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564,731 | I see that I can only create a pivotchart from a pivottable, but since the filtering options are on the chart, and the table is not important:
**Is there a way to hide a pivottable If I only want to show the pivot chart?** | 2013/03/12 | [
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] | A PivotChart and its associated PivotTable report must always be in the same workbook (as the Chart's data is based on the the table). However you can place the Chart on one worksheet and have the table on a separate one, effectively hiding the table from view. | In Excel2013 when creating a PivotChart there is a checkbox at the bottom saying "Add this data to the Data Model" which hides the table (if checked). |
564,731 | I see that I can only create a pivotchart from a pivottable, but since the filtering options are on the chart, and the table is not important:
**Is there a way to hide a pivottable If I only want to show the pivot chart?** | 2013/03/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/564731",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/45633/"
] | A PivotChart and its associated PivotTable report must always be in the same workbook (as the Chart's data is based on the the table). However you can place the Chart on one worksheet and have the table on a separate one, effectively hiding the table from view. | You can also place the pivot table in a separate sheet, then right click the sheet name and select Hide. This way no one can access the Pivot Table without unhiding the sheet first. |
564,731 | I see that I can only create a pivotchart from a pivottable, but since the filtering options are on the chart, and the table is not important:
**Is there a way to hide a pivottable If I only want to show the pivot chart?** | 2013/03/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/564731",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/45633/"
] | In Excel2013 when creating a PivotChart there is a checkbox at the bottom saying "Add this data to the Data Model" which hides the table (if checked). | You can also place the pivot table in a separate sheet, then right click the sheet name and select Hide. This way no one can access the Pivot Table without unhiding the sheet first. |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | If you want fast recycle times on the 430ex and most other speedlights, you need an external battery. No AA sized battery can deliver enough power -- its a limitation of the physical size of the battery's chemicals. The internal impedance rises as power is drawn, and the chemicals have to redistribute themselves to provide subsequent power. You need a large, external power source.
This is why a lot of working pros go to flash heads with separate power supplies, the big power supplies (or the bigger batteries supplying them) can deliver enough to recharge at sub-second rates.
Another issue is that if you shoot a lot of shots with a speedlight at high power over a short time, you will over-heat it. | I tested a lot of batteries for my external flash. The best performance I got from the Sanyo Eneloop. More than 400 flashes and fast re-loading of the flash - the best! |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | If you want fast recycle times on the 430ex and most other speedlights, you need an external battery. No AA sized battery can deliver enough power -- its a limitation of the physical size of the battery's chemicals. The internal impedance rises as power is drawn, and the chemicals have to redistribute themselves to provide subsequent power. You need a large, external power source.
This is why a lot of working pros go to flash heads with separate power supplies, the big power supplies (or the bigger batteries supplying them) can deliver enough to recharge at sub-second rates.
Another issue is that if you shoot a lot of shots with a speedlight at high power over a short time, you will over-heat it. | The problem with alkaline batteries is that they quickly loose their power output. When they are produced, they have a voltage of about 1.5V. But when drawing a lot of current (which a flash does), the voltage drops, and when they have been used for some time, the voltage drops.
So when using brand new alkaline batteries, you will experience that the flash recharges almost instantaneously. But the recharge time get longer and longer and longer and longer.
Rechargeable NiMH batteries, like the Sanyo Eneloop, operate at a lower voltage, 1.2V. But unlike the alkaline batteries, they can maintain that voltage after heavy use.
I have not experienced that the recharge time decreased, even after 100+ flashes on the same set of batteries.
And therefore rechargeable NiMH batteries are much better suited for flash work, than alkaline batteries. |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | If you want fast recycle times on the 430ex and most other speedlights, you need an external battery. No AA sized battery can deliver enough power -- its a limitation of the physical size of the battery's chemicals. The internal impedance rises as power is drawn, and the chemicals have to redistribute themselves to provide subsequent power. You need a large, external power source.
This is why a lot of working pros go to flash heads with separate power supplies, the big power supplies (or the bigger batteries supplying them) can deliver enough to recharge at sub-second rates.
Another issue is that if you shoot a lot of shots with a speedlight at high power over a short time, you will over-heat it. | My personal preference is to use Lithium batteries. For me they seem to offer the best cycling performance and I am able to take shot after shot after shot with no issues of needing to allow them to recycle. Until they run down that is!
Energizer and Duracell both do versions of Lithium AA's. These are generally pricier than their regular equivalents, however I have saved a lot of money in the past by buying on Amazon (usually their marketplace sellers have excellent prices). |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | In general, NiMH batteries will deliver more current than alkalines.
So if you want fast without going to an external power pack, NiMH rechargeable batteries are your answer.
I have Tenergy 2600 mAh batteries that I bought from <http://www.all-battery.com/>. If you're going to charge them and keep them in storage, you might want to look at the more expensive, low discharge ones. I charge all of mine before an event, so I don't worry about the discharge over time.
If you're using 1/4 power from the 430ex, you'll get nearly instantaneous recycling with these for many shots. I use them in my 430ex and 580ex flashes. | I tested a lot of batteries for my external flash. The best performance I got from the Sanyo Eneloop. More than 400 flashes and fast re-loading of the flash - the best! |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | In general, NiMH batteries will deliver more current than alkalines.
So if you want fast without going to an external power pack, NiMH rechargeable batteries are your answer.
I have Tenergy 2600 mAh batteries that I bought from <http://www.all-battery.com/>. If you're going to charge them and keep them in storage, you might want to look at the more expensive, low discharge ones. I charge all of mine before an event, so I don't worry about the discharge over time.
If you're using 1/4 power from the 430ex, you'll get nearly instantaneous recycling with these for many shots. I use them in my 430ex and 580ex flashes. | The problem with alkaline batteries is that they quickly loose their power output. When they are produced, they have a voltage of about 1.5V. But when drawing a lot of current (which a flash does), the voltage drops, and when they have been used for some time, the voltage drops.
So when using brand new alkaline batteries, you will experience that the flash recharges almost instantaneously. But the recharge time get longer and longer and longer and longer.
Rechargeable NiMH batteries, like the Sanyo Eneloop, operate at a lower voltage, 1.2V. But unlike the alkaline batteries, they can maintain that voltage after heavy use.
I have not experienced that the recharge time decreased, even after 100+ flashes on the same set of batteries.
And therefore rechargeable NiMH batteries are much better suited for flash work, than alkaline batteries. |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | In general, NiMH batteries will deliver more current than alkalines.
So if you want fast without going to an external power pack, NiMH rechargeable batteries are your answer.
I have Tenergy 2600 mAh batteries that I bought from <http://www.all-battery.com/>. If you're going to charge them and keep them in storage, you might want to look at the more expensive, low discharge ones. I charge all of mine before an event, so I don't worry about the discharge over time.
If you're using 1/4 power from the 430ex, you'll get nearly instantaneous recycling with these for many shots. I use them in my 430ex and 580ex flashes. | My personal preference is to use Lithium batteries. For me they seem to offer the best cycling performance and I am able to take shot after shot after shot with no issues of needing to allow them to recycle. Until they run down that is!
Energizer and Duracell both do versions of Lithium AA's. These are generally pricier than their regular equivalents, however I have saved a lot of money in the past by buying on Amazon (usually their marketplace sellers have excellent prices). |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | I tested a lot of batteries for my external flash. The best performance I got from the Sanyo Eneloop. More than 400 flashes and fast re-loading of the flash - the best! | The problem with alkaline batteries is that they quickly loose their power output. When they are produced, they have a voltage of about 1.5V. But when drawing a lot of current (which a flash does), the voltage drops, and when they have been used for some time, the voltage drops.
So when using brand new alkaline batteries, you will experience that the flash recharges almost instantaneously. But the recharge time get longer and longer and longer and longer.
Rechargeable NiMH batteries, like the Sanyo Eneloop, operate at a lower voltage, 1.2V. But unlike the alkaline batteries, they can maintain that voltage after heavy use.
I have not experienced that the recharge time decreased, even after 100+ flashes on the same set of batteries.
And therefore rechargeable NiMH batteries are much better suited for flash work, than alkaline batteries. |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | I tested a lot of batteries for my external flash. The best performance I got from the Sanyo Eneloop. More than 400 flashes and fast re-loading of the flash - the best! | My personal preference is to use Lithium batteries. For me they seem to offer the best cycling performance and I am able to take shot after shot after shot with no issues of needing to allow them to recycle. Until they run down that is!
Energizer and Duracell both do versions of Lithium AA's. These are generally pricier than their regular equivalents, however I have saved a lot of money in the past by buying on Amazon (usually their marketplace sellers have excellent prices). |
22,922 | I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon 430EX II flash, and a flash extender (basically a simple Fresnel lens on the end of a couple of arms that attaches to the flash head.) I've spent the last several days learning how to use my flash, primarily in manual mode, how to use the flash extender, and how to use the two along with my 7D to provide some fill flash for my bird photography. Lately that encompasses my back yard most of the time, which is full of a whole variety of black birds...which can be a real pain to expose for correctly a lot of the time.
I have noticed that my flash recharge/recycle time is HORRENDOUSLY SLOOOOOW. I have my camera set to low-speed continuous, as its more convenient for shooting birds on branches and around my feeders. Even with low-speed continuous, I usually only get a flash burst on the first shot and none for the rest of the sequence, and some of them can be as much as 10 frames (or more...I can get over 30 shots continuous if I just hold the button down, and I still only get flash on the first frame). I switch to single-shot mode now when using the flash, however I can only really get about one shot off every 15-30 seconds. I figure the root of the problem is the simple alkaline AA batteries I'm using, which I know are not known for their speed. I figure I'll need to invest in a bunch of good rechargeable batteries to solve the problem.
---
Getting specific, what type of rechargeable batteries would be best for this kind of flash photography? I would like to use flash with short bursts (3-5 shots usually, multiple sets, often separated only by as much as a few seconds), and it would be ideal to get flash on all shots in a burst. If I have to wait a little bit longer between bursts that would probably be ok. I am sure there are well-known rechargeable batteries/brands/types for use with flash photography, perhaps even more advanced devices that can reduce recharge time further (maybe some kind of multi-set battery pack that has several groups of four batteries which can be used in sequence for rapid flash shots?) I'm not sure I could get it down to less than a second, but as short as technologically possible would be ideal. | 2012/04/28 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/22922",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/124/"
] | The problem with alkaline batteries is that they quickly loose their power output. When they are produced, they have a voltage of about 1.5V. But when drawing a lot of current (which a flash does), the voltage drops, and when they have been used for some time, the voltage drops.
So when using brand new alkaline batteries, you will experience that the flash recharges almost instantaneously. But the recharge time get longer and longer and longer and longer.
Rechargeable NiMH batteries, like the Sanyo Eneloop, operate at a lower voltage, 1.2V. But unlike the alkaline batteries, they can maintain that voltage after heavy use.
I have not experienced that the recharge time decreased, even after 100+ flashes on the same set of batteries.
And therefore rechargeable NiMH batteries are much better suited for flash work, than alkaline batteries. | My personal preference is to use Lithium batteries. For me they seem to offer the best cycling performance and I am able to take shot after shot after shot with no issues of needing to allow them to recycle. Until they run down that is!
Energizer and Duracell both do versions of Lithium AA's. These are generally pricier than their regular equivalents, however I have saved a lot of money in the past by buying on Amazon (usually their marketplace sellers have excellent prices). |
8,278,293 | When Browser completes formatting a page using CSS and HTML etc.. Where will be all the output will be stored..? Is there any virtual location where it will store..
Can we access that content in the background..? | 2011/11/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8278293",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1008575/"
] | The text content will be stored in the context of the HTML structure, which is represented in memory as a mutable programming object known as the Document Object Model and accessed via reference in JavaScript to the "document" named object. | To add to austincheneys accurate summary (+1) this page explains the text nodes you content is in within the DOM he refers to: [w3C - Traversing the DOM](http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Traversing_the_DOM)
Particularly, look at the diagram halfway down the page. |
8,278,293 | When Browser completes formatting a page using CSS and HTML etc.. Where will be all the output will be stored..? Is there any virtual location where it will store..
Can we access that content in the background..? | 2011/11/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8278293",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1008575/"
] | It's stored in the DOM, which is the Document Object Model, which is a cross-platform and language agnostic convention that stores these objects that austincheney spoke about, which can then be manipulated by a scripting language like JavaScript.
The Wikipedia entry is a good place to start reading about it: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model>
If you'd like to learn more about manipulating it, you can have a look at <http://www.codecademy.com/> which lets you learn JavaScript basics interactively. | To add to austincheneys accurate summary (+1) this page explains the text nodes you content is in within the DOM he refers to: [w3C - Traversing the DOM](http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Traversing_the_DOM)
Particularly, look at the diagram halfway down the page. |
1,804,097 | I'd like to understand the SQL Server 2008 Filtered Index Feature.
How does the Database Engine deal wih this concept ? And how is it going to help me get faster results than standard indexes while querying large tables ?
Can anybody help me on this ?
Thanks. | 2009/11/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1804097",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/215604/"
] | It's WHERE clause on your index.
My real life plans for a million row table:
* I need an index on a column in a table, but 90% of the values are NULL. I need the index for the 10% non-null, but the index is bloated with the 90% NULL. So I add filter and save space.
* I want to unique the same column (eq unique on NON-null value only). Pre SQL Server 2008, I had to use an indexed view or code. Now, the "WHERE" allows me to enforce unique via the index | The easiest way I find to conceptualise the filtered index is an index with a constraint upon it, which only allows certain values into the index.
If your query is asking for values which all fall within the constraint then the engine knows it can use the filtered index instead of reverting to another index / underlying table. If you ask for values outside of the constraint, the filtered index will not be used.
In terms of how it makes your system faster, the index can be very targetted and will occupy less pages overall than an equivalent NC index on the same values. this basically gives you less I/O and results in a speed increase. Even index seeking the Filtered index, you are more likely to get a page cache hit for the index, since the filtered index is only including rows that you were interested in (in theory) due to the constraint.
If your data distributions and queries do not follow defined usage patterns it will be harder to make these work for you, but in scenarios where you have lots of null values which you are never interested in, then the filtered index can be set up to only include non-null values for example. |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | Isn't there a way to describe with drawings that the derivative is the limit of the slopes of the secants, that the integral is the area under a curve, and that the derivative of the area is the height of the function at the point at which you compute derivative? Sure, she might not know what "slope" means, but certainly you can explain that to her if she has the patience ; she's not too far away from it mathematically.
If you make "clear enough" drawings, I think geometry is a good enough analogy to explain what you do. If you put in contexts where derivatives apply (physics/chemistry/economics), I think your little sister will just look at too many pictures at the same time and get lost in what you're saying. Try to be patient and stick to the "closest-to-the-real-picture portrait" of derivatives and integrals.
Oh, and one more thing ; if she isn't interested in what you do, don't lose your time. Only do it if she has the courage to listen to you, remember that mathematics are pure pain to the closed ears.
Hope that helps, | Explain derivatives using the speedometer ! Ask her how one could find the speed of something , and if she goes saying the average speed , ask her how one could calculate the instantaneous speed. And boom , there comes your derivatives. |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | Isn't there a way to describe with drawings that the derivative is the limit of the slopes of the secants, that the integral is the area under a curve, and that the derivative of the area is the height of the function at the point at which you compute derivative? Sure, she might not know what "slope" means, but certainly you can explain that to her if she has the patience ; she's not too far away from it mathematically.
If you make "clear enough" drawings, I think geometry is a good enough analogy to explain what you do. If you put in contexts where derivatives apply (physics/chemistry/economics), I think your little sister will just look at too many pictures at the same time and get lost in what you're saying. Try to be patient and stick to the "closest-to-the-real-picture portrait" of derivatives and integrals.
Oh, and one more thing ; if she isn't interested in what you do, don't lose your time. Only do it if she has the courage to listen to you, remember that mathematics are pure pain to the closed ears.
Hope that helps, | I remember the explanation I was always given..
"Do you know how to find the area of a circle"
"Yes"
"Well, do you know how to find an area of a random curved figure?"
"No"
"That is what we use calculus for". |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | Isn't there a way to describe with drawings that the derivative is the limit of the slopes of the secants, that the integral is the area under a curve, and that the derivative of the area is the height of the function at the point at which you compute derivative? Sure, she might not know what "slope" means, but certainly you can explain that to her if she has the patience ; she's not too far away from it mathematically.
If you make "clear enough" drawings, I think geometry is a good enough analogy to explain what you do. If you put in contexts where derivatives apply (physics/chemistry/economics), I think your little sister will just look at too many pictures at the same time and get lost in what you're saying. Try to be patient and stick to the "closest-to-the-real-picture portrait" of derivatives and integrals.
Oh, and one more thing ; if she isn't interested in what you do, don't lose your time. Only do it if she has the courage to listen to you, remember that mathematics are pure pain to the closed ears.
Hope that helps, | I quote parts of [this Reddit answer](https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/70copy/eli5what_is_calculus_how_does_it_work/dn2r32w/).
---
The easiest way to understand a little calculus is to sit in the middle seat and look at the speedometer in the car. What speed does it say? Maybe it says 31 miles per hour. This means that, if you keep traveling at this speed, you'll go 31 miles in an hour. Any kid can understand that (even if the kid doesn't really know how far a mile is). But then your dad slows down and stops at a red light. The speed is 0 miles per hour now. Did you actually go 31 miles in an hour? No; 31 miles per hour was your speed only at that instant in time. Now the speed is different. The idea that it even makes sense to *have* a speed at an instant in time is... calculus! You calculate speed by seeing how far you go and dividing by how long it took you to get there, but that only gives you *average* speed. For the speed *right now*, you have to see how far you go in a very, very, very tiny amount of time. You only go a very, very, very tiny distance. And you divide by that very, very, very tiny amount of time to get a speed in numbers that you understand. Calculus is when you make that amount of time tinier and tinier and tinier, and that makes the distance tinier and tinier and tinier too, so that, at that moment, the tiny distance divided by the tiny time is 31 miles per hour, but a second later it might be 30 mph or 32 mph or something else.
You generally use calculus to talk about how fast things change -- in the case of the car, it's how fast your position changes, but lots of things can change. How fast something is changing *right now* is called the *derivative*. Sometimes you know how the rate of change for something is related to other things. For example, if you have a weight on a spring, you can write how fast the *speed* of the weight is changing based on its position on the spring, and you can write an equation called a differential equation.
[...]
You can also use calculus to talk about how lots of little things can add up to a big thing. For example, let's say you have an object, and you want to know how much it weighs. You can break it up into tiny little pieces, figure out the density for each piece, figure out how much each little piece weighs, and add them all together. That's calculus! (Or you can just put it on a scale -- that's physics.)
The calculus of how fast things change is called *differential calculus*, and the calculus of adding up lots of little things is called *integral calculus*. In differential calculus, you take a tiny little number and divide by another tiny little number to get a regular-sized number. In integral calculus, you add together a very, very, very *large* number of tiny little numbers to get a regular-sized number. |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | This is a question for a long car journey - both speed and distance travelled are available, and the relationship between the two can be explored and sampled, and later plotted and examined. And the questions as to why both speed and distance are important can be asked etc | Explain derivatives using the speedometer ! Ask her how one could find the speed of something , and if she goes saying the average speed , ask her how one could calculate the instantaneous speed. And boom , there comes your derivatives. |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | Explain derivatives using the speedometer ! Ask her how one could find the speed of something , and if she goes saying the average speed , ask her how one could calculate the instantaneous speed. And boom , there comes your derivatives. | I remember the explanation I was always given..
"Do you know how to find the area of a circle"
"Yes"
"Well, do you know how to find an area of a random curved figure?"
"No"
"That is what we use calculus for". |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | Explain derivatives using the speedometer ! Ask her how one could find the speed of something , and if she goes saying the average speed , ask her how one could calculate the instantaneous speed. And boom , there comes your derivatives. | I quote parts of [this Reddit answer](https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/70copy/eli5what_is_calculus_how_does_it_work/dn2r32w/).
---
The easiest way to understand a little calculus is to sit in the middle seat and look at the speedometer in the car. What speed does it say? Maybe it says 31 miles per hour. This means that, if you keep traveling at this speed, you'll go 31 miles in an hour. Any kid can understand that (even if the kid doesn't really know how far a mile is). But then your dad slows down and stops at a red light. The speed is 0 miles per hour now. Did you actually go 31 miles in an hour? No; 31 miles per hour was your speed only at that instant in time. Now the speed is different. The idea that it even makes sense to *have* a speed at an instant in time is... calculus! You calculate speed by seeing how far you go and dividing by how long it took you to get there, but that only gives you *average* speed. For the speed *right now*, you have to see how far you go in a very, very, very tiny amount of time. You only go a very, very, very tiny distance. And you divide by that very, very, very tiny amount of time to get a speed in numbers that you understand. Calculus is when you make that amount of time tinier and tinier and tinier, and that makes the distance tinier and tinier and tinier too, so that, at that moment, the tiny distance divided by the tiny time is 31 miles per hour, but a second later it might be 30 mph or 32 mph or something else.
You generally use calculus to talk about how fast things change -- in the case of the car, it's how fast your position changes, but lots of things can change. How fast something is changing *right now* is called the *derivative*. Sometimes you know how the rate of change for something is related to other things. For example, if you have a weight on a spring, you can write how fast the *speed* of the weight is changing based on its position on the spring, and you can write an equation called a differential equation.
[...]
You can also use calculus to talk about how lots of little things can add up to a big thing. For example, let's say you have an object, and you want to know how much it weighs. You can break it up into tiny little pieces, figure out the density for each piece, figure out how much each little piece weighs, and add them all together. That's calculus! (Or you can just put it on a scale -- that's physics.)
The calculus of how fast things change is called *differential calculus*, and the calculus of adding up lots of little things is called *integral calculus*. In differential calculus, you take a tiny little number and divide by another tiny little number to get a regular-sized number. In integral calculus, you add together a very, very, very *large* number of tiny little numbers to get a regular-sized number. |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | This is a question for a long car journey - both speed and distance travelled are available, and the relationship between the two can be explored and sampled, and later plotted and examined. And the questions as to why both speed and distance are important can be asked etc | I remember the explanation I was always given..
"Do you know how to find the area of a circle"
"Yes"
"Well, do you know how to find an area of a random curved figure?"
"No"
"That is what we use calculus for". |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | This is a question for a long car journey - both speed and distance travelled are available, and the relationship between the two can be explored and sampled, and later plotted and examined. And the questions as to why both speed and distance are important can be asked etc | I quote parts of [this Reddit answer](https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/70copy/eli5what_is_calculus_how_does_it_work/dn2r32w/).
---
The easiest way to understand a little calculus is to sit in the middle seat and look at the speedometer in the car. What speed does it say? Maybe it says 31 miles per hour. This means that, if you keep traveling at this speed, you'll go 31 miles in an hour. Any kid can understand that (even if the kid doesn't really know how far a mile is). But then your dad slows down and stops at a red light. The speed is 0 miles per hour now. Did you actually go 31 miles in an hour? No; 31 miles per hour was your speed only at that instant in time. Now the speed is different. The idea that it even makes sense to *have* a speed at an instant in time is... calculus! You calculate speed by seeing how far you go and dividing by how long it took you to get there, but that only gives you *average* speed. For the speed *right now*, you have to see how far you go in a very, very, very tiny amount of time. You only go a very, very, very tiny distance. And you divide by that very, very, very tiny amount of time to get a speed in numbers that you understand. Calculus is when you make that amount of time tinier and tinier and tinier, and that makes the distance tinier and tinier and tinier too, so that, at that moment, the tiny distance divided by the tiny time is 31 miles per hour, but a second later it might be 30 mph or 32 mph or something else.
You generally use calculus to talk about how fast things change -- in the case of the car, it's how fast your position changes, but lots of things can change. How fast something is changing *right now* is called the *derivative*. Sometimes you know how the rate of change for something is related to other things. For example, if you have a weight on a spring, you can write how fast the *speed* of the weight is changing based on its position on the spring, and you can write an equation called a differential equation.
[...]
You can also use calculus to talk about how lots of little things can add up to a big thing. For example, let's say you have an object, and you want to know how much it weighs. You can break it up into tiny little pieces, figure out the density for each piece, figure out how much each little piece weighs, and add them all together. That's calculus! (Or you can just put it on a scale -- that's physics.)
The calculus of how fast things change is called *differential calculus*, and the calculus of adding up lots of little things is called *integral calculus*. In differential calculus, you take a tiny little number and divide by another tiny little number to get a regular-sized number. In integral calculus, you add together a very, very, very *large* number of tiny little numbers to get a regular-sized number. |
136,664 | I have a sister that is interested in learning *"what I do"*. I'm a 17 years old math loving person, but I don't know how to explain integrals and derivatives with some type of analogies.
I just want to explain it well so that in the future she could remember what I say to her. | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/136664",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/26711/"
] | I quote parts of [this Reddit answer](https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/70copy/eli5what_is_calculus_how_does_it_work/dn2r32w/).
---
The easiest way to understand a little calculus is to sit in the middle seat and look at the speedometer in the car. What speed does it say? Maybe it says 31 miles per hour. This means that, if you keep traveling at this speed, you'll go 31 miles in an hour. Any kid can understand that (even if the kid doesn't really know how far a mile is). But then your dad slows down and stops at a red light. The speed is 0 miles per hour now. Did you actually go 31 miles in an hour? No; 31 miles per hour was your speed only at that instant in time. Now the speed is different. The idea that it even makes sense to *have* a speed at an instant in time is... calculus! You calculate speed by seeing how far you go and dividing by how long it took you to get there, but that only gives you *average* speed. For the speed *right now*, you have to see how far you go in a very, very, very tiny amount of time. You only go a very, very, very tiny distance. And you divide by that very, very, very tiny amount of time to get a speed in numbers that you understand. Calculus is when you make that amount of time tinier and tinier and tinier, and that makes the distance tinier and tinier and tinier too, so that, at that moment, the tiny distance divided by the tiny time is 31 miles per hour, but a second later it might be 30 mph or 32 mph or something else.
You generally use calculus to talk about how fast things change -- in the case of the car, it's how fast your position changes, but lots of things can change. How fast something is changing *right now* is called the *derivative*. Sometimes you know how the rate of change for something is related to other things. For example, if you have a weight on a spring, you can write how fast the *speed* of the weight is changing based on its position on the spring, and you can write an equation called a differential equation.
[...]
You can also use calculus to talk about how lots of little things can add up to a big thing. For example, let's say you have an object, and you want to know how much it weighs. You can break it up into tiny little pieces, figure out the density for each piece, figure out how much each little piece weighs, and add them all together. That's calculus! (Or you can just put it on a scale -- that's physics.)
The calculus of how fast things change is called *differential calculus*, and the calculus of adding up lots of little things is called *integral calculus*. In differential calculus, you take a tiny little number and divide by another tiny little number to get a regular-sized number. In integral calculus, you add together a very, very, very *large* number of tiny little numbers to get a regular-sized number. | I remember the explanation I was always given..
"Do you know how to find the area of a circle"
"Yes"
"Well, do you know how to find an area of a random curved figure?"
"No"
"That is what we use calculus for". |
299,539 | I have a working VM with ubuntu under virtual box. Everything works fine, but there's a detail that's getting on my nerves.
Every time i receive a kernel update, i have to re-install virtual box's guest additions. Is there a way to automate this besides skipping the update ([i found information on that approach here](https://askubuntu.com/questions/178324/how-to-skip-kernel-update) ). Is there a way to keep up with kernel updates without reinstalling the guest additions every time?
Thanks, | 2013/05/24 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/299539",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/161451/"
] | Quoting the [VirtualBox User Manual](http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#idp11306688):
>
> Be sure to install DKMS before installing the Linux Guest Additions.
> If DKMS is not available or not installed, the guest kernel modules
> will need to be recreated manually whenever the guest kernel is
> updated using the command
>
>
> /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup as root.
>
>
>
[...]
>
> If it is not installed, use this command for Ubuntu/Debian systems:
>
>
> sudo apt-get install dkms
>
>
> | If you are using [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) to manage your Virtualbox VMs, you can install the [vagrant-vbguest](https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest/blob/master/Readme.md) plugin to automatically detect out-of-date guest additions and update them. |
229,632 | How can you have two-way synchronization of data between Excel and a SharePoint list?
I've read the Office support [Manage large lists and libraries in SharePoint](https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-large-lists-and-libraries-in-SharePoint-b8588dae-9387-48c2-9248-c24122f07c59) page and the limitation about Excel being one-way
>
> Microsoft Excel You can export SharePoint lists to an Excel Table, which creates a one-way data connection between the Excel table and the SharePoint list.
>
>
>
Is there anyway to have a two-way sync?
*... the end users want the speed and flexibility of editing, conditional formatting, freeze panes, etc. that they're used to in Excel* | 2017/11/07 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/229632",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/54/"
] | There is no way to have two-way sync out of the box (OOTB) between Excel and a SharePoint List as Microsoft deprecated this feature 10 years ago. OOTB Options include creating a new SP list from an Excel file and exporting a list to an Excel file.
To have bi-directional sync, you need a third party tool such as [SharePoint List Synchronizer](https://www.synchronizer-for-excel-and-sharepoint.com). Disclaimer: this product is edited by SoftFluent, my employer. | As far as I know the two-way sync is no longer available, it used to be possible in SP 2010.
'Export to Excel' is still possible, so you can set up e.g. a linked Template for a report and even make graphs that will be refreshable with new data from a Sharepoint List.
Something like 'Freeze Panes' could be achieved with a little creativity and web-parts - perhaps make linked lists in two web parts on a page.
Conditional Formatting is possible using 3rd party add-ins like Sparqube. They have an Indicator column which can highlight cells and lines based on field:value combinations. Or just stick to the Excel conditional formatting and used a linked file. |
229,632 | How can you have two-way synchronization of data between Excel and a SharePoint list?
I've read the Office support [Manage large lists and libraries in SharePoint](https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-large-lists-and-libraries-in-SharePoint-b8588dae-9387-48c2-9248-c24122f07c59) page and the limitation about Excel being one-way
>
> Microsoft Excel You can export SharePoint lists to an Excel Table, which creates a one-way data connection between the Excel table and the SharePoint list.
>
>
>
Is there anyway to have a two-way sync?
*... the end users want the speed and flexibility of editing, conditional formatting, freeze panes, etc. that they're used to in Excel* | 2017/11/07 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/229632",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/54/"
] | There is no way to have two-way sync out of the box (OOTB) between Excel and a SharePoint List as Microsoft deprecated this feature 10 years ago. OOTB Options include creating a new SP list from an Excel file and exporting a list to an Excel file.
To have bi-directional sync, you need a third party tool such as [SharePoint List Synchronizer](https://www.synchronizer-for-excel-and-sharepoint.com). Disclaimer: this product is edited by SoftFluent, my employer. | I’m proposing a workaround to the suggested third party solution. It is a two-parter. **Part 1** addresses formatting and **Part 2** addresses speed.
**Part 1:** Export the list to Excel and save the workbook back to SharePoint with a data connection. Format the workbook with all desired Excel features such as freeze panes, conditional formatting, etc.
1. Export the list or library to Excel.
2. Create a data connection to the list or library so that the workbook automatically syncs with list updates when opened.
3. Format the workbook for printing.
4. Save the workbook to SharePoint for users.
For step-by-step instructions view my post at <https://jennyssharepointtips.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/print-live-list-or-library-data-from-excel-workbooks-using-data-connections/>.
**Part 2:** Instruct users on editing lists using Quick Edit (SharePoint 2013 and later) or Datasheet view (SharePoint 2010 and earlier).
**Bonus speed option:** Add the out of the box “Edit" button to the list views. It makes it quick and easy to access an item's edit form. |
229,632 | How can you have two-way synchronization of data between Excel and a SharePoint list?
I've read the Office support [Manage large lists and libraries in SharePoint](https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-large-lists-and-libraries-in-SharePoint-b8588dae-9387-48c2-9248-c24122f07c59) page and the limitation about Excel being one-way
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> Microsoft Excel You can export SharePoint lists to an Excel Table, which creates a one-way data connection between the Excel table and the SharePoint list.
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Is there anyway to have a two-way sync?
*... the end users want the speed and flexibility of editing, conditional formatting, freeze panes, etc. that they're used to in Excel* | 2017/11/07 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/229632",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/54/"
] | There is no way to have two-way sync out of the box (OOTB) between Excel and a SharePoint List as Microsoft deprecated this feature 10 years ago. OOTB Options include creating a new SP list from an Excel file and exporting a list to an Excel file.
To have bi-directional sync, you need a third party tool such as [SharePoint List Synchronizer](https://www.synchronizer-for-excel-and-sharepoint.com). Disclaimer: this product is edited by SoftFluent, my employer. | As a workaround, you can also use MS Flow to update a SharePoint List from an Excel file - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxuTVjQbECo> |
1,713,476 | I have a C++ class which contains only static data members.
I noticed the compiler is OK if I define the access methods as const, as static, or as "regular" - so all seem to work.
My question is what is the correct/better practice in this case?
Thanks! | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1713476",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208456/"
] | Static accessors for static data members. | If your class contains only static members, you should probably be using the [singleton pattern](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern). |
1,713,476 | I have a C++ class which contains only static data members.
I noticed the compiler is OK if I define the access methods as const, as static, or as "regular" - so all seem to work.
My question is what is the correct/better practice in this case?
Thanks! | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1713476",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208456/"
] | Static accessors for static data members. | If all methods are static then there is no point in creating an instance of the class. So I suggest to make all methods static so that you can use those methods without creating the object of the class. Basically, you will be able to call the methods using the namespace syntax. |
1,713,476 | I have a C++ class which contains only static data members.
I noticed the compiler is OK if I define the access methods as const, as static, or as "regular" - so all seem to work.
My question is what is the correct/better practice in this case?
Thanks! | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1713476",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208456/"
] | Static accessors for static data members. | >
> I have a C++ class which contains only static data members.
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Then that probably shouldn't be a class, but either free functions in a namespace or a singleton. |
1,713,476 | I have a C++ class which contains only static data members.
I noticed the compiler is OK if I define the access methods as const, as static, or as "regular" - so all seem to work.
My question is what is the correct/better practice in this case?
Thanks! | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1713476",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208456/"
] | If your class contains only static members, you should probably be using the [singleton pattern](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern). | If all methods are static then there is no point in creating an instance of the class. So I suggest to make all methods static so that you can use those methods without creating the object of the class. Basically, you will be able to call the methods using the namespace syntax. |
1,713,476 | I have a C++ class which contains only static data members.
I noticed the compiler is OK if I define the access methods as const, as static, or as "regular" - so all seem to work.
My question is what is the correct/better practice in this case?
Thanks! | 2009/11/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1713476",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/208456/"
] | >
> I have a C++ class which contains only static data members.
>
>
>
Then that probably shouldn't be a class, but either free functions in a namespace or a singleton. | If all methods are static then there is no point in creating an instance of the class. So I suggest to make all methods static so that you can use those methods without creating the object of the class. Basically, you will be able to call the methods using the namespace syntax. |
290,511 | He was on the borderline of red and yellow health and was paralyzed. For the regi trio I had to use about ten each. | 2016/11/06 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/290511",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/170717/"
] | The Premier Ball has the same catch-rate as a regular Pokeball. When you throw the ball, the ball's catch-rate, combined with how 'hard' it is to catch a certain Pokemon is plugged into a formula along with a few other things like current Health to determine whether you caught a Pokemon.
Your chances were very low (a low catch-rate ball combined with a hard to catch legendary). For some perspective, a full-health Regigigas has a [0.4%](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Regigigas_(Pok%C3%A9mon)) chance to be caught with a regular Ball. While yours was injured and paralyzed, the catch chance would still be very low.
Thus it is not *impossible* to catch a Pokemon this way. You just got very lucky. | You only got extremely lucky.Regigigas' catch rate is pretty low,but since premier balls are only there to give you a reward for buying 10+ pokeballs in one visit to the PokeMart,they just have the power of a regular pokeball. |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129926",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/73576/"
] | The other commentators are right - it is *your* responsibility to make sure that this developer is able to develop in Angular (because they were assigned this task knowing that their background is in Java).
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> Even I have to solve 90-95% of his tasks by myself and then he learns
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DO NOT solve this person's assigned tasks for them - it is hindering their learning process. If they cannot handle the workload and you are ultimately completing tasks for them, BEFORE bringing it up with your CTO, I'd suggest you:
1. give them a basic tutorial on Angular (maybe focus in on the things you'll be using)
2. Reduce the amount of tasks assigned to them (whatever workload they currently have sounds like too much *at this time*)
3. Do not solve their tasks for them, give them feedback so that they can go back and fix the mistakes/do the work (they will understand their code's flow better than you)
4. introduce dual coding/shadowing/code review among your developers so they learn from each other (less interference on your part)
As some one who is in a similar position, these steps (especially 3 & 4) have been helpful in getting that employee to be stronger in an area they were not comfortable in at first. Instead of shifting the blame onto the "under performing" employee, you should ask why they were assigned to this project given their background, or, if at any point they were aware that their job required them to learn a completely new environment. | As a team lead a certain amount of managing the performance of the rest of the team is to be expected.
It sounds as though so far you've done a fairly minimal amount of that - mainly telling them to study at home or google it. And so far that hasn't been particularly successful, probably because they are pretty unhelpful approaches to helping a new entry level team member get started.
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> I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about that girl and her habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether she is ready to work or not.
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Ultimately it might come to that - but if I were in your CTO's place I'd be looking for you to take a more proactive role in trying to resolve the issue before you brought it to me.
Take the struggling team member aside and have a conversation with them, see if you can a) get to the root of the problem and b) work towards improving it.
You don't need to go in all big and shouty and aggressive - a good team lead should be facilitating the work not ruling with an iron fist.
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> It seems like you're struggling with some of the elements of what we are working on at the moment so how can I help? Can you tell me *why* you are struggling? Is there anything in particular you feel you need help on?
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Hopefully you can then work *with* the team member to improve things, but ultimately it might just not work out. *Then* you can consider talking to the CTO and saying something like:
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> [Team member] is really struggling to grasp some key elements of the work. I've spoken with them and we've done X, Y and Z to try and improve the situation but it's not really helped and I'm concerned that it's effecting out ability to deliver our team's work.
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> |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129926",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/73576/"
] | You need to do your job.
On the team side, decide whether it is feasible to mentor the underperformer or not. If you think they're willing to learn and capable of being productive and the long-term performance of your team is more important than the short-term costs of a mentoring, then decide to mentor them and inform the team. Assign them tasks that are realistic given their skill level and re-evaluate periodically to see if mentoring is working.
On the CTO side, you need to realistically apprise your CTO of your team's capabilities. If he tries to tell you the task is easy or anyone can learn, respond as follows:
1. You are managing the team appropriately given the resources available. If he has specific advice for ways you could manage the team appropriately, you'd be happy to listen.
2. The team is performing the way it is. It's not getting work done faster than it is. There's no magic whip you can crack. Your employees have the productivity they have and you can't magically make them more productive.
3. Explain your advice about the underperforming team member. Either explain that you've decided it makes the most sense to commit to mentoring them even though that has a short-term cost or advocate that they be fired. If you think replacing them would help, explain that.
Ultimately, you have to tell the CTO that you believe that you are leading the team appropriately but that the team's performance is not sufficient to accomplish the tasks requested in the time desired. Offer helpful options such as hiring more people, reducing the feature set, and so on. Explain to him that asking you to produce a better result will not change your assessment of what your team is realistically capable of achieving.
Whatever you do, do not agree to his claims that the team can produce more and then repeat the cycle of delivering less than the CTO expects followed by ritualistically making unrealistic promises to do better in the future. | I don't agree with some of the answers listed above, specifically with the expectation that John learn Angular/CSS/HTML on company time.
Specifically, the field of Technology is a vast field, and it's a field that is constantly changing. Angular came about in 2010 - I've been a Web Engineer since 2003. When I started Angular wasn't a thing. Why am I still relevant in my field? Because I made it my own priority to keep up with industry news, and to maintain current skills in relevant areas.
I don't think that should always be 100% necessary to learn any new skill for work on the company time, and I don't think the company is obligated to give you that time to learn. If you want to stay up to date, if you want to stay current, if you want to stay relevant, and sometimes if you want to keep your job you need to check yourself and your skill set and the job you have and make sure they are a match.
I got my start piddling around with designing Podunk mom and pop websites, and now I'm working on an Artificial Intelligence Team where I've contributed heavily to the direction and development of their technology stack, managing an AWS environment that didn't exist when I started.
I didn't get that job by telling my company they needed to give me time to learn those skills while I was at work.
Good developers, and more importantly, good Engineers are passionate about mastering their craft, and they understand that means that more then the 40 hours a week they are working they need to be more immersed in the technology they are required to use day to day.
That's the conversation I would have with John - and if he did not express interest or attempt to improve, I wouldn't offer him a transfer I would cut him loose. Developers without a passion to grow on their own are never going to be anything more then what they are when you hired them in. |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129926",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/73576/"
] | The other commentators are right - it is *your* responsibility to make sure that this developer is able to develop in Angular (because they were assigned this task knowing that their background is in Java).
>
> Even I have to solve 90-95% of his tasks by myself and then he learns
>
>
>
DO NOT solve this person's assigned tasks for them - it is hindering their learning process. If they cannot handle the workload and you are ultimately completing tasks for them, BEFORE bringing it up with your CTO, I'd suggest you:
1. give them a basic tutorial on Angular (maybe focus in on the things you'll be using)
2. Reduce the amount of tasks assigned to them (whatever workload they currently have sounds like too much *at this time*)
3. Do not solve their tasks for them, give them feedback so that they can go back and fix the mistakes/do the work (they will understand their code's flow better than you)
4. introduce dual coding/shadowing/code review among your developers so they learn from each other (less interference on your part)
As some one who is in a similar position, these steps (especially 3 & 4) have been helpful in getting that employee to be stronger in an area they were not comfortable in at first. Instead of shifting the blame onto the "under performing" employee, you should ask why they were assigned to this project given their background, or, if at any point they were aware that their job required them to learn a completely new environment. | I don't agree with some of the answers listed above, specifically with the expectation that John learn Angular/CSS/HTML on company time.
Specifically, the field of Technology is a vast field, and it's a field that is constantly changing. Angular came about in 2010 - I've been a Web Engineer since 2003. When I started Angular wasn't a thing. Why am I still relevant in my field? Because I made it my own priority to keep up with industry news, and to maintain current skills in relevant areas.
I don't think that should always be 100% necessary to learn any new skill for work on the company time, and I don't think the company is obligated to give you that time to learn. If you want to stay up to date, if you want to stay current, if you want to stay relevant, and sometimes if you want to keep your job you need to check yourself and your skill set and the job you have and make sure they are a match.
I got my start piddling around with designing Podunk mom and pop websites, and now I'm working on an Artificial Intelligence Team where I've contributed heavily to the direction and development of their technology stack, managing an AWS environment that didn't exist when I started.
I didn't get that job by telling my company they needed to give me time to learn those skills while I was at work.
Good developers, and more importantly, good Engineers are passionate about mastering their craft, and they understand that means that more then the 40 hours a week they are working they need to be more immersed in the technology they are required to use day to day.
That's the conversation I would have with John - and if he did not express interest or attempt to improve, I wouldn't offer him a transfer I would cut him loose. Developers without a passion to grow on their own are never going to be anything more then what they are when you hired them in. |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129926",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/73576/"
] | You need to do your job.
On the team side, decide whether it is feasible to mentor the underperformer or not. If you think they're willing to learn and capable of being productive and the long-term performance of your team is more important than the short-term costs of a mentoring, then decide to mentor them and inform the team. Assign them tasks that are realistic given their skill level and re-evaluate periodically to see if mentoring is working.
On the CTO side, you need to realistically apprise your CTO of your team's capabilities. If he tries to tell you the task is easy or anyone can learn, respond as follows:
1. You are managing the team appropriately given the resources available. If he has specific advice for ways you could manage the team appropriately, you'd be happy to listen.
2. The team is performing the way it is. It's not getting work done faster than it is. There's no magic whip you can crack. Your employees have the productivity they have and you can't magically make them more productive.
3. Explain your advice about the underperforming team member. Either explain that you've decided it makes the most sense to commit to mentoring them even though that has a short-term cost or advocate that they be fired. If you think replacing them would help, explain that.
Ultimately, you have to tell the CTO that you believe that you are leading the team appropriately but that the team's performance is not sufficient to accomplish the tasks requested in the time desired. Offer helpful options such as hiring more people, reducing the feature set, and so on. Explain to him that asking you to produce a better result will not change your assessment of what your team is realistically capable of achieving.
Whatever you do, do not agree to his claims that the team can produce more and then repeat the cycle of delivering less than the CTO expects followed by ritualistically making unrealistic promises to do better in the future. | Give opportunities to John, propose even paid training if need be, but let him fail when the time comes.
There seem to be here several very wrong things:
* You are enabling someone to keep on your team, that is not qualified to be there
* That person is robbing the place of someone else who could be a productive member;
* You are hurting your own job taking time to do the job of John
* You are bringing low morale to the team - if John does not need to perform, why should they
* You are building a trail of proven done work to be more difficult to fire John in the present and future.
You are not looking for your own interests in the short term doing the job of John, and much less to your team goals in the long term.
If I were a subordinate of yours, I would not expect you to do my job, but would expect you to deal with the bosses and get rid of a member of the team that cannot contribute to it.
In the short term, since you have got that person, you can assign John partially to help on documentation, and other part of the day/week to study during work hours.
I would also define time frames and objectives. A trainee/university hire has to make an honest effort in the first months and show interest and some wits, to be *minimally* competent after six months, and minimally productive to the team around 9-12 months frame. Usually also people will be only moderately competent on a new environment/job, depending on complexity, after 1 year to 1 year and half, at most two years. Your CTO should know that, or most probably knows but just want you to make the most of the team he has in his hands. Cost factors might play a hand on that.
PS. I saw in the past people in the place of John, that after 2 years of being "helped" were complaining it was high time they got a promotion...one of the cases was in his middle twenties and was complaining about not having a raise in the times it was not sleeping on the job e.g. when awake.
Coming back to the specific John case, I would try to make sure to understand if the effort is genuine, or if he still thinks he can get away feigning work as if he would still be in University. It could happen John is not mature enough to understand he is out in the real world now, and that could well explain the spotty performance you talk about. |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
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] | The other commentators are right - it is *your* responsibility to make sure that this developer is able to develop in Angular (because they were assigned this task knowing that their background is in Java).
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DO NOT solve this person's assigned tasks for them - it is hindering their learning process. If they cannot handle the workload and you are ultimately completing tasks for them, BEFORE bringing it up with your CTO, I'd suggest you:
1. give them a basic tutorial on Angular (maybe focus in on the things you'll be using)
2. Reduce the amount of tasks assigned to them (whatever workload they currently have sounds like too much *at this time*)
3. Do not solve their tasks for them, give them feedback so that they can go back and fix the mistakes/do the work (they will understand their code's flow better than you)
4. introduce dual coding/shadowing/code review among your developers so they learn from each other (less interference on your part)
As some one who is in a similar position, these steps (especially 3 & 4) have been helpful in getting that employee to be stronger in an area they were not comfortable in at first. Instead of shifting the blame onto the "under performing" employee, you should ask why they were assigned to this project given their background, or, if at any point they were aware that their job required them to learn a completely new environment. | I think you're missing the key parts of what it means to be a team lead. Mentoring your team members so they become better is part of your job. Giving them the support to succeed is part of your job.
For example, give your junior team member a training exercise for him to learn. Give him what you think is the right amount of time, or better yet, ask him/her how much time they need. If the CTO has a problem with it, defend it. The team is counting on you to protect them and mentor them.
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I don't buy this. If you are their leader, you absolutely have the power to help them succeed. If your CTO tells you to do differently, then that is a problem between you and your CTO. Leave your team member out of it. Your job is to help him. Educate your CTO. You need to stand up to him. That's why you're paid the big bucks now.
Sometimes managers are wrong. Sometimes managers have unrealistic expectations. Especially CTO's. CTO's want everything, they want it now, they want it perfect, and they want it to cost nothing. They rely on you to explain to them how it actually works.
You need to show your CTO the tradeoff between giving this employee the time needed to learn, which is:
1. Less time available for building features now, but more capacity later.
2. More time available now, but it won't get done on time, or correct quality.
It comes down to predictability and velocity. Not just for the individual, but at the team level. If every team member has to keep helping this individual out because they don't know how to do their job, then the productivity hit is everyone's.
Showing the facts to your CTO this way will 1) persuade him/her 2) demonstrate *your* competence, so they will likely back off and let you do things your way.
In my opinion, the time to get your CTO involved in a personnel decision about this employee's performance is if you have exhausted your efforts and believe this individual is never going to succeed on your team. It should be a last resort. You don't want your other team members constantly worrying that you will throw them under the bus when something goes wrong. You need to protect your team. Firing, or escalating to your boss, which is probably about the same thing, should be the absolute last resort. |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129926",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/73576/"
] | I won't reiterate dwizum's excellent answer, but I have a few things to add:
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Have you tried showing him more effective problem solving strategies? (Yes, ideally a graduate would know how to "work logically", but problem solving strategies are usually not part of the formal curriculum, and sometimes not taught as well as they should).
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Have you tried showing him how to google effectively?
Also note that it will be challenging for a Java developer to google angular problems, since the programming language, build tools, and runtime environment are totally different. Understanding a random blog post by a JavaScript developer is challenging if you don't know know web technologies.
**Check your expectations**
I have spent the last couple years coaching experienced Java teams in their first angular projects. In my experience, only about 20% of the developers were able to make this switch without help. And yes, even though everyone attended a professional course about angular, and had access to experienced help, progress on the first angular project was slowed enough to make management nervous.
**Summary**
Yes, really good developers can pick up a new language without any help, but most developers will need more help than "you need to learn the basics". | What you're trying to do shows you don't understand the difference in the skillset of your staff and what is needed.
A Java developer, if he has had no background in web development, has no understanding of the client-side and server-side of things.
The paradigm is different than a Java standalone. Even if he has worked on java applets, that's still programming inside a self-contained VM, not one where a client talks to a server.
For example, any type of error-checking on the client-side are superficial and is simply used to reduce server hits. It's NOT suppose to be relied on, because bypassing client-side validation is absolutely **trivial**. Something like a "username", the basic client-side checks will be not blank and that's about it, maybe add some combination of alpha-numeric requirement, but even might not work due to the need to support different languages.
On the server-side, I will check for not blank, and also any data type that I cannot handle (outside of UTF-8 for example), then also check for SQL injection attacks (prepare statements will solve that, but I want to **detect** it and possibly black-list the IP), and probably record repeat attempts of large volume traffic to prevent malicious access (hacking, mass username creation, username squatting, etc). All those options are server-side only.
Then you also want to think about how the client communicates with the server, and whether it'll be appropriate to go into AJAX for a better user experience. All this knowledge is non-trivial and a CTO is pretty dumb to expect a staff can learn all this in couple months. |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129926",
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] | So here's the part that seems sketchy to me: You've asked your employee, John, to do unpaid overtime work on the weekend.
* The reason it's "work" is because learning Angular is not something John would like to do in his free time, hence why he hasn't done it already (and continues to not do it), and it provides no value to John personally except inasmuch as it provides value to the company. Performing a task that is not for one's own benefit and is instead for the sole benefit of one's employer, is called "work".
* As for "overtime", that much should be clear; John is not normally working on the weekends, therefore you have asked him to do work outside of regular hours. That's called "overtime".
* As for "unpaid", presumably you have not offered John any sort of compensation for doing this work on the weekend, and presumably, you do not have the authority to do so. As a result, John is not going to be compensated for putting in these efforts on the weekend. That's called "unpaid".
Now that we've got this straight, as a team leader, and particularly as a *new* team leader, you should not have your first impression with your new team be "please spend your weekend doing unpaid overtime work". That's not going to work for you in the long run. Don't do that.
Coming at this from John's perspective, I could equally see a question (and have seen many on Workplace SE in the past!) that goes something like this:
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To which, and because I have seen these sorts of questions in the past, the overwhelming majority response would be "Unpaid overtime is not cool, your company does not respect you, they blindsided you with a team that doesn't match your skillset, find another job". And that's what John is going to do.
If you want to help John rather than frustrate him and make him leave, here's what you can do:
1. Do not ask John (or anyone else!) to work unpaid overtime. That's not cool.
2. If John needs to learn Angular, allow him to do so during work hours. Prepare some ramp-up tasks for him (small tasks to get him used to the framework and used to frontend development) so he can get his feet wet slowly and ramp up his comfort level.
3. Provide John with the mentorship he needs.
Failing the above, ask your chain of command to transfer John to a team which actually uses the skillset he was interviewed for and hired with, and don't blindside him by trying to change a capable backend developer into a horrible frontend developer. | Here's **your** problem: Your team isn't capable of doing the jobs it is supposed to do in the time you are allowed. That one of your colleagues is underperforming is secondary. It is a problem for them, it may lead to them losing their job in the worst case, but **your** problem is the job isn't getting done.
There are two solutions to your problem: Improve the work of your team, or make clear to management that your team isn't capable to deliver, and that it's not your fault. You should work on both.
For the first, you talk to that colleague, you tell them that the team is in danger, and therefore *they* are in danger, and their work needs improving. Improving can only done by learning. Give them time at work to learn (it's more efficient for them to learn than to do substandard work that needs to be redone). Tell them to ask for help *immediately* if they don't know how to continue, because 5 minutes help can stop wasting two hours of work.
For the second, tell your manager that this colleague is *not* up to scratch. Tell them what measures you are taking to improve things. Tell them that with competent employees you would get your tasks done (if that is actually true), but you currently don't have this and it will take you time to get there. If someone thinks it takes just hours learning CSS, for example, you can tell them that you respectfully disagree, and no matter whether you agree or disagree, you have an employee who is *not* learning it in hours.
You *can* suggest replacing the person on the team, which is not really handling your problem. |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
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] | You need to do your job.
On the team side, decide whether it is feasible to mentor the underperformer or not. If you think they're willing to learn and capable of being productive and the long-term performance of your team is more important than the short-term costs of a mentoring, then decide to mentor them and inform the team. Assign them tasks that are realistic given their skill level and re-evaluate periodically to see if mentoring is working.
On the CTO side, you need to realistically apprise your CTO of your team's capabilities. If he tries to tell you the task is easy or anyone can learn, respond as follows:
1. You are managing the team appropriately given the resources available. If he has specific advice for ways you could manage the team appropriately, you'd be happy to listen.
2. The team is performing the way it is. It's not getting work done faster than it is. There's no magic whip you can crack. Your employees have the productivity they have and you can't magically make them more productive.
3. Explain your advice about the underperforming team member. Either explain that you've decided it makes the most sense to commit to mentoring them even though that has a short-term cost or advocate that they be fired. If you think replacing them would help, explain that.
Ultimately, you have to tell the CTO that you believe that you are leading the team appropriately but that the team's performance is not sufficient to accomplish the tasks requested in the time desired. Offer helpful options such as hiring more people, reducing the feature set, and so on. Explain to him that asking you to produce a better result will not change your assessment of what your team is realistically capable of achieving.
Whatever you do, do not agree to his claims that the team can produce more and then repeat the cycle of delivering less than the CTO expects followed by ritualistically making unrealistic promises to do better in the future. | As a team lead a certain amount of managing the performance of the rest of the team is to be expected.
It sounds as though so far you've done a fairly minimal amount of that - mainly telling them to study at home or google it. And so far that hasn't been particularly successful, probably because they are pretty unhelpful approaches to helping a new entry level team member get started.
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Ultimately it might come to that - but if I were in your CTO's place I'd be looking for you to take a more proactive role in trying to resolve the issue before you brought it to me.
Take the struggling team member aside and have a conversation with them, see if you can a) get to the root of the problem and b) work towards improving it.
You don't need to go in all big and shouty and aggressive - a good team lead should be facilitating the work not ruling with an iron fist.
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Hopefully you can then work *with* the team member to improve things, but ultimately it might just not work out. *Then* you can consider talking to the CTO and saying something like:
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129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129926",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/73576/"
] | I don't agree with some of the answers listed above, specifically with the expectation that John learn Angular/CSS/HTML on company time.
Specifically, the field of Technology is a vast field, and it's a field that is constantly changing. Angular came about in 2010 - I've been a Web Engineer since 2003. When I started Angular wasn't a thing. Why am I still relevant in my field? Because I made it my own priority to keep up with industry news, and to maintain current skills in relevant areas.
I don't think that should always be 100% necessary to learn any new skill for work on the company time, and I don't think the company is obligated to give you that time to learn. If you want to stay up to date, if you want to stay current, if you want to stay relevant, and sometimes if you want to keep your job you need to check yourself and your skill set and the job you have and make sure they are a match.
I got my start piddling around with designing Podunk mom and pop websites, and now I'm working on an Artificial Intelligence Team where I've contributed heavily to the direction and development of their technology stack, managing an AWS environment that didn't exist when I started.
I didn't get that job by telling my company they needed to give me time to learn those skills while I was at work.
Good developers, and more importantly, good Engineers are passionate about mastering their craft, and they understand that means that more then the 40 hours a week they are working they need to be more immersed in the technology they are required to use day to day.
That's the conversation I would have with John - and if he did not express interest or attempt to improve, I wouldn't offer him a transfer I would cut him loose. Developers without a passion to grow on their own are never going to be anything more then what they are when you hired them in. | Give opportunities to John, propose even paid training if need be, but let him fail when the time comes.
There seem to be here several very wrong things:
* You are enabling someone to keep on your team, that is not qualified to be there
* That person is robbing the place of someone else who could be a productive member;
* You are hurting your own job taking time to do the job of John
* You are bringing low morale to the team - if John does not need to perform, why should they
* You are building a trail of proven done work to be more difficult to fire John in the present and future.
You are not looking for your own interests in the short term doing the job of John, and much less to your team goals in the long term.
If I were a subordinate of yours, I would not expect you to do my job, but would expect you to deal with the bosses and get rid of a member of the team that cannot contribute to it.
In the short term, since you have got that person, you can assign John partially to help on documentation, and other part of the day/week to study during work hours.
I would also define time frames and objectives. A trainee/university hire has to make an honest effort in the first months and show interest and some wits, to be *minimally* competent after six months, and minimally productive to the team around 9-12 months frame. Usually also people will be only moderately competent on a new environment/job, depending on complexity, after 1 year to 1 year and half, at most two years. Your CTO should know that, or most probably knows but just want you to make the most of the team he has in his hands. Cost factors might play a hand on that.
PS. I saw in the past people in the place of John, that after 2 years of being "helped" were complaining it was high time they got a promotion...one of the cases was in his middle twenties and was complaining about not having a raise in the times it was not sleeping on the job e.g. when awake.
Coming back to the specific John case, I would try to make sure to understand if the effort is genuine, or if he still thinks he can get away feigning work as if he would still be in University. It could happen John is not mature enough to understand he is out in the real world now, and that could well explain the spotty performance you talk about. |
129,926 | I'm a Software Developer with experience of more than 1.5 years. After being happy with my performance, the CTO of my company made me a team lead of 3 new employees (2 of them graduated recently).
There's an employee, the recent grad (Let's call him John). John knows only basic Java and nothing else. Now, I am mentoring them in a front-end project made up of Angular. But he doesn't even know the basics of HTML and CSS. I told him to study these subjects at home from Codeacademy in the weekend/holidays. But he didn't do it.
Now, whenever I assign them some work, the other two employees do the work with ease, but John struggles even in setting margins and paddings. His main problem is that he doesn't do the work in a logical way but always try some random permutations and combinations in order to make his flukes as a successful attempt to do the work. I have to spoon feed him for every little task. This led to the constant delay of the project which has been assigned to my team from the CTO. And due to this delay, my CTO has been scolding me from last few days mercilessly.
I didn't say anything to CTO but I talked to John once and told him that you need to study the basics of these simple subjects or you won't be able to work in Angular. I even told him to google about a concept which he doesn't know but he isn't good at even searching on google.
Now, due to increasing pressure and scolding from my CTO, I am thinking that the only solution I'm left with is to tell the CTO about him and his habits of doing work with guesstimates so that he can decide whether John is ready to work or not.
So, I want to ask if this would be a good solution to deal with this issue or is there something else which I can further do to cope up with this solution?
**Edit** : To all those great guys, who are blaming me in the comments and answers right there, I want to let them know that I had given each of those 3 subordinates a simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular task before starting the project, which each of them were able to complete successfully. It's not like I simply threw the project at them and told them to do this and that in a hurry. This is my first time experience of leading a team. Also, the power is not in my hands to simple allocate them the training task or actual project task. I do what my CTO told me to do and whenever I have taken a decision to provide training to them on my own, then the CTO tells me everytime, "learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript is not something for which they have to devote months. Teach them the basics in 4 hours and give them a day to do a simple task and then they will be all ready for the project. Rest they will learn while doing the project. We don't have so much time to devote on their training."
Now the irony here is that my company hires the employees just on the basis of their aptitude test and with an extremely easy programming test. They tell the freshers that you will be provided with 6 months training. But in actual, this training goes for no more than 1 week. | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129926",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/73576/"
] | So here's the part that seems sketchy to me: You've asked your employee, John, to do unpaid overtime work on the weekend.
* The reason it's "work" is because learning Angular is not something John would like to do in his free time, hence why he hasn't done it already (and continues to not do it), and it provides no value to John personally except inasmuch as it provides value to the company. Performing a task that is not for one's own benefit and is instead for the sole benefit of one's employer, is called "work".
* As for "overtime", that much should be clear; John is not normally working on the weekends, therefore you have asked him to do work outside of regular hours. That's called "overtime".
* As for "unpaid", presumably you have not offered John any sort of compensation for doing this work on the weekend, and presumably, you do not have the authority to do so. As a result, John is not going to be compensated for putting in these efforts on the weekend. That's called "unpaid".
Now that we've got this straight, as a team leader, and particularly as a *new* team leader, you should not have your first impression with your new team be "please spend your weekend doing unpaid overtime work". That's not going to work for you in the long run. Don't do that.
Coming at this from John's perspective, I could equally see a question (and have seen many on Workplace SE in the past!) that goes something like this:
>
> I recently graduated from University, and I applied to and got a job at a company that was looking for a backend Java developer. Upon joining the company, I was immediately placed into a frontend development team using Angular. I have no experience with Angular, and the interviewer and hiring manager were both aware of this throughout the interview process. Furthermore, due to these circumstances, my boss has required me to work unpaid overtime on weekends to catch up on my lack of knowledge. What should I do?
>
>
>
To which, and because I have seen these sorts of questions in the past, the overwhelming majority response would be "Unpaid overtime is not cool, your company does not respect you, they blindsided you with a team that doesn't match your skillset, find another job". And that's what John is going to do.
If you want to help John rather than frustrate him and make him leave, here's what you can do:
1. Do not ask John (or anyone else!) to work unpaid overtime. That's not cool.
2. If John needs to learn Angular, allow him to do so during work hours. Prepare some ramp-up tasks for him (small tasks to get him used to the framework and used to frontend development) so he can get his feet wet slowly and ramp up his comfort level.
3. Provide John with the mentorship he needs.
Failing the above, ask your chain of command to transfer John to a team which actually uses the skillset he was interviewed for and hired with, and don't blindside him by trying to change a capable backend developer into a horrible frontend developer. | ### Put him on a Personal Improvement Plan.
Simply put, he's not working on the level expected of his position, and is making things actively worse for the other team members, since they have to spend time helping him and correcting his mistakes.
As such, the best course of action is to talk to HR about putting him on a Personal Improvement Plan, which lists the minimum performance requirements for his position, and requires that he meet them by a particular date to retain his position with the company.
Either he meets the requirements by the date, in which case the problem has been solved, or he doesn't and you fire him, in which case the problem has been solved. |
73,796 | Good day everyone, please help me with my confusion.
**"This worked" vs "This would work"**
First, **"This worked"** is in the past tense, and **"This would work"** is in
the past tense too since **"Would"** is the past tense of **"Will"**.
In short, they are both in the past tense, but my question is what are their differences? And
what makes them different from each other?
Thanks in advance! | 2015/11/22 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/73796",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/26723/"
] | The word "would" in that case was not used as the past tense of "will." According to Merriam-Webster, the word "would" can also be used to "talk about a possible situation that has not happened or that you are imagining." (Source: <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/would>) | As long as *would* is considered with a condition, you invoke an imaginary situation set in the present:
>
> This would work *if* you did it. (You don't do it, so it doesn't work.
>
>
>
Now, the use of *would* can be considered as a repeated action or habit in the past (adding more context):
>
> When I was a child, this *would* always work. (Repeated action in the past that it's different now in the present.)
>
>
>
So basically as you were told, the past simple only adds info. of a completed action in the past on a specific time. Either *would* introduces a conditional sentence or a repeated action. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | There are several factors I would consider...
What are your programmers used to working with already? What third party libraries are you likely to need, what's available on both platforms?
Does platform independence matter to you?
Would LinQ be advantageous?
If you're starting from scratch, costs for the platforms?
Both platforms have strong communities around them...
Hope this helps... | Yeah for a pure cross platform application Java can't be beat, but if you can manage it Silverlight is a subset of WPF and a pretty compelling cross-platform proposition on its own.
Productivity-wise I think WPF has an edge as it has a nice XAML markup language that can be easily created with the built-in designer in VS.NET or integrates nicely with MS' suite of expression products. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | Dotnet is pretty much native in Windows which obviously makes it more suited to writing Windows programs. Using Java in a Windows-only environment makes it much harder for you since it effectively just adds another unnecessary API layer.
You will soon realise that all integration points between your Java code and Windows are a bit problematic. For instance, creating installation programs, access file system, reading/writing the registry, starting/stopping services, task bar icons, using Windows GUI components (media player, IE...), help file system...
It all boils down to this imo: The Dotnet framework is much richer in terms of functionality than the Java dito, mainly becuase Java is cross-platform and thus needs a "one-size-fit-all" approach to its API. My experience is that you will only get frustrated trying to "emulate" a Windows native program in Java. | ...But with java you will have crossplatform application on scratch.
Also coding UI in java is not difficult - if you read some guides before and use some frameworks as swing application framework or SWT framework. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | Dotnet is pretty much native in Windows which obviously makes it more suited to writing Windows programs. Using Java in a Windows-only environment makes it much harder for you since it effectively just adds another unnecessary API layer.
You will soon realise that all integration points between your Java code and Windows are a bit problematic. For instance, creating installation programs, access file system, reading/writing the registry, starting/stopping services, task bar icons, using Windows GUI components (media player, IE...), help file system...
It all boils down to this imo: The Dotnet framework is much richer in terms of functionality than the Java dito, mainly becuase Java is cross-platform and thus needs a "one-size-fit-all" approach to its API. My experience is that you will only get frustrated trying to "emulate" a Windows native program in Java. | If its Exclusively for Windows then .Net is best bet. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | Choose the one with which you are most familiar. The two platforms are different enough that skills from one does not transfer easily to the other.
In any case, try making a trivial application in both your scenarios and see how it works for you. The initial impression is important as it is probably indicative of how well the rest of the work will be. | If its Exclusively for Windows then .Net is best bet. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | It also depends on what kind of windows application you want to build. If it's just a question of building a simple standalone application then, considering you know both languages equally well, I wouldn't hesitate and would go for a 100% microsoft solution, especially if you have to do specific things like accessing ActiveDirectory, the windows registry, etc.
Not that you can't do it in Java : you can always use AD through LDAP in Java for example, but the APIs are just "a bit" more complicated than the .Net ones (try to decode objectSIDs in Java without a few tricks).
Now if you have to build an enterprise app. I just feel that popular frameworks like Spring and Hibernate are always coming out after their Java counterparts (disclaimer : this is a personal opinion; I didn't do any research on this, thoroughly comparing frameworks in both languages, but that's just the feeling I have). I don't know how good the .Net implementations are though, so I don't have a point of view on that. I just remember writing .Net 2.0 apps and not liking ADO.Net at all.
My view is that the frameworks I like do exist in both languages, but they are first developed for Java, then ported to .Net.
Now I'm not the kind of developer trying to defend his favourite language over the others. If I don't have external constraints to develop, then I choose whatever language gets my app up and running faster and in the most efficient way. | Yeah for a pure cross platform application Java can't be beat, but if you can manage it Silverlight is a subset of WPF and a pretty compelling cross-platform proposition on its own.
Productivity-wise I think WPF has an edge as it has a nice XAML markup language that can be easily created with the built-in designer in VS.NET or integrates nicely with MS' suite of expression products. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | It also depends on what kind of windows application you want to build. If it's just a question of building a simple standalone application then, considering you know both languages equally well, I wouldn't hesitate and would go for a 100% microsoft solution, especially if you have to do specific things like accessing ActiveDirectory, the windows registry, etc.
Not that you can't do it in Java : you can always use AD through LDAP in Java for example, but the APIs are just "a bit" more complicated than the .Net ones (try to decode objectSIDs in Java without a few tricks).
Now if you have to build an enterprise app. I just feel that popular frameworks like Spring and Hibernate are always coming out after their Java counterparts (disclaimer : this is a personal opinion; I didn't do any research on this, thoroughly comparing frameworks in both languages, but that's just the feeling I have). I don't know how good the .Net implementations are though, so I don't have a point of view on that. I just remember writing .Net 2.0 apps and not liking ADO.Net at all.
My view is that the frameworks I like do exist in both languages, but they are first developed for Java, then ported to .Net.
Now I'm not the kind of developer trying to defend his favourite language over the others. If I don't have external constraints to develop, then I choose whatever language gets my app up and running faster and in the most efficient way. | If its Exclusively for Windows then .Net is best bet. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | There are several factors I would consider...
What are your programmers used to working with already? What third party libraries are you likely to need, what's available on both platforms?
Does platform independence matter to you?
Would LinQ be advantageous?
If you're starting from scratch, costs for the platforms?
Both platforms have strong communities around them...
Hope this helps... | Dotnet is pretty much native in Windows which obviously makes it more suited to writing Windows programs. Using Java in a Windows-only environment makes it much harder for you since it effectively just adds another unnecessary API layer.
You will soon realise that all integration points between your Java code and Windows are a bit problematic. For instance, creating installation programs, access file system, reading/writing the registry, starting/stopping services, task bar icons, using Windows GUI components (media player, IE...), help file system...
It all boils down to this imo: The Dotnet framework is much richer in terms of functionality than the Java dito, mainly becuase Java is cross-platform and thus needs a "one-size-fit-all" approach to its API. My experience is that you will only get frustrated trying to "emulate" a Windows native program in Java. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | Choose the one with which you are most familiar. The two platforms are different enough that skills from one does not transfer easily to the other.
In any case, try making a trivial application in both your scenarios and see how it works for you. The initial impression is important as it is probably indicative of how well the rest of the work will be. | Yeah for a pure cross platform application Java can't be beat, but if you can manage it Silverlight is a subset of WPF and a pretty compelling cross-platform proposition on its own.
Productivity-wise I think WPF has an edge as it has a nice XAML markup language that can be easily created with the built-in designer in VS.NET or integrates nicely with MS' suite of expression products. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | There are several factors I would consider...
What are your programmers used to working with already? What third party libraries are you likely to need, what's available on both platforms?
Does platform independence matter to you?
Would LinQ be advantageous?
If you're starting from scratch, costs for the platforms?
Both platforms have strong communities around them...
Hope this helps... | It also depends on what kind of windows application you want to build. If it's just a question of building a simple standalone application then, considering you know both languages equally well, I wouldn't hesitate and would go for a 100% microsoft solution, especially if you have to do specific things like accessing ActiveDirectory, the windows registry, etc.
Not that you can't do it in Java : you can always use AD through LDAP in Java for example, but the APIs are just "a bit" more complicated than the .Net ones (try to decode objectSIDs in Java without a few tricks).
Now if you have to build an enterprise app. I just feel that popular frameworks like Spring and Hibernate are always coming out after their Java counterparts (disclaimer : this is a personal opinion; I didn't do any research on this, thoroughly comparing frameworks in both languages, but that's just the feeling I have). I don't know how good the .Net implementations are though, so I don't have a point of view on that. I just remember writing .Net 2.0 apps and not liking ADO.Net at all.
My view is that the frameworks I like do exist in both languages, but they are first developed for Java, then ported to .Net.
Now I'm not the kind of developer trying to defend his favourite language over the others. If I don't have external constraints to develop, then I choose whatever language gets my app up and running faster and in the most efficient way. |
2,271,633 | I am quite aware of both java and C# .Net .when i try to create a new windows application which are the factors that decide which technology should be opted?
I know of one thing ,for great and faster UI development Visual studio helps a lot. | 2010/02/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2271633",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/232899/"
] | There are several factors I would consider...
What are your programmers used to working with already? What third party libraries are you likely to need, what's available on both platforms?
Does platform independence matter to you?
Would LinQ be advantageous?
If you're starting from scratch, costs for the platforms?
Both platforms have strong communities around them...
Hope this helps... | ...But with java you will have crossplatform application on scratch.
Also coding UI in java is not difficult - if you read some guides before and use some frameworks as swing application framework or SWT framework. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Shoot with good/interesting light!
See the image below, the reason (ultimately) that the image has nice contrast is the original image has contrast on her face, e.g. once side is quite bright, and the other quite dark, because there is a window beside her.
Try: putting your subject inside, with the lights off, facing you parallel to a window, so the light from the window hits the side of their face.
Also, I post processed this photo, adjusted the exposure (probably down), adjusted black and white levels etc.
Here's a go at improving the image's contrast in post. Note:
* It'd probably be easier to do this starting with the original image
* We're starting in a difficult spot, the shirt is very bright and the face has very little contrast on it
Steps I took:
* Used the 'curves' tool in photoshop to increase contrast every where except the shirt
* Used the dodge tool to lighten up the eyes (I'm not sure I did a great job of it)
* Made it black and white
* Added some overall contrast with UnsharpMark (see LCE in my other answer)
* Ran the smart sharpen filter at 25% at 0.8 pixels for a bit of sharpening
 | Another cause might be your lens. Long zooms, with their large number of elements and multiple surfaces can significantly degrade contrast and colour. In my case when I moved from an 18-125mm lens to a high quality 17-70mm lens the images had significantly better contrast and better colours. It didn't hurt either that they were so much sharper. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Based on the photograph you posted, there actually is quite a bit of contrast. In general, I think the photo is pretty good, if a bit soft (from a lighting standpoint.) You noted that you shot the photo without flash on an overcast day, which is the primary reason for lack of any defining shadows or "lighting contrast", if you will.
I would recommend using additional lighting if your primary light is very diffuse (like an overcast sky.) Perhaps and off-axis flash or something. A strong enough light that comes from an angle to create shadows and bring out depth in your subject.
Another word about contrast...it is not entirely tonal. Color also brings its own contrast, in a more complex form. With monochrome, you only have different levels of brightness to create contrast. With color, different colors of the same tone can also create contrast. Complementary colors, primaries, secondaries, split complements, etc. can all create varying forms of contrast in a scene, even if they are the same brightness level.
If you intend to shoot monochromatic photos, you will be lacking the element of color contrast, and will need to find ways to enhance tonal contrast. In diffuse lighting, this can be difficult, and sometimes you just need to resort to handling it in post-process. A technique that can probably be very helpful without actually overdoing any contrast adjustments is "[local contrast enhancement](http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/local-contrast-enhancement.htm)". This is a technique that aims to improve contrast where it is necessary in smaller areas, without affecting what may be very good contrast from an overall scene standpoint.
Here is a copy of your image with some local contrast enhancement, using Unsharp Mask @ Amount 18%, Radius 97, Threshold 0. The left half is the original, the right half has local contrast enhancement, for comparison:
 | Can you post an example? (even a text link to an image hosted elsewhere)
Here are a few common solutions:
1. Adjust the levels in photoshop or some other tool, using either auto-levels, or just manually pull the whitepoint down to the top of the histogram and the black point up to the bottom (for example: <http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/levels.htm>)
2. Local contrast enhancement: Use unsharp mask, amount: 10%, radius: 200pixels, threshold: 0 (for example: <http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/contrast-enhancement.shtml>)
Aside from what you can do in post, I'd suggest look at the lighting you're taking pictures in. Try taking pictures using window-light only, or on a cloudy day. Avoid bright sunny days. Colors really stand out on cloudy days I find. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Shoot with good/interesting light!
See the image below, the reason (ultimately) that the image has nice contrast is the original image has contrast on her face, e.g. once side is quite bright, and the other quite dark, because there is a window beside her.
Try: putting your subject inside, with the lights off, facing you parallel to a window, so the light from the window hits the side of their face.
Also, I post processed this photo, adjusted the exposure (probably down), adjusted black and white levels etc.
Here's a go at improving the image's contrast in post. Note:
* It'd probably be easier to do this starting with the original image
* We're starting in a difficult spot, the shirt is very bright and the face has very little contrast on it
Steps I took:
* Used the 'curves' tool in photoshop to increase contrast every where except the shirt
* Used the dodge tool to lighten up the eyes (I'm not sure I did a great job of it)
* Made it black and white
* Added some overall contrast with UnsharpMark (see LCE in my other answer)
* Ran the smart sharpen filter at 25% at 0.8 pixels for a bit of sharpening
 | * Are you using flash? Pictures with harsh flash tend have a washed out look, with dark harsh shadows.
* In my experience non-SLRs (Point and Shoot / pocket cameras) get terrible results in-doors without a flash, even in situations that seem well lit to the human eye. Photos may look waxy from too much noise reduction (which is necessary in low light to get a steady shot, hand-held).
* A lot of the time the secret is to have good lighting in the first place. Sometimes a subject just won't look good no matter how good your camera is or how you set your camera settings, if the lighting is too harsh and shadowy. This can also happen in bright daylight, for example. The shadows show up black and the bright parts overexpose--- the camera may not be able to handle the dynamic range. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Based on the photograph you posted, there actually is quite a bit of contrast. In general, I think the photo is pretty good, if a bit soft (from a lighting standpoint.) You noted that you shot the photo without flash on an overcast day, which is the primary reason for lack of any defining shadows or "lighting contrast", if you will.
I would recommend using additional lighting if your primary light is very diffuse (like an overcast sky.) Perhaps and off-axis flash or something. A strong enough light that comes from an angle to create shadows and bring out depth in your subject.
Another word about contrast...it is not entirely tonal. Color also brings its own contrast, in a more complex form. With monochrome, you only have different levels of brightness to create contrast. With color, different colors of the same tone can also create contrast. Complementary colors, primaries, secondaries, split complements, etc. can all create varying forms of contrast in a scene, even if they are the same brightness level.
If you intend to shoot monochromatic photos, you will be lacking the element of color contrast, and will need to find ways to enhance tonal contrast. In diffuse lighting, this can be difficult, and sometimes you just need to resort to handling it in post-process. A technique that can probably be very helpful without actually overdoing any contrast adjustments is "[local contrast enhancement](http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/local-contrast-enhancement.htm)". This is a technique that aims to improve contrast where it is necessary in smaller areas, without affecting what may be very good contrast from an overall scene standpoint.
Here is a copy of your image with some local contrast enhancement, using Unsharp Mask @ Amount 18%, Radius 97, Threshold 0. The left half is the original, the right half has local contrast enhancement, for comparison:
 | * Are you using flash? Pictures with harsh flash tend have a washed out look, with dark harsh shadows.
* In my experience non-SLRs (Point and Shoot / pocket cameras) get terrible results in-doors without a flash, even in situations that seem well lit to the human eye. Photos may look waxy from too much noise reduction (which is necessary in low light to get a steady shot, hand-held).
* A lot of the time the secret is to have good lighting in the first place. Sometimes a subject just won't look good no matter how good your camera is or how you set your camera settings, if the lighting is too harsh and shadowy. This can also happen in bright daylight, for example. The shadows show up black and the bright parts overexpose--- the camera may not be able to handle the dynamic range. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Based on the photograph you posted, there actually is quite a bit of contrast. In general, I think the photo is pretty good, if a bit soft (from a lighting standpoint.) You noted that you shot the photo without flash on an overcast day, which is the primary reason for lack of any defining shadows or "lighting contrast", if you will.
I would recommend using additional lighting if your primary light is very diffuse (like an overcast sky.) Perhaps and off-axis flash or something. A strong enough light that comes from an angle to create shadows and bring out depth in your subject.
Another word about contrast...it is not entirely tonal. Color also brings its own contrast, in a more complex form. With monochrome, you only have different levels of brightness to create contrast. With color, different colors of the same tone can also create contrast. Complementary colors, primaries, secondaries, split complements, etc. can all create varying forms of contrast in a scene, even if they are the same brightness level.
If you intend to shoot monochromatic photos, you will be lacking the element of color contrast, and will need to find ways to enhance tonal contrast. In diffuse lighting, this can be difficult, and sometimes you just need to resort to handling it in post-process. A technique that can probably be very helpful without actually overdoing any contrast adjustments is "[local contrast enhancement](http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/local-contrast-enhancement.htm)". This is a technique that aims to improve contrast where it is necessary in smaller areas, without affecting what may be very good contrast from an overall scene standpoint.
Here is a copy of your image with some local contrast enhancement, using Unsharp Mask @ Amount 18%, Radius 97, Threshold 0. The left half is the original, the right half has local contrast enhancement, for comparison:
 | Another cause might be your lens. Long zooms, with their large number of elements and multiple surfaces can significantly degrade contrast and colour. In my case when I moved from an 18-125mm lens to a high quality 17-70mm lens the images had significantly better contrast and better colours. It didn't hurt either that they were so much sharper. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Please, don't try to fix it later. Another teacher (where I teach photography too) says there should be no such thing as photo-correction, only photo-enhancement. Actually, I don't believe in the latter either ;)
You have to be able to produce sharp pictures with good clarity and plenty of details straight out of the camera.
If you are not, then hundreds of things can be wrong but without an example we cannot tell you what. Some of the most common problems:
* Camera shake: You have to be above a certain shutter-speed (depending on your lens' focal-length and whether it is stabilized) or use a GOOD tripod.
* Too high ISO: Cameras can reach very high-ISO nowadays but it does not mean they should, particularly small cameras with ISO above 1600 will make everything muddy. When lowering the ISO, take care not to use a too-slow shutter-speed though.
* Noise reduction: Some cameras have noise-reduction enabled by default which causes details to show up as muddy. Among small cameras, particularly those with a lot of megapixels (10+) you generally don't even have a choice.
* Out-of-focus: Your camera may tell you that things are in focus but it can still be wrong. If you are using an old-lens on a modern camera, this can happen quite a bit. Some high-end DSLRs allow you to correct this using 'focus micro-adjustments'.
* Your camera or lens is crappy: The biggest mistake when buying a DSLR is spending all your money on the camera and then buying the cheapest lens you can find. I'd say all modern DSLRs are quite good now, but not so of all lenses. Tiny camera with too many megapixels. | * Are you using flash? Pictures with harsh flash tend have a washed out look, with dark harsh shadows.
* In my experience non-SLRs (Point and Shoot / pocket cameras) get terrible results in-doors without a flash, even in situations that seem well lit to the human eye. Photos may look waxy from too much noise reduction (which is necessary in low light to get a steady shot, hand-held).
* A lot of the time the secret is to have good lighting in the first place. Sometimes a subject just won't look good no matter how good your camera is or how you set your camera settings, if the lighting is too harsh and shadowy. This can also happen in bright daylight, for example. The shadows show up black and the bright parts overexpose--- the camera may not be able to handle the dynamic range. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Can you post an example? (even a text link to an image hosted elsewhere)
Here are a few common solutions:
1. Adjust the levels in photoshop or some other tool, using either auto-levels, or just manually pull the whitepoint down to the top of the histogram and the black point up to the bottom (for example: <http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/levels.htm>)
2. Local contrast enhancement: Use unsharp mask, amount: 10%, radius: 200pixels, threshold: 0 (for example: <http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/contrast-enhancement.shtml>)
Aside from what you can do in post, I'd suggest look at the lighting you're taking pictures in. Try taking pictures using window-light only, or on a cloudy day. Avoid bright sunny days. Colors really stand out on cloudy days I find. | * Are you using flash? Pictures with harsh flash tend have a washed out look, with dark harsh shadows.
* In my experience non-SLRs (Point and Shoot / pocket cameras) get terrible results in-doors without a flash, even in situations that seem well lit to the human eye. Photos may look waxy from too much noise reduction (which is necessary in low light to get a steady shot, hand-held).
* A lot of the time the secret is to have good lighting in the first place. Sometimes a subject just won't look good no matter how good your camera is or how you set your camera settings, if the lighting is too harsh and shadowy. This can also happen in bright daylight, for example. The shadows show up black and the bright parts overexpose--- the camera may not be able to handle the dynamic range. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Please, don't try to fix it later. Another teacher (where I teach photography too) says there should be no such thing as photo-correction, only photo-enhancement. Actually, I don't believe in the latter either ;)
You have to be able to produce sharp pictures with good clarity and plenty of details straight out of the camera.
If you are not, then hundreds of things can be wrong but without an example we cannot tell you what. Some of the most common problems:
* Camera shake: You have to be above a certain shutter-speed (depending on your lens' focal-length and whether it is stabilized) or use a GOOD tripod.
* Too high ISO: Cameras can reach very high-ISO nowadays but it does not mean they should, particularly small cameras with ISO above 1600 will make everything muddy. When lowering the ISO, take care not to use a too-slow shutter-speed though.
* Noise reduction: Some cameras have noise-reduction enabled by default which causes details to show up as muddy. Among small cameras, particularly those with a lot of megapixels (10+) you generally don't even have a choice.
* Out-of-focus: Your camera may tell you that things are in focus but it can still be wrong. If you are using an old-lens on a modern camera, this can happen quite a bit. Some high-end DSLRs allow you to correct this using 'focus micro-adjustments'.
* Your camera or lens is crappy: The biggest mistake when buying a DSLR is spending all your money on the camera and then buying the cheapest lens you can find. I'd say all modern DSLRs are quite good now, but not so of all lenses. Tiny camera with too many megapixels. | Another cause might be your lens. Long zooms, with their large number of elements and multiple surfaces can significantly degrade contrast and colour. In my case when I moved from an 18-125mm lens to a high quality 17-70mm lens the images had significantly better contrast and better colours. It didn't hurt either that they were so much sharper. |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Based on the photograph you posted, there actually is quite a bit of contrast. In general, I think the photo is pretty good, if a bit soft (from a lighting standpoint.) You noted that you shot the photo without flash on an overcast day, which is the primary reason for lack of any defining shadows or "lighting contrast", if you will.
I would recommend using additional lighting if your primary light is very diffuse (like an overcast sky.) Perhaps and off-axis flash or something. A strong enough light that comes from an angle to create shadows and bring out depth in your subject.
Another word about contrast...it is not entirely tonal. Color also brings its own contrast, in a more complex form. With monochrome, you only have different levels of brightness to create contrast. With color, different colors of the same tone can also create contrast. Complementary colors, primaries, secondaries, split complements, etc. can all create varying forms of contrast in a scene, even if they are the same brightness level.
If you intend to shoot monochromatic photos, you will be lacking the element of color contrast, and will need to find ways to enhance tonal contrast. In diffuse lighting, this can be difficult, and sometimes you just need to resort to handling it in post-process. A technique that can probably be very helpful without actually overdoing any contrast adjustments is "[local contrast enhancement](http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/local-contrast-enhancement.htm)". This is a technique that aims to improve contrast where it is necessary in smaller areas, without affecting what may be very good contrast from an overall scene standpoint.
Here is a copy of your image with some local contrast enhancement, using Unsharp Mask @ Amount 18%, Radius 97, Threshold 0. The left half is the original, the right half has local contrast enhancement, for comparison:
 | Shoot with good/interesting light!
See the image below, the reason (ultimately) that the image has nice contrast is the original image has contrast on her face, e.g. once side is quite bright, and the other quite dark, because there is a window beside her.
Try: putting your subject inside, with the lights off, facing you parallel to a window, so the light from the window hits the side of their face.
Also, I post processed this photo, adjusted the exposure (probably down), adjusted black and white levels etc.
Here's a go at improving the image's contrast in post. Note:
* It'd probably be easier to do this starting with the original image
* We're starting in a difficult spot, the shirt is very bright and the face has very little contrast on it
Steps I took:
* Used the 'curves' tool in photoshop to increase contrast every where except the shirt
* Used the dodge tool to lighten up the eyes (I'm not sure I did a great job of it)
* Made it black and white
* Added some overall contrast with UnsharpMark (see LCE in my other answer)
* Ran the smart sharpen filter at 25% at 0.8 pixels for a bit of sharpening
 |
4,517 | I've noticed a lot of my pictures look muddy. They don't have very high contrast. I know I can post process some pictures, but what is the secret to having nice contrast in a picture? | 2010/11/01 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4517",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/1972/"
] | Please, don't try to fix it later. Another teacher (where I teach photography too) says there should be no such thing as photo-correction, only photo-enhancement. Actually, I don't believe in the latter either ;)
You have to be able to produce sharp pictures with good clarity and plenty of details straight out of the camera.
If you are not, then hundreds of things can be wrong but without an example we cannot tell you what. Some of the most common problems:
* Camera shake: You have to be above a certain shutter-speed (depending on your lens' focal-length and whether it is stabilized) or use a GOOD tripod.
* Too high ISO: Cameras can reach very high-ISO nowadays but it does not mean they should, particularly small cameras with ISO above 1600 will make everything muddy. When lowering the ISO, take care not to use a too-slow shutter-speed though.
* Noise reduction: Some cameras have noise-reduction enabled by default which causes details to show up as muddy. Among small cameras, particularly those with a lot of megapixels (10+) you generally don't even have a choice.
* Out-of-focus: Your camera may tell you that things are in focus but it can still be wrong. If you are using an old-lens on a modern camera, this can happen quite a bit. Some high-end DSLRs allow you to correct this using 'focus micro-adjustments'.
* Your camera or lens is crappy: The biggest mistake when buying a DSLR is spending all your money on the camera and then buying the cheapest lens you can find. I'd say all modern DSLRs are quite good now, but not so of all lenses. Tiny camera with too many megapixels. | Shoot with good/interesting light!
See the image below, the reason (ultimately) that the image has nice contrast is the original image has contrast on her face, e.g. once side is quite bright, and the other quite dark, because there is a window beside her.
Try: putting your subject inside, with the lights off, facing you parallel to a window, so the light from the window hits the side of their face.
Also, I post processed this photo, adjusted the exposure (probably down), adjusted black and white levels etc.
Here's a go at improving the image's contrast in post. Note:
* It'd probably be easier to do this starting with the original image
* We're starting in a difficult spot, the shirt is very bright and the face has very little contrast on it
Steps I took:
* Used the 'curves' tool in photoshop to increase contrast every where except the shirt
* Used the dodge tool to lighten up the eyes (I'm not sure I did a great job of it)
* Made it black and white
* Added some overall contrast with UnsharpMark (see LCE in my other answer)
* Ran the smart sharpen filter at 25% at 0.8 pixels for a bit of sharpening
 |
4,581,142 | What is the best way to debug a jquery plugin? When I open the plugin in visual studio it is shown as a single line in the editor. Also, when debugging with firebug, the plugin code is shown as a series of lines with no indentation which makes it hard to follow.
JD | 2011/01/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4581142",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/126483/"
] | Download the debug (non-minified) version of the plugin. | Firebug is very helpful as well. But, like SLaks said, unless you have the non-compressed, debug (also called dev) version, line numbers of problems will most likely be useless. |
4,581,142 | What is the best way to debug a jquery plugin? When I open the plugin in visual studio it is shown as a single line in the editor. Also, when debugging with firebug, the plugin code is shown as a series of lines with no indentation which makes it hard to follow.
JD | 2011/01/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4581142",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/126483/"
] | Download the debug (non-minified) version of the plugin. | You can try unminifying with a tool like this one <http://jsbeautifier.org/> if you don't have access to the unminified file. |
4,581,142 | What is the best way to debug a jquery plugin? When I open the plugin in visual studio it is shown as a single line in the editor. Also, when debugging with firebug, the plugin code is shown as a series of lines with no indentation which makes it hard to follow.
JD | 2011/01/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4581142",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/126483/"
] | You can try unminifying with a tool like this one <http://jsbeautifier.org/> if you don't have access to the unminified file. | Firebug is very helpful as well. But, like SLaks said, unless you have the non-compressed, debug (also called dev) version, line numbers of problems will most likely be useless. |
26,405,117 | How to send negative measured numeric in OBX segment of ORU\_R01 profile for PCD DEC profile using HL7 2.6 ??
and also where i can find that requirement defined by IHE..
-Thanks- | 2014/10/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/26405117",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3859722/"
] | Since you have to define a data type for each Observation Value (OBX.5), your question is actually how to use HL7 data types to code negative values. For example, the HL7v2 standard defined NM as:
>
> A number represented as a series of ASCII numeric characters consisting of an optional leading sign (+ or -), the digits and an optional decimal point.
>
>
>
Check HL7v2.6 Chapter 2A for other data types. | Here is a link to the IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine [Technical Framework](http://www.ihe.net/Technical_Frameworks/#PaLM) which contains their requirements. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | We installed it so the tread goes under the riser. We installed hardwood stairs in our home and we cut the bottom of the riser at a slight angle to ensure that the front edge of the riser was always fully touching the tread so you couldn't see a gap between the riser and tread.
I see a lot of places online that say to install the riser first and then install the tread (riser touching the stringers and tread in front of the riser), but I can't honestly think of a reason why it matters. Maybe someone else has a polarizing opinion, but I think either is fine. | Treads and risers install should start at the bottom step. First the riser and then the tread. However, on the tread you leave a 1/4 inch gap on the back edge and then install the next riser. Your riser should be at least 1/2" thick and the tread no less than 1" thick. This gives support to the back of the tread and the 1/4" gap allows for expansion. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | We installed it so the tread goes under the riser. We installed hardwood stairs in our home and we cut the bottom of the riser at a slight angle to ensure that the front edge of the riser was always fully touching the tread so you couldn't see a gap between the riser and tread.
I see a lot of places online that say to install the riser first and then install the tread (riser touching the stringers and tread in front of the riser), but I can't honestly think of a reason why it matters. Maybe someone else has a polarizing opinion, but I think either is fine. | Water flow over the tread which overhang these gaps you guys are talking about. If the tread happen to slope backward, no gap will prevent water from getting inside these gaps. Despite this fact, installing tread first then riser makes your life a whole lot better given that the tread is dead flat. Nevertheless, if you follow the max 1.5" max overhang, there's no possible way an average person or two can lift the tread up without the nose breaking first (doing the otherway). I've tried to do so myself even without he nail and glue in place. Anyhow, just make it look good. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | We installed it so the tread goes under the riser. We installed hardwood stairs in our home and we cut the bottom of the riser at a slight angle to ensure that the front edge of the riser was always fully touching the tread so you couldn't see a gap between the riser and tread.
I see a lot of places online that say to install the riser first and then install the tread (riser touching the stringers and tread in front of the riser), but I can't honestly think of a reason why it matters. Maybe someone else has a polarizing opinion, but I think either is fine. | If you install the tread first and then put in the riser, the riser will add stability to the tread by holding down the back of the tread; then it isn't just all on the nails and glue. This could theoretically matter if you had two adults step on the front of the same stair at the same time, especially if they are *running down* the stairs. Having the riser go first would make it so there is nothing at the back of the tread helping hold it down, and with enough force, physics states that the stair tread could basically "see-saw" on the top of the edge below it and the entire stair could come up.
Now, this shouldn't probably happen if enough nails and glue are used, but...
I'd rather make the weakest point be the actual nose of the tread (the nose would break off) rather than risk the entire stair coming up. At some point, no matter how well you install the stair, if you put enough weight on the front edge of the nose, something is going to give out. What you have to decide is *what* should give? Putting the riser on top of the tread at the back of the tread would probably make it so that rather than the whole tread flipping up, some part of the tread (presumably the nose) would simple break off instead. I guess it's kind of 6 of one, half dozen of the other at that point though, because either way you have a broken stair. The real question, to which I have no answer, is which design can hold more weight before it gives out. My gut says that putting the riser over the stair would hold more weight.
I've also seen people cut the back of the tread and the bottom of the riser at an angle so that the angles are flush with each other (the riser is still on top of the tread, but, the tread extends to the back of the riser). They made the statement that this gives a nicer looking joint/seam. That seems like the best of all worlds to me. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | Treads and risers install should start at the bottom step. First the riser and then the tread. However, on the tread you leave a 1/4 inch gap on the back edge and then install the next riser. Your riser should be at least 1/2" thick and the tread no less than 1" thick. This gives support to the back of the tread and the 1/4" gap allows for expansion. | Since you probably have to rip both the tread and the riser to size, I would install a tread and then the riser on top. So the ripped edge of tread would be covered by riser and the top of the riser would be covered by the next tread. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | The answers of the tread then riser SEEM to make sense, but consider this: A properly installed tread will not come off before the lip breaks off. Using just regular Elmer's wood glue, I used to make treads by gluing the edges of 2 2x6 planks together and then planing and cutting them down (after being clamped for 24 hrs). After that, if I took a sledge to it the plank would never break at the glue joint, but somewhere else along the natural grain. So the stair tread flipping off is highly unlikely. What IS likely is that the overhang could be chipped or damaged and the tread may need to be replaced. If you go riser over tread then you will essentially lock the stairs together to where you cannot remove a single tread in the middle somewhere without tearing up a lot of the assembled stairs. Additionally, locking any wood assembly together completely isn't always good for expansion and contraction caused by potential seasonal humidity change. This isn't always a factor in certain natural climates and/or exceptionally well controlled climates, but if it can be, it should be considered. | Water flow over the tread which overhang these gaps you guys are talking about. If the tread happen to slope backward, no gap will prevent water from getting inside these gaps. Despite this fact, installing tread first then riser makes your life a whole lot better given that the tread is dead flat. Nevertheless, if you follow the max 1.5" max overhang, there's no possible way an average person or two can lift the tread up without the nose breaking first (doing the otherway). I've tried to do so myself even without he nail and glue in place. Anyhow, just make it look good. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | Treads and risers install should start at the bottom step. First the riser and then the tread. However, on the tread you leave a 1/4 inch gap on the back edge and then install the next riser. Your riser should be at least 1/2" thick and the tread no less than 1" thick. This gives support to the back of the tread and the 1/4" gap allows for expansion. | If you install the tread first and then put in the riser, the riser will add stability to the tread by holding down the back of the tread; then it isn't just all on the nails and glue. This could theoretically matter if you had two adults step on the front of the same stair at the same time, especially if they are *running down* the stairs. Having the riser go first would make it so there is nothing at the back of the tread helping hold it down, and with enough force, physics states that the stair tread could basically "see-saw" on the top of the edge below it and the entire stair could come up.
Now, this shouldn't probably happen if enough nails and glue are used, but...
I'd rather make the weakest point be the actual nose of the tread (the nose would break off) rather than risk the entire stair coming up. At some point, no matter how well you install the stair, if you put enough weight on the front edge of the nose, something is going to give out. What you have to decide is *what* should give? Putting the riser on top of the tread at the back of the tread would probably make it so that rather than the whole tread flipping up, some part of the tread (presumably the nose) would simple break off instead. I guess it's kind of 6 of one, half dozen of the other at that point though, because either way you have a broken stair. The real question, to which I have no answer, is which design can hold more weight before it gives out. My gut says that putting the riser over the stair would hold more weight.
I've also seen people cut the back of the tread and the bottom of the riser at an angle so that the angles are flush with each other (the riser is still on top of the tread, but, the tread extends to the back of the riser). They made the statement that this gives a nicer looking joint/seam. That seems like the best of all worlds to me. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | Treads and risers install should start at the bottom step. First the riser and then the tread. However, on the tread you leave a 1/4 inch gap on the back edge and then install the next riser. Your riser should be at least 1/2" thick and the tread no less than 1" thick. This gives support to the back of the tread and the 1/4" gap allows for expansion. | Water flow over the tread which overhang these gaps you guys are talking about. If the tread happen to slope backward, no gap will prevent water from getting inside these gaps. Despite this fact, installing tread first then riser makes your life a whole lot better given that the tread is dead flat. Nevertheless, if you follow the max 1.5" max overhang, there's no possible way an average person or two can lift the tread up without the nose breaking first (doing the otherway). I've tried to do so myself even without he nail and glue in place. Anyhow, just make it look good. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | The answers of the tread then riser SEEM to make sense, but consider this: A properly installed tread will not come off before the lip breaks off. Using just regular Elmer's wood glue, I used to make treads by gluing the edges of 2 2x6 planks together and then planing and cutting them down (after being clamped for 24 hrs). After that, if I took a sledge to it the plank would never break at the glue joint, but somewhere else along the natural grain. So the stair tread flipping off is highly unlikely. What IS likely is that the overhang could be chipped or damaged and the tread may need to be replaced. If you go riser over tread then you will essentially lock the stairs together to where you cannot remove a single tread in the middle somewhere without tearing up a lot of the assembled stairs. Additionally, locking any wood assembly together completely isn't always good for expansion and contraction caused by potential seasonal humidity change. This isn't always a factor in certain natural climates and/or exceptionally well controlled climates, but if it can be, it should be considered. | Since you probably have to rip both the tread and the riser to size, I would install a tread and then the riser on top. So the ripped edge of tread would be covered by riser and the top of the riser would be covered by the next tread. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | The answers of the tread then riser SEEM to make sense, but consider this: A properly installed tread will not come off before the lip breaks off. Using just regular Elmer's wood glue, I used to make treads by gluing the edges of 2 2x6 planks together and then planing and cutting them down (after being clamped for 24 hrs). After that, if I took a sledge to it the plank would never break at the glue joint, but somewhere else along the natural grain. So the stair tread flipping off is highly unlikely. What IS likely is that the overhang could be chipped or damaged and the tread may need to be replaced. If you go riser over tread then you will essentially lock the stairs together to where you cannot remove a single tread in the middle somewhere without tearing up a lot of the assembled stairs. Additionally, locking any wood assembly together completely isn't always good for expansion and contraction caused by potential seasonal humidity change. This isn't always a factor in certain natural climates and/or exceptionally well controlled climates, but if it can be, it should be considered. | Treads and risers install should start at the bottom step. First the riser and then the tread. However, on the tread you leave a 1/4 inch gap on the back edge and then install the next riser. Your riser should be at least 1/2" thick and the tread no less than 1" thick. This gives support to the back of the tread and the 1/4" gap allows for expansion. |
28,690 | When assembling stair treads and risers, is it better to have the tread tucked under the riser or have the riser tucked in between the tread and the stringer riser backing? I am inclined to think the former because that way the tread gets more framing support but the way my current stairs are assembled is the latter, hence my uncertainty.
See picture. | 2013/06/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28690",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/9354/"
] | We installed it so the tread goes under the riser. We installed hardwood stairs in our home and we cut the bottom of the riser at a slight angle to ensure that the front edge of the riser was always fully touching the tread so you couldn't see a gap between the riser and tread.
I see a lot of places online that say to install the riser first and then install the tread (riser touching the stringers and tread in front of the riser), but I can't honestly think of a reason why it matters. Maybe someone else has a polarizing opinion, but I think either is fine. | It comes down to flow. From top to bottom on any assembly you should build it so water flows downward and not inside the assembly. If the riser is installed first and the tread pushed up to it, any liquid, dirt or dust falls in between the tread and the riser. This could cause grief, and in the case of dirt be rather unsightly. With water the water flows under the tread. With all building assemblies there is the easy way, riser then tread, and the right way, tread then riser. The latter being more mathematical to assemble due to the mop and skirt boards. Always think of how water flows when building anything even if you believe water will never enter the picture. |
6,399,190 | I am researching CMS systems, something I know little about. I am an animator and generate large numbers of files and have many source files that I use. There are so many its become difficult to manage them all and keep some organization. Can someone suggest an Open Source CMS solution that could aid in organizing these files.
Thanks | 2011/06/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6399190",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/804896/"
] | Apparently, these systems are called "digital asset management systems" when they're not about text but about images.
An overview about open-source ones can be found [here](http://www.opensourcedigitalassetmanagement.org/) | [Razuna](http://www.razuna.org/) looks quite good, I'm looking for a similar solution - though i probably won't have trillions of textures files or something, I do have loads of .psd/.ai/.indd formats, which a number of systems offer thumbnail preview to a certain degree.
One thing to look out for is whether the system can handle/use/manipulate [IPTC](http://www.iptc.org/site/Home/) metadata, basically what this means is when metadata is embedded in an asset, the system can present that to you in a digestable format. An example of this is Google's Picassa which allows search indexing on this data. Also a number of stock asset sites both use and produce this data in their asset sets - so when you download an image for example, it comes pre-tagged with "woman, standing, smiling, photo, office" so you only have to add your own tags on top, for example "telecoms project, overview module".
Again, if you're generating a swathe of files from your output then it may depend on the nature of your file output as to what kind of versioning/management you need?
If, for example, you have output that is made up of a bunch of source files, some of which are program-specific and some of which are linked assets, then you might want to put the whole lot under version control ([PlasticSCM](http://www.plasticscm.com) or Subversion perhaps) and "exclude" graphic files by their file type. Then, use something like Razuna to upload, hold and display your graphic files.
I noticed with Razuna that you can organise things by category, and assign multiple categories - that is, you have 1 set of files but multiple views of them. That's why I liked Razuna, though to be honest the demo crapped out but it could've been because I changed email and profile data half way through the trial.
Interested to know how you go in your search and what you've found to be useful! |
6,399,190 | I am researching CMS systems, something I know little about. I am an animator and generate large numbers of files and have many source files that I use. There are so many its become difficult to manage them all and keep some organization. Can someone suggest an Open Source CMS solution that could aid in organizing these files.
Thanks | 2011/06/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6399190",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/804896/"
] | Apparently, these systems are called "digital asset management systems" when they're not about text but about images.
An overview about open-source ones can be found [here](http://www.opensourcedigitalassetmanagement.org/) | We're looking for something as well, preferably cloud-based, but that's not a requirement.
We're looking right now at Razuna. It has a lot of great features. The organization seems very flexilble, which is great. The
But it doesn't seem very mature in some ways. The development team I think is small. Some features don't work reliably (e.g., uploading additional versions of an asset [such as different resolutions] works intermittently and only with IE as far as I can tell.)
So if anyone has any other systems worth a look I'd be glad to hear about them. |
6,399,190 | I am researching CMS systems, something I know little about. I am an animator and generate large numbers of files and have many source files that I use. There are so many its become difficult to manage them all and keep some organization. Can someone suggest an Open Source CMS solution that could aid in organizing these files.
Thanks | 2011/06/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6399190",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/804896/"
] | Apparently, these systems are called "digital asset management systems" when they're not about text but about images.
An overview about open-source ones can be found [here](http://www.opensourcedigitalassetmanagement.org/) | In the end, Razuna was just too immature for us. It's a great effort. The dev team is obviously talented and sincere. In a couple of years they may well have a great product. I wish them luck.
We've settled on a commercial service, WebDAM. It some ways it's very comprehensive and does a lot of things well. The price is not too bad, and there's a nice API to program against, so we will be able to lean on it heavily for image selection and then incorporate it into our automated processes, grabbing images as needed programmatically.
In on other ways it a little maddening. The UI, in particular, could use a lot of work to make it easier to use for the average person. It was clearly designed by programmers. A lot of UI niceties that would not be that hard to add are missing. Obvious things like boxes with data being too small while a lot of screen real estate goes unused.
The keyword capability is useful but there doesn't have obvious things like synonyms and stemming when you search. This will make things harder on our users and will have to be planned carefully to make sure it's as useful as it can be.
We're still just in the planning stages, so not sure how it will fly once we go live, but we're going to give it a shot. You might want to have a look at it. But they have a much more mature development effort going on and more support for the customer, which swayed us in the end. |
831,848 | I want to know how to install two bluestacks in a system and then run it.
Is it possible to run bluestacks in Virtualbox | 2014/10/26 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/831848",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/383860/"
] | Bluestacks is an android emulator. As with any emulator it is very heavy on system resources. In addition, bluestacks installs services that remain active constantly.
For that reason, no, you cannot install 2 bluestacks next to eachother on a system. You might be able to run bluestacks from a different user and be able to have a different profile.
Also, you should not install bluestacks in a virtualbox because that will make it way too slow to be using. | You can run directly android on VirtualBox I have tested and it's working very well. the version 4.4 r2 is a good one
You can find some iso [here](http://www.android-x86.org/) |
831,848 | I want to know how to install two bluestacks in a system and then run it.
Is it possible to run bluestacks in Virtualbox | 2014/10/26 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/831848",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/383860/"
] | **Running Bluestacks inside VirtualBox works.**
Out of curiosity I tried to do what OP asked: I created a windows 8.1 pro virtual machine, downloaded bluestacks, installed it and it just runs. The VM has 2048 MB RAM, 1 CPU Core and even without installed virtualbox guest tools speed isn't as bad as you might think. The host machine was a Intel i7 3770K (Ivy Bridge) with 16 GB RAM. So YMMV. But at the time it also had bluestacks running on the host and two instances of android with genymotion, so I think it should be fast enough for many configurations.
**Running multiple Android devices on your PC is much easier with genymotion.**
I don't know what you want to achieve but if you want to have multiple android devices at the same time on your PC, you could do this with genymotion much easier than having bluestacks inside a virtualbox machine. | You can run directly android on VirtualBox I have tested and it's working very well. the version 4.4 r2 is a good one
You can find some iso [here](http://www.android-x86.org/) |
35,396 | In the movie Batman Begins, Batman goes into the Narrows to check where the drugs are going. He gets into a fight with Dr.Crane dressed with scarecrow mask and Batman is given the hallucinogenic spray by crane and is also set on fire.
After this Batman with great difficulty manages to reach the roof top and after that he calls Alfred for help and the next scene he is in Alfred's car. My question is.
* How did Alfred get Batman out of the Narrows even where cops go with force.
* Any theory will be welcome. | 2015/06/15 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/35396",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/9473/"
] | There's no help in the script or the novelisation. I assume the missing scene (where Alfred parks the car, heads up to the roof, spends some time looking for Bruce, then helps him down to the car) was ignored because it's trivial and doesn't advance the plot.
In the [screenplay](https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C8ynFV0obhAC&pg=PT62&lpg=PT62&dq=%22and%20a%20sizzle,%20as%20wet%20pavement%20damps%20the%20flames%22&source=bl&ots=Lxau9Hw455&sig=D3Bjlc4qH-0Y3RUMaWZvzNyTXug&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VYSIVeaTJsGsU9jxmLgK&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22and%20a%20sizzle%2C%20as%20wet%20pavement%20damps%20the%20flames%22&f=false) he simply calls Alfred and in the next scene he's in the car.
>
> Batman smashes through the window, cloak ablaze … Falling … Tries to activate his cloak – but only gets one side to pop open … the deployed wing causes him to spiral.
>
> **Insert cut:** Young Bruce falling, falling in the well shaft –
>
> Batman plummets, trailing flame, unopened wing fluttering with the violent flapping of –
>
> **Bats:** screeching, flapping, fluttering darkness …
>
> Batman’s stiff wing hooks a railing – slows him with a jolt – rips – dropping him to the ground with a crash …
>
> Young Bruce hits the dirt at the bottom of the shaft –
>
> – and a sizzle, as wet pavement damps the flames. Groaning, Batman rolls his burning Batsuit along the asphalt.
>
> Two Men at a hole-in-the-wall store stare at Batman, astonished.
>
> **Batman, smoldering, looks up:** the two Men loom, menacing. Batman lurches into an alley … the two Men look at each other, dumbfounded. Batman raises his grapnel-gun, fires up at the enclosed roof – rides up – punches his way through wire and metal, crawls onto his back, staring up at the skyscrapers of Gotham. Rain blurring his vision.
>
> **Insert cut:** Young Bruce watches his father crumple.
>
> Batman fumbles at his belt. Pulls out a tiny phone.
>
> BATMAN: (hoarse) Alfred?! Alfred?!
>
>
> **INT. ROLLS – LATER 148**
>
>
> Alfred drives, looks through the rear-view mirror at Batman, who lies in the back, flinching at invisible antagonists.
>
>
>
Interestingly, in the [novel](http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_Begins_(Book)) he doesn't use his grapnel gun at all, he just lies in the alley waiting for Alfred to arrive which actually makes more sense (but is less cool):
>
> Batman stepped into the light of a streetlamp—a gaunt, black figure with smoke rising from it.
>
> “Never mind,” the man said, and he and his companion ran.
>
> Batman limped into an alley and from his utility belt pulled out a tiny phone. He pressed a button, and in a hoarse whisper said, “Alfred?”
>
> Forty minutes later, Batman lay sprawled on the rear seat of Alfred’s Bentley as Alfred turned toward the manor. The smell of scorched fabric filled the car.
>
>
>
Purely as a matter of interest, in many prior versions, both Batman and Robin's belts contains a [tracker device](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SZfZT.jpg) that allows Alfred to locate them in emergencies. | Alfred is an ex-military man who acquired a number of advanced and practical skills. Considering his capability with mechanics and engineering, it stands for reason that he is able to locate and retrieve wounded individuals.
However... this scene is glossed over in the movie for theatrical purposes. |
40,806 | After Paul scolds the Corinthians for bearing people who preach things not according to Christ, he says:
>
> For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.(ASV)
>
>
>
Paul proceeds to defend himself as not misusing them for financial gain and then in v13 refers to false apostles:
>
> For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning
> themselves into apostles of Christ.(ASV)
>
>
>
In v5 is Paul speaking of these people who make themselves out to be apostles or having apostolic authority OR the 12 apostles who had actually followed Christ? (OR...?) | 2019/05/23 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/40806",
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] | **Q: ***Who are the "chiefest apostles" in 2 Cor.11:5?*****
The **supper-apostles** in (v5), Paul identifies in v-4 as those **who proclaim - “another Jesus; .a different Spirit; a different gospel,**” **not** the gospel preached by “Apostles - the twelves.”
They were itinerant, self-appointed Hebraic Jewish believers, i.e. ([Acts 15:1-21; Gal. 2:1-5](https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/passage/?q=acts%2015:1-21;%20galatians%202:1-5)). Paul was firm against them and even without hesitant pronounced, repeatedly, a curse on those itinerant "super-apostles" who spread "another Gospel([Gal 1:6-9](https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/galatians/passage/?q=galatians%201:6-9)).
**A Note:**
Those so-called **"Supper-apostles**" were propagating, as Paul termed,
**"Another gospel" = the Word + their traditional teachings.**
And such a false gospel confused the Antioch church (Acts 15).
It is worth noting, one of the hallmarks of the "**super-apostles**" is the "**tare- spirit"**([Matt. 13:24-30](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013%3A24-30&version=NKJV)) working in them. They were in effect "making void the word of God with their traditions ([Mk. 7:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mk.%207%3A13&version=NKJV)), and thus "breaking the Scriptures" ([Jn. 10:35](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jn.%2010%3A35&version=NKJV)).
The same tare - spirit is still at work among Christendom confusing the Word and has caused discord and divisions in the Body of Christ.
Apostle John says, do not believe every spirit but test ([1 John 4:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%204%3A1&version=NKJV)), and that responsibility falls on each matured Believer (<https://www.biblestudytools.com/hebrews/5-14.html>).
Jesus sent the Holy Spirit -" another Helper (ἄλλον Παράκλητον) and said when the Holy Spirit-the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide into all the truth and do more ([Jn. 14:17, 26; 16:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2014%3A%2017%2C26%3B%2016%3A13&version=NKJV)). When we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit and the Word, we will not be deceived.
>
> ***The "super-apostles" will not be there for us, but we will stand at the door!***
>
>
>
--- | Some other translations of 2 Corinthians 11:5 -
>
> But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super apostles." (NIV)
>
>
> Yet I consider myself as in no way inferior to these [precious] extra-super [false] apostles. (AMP)
>
>
>
Verse 5 is referring to people who make themselves out to be apostles or having apostolic authority.
Paul also refers to the work he had being doing for God after verse 5 and in verse 12 refers back to these false apostles (the 12 apostles appointed by Jesus Christ are not the 'false apostles').
It appears that there were some people wanting the recognition that Paul and his companions were receiving from the churches, but these "super apostles" whilst possibly well sounding, were not actually doing the hard work, or going through the sufferings and trials similar to Paul and his companions. Paul and his companions were Christian soldiers, deserving of recognition, but not claiming it. These others were like those that might falsely wear military medals, and seek recognition for service they have never actually done. |
40,806 | After Paul scolds the Corinthians for bearing people who preach things not according to Christ, he says:
>
> For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.(ASV)
>
>
>
Paul proceeds to defend himself as not misusing them for financial gain and then in v13 refers to false apostles:
>
> For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning
> themselves into apostles of Christ.(ASV)
>
>
>
In v5 is Paul speaking of these people who make themselves out to be apostles or having apostolic authority OR the 12 apostles who had actually followed Christ? (OR...?) | 2019/05/23 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/40806",
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] | **Q: ***Who are the "chiefest apostles" in 2 Cor.11:5?*****
The **supper-apostles** in (v5), Paul identifies in v-4 as those **who proclaim - “another Jesus; .a different Spirit; a different gospel,**” **not** the gospel preached by “Apostles - the twelves.”
They were itinerant, self-appointed Hebraic Jewish believers, i.e. ([Acts 15:1-21; Gal. 2:1-5](https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/passage/?q=acts%2015:1-21;%20galatians%202:1-5)). Paul was firm against them and even without hesitant pronounced, repeatedly, a curse on those itinerant "super-apostles" who spread "another Gospel([Gal 1:6-9](https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/galatians/passage/?q=galatians%201:6-9)).
**A Note:**
Those so-called **"Supper-apostles**" were propagating, as Paul termed,
**"Another gospel" = the Word + their traditional teachings.**
And such a false gospel confused the Antioch church (Acts 15).
It is worth noting, one of the hallmarks of the "**super-apostles**" is the "**tare- spirit"**([Matt. 13:24-30](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013%3A24-30&version=NKJV)) working in them. They were in effect "making void the word of God with their traditions ([Mk. 7:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mk.%207%3A13&version=NKJV)), and thus "breaking the Scriptures" ([Jn. 10:35](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jn.%2010%3A35&version=NKJV)).
The same tare - spirit is still at work among Christendom confusing the Word and has caused discord and divisions in the Body of Christ.
Apostle John says, do not believe every spirit but test ([1 John 4:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%204%3A1&version=NKJV)), and that responsibility falls on each matured Believer (<https://www.biblestudytools.com/hebrews/5-14.html>).
Jesus sent the Holy Spirit -" another Helper (ἄλλον Παράκλητον) and said when the Holy Spirit-the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide into all the truth and do more ([Jn. 14:17, 26; 16:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2014%3A%2017%2C26%3B%2016%3A13&version=NKJV)). When we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit and the Word, we will not be deceived.
>
> ***The "super-apostles" will not be there for us, but we will stand at the door!***
>
>
>
--- | 2 Cor 11:5 uses the phrase "chiefest apostles" (Ὑπερλίαν ἀποστόλων) or even more literally, "hyper-apostles". Such an expression is unique in the NT and displays some of Paul's characteristic passion about the subject. I suggest it is a combination of the following meanings:
* A reference to 2 Cor 10:18 and its earlier discussion about some apostles that "pump up their own tires", that is, were tireless self-promoters - people who wanted great recognition. (In another context, Simon Magnus was such a person in the book of Acts)
* While there were clearly more apostles than just the original "twelve" (eg, Apollos, Barnabas, and Paul himself), some among the original twelve appear to have been called "leaders" as per Gal 2:1.
* However, the most likely principle meaning is just an idiom suggesting that he, Paul, was no less than any other apostle because he had been called by God the same as the others, and displayed all the same gifts (see 2 Cor 11, etc).
The Pulpit Commentary observes:
>
> I was not a whit behind; in no respect have I come short of. The very
> chiefest apostles. The word used by St. Paul for "very chiefest" is
> one which, in its strangeness, marks the vehemence of his emotion. It
> involves an indignant sense that he had been most disparagingly
> compared with other apostles, as though he were hardly a genuine
> apostle at all. Yet he reckons himself to have done as much as the
> "above exceedingly" - or, as it might be expressed, the "out and out,"
> "extra-super," or "super-apostolic," apostles. There is here no
> reflection whatever on the twelve; he merely means that, even if any
> with whom he was uufavourably contrasted were "apostles ten times
> over," he can claim to be in the front rank with them.
>
>
> |
40,806 | After Paul scolds the Corinthians for bearing people who preach things not according to Christ, he says:
>
> For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.(ASV)
>
>
>
Paul proceeds to defend himself as not misusing them for financial gain and then in v13 refers to false apostles:
>
> For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning
> themselves into apostles of Christ.(ASV)
>
>
>
In v5 is Paul speaking of these people who make themselves out to be apostles or having apostolic authority OR the 12 apostles who had actually followed Christ? (OR...?) | 2019/05/23 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/40806",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/21547/"
] | **Q: ***Who are the "chiefest apostles" in 2 Cor.11:5?*****
The **supper-apostles** in (v5), Paul identifies in v-4 as those **who proclaim - “another Jesus; .a different Spirit; a different gospel,**” **not** the gospel preached by “Apostles - the twelves.”
They were itinerant, self-appointed Hebraic Jewish believers, i.e. ([Acts 15:1-21; Gal. 2:1-5](https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/passage/?q=acts%2015:1-21;%20galatians%202:1-5)). Paul was firm against them and even without hesitant pronounced, repeatedly, a curse on those itinerant "super-apostles" who spread "another Gospel([Gal 1:6-9](https://www.biblestudytools.com/nkjv/galatians/passage/?q=galatians%201:6-9)).
**A Note:**
Those so-called **"Supper-apostles**" were propagating, as Paul termed,
**"Another gospel" = the Word + their traditional teachings.**
And such a false gospel confused the Antioch church (Acts 15).
It is worth noting, one of the hallmarks of the "**super-apostles**" is the "**tare- spirit"**([Matt. 13:24-30](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013%3A24-30&version=NKJV)) working in them. They were in effect "making void the word of God with their traditions ([Mk. 7:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mk.%207%3A13&version=NKJV)), and thus "breaking the Scriptures" ([Jn. 10:35](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jn.%2010%3A35&version=NKJV)).
The same tare - spirit is still at work among Christendom confusing the Word and has caused discord and divisions in the Body of Christ.
Apostle John says, do not believe every spirit but test ([1 John 4:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%204%3A1&version=NKJV)), and that responsibility falls on each matured Believer (<https://www.biblestudytools.com/hebrews/5-14.html>).
Jesus sent the Holy Spirit -" another Helper (ἄλλον Παράκλητον) and said when the Holy Spirit-the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide into all the truth and do more ([Jn. 14:17, 26; 16:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2014%3A%2017%2C26%3B%2016%3A13&version=NKJV)). When we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit and the Word, we will not be deceived.
>
> ***The "super-apostles" will not be there for us, but we will stand at the door!***
>
>
>
--- | >
> 2 Corinthians 11:5 I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles."
>
>
>
super
Ὑπερλίαν (Hyperlian)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 5228: Gen: in behalf of; acc: above.
I detect sarcasm when Paul uses the prefix "super".
In the verse just before it:
>
> 4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
>
>
>
Paul is talking about false preachers who claim authority over the Corinthians.
Later in verse 13
>
> For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
>
>
>
So verse 5 is surrounded by references to false preachers and false apostles. It is reasonable to conclude from the context that the so-called "super-apostles" refers to false teachers and not the 12 apostles. |
4,238,146 | Are there any websites that provides data (of any topic) to apply data mining techniques such as classification and association rules? | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4238146",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/515117/"
] | <http://www.fedstats.gov/> | A great source is [UCI Machine Learning Repositor](http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/) |
18,132 | At the time of writing this question, the [Turkish referendum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_constitutional_referendum,_2017) for changing the Constitution has just finished with approval of these changes (about 51% for "Yes").
According to [this source](https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-07-19/over-50000-people-reportedly-arrested-or-fired-turkeys-coup-attempt), Turkish government has operated tremendous changes after the failed military coup:
>
> Here are some more startling numbers, according to the BBC: 6,000
> military personnel arrested, including more than two dozen generals
> awaiting trial; 9,000 police officers fired; almost 3,000 judges
> suspended; and more than 250 members of Prime Minister Binali
> Yildirim's staff removed from their posts, as have 1,500 Finance
> Ministry employees.
>
>
>
So, from a layman's perspective Erdogan and his Government already have immense power, as they operated a lot of changes in key positions. So, even without a presidential system, Erdogan's will prevailed.
**Question: what is the purpose of such a referendum, if the power was already concentrated in Erdogan's and his Government's hands (or at least it looks like this)?** | 2017/04/16 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/18132",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/11278/"
] | Yes, as the Office of the President is largely ceremonial now. In this referendum, there are a few notable changes to the constitution that will give the President more **official powers** as seen below.
1.
--
The **existing parliamentary system of government will be replaced with an executive presidency and a presidential system**. This means that the office of the Prime Minister will be abolished, thus giving more authority to the President in deciding the policies of the country.
2.
--
The President will be given more authority over Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors appointments.
3.
--
Also, the incumbent President can now hold the office until 2029, with 1 more 5-year term compared to currently.
---
This graphic [published in CNN summarised](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/16/europe/turkey-referendum) everything that's changed:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ztgS.jpg)
In conclusion, the President will hold executor powers instead of the Parliament if this referendum passes.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | For Erdogan, it doesn't really affects much. Because the PEOPLE, more than half supports HIM. So he wins ANY kind of election or referandum and probably he will.
Practically he chose the prime minister and the all cabinet and the all parliament (of ruling party). And even he choses the (his party's) candidates of Mayors for each city.
For example he decided to change the prime minister (Ahmet Davutoğlu), and Mr. Davutoğlu resigned, then Binali Yıldırım is selected (as Erdoğan wants). And Ahmet Davutoğlu became prime minister with Erdoğan's will too. Davutoğlu also knows that people didn't vote for directly him but Erdoğan when he is selected on 1st of November 2015.
BUT there will be 2 changes.
1. Some of his practices are not legal (he had to be unbiased among political parties as the president but he obviously was not). Became legal.
2. More importantly, after Erdogan (at most 15 years later) there will be no leader such him. And coalition in cabinet never gave good results in Turkey. New Constitution will prevent some kind of uncertainty.
So I think the referandum for after Erdoğan. |
58,690 | Google analytics offers the nice feature of letting one know, where a user is coming from.
We are currently sending out emails containing links to our website and I would like to know how many people click on that link.
For that I was hoping that there exists some Web service which allows one to register a url www.myurl.com. The Web service would then generate a new url something like www.service.com/myurl which redirects to wherever myurl.com was pointing in the first place.
By including the redirect url in the emails, it would easy to see how many people actually clicked on the link.
If there is an alliterative solution for the above scenario I am more than interested in learning about it. | 2014/02/25 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/58690",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/34299/"
] | You can use [Google Analytics URL builder](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en) to construct your URL's in emails and then view visits to your website via these URL's in the 'Campaigns' section of Google Analytics and drill down, segment, create custom reports as you see fit. | I use `bitly.com` which gives me a breakdown of country, of websites, and the number of hits in each. With an upgrade can give me a lot more tracking visits info. I can also customise (tag) my new URL. There are many other shortening URL sites which do the same. Just Google URL shortning sites |
182,568 | I don't like the feature that automatically detects faces in Photos for OS X because of the unnecessary CPU and disk space consumption. A photo library of 360 MB generated 50 MB of face detection data inside the Photos Library.
Is there any way to disable this feature in Photos for OS X? | 2015/04/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/182568",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/103667/"
] | Unfortunately, you can only side-step the issue by clicking the Albums tab > Faces, and select each found face & delete it. You cannot bulk select, so this must be done manually for each face.
You should log an enhancement request (or three) at the [Photos Feedback](http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html) page. | in search type 'face0' all the faces will come up. then select all and delete. |
182,568 | I don't like the feature that automatically detects faces in Photos for OS X because of the unnecessary CPU and disk space consumption. A photo library of 360 MB generated 50 MB of face detection data inside the Photos Library.
Is there any way to disable this feature in Photos for OS X? | 2015/04/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/182568",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/103667/"
] | Unfortunately, you can only side-step the issue by clicking the Albums tab > Faces, and select each found face & delete it. You cannot bulk select, so this must be done manually for each face.
You should log an enhancement request (or three) at the [Photos Feedback](http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html) page. | You can find the option in **View > Hide Face Names**. |
182,568 | I don't like the feature that automatically detects faces in Photos for OS X because of the unnecessary CPU and disk space consumption. A photo library of 360 MB generated 50 MB of face detection data inside the Photos Library.
Is there any way to disable this feature in Photos for OS X? | 2015/04/25 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/182568",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/103667/"
] | There is a way to do this now in Photos Version 3.0 (3271.13.150).
In the sidebar select People. Then select all the faces that show up and right click. There is an option to delete/reset all saved face data. | You can find the option in **View > Hide Face Names**. |
81,366 | I have two lights from B&Q which are normally battery powered but can be powered by a transformer with a regulated output of 6 V, 0.5 A DC. I would like to set up the lights to be powered off the same transformer but don't know how to calculate the voltage and current the transformer would be required to output (in either series or parallel).
I'd also like to add a time delay switch to the circuit - would [this one](http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Danlers-Plated-3-Wire-Time-Lag-Switch-6A-Resistive-or-Fluorescent-TLSW-A20-/271266710463?pt=UK_DIY_Material_Electrical_Fittings_MJ&hash=item3f28c183bf) work? | 2013/09/05 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/81366",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/28548/"
] | So, when you are connecting two lights in series, the current stays the same, but the voltage sums - U = 6 + 6 = 12V; I= 0.5A.
For parallel, the voltage is same, but the current is doubled - U = 6V; I = 0.5 + 0.5 = 1A | To power your two lights connected in parallel, you need a 6 volt, 1 amp power supply,based on the information you supplied. However, since the lights are designed for battery power, I suspect that they actually need much less than 0.5A each, so you may be able to run them both from an 0.5A supply - if you have an ammeter, you could check the actual current draw of the lights to be sure...
The time switch you linked to appears to require 230V AC, since the spec. says it requires a neutral connection, so it won't work on your 6 V DC, but should work on the 230V input to the power supply. |
180,332 | When attempting to import a bunch of data into mysql tables using python and mysqldb, I run into the following error '2006 - mySQL Server has gone away', and then I am unable to reconnect again within the script.
I am iniitially re-using a connection object across transactions ( delineated by conn.commit() ), then when I first encounter this exception, if I create a new connection by calling MySQLdb.connect(), this new connection also fails with the same exception.
This error does not occur immediately, I can pump a fair amount of data into the db, but then faithfully occurs after I have inserted a couple thousand records, so roughly once the db has committed a certain transaction volume, it always falls over like this.
If I rerun the script, WITHOUT restarting the db server. then it resumes where it left off, pumps in some data, then falls over again.
Before recommendations to change time-out timings, does anyone know why I am not able to establish a new connection after the initial failure ? - Even if I try a couple of times waiting a couple of seconds between each.
(btw, I'm running Windows 7, mysql server 5.1.48, mysqldb 1.2.3.gamma.1, python 2.6) | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/180332",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/54031/"
] | * Included SMTP Service is fully capable of SENDING emails. Nothing else is needed. | www.blat.net - very flexible and widely used. |
67,673 | I have read research claiming the idea of multiple styles of learning does not hold up. If so, what does the research say is the best form of learning/teaching? | 2016/04/25 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/67673",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/53133/"
] | Recent eagle's-eye overview of best-practice study methods: Dunlosky, John, et al. "What works, what doesn't." *Scientific American Mind* 24.4 (2013): 46-53.
Gold star winners:
* **Self-testing.** That is: doing homework exercises and checking the answers.
* **Distributed practice.** Studying regularly in batches over time (not cramming).
Runners-up (mixed evidence):
* **Elaborative interrogation.**
* **Self-explanation.**
* **Interleaved practice.** ("Mixed practice")
What doesn't work:
* **Highlighting.**
* **Rereading.**
* **Summarization, keyword mnemonics, and imagery for text learning.** | **Multimodal Learning**
as per the article *Multimedia design: the effects of relating multimodal information*, M. Dubois and I. Vial
>
> A statistically significant effect was observed on word memorisation
> in the different information presentation modes, suggesting better
> processing when there is co-referencing of the different sources,
> especially when the encoding and tests modes are the same.
>
>
>
In general, people learn better when the material is presented from multiple types of media: text, audio, video, etc.
The article is linked here:
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2729.2000.00127.x/abstract> |
37,270 | When designing a Help page or FAQ that is broken down into categories, is a category titled "Other" useful, or does it indicate a poor information architecture?
Sometimes there are truly items that don't fit into a broader category, but my questions is what exactly to do about it:
* Should I eliminate the few things that don't fit into other categories, or
* Should I try to rework the categories to include all questions / topics I want to cover in the Help page, or
* Should I just have a category called "Other" where I list those miscellaneous topics I can't capture elsewhere?
(Or is there another alternative I'm not thinking of?)
[Tumblr's help page](http://www.tumblr.com/help) is a good illustration of what I'm talking about:
 | 2013/03/28 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/37270",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/16943/"
] | When you have categories, there are often items that don't fit into any category well, and so you are left with a choice between having a category with a single item in it, or a catchall category like 'other'.
If the item isn't needed in the first place, then regardless of whether it fits into a category or not, you should not include it. That said, I will assume that any item that you want to show is needed. And if you need it, then you clearly have one of two options:
* **Rework the categories** so that they are more broad and less usable. In which case you are likely hurting the overall UX far more than you will be helping it.
* **Include a catchall** category such as 'other' or 'miscellaneous'. While 'miscellaneous' is more accurate, it is also used less often and many people may not know what it means. So I would suggest using 'other'.
**TL;DR: If you need the item and it doesn't fit into a category well, use a catchall like 'other'.** | I would guess that if you could rework your categories so that everything is meaningfully categorized, that would be your best option.
However, I don't consider an "Other" category illegitimate, after all the point is to get information across to the user. In this regard, calling it "Uncategorized" or "Miscellaneous" might also carry more information about the nature of the category.
An idea I'd play with, given the example of Tumblir, is to elevate the items in "Other" to their own category status. Something like
**Your account and blogs**
Blog Management
Managing Your account
**Connecting to Facebook**
**Counseling and Prevention Resources**
provided that the items are so few in the first place |
26,624,393 | I am executing selenium webdriver scripts through jenkins and logging some info through logger.info. On console output of jenkins it is showing as [testng] 2014-10-28 23:52:29,868 (pool-1-thread-2). I am not able to figure it out what "868" is referring to?
I looked at line no in source code but no it is not the same so it is something different. | 2014/10/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/26624393",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3578472/"
] | As Rahul said, i haven´t find a clean way to detect if someone has follow my instagram account, but the algorithm recommended wouldn't work as expected.
I would recommend to store a list of followers, then (lets suppose 5 mins later) ask the api for a new list of followers and compare if you have someone new. Because, only by checking the number of followers you would be missing new followers, a good example would be if at the same time someone follows and another one unfollows. Hope this helps. I dont know about PHP but PYTHON has a nice built in function to compare lists. | I think there is no direct method but you can try this algorithm.
1. Store number of followers a user has.
2. Now when you check for new followers find the **difference** in number of followers with current and saved number.
3. Let's say if '**three**' is the difference then, in the API Endpoint get the first three followers of the user. And they are the new followers. |
125,516 | Scientific computing is algorithm intensive and can also be data intensive. It often needs to use a lot of memory to run analysis and release it before continuing with the next. Sometime it also uses memory pool to recycle memory for each analysis. Managed language is interesting here because it can allow the developer to concentrate on the application logic. Since it might need to deal with huge dataset, performance is important too. But how can we control memory and performance with managed language? | 2008/09/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/125516",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21495/"
] | [Python](http://www.python.org/) has become pretty big in scientific computing lately. It is a managed language, so you don't have to remember to free your memory. At the same time, it has packages for scientific and numerical computing ([NumPy](http://numpy.scipy.org/), [SciPy](http://www.scipy.org/)), which gives you performance similar to compiled languages. Also, Python can be pretty easily integrated with C code.
Python is a very expressive language, making it easier to write and read than many traditional languages. It also resembles MATLAB in some ways, making it easier to use for scientists than, say, C++ or Fortran.
The [University of Oslo](http://www.uio.no/) has recently starting teaching Python as the default language for all science students outside the department of informatics (who still learn Java).
[Simula Research Laboratory](http://simula.no/), which is heavily into scientific computing, partial differential equations etc., uses python extensively. | The best option is Python with NumPy/ SciPy/ IPython. It has excellent performance because the core math is happening in libraries written in highly optimized C and Fortran. Since you interact with it using Python, everything from your perspective is clean and managed with extremely succinct, readable code and garbage collection. |
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