination, and there will be consequences to his insubordination. Tell him that part of your job is protecting the integrity of the software engineering build process, and he is making a hash out of it.
If he continues, cut his access to the the Master and the Production server... | There are 2 lines of attack necessary here:
1. You need a process that makes it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing.
2. You need the team to agree/accept what the right thing is.
The answer by moo already covers 1), so I'll focus on 2).
Your team should know that they need a stable branch, a so... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | Let him know that he is engaged in insubordination, and there will be consequences to his insubordination. Tell him that part of your job is protecting the integrity of the software engineering build process, and he is making a hash out of it.
If he continues, cut his access to the the Master and the Production server... | Wow. Just wow. This is so deeply unprofessional, it's unbelievable. But talk to HR first to make sure they are on board and that you don't do anything that could be a legal problem for your company. Then you talk to him, taking into account any advice from HR, and tell him that if he repeats this ever again, you will t... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | **Make it clear that this is absolutely essential.**
Have you done so already? As a manager, I know it can be hard to confront employees directly when they are doing something unacceptable. You mention there was a conversation something like this:
>
> You: Can you please organize your code and properly use the devel... | There is one possibility that nobody has thought of: That this senior developer just doesn't understand how the workflow should work, and what he has to do to stay within that workflow. That he never learned how to use git properly in the first place.
If he uses git directly then all of the things he needs to do are ... |
79,251 | As some background, I am the Team Lead.
---
There is a **Senior** Developer in my team who does not push his code at all.
He commits to the master branch directly and puts code into a production branch without it being properly versioned first.
He does not open feature branches according to the workflow, and when ... | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/79251",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/50886/"
] | You need proper code control and review. If he understands the process and violates it without excetionally good reason, you don't need him on the team. Tell him so.
Priorities: it is your responsibility to make the priorities clear. If he goes off in a different direction after you have done so and he has acknowledge... | There is one possibility that nobody has thought of: That this senior developer just doesn't understand how the workflow should work, and what he has to do to stay within that workflow. That he never learned how to use git properly in the first place.
If he uses git directly then all of the things he needs to do are ... |
297,137 | A [recent paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03312) authored by Niayesh Afshordi and Joao Magueijo is in the news claiming to challenge Einstein's theory on constancy of light speed. It says light might have travelled with a faster pace during the initial stages of Big bang which apparently sets aside the inflation hypot... | 2016/12/07 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/297137",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/103051/"
] | Magueijo came up with the variable speed of light idea nearly twenty years ago. The motivation was as a way of explaining the homogeneity of the universe. At that time inflation was still somewhat controversial (perhaps it still is) and Magueijo's theory was mainly intended as an alternative to inflation.
Since then i... | >
> Is Einstein's theory really challenged by the recent paper in news?
>
>
>
No. Because Einstein's theory is a VSL theory. See the [Einstein digital papers](http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol7-trans/156?highlightText=%22spatially%20variable%22). Einstein wrote this in 1920, note the second paragraph:
... |
297,137 | A [recent paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03312) authored by Niayesh Afshordi and Joao Magueijo is in the news claiming to challenge Einstein's theory on constancy of light speed. It says light might have travelled with a faster pace during the initial stages of Big bang which apparently sets aside the inflation hypot... | 2016/12/07 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/297137",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/103051/"
] | Magueijo came up with the variable speed of light idea nearly twenty years ago. The motivation was as a way of explaining the homogeneity of the universe. At that time inflation was still somewhat controversial (perhaps it still is) and Magueijo's theory was mainly intended as an alternative to inflation.
Since then i... | Einstein's 1905 constant-speed-of-light postulate is false indeed but Magueijo's claim that the speed of light was faster in the past has nothing to do with it. Einstein's postulate asserts that the speed of light is the same for any observer, stationary or moving - an assertion that is easy to disprove, in the followi... |
21,301,773 | I am new to the world of reactive programming. I read that once a variable is declared and it points to a continuous changing value, it will automatically update it.
So I wonder what is difference in the gui controls provided by asp.net, java etc.
Once we enter a new value in the textbox, it will hold the value automa... | 2014/01/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21301773",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/384636/"
] | Think of Reactive Programming (also called Dataflow Programming) like a spreadsheet. Changing the value in one cell automatically updates all other cells referencing the first. It "reacts" to changing data.
Using your GUI example... Let's say that the user enters a new value in the textbox. Let us also say that you ha... | With reactive programming, you can bind to the UI user control not only a value but the result of some computation over it. The last open to you many opportunities. See more info in the readme for my library ObservableComputations:
<https://github.com/IgorBuchelnikov/ObservableComputations> |
37,133 | I have already hidden the "Facebook join date" from my timeline (by hovering over it, selecting edit or remove (the pencil) and then *Hide it from timeline*). Right now, I cannot see this date if I go to my timeline and scroll down to the beginning. That makes sense. However, when I **view my profile as public** (by cl... | 2012/12/28 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/37133",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/31022/"
] | The activity log is only visible to yourself. So there it seems logical that you will always be able to see when you joined Facebook.
You can change the privacy of that post too, by clicking the little globe icon, and set it to only you. When you do that, and it still shows up, that would be a bug. | On view as public you can see (just for you), but if you enter a specific person it will not appear. |
37,133 | I have already hidden the "Facebook join date" from my timeline (by hovering over it, selecting edit or remove (the pencil) and then *Hide it from timeline*). Right now, I cannot see this date if I go to my timeline and scroll down to the beginning. That makes sense. However, when I **view my profile as public** (by cl... | 2012/12/28 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/37133",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/31022/"
] | You cannot delete it.
However, you *can* hide it.
Go to **Activity Log**> find that post (should be on **bottom**).
If you see an icon in the right-hand side of the "post":
**Solution:**
click on it, and choose "**only me**" (you may need to click on a "**view more**" option to see it).
If you **don't**... | The activity log is only visible to yourself. So there it seems logical that you will always be able to see when you joined Facebook.
You can change the privacy of that post too, by clicking the little globe icon, and set it to only you. When you do that, and it still shows up, that would be a bug. |
37,133 | I have already hidden the "Facebook join date" from my timeline (by hovering over it, selecting edit or remove (the pencil) and then *Hide it from timeline*). Right now, I cannot see this date if I go to my timeline and scroll down to the beginning. That makes sense. However, when I **view my profile as public** (by cl... | 2012/12/28 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/37133",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/31022/"
] | When Facebook doesn't show your join date in the timeline, your friends can't view it but you can view it from an archive file.
See [How to view your Facebook join date?](http://www.obinb.com/2015/11/cach-kiem-tra-ngay-ang-ky-ngay-tham-gia.html) | On view as public you can see (just for you), but if you enter a specific person it will not appear. |
37,133 | I have already hidden the "Facebook join date" from my timeline (by hovering over it, selecting edit or remove (the pencil) and then *Hide it from timeline*). Right now, I cannot see this date if I go to my timeline and scroll down to the beginning. That makes sense. However, when I **view my profile as public** (by cl... | 2012/12/28 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/37133",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/31022/"
] | You cannot delete it.
However, you *can* hide it.
Go to **Activity Log**> find that post (should be on **bottom**).
If you see an icon in the right-hand side of the "post":
**Solution:**
click on it, and choose "**only me**" (you may need to click on a "**view more**" option to see it).
If you **don't**... | On view as public you can see (just for you), but if you enter a specific person it will not appear. |
37,133 | I have already hidden the "Facebook join date" from my timeline (by hovering over it, selecting edit or remove (the pencil) and then *Hide it from timeline*). Right now, I cannot see this date if I go to my timeline and scroll down to the beginning. That makes sense. However, when I **view my profile as public** (by cl... | 2012/12/28 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/37133",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/31022/"
] | You cannot delete it.
However, you *can* hide it.
Go to **Activity Log**> find that post (should be on **bottom**).
If you see an icon in the right-hand side of the "post":
**Solution:**
click on it, and choose "**only me**" (you may need to click on a "**view more**" option to see it).
If you **don't**... | When Facebook doesn't show your join date in the timeline, your friends can't view it but you can view it from an archive file.
See [How to view your Facebook join date?](http://www.obinb.com/2015/11/cach-kiem-tra-ngay-ang-ky-ngay-tham-gia.html) |
911,401 | I am programming a control to allow the users of our intranet to upload multiple files into our system, but with some added functionality.
Imagine you as a user are uploading N files, when you add N files the intranet presents you a list like this:
File\_name\_1 ..... [View] [Remove] [Upload]
File\_name\_2 ..... [... | 2009/05/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/911401",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3611/"
] | One way to do this is that you actually upload initially but you only upload it to a "Staging" area. Thus it wouldn't have actually been committed to your system.
This is what Gravatar does which uploads the file and then lets you crop and adjust the image before saving it.
The only other way I've seen this done is ... | Uploading files while presenting a good user interface, including progress reporting about the upload, is hard.
I suggest the Yahoo UI uploader widget: <http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/uploader/>
It's also the basis for the Flickr uploader, see the YUI blog post:
<http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/02/26/flickr-uploadr/>
L... |
911,401 | I am programming a control to allow the users of our intranet to upload multiple files into our system, but with some added functionality.
Imagine you as a user are uploading N files, when you add N files the intranet presents you a list like this:
File\_name\_1 ..... [View] [Remove] [Upload]
File\_name\_2 ..... [... | 2009/05/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/911401",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3611/"
] | One way to do this is that you actually upload initially but you only upload it to a "Staging" area. Thus it wouldn't have actually been committed to your system.
This is what Gravatar does which uploads the file and then lets you crop and adjust the image before saving it.
The only other way I've seen this done is ... | In IE the file input type will put the full path in the value attribute. |
911,401 | I am programming a control to allow the users of our intranet to upload multiple files into our system, but with some added functionality.
Imagine you as a user are uploading N files, when you add N files the intranet presents you a list like this:
File\_name\_1 ..... [View] [Remove] [Upload]
File\_name\_2 ..... [... | 2009/05/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/911401",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3611/"
] | Uploading files while presenting a good user interface, including progress reporting about the upload, is hard.
I suggest the Yahoo UI uploader widget: <http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/uploader/>
It's also the basis for the Flickr uploader, see the YUI blog post:
<http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/02/26/flickr-uploadr/>
L... | In IE the file input type will put the full path in the value attribute. |
247,050 | He is kicked out of an arena because they don’t like his style of fighting, and then he meets a princess who fights him and hires him. It is Japanese styled and had 14 chapters? Also, after he wins against the princess, she takes him to the castle and he meets her maid, who then hits a guy with a mop because he was rid... | 2021/05/17 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/247050",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/140535/"
] | Maybe its *[Tatoeba Ore ga, Champion kara Oujo no Himo ni Job Change Shita to Shite.](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=173704)* (AKA *Story Of A "unemployed" Champion And A Princess Who Together Find Their Happiness*)
>
> In a world where human "professions" are determined by nature, there was a person who... | This might be *[Mushoku no Eiyuu: Betsu ni Skill Nanka Iranakatta n da ga - Sainou Zero no Nariagari](https://myanimelist.net/manga/121762/Mushoku_no_Eiyuu__Betsu_ni_Skill_Nanka_Iranakatta_n_da_ga_-_Sainou_Zero_no_Nariagari)* (The Hero Who Has No Class. I Don't Need Any Skills, It's Okay.).
>
> "Classes" are given at... |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | Maybe one can only use on device once in his/her lifetime.
or
Even if its the future and there is a time travelling device, it is highly logical that it has restricted access. What reason would he give? that he wants to just live in those times? I am retty sure nobody would agree to that.
Its been a while since I watc... | I think Makato restored her time leaping and goes back to the time in the future. And she in the future takes up historic painting restoration profession so that Chiaki of the past (*when they were in high school*) could come and see the painting he had wanted to see.
In fact Chiaki said that the painting record's wer... |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | Chiaki does go back to the future. Chiaki goes back in time to save Kousuke so Makoto did not have to use her last leap saving Kousuke.
Then Makoto goes back even further and prevents most of the movie from happening, meaning Kousuke and the short girl are never in danger, so Chiaki never uses his last leap.
Chiaki t... | Maybe one can only use on device once in his/her lifetime.
or
Even if its the future and there is a time travelling device, it is highly logical that it has restricted access. What reason would he give? that he wants to just live in those times? I am retty sure nobody would agree to that.
Its been a while since I watc... |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | Maybe one can only use on device once in his/her lifetime.
or
Even if its the future and there is a time travelling device, it is highly logical that it has restricted access. What reason would he give? that he wants to just live in those times? I am retty sure nobody would agree to that.
Its been a while since I watc... | I just happened to be looking for “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” on DVD, since mine was badly damaged, when I came across this site.
After reading everyone’s comments, I came to realize that everyone seems to be missing the same information.
I’d like to help everyone out.
First off, “Auntie Witch” is NOT a future v... |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | Chiaki does go back to the future. Chiaki goes back in time to save Kousuke so Makoto did not have to use her last leap saving Kousuke.
Then Makoto goes back even further and prevents most of the movie from happening, meaning Kousuke and the short girl are never in danger, so Chiaki never uses his last leap.
Chiaki t... | I just happened to be looking for “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” on DVD, since mine was badly damaged, when I came across this site.
After reading everyone’s comments, I came to realize that everyone seems to be missing the same information.
I’d like to help everyone out.
First off, “Auntie Witch” is NOT a future v... |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | ***I'm literally over a year late, but, why not?***
I just watched the movie. As a good engineer (for better or for worse) I needed to know what had happened at the end of the movie. So I went to the internet and looked for answers. At first, as always, I just assumed everything they say is correct, but then the ideas... | In the end Makoto already has her leaps restored and Chiaka says 'I will be waiting'. To this, Makoto replies 'I will come running'. This refers to one of them time leaping to the baseball scene/part probably to spend more time with each other. |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | ***I'm literally over a year late, but, why not?***
I just watched the movie. As a good engineer (for better or for worse) I needed to know what had happened at the end of the movie. So I went to the internet and looked for answers. At first, as always, I just assumed everything they say is correct, but then the ideas... | Here's my two cents, and it has to do with one of the above theories. Makoto wouldn't have restored her jumps by jumping back in time (it didn't happen throughout the movie). When she regained one, it was simply that Chiaki jumped so far back that he happened to "undo" her last leap by trying to prevent the accident.
... |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | Here's my two cents, and it has to do with one of the above theories. Makoto wouldn't have restored her jumps by jumping back in time (it didn't happen throughout the movie). When she regained one, it was simply that Chiaki jumped so far back that he happened to "undo" her last leap by trying to prevent the accident.
... | In the end Makoto already has her leaps restored and Chiaka says 'I will be waiting'. To this, Makoto replies 'I will come running'. This refers to one of them time leaping to the baseball scene/part probably to spend more time with each other. |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | Here's my two cents, and it has to do with one of the above theories. Makoto wouldn't have restored her jumps by jumping back in time (it didn't happen throughout the movie). When she regained one, it was simply that Chiaki jumped so far back that he happened to "undo" her last leap by trying to prevent the accident.
... | I just happened to be looking for “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” on DVD, since mine was badly damaged, when I came across this site.
After reading everyone’s comments, I came to realize that everyone seems to be missing the same information.
I’d like to help everyone out.
First off, “Auntie Witch” is NOT a future v... |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | ***I'm literally over a year late, but, why not?***
I just watched the movie. As a good engineer (for better or for worse) I needed to know what had happened at the end of the movie. So I went to the internet and looked for answers. At first, as always, I just assumed everything they say is correct, but then the ideas... | I think Makato restored her time leaping and goes back to the time in the future. And she in the future takes up historic painting restoration profession so that Chiaki of the past (*when they were in high school*) could come and see the painting he had wanted to see.
In fact Chiaki said that the painting record's wer... |
3,269 | In the 2006 film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Hosoda Mamoru, the protagonist Makoto accidentally uses up all of the time-leaps her friend Chiaki, who is actually a time traveler from the future. He used his remaining time leap to prevent an accident, and thus was unable to return to the future.
However, this s... | 2013/04/06 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3269",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/"
] | ***I'm literally over a year late, but, why not?***
I just watched the movie. As a good engineer (for better or for worse) I needed to know what had happened at the end of the movie. So I went to the internet and looked for answers. At first, as always, I just assumed everything they say is correct, but then the ideas... | Maybe one can only use on device once in his/her lifetime.
or
Even if its the future and there is a time travelling device, it is highly logical that it has restricted access. What reason would he give? that he wants to just live in those times? I am retty sure nobody would agree to that.
Its been a while since I watc... |
4,228 | I read [this article](http://lifehacker.com/5559357/) which says that I can "can install any custom keyboard as the default keyboard on Android". How can I do that? Does it require rooting? | 2010/12/30 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/4228",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/1279/"
] | Yes you can. I've used [Swype](http://www.swype.com/) as well as [TouchPal Keyboard](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cootek.smartinputv5) as alternatives.
Once you install any new keyboard, just go to Settings > Language & Keyboard to set your keyboard/text settings. | I found that even after changing the setting it didn't use the new keyboard. I had to do a long press in a text field. That showed an option for which input method to use. Once selecting the new keyboard it worked all the time. |
19,030 | I'm Bronze Protoss and I have an issue with losing lots of workers to harasses - either pure air or drops, usually not long after 1st expansion.
Being Bronze I only have one strategy - cannons on the mineral line (when I remember to do that) and maybe I leave a few stalkers behind too.
What options does a limited sk... | 2011/03/27 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/19030",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/2677/"
] | Try to have vision of your entire base. Place Pylons at the edges so that you know when a drop is about to happen. Keep an eye on the mini map.
This should give you more time to react.
When a drop happens and it is clearly targeted at your workers and potent enough to cause major damage **evacuate**. Just select all ... | Harassment is one of the primary strategies that are genuinely effective against Protoss, especially as Terran. Protoss usually deal with it by leaving their army in their base(s), and then pushing out and pressuring their opponent, forcing them to use all units to defend. |
19,030 | I'm Bronze Protoss and I have an issue with losing lots of workers to harasses - either pure air or drops, usually not long after 1st expansion.
Being Bronze I only have one strategy - cannons on the mineral line (when I remember to do that) and maybe I leave a few stalkers behind too.
What options does a limited sk... | 2011/03/27 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/19030",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/2677/"
] | **Part 1: Detection**
Early detection is a key.
The 1st thing you MUST do is scouting (getting map vision) and looking at the mini-map. You can say, that is hard. No, it is not correct. It is VERY hard. And it is very important. If you are controlling a XelNaga tower (usually they are located in the map center) but n... | Harassment is one of the primary strategies that are genuinely effective against Protoss, especially as Terran. Protoss usually deal with it by leaving their army in their base(s), and then pushing out and pressuring their opponent, forcing them to use all units to defend. |
19,030 | I'm Bronze Protoss and I have an issue with losing lots of workers to harasses - either pure air or drops, usually not long after 1st expansion.
Being Bronze I only have one strategy - cannons on the mineral line (when I remember to do that) and maybe I leave a few stalkers behind too.
What options does a limited sk... | 2011/03/27 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/19030",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/2677/"
] | Try to have vision of your entire base. Place Pylons at the edges so that you know when a drop is about to happen. Keep an eye on the mini map.
This should give you more time to react.
When a drop happens and it is clearly targeted at your workers and potent enough to cause major damage **evacuate**. Just select all ... | **Part 1: Detection**
Early detection is a key.
The 1st thing you MUST do is scouting (getting map vision) and looking at the mini-map. You can say, that is hard. No, it is not correct. It is VERY hard. And it is very important. If you are controlling a XelNaga tower (usually they are located in the map center) but n... |
21,586 | Whenever I submit an article, conference paper or other written document, I get tons of useful feedback from my supervisors and other PhD students. So far, I've made sure to adjust my submissions according to their good comments, and then just throw the feedback away. But I feel like I could use that feedback much more... | 2014/05/28 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21586",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/15824/"
] | Your writing skills usually improve gradually over time. It seems like a very natural approach to obtain feedback and improve papers accordingly,thereby learning important skills.
If you want to be more efficient/structured I suggest that you not try to collect and categorize all feedback you get but try to build up a... | My approach is simply to be alert to *patterns* that recur in the feedback I get (or as you call them, themes), so that I can improve in those areas. For example, I have learned that I still have a natural tendency to write too short of an introduction (not providing enough context for my work), and to assume that my a... |
21,586 | Whenever I submit an article, conference paper or other written document, I get tons of useful feedback from my supervisors and other PhD students. So far, I've made sure to adjust my submissions according to their good comments, and then just throw the feedback away. But I feel like I could use that feedback much more... | 2014/05/28 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21586",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/15824/"
] | Do you ever have the opportunity to peer-review other peoples' work? This may not seem related to the question of improving your own writing, but it really is. By reviewing the work of others, you generally tend to see where weaknesses can creep into a manuscript -- it is easier to see errors or different ways of wordi... | My approach is simply to be alert to *patterns* that recur in the feedback I get (or as you call them, themes), so that I can improve in those areas. For example, I have learned that I still have a natural tendency to write too short of an introduction (not providing enough context for my work), and to assume that my a... |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | Your doing it in the only sane way you can...the biggest help will be this document from Dare Obasanjo that lists the differences between the two languages:
<http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html>
BTW, change all getter and setter methods into properties...No need to have the C# library function just the same ... | I'm not sure if it is really the best way to convert the code line by line especially if the obstacles become overwhelming. Of course the Java code gives you a guideline and the basic structure but I think at the end the most important thing is that the library does provide the same functionality like it does in Java. |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | Your doing it in the only sane way you can...the biggest help will be this document from Dare Obasanjo that lists the differences between the two languages:
<http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html>
BTW, change all getter and setter methods into properties...No need to have the C# library function just the same ... | If you have a small amount of code then a line by line conversion is probably the most efficient.
If you have a large amount of code I would consider:
1. Looking for a product that does the conversation for you.
2. Writing a script (Ruby or Perl might be a good candidate) to do the conversion for you - at least the m... |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | Your doing it in the only sane way you can...the biggest help will be this document from Dare Obasanjo that lists the differences between the two languages:
<http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html>
BTW, change all getter and setter methods into properties...No need to have the C# library function just the same ... | Couple other options worth noting:
* [J#](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp) is Microsoft's Java language
implementation on .NET. You can
access Java libraries (up to version
1.4\*, anyways).
\*actually Java 1.1.4 for java.io/lang,
and 1.2 for java.util + keep in mind that J# end of
life is ~ 2015-2017 for J# 2.0... |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | Your doing it in the only sane way you can...the biggest help will be this document from Dare Obasanjo that lists the differences between the two languages:
<http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html>
BTW, change all getter and setter methods into properties...No need to have the C# library function just the same ... | One more quick-and-dirty idea: you could use [IKVM](http://www.ikvm.net/) to convert the Java jar to a .NET assembly, then use [Reflector](http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/index.htm)--combined with the [FileDisassembler](http://www.codeplex.com/reflectoraddins) Add-in--to disassemble it into a Visual C# proje... |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | If you have a small amount of code then a line by line conversion is probably the most efficient.
If you have a large amount of code I would consider:
1. Looking for a product that does the conversation for you.
2. Writing a script (Ruby or Perl might be a good candidate) to do the conversion for you - at least the m... | I'm not sure if it is really the best way to convert the code line by line especially if the obstacles become overwhelming. Of course the Java code gives you a guideline and the basic structure but I think at the end the most important thing is that the library does provide the same functionality like it does in Java. |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | Couple other options worth noting:
* [J#](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp) is Microsoft's Java language
implementation on .NET. You can
access Java libraries (up to version
1.4\*, anyways).
\*actually Java 1.1.4 for java.io/lang,
and 1.2 for java.util + keep in mind that J# end of
life is ~ 2015-2017 for J# 2.0... | I'm not sure if it is really the best way to convert the code line by line especially if the obstacles become overwhelming. Of course the Java code gives you a guideline and the basic structure but I think at the end the most important thing is that the library does provide the same functionality like it does in Java. |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | One more quick-and-dirty idea: you could use [IKVM](http://www.ikvm.net/) to convert the Java jar to a .NET assembly, then use [Reflector](http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/index.htm)--combined with the [FileDisassembler](http://www.codeplex.com/reflectoraddins) Add-in--to disassemble it into a Visual C# proje... | I'm not sure if it is really the best way to convert the code line by line especially if the obstacles become overwhelming. Of course the Java code gives you a guideline and the basic structure but I think at the end the most important thing is that the library does provide the same functionality like it does in Java. |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | Couple other options worth noting:
* [J#](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp) is Microsoft's Java language
implementation on .NET. You can
access Java libraries (up to version
1.4\*, anyways).
\*actually Java 1.1.4 for java.io/lang,
and 1.2 for java.util + keep in mind that J# end of
life is ~ 2015-2017 for J# 2.0... | If you have a small amount of code then a line by line conversion is probably the most efficient.
If you have a large amount of code I would consider:
1. Looking for a product that does the conversation for you.
2. Writing a script (Ruby or Perl might be a good candidate) to do the conversion for you - at least the m... |
168,837 | I'm porting a Java library to C#. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, so I don't have the discontinued Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant program (JLCA).
My approach is to create a new solution with a similar project structure to the Java library, and to then copy the java code into a c# file and convert it to val... | 2008/10/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/168837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13943/"
] | One more quick-and-dirty idea: you could use [IKVM](http://www.ikvm.net/) to convert the Java jar to a .NET assembly, then use [Reflector](http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/index.htm)--combined with the [FileDisassembler](http://www.codeplex.com/reflectoraddins) Add-in--to disassemble it into a Visual C# proje... | If you have a small amount of code then a line by line conversion is probably the most efficient.
If you have a large amount of code I would consider:
1. Looking for a product that does the conversation for you.
2. Writing a script (Ruby or Perl might be a good candidate) to do the conversion for you - at least the m... |
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