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To me my designs looks good, at least for some months. But to others not so much. I want to go freelancing but I don't want to be a bad designer. So how do I find out if my logo/website/business card/backgrounds are good, and if not, what is bad about them?
This old quote from US broadcaster Ira Glass puts it really well. It's something I believe is true for every creative profession:
Feeling conflicted about your own work is healthy - it's a sign of high standards and of pushing yourself.
For you, it sounds like it's not those months where you don't like your work so much that you should worry about. Pushing yourself is normal and healthy. Being satisfied with everything you produce is not a sign of being a good designer - quite the opposite. Maybe you're going too easy on your work in those months where you're perfectly satisfied with it.
It's very hard to judge your own ability, because it's healthy and normal have a certain amount of dissatisfaction with your ability from always aiming slightly higher each time your ability gets slightly higher - what web comic Cyanide & Happiness called "The Creator's Curse":
...and it is pretty neat because it keeps people improving - if you don't have it, you might be stagnating. It's easier to cope with the constant frustration when you know it's for the best... (or at least, that's what I keep telling myself).
If you like charts, here's another neat illustration, by the painter Marc Dalessio. Obviously it's not scientific... but it perfectly matches my experience with all types of skill development, and judging by the comments and the image going viral, it resonated with many others, too.
Note the periods after you improve, where you think you're better than you really are; then you slowly realise you aren't that good yet, your critical skills improve, you get frustrated, and it's during that frustration that improvements begin.
It's not easy to assess your own ability objectively - you're biased. A pair of questions which help assess it objectively are: "Are my clients (or boss) happy, paying, and recommending me to others?" and "Am I improving - is my work and skill set really, actually better than 3 months ago?". If you don't have clients or an equivalent source of impartial objective feedback yet, or if you feel you need more, get it using some of the suggestions in plainclothes' answer.
A few design-specific tips for better assessing yourself and your work:
In general, I find there's 4 phases in a person's self-evaluation of their own work:
1) I know nothing. I suck. 2) I think I figured this out! I rock! 3) Wait a minute, I now know enough that I know I don't know a lot. I need to get better. 4) I'm now fairly confident in my work.
The second phase is the dangerous phase...when you know enough to be dangerous, but don't know enough to realize all the stuff you are doing wrong.
The 3rd phase is the one I feel that most people will spend most of their career in. It's an acknowledgement that you know a lot, but that you still have a lot to learn.
I guess my point to that is don't confuse phase 2 with phase 4. ;)
As for how to know you are good or not, are you making a living doing what you are doing? That's one sign.
Another suggestion would be to take your portfolio around to other design firms. Ask if you could sit down with some art directors and have them review your portfolio and offer some feedback. Ask for some peer review.
A good aesthetic eye is something that takes a little experience to develop. And being a good designer means also being your number 1 critic (not number 1 fan, which many poor designers tend to be). Good designers are perfectionists, just like any other good artist.
There's no simple way to achieve these things, but one very helpful method is to immerse yourself in high quality designs:
The goal of all of this is to get out of a solipsistic mindset where you're only looking at your own designs. Because when you get that sort of tunnel vision, you have no objective reference for judging your own work. All you see is your own designs all the time and hear your clients or friends/family commenting on how great they are. You will grow very little as a designer this way.
On the other hand, if you focus outwardly and on the best designers in the industry, then you'll always be able to see how much further you have to go to be on the same level as the first rate design studios.
In time, by absorbing the aesthetic qualities of professional designs, you'll begin to internalize some of those aesthetics and be able to apply them to your own work in original and innovative ways. But that only comes if you set very high standards for yourself.
Your clients will tell you.
Sometimes delicately, sometimes not so much.
Go out and start doing work for people and see what they say. If people start coming back and referring their contacts that means they like you work, your responsiveness, and your price.
Over time you can inch your rates up as your business and your work improve. To be honest, most clients have terrible taste: They'll pay even if you're an awful designer, as long as you give them what they're after and their sales are good.
If you really want an insider's perspective
Bug local designers / firms / ad agencies and see if they'll take a few minutes to meet with you. Some designers will meet with local newbies out of the good of their heart. Others are just scouting for new talent. You'll be able to tell the difference when they start talking ;)
You can post your work here and ask for specific areas of guidance. This is a Q&A site but with the right kind of question, people are willing to help.
Behance Portfolio Reviews are a good format for structured feedback. The face-to-face format is the best way to learn. They are community organized for aspiring designers in various fields. If there's one near you, check it out.
Hearing from others helps, this is my best opinion that others have responded by making remarks of pros and cons. You can set it up in a blog for other designers to check out. Try Behance and other great portfolio sites online.
In some situations it is always good to go with your gut instinct if you feel it will stand out... take the risk and see what happens. Either way you learn as you go.
I don't know everything about designing but I know designers take risks, and offer something different to their clients that the "other guys" didn't think about.. so why not? I actually try to do a tutorial once a week to learn something new. : ) Hope this helps you on your journey, I'm guessing you never really get off the quest to be good at what you do... you keep at it.


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6 Terrifying Real Speeches That Were Thankfully Never Given
American history is littered with inspiring and comforting speeches. Some of the best writers, thinkers and speakers in history have studied language so that, in times of crisis, they can eloquently reassure the American people that they "have a dream" and are prepared to ask "what they can do for their country" and "did not have sexual relations with that woman." They calm the nation down with their confidence and soothing warmth. Everything's going to be OK.
But just because we didn't hear speeches for when the whole country was going to shit doesn't mean they were never written ...
#6. Kennedy's "Second Speech" During the Cuban Missile Crisis
During the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis and about halfway into X-Men: First Class, President John F. Kennedy delivered a televised address to the nation disclosing the presence of offensive Soviet missiles in Cuba. Also, they were nuclear, and could strike at just about anywhere in North America. And that shit was about to get very real for the planet unless the Soviets acted like gentlemen and pulled out when they were told to. Kennedy's administration had two basic options: full-on attack Cuba, or "quarantine" Cuba by creating a much less violent naval blockade.
Kennedy's Joint Chiefs of Staff were very pro airstrike, but Kennedy and his speechwriter were not. They went with the option that didn't end up killing everybody, a point Kennedy illustrated in his speech. It wasn't a comforting speech (still brought up the whole "Cuba has missiles" thing), but it was still much better than his other option.
"So yeah. In about four seconds, everyone is going to die."
As it turns out, an alternate speech was drafted, one that presented the "Let's bomb the shit out of Cuba" plan. Kennedy's speechwriter Ted Sorensen doesn't know who wrote this second draft and, judging from his take on it, sure as hell did not like what it would have led to.
Was this speech written by JFK himself, or worse ... someone from within the Joint Chiefs of Staff? That question remains one of the many unresolved mysteries surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Most Chilling Part:
"I have ordered -- and the United States Air Force has now carried out -- military operations with conventional weapons to remove a major nuclear weapons build-up from the soil of Cuba," which was dandy, since at the time Cuba had essentially been converted into one giant Doomsday Machine.
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Just the surface of an atomic submarine about the size of the Caribbean.
What Hearing It Would Have Meant:
Well, for one thing, that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had effectively conquered the U.S. presidency. Khrushchev himself later commented that the USSR feared a coup was imminent within the White House between the president and the Joint Chiefs during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it looks like President Kennedy himself shared this sentiment.
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As for what this would have meant following the airstrike, Robert L. O'Connell discussed such a scenario in an essay appropriated called The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust. We encourage you to read the whole essay, because it's haunting and terrifying, but here's the short version: The U.S. destroys most, but not all, of the completed missiles in Cuba, Cuba retaliates with its remaining missiles, which land in D.C., killing JFK and LBJ, and the U.S. responds by firing nuclear warhead after nuclear warhead until "Cuba is completely destroyed, with 95 percent of its population being killed," and the resultant radiation spreads through the Caribbean and southern Florida. Oh, and the Soviet Union is virtually exterminated. Lots of people are dead, and the ones who aren't are really, really sad.
Luckily, that didn't happen though.
(Hopefully you knew that without us telling you.)
"Hmm. I don't remember everyone dying. But most of June was a blur."
#5. The Apollo 11 Disaster
In 1969, the United States of America pulled off one of the most impressive come-from-behind successes in stellar history since the Battle of Endor: It put two men on the moon and successfully brought them back to Earth. No Ewoks were harmed, and none of the crew were transformed into members of the Fantastic Four -- so they say.
Still, since the eyes of the world were watching America's every single move during the Apollo 11 mission right down to the smallest crap-up, Nixon's then-speechwriter William Safire prepared the following remarks in the event that Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were condemned to a fate straight out of a horror movie: death on the moon.
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"They will most likely hold rudimentary elections for 'Moon King' and set up a series of 'Space Laws' and 'Moon Holidays' before slowly dying of Moon Madness, the noblest of all Moon Brain sicknesses."
The speech went on to praise the men who laid down their lives in "mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding," and brought up a touching, albeit on-the-nose and kind of creepy comparison:
"In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood."
It's kind of sweet, but also kind of weird. "Hey, you know how people used to see Orion and other warriors when they looked up at night? Well you can, too, except instead of a series of stars, it will be the bones of Neil Armstrong! Always, haunting you from his moon tomb. Goodnight!"
"The moon represents our spirit of innovation. And also the inevitability of gruesome death. Happy Moon Day, kids!"
The Most Chilling Part:
"These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery."
What Hearing It Would Have Meant:
A pretty down ending to one of the most hopeful moments in human history. Be it from death by starvation or suicide or being swallowed by the mighty Moon Worm, the single brightest object in the night sky nearly became a gigantic graveyard: a floating symbol of death for all humankind.
And of all people, Richard Nixon was the person who would have broken the news to us.
"It will comfort you to know that thing they heard was my comforting voice. Nixon's comforting voice. Hsssssssss!"
#4. D-Day Fails
June 6, 1944, the date of the Normandy invasion during World War II, is often marketed as the turning point of the 20th century by everyone from Steven Spielberg to Electronic Arts. And why? Because when it comes to turning points in history that make for fantastic video games, Hitler Getting Rejected by the Vienna Academy of Art just doesn't have as much draw to it as does Medal of Honor: Frontline.
Still, the Normandy landings were far from the slam dunk that most first-person shooters make us believe, since the Allies had someone even more unruly than Hitler to contend with leading up to the invasion: the sea god Neptune. Bad weather forced the Allies to postpone the invasion from the tentative June 5 date, and they nearly had to kick this date down to June 19, which sure enough "brought an even more turbulent tempest." In the event of epic failure, Supreme Allied Commander and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower drafted a handwritten message to be read in the event that D-Day failed. Fortunately, he never read it.
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The reason why Wolfenstein 3D exists.
On the off chance that you can't read that, here it is:
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do.
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
"On the plus side, James Bond will have two villains."
The Most Chilling Part:
His opener ("Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold") was more or less the easy way of saying that thousands of Allied forces had died, there would be no second front in Europe and that Hitler and his asshole friends were probably laughing their asses off.
What Hearing It Would Have Meant:
Stephen E. Ambrose examined this possibility in his essay "D Day Fails: Atomic Alternatives in Europe." Had the D-Day invasion gone so poorly that Eisenhower would have been prompted to read that speech, he would have "certainly lost his job," and "the Churchill government could not have survived -- after all, it had bet the kingdom on Overlord" (which was the code name for the invasion). Meanwhile in the U.S., "Roosevelt -- who had also bet the house on Overlord -- would have been secure from a no-confidence vote. But he had a presidential election coming up in five months ... He would have lost the election."
".. .and the wheelchair you rode in on."
Churchill, Roosevelt and Eisenhower would all have their impressive careers cut short, which, holy crap we couldn't have handled, like as a planet. Those three were some of the last people in the world who actually seemed to have their shit together. Ambrose concluded that WWII would have ended one of two ways in Europe: with President Thomas E. Dewey authorizing the use of atomic bombs over European cities, or...
"... a communist victory in Europe. A Communist Germany, France, Low Countries and Italy would have meant no NATO and a possibility of Communist Great Britain. Relations with the Soviet Union would have been impossibly difficult and dangerous. That is a terrible prospect -- but it might have happened if the Germans had beaten us on the beaches of Normandy."
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On booting my computer, I see multiple entries in my GRUB menu such as memtest, various Ubuntu versions and a corresponding recovery option. What does memtest mean and why are there a lot of Ubuntu entries? Does one differ from the other?
Memtest is for testing your system's RAM for errors. Very useful if your computer starts crashing and there is no software explanation.
Ubuntu kernels
The multiple Ubuntu entries are for the multiple kernels you have installed. Kernels are the core of every Linux system; they are what allow your operating system to use your computer's hardware. New kernels generally improve compatibility with new hardware and fix security vulnerabilities but sometimes there will be a regression--hardware that used to work no longer works with a new kernel--and therefore Ubuntu keeps some old kernels and Grub allows you to boot into an old kernel in case the new one has a regression.
Other Operating Systems
If you have other OSes on your system (from Windows to other flavors of Linux to whatever) chances are Grub will detect them and list them as well. Other versions of Linux will also likely have multiple kernels displayed.
Recovery mode
There will also be a recovery option for every kernel. You can use this in case anything ever goes wrong with your system and you can't boot up normally. Recovery mode loads the file system in read-only mode and then offers you these options:
and finally, the most important and useful option:
These might be out of order, I didn't actually reboot and look at the menu I just got the options from the scripts (stored at
There are three kinds of entries in my system, (dual booting Ubuntu with Windows 7).
The first two entries are for your Linux system:
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lintian (and possibly other commands) inside a certain chroot.
I have Ubuntu 12.04 on my machine.
Lintian can be run inside
Just copy the hook you want to a directory:
Then tell pbuilder to use the hooks in that directory:
The first is required if you intend to run
Running debuild -S will run lintian on the source.changes for you I believe. Lintian is also run on the .changes file during the binary build. Once you've built the binary and/or source package you can manually run lintian against either .changes file, just like this:
You may get different lintian errors or warnings from each build (source and binary).
If you're trying to move quicker, run pbuilder --login, install the build-deps and run your builds there, that saves you the start-up time from re-installing deps before each build.


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Using Punishments Effectively
"I yell."
"How do your children react to your yelling?"
"They don't react. They usually ignore me."
"Then what?"
"I get angry. Sometimes I yell again."
"Do they stop?"
"For a while, maybe."
"What do you try next?"
"Sometimes I spank them."
"How often do you have to spank them?"
"About eight or ten times a day."
Any punishment that is used this often is not working. The misbehavior is not getting better. The children are not listening to the yelling. They are not avoiding the spankings. Good Punishments Are Seldom Used
A true punishment is one that is seldom used because it is seldom needed. This is punishment's golden rule. Punishment should reduce the need for more punishment; it should decrease the misbehavior. If the misbehavior does not change, then the punishment is not working. Many parents make this mistake, focusing on the punishment rather than the misbehavior. If you punish your child five or six times a day for the same misbehavior, the punishment is not working. If you keep adding to the punishment and the misbehavior continues, the punishment is not working. It is not the punishment that is important but the misbehavior. A punishment must change the misbehavior. If it doesn't, try something else. You may think that yelling, threatening, scolding, and spanking are good punishments. These reactions release your anger, but they are not good punishments; they have little long-term effect on misbehavior. Anger and punishment do not mix. Do Not Punish When You Are Angry
Linda hurried home one day to take her dog to the vet. When she arrived home, she heard someone in the house. She was ready to run next door and call the police when she heard a giggle. She called out. There was another giggle. She went into her thirteen-year-old daughter's bedroom. Another giggle. Nancie and two friends were hiding in the closet, skipping school. Linda was so angry she could not think straight. All she could say was, "Nancie, it's going to take me and your father a few days to think about how you will be punished for this." Linda did not let her anger get in the way of being rational and making a good judgment. Allowing her daughter to worry for a few days is a pretty good punishment all by itself. Whenever I do a workshop on punishment, I explain this next point carefully. For many parents, this is an idea with considerable impact. When you punish in anger, you are actually doing two things at the same time-punishing, and reacting with anger. What if your child intended to get you angry? What if your child wanted to get even or retaliate because of something that happened earlier? Seeing you get angry is not a punishment. It is a reward! When you get angry at a misbehavior, you are teaching your child how to have control over your emotional state of mind. You are giving your child power over you. This is a payoff; the misbehavior is reinforced, not punished. As a result, the misbehavior increases. The effects of the punishment are negated by the reward of getting you angry. Some children would trade a swat on the bottom for the power they receive when they have succeeded in getting you angry. The only way to break this cycle of retaliation is to stop punishing with anger. If you find yourself getting angry, walk away. Dispense with your anger first, then confront the misbehavior. Do not let your children push your buttons. Do not punish when you are angry. Cool off first. The purpose of punishment is to teach your children to behave better in the future, not to get even. Sometimes your children can make you very angry, but this is not the time to hand out punishment. I remember a child who was upset because he was grounded forever. When I spoke with his dad, he explained that the boy had lost some of his tools. He got so angry at his son, he grounded him for the rest of his life. He overreacted. When you overreact because you are angry, you may say things that you do not mean. You cannot ground a child for life. Do not punish when you are angry. You will be teaching your children that punishment is a form of revenge. The purpose of punishment is to change a misbehavior and teach better decision making. Punishment is most effective when it is predetermined and planned. Punishment does not work well as an impulsive reaction. When you become angry, you are acting as a model for negative behavior. You will not be teaching your children to make better decisions.
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6 Bizarre Side Effects of Foods You Eat Every Day
#3. Grapefruit Can Mess With Your Medication
OK, maybe it's not shocking that too much coffee and chemical-filled candy can mess with your system. But grapefruit?
Grapefruit is the hallmark of a healthy breakfast, damn it! It contains vitamin C and antioxidants, and it can help lower cholesterol. It seems like the only health problem related to the grapefruit would be if it were fired out of a cannon directly into your face.
Although the cholesterol level of your resulting head wound would be inspirational.
Well, it turns out grapefruit blocks certain enzymes in the small intestine that break down medications. These enzymes normally regulate the amount of whatever drug you've consumed that gets absorbed into your body. If you take your medication (or "medication," if your pharmacist wears a denim vest and answers to "Ratboy") when you have grapefruit in your system, you get a much larger dose of the drug than you normally would.
"I'm so Xanaxed out right now, I almost poured you a screwdriver."
As little as one glass of grapefruit juice can elicit the maximum blocking effect, which can often last for more than 24 hours. Grapefruit affects so many medications that there's even a list of them on Wikipedia.
It includes an anti-diarrhea drug and an anti-psychotic, effectively killing two birds with one stone.
The effect can be hazardous and, yes, even fatal in some cases. If you do take medication, your best bet is to just cut grapefruit out of your diet completely and eat those fudge Pop-Tarts like the rest of us. Or, you know, ask your doctor. Whatever.
#2. Too Much Coffee Leads to Auditory Hallucinations
Coffee is an essential component of fast-paced modern life. It lets us work hard, play hard and go straight back to working hard without taking a break. If it weren't for coffee, you'd actually have to accept your body's physical limitations and rest for a while.
Coffee: less life-threatening, but more importantly, less insufferable.
But despite its benefits, an Australian study suggests that overreliance on coffee's stimulation can fuck with your brain in a pretty serious way. And by serious, we're talking one of the symptoms of schizophrenia.
And not even the cool schizophrenia where you become a math genius and win an Oscar.
In the study, participants sat for three minutes and listened to white noise being played through headphones. They were told to listen for snippets of Bing Crosby's rendition of "White Christmas," and to press a button whenever they heard it. However, in a bold Shyamalan punch to the face, no part of the song was ever played. Goddamn, we're starting to suspect being a scientist is a hilarious job.
"It turns out you can make people crazy just by lying to them and feeding them drugs. SCIENCE!"
Anyway, although the song was never played, participants who drank five or more cups of coffee a day were much more likely to think that they'd heard it. Simon Crowe, the lead author of the study, said that high levels of stress and caffeine make people "more likely to 'overreact' to their environment -- i.e., to hear things that just aren't there." So if you start to hear hearty renditions of Christmas carols in the middle of July, you might want to throttle back on the coffee.
You might also be at a Chinese buffet.
#1. Soy Can Lower Your Sperm Count
Soy is generally known as the food of choice for vegans/people who want every meal to be a miserable, tasteless experience, often using bizarre soy "meat" substitutes. But soy really is everywhere -- if you've ever cooked with "vegetable oil," there's a good chance that you've cooked with soy. Then you have Asian cuisine, where soy sauce is used so often it's just sort of assumed to be present in every dish. And so on.
Soy also has the weird effect of making you live a terrible, humorless life.
In a Harvard study, scientists assessed the diets of 99 men who were having their semen analyzed at a fertility center, taking specific note of 15 types of soy-based foods. Even after accounting for age, alcohol intake, abstinence and other words beginning with the letter "A," the scientists noticed that there was an inverse association between soy food intake and sperm concentration, meaning either the participants were experiencing an adverse effect on their body chemistry or were ejaculating every time they took a bite.
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This was not a minor difference. Those who consumed the most soy food had an average of 41 million sperm/ml less than those who didn't eat soy food at all. For perspective, the average sperm count is around 60 million sperm/ml, meaning significant soy intake could more than halve your collection of potential offspring.
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It turns out that soy has a pro-estrogenic effect on your system, meaning it can increase estrogen levels in your body, which can potentially lower your sperm count. It gets worse if you're obese, which also causes you to produce more estrogen. So, a hefty gentleman who crams an excessive amount of soy products into his face stands at an even greater risk of lowering his sperm count. Which is a shame, because the world definitely needs to be populated with more fat vegans.
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What does the newsletter predict?
The Woot newsletter came today. Perhaps that predicts some of us will be less productive the next 1-3 days?
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Yippee, it's a woot-off
Time to pig out down at the woot trough.
@dontwantaname: Wait? What newsletter? Bacon? No woot off there. Damn you guys! I have to read my mail before posting?????
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so is @dontwantaname
@xochiluvr: No, just not use to not being able to delete my own posts when I say something stupid. I have the vol mod square here, so I have to watch what I say. But no mod powers here. No delete! Not even for my own posts!
btw, the voices in my head say there is nothing wrong with me.
@dontwantaname: what do the voices in other parts of your body say?
@no1: My elbow tells me not to trust no1.
Can the stats nerds tell us the volume of posts @dontwantaname deletes per day?
The newsletter doesn't really predict anything... it flat out says "Woot-Off: August 21-22"
That's good ol Wootazon for you
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Let $\mathcal{S}=(S,\oplus,\otimes,0,1)$ be a commutative semiring and define functions $\nu:S\to \lbrace 0,1\rbrace$ and $\bar\nu:S\to \lbrace 0,1\rbrace$ as: $$ \text{$\nu(s)=0$ if $s=0$; and $\nu(s)=1$ otherwise} $$ and $$ \text{$\bar\nu(s)=1$ if $s=0$; and $\bar\nu(s)=0$ otherwise}. $$ Consider $\mathcal{S}$ extended with $\nu$ and $\bar\nu$, that is, $(S,\oplus,\otimes,\nu,\bar\nu,0,1)$.
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Are such extended semirings known and studied?
Can these algebraic structures be described by identities?
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Teen runaway, supermodel, and actress CarrÉ Otis found herself in the public eye from a very tender age. Millions of people gazed at provocative images of her in magazine and billboard ads from Guess and Calvin Klein as well as in features on the pages of Playboy and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. By the time she was twenty, they had also seen her on posters for the controversial film Wild Orchid, with Mickey Rourke. The troubled marriage to Rourke that followed soon thereafter was widely reported on in the media, as were CarrÉs struggles with drugs and a particularly brutal eating disorder. But to see someone naked on the page or exposed on the screen and in tabloids doesnt mean we know who that person really is.
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This is a great Indian dish with a nice kick to it. You can adjust the heat by adding more or less chili flakes--the way I have it written here will clean out your sinuses but was mild enough that the kids still ate it.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Seitan Vindaloo
This is a great Indian dish with a nice kick to it. You can adjust the heat by adding more or less chili flakes--the way I have it written here will clean out your sinuses but was mild enough that the kids still ate it.
13 comments:
- shelby said...
Your Indian dishes are so creative and delicious looking.
- November 13, 2008 at 9:57 PM
- Sal said...
I've never been brave enough to attempt a vindaloo - but that looks really tasty!!
- November 14, 2008 at 7:02 AM
- Bianca said...
You are the captain of Indian food with seitan in it...yum yum!
- November 14, 2008 at 3:56 PM
- Kelly said...
Mmmmmm. That looks delicious. I'm a bit of a weakling when it comes to spice so that looks like just the perfect amount for me.
- November 14, 2008 at 6:42 PM
- Anda said...
hi, i just foud your blog. i think it's wonderful! glad to see there are men like you around:)
- November 15, 2008 at 11:02 AM
- Sophia said...
Hey VeganDad,
I have been making your homemade vegan mayo, for many months and have probably made it at least ten times (and its been perfect).
But for the past 3 times I've tried to make it, it doesn't come together, it stays completely liquid. I am following the recipe exactly, same oil, same vinegar, do you have any idea why it isn't working all of sudden? I haven't changed anything!
- November 15, 2008 at 8:27 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Hmmmm. I don't know. I find that you need to s-l-o-w-l-y drizzle the oil in to get it to come together. If it is still liquid you can whiz in some tofu to firm it up.
- November 16, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- Sophia said...
I am going to the liquid stuff in with some tofu this evening. I will try mixing it more slowly next time. I am impatient when comes to food, so this doesn't surprise me.
- November 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Nisi said...
I have tried to make this, and it was good, though perhaps a little on the sweet side. That might be my fault because I didn't have vegan Worcestershire sauce and used this "Pickapenny" sauce instead (for the seitan beef). I think it must be sweeter. My seitan beef reminded me a bit of this seitan jerky I bought once, which was also sweetish.
Anyway - it is very good though, even with the extra sweetness. I know for next time to cut out some of the sugar or to get proper sauces!
- December 1, 2008 at 10:16 AM
- snugglebunny said...
I made this tonight. Quite good. I used Bryanna Grogan's Seitan Beef Cutlets, what recipe do you use?
- April 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM
- Victoria said...
I want to try and make this, but I had a question--
I want to add potatoes, so should I just add them at the same time I add the seitan etc? I've not cooked with seitan much, so I was a little unsure of how the cooking times would compare.
- February 26, 2010 at 1:53 PM
- Kate said...
I just tried this with seitan and sweet potato and it was delicious!
Only downside was the seitan I made was kind of spongey and rubbery, but I will just have to make it better next time. :)
- March 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- Kelly said...
Made this tonight along with the dahl from your naan/dahl quesadilla recipe and it was great! We used Quorn "steak" strips and spinach instead of seitan.
I think this will be invited into our regular rotation.
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Unanswered: add() and remove() extjs4
I have 2 panels (center panel and west panel). the first one (west panel) have a button. What i want to do is that when i click on my button, my form appear on the center pannel. For that i have used this code
xtype:'button', text: 'Button 1', handler: function(){ replace(cardWizard, 'wizard'); }Code:
var currentName; var replace = function(config, name) { var cp = Ext.getCmp('centerPanel'); if (name && name != currentName) { currentName = name; cp.remove(0); cp.add(Ext.apply(config)); } }
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can you try this sentence again? it is not clear
"in second time the component of my form start deseapearing, once time again, the same thing arrives until the total dispearance of the form. It's like the add() fonction work only one time"
1. learn Firebug, and see what is actually going on. Use the debug versions of the libraries. Learn the debugger; javascript statement. Learn about breakpoints, and stepping through and over functions.
2. read up on the documentation of MixedCollections, that is the type that the Card panel uses
3. consider the setActiveItem() method of CardLayout
4. Put your code on JSFiddle so we can help you
Man, wouldn't it be awesome if Sencha had the following...
1. Their own version of JSFiddle that was a little more Ext or Touch friendly?! Maybe you could partner with them! Have the latest versions of the libraries, auto style sheets. Good times.
2. A forum more like Stackoverflow with voting and stuff.


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Cason, Jansky and Martin Earn Academic All-District HonorsMay 1, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Anderson University senior Laura Jansky and juniors Bri Cason and Rebecca Martin have been named to the Capital One Academic All-District III softball first team for NCAA Division II, as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Thursday afternoon.
The trio has helped lead the Trojans (42-10) to yet another record-setting season and their second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Southeast Regional after claiming the league's automatic bid by winning the SAC Tournament Championship last weekend. AU earlier claimed a share of the regular-season title.
Jansky, a native of Kennesaw, Ga., carries a 3.77 grade point average, while majoring in kinesiology. A fixture behind the plate, Jansky has started 158 straight games and 190 of 197 contests during her career. The 5-foot-6 catcher stands fourth in school record books with 121 career RBI and seventh all-time in school record books with 30 career doubles. Jansky ranks ninth in school history in slugging percentage and has posted a four-game hitting streak, three three-game streaks and four two-game hitting streaks this season, while recording five multi-hit games. She has committed just three errors this season and only 11 in 197 games behind the plate over her four-year career. Jansky is a six-time member of the Anderson University Dean's List.
A native of Lawrenceville, Ga., Cason sports a 3.67 GPA, while majoring in education. She has been steadfast at third base, starting 107 consecutive games and 146 of 148 in her career. She posted a season-high eight-game hitting streak earlier this season, while also notching a five-game hitting streak, a four-game streak and three 3-game streaks, while recording nine multi-hit games. Cason leads the team with three triples this season and ranks fourth on the squad in walks and doubles. She is a four-time member of the Anderson University Dean's List.
Martin, a native of Anderson, has played in 49 games this season, while starting 41. She currently carries a 3.84 GPA and is majoring in business. The 5-foot-9 outfielder boasts a career-best .328 batting average, which is fifth on the Trojans' potent offense. Martin has slammed a career-best seven home runs this season, while posting a nine-game hitting streak, a four-game streak and a two-game hitting streak along with 11 multi-hit games. The sure-handed left fielder has committed just one error in 49 games and is a five-time member of the Anderson University Dean's List.
First‐team Academic All‐District ® honorees advance to the Capital One Academic All‐America® Team ballot, where first‐, second‐ and third‐team All‐America honorees will be selected later this month, recognizing the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
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6 Fictional Villains Who Accidentally Saved the Day
Remember when we told you how in Star Wars, a single TIE fighter pilot saved the rebellion by colliding with Darth Vader before he could shoot down Luke? Turns out he wasn't the only remarkably inept bad guy who ended up doing the heroes a huge favor. For example ...
#6. RoboCop: Dick Jones Confesses to a Cyborg That Records Everything
The pivotal scene in RoboCop plays out like so: Through a combination of expert police work and being a robot, RoboCop tracks down the man who shot him earlier in the film. RoboCop finds out that the bad guy is working for Dick Jones, one of the top executives at OCP (the company that runs the police department). It turns out Jones ordered the assassination of fellow OCP executive Bob Morton as revenge for creating RoboCop and upstaging his own proposal for a technological law enforcer.
A "Robo-Bot."
The problem is that as soon as RoboCop goes to arrest Jones, his body starts shutting itself down:
"If I can only act with my mouth, then by gosh it's gonna be the best mouth acting anyone's ever seen."
Jones, instead of just having RoboCop hauled out to a dumpster, patiently explains to him that he added a secret directive to RoboCop's program that prevents him from acting against any member of OCP management. During his villain monologue, he also admits to having ordered Morton's death -- but there's absolutely nothing RoboCop can do about it because of his programming. Finally, Jones sends his giant robot and a bunch of SWATs to kill RoboCop, because he can.
Holy shit. No amount of RoboCopping can get him out of this one.
Look! He's still human after all.
But the Villain Saved the Day:
Look, we know that flamboyant movie villains like to explain their master plan to the trapped hero -- James Bond has heard more confessed sins than your average priest. But boasting of your plan to RoboCop is like confessing directly into a security camera. He's a machine that records everything he sees and hears -- his memory is admissible in court as evidence.
And his fist is a flash drive.
We know Jones should have been aware of this because a) he was familiar enough with RoboCop's programming to insert a new directive and b) RoboCop was actually playing an audio clip of the killer shouting "I WORK FOR DICK JONES!" as he walked toward Jones' office.
Perhaps Jones was under the impression that if RoboCop dies all the files inside him stop existing, like someone who throws away a laptop full of incriminating porn because the monitor is broken. Following that analogy, the scene when RoboCop plays Jones' confession in front of the entire OCP board would be like the moment when the computer's owner finds out that one of his personal videos has 3,000,000 hits on YouPorn. Hey, Dick -- even if RoboCop "died," somebody could have recovered his hard drive (or whatever he has in there) and copied the files off of it to nail your ass.
Explaining the secret directive to RoboCop turned out to be a monumentally stupid decision, too: This is something that RoboCop couldn't have known otherwise, because this particular directive never shows up in his Robovision (unlike the others). When Jones is exposed, RoboCop more or less tells everyone at the board that he can't touch him because he's an OCP employee -- and so the OCP president kindly fires Jones on the spot to allow RoboCop to deal with him however he sees fit.
John McClane is a goddamn plagiarist.
If Jones hadn't told RoboCop that he can't hurt OCP executives, Robo probably would have assumed that the directive forbid him from hurting Jones only, regardless of where he worked ... which actually would have made a lot more sense as a directive anyway.
#5. Return of the Jedi: Emperor Palpatine Sucks at Setting Traps
At the climax of Return of the Jedi, Luke learns that his friends have fallen into an elaborate trap: The Emperor intentionally leaked the plans of the new Death Star to the Rebels while making them think that it wasn't operational yet. As soon as all their forces are gathered at the same place, they find out that it totally was.
As the Emperor put it, "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design" -- yes, even meeting the damned Ewoks. The whole reason Han, Leia and the others went to Ewok-ville is that the Emperor secretly fed them the location to a shield generator supposedly protecting the Death Star, but that, too, was part of the trap.
In other words, the Rebels may think they're making some progress, but each victory just brings them closer to ultimate defeat. As they arrive at what they believe is their goal, they are essentially a woman tied up on the train tracks in front of an approaching train, only in this case the woman has tied herself there because she thought that's how you derail the train.
"If I had a mustache I'd be twirling it, but I am completely hairless."
But the Villain Saved the Day:
There's only one problem with that plan. As part of the trap, the Emperor makes the Rebels on Endor believe they're attacking the Death Star's shield generator. And as bait for said trap, he uses the actual shield generator. As a reminder, the Rebels have already blown up an unshielded Death Star before, and this one has a big-ass hole in the side. He knows it's completely vulnerable without those shields. It's like setting a mousetrap where the cheese is rigged to a bomb, and if the mouse doesn't eat it, you die.
They should have built a shield generator for the shield generator.
Sure, the Emperor had a bunch of Stormtroopers waiting to ambush the Rebels, but why even take that risk? Why not tell them the shield station was somewhere else? Like for example in any of the other eight nearby moons that don't have indispensable equipment in them, which they could've then blown to shit with the giant laser as soon as the Rebels landed.
OK, so telling them how to shut down the shield is one thing ... but did the Emperor also have to give them complete and accurate plans for the new Death Star? He could have easily fudged a few details, causing Lando to fly the Millennium Falcon into a wall.
"Well, GPS says to go right ahead, so ..."
When you think about it, the Ewoks did more to endanger the Rebel Alliance than the Emperor, since they delayed Luke's group getting to the shield generator with their off-putting hijinks, which could have been fatal to the fleets waiting for the shield to be taken down. That's right: The Ewoks are better villains than the Emperor.
As any Stormtrooper could have told you.
#4. The Lord of the Rings: Sauron Lets Gollum Go, for Some Reason
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one huge underdog story; two semi-competent hobbits must destroy a powerful ring which, in the hands of the evil Sauron, could enslave all of Middle-earth. The only problem is that the ring can only be destroyed in the place where it was forged -- that is, an active volcano called "Mount Doom."
The other only problem is that Mount Doom is in a region called Mordor, and our awareness of tired Internet memes tells us that one does not simply waltz into Mordor, so two is out of the question. The other other only problem is that the only known entrance to Mordor looks like this:
And is protected by these guys:
And these other guys:
And these other ... things:
The hobbits somehow manage to reach Mordor, but what are they supposed to do now? If they are caught trying to sneak past the heavily guarded gate, the ring goes back to Sauron and everyone is screwed. And if they try to fight their way in, they risk getting trampled by a monster or, you know, anything else, because did we mention that these are just hobbits?
The only role in which a former child star can find success, because it reminds us of when they were small.
But the Villain Saved the Day:
The only reason that the hobbits were able to go into Mordor without fighting a million dudes was that they had the help of Gollum. And the reason they had that help was because Sauron let Gollum go.
Early in the first film, Gollum was dicking around Mordor one day when he was captured by Sauron and tortured for information about the ring, since Gollum himself was a previous owner. Gollum says, "The hobbits have it! One of them took it from me!"
"Shire! Baggins! He also called you a diiiiiiick!"
So Sauron knows everything he needs to know from this Gollum monster. So, now let's look at this from Sauron's perspective: His prisoner knows the hobbits, is obsessed with the ring and knows his way around Mordor. He has every piece of crucial information an opposing army would need if they were going to, say, try to destroy the ring or use it against Sauron. You'd think that would warrant being killed or at least thrown into a dungeon for all eternity -- and yet for some reason Sauron lets him go free.
"And now, kill the ... the ... there are some lady elves making out. What was I saying?"
Keep in mind that Sauron is a "kill first, don't ask questions later" kinda guy: He was a big fan of human sacrifice and, oh, the ultimate incarnation of evil. And yet he spares the insignificant life of a guy who knows enough about his plans to screw them, and who in fact does exactly that. Predictably, Gollum ends up showing the hobbits the alternate way into Mordor -- with ulterior motives, but still. He's also the one who unwittingly alerts the hobbits about Sauron in the first place, and the one who finally kills Sauron by dropping the ring into the volcano (along with himself).
It wouldn't be that hard to re-edit LOTR with Gollum as the real hero, because he already is.


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A dear friend of mine has two children that are much older than my daughter. They're also quite brilliant. When they're done with their books, my friend loves to unload them on us. My daughter LOVES receiving these books! She's read about ancient Egypt, different countries and cultures, and different religions around the world.
Now, to give you a little background. We're Jewish, but we're not observant. We don't go to temple or observe the holidays. We try to bring some spirituality into the home by praying every night at my daughter's bedtime. This consists of us taking turns to thank God for a few things that happened during the day. It's a nice way to end the day and show appreciation.
My daughter's knowledge about Judaism, however, is pretty minimal or so I thought. The other day as I was driving my daughter home from school, she asked me when we were going to our next Bah or Bar Mitzvah. She hadn't been to one in a couple of years, and I was surprised that she knew what one was. I told her we didn't have any coming up, and I asked her why she was interested. She responded that she wanted to see what one was like before she had hers.
My husband and I weren't planning for our daughter to have a Bah Mitzvah. I told my daughter that it requires attending Hebrew school for 2 days each week and attending services at temple regularly. She said that she knew this and was interested in doing it.
I asked her how she knew about all this, and she answered that she read it in her World Religions book. She said she spent the most time reading about Judaism since it's her religion.
I must admit that I never saw this coming. My husband and I have to have a serious talk about how to proceed. Do we have our daughter put a lot of time (and money) learning to read Hebrew and learning about her religion and culture or do we try and find other ways to occupy her time?
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A moderator just converted my accepted answer to a comment. Why was my accepted answer converted to a comment?
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I have edited my answer, but now I am not able to flag it as undeleted. Why?
A moderator just converted my accepted answer to a comment. Why was my accepted answer converted to a comment?
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I have edited my answer, but now I am not able to flag it as undeleted. Why?
If a question can be answered by just a link then it's most likely symptomatic of a low quality question with little research beforehand. Stack Overflow should not become just a collection of links and awarding reputation from what's basically just a Google search seems a little perverse.
In the general case there's always scope to elaborate on a link, even a link to an API. A synopsis of the API in question for example, or a summary of the problems it solves (and can't solve) in relation to the question. If there's not enough meat to the question to make that possible then it's a bad question.
As the moderator that converted it to a comment, here's what happened:
The flag for "not an answer" was applied to your "answer", not the question, not other answers (at least, not that I've seen in the flag queue as of yet). At the time, I was looking specifically at your answer (in addition to the rest of the post).
As others have commented (and I believe they are correct and I used this exact reasoning when approaching this situation), upvotes and accepted "answers" don't validate posts which really aren't answers.
The points about whether or not a question is a real question have merit, and it will be looked at. However, moderators are encouraged on Stack Overflow (and some of the higher volume sites) to not hunt for content, but work primarily off the flag queue, so it's not guaranteed whether or not the question will be looked at in this light (although it more than likely will be now since you brought it's attention to meta, which pretty much has the effect of flagging the entire post in an indirect way).
With that in mind, even if the post is closed, it doesn't in any way validate that what you provided was nothing more than two links, and not an answer.
Was it helpful to the poster? Yes.
Was it an answer that contributed to the overall quality of the site and by extension, the Internet (as per the mission statement of Stack Exchange)? Absolutely not.
I think you'll also see by many of the comments that they agree.
In those cases, it's more often than not an indicator that the information should be placed in a comment, which is exactly what was done.
Also, it should be noted that your current edit is truly questionable, in the sense that it's nothing more than a copy-and-paste of the manual. We prefer to have users put some effort into providing an answer and discourage copy-paste answers.
You should read this question.
Generally, people frown on link-only answers for the reasons others have better described here. Many of these get flagged as not being real answers, and some get deleted or converted to comments.
Your answers were better than the typical ones I see (which often just consist of something like "check this link I think it help u"), and the whole point is to link to the FMDB framework, but they could have been fleshed out a little bit. If nothing else, this would help someone in the future to find replacement links to the project, should the ones you provided go dead.
I'd suggest re-posting an answer worded something like the following:
This gives a little more context on what FMDB is, why they might want to use it, and where they could find out more about it.
To be honest, though, I'd vote for the other answer there because Core Data really is the way to go for storing data on iOS, and can save a tremendous amount of code over raw SQLite. However, Gus just updated his FMDB to a 2.0 version, and it can be useful for certain applications.
I think we need to start being more circumspect in removing link-only answers. Sure, if the question is
But this question was asking for an API. The answer provided an API. I'm guessing it was a good api, since it got 3 upvotes. It was very nice of the other answerer to provide a link to another api, and also give some commentary on how to use it, but I don't think that should be a requirement.
If I ask a question looking for an api to run dynamic queries in linq, and someone gives me a link to the dynamic linq api, then golden— +1 and accept. My question is now answered. I don't expect him to also give me commentary on how to use it. It's my job to learn the tool, and if I get stuck, I'll ask a new question.


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I have read the sentence: 你还记得我吗? But I can't understand the meaning of 得, here. I don't think it belongs to the rules explained here
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Very briefly, you should be aware that one additional meaning of 得 (de2) is to obtain.
Examples of this usage include 得到 and 获得.
In this particular instance, I think of 记得 as being 记 + 得, where the 记 means memory, 得 means to obtain, and put together we have: to obtain a memory. Thus, 记得 means to remember.
In the example sentence you give,
记得 as a whole:
First I take back my comment saying 记得 is one word, but I keep the part that it should be understood as a whole.
记得 is a 离合词 (cleft word, a.k.a. separable word). Most, if not all, cleft words do appear in dictionary as a word, however in grammar, whether they're words or phrases is still being debated by the professionals. No wonder there's a lot of confusion across the answers and comments.
There are different types of cleft words. 记得 falls into the type 'verb+result', where
Words with the same structure include: 看见, 听懂, 叫醒, etc.
Words with the same structure AND the 'result' word is also '得' include: 认得, 晓得, etc.
As a result, 得 in 记得 has the same meaning as in 得到, which is 'to obtain', although the syntactic roles are very different (in 得到, '得' is the action verb and '到' is the resultative complement). You're right that this usage is not listed in the link you have in the question.
Since we've touched the subject of cleft words, let's explore more about them:
As a 'verb+result' cleft word, 记 and 得 can be infix-ed by a resultative particle to affirm/negate the result, or construct an interrogative pattern. Which means,
'记得得' is grammatical, but seldom used due to the pronunciation difficulty caused by the repetition of '得'.
Besides these patterns specific to cleft words, they can also apply the common verb pattern of 'word+不/没+word' for interrogative pattern. The meaning is exactly the same as #3 above.
记不得 vs. 不记得:
There is a common confusion between them and some people misuse them as if 记不得 means 'I used to remember but now forgot'; 不记得 means 'I tried to remember but never succeeded'.
Generally, 'verb+不/没+result' means 'cannot do' and '不/没+verb+result' means 'do not do', for example,
However when it comes to 记得, although logically 记不得 means 'I don't have the ability to remember' and 不记得 means 'It's not in my memory', in practice they are both used for the same meaning of 'I don't remember' and are interchangeable. 记不得 is never used to describe someone's poor memorizing ability and you need some other expression for that.
Having said that, there is a difference in the usage, which is in geographical popularity. People from Northern China are more accustomed to say 不记得, while people from Southern China are okay to say both.
得 as in 记得住:
记住 is also a 'verb+result' cleft word. 记得住 is 记住 infix-ed with affirmative particle 得 (pattern 'verb+得+result' for affirmation). Similar examples include 看得见, 跑得快, etc. 记 and 得 happen to be neighbors in this phrase, but it has nothing to do with the cleft word 记得.
I check the link OP used. It is very close, or actually answered the question.
It is in the B1 category. The site contains many specific long examples, but none with the exact format OP is looking for.
It is very difficult to "explain" or give a translation to
I hope this helps and not being too confusing.
I would translate 得 as "able" (for emphasis). So, 你还记得我吗?would mean, "Are you still (able) to remember me?


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How can I find statistical data about the performance of various encryption systems, such as RSA, DSA, ECC etc?
You will find a lot of data on the eBACS site (in particular in the "eBATS" section for asymmetric cryptography). Note, though, that:
(For the last point, an example is speed of elliptic curve operations on various fields. CPU-based implementation, i.e. software, will be much faster with curves on prime fields GF(p) than for curves over binary fields GF(2m); but dedicated FPGA/ASIC the converse is true.)
So while you can have hoards of figures, be aware that the problem of defining a general one-size-fits-all performance measure for an asymmetric cryptographic algorithm, is hard.
If you are asking about the performance of various encryption algorithms, a good starting point can be obtained by running
You can see that RSA signature verification and RSA encryption operations are extremely fast (10K-40K operations/second, depending upon security level). RSA signature generation and RSA decryption are slower (300-2K ops/sec). DSA signature generation and signature verification both run at about the same speed (1K-3K ops/sec).
This benchmark doesn't show ECC cryptography, but generally speaking, you should expect ECC cryptography to be faster and yield shorter signatures/ciphertexts than DSA, for a given security level.


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What was the first Lego set produced, and when was it first released?
Some of the earliest "LEGO brick" sets I could find were these three on BrickLink from 1954:
As other answers have noted, there were earlier sets than this, but they were referred to as "Automatic Binding bricks". It wasn't until 1953 that the bricks were officially renamed as "LEGO bricks" (i.e. "LEGO Mursten").
These sets were using precursor designs of the "modern" plastic LEGO brick without the hollow underside tube. It wasn't until 1958 that the brick design we all know and love today was created. It was officially "born" at exactly 1:58 p.m., January 28, 1958, when it was first patented.
So, if you're looking for the earliest official "LEGO bricks" using the modern stud-and-tube design, these are the sets you're looking for:
A detailed timeline of Lego's history is layed out here dating back to the initial birth of the company.
We see from this that the first Lego-like bricks was the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Brick marketed by Hilary Fisher Page in England in 1947. This was the forerunner to Lego, and in 1949, the Lego company begins production of Automatic Binding Brick in Denmark.
This is the Automatic Binding Brick set 700/3.
Here is a detailed article on the origin of the first patented Lego bricks from 1958, designed by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, who had just taken over as Director after his father. This is the first Lego bricks as we know them today that got a unique system that improved the interlocking dramatically. This new design would become the modern, or as Godtfred called it, the "real" Lego brick. It was the beginning of Lego as we know it today.
Here is the first box image used for all the earliest sets from 1958.
The first plastic bricks produced by TLG were in 1949, known as Automatic Binding Bricks. The bricks themselved did not have LEGO printed on them.
By 1952 the Automatic Binding Bricks sets started having the LEGO logo (the small fancy one used on TLG wooden toys) in the lower right corner as an added decal, but continued having Automatic Binding Bricks on the box top.
Then in late 1952 they added "LEGO Mursten" to the top of the box (instead of a decal), but continued with the Automatic Binding Bricks box logo.
It wasn't until 1953 that a new box design came out with just "LEGO Mursten". Since "Mursten" is the same word for building bricks in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, as those countries came online to LEGO sales (Nov. 1953 for Norway, Mar. 1955 for Sweden) they also had LEGO Musten on the box top (although some early Norway sets had Automatic Binding Bricks on the boxes).
Then in late 1955 LEGO boxes started having new box designs with "LEGO System of Play" in the local language on the box tops. German LEGO sales started in March 1956, with Switzerland and Netherlands coming online in early 1957.
Boxes had "System i leg" for Denmark, "System i lek" for Sweden/Norway, "System im Spiel" for Germany/Austria, Systeem bij het Spel" for Netherlands, and "System im Spiel"/"System dans le jeu" for Switzerland. By the time Belgium and Portugal came online at the end of 1957, the decision was to switch to international "LEGO System". The countries already in the local languages had their boxes switch over to the international writing by 1960 (everyone else was done by 1959, but Denmark was the last holdout by 1960).
When the first bricks (2x2 and 2x4 sizes) were introduced (as Automatic Binding Bricks) in 1949, they had no LEGO markings anywhere on the bricks. By 1953 the first bricks had "LEGO" printed only on the hollow underside of the brick. In 1953 1x2 and 2x3 bricks were also introduced, only only found with the logo on the underside. In 1954 the 2x8 and 2x10 bricks were introduced, and the 4x4 corner, (shortlived) 2x12 and 2x14 bricks, and 1x1 round and square bricks were introduced in January 1955.
Then by mid 1955, the new Town Plan series of specialty parts (including 4 types of macaroni bricks, 1x6/1x8 bricks with and without names) and large LEGO plates were introduce.
The first LEGO baseplates were 10x20 size... introduced in 1950 in a 1/2 brick thickness. By 1953 the thin 10x20 was replaced by a 1 brick tall baseplate, and produced for many years.
Gary Istok (Information used in my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide (1949-1990s), confirmed by TLG Archives in Billund.
According to Brick Fetish:
Sets of "Automatic Binding Bricks" were first produced in 1949 in Denmark. Sets included 700/1, 700/2, 700/3 and 700/4, with 700/1 being the largest of these sets and 700/4 being the smallest.
In 1950 the 700/3A (between 3 and 4 in size), 700/5 and 700/6 sets were released. The gift sets were boxes of elements hand packaged in a zig-zag pattern in a shallow box.
The bricks themselves didn't carry the LEGO branding - it wasn't until 1953 that the bricks would be called "LEGO Mursten" (danish for "LEGO Bricks").
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