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What are the worst false economies (that is ways of saving money that ultimately cost more than they save) prevalent in the software industry and how do you combat them?
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Technical Debt
ie "Just do it quickly, we'll refactor later". Firstly because I have yet to see someone engaging in this behaviour actually refactor later. Secondly because doing things the quick way, instead of the good way makes it harder to add future features or resolve future bugs so you end up losing time in the long run.
Sadly, many still think it saves developer cycles to have them do something fast. I guess it's possible, but I have yet to see it in practice.
Hiring 2 cheap developers instead of 1 really great. (for the same price)
My example would be the complete opposite of NimChimpsky's example, namely:
Trying to develop in-house something that can be bought off-the-shelf.
Normally this comes about due to a failure to actually check the market-place to see if something already exists that will solve the problem. This can be compounded by developers who like to "dive in" coding before doing any research and by project managers who fail to factor in that time = money.
One of the most common examples I've seen in my field, web development, are companies trying to develop and in-house CMS system. These invariably start off small, but soon get bloated and out-of-control as features are bolted on, whilst all the time there are plenty of free products and frameworks out-there that would be much better suited.
No dedicated resources for project management
I've experienced several times when a few programmers were contracted, and someone who already has a demanding day-job should have managed the project, but in fact was too busy with other tasks so the project never really gained momentum. The programmers made "prototypes" and stuff, but without a lead, much of it was running in circles to look busy.
Bad equipment for new programmers
I've once experienced a company where the policy was "new programmers have to work on an really old PC with a small screen until they prove they are worthy". No surprise that such a policy caused a negative selection that drove off good people who always have the choice to work in a more sane environment.
We can save money by having the programmers double as testers/technical writers
If you are paying programmer salaries for tester/technical writer work, then you are wasting money and likely getting lower quality work than someone who has dedicated their career to that task. Also, when a programmer is up against a tight deadline testing and documentation are very likely to get dropped or done half-ass to meet it.
BTW: Developers are ALWAYS up against a tight deadline.
Researching / Reading / Writing code not related to the product development is a waste of resource.
Some programmers and even managers believe in that. Normally, they just do programming based on the knowledge in their heads, and do research and look for answers when they face problems. They don't continuously improve their knowledge proactively. My opinion, we should always keep ourselves up to date, and the knowledge we gathered would be useful to us in solving existing and future problems. Of course, you must allocate your time wisely to do so.
This is also similar to Dan's answer. Some managers just want the developers to quickly dive in and develop the product according to requirements without researching on existing products in the market.
In many cases offshoring costs more money. In my company it's very hard to get new employee slots, we are pushed heavily to outsource. Its also hard to get on-site contractors; there is ratio of 3:1 offshore to onshore they are supposed to maintain. Consequently, many teams just hire a dozen offshore and barely use them at all, just so they can get 4 onsite contractors.
Long feedback loops!
It happens to everybody: you build something that you think is awesome, and it turns out you were wrong. That isn't the problem. The problem is how long you spend building before finding out that you should stop.
At the high level, you see this problem with long release cycles. If you build for a year without feedback, you're gambling the whole year. The more often you release, the smaller your gambles, and the better you get at gambling.
But it also happens at the lowest levels. As a developer, I really like frequent code reviews (or, better, pair programming) because it limits the amount of time I can continue doing something dumb before somebody says, "Hey, there's a simpler way!" For the same reason, I like my unit tests to run quickly and frequently, so I can catch and kill bugs before they grow.
Once you start noticing the importance of short feedback loops, you'll see it everywhere. E.g., the military notion of the OODA loop.
Not my own anecdote, but I did once hear of a shop which stopped providing free coffee to its developers, telling them instead that any time they wanted to get coffee, they were free to walk to the nearest coffee shop (something like a ten minute trip each way) and purchase some.
Pretty much the definition of false economy.
Providing single-screen workstations because a second monitor is too expensive. Even if it only saves you an hour of work each year, an second screen is still a good investment. I know for sure that mine has saved me many, many hours of work.
A Multi-monitor setup can make almost any task more efficient, not only development tasks. Three monitors is even better than two, but the effect becomes less pronounced with every extra screen.
Multi-monitor setups:
Cheapest hardware given to a consultant when the consultant cost more than 150$/hour.
Putting it in perspective a better hardware may at least make the job 30min more effective per day. That would give 30min * 20 days of work per month=600min/month =10hours/month > more that 1 day job = 10 hours*150$/hour = 1500$
Now wouldn't a consultant work more efficient if he/she had a 1500$ computer? Would it make the consultant less irritated?
Now the problem seems to be that there two budgets, one for the consultant and one for the PC hardware.
Months of work save days of planning
(Not investing enough time into planning)
Most prevalent I suspect is managers simply not providing developers with the tools they need to do their job efficiently.
Basically, point 9 on the Joel Test.
"Throw (enough) bodies at the problem" may still be used in some places, unfortunately. Brook's Law does counter this from The Mythical Man-Month, though some require experience to learn this lesson. Generally this isn't something within my power to stop as management may believe the false statement about adding people and not having to pay a price for it.
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Buying off the shelf software instead of developing it internally.
I have experience of entreprise scale management systems, focussed on both HR and Biological Laboratories.
An off the shelf solution cost £50-100k and needed further development and customisation to meet the business requirements.
The internally developed solution took (<6) months to develop, with other projects being worked on in parallel, and utilized an already employed developer.
I went from the public sector where we had an internally developed LIMS (lab information management system) up and running, to a large international pharmaceutical where the implemention of an off the shelf solution had taken over a year and was nowhere complete.
(6 months of an already hired developer working on other projects in parallel. So ~10k. And that doesn't include the support costs associated with the off shelf solution). The major point is that the internally developed system was actually being used! So you then have the added cost benefit associated with that, which I cannot calculate.
I'd agree for basic websites etc, why bother developing your own. But for any large complex systems and if you already have in house skills, I'd build it myself.
Buying expensive off-the-shelve products when the open source alternatives are better and free.
How many companies use git? How many companies use some crappy enterprisey version control?
Using "simple" languages without much expressiveness
Yeah, it makes it easier to find programmers to maintain the code, but it makes it harder to find good programmers who don't just learn the latest buzzword that will get them hired. Yeah, it makes individual bits code easier to understand, but it also makes it about as rigid as a 2x4 and increases the volume of code that needs to be understood. Yeah, it's backed by a huge corporation, but said huge corporation innovates slowly and bureaucratically.
Bad project managers/team lead.
Since one incompetent person's have the power to ruin the work of a group of people. In the end, the project would do much better without upper management(project/team lead) decisions.
Dose the "Just do it quickly, we'll refactor later" decides.
Missing user requirements
Believe it or not sometimes this part is missing or is outdated. What it comes to cost is that one creates functionalities that the end user never asked for.
Productivity is worth more than creativity
Creativity is difficult to measure in general, and most often impossible to even observe, never mind measure, when it comes to software development. Productivity, on the other hand, can be measure (often poorly), and can be observed.
As a result, developers which can (write more lines of code|write code faster|recite technobabble faster in response to questions|are more visibly productive) tend to be valued more than those which (use fewer lines of code to solve same problem|take longer to write code, but produce a more reliable product|understand the subject matter well enough to answer questions in plain, easy to understand, English|creatively solve problems).
All below can be bad when used or not used inappropriately
Having too many non-billable delivery managers.
Couple of years ago, in our company we had several big budget projects going on and recruitment was at peak. At that time our company hired too many delivery managers (Many of them were non IT!) and very few coders/testers. Manager to Programmer ratio was literally 1:2. Later, after completion of those projects, we had a situation where we had many of these managers (some of them were real slackers) sitting on bench doing nothing. We had one appraisal cycle where everyone got little/no raise (Even us hardworking programmers, sigh) so that company don't have to lay anyone off! Fortunately, company realized this situation and did the RIGHTSIZING in the first quarter this year!
Optimization before profiling (aka premature optimization).
Too many times I've seen someone reach for a clever solution which needlessly complicates maintenance and readability on the grounds that it's faster. Naturally, the code hasn't been bench marked (not even with micro-benchmarks), so it quickly becomes "faster based on the more persuasive argument" over a section of code which most likely didn't impact the overall performance of the entire application by much.
As such, it is a very false economy, and the kind of false economy that occasionally entangles even the seasoned pros.
Limited or no internet access
Because obviously your employees will use use the internet to play facebook games not too research answers to technical questions on Stackoverflow.
In reality of course the internet is a huge productivity boost, and while it may be appropriate to use some sort of site filter for genuinely dodgy sites there is something wrong if it is blocking the visual studio readme file or blocking telford local goverment pages for reason "sex tourism"
Making your developers use a 15 inch monitor and low spec PC as it is the corporate standard.
Reasonable sized monitors are cheap, quick to install and make the programmers more productive as well as making your programmers think you care about them.
Too many Bachelors of Business Administration (or the like), hierarchically organized, that try to apply what they think modern management is about: Bothering people with "KPI"s, "SLA"s and what not, requiring "reports" (without, of course, caring about the infrastructure to generate them), so that programmers waste their days filling in fancy EXCEL sheets, Q4 reports and what not and copy from one great new management tool and paste into another one (it seems to be the rule that these tools are never inegrated nor integratable with each other), and attend meetings where the reports and figures are presented (and everybody is made feeling guilty about having failed to fullfil this or that KPI).


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And so on and so forth. Right now, I only need these expansions in solving quadratic equations. But why do signs vary in the expansions? (asterisk). What controls this? I see that something similar comes in $a^2-b^2 = (a+b)(a-b)$ to allow the intermediate term(s) to cancel but how does this translate to other (higher-order) forms?
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Single Mothering: Life After Divorce
In This Article:
You're No Slacker, So Cut Yourself Some Slack
You need to develop thick skin as a single mother. People are not always understanding of how complicated your situation can be. Even if you are fortunate enough to have an ex who does not drive you crazy and to have children who are well-adjusted, you are doing more in a day than you probably ever expected. You may be tired.
Let yourself off the hook and do not hold yourself to the standards of the mythical supermom. Even mothers in good marriages cannot possibly measure up to those standards. The biggest problem for women who are divorced single mothers is that they constantly feel inadequate about something. Life is too short to spend it beating yourself up over every little thing.
You might find it helpful to carry around the following permission slip in your purse. When someone wants to criticize your performance as a mom, just hand it over for them to read.
I am a single mother and I have permission:
- To take care of my own needs—even if that means not being able to be all things to all people.
- To have a messy house within the limits of the health code.
- To not volunteer for everything at my child's school.
- To not have to contribute to every gift or party fund if I can't afford it.
- To be part of the world even though I do not have a husband.
- To be treated with dignity and respect even though I am not always able to do things as well as I would like.
- To be free from unwarranted judgment and criticism.
Womanly Wisdom
Children grow up no matter what is happening in their lives. You do not want to live in the past or too far in the future. You have enough to keep you busy right now.
Life Is Not on Hold
As a single mother you do not want to live your life as though it will begin again only when you remarry. If you are blessed to find a suitable mate who will be compatible with your life vision, that is wonderful. But you owe it to yourself and to your children to have a life that is not based on any future conditions. If you do not have expectations you will find that your decisions are made with a clear mind and are not clouded by what you think you and your children need. It is nice for children to have a father figure in the house but any child would be just as thrilled with a stable and happy mother.
Seeking Solace in Ritual
Make a good life for yourselves that includes spiritual connection if that is important to you. Most churches, synagogues, and religious communities can offer tremendous support for single mothers. These communities can also help stabilize your children's lives.
Family ritual is as important for a single-mother home as it is for a nuclear family. Do what you can handle and what will be special for all of you. Make it a bowling night once a month or have spaghetti for dinner on Tuesdays. Children do not have complicated needs. They just see what is special in life and enjoy celebrating simple things. Board games are great and offer inexpensive entertainment.
What you don't want is a family where each member does his or her own thing away from the unit. As the children grow this can enhance the alienation that comes from the experience of divorce. Even though you do not have a father in the home you should have a family unit whose members interact and are involved in each other's lives. Make birthdays special, even if they are simple. Make each member of the family feel important.
You may have had a divorce but you are blessed with children. The love you have for and receive from children is like nothing else. It is unconditional. Your children will truly accept you despite whatever limitations you think you have and will be a source of joy and love for you throughout your life. You will have tough times, as everyone does, and may even need outside help. But when you have children you have a richness of life that one who does not have them cannot possibly understand.
By working together you and your children can create a wonderful life that fulfills your dreams.
More on: Dealing With Divorce
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motherhood © 1999 by Deborah Levine Herman. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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On Friday, October 30, 2009, Jolly's Dueling Piano Bar opened its doors for the first time. The bar at 2006 Chestnut Street features a swanky interior, two dueling baby grand pianos, and a menu designed by Chef Brendan Smith.
On Saturday, October 29, 2009, Women Against Abuse held their 2nd Annual Dish it Up! evening at Moore College of Art and Design. Women Against Abuse united with ten of Philadelphia's top culinary women at Dish It Up! to raise money for the mission against domestic violence and compete for the first ever Purple Dish Award, which was presented by Major Michael Nutter. Guests enjoyed dancing, food and dessert tastings, exclusive complimentary cocktails, and a screening of the PBS documentary "Big Cities, Big Solutions," which highlights the work of Women Against Abuse. Photography by Jessica Vermeer Hawkes.
On October 29th 2009 The Workshop opened its doors for the first time with a glamorous evening of fashion and Japanese fare. The Workshop, owned and operated by Artur Kirsch, will focus on building and education clients at a fraction of the cost. The evening featured red carpet fashions by Neiman Marcus and light bites by Philly's latest Japanese gastro pub, Zama.
On Thursday, October 29, 2009, The Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation held their Annual Adult Play Date fundraiser. The event honored AstraZeneca, Harriet Dichter deputy Secretary, Office of Child Development and Early Learning in Pennsylvania and pediatrician Dr. Madeleine Weiser for their dedication to improving the quality of child care for all children. All proceeds of the event went to the foundation.
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Rumors say CDs and DVDs won't remember your data longer than ten years. Are there backup media that do better?
Hard Drives. Space is dirt cheap these days, you can grab a few TB worth of internal hard drives at a fairly low price. Even external hard drives aren't too expensive.
Regarding longevity, you'll probably accumulate data too fast for the media to be a problem. 7 years from now you might have enough DVD's to fill a couple Blu-rays. 7 more years and you'll have a stack of Blu-rays ready to consolidate on whatever the next big thing is.
For now, Patrick McFarland's How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media comes out in favor of DVD+R, specifically Taiyo Yuden's:
A recent update shows he still affirms this position.
I thought I read somewhere that the Library of Congress uses MAM-A archival gold DVD's but considering the cost I stick with TY's. I usually purchase through http://www.rima.com, while McFarland recommends another vendor in his article.
You just said it: RUMOURS! :)
So, chances are that you may not live long enough to prove these estimates wrong! :)
Now compare that to the average lifespan of a platter hard disk (2-10 years). Optical media win that contest hands down.
And then there is the good old stone tablet which will last a couple of thousand years. But the data density of 0.001 kbit/kg is a bit of a showstopper. :P
But in IT, the Cranberry Diamondisc DVD is considered to be the Holy Grail of long term storage, they boast a life span 1000 (one thousand) years. Of course it requires special hardware to burn these discs.
I'm not sure hard drives are any better than CD/DVD long term. The only way to be really sure is to keep checking the data and refreshing it. There are CD's/DVD's that are specifically designed for long term storage but as always these are more expensive.
I think it has to do with how much you're willing to spend. I've thought about this in the past and the best solution I could come up with was a NAS with 2 large HDDs in RAID 1 configuration. This way you're protected from HDD failure and I'm pretty sure that Ethernet will still be around 10 years from now. Only worry is if the NAS itself breaks down, so you'd need a quality one.
From http://www.superwarehouse.com/HP_5.2_GB_Magneto_Optical_Disk/88146J/p/54344:
Paper backups using an efficient encoding scheme also remain an option. It is not handy and takes a lot of space, but it is robust and long-lasting.
I think the question that must be asked is "how long-term is long-term"?
Quality paper is probably the most efficient low-end long-term storage currently known(300+ years).
But if you're looking to archive records in the event of nuclear blast, you might try etchings on metal in a can in a cave.
But if you want to store company records for 50 years, hard disks disconnected and stored in a vibration-less environment together with paper documents on the interface & data formats is not a bad plan.
But if you want to publish historical-class data for the next 200 years, ie, you're investigating for a library or similar institution, you want to make sure that the information is usable when we go to The Hypernet, so you might be investigating a redundant array of cloud data storage centers from different companies with a common query-able interface published on the current Internet.
But if you want to archive historical-class data, you want something that is probably similar to a ROM-style hard disk. (I'm taking a guess that those exist for long-term archive storage).
But are you storing text? video? pictures? binaries? Each of those has different information characteristics and can be stored a little differently.
There's no 'right' answer here until you narrow your focus a bit.
And now you can store it for as long as 1000 years: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/DiamonDisk-DVD-Storage-Cranberry-Thousand,news-5112.html
depends on your data volume
The only way to guarantee long life is via redundancy. Keep 2 backup copies of everything, as it's unlikely that both will go bad. Try to vary the media types, for example for DVD don't use the same manufacturer for both copies, or use two hard drive, or one hard drive with DVD/Blu-ray copy. The advantage of a large hard drive is that you can verify it regularly. Also, the SpinRite utility, available from http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm and costing $89, can recover a hard disk and even refresh it magnetically so the recorded data won't magnetically fade out with time (but it only works on internal drives).
Tapes seem to be a good option for long term and big volume archiving.
Slashdot - Offline Storage for Hard Drives?
Flash drives might be worth researching too.


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Louis Earl Crawford, 92, of Las Vegas, Nev., formerly of Union and Omaha, died in Las Vegas July 31, 2013. He was born Dec. 11, 1920 at Hartington, Neb., to Raymond Earl and Margaret Mae (Fox) Crawford.
He is survived by wife Vernice of Las Vegas and a host of other relatives and friends.
He worked for several years for the Army Corps of Engineers in Omaha.
Graveside services are at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at East Union Cemetery near Union with Bishop Troy Bennett officiating.
There is no visitation.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.marshallfuneral.com.
Marshall Funeral Chapel of Nebraska City is in charge of arrangements.
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Ford Crown Victoria Suspension - Build A Panther, Part FourWritten by John McGann on July 12, 2011 Coilovers For The Coppers
I've known for a long time that my car was too tall, but it's taken me a while to do something about it. I've mentioned before that Ford redesigned the front suspension of all the Panther Platform cars (Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis, Lincoln Town Car) in 2003 to make room for the 32-Valve 4.6 engine in the then-new Mercury Marauder, the only Panther car to come with a DOHC modular V8. The Marauder only survived two years of production, but that was enough time for the performance aftermarket to develop speed parts for the car. Because most of that stuff will also work across the board on '03 and later Panthers, I'm in luck.
Through extensive message-board searching, I discovered Naake Suspension in Northern California, that developed a bolt-in coilover kit for Marauders. I spent some time on the phone with owner Mike Naake as he walked me through the choices—the company sell kits for the front and rear suspension with double-adjustable, single-adjustable, or nonadjustable shocks (that can be revalved)—and the costs and options for each version. I wanted the versatility of the double-adjustable shocks, but I could only afford the front kit, so that's what I decided on. For good measure, I also upgraded to an Addco 1 1/4-inch front sway bar and 1-inch-drop Eaton Detroit springs for the rear. Here's a quick rundown of how the install went.
Front Coilovers
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Though the instructions didn't call for it, I unbolted the outer tie rods from the steering knuckle. This frees up some space to get the factory spring/shock combination out, plus it makes it easier to move the steering knuckle around (rather than turning the steering wheel) to get access to everything behind it.Unclip the plastic retainers for the ABS sensor leads. They will restrict how far the control arms can be spread apart.Separating the upper ball joint from the steering knuckle is easy. The stud has a hex-cut on the tip so you can use an Allen wrench to hold it while you turn the nut. The same holds true for the sway-bar links.As part of the '03 front suspension redesign, Ford switched to a spring and shock combination that looks a lot like a coilover. The springs sit on a perch on the shock body and are retained by a plate that threads onto the top of the shock piston rod. You can remove this spring/shock combination as a unit by first unbolting the three nuts on the upper spring mount. . The big nut in the center holds the spring top plate to the shock body. There is tension on the spring, so don't unbolt this yet, unless you want to shoot the shock out from under the spring.Remove the large bolt running through the shock's bottom eyelet in the lower control arm and the spring/shock combination will fall down through the opening in the control arm, resting on the spring perch. It's a tight fit, but if you spread open the upper and lower arms as far as they will go, you can get the strut out. Here's a tip: Stand on the lower control arm, pry the upper arm with your left hand, and pull the shock out with your right (or some combination of those three movements!).Naake modifies the lower eyelet of the QA1 shocks to fill the mount in the lower control arms. The kit uses off-the-shelf QA1 springs (PN 10GSP450). They are 450-lb/in springs with a 2.5-inch id ground and pigtailed lower end, a 10-inch free length, and a 3.5-inch free upper end that fit the car's factory upper spring mount perfectly. They are finished with chrome-appearing powdercoating. Note that the factory service manual calls the stock spring/shock combination a strut, though I'm not sure how accurate the term is. My understanding is that a strut not only bears the weight of the car on the spring perch, but it also replaces one (or more) of the suspension's locating links. McPherson struts, for example, are a spring/shock combination that also acts as the upper control arm in the suspension—the spindle bolts to it. Crown Victorias still have upper and lower control arms. Semantics notwithstanding, be aware when looking up parts that these are called struts.The Naake's Marauder kit comes with just the shocks and springs—you can either reuse your original spring mounts and isolators or buy new ones like I did. I bought new mounts (half visible on the right side of the frame) from South Bay Ford, just down the street from our office. The isolators actually consist of the rubber piece I'm holding and the hard plastic ramp underneath it. Shop around for those. The dealer price was more than $100 each, but I purchased them online for about $80 apiece. If you want to reuse your stock spring mounts and isolators, you will need to hold the spring in a compressor to loosen the top bolt. It feels like there is still a substantial amount of pressure on the spring even out of the car. With 160,000 miles on my car, I felt it was worth the money to change these parts.
Even though the QA1 combination is shorter than the factory strut, the control arms still needed some coaxing to accept the new parts.Here's a tip: Don't tighten the spring-adjusting collar until the coilover is bolted in. It is much easier to twist the upper mount to align the studs with the holes in the frame without tension on the springs.When reattaching the sway-bar mount to the steering knuckle, it was helpful to raise the lower control arm a short distance with a floor jack. That caused a change in the relationship between the bar and the knuckle, which helped align the two parts.You'll need a spanner wrench to adjust the spring collar. Tightening it raises the ride height. The lower ring locks the collar in location. For both sides to be at the same ride height, the left- and right-side spring mount collars should be on the same thread. To make counting the threads easier, I marked them in groups of 10 with a paint pen.As you can see, the collar is more than halfway up the shock body. Though these are 450 lb/in springs, I suspect I could have installed the next highest rate spring—550 lb/in rate. I would not have had to adjust the collars this high up the shock and I doubt the ride quality would have suffered.You can see from the lead image how dramatic the difference is between the front and rear. I needed matching rear springs; that job is next.Eaton Detroit Springs saved the day with their newly introduced lowering springs for Panther Platform cars (previously they were custom order only). Rear springs are extremely easy to install. We ran a short article on them in our Dec. '10 issue.
Lastly, I upgraded to an Addco sway bar. At a 1 1⁄4-inch diameter, it's bigger than the already big 1.0-inch factory police bar.Installing it was a breeze as well, thanks to the thoughtfully designed hardware holding the brackets to the frame. It was much less frustrating here than on other cars we've worked on where the fasteners just thread into the frame. It is almost impossible not to strip the threads out of those boltholes.


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After boiling pellets how can I deal with them? Is there a simple way to get them out of the wort, or can I leave them during fermentation? In that case will I be sure they will drop on the bottom and not cause problems?
Usually the pellets will dissolve during boil and settle down to the bottom of your kettle when you cool your wort. Then, when transferring to the fermentor you can just leave them behind (easier to do with a siphon).
Use a hop bag - put the pellets on the bag, when you are done with the boil simply pull the bag out.
I use a bucket for my fermentor so I bought a steel mesh strainer. I then sanitize the strainer with starsan and place the strainer across the top of the bucket and run the wort through it. This strains out the hop gunk and helps with aeration by turning the wort into droplets as it falls into the fermentor.
If you are siphoning your beer out of a flat bottom kettle/pot a whirlpool can be very effective.
After you are done chilling put your brew pot in the location that you plan to siphon from. Using a clean and sanitized spoon stir that wort up into a good vortex. Once the whirlpool has started, remove the spoon and replace the lid.
Then go about cleaning up from your session. Sanitize your fermentor and siphon equipment, prepare your yeast. If you give the pot 30 minutes at least to settle down much of the break material and pellet hops will get pulled to the center bottom of the pot.
Then you can remove the lid and siphon from the side of the pot without pulling too much of the gunk. Some won't hurt, but doing it this way will help you get much less of it if you want.
We filter the trub out through a sanitized fine mesh bag during siphoning. This way we don't worry about about the siphon pulling the trub - it ends up in what we call a trub sack, from which more wort is squeezed out while pulling it out of the fermenter. Make sure not to drop the bag into the fermenter, as trub sack may get heavy during the siphon. Not sure if there are any downsides to this method, we find it easy and seems to do the job.
This is what it looks like:
You can make a easy pellet strainer bag with cheap parts from a hardware store. This link offers easy instructions. Instead of one large dowel rod, one can use thread steel rods with washers and nuts in a plus shape to position in on a kettle and not slip.
I use a sanitized nylon bag, like the boil in bags. I bought it to replace the bag I use for mashing and filtering through my zapzap. It was too narrow for my kettle, so I re-purposed it as a hop filter after boiling. I sanitize by immersing it in boiling/boiled water for about ten minutes. I use my boiling spoon to help push out the retained liquids. I use buckets so the slightly smaller boil bag is perfect size. I like milancurcic's carboy solution, the narrow carboy neck acts as the system to push out the hops.
Whatever you decide to do I would suggest handling it on the kettle side of things. If you strain at the fermenter (mesh bag, SS strainer, etc) you'll probably create a lot of unwanted aeration of the wort as it foams up.


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What version of Ruby should I be using on a windows environment?
I'm trying to use Watir on 1.9 and it does not work. Will work on 1.8.6.
Any recomendations on which version to use and reasons why Watir does not work on 1.9
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Watir.com recommends using Ruby 1.8.6-26. I have not tried it, but there is a fork of Watir that claims to be compatible with Ruby 1.9:
I use this one and it works:
There's no "correct" version. 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 are all officially "recommended", which is not much help!
When 1.8.x gems don't work with 1.9.x under Windows, it's often the case that the gem - or one of its dependencies - includes a compiled element (a DLL, usually named with a
Looking at the watir gem, I see it includes win32ole.so, which could be the problem. I'm not sure why that should have been necessary - it's part of the installed set for Windows. Perhaps the developers needed to ensure a fixed stable version so they forced a particular version rather than use the one from the library. Or maybe they fixed something? Dunno.
Beyond that, watir also depends on win32-api and nokogiri, both of which installed mswin32 versions on my machine and will need to have mingw32 versions to work with 1.9.
Not having a 1.9 instance to hand, I can't quickly tell if these versions exist.
Try looking for a mingw32 version of win32ole.so (probably somewhere like [ruby-dir]/lib/ruby/1.9/i386-mingw32) and putting it in place of the one used by watir.
It's best to use the mingw versions of Ruby as supplied with the RubyInstaller. The older mswin32 versions of Ruby are considered legacy. Some gems need to be compiled from source (RedCloth being a good example) and for this you'll need to install the DevKit; however, watir doesn't need anything to be compiled - all of its gem dependencies come pre-compiled with mingw32 extensions (nokogiri and win32-api).
You can install multiple versions of Ruby (including JRuby and IronRuby) on Windows using Pik. Once you've installed the Pik gem, you can easily install new versions of ruby by issuing commands such as
To allow Watir (and FireWatir) to run on ruby 1.9.2 install devkit and follow procedures listed here : http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ Ruby Installer at GitHub
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i have a doubt regarding sizeof operator
Code 1:
int main()
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printf("%d",sizeof(p)); //output -- 40
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Code 2:
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printf("%d",sizeof(*p)); //output -- 4
return 0;
in the first code p points to an array of ints. in the second code p points to an array of pointers. i am not able to understand why the first code o/p is 40 but 2nd code o/p is 4 thought both points to an array of the same size ?


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5 Ways You Can Improve the World With Almost No Effort
#2. Donate Your Placenta
Many of you only know about "stem cells" due to the controversy they cause, particularly in the U.S., where the funding of stem cell research has been criticized by abortion opponents. But if you're not sure what exactly they are or why they're important, in short, stems cells are special cells that can turn into any other kind of cell, which has massive implications for medicine (note: you are made entirely of cells).
And there are many ways to obtain all kinds of these life-saving stem cells. For example, did you know that a specific type of stem cell is produced in huge concentrations within the human body and used in a variety of life-saving medical procedures, and right now we're tossing them in the trash?
"Sounds great!" you're thinking. "Where are they?" We'll give you a clue: You A) throw it away in terror after your baby is born and B) make a pact with everyone in the maternity ward that it will never be mentioned again. We're talking about that demon pepperoni that feeds your bundle o' joy and your nightmares after childbirth: the placenta.
Yes, before you go tossing out (or chowing down on) that bloody flapjack that popped out of your or your significant other's nethers, know that science has discovered that the placenta is actually chock-full of perfectly good stem cells that can be used for medical research and treatment. The placenta and umbilical cord contain hematopoietic stem cells, which is a fancy name for cells that can literally create blood. They're the same type of cell that's extracted from your hip during bone marrow transplants, except the placenta conveniently flops out of the body during childbirth, rather than having to be painfully drawn out with a needle.
"Nurse, I distinctly said the BIG needle!"
The discovery is a big freaking deal, by the way, as hematopoietic stem cells can treat blood disorders like sickle cell anemia, immunodeficiency diseases like HIV, multiple forms of cancer, and more. It's been predicted that 1 in every 400 Americans will need hematopoietic stem cell treatments over the next 70 years. Thankfully, mothers are already producing a free side of stem cells with the birth of every bouncing baby.
So if you're pregnant, you're fully capable of contributing to a very necessary medical cause. All you need to do is follow this simple two-step process: 1) Find out if your birthing facility of choice accepts hematopoietic stem cell/cord blood donations and 2) tell them you want them to keep your placenta and umbilical cord. Congratulations! You have helped one person's life while simultaneously bringing another into the world. Just resist the urge to use your placenta as a spa facial or enjoy a lotus birth. (Seriously, don't click that Wikipedia link. It's like Basket Case, but real.)
It's basically a neonatal chain gang.
#1. Smile
"Wait, really? Smile? That's your goddamned world-saving advice, Cracked? What are you, Mr. Fucking Rogers? GO PLAY WITH YOUR PUPPETS!"
Look, if you follow Cracked on a regular basis, then you already know that it doesn't pay to be an optimist. We've already written about how the very concept of being happy is flawed at best, and how the life expectancy of optimists is generally shorter than that of pessimists. But you shouldn't bury your good mood in a shallow grave just yet. While maintaining a perpetually cheery demeanor may not benefit you personally, it works wonders on literally everyone else around you. According to science, smiling improves the lives of everyone in a real, measurable way.
While scowling just makes people want to punch you.
In one experiment, a group of researchers arranged for 800 random passersby to be smiled at as they walked through a supermarket. Immediately following the smile, the individual would encounter someone who had "accidentally" spilled a stack of computer disks onto the ground. Researchers recorded how the unwitting volunteers responded and compared it to data from a control group that hadn't received a smile before the encounter. Even accounting for variables like gender and attractiveness as motivating factors, people who received a smile were 10 percent more likely to help the person.
Roll that around in your head for a minute. All it took was a single smile to make 10 percent of people more considerate to a person in need. Now think about all the prodding and reminding it takes before a person will even consider doing something as worthwhile as donating to a food bank. And just a few more smiles could make all the difference.
"Smile, Corporal, and the whole world smiles back. That's when you shoot the sum' bitches."
And that's just the start. It turns out that genuine smiles have a "halo effect" that benefits anyone who sees them. This effect makes you more altruistic, increases your ability to cooperate with others, and even enhances your memory. Seeing that facial expression just makes humans work better.
When you see a smiling face, even if it's just a photograph, your brain's orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus start going bonkers. That's your brain forcing itself to remember more details about the other person, like their name, their appearance, or where you met. Think about the last time you walked down a crowded city street. What do you remember? Odds are you've already forgotten most of the neutral faces you passed, but a smiling face is going to stick out in your mind for a long time afterward.
"Honestly, it was her smile that really stood out to me. That and the bloody, dismembered head she was carrying."
Basically, these studies prove that "When You're Smiling, the Whole World Smiles With You" isn't just a catchy song, but a verifiable scientific fact. Now go out there and grin at everyone in a 50-foot radius. It'll be like you're emitting a cloud wherever you go that magically forces everyone in the vicinity to be better people. And it costs you nothing.
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If I had x or more windows open in a VIM session and I wanted to quickly hide all but the active one for a moment then return the windows to the layout I had them int how would I do it?
In Vim 7 and later, you can use a "tab page" for this (i.e. "GUI-style" tab). You can use the
Once you have your new tab open, you can use
I use CTRL-W _ to horizontally "push" the other windows out of the way making the current window the expand to the largest available area. Use CTRL-W | to do the same vertically. I'm sure there's probably a way to do both at once, but I haven't noticed or looked for it. Look in :help CTRL-W
To restore them do CTRL-W =. One caveat though is they aren't restored to their original configuration. CTRL-W = actually re-calculates the best fit for all the windows in the screen.
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I'm not trying to delete my password or anything. I just want ubuntu to remember my password after I login as an admin user and use that when installing/removing software or running sudo commands. The non-admin users should be prompt for the admin password though. Is there a way to do that and if so why doesn't ubuntu do that as default?
There's no such thing as "an admin password" in Ubuntu. Any user can elevate his privileges by using sudo as long as that is available to him. And by default
However, it does remember it for a short period of time. Here's a question on how: How does sudo remember you already entered root's password?
Several options to go from here:
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In your system settings - little gear icon in right top corner - you can open Users. Click on the user you want to modify for the passwordless login. In the settings dialogue you can change the setting automatic login.


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WEIRTON - Twenty boxes filled with items ranging from toilet paper, paper napkins and towels and bars of soap to baby wash, baby powder and baby wipes, shampoo and conditioner were donated to "Weirton Cares" to help victims of Superstorm Sandy along the East Coast and in southern West Virginia.
Tri-State Pharmacy owner J.J. Bernabei presented the donations to city leaders Monday, saying his staff "put together the order and expedited getting it here" after learning about the community project.
"(The mayor) made us aware of the problem. It seemed like a fairly quick way to get help to people in need," Bernabei said Monday. "It's a great way to kick the project off."
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HELPING OTHERS — Tri-State Pharmacy donated 20 boxes of supplies Monday to the Weirton Cares Superstorm Sandy relief effort, launched by community leaders last week to aid families along the storm-ravaged East Coast, as well as southern West Virginia. Some of those taking part are, from left, Weirton Mayor George Kondik, Weirton Chamber President Brenda Mull, Ward 7 Councilman Terry Weigel and Ward 5 Councilman George Gaughenbach who accepted the donations from Tri-State pharmacy tech Lori Roth and Tri-State Pharmacy owner J.J. Bernabei. Dennis Allen of Marsh Pipe & Supply, at right, will drive the delivery van, which was provided by his employer.
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Many communities still lack electricity so organizers are requesting donations of new and gently used blankets this week as well as cash with which to purchase MREs, ready-to-eat meals typically used by the military in the field.
Donations will be accepted during regular business hours at Marsh Pipe & Supply, 3070 Pennsylvania Ave.; WEIR-AM, 2307 Pennsylvania Ave.; and the Millsop Community Center, 3420 Main St.
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Baseball: A Signal of Transcendence?
The New York Times reports today on its front page of a course offered at New York University by that venerable institution's President, Dr. John Sexton. The course is entitled, "Baseball as a Road to God."Here is a profile of the professor-president:
As the president of N.Y.U., Dr. Sexton could certainly teach any course he wanted. And as the former dean of its law school and clerk to a chief justice of the United States, he might have been expected to hold forth on jurisprudence. However, as a child of Brooklyn, as a scholar whose academic robe bears the number 42 in homage to Jackie Robinson, and as a practicing Catholic with a doctoral degree in religion, Dr. Sexton has for more than a dozen years chosen baseball and God as his professorial focus.
And, as they say in the pastoral fields of academe, here are the course's objectives and desired outcomes:
The real idea of the course, he put it in an interview, is to develop heightened sensitivity and a noticing capacity. So baseballs not the road to God. For most of us, it isnt a road to God. But its a way to notice, to cause us to live more slowly and to watch more keenly and thereby to discover the specialness of our life and our being, and, for some of us, something more than our being.
However, leave it to the Times to inject a discordant note into this otherwise bucolic baseball idyll:
Dr. Sextons own baseball career peaked as an all-star catcher in the Bnai Brith Little League in the Rockaways Billy Ryan and I broke the religion line, we were the first two goyim and included being in a third-floor classroom in high school when a teenage Joe Torre broke the window with a home run from an adjacent ballfield. Over the passing decades, Dr. Sexton adapted to the Dodgers departure from Brooklyn by joining his son in rooting for the Yankees. Whether such a transfer of devotion constitutes heresy is a question, perhaps, for the magisterium.
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Glad to see the author mentions the great Robert N. Bellah, author of Religion in Human Evolution.http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Human-Evolution-Paleolithic-Axial/dp/0674... great book -- about baseball -- is Calico Joe, by Robert Grisham. Just gulped it down the other evening. http://www.amazon.com/Calico-Joe-John-Grisham/dp/0385536070/ref=sr_1_1?s...
If New York is anything like Chicago, I don't think raising such a question to the level of heresy is discordant. This is serious stuff. I say this as a White Sox fan that emigrated to the North Side of Chicago.However, I do think the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith should get on this ASAP. The guy is a notable Catholic and it sounds like he's engaging in one of those exploratory thought processes with which the LCWR likes to dally. He clearly deserves a correction.
They say football might be more popular now but that does not feel right. While I enjoy football it cannot compare to baseball. Spring without baseball is apostasy not to mention depression. This is why baseball officials got on their knees after the strike (a baseball strike is heresy) and catered to fans. Players, whereas previously, they generally ignored fans, easily and eagerly gave signatures. Even a Yankee fan could smile as the hated Red Sox old timers filled Fenway Park on its hundredth anniversary. At least for Americans, on the eighth day God created baseball. The open air, the green fields, Springtime! Hope, good will and romance are in the air. Everybody looks beautiful. Is it or is it not a taste of heaven?
A great novel, with a theological bent, with baseball as a major part is David James Duncan's The Brothers K. I heartily recommend it.
I was an avid Brooklyn Dodger fan as a child, but they always seemed models not so much of transcendence as of patience in adversity. Well, until 1955, the glorious Year of Redemption, when led by Blessed Johnny Podres, dem Bums finally made it all the way to the top of the mountain.I suppose I really should make the Y, the R, and the first B in the last sentence lowercase, lest anyone accuse me of Profane Analogy by Capitalization Error (PACE). But emboldened, or perhaps disemmeekened, by thoughts of Ebbets Field and of Pee Wee, Gil, Jackie, Billy, Roy, Duke, and all of them, I say, "Bring it on!"
Well, Dr. Sexton's Yankees (and mine) were transcendent today in coming back late in the game from a 9-0 deficit to beat their arch rival, the Red Sox, 15-9. And the 21st perfect game in major league history was pitched today by White Sox pitcher Philip Humber. Jeanne Follman and Grant Gallicho are no doubt experiencing the "specialness of ...life and ...being" that Dr. Sexton believes baseball can induce. ;)
If God exists, how could He allow the Red Sox to go down to ignominious defeat on Fenway's 100th birthday? Perhaps this is where we must resort to Original Sin for an explanation.I agree with Bill Mazella that God created baseball. But I also firmly believe that he meant there to be only two major leagues, each with only eight teams, and that the World Series was to be decided within the triangle formed by Boston, Washington, and St. Louis. That's the way it was when I was growing up, rooting for my two 8th place teams in Philadelphia. And that's the way Tradition teaches that the game should be played.
Nicholas,Tradition also teaches that the "October Classic" should end in, well, October!
For the Red Sox, that would of course be the Original Sin of trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees. The fans thought it was expiated a few years ago when their team won the Series. But no, there is no baptism for that enormity.
Thank goodness! Like so many, I suppose, I figured baseball was created in order for aging fellows like myself to find little loss of masculinity from the occassional nap while avidly "participating" in a remarkable sport. Way too difficult with football, basketball or hocky. Now I know it has an even grander purpose!
My favourite memories are sitting with my grandfather at his country home in the evening where he loved to listen to the baseball game on the radio. A calm presence comes over me every time I hear the announcer on tv or radio say something like, "bottom of the sixth, runners on seventh, a ball and a strike, And here's the pitch....ball 3..." Then some running commentary on the players stats or background.It is a calming meditative sport to watch which is probably why I usually nap if it is on in the afternoon and I happen to be watching (but that is an homage to my grandfather too :))
Gentlemen, I agree that there is something exceedingly pleasant about drifting off to sleep on a Sunday afternoon with the ball game on the radio.
Should the October classic end in October? Perhaps those who direct the game are secret believers i climate change, and look forward to what might become the "Christmas classic," as the deciding game will be played on December 25th, before a shirt-sleeved crowd at Yankee Stadium (that locus will presumably never change).


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I'm still relatively new to Linux's more technical side, but I wanted to know if it was possible to have the native Linux Steam client installed and launch games that do not have a native port from WINE, while launching the native games.. well.. natively. Is this possible to do without modifying the Steam's code? Because it reports that the non-native game is not for the system if you attempt to launch it. This would be really great for while we're waiting for more games to be ported, as then we would not actually have to install 2 separate clients on the machine. Thanks!
I realise that this is only a partial answer, but it's possible to add non-Steam games to Steam. This means that all of your games are listed in one place, and that you can use the shift-tab Steam overlay in game, but has the drawback that these games will not be installable through Steam nor automatically updated.
(Note that this probably won't run perfectly because POL uses WINE which is only a Windows compatibility layer)
[Other answers to similar questions recommend WINE which isn't as user-friendly or as flexible as PlayOnLinux in my opinion]


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The music industry is one that has really felt the effects of the digitalization of the world over the last few decades. In the 1970s and '80s, recording, composing and production work would have been done manually with a complicated series of hardware mixers, synths, sequencers and other devices. Today, all you have to do is plug into a computer running the music software that's relevant to the task. These programs and tools don't only make it possible for you to work faster; you can also get started sooner, since a large selection of software packages are available to download directly. You won't need to wait for shipping: just download and start working.
The downloadable section also offers some add-ons and upgrades for software you may already have, making it easy to bring it up to date. A few examples of available add-ons, both downloadable and packaged, include sound libraries, loops, refills, virtual instruments and effects plugins. These can open up new possibilities for music software that you already use regularly, allowing you to get more out of it. If you're a producer or studio engineer, take a look at the professional-grade sound workshop software like Avid Pro Tools, Steinberg Cubase, Ableton Live and Propellerhead Reason. You can also expand your tools into moviemaking to produce music videos with Sonic Reality Cinema Sessions and several other video editing options.
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Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, the general supervisor of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Campaign for the Relief of Palestinian People in Gaza, ordered yesterday the signing of four agreements with U.N. organizations to implement a number of urgent humanitarian relief programs in Gaza.
The agreements, which include more than $20 million in relief projects, were signed in Beirut today with the U.N. Habitat Program, the U.N. Developmental Program, the World Food Program and the U.N. Development Fund for Women.
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The UOP Separex Flux+ is a drop-in replacement for the membrane elements in existing Separex membrane systems. Separex Flux+ increases the removal of contaminants, such as acid gas and water, which must be removed before natural gas can be transported by pipeline for commercial use.
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Chicken Stew with Herb Dumplings
Categories: Comfort Foods, Easter, Entertaining
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
This hearty winter casserole is a main meal in itself, but is especially good when served with freshly steamed vegetables
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 50M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 4 chicken thighs
- 4 chicken drumsticks
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 2 carrots, sliced
- 2 leeks, cleaned and sliced
- 2 celery stalks, sliced
- 1/2 rutabaga, pared and diced
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
For the dumplings
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp dried Italian seasoning
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 4 tbsp butter, cut into small cubes
- 1 tbsp chopped parsley
- 1/3 cup milk, as needed
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- Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Dredge in the flour to coat. Heat 2 tbsp oil in a casserole over medium-high heat. In batches, add the chicken, turning occasionally, until golden brown. Transfer to a plate. Pour the fat from the pan.
- Add the remaining oil to the pan. Add the carrots, leeks, celery, and rutabaga and cook, stirring occasionally, until beginning to brown. Stir in the stock and Worcestershire sauce. Return the chicken to the pan and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, whisk the flour, baking powder, dried herbs, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl. Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse bread crumbs. Add the parsley and stir in enough milk to make a soft dough. Divide into 12 balls.
- Arrange 12 spoonfuls of the dough in the stew, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes. Serve hot.
- large, flameproof casserole
- freeze, without dumplings, for up to 3 months
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Inspired by Brian's question here, which seems to have been answered with a pretty solid No, my follow-up question is whether or not allowing this to happen even though the rules do not would cause any significant problems at the table. Does this open up any serious abuses? Or, on the flip side, will the Rogue be unable to keep up?
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Will a Rogue (Scoundrel) with Sharpshooter Talent and Moonbow Stalker applying the crossbow bonus to her shortbow cause problems?
Personally, I don't see the harm in it, and in fact I think you're probably losing more feat support by dropping the crossbow than you are by picking up the short bow. There is a lot of excellent feat support for a rogue cross bow user. The only real benefit I see is access to the "Halfling Short Bow Hunter" feat as well as maybe "Sly Hunter" at paragon.
The point about magic arrows vs magic bolts that Joshua makes is interesting, but they are rarely enough used and mechanically underpowered (don't stack with magic weapons) that I think that's safe to ignore.
To address whether or not this is a substantially weaker trade off, I don't think so. Again, weapons matter little to a rogue, their damage typically relies on the ability to apply that sneak attack damage. Typically short bow would be weaker than hand cross bow by a pretty significant degree, but making this houserule narrows the gap to a degree (repairing the to-hit disparity). The disadvantages I see mostly show up in paragon tier (you lose the ability to dual wield hand crossbows, you lose the extra attack on crit (both from two-fisted shooter).), and neither of them is particularly huge (the second attack only happens 5% of the time at paragon and 10% at epic). I don't find the trade to be a substantial one, though it is slightly weaker mechanically.
The tradeoffs seem like this is a reasonable exception to grant. To me the hand crossbow is a far superior weapon for a rogue, and this doesn't close the gap enough that I wouldn't make an exception for it.
Maybe, the weapons have identical statistics, but I think the biggest abuse is that the type of magical arrows available are different/more than those available as bolts.
There are exactly 10 different kinds of magical bolts available whereas there are 28 different kinds of arrows. Bolts tend to focus on adding control effects to attacks against enemies or giving the PC some kind of movement or bonus. Arrows seem pretty focused on adding different damage types, more damage, and ongoing damage.
I think it could be a source of all kinds of social problems, unless it is a rule since before character creation and is not requested by anyone.
Sentences like "Why did you gave avdantage to the archer? Why don't you give some advantage to me too?" become possible in such a situation (and can be avoided only with a bunch of mature players, which isn't always the case). And yeah I see it as a sort of (DM) abuse, even if that's not what you meant with your sentence.
That of course holds true of most rules that are not estabilished since the beginning. The easy way to deal with that is to ask if everybody is ok with the change and specifically say you're not gonna make other changes like this unless everyone at the table (including you) thinks it's ok to do.
As for the balancing issues, I see none.


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I chose the NN5 mainly due to the tables of nodal points that NN provide. The one for the Sigma 8mm is spot on perfect. With the 16-35L the supplied figures were out (they don't say which focal length they are for anyway) and using both the methods described here (http://www.johnhpanos.com/epcalib.htm) I found it to be 128mm on the top rail, 10mm more than in the NN table.
Problem is that I can't get a good stitch using either Autopano or PTGui, they both come up with the same alignment problem in the same place with a very near object alignment with a far object and nothing I can do with the software makes any difference (I know AP very well).
The same panorama in exactly the same spot is perfect using the fisheye. I've spent 7 hours already trying different configurations, etc but not getting anywhere. I had assumed that with the correct nodal point having very near/far objects would be irrelevant, it's why I bought the NN5, Can anyone help me?


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Hi photosbykev,
Appreciate the feedback. Nodal Ninja will certainly last you for many years.
When shooting at longer focal lengths or when you desire less than 15 degree increments simply use the 0 degree side of the 15/0 ring (included as default ring in all NN3 MKII's). In this manner you can reference the 5 degree demarcations on the lower rotator. Can you send a photo of the mod you are speaking?
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I'm tempted to reject it considering the fact that it is pretty useless since a simple google search would reveal exactly that and it doesn't contact any info about the tag. But I'm not sure whether I'm correct about this.
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Is it possible to wrap around Selenium 2.0 WebDriver Test Cases with anything other than NUnit for C# code? Or perhaps NUnit has a nice application to do this with? If not, how can I wrap around the code. I would like to create a web interface that displays the results of our test cases and logs information about successes/failures of each test case. How can this be done?
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Yes. Extending the user246's answer, Selenium is just a library that allows you to manipulate with web pages. Unit Test Framework wraps your tests and helps you to run the tests and produce the test execution report with number of passed/failed tests. You can also use MS Test, NUnit, xUnit or any other test framework.
Yes, NUnit is good for this as any other unit test framework. Any popular test framework produces the test execution results as the XML file. From this XML file you could generate any HTML/PDF report you want.
There are several open source and/or free tools that can schedule tests and produce online report. Please consider Jenkins or TeamCity or any other Continious Integration server. But, it will be much easier if you start from generating offline HTML report and just send it by email.
Selenium is just an API. You should be able to use it with any C# test framework.
Typically people hook a continuous integration server up with selenium to provide a web interface. You can use Jenkins, it's open source, and can allow you to execute tests remotely, track success/failures, etc.
Also try MbUnit/Gallio instead of nUnit, it provides a much more robust package to perform typical testing tasks, and includes better reporting and metrics.


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11 Oct 2012 5:49 AM #1
Sencha-touch-2.1.0-rc1 Object [object Object] has no method 'link'
Hi Guys,
I am trying to update to 2.1.0 but I get the following error when I load my app:
"Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'link'"
It is in src\Container.js, line number 494:
this.link('bodyElement', this.innerElement.wrap({Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'link'
cls: 'x-body'
This does not occur on the previous version. "this" is the viewport class.
Any ideas how to resolve this?
Kind regards,
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Hi Mitchell,
I can't seem to reproduce this now. I undone the update and retried again and no longer get this. Perhaps I made some error. Thanks for your reply though.-->