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I noticed a file 'app.log' in my Applications folder. I delete it but it reappears after a couple of days. What is this and can I get rid of it?
Probably a bit sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut, but if its happening fairly regularly and you can't figure out what's creating it another way, you could start a terminal prompt and leave the following command running
This will monitor for
For example, whilst running the above command, if you type
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Ok guys I just found out what is generating this file. Its a log file for exceptions caused by an application called FreeRapid.app which is a download helper like JDownloader. Thanks to both @patrix and @binarybob for the help

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Size25 m²
Floor No.1
- Internet/WiFi
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Even if the apartment is in the center, its located in a safe and quiet neighborhood far from the loud voices, music and crowd. 10 minutes by bike or tram to Central station, Darm square and the famous Red Light District. Public Transportation is just in front of the apartment. Trams to central station and other parts of Amsterdam stop less than a minute walk from the apartment. At night they are substituted by buses that does the same same routes. Near the apartment there are many restaurants, bars & cafes, supermarkets and mini shops where you can buy any stuffs required.
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Despite the reactivity of Silvia when I wrote e-mail, the room/flat was a huge disappointement
Dirty bathroom, broken equipment (curtains on windows, wardrobe door making it unusable), no lock on door...
It was difficult to make my children happy with that.
I do not recommand it.
Only positive thing is the location as it is near by the center of Amsterdam, tram in front of the house but for the rest I can not give any positive review.
Please note that you have to share the apartment with people living there! The only private thing you have is a room, the rest you have to share!
Photos on internet give you a different impression of what you get. We paid Euro 327,- for one night (6 people in one room) to stay in a dirty and old place.
It absolutely not worth the money!
I specifically contacted Silvia about having a clean apartment and she assured me: the apartment will be clean but it was far from clean!
Please note that the pictures show two rooms and we had only one room with 6 persons.
- Room can not be locked.
- Door was covered with dirty fingers.
- Bedside table dirty.
- Wholes in the bed sheets.
- Windows aren't cleaned for a very long time.
- Set (table and chair) on the balcony are so dirty you can not sit on it.
- Blinds are really dirty and covered with unidentified brown spots, some of them are laying loose on the ground.
- Bathroom does not have a Jacuzzi, this is just a big bath where you stand while taking a shower. Which we did not take because of the dirty bathroom.
- Half of the 8 small lights above the sink are not working.
- Sink was rusty and dirty.
- Wall in the bathroom big yellow spot due to leakage. At some places the plastering is coming of the wall. We did not take a shower there!
- Wood (windows) behind the shower curtain is rotten and dirty. Not only there.
- Livingroom (on the picture you see the big lamp hanging in the middle) on top of this all kinds of (dirty)mattresses. Furthermore a clothing rack, stair. Looks very chaotic.
Firs time Wimdu, bad experience!
Friendly people, pictures don't correspond to rooms, smaller balcony without chairs and table, kitchen completely full with stuff of the constant roommates, not a real whirlpool simply a shower with a tub, not very clean, location good like described, all in all okey but more like hotel style, cause of sharing system, too expensif.
We stayed there for 2 nights. Silvia and her family are very nice and welcoming! I enjoyed chatting with them!!
The room looks much brighter in the picture, but that's always the problem with photos. In reality the accomodation is a litte bit older, you can see that the furniture is used. For me it was OK, I didn't book a 4 starts hotel. It's good value for money (for Amsterdam).
The room was very spacious and the accomodation was clean. The bathroom was clean and big and I liked the shower. WiFi did work very good. The location is also good. It's situated near Vondelpark and the tram stop is in front of the house. With tram line 2 it takes about 10 minutes to get to central station. There is some traffic you can hear in the room. For me it was no problem and it was not annoying.
Summa summarum: I liked it and I would book the accomodation again at Silvia's!
Very big and nice room. The only problem is that there is no key or something for close the room. The check in was was nice, the renter of the room was on holiday but she didn't disconnect in any moment of us, she did it very easy for us. Very good expirience and if we go back to amsterdam, we will repeat.
Not a good experience, the place seemed dirty. No running water in either of the two sinks in the bathroom. Kitchen was dirty and the sink was full of un-washed dishes and pans etc. I have stayed in better and cleaner hostels in the past which would of been much cheaper.
Great location, very comfortable room, and the most friendly flatmate!
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What is a conditional double limit and how to compute it for
\begin{equation*} \lim_{(x,y)\rightarrow\infty,x\leq y}\frac{2x-1}{x-1}+\frac{x}{y}? \end{equation*}
What is a conditional double limit and how to compute it for
\begin{equation*} \lim_{(x,y)\rightarrow\infty,x\leq y}\frac{2x-1}{x-1}+\frac{x}{y}? \end{equation*}
The limit depends on the exact way $x,y$ approach infinity. The first summand $(2x-1)/(x-1)$ actually tends to $2$ (always). The second summand can tend to any limit in $[0,1]$, or to no limit at all (in which case the limit of the entire sum does not exist). To get a limit of $0$, use $y = x^2$. To get a limit of $0 < a\leq 1$, use $x = ay$. To get no limit, you can use $x = y(sin(y)+2)/3$ [thanks AD!], as well as many other options.
I suppose you could define $\lim \sup$ as the supremum of all limits attainable for some sequence $(x_n,y_n)$, and then $\lim \sup_{(x,y)\rightarrow\infty, x\leq y} x/y = 1$ (and similarly $\lim \inf_{(x,y)\rightarrow\infty, x\leq y} x/y = 0$).
Just adding some extra comments.
First $$\frac{2x-1}{x-1}=\frac{2-1/x}{1-1/x}\to\frac{2-0}{1-0}=2$$ as $x\to\infty$ (this is independent of how the limit is taken). Secondly, we note that $$0\leq\frac{x}{y}\leq1$$ the first inequality comes from that both $x,y$ are $>0$ (since they should tend to $\infty$), the second comes from $x\leq y$ (divide by $y$).
At this point we have $$2\leq\liminf_{(x,y)\to\infty,x\leq y} \frac{2x-1}{x-1} + \frac{x}{y}\leq\limsup_{(x,y)\to\infty,x\leq y} \frac{2x-1}{x-1} + \frac{x}{y}\leq3$$ At the boundary of the limit, that is when $x=y$ we would get 3. To reach the liminf we only have to find a way to press $x/y$ as low as we can (recall that we already know it is $x/y\ge0$) - at this point you have do some testing, you want $x$ to tend slower to infinity than $y$, $x=\log y$ or $x=\sqrt{y}$ works fine!
Also, the linear choice $x=ay$, earlier suggested by Yuval Filmus above works fine to see that all limits between 2 and 3 are possible. The example in the the comment of Yuval Filmus shows that there are choices of $x$'s such that no limit is attained.
It seems to me that the limit of the function does not exist, since the function approaches to different limits along different ways. However, we can compute iterated limits: \begin{equation} \lim_{x\rightarrow\infty}\lim_{y\rightarrow\infty}\frac{2x−1}{x−1}+\frac{x}{y}=2 \end{equation} and \begin{equation} \lim_{y\rightarrow\infty}\lim_{x\rightarrow y}\frac{2x−1}{x−1}+\frac{x}{y}=3. \end{equation} The non-existence of the double limit is also implicated by the non-equality of the iterated limits.
Leave the first term (with limit $2$) on the side.
Then by letting $x=py$ with $p\le1$, you can achieve any $p$, so the limit does not exist.


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Sinochem has pushed back trial operations at its refinery from June due to construction delays, a person familiar with the matter said. The new refinery, based in the Chinese port city of Quanzhou, has the capacity to process 12 million metric tons, or 240,000 bpd, of crude oil each year.
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BEIJING -- Sinochem Group, China's fourth-largest oil and
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Quanzhou, has the capacity to process 12 million metric tons,
or 240,000 bpd, of crude oil each year, and it will mainly
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Sinochem said Wednesday in a statement that it purchased its
first crude cargo for the refinery, which would ship in late
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I am in the process of setting up always on high availability clusters for the first time. Can anyone explain to me from the networking perspective after configuring the group and testing to make sure it is functioning properly, how does SQL know when to fail over, and how would my application connecting to the SQL server know where it is pointing?
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If you spent a chunk of time looking for work in 2010, and it wasn't your first time doing so, track down your phone bills, travel costs, search site memberships, and other expenses. You can write them off, with a few exceptions.
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Career blog TheJobBored expands on publication 259 (direct PDF link) and what it says about search-related write-offs. Generally, if you had to call, join a web site, travel, or pay someone to help you hone your search, those are all items you can deduct from your as "miscellaneous itemized deducations," but, then again, only if you itemize deductions for your 2010 taxes, and only if that itemized total exceeds two percent of your gross income.
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Abstract: The Langlands Program relates Galois representations and automorphic representations of reductive algebraic groups. The trace formula is a powerful tool in the study of this connection and the Langlands Functoriality Conjecture. After giving an introduction to the Langlands Program and its geometric version, which applies to curves over finite fields and over the complex field, I give a survey of my recent joint work with Robert Langlands and Ngô Bao Châu on a new approach to proving the Functoriality Conjecture using the trace formulas, and on the geometrization of the trace formulas. In particular, I discuss the connection of the latter to the categorification of the Langlands correspondence.
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Source: Lancet 366: 293-300.
The standard treatments for stage I seminoma are not ideal. Radiation carries the risk of second malignancy in these young patients, the majority of whom would remain free of disease even without radiation. Surveillance, however, carries its own risks. Some patients are lost to follow-up, and even with close follow-up, some patients will have advanced disease when their recurrence is discovered. This increases the risk of transformation into less curable non-seminomatous malignancies. An alternative treatment option such as carboplatin might alleviate some of these issues.
The study accrued enough patients to determine a 3% difference in relapse-free survival with 90% certainty. The two arms were well matched with respect to patient characteristics.
Relapse-free survival was not significantly different between the two arms. However, patients who received carboplatin were more likely to recur in the para-aortic nodes, whereas those who received radiation were more likely to recur in the pelvic or supradiaphragmatic nodes.
Second germ-cell tumors occurred significantly more often in the radiation arm.
Acute side effects differed between the two arms. In the carboplatin arm, thrombocytopenia was more common, but dyspepsia was less common.
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Before the bell rings, the lockers open, and classes are in session, Dothan and Houston County educators along with law officials are holding a session, taking aim at school truancy.
"We have a lot of people working together in the same direction, they are all working together and that's what it takes in a city like this," says Dothan City Schools Superintendant Tim Wilder.
Ovetta Coleman started the Houston County Truancy Prevention Program in 2010 and so far the program is working.
Here's how the numbers look right now.
"In 2010 we have 83 kids go through the program 3 of those reverted back to a truant behavior, this year, however, i have 63 kids who already have been through the program," says Coleman.
A program that these officials say could prevent a lifestyle of crime.
"Students who aren't going to school, they're getting lost behind, their getting in trouble, they're committing crimes, they're getting put on the streets, they're homeless and that's the result," says Wilder.
But not only are truant students dealing with the District Attorney. so are their parents.
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Positive reinforcement that could change a child's life forever.
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I always find it really difficult to set my targets, from my perception as both works are equally important for me.
My situation is- Currently I am working on a project that really needs my attention. Apart from this I am on a job hunt as well. Yesterday i received an email from another company(I applied in the company) and wanted me to write a code snippet(web crawler) in my own working language(php), however the job is in python language and I believe they just wanted to have an idea about the logic implementation.
I am stuck with the critical project that (believe it or not) such that its going to be a day and yet I have not submitted the code. I am not a code ninja, but yet I want to go for it.
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im wondering if is possible to return a serialized AMF object in a control action in ASP.net MVC anyone as tried this before?
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im wondering if is possible to return a serialized AMF object in a control action in ASP.net MVC anyone as tried this before?
thanks in advance.
I have little to no experience with MVC but I have done some testing with writing AMF data to a Flash client. What I did was to build a Generic Handler which used ByteArray class in FluorineFX. I created an object instance and wrote it to the ByteArray with WriteObject(). I then wrote the data of the ByteArray to the Response Stream. In Flash I then used a standard URLLoader and used ReadObject() from the (URLLoader.data as ByteArray) and I had my object deserialized and ready to go. (Of course I had to do all the RemoteClass and registerClassAlias muck first)
My guess is that the MVC Action lets you access the Response Stream as well so you should be set.
I have no idea what an AMF object is (yes, i can google it but i won't). BUT, u can serialize any object in ASP.MVC. For example, returning an JSON object is an example of using the built in serialization.
check this previous SO question out:
So the trick here, is that you need to make sure all the objects inside one of these AMF object can be serialised. If not, then don't forget you can return a serialised anonymous object.
You can also create your own ActionResult classes, if the existing ones don't allow you to emit the format that you need.
This site has information on creating custom ActionResults: http://blogs.msdn.com/jowardel/archive/2009/03/11/asp-net-rss-actionresult.aspx


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40 years Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. It's time to celebrate.
Chicken Toast Maori, Florida Salad, Smoked salmon and beef tartar, Riz Casimir, Danieli Prawns, Apple Pie...
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The money is coming from Gov. Robert Bentley's office, the city of Troy and Pike County.
Sheriff's officials say 51-year-old Mike Mills of Troy was shot to death during an apparent holdup at the Hill Mart in Springhill on Nov. 23.
Sheriff Russell Thomas says it appears the killer came into the gas station, shot Mills and then left with the cash register.
Authorities are looking for anyone who might have been a customer at the store or even driven by on the night of the slaying.
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Officials say a single-engine aircraft went down about 1:15 p.m. Saturday. The plane bounced into an unoccupied house after it hit the ground.
Elkmont Fire Chief Michael Carter says the pilot is dead, and no one else was on board.
Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely identifies the 18-year-old pilot as Nick Loggins. Blakely says the teen's family lives near the crash site and recently purchased the plane.
Carter says it's not clear what caused the crash. He says damage to the house is "very minimal."
Elkmont is located in Limestone County about 30 miles northwest of Huntsville and just a few miles south of the Tennessee state line.
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MIAMI (AP) -- The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season has come to an end.
The season concluded Saturday after a total of 13 named storms, only two of which became hurricanes.
Forecasters had predicted a busy year, but 2013 saw the fewest hurricanes in a single year since 1982.
Just one storm -- Tropical Storm Andrea -- made landfall in the United States.
Experts say drier-than-expected air and persistent strong upper level winds in the atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and tropical Atlantic Ocean led to the weaker season.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A father faces felony child neglect charges after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted a baby left alone in a car outside a Best Buy store. The incident happened about 5:30 p.m. Thursday near Orlando. The child was not harmed.
FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) -- The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is offering weekend tours of its new Chesser Island boardwalk in December.
The boardwalk, which stretches 3/4 of a mile, just reopened in late November. It had to be rebuilt after being destroyed by the Honey Prairie Fire, a vast wildfire that burned more than 430 square miles of the swamp over the course of nearly a full year from April 2011 until 2012.
Rangers at the refuge will offer one-hour guided walks of the new boardwalk on Saturdays from Dec. 7 through Dec. 21.
Visitors will hear about the plants and animals inhabiting the Okefenokee and their role in the swamp's ecosystem.
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5 Famous Artists Who Tried to Destroy Their Own Work
#2. Virgil Writes One of the Greatest Works of Western Literature, Asks His Pals to Burn It
If you don't remember the Aeneid from school, let's just put it this way: It's considered one of the greatest written works in humanity's long history of writing things (it's been taught and studied for two millenniums for a reason). The Aeneid originated way back in 29 B.C., a result of the poet Virgil setting out to pen an epic ode to the founding of Rome and its general awesomeness, tentatively titled You Guys, We're, Like, the Greatest.
Now, Virgil was a meticulous craftsman. And by that we mean "slow as shit," in that it took him 11 freaking years to write the epic poem, and even then he thought it sucked balls (his exact words, probably). So in 19 B.C., Virgil set out on a lengthy vacation in Greece and Asia to attempt to edit and salvage the poem, but fell ill almost immediately. On his deathbed, he asked his friends to burn the insignificant little trifle he'd spent the last decade working on, the one that made the men cheer and the ladies swoon.
Fainting at a poetry reading was the Roman equivalent of throwing your panties on stage.
So what saved One of the Greatest Things Ever Written by Mankind from getting tossed into some burn barrel in an alley where bums would warm their hands over it? Politics.
Emperor Augustus had suggested the poem to Virgil in the first place, and parts of it implied that he was descended from Rome founder Aeneas, which would legitimize his reign. So when he learned of Virgil's "Please make sure no one sees the incredible masterpiece I created" request, Augustus issued an imperial decree of "Um, hell no," instead ordering Virgil's cohorts to finish editing the poem as best they could and publish it. And here we are, still talking about it, 20 centuries later.
When it inspires this kind of artwork, how can you not?
#1. Michelangelo Creates Thousands of Drawings, Feeds Them to a Bonfire
We're all familiar with Michelangelo, the Italian artist whose painting, sculpting and nunchuck skills are the stuff of legend. Once his chief rival, Raphael, had succumbed to a fatal case of excessive boning, Michelangelo was basically the King of Renaissanceville, completing two of his most famous sculptures (David and The Pieta) before he was 30 years old. He viewed painting as an inferior art form, yet still rocked the Sistine Chapel -- because if you're going to waste your time on something beneath you, there's no point in fucking around. Oh, and he made a lot of drawings. Like, tens of thousands of them.
Also, he was possibly a Cenobite.
Or about 600, judging by what we have left. Of course, you have to figure that not every single doodle he scribbled of St. Peter's Basilica in perfect 1/1,000 scale would survive four and a half centuries, but even in his own time, Michelangelo's talent was fully recognized -- his drawings were considered priceless gifts to be treasured and protected. So why are so few of them still around? Well, it might have something to do with Michelangelo tossing reams of them into bonfires throughout his life.
What? Why? If his drawings were so highly regarded that he could have turned them into favors or some serious coin, why just toss them into the inferno?
The most likely explanation involves a weird form of vanity and public perception. In Michelangelo's mind, true genius centered around the immediate, seemingly effortless creation of a work of art, whereas the actual sketching and design stages were elements to be ashamed of and kept hidden. You know the merits of hard work and proper planning and learning from your mistakes and all that jazz? Well fuck that, because real prodigies effortlessly crap out masterpieces at a whim. Michelangelo worked his ass off on almost everything he did, yet he'd rather you remember him as a lazy, gifted sumbitch who just strolled into the Sistine Chapel one day, looked up, grabbed a few paintbrushes and a stepladder and went to town.
"Man, I don't even remember painting that shit, I was so hammered."
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Oh well then yeah I agree with you there for sure, these forums atm are much better than while crap was the most active section imo. I wasn't really clear but I was talking before crap took over, while there was still PP fan content being made etc etc.
i'd say it's been fairly noticeably dying off for the past 2-3 years or so.


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Asking a job seeker to show some code is a fairly common practice for a software company. However, would it be acceptable for the candidate to ask the interviewer to show him a small piece of code that he thinks is well written?
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I always ask to see some code, for several reasons:
And then there are some more side effects:
Companies, those that do agree to show you code, are unlikely to just send me a tarball of source files containing the latest version of their entire codebase, for obvious reason. If they show me any code, they will do so in the form of a little demonstration, which is great: it means I get to talk to one of my potential peers, it allows me to ask more questions about their coding culture, processes, and codebase, and ideally, it will help start a professional discussion in which I can both demonstrate skills and knowledge and learn more about the work environment. It also means that I get to look at the tools they use, which is also quite insightful - for example, if the project they show me relies heavily on a particular IDE, this means that everyone uses that, which can be good or bad. And finally, talking through a bit of code gives a good impression how well future professional communication might go.
I suppose that falls into the whole 'interviews are bidirectional' mantra, but I wouldn't expect to get any. Intellectual Property concerns are the most obvious issue after the fact that there's no computer in the interview room, and bringing you to one is kinda awkward.
Further, they're just going to cherry pick the best looking, least meaningful code they can. The best code isn't really a problem, the worst is. It's the same reason that getting code samples from candidates is next to useless.
You can ask whatever you want, but:
Well, it depends. I always liked to know where I am going to work.
I see a job interview as bidirectional. The company finds out about you and you find out about the company. Asking for code may be a little bit much, but asking development related questions should be OK.
For example, I would not accept a job where the company doesn't use agile techniques or TDD or doesn't plan to embrace and encourage such practices. I also appreciate when a company is proud of their product and their code -- when it seems the interviewer is waiting for you to ask to see it so he has an excuse to explain all the cool stuff they do.
Haha, that's a funny question. I wouldn't be offended if somebody asked me for a code sample while they were interviewing, but I probably wouldn't show them any code, either, unless they had asked in advance and I had time to plan carefully.
I definitely understand the intent of asking such a question though. As a job-seeker, I have asked the Joel Test to an interviewer before. They didn't know what it was, but they were happy to answer.
In some places, asking those types of questions might improve your chances while it might hurt your chances elsewhere. The beauty of life is that if it improves your chances, then that's the kind of place you would want to work. If it hurts your chances, then you wouldn't have wanted that job anyway.
I see nothing to lose by asking politely and being able to explain why you want to see it.
I have asked this question at my two interviews where they claimed they had senior devs migrating to asp.net mvc3 or 4 or when they said they want heavily commented code. I have rejected at both occassion due to lack of their knowlege on actual code standard. The only standard i found was if it works copy and paste it and it will work. I wont ask this question if i am doing a new project or have to write piece of code independent from others in the team. I will definitely see the code if i am being hired to fix an existing software or function and i wont say yes unless i know the answer. Assume you dont ask and they say can you please fix the datepicker to start from todays date. When you look at legacy code you see no jquery or jquery ui but a custom made date picker that has all dates stored in xml file and every night a cron job runs to update future months on it. That would start the headache as code to achieve this is less than the words in this example. If you are going to work on their code ask to see it. Not asking is like quoting for a job on belief that customer said its small. He might own 20 acre land and gardening on his 1 acre is small for him but gardner cant charge 50 quid just because all his small jobs start from 50.
I tend to work for companies where at least part of their work is open source, so it's trivial to find code samples. I figure out who works at the company, then figure out their online handles. Since people tend to use the same screen name, over and over, it's easy to find where they've committed code, whether they were on Github, Bitbucket, or somewhere else completely.
My current company has a ton of code hosted on Github, so it was easy to see what they work with, how big their code base is, and what seems to be no longer of interest.
I would never ask for a sample, simply because they're going to show you the best code they have. This is not the code you'll be working with. It's probably housed in a bell jar in a locked room. You'll be working with the messy code that many people have had to mess with.
This is awesome if you can get it. Sometimes it isn't possible without NDA-type agreements, but it is always good to try. To increase your odds, let your interviewers know you want this well in advance (a couple days) so they can have something in mind to show you.


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I was recently walking around the track at UCSC, and I noticed that the track didn't always curve inward. Sometimes it curved the other way. Compare this (A convex track): http://www.irelandaerialphotography.com/dr_f2_3838.jpg to this (A concave track): http://www.motoyard.com/trackday/images/track-chuckwalla-l.gif . In the latter, there are portions of the track where the outer edge ( the edge bordering the infinite face, if this was a planar graph) is longer than the inner edge (the edge bordering the inner field). In a convex track, the outer edge is always longer than the inner edge. But is it possible to construct a (concave) track such that the inner edge is the same length as the outer edge? If not, how does one prove that it is impossible? The track must have a width greater than zero. (If the width is zero, the inner and outer edge will be one and the same, and the question is meaningless.) As an extension, is it possible to construct a track such that all paths along it are of the same length? A path is defined as the set of all points equidistant from the outside edge all the way around the track and equidistant from the inside edge all the way around the track, though these two distances do not have to be equal.
I think what you're coming up against is the simplest version of the Gauss–Bonnet theorem.
Say we have a reference runner running around the inside track. A runner next to her will have to speed up or slow down to keep pace, depending on "how much the track is turning", a parameter known as the 'curvature' of a plane curve. You can get the total distance of the nearby lane by integrating the curvature over the entire track (this is always an integer multiple of $2\pi$ — see Total curvature) and multiplying by the width of the lane. So if your track doesn't intersect itself then you get total curvature $2\pi$. In short, you can never get away from this phenomenon, and in fact the shape of the track doesn't matter at all.
In 3 dimensions you can fix this of course, by running on the surface of a cylinder, or more interestingly, you can electrically charge your runners and shoot them in a tokamak fusion reactor - then you will finally get a fair race.
Here's an answer that only works only on a technicality. I think the formulation of the question should rule out this answer. Draw a wiggly closed path, then draw a less wiggly closed path around it which has the same length. It should look something like this:
The inside and outside boundaries have the same length. Moreover, every "path" has the same length simply because there are no paths:
Let $s\mapsto(x(s), y(s))$, $0\leq s\leq L(\Gamma)$, be a simply closed curve $\Gamma$ parametrized by arc length. Then the parallel curve $\Gamma_\epsilon$ at distance $\epsilon$ from $\Gamma$ has the parametric representation $s\mapsto (u(s),v(s))$ with $$u(s)=x(s)-\epsilon\dot y(s),\quad v(s)=y(s)+\epsilon \dot x(s).$$ Here $\epsilon$ may have either sign; I omit the discussion of this point. It follows from Frenet's formula that the line element of $\Gamma_\epsilon$ is given by $d\sigma=(1-\epsilon\kappa)ds$, where $\kappa$ denotes the curvature of $\Gamma$ and we assume $\epsilon\kappa(s)<1$ for all $s$. Integrating we obtain $$L(\Gamma_\epsilon)=L(\Gamma)-\epsilon\int_0^{L(\Gamma)}\kappa(s)ds = L(\Gamma)-2\pi \epsilon,$$ the latter equation following from the fact that the total curvature of a Jordan curve in the plane is $2\pi$ (up to sign).
One possible formulation is to consider a smooth closed curve $\Gamma$ and to define the track as the Minkowski sum of $\Gamma$ and the circle of radius $r$. If $\Gamma$ is nice enough, so that the curvature at any point doesn't exceed $1/r$, then the outer boundary has length equal to the length of the inner boundary plus $4\pi r$. (That is, the perimeter of the Minkowski sum of two regions is equal to the sum of the individual perimeters in most nice cases.)
This may be enough to get you started.
In building a model railroad track, to make a complete circle, I need 12 curved pieces. Assuming I want a more elaborate layout, but want to keep things on the same level and allow no branches or crossovers ( i.e. I have only straight and curved pieces and no risers to lift track off my flat building surface), I need many curved pieces. If I start at one place, go counterclockwise around the track, and count pieces that curve left and pieces that curve right, I get 12 more pieces that curve left than curve right after I complete one loop and return to my starting place.
Is your scenario similar to building railroad track?
Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2010.08.15
Allow self-intersections. Take the symmetric figure eight. That does the trick. And it has the bonus that each half is convex. This is what Kloeckner might have been trying to say.
( As a kid, we used to drive model slot cars on these. I imagine you can find such tracks raced by real cars. )
If you afford to use a bridge or a crossing, a figure eight track can at the same time: be (mostly in case of a bridge) horizontal, and have the same length for its two edges.


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Are there ready made PHP scripts which would allow my USERS to create their own stores? I don't want an eBay clones. Just a script which is easy to configure and customize.
Are there ready made PHP scripts which would allow my USERS to create their own stores? I don't want an eBay clones. Just a script which is easy to configure and customize.
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Most probably you'll need to set them up manually or hire a developer. Actually, you'd want to hire a developer because someone needs to support that. It's very risky to host eCommerce websites because you need to keep everything working and up-to-date to avoid security issues.
However, you might find this a helpful resource (Magento is a great app). While writing this, the website doesn't work for me but here's a cached link.
Best way is to use Joomla with VirtueMart or HikaShop
Which can be customized very well
Zeuscart is the best free php ecommerce shopping cart script & it is highly customizable according to your needs.
http://www.hotscripts.com/ is a very good resource for this kind of thing, they have many php store scripts both free and paid.
http://www.freewebstore.org/ and http://www.shopify.com/ are also good solutions.
So, you can do this a couple of ways, but first you should understand that it's going to be either extremely simple, or extraordinarily painful. Evaluating these systems is near impossible until you have actually had to build a few of them out. I have come to hate pre-built, all in one e-commerce solutions a bit. It's not the basics of handling the transaction that get messy - they all do that simple task extremely well - it's all the complexities of different regions, associated taxes, unpredictable business rules, and odd shipping schemes that make these projects tough. Think about doing business in Europe. Now you have to account for all kinds of rules applying to the Value Added Tax, and these kinds of rules are not uniform from country to country. In the US, state and local taxes might apply. Knowing this, and when to charge x or y is what makes e-commerce painful. You should also take into consideration the market / industry of the client - the rules and norms vary from industry to industry.
Option 1: Use a CMS like drupal or wordpress and a shopping cart system:
The second option is to get an open source solution that is designed for e-commerce from the ground up. I think this is a better way to go about things if the site doesn't have complex needs for content publishing, role management, etc. If you do have these needs, Drupal is an outstanding solution (as long as you have a little patience).
If you don't have those needs, here are some good standalone e-commerce solutions:
The next thing to consider is how to process your credit card transactions. I prefer Authorize.net for a number of reasons - the client pays for this, and it serves as the background credit card processor on your site. You're not a bank, and you never ever ever want a solution that stores credit card transactions within the app. You can get into a LOT of trouble doing this if you aren't certified to store private credit card data - and it will cost a fortune to do that. So, use authnet.
Authorize.net is also the only solution that permits you to do recurring payments. More on that in a moment.
Your other option is to use a hosted solution like shopify:
One important final note: - If any of your projects need to allow for recurring payments (ie regular monthly / automatic cc transactions) , you need to understand that this is easier said than done. For reoccurring payments to work, credit card information MUST be stored somewhere. If this is required, you want a system that can interface with authorize.net's automatic / recurring payment API, and NOT one that stores credit card information locally. At the moment (to my knowledge), the ubercart and Drupal Commerce solutions are lacking, but they are trying to get it to work with a service called recurly http://drupal.org/project/recurly
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(for some reason I couldn't add a comment) I don't necessarily think this is correct. If you are doing e-commerce correctly, the secure transactions are all being handled by the third party payment procesor (this is what Authorize.net does, as well as other services). The script should NEVER store any kind of private data like credit card information. For that to work, you need a DSS PCI certification, and you have a lot of expensive work ahead of you to get to that point. So, instead, you should use a payment gateway that separates the layers requiring secure transactions and the layers used for browsing / shopping / cart / etc.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Devin Wayne Fuller, 19, 3567 Franklin St., Bellaire appeared before Belmont County Common Pleas Judge John M. Solovan II Friday for a pre-trial conference....
Right RMV ... absolutely no winners here any way you look at it. Very very sad.
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This is such a sad case all the way around. The crime itself is beyond understanding. Two young men with their lives really just beginning and to have so much hate in their souls is also beyond my understanding.
The family of the victim will be going through an extended*****during the trials no doubt. I also feel for the family of these two boys as well. Regardless, they will never see the light of day as free men in this lifetime and rightfully so.
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A lot of stealing is goin on around here. Some is certainly drug addicts trying to feed their habit. Some is simply the economy. Something much more disturbing must be going on in a persons mind to rape and beat a 92 year old woman.
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That's right boss man you no Belmont county it getting worse and worse everyday drugs are killing this community
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Ahhh........ does he has a boo boo on his knee?? Don't worry, the state has a needle for you where you won't feel no pain. That's a lot more you did for that poor elderly woman you and your buddy brutally killed and raped. You two need a slow painful death. Hope you rot in H E L L.
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Fourteen Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference coaches agree, this year is going to be all Metro State.
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Metro State received 13 of the possible 14 votes to win the RMAC in Tuesday�s preseason poll, and senior forward Jonathan Morse was picked as both the Preseason Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year.
That other vote? Colorado School of Mines, the top-ranked team in the country, according to the NABC preseason poll.
Metro State, ranked 13th nationally before play begins, and Colorado Mines were the only teams to receive first-place votes in the RMAC preseason poll, and Morse and Western New Mexico senior forward Chad Carter were the only unanimous selections on the preseason All-RMAC roster.
Fort Lewis College checked in at No. 5, behind Metro, Mines, Colorado Mesa and Adams State. The Skyhawks were shut out on the All-RMAC ballot.
The FLC women�s basketball team, which features a new head coach this season, was slotted at No. 5 as well.
Metro State received 12 of the 14 first-place votes. CSU-Pueblo received a vote and was picked to finish second, and Colorado Christian, behind RMAC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year Christina Whitelaw, received the other first-place vote and was picked to finish third with Colorado Mesa.
Nationally, Metro State was ranked seventh in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Top 25 Preseason Poll, while FLC received 84 votes of top-25 consideration but was ranked just outside the top 25.
�On paper, we did lose plenty when you talk about the top four scorers and top four rebounders,� first-year FLC head coach Jason Flores said in a news release to The Durango Herald. �However, we have good players in the program and have players who have been waiting their turn, which, in fact, comes now.
�We will be an exciting team as soon as we gain that experience, and we�re excited to see where we will be at the end of the year.�
Kelsey Sigl, a senior forward at Colorado Mesa, was named the RMAC Preseason Player of the Year. Both Sigl and Whitelaw were unanimous picks for the All-RMAC preseason team.
Katerina Garcia, a Durango High School alumna and the Skyhawks� point guard, was the only FLC representative on the All-RMAC roster.
�Kat has persevered through a lot,� first-year FLC head coach Jason Flores said in a news release to The Durango Herald. �We�re hoping to have a great senior year out of her. She�s put in a lot of time and should reap the benefits from it.�
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Unanswered: How to send http headers while using jsonp proxy?I am trying to get data from web services from my app to load a list and to load more on scroll using pull refresh & ListPaging plugins. I tried this with flickr API and it works fine, but problem comes when I try to access our own services because they expect "Authorization" header with Base64 encoded data and "Accept" header to decide format of response.This is how I have defined my store:
Ext.define('myshop.store.CatalogListStore',{ extend:'Ext.data.Store', requires: [ 'myshop.model.CatalogListItem' ], config:{ model:'myshop.model.CatalogListItem', autoLoad :true, proxy: { type: 'jsonp', url: 'http://192.168.23.89:7003/xxx-service/test/catalog/list', useDefaultXhrHeader : false, withCredentials:true, method : 'GET', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Authorization': 'Basic YX5iOmM=' }, extraParams: { format : 'json', pagesize : 10 }, reader: { type: 'json', rootProperty: 'categories.data' } } } }
Request URL:http://192.168.23.89:7003/xxx-service/test/catalog/list?_dc=1354529083930&format=json&pagesize=10&page=1&start=0&limit=25&callback=Ext.data.JsonP.callback2 Request Method:GET Status Code:403 Forbidden **Request Headers** Accept:*/* Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8 Connection:keep-alive Host:192.168.23.89:7003 Referer:http://localhost/myshop/ User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/20.0.1132.47 Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11 **Query String Parameters** _dc:1354529083930 format:json pagesize:10 page:1 start:0 limit:25 callback:Ext.data.JsonP.callback2 Response Headersview source Content-Length:0 Content-Type:text/xml Date:Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:04:40 GMT Server:Apache-Coyote/1.1
If I use headers like this it works :
Ext.Ajax.request({ url: 'resources/data/templates.json', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Authorization': 'Basic YX5iOmM=' }, success: function(rsp){ } });
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For time being I have disabled Authorization header requirement and moved ahead with JSONP but I am sure in future I have to come back and see how to add CORS support to my server. If you know how to do that in CXF based web-services served by tomcat, please let me know.
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But what's the problem in supporting HTTP headers in JSONP because it seems like legitimate requirement from my point of view. More and more apps are talking to web services these days and server management team never feels comfortable enabling CORS on production servers, so having this feature will make life simpler.


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Have you seen Amazon's latest Subscribe and Save order/shipping policy?
Now, when you set up a new Subscribe and Save, it does not create the order to ship immediately, it holds it until your regular monthly ship date. Mine is the 25th so that is a long time to wait for something. So if you run out of something early but want a shipment sooner, you have to pay a ton for shipping (also a new policy).
They told me it was so they could offer lower prices but so far nothing I get is cheaper and in fact some things are more.
I get they need this to save money but they are going to lose a lot of customers, starting with me on many things.
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It's almost not worth even using anymore. It used to be very convenient, but now I seem to spend more time trying to work around it.
Between this and their new "Add On" scam, I'm just about done with them. If they start charging tax, I'm gone for good.
@machgogogo: I'm already looking for other sources for things. What is the "add on" you are talking about? Maybe I haven't run into it.
What galls me is they don't even tell you so can order more of something to tide you over. Bad business IMO.
Oh I saw "add on" - it seems like they use that to designate things that cost less than $25 but ship with whatever else you buy that qualifies for the $25 free shipping thing.
So, it could be pretty much anything that costs less than $25. I bought something that was listed as an "add on" but it didn't really affect what I paid since I have Prime - I don't know if it would've been Prime-eligible without buying something else. I guess it's a little fuzzy to me.
I'm confused about the shipping change you talked about for the immediate shipments. I looked on my account and clicked on "need more right away" for something in my subscribe and save list and I was given 2 options for free shipping - 3-5 day delivery or 2 day delivery. This no longer had the subscribe and save discount applied to the purchase though, which I think is a change. Note that I am a Prime member, that may be the difference.
Thanks for letting us know about changes.
@mkdr: Right. I don't have prime and won't get it. Just more money for Amazon and no real benefit to me.
I think if enough people contact them and gripe they'll have to do something about it. I already have today and will continue since for many things I get they do have the best prices.
I think this is really going to impact their bottom line instead of saving money like they hope.
I always thought subscribe & save was a dumb idea, but I always get downvoted for saying so.
Oops, here they come...
It's a fantastic idea. I get food much cheaper than I could at the store, delivered free. This is great since I am disabled and can't get to the store. Same things with supplements. Many are cheaper than most other places.
@tsfisch: I think Subscribe and Save can be really helpful for certain items. I have friends who are able to predict the quantity/timing of diapers or formula and it's one less thing to worry about; plus, they don't need to bring a baby/toddler to a store and then haul large/heavy boxes into their car/house while dealing with said baby/toddler. I'm not sure if amazon offers S&S for "feminine hygiene products," but that's another category of item with predictable use. I've used it for a few food items; I believe I changed the delivery dates/time frame on every single item, each time! However, if they offered S&S for the food that my dogs eat, I would absolute subscribe.
@minkeygirl7, I hadn't seen the news; thank you for posting! I agree with @machgogogo that this diminishes my interest in the program, but (unfortunately), I often find amazon to be cheaper than local merchants for so many things - although most of what I buy from amazon is stuff that I can't find locally.
My response to Amazon....
I ran into this earlier this week when I tried to reorder stuff I'm running low on. I have the choice between waiting till November or paying regular price. At 15% off everything was slightly higher than local store prices so regular price is way too high for the convenience. So I've cancelled all my S&S groceries and will get them locally now.
I do not use this program but curious....What if you cancel and then order a "new" one?
I would be rather put out if I found this new rule. I would likely be in the group cancelling all my stuff.
@pattiq: You used to be able to do that but now if you cancel and start a new subscription, it sets it up for the date each month when you get your deliveries. My delivery day is the 25th of every month so it sets it up for then, having me wait 3 weeks.
They also changed it that if you need an extra delivery you not only pay full price not the S&S discount price but shipping.
I just called them and ripped a guy a new one. It was worth it because he gave me a $25 credit to anything I want. Sweet!
Yeah I'm disappointed, too. As a prime memeber, I just buy my stuff the old way and remember to reorder. Almost everything I used to S&S too is now only a 5% discount anyways, which is not worth the slow shipping that they use.
Also folks, please remember that Amazon does simply start charging tax, states pass laws which require Amazon to charge tax. In the past, Amazon has successfully lobbied state legislatures into making up loopholes for them not charging taxes. They are now fed up and want the revenue, in addition to feeling heat from in state retailers who say the competition isn't fair. So if Amazon has any kind of presence in your state, prepare for the taxes to start coming in the next year.
I think this is really going to impact their bottom line. If enough people complain and cancel orders, this will change.
I have an issue with not telling us they were doing this so we could change our orders. I've already found 2 other sources for things I order.
So add the new taxes we are getting (I know not Amazon's fault), less of a discount (I didn't even realize that either) and now having to live by their schedule, bye bye Amazon it's been nice.
@machgogogo: I, too, would like some info on this "add on" scam.
I could be missing something, but I have no problem w/my 1 subscription. No changes at all. Same time, same amount. It's cheaper than I can buy it anywhere.
With the new "Add-on" program, there are a bunch of items that Amazon won't ship anymore unless your order is at least $25.
And it makes no difference whether or not you are a Prime member.
Occupy Amazon!
Amazon's second policy change that I really dislike. The first is their then-new add-on policy I posted here: http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/a2c6f468-9504-4c17-b82d-1965d15a90df/have-you-heard-about-amazons-new-bs-add-on-program#21
I just bought some rechargeable batteries. I saved $3 for a coupon, plus an additional $0.50 for using subscribe&save. It said it would ship in a couple days. I plan on just cancelling the subscription after the first ships.
It's an interesting idea, although I don't plan to use it.
Maybe it's different if you have Prime. I just set up an S&S for coffee and the only thing I noticed is if I need it sooner than what I set it up for, I won't get the 5% discount. And btw, I read 5%, not 15%.There was nothing said about adding things together, but then that's the only S&S I currently have.
I needed something sooner than my ship date, so I just changed my ship date. You can change it to any calendar day. Mine was end of month, changed it to the first, already received it! Yes, it changed the date for ALL my S&S items, but no prob, I just need to pay attention.
I would be ok with a monthly ship date if it would still be the 15% discount it once was. At 5%, it's not worth it. It just saves shipping costs for them to ship all your subscription items together. I get that, but share the wealth!
I still have 15% on my existing subscriptions. I am afraid to make any changes now for fear they will drop it down to 5%.
@bdsmonkey: I wonder if it would let you keep moving your ship date around, or if that was a one-time thing.
@bnbsouthworth: I have changed my ship dates more than once.
The reason I don't use Subscribe and Save is that I'm not sure what the future prices will be.
The prices seem to go up and down all the time and this includes things you subscribe to. I don't want to commit to buying something in the future at whatever price they think I should pay. If I locked in at a price and I was guaranteed that price as long as I continued to subscribe, I might use that service.
According to their FAQ:
The discount you receive for each order will be calculated using the Amazon.com price for the item on the day each order is placed. Therefore, if the price of the item increases or decreases, the amount you're charged may also increase or decrease.
Apparently, even the percentage discount can change from time to time:
All Subscribe & Save orders receive a discount over the regular price of the item. The current discount percentage for each item is posted on the product detail page when you sign up. Amazon reserves the right to change the discount amount at any time in its sole discretion. If an item has already shipped before the discount percentage changes, you will receive the old discount percentage on that order but will receive the new discount percentage on future orders.
Amazon wouldn't have to pull BS like Add-Ons if they were smarter about how they shipped stuff, i.e. get some freaking bags and bubble mailers and start using boxes that fit the items. My wife just got a pillow that shipped in a box that could have fit three more of them, heck, it's almost as big as my bike.
@apocello42: i get mixed packages. sometimes when i order a single book i'll get it in a bubble mailer, sometimes i'll order something and it'll be shipped in a box that is just beyond necessary. what i don't get is when they ship me an entire box of diapers, they put it in another box rather than just putting a shipping label on the box of diapers itself


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A friend of mine is a part-time magistrate in Sullivan County, New York. He often hears cases of hasidic men being caught with prostitutes. Moreover, he tells me that the cases of STDs among hasidim in Sullivan County is surprisingly consistent with county-wide infections overall. I was shocked. Many in the frum community are unaware of this, which is unfortunate because it is a serious public health issue. My question: How can these men -- who wouldn't dream of having relations with their wives while nidah -- consort with non-Jewish prostitutes? Isn't a non-Jewish woman also in the class of a nidah? Are they thinking, "if Yehudah could go to a prostitute, it's OK?". I believe that their behavior is 100% wrong, but I understand that some offer a "halachic" rationale for their illicit behavior. What, if anything, could they possibly argue?
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First of all: the behavior you describe is wrong. Let's make that entirely clear.
I can think of two-and-a-half justifications people may use, to better understand the phenomenon (if it truly is a phenomenon).
1a: Halachically speaking, the Biblical prohibition of "nida" per se only applies to Jewish women. (See Rambam Issurei Biah 4:4). (Rabbinically, all gentile women are automatically nida as well, but that's at the rabbinic level.) It would appear that the Torah was focused on conduct within the Jewish community; it was so crazy for someone to go outside it that it never bothered to apply these prohibitions there.
1b: As a corollary, this could (if read sideways through a giant ton of personal bias) lead someone to believe that Judaism only cares about how you deal with other Jews; anything to do with a non-Jew somehow "doesn't count for real." G-d forbid! But I could see how someone could think that.
2: Rabbi Aaron Rakkefet-Rothkoff has suggested that in certain circles of certain Hassidic communities, there is little legitimate room for honest intimacy (at the emotional or physical level) between a husband and wife, due to ideas of "modesty" and "holiness" taken to some rather sharp extremes. Just as the Talmud discusses (with horror) a lifestyle whereby one wife is "for procreation" and one is sterilized and used "for pleasure", a misguided individual could conclude that his respectable, publicly-appropriate wife gives him no opportunity whatsoever for physical enjoyment -- and nor could or should she; therefore he goes for something "on the side."
The remedy for this, obviously, is for the community to validate a strong, two-way relationship (emotional, spiritual, and yes, physical) between spouses. When the Talmud applies "love your peer as yourself" to your spouse, that's a subtle reminder that while that person of the opposite gender has some different laws in Judaism, she is still a human being, and she is still your peer.
Once again I can't begin to defend any such actions (which I hope are rare); but I think this may explain the mentality behind them. And of course, humans are very complex creatures and their desires can lead them into some very strange thinking and behaviors.
The premise of your question seems to be that ostensibly religious people never sin, which is obviously absurd. These men are sinners, who are acting in violation of Jewish law, and if their behavior ever became public knowledge, it would scandalize their communities.
The simple reality is that sexual immorality is not, and never has been, exceptional or unusual. Sexual sin exists in every human society, and the Orthodox Jewish world is no exception. Maimonides writes (Hil. Issurei Biah 22:18-19):
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Chili powder, salsa, and beans give this chicken and rice dish its rich southwestern flavor.
Serves: 5 servings
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon crushed fresh garlic
- 2 cups quick-cooking brown rice
- 1 can (1 pound) red kidney beans, drained
- 1-3/4 cups unsalted chicken broth
- 1/2 cup bottled salsa
- 1/3 cup finely chopped green bell pepper
- 1/3 cup finely chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
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- Rinse the chicken with cool water, and pat it dry with paper towels. Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces, and sprinkle with the salt.
- Coat a large nonstick skillet with nonstick cooking spray, and preheat over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and garlic, and stir-fry for about 5 minutes, or until the chicken is browned and no longer pink inside.
- Add all of the remaining ingredients to the skillet. Stir to mix well, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 8 minutes, or until the rice is tender and the liquid is absorbed.
- Remove the skillet from the heat, cover, and let stand for 5 minutes. Serve hot.
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Guests at the Alzheimer's Association's annual "Making Memories" dinner and auction enjoyed tasting a selection of Brown-Forman spirits and bid on luxurious auction items at Horseshoe Casino in Southern Indiana on Saturday, Feb. 25.
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