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The International Centre for Ethnic Studies is a renowned international research centre located in Sri Lanka.
It was established in 1982 with the support of the Ford Foundation by a team of Sri Lankan and International scholars. It is amongst the select few institutions that are both "local" to the global South and "international" in orientation. The mission of ICES is to deepen the understanding of ethnicity, identity politics and conflict, and to foster conditions for an inclusive, just and peaceful society nationally, regionally and globally, through research, publication, dialogue, creative expression and knowledge transfer.
Through the years ICES has pursued historically sensitive theoretical and empirical research on identity, inequality and conflict in relation to ethnicity, gender, and politics. ICES has been particularly influential in shaping policy and public imagination on issues of ethnic diversity and constitutional reforms in Sri Lanka. Over 25 years ICES has influenced regional and even global discourse and institutions through research, dialogue and publications. ICES has always believed in strong South- South networks and works collaboratively across Asia and Africa. ICES was in "special category" consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC. It has also partnered with leading international research institutions across Europe and North America, such as Institute of Development studies, UK, University Institute for Development Studies, Switzerland, Harvard University, USA and McGill University, Canada. ICES was chosen to house the office of the former UN Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women. ICES has two locations, equipped with modern research and conference facilities and situated in close proximity to Sri Lanka's most important Universities. The ICES library is one of the most sought after academic resource centres in Sri Lanka, housing a range of publications on ethnicity, culture, identity, religion, women's studies, politics, law, and history. ICES is supported by eminent scholars in Sri Lanka as well as distinguished international academics. It is, probably, Sri Lanka's most vibrant and dynamic intellectual space for research, discussions, seminars, film screenings and publications.


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More than 50 million people in the United States suffer from allergies. Determining what you are allergic to is a crucial first step in figuring out the most effective treatment.
The standard allergy test is performed by pricking suspected allergens on the surface of the skin. The skin on the back is pricked with 112 allergens, and after only 20 minutes, reactions are observed. If the back does not give clear results, the doctor may recommend that a second type of skin test be performed. This test involves direct injection of the suspected allergens into the skin of the forearm.
Allergy testing is fast, painless, and the best way of determining what it is that is causing you to suffer from congestion, itchiness, and other discomforts as a result of allergic reactions. Find relief. Ask your doctor about allergy testing today!

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A comprehensive DIY guide. This multimedia approach walks you through drawing out a plan, selecting the right cabinetry and countertop materials, and the important steps of site preparation. There are specific instructions for installing both wall and base cabinets so they are level and square, plus easy ways to finish with perfect side panels and trim around the cabinets. It's all in here.
Adding value without adding stress. Building beautiful, sturdy face-frame cabinets with frame-and-panel doors is a superb way to add value to a home and convenience to everyday living. The author's foolproof methods apply to both stock and custom cabinets, giving readers plenty of options -- both high-end and economical -- for updating their kitchens. Clearly labeled photos, helpful sidebars, and "WorkSmart" tips combine to provide a direct path to achieving the look that's just right.
To install a full range of options, order your copy today!
About the Author
Gregory Paolini designs and builds furniture and cabinetry from a small shop in the Smokey Mountains, just west of Asheville, North Carolina. He also teaches and writes about the craft an is a frequent contributor to Fine Woodworking magazine.
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SKU FHB72071340 Table Of Contents
Chapter 1: Planning your project
Choosing cabinets
Choosing countertops
Designing the kitchen
Appliances and accessories
Chapter 2: Preparing the site
Horizontal reference lines
Vertical reference lines
Laying out cabinets without walls
Locating studs
Finding the highest point with a level
Finding the highest point from a level reference
Using a water level
Laying out horizontal reference lines
Laying out vertical reference lines
Laying out a 3-4-5 triangle
Marking studs
Chapter 3: Preparing cabinets
Staying organized
Removing doors
Removing drawers
Prepping cabinets for installation
Chapter 4: Installing wall cabinets
Attaching the cabinets
Ganging cabinets together
Supporting cabinets
Laying out fasteners
Ganging Euro-style cabinets
Installing ledgers
Installing wall cabinets
Chapter 5: Installing base cabinets
Installation strategy
Dealing with utilities
Freestanding cabinets
Ganging face-frame cabinets
Installing base cabinets
Making square cutouts for utilities
Making round cutouts for utilities
Installing freestanding cabinets
Chapter 6: Installing trim
Trim flanges
Side treatments
Under wall cabinets
Trimming base cabinets
Cabinet tops
Installing a narrow trim flange
Installing a wide trim flange
Installing a finish panel
Installing an applied toe-kick cover
Chapter 7: Installing countertops
Prepping for countertops
Working with post-form countertops
Cutting out for sinks
Installing a post-form counter
Building a laminate countertop
Prepping cabinets for countertop installation
Cutting post-form countertops
Joining mitered corners
Cutting out for a sink
Installing a countertop
Chapter 8: Installing hardware
Reinstalling interior components
Reinstalling and adjusting doors
Knobs and pulls
Adjusting undermount slides
Adjusting Euro-style hinges
Installing knobs and pulls
Intro No ISBN 978-1-60085-367-8 Video No Author Gregory Paolini Publication Year 2011 Dimensions 9 3/16 x 10 7/8 Pages 112 Photo 265 Drawings 1 Other Formats 77871 Cover No Format Paperback
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FULL BLOOM: Sneak Peek #4
Write yourself a note… our new collection of stamps and dies, Full Bloom, will be available tomorrow! Until then here's another sneak peek at just one of the many adorable critters from this new release.
NOTE: This new collection of stamps and dies will be available this Friday, April 19! Tomorrow… yay!
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ca. 1998-1999
John Nelson
Contains pictures of various events and activities at the lake including holiday celebrations for Easter, Halloween, and Christmas. Many of the pictures are taken at an unidentified historical festival. There are also photos of the old Nature Center and various exhibits and events there including taxidermy and field trips. Multiple pictures show trail signs and trails around the lake, fishing on the lake, and wildlife, including snakes, deer, and turkeys, at the lake. Some pictures show parts of the park under construction. Some of the photographs are dated 1998-199 but all of the pictures may not be from these years.
John Nelson
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Castle Chess are hosting their 12th Fareham Chess Congress over the weekend of Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October 2017. The tournament will be held at The Lysses House Hotel, 51 High Street Fareham, Hampshire. Po16 7BQ.
There will be 3 Sections run in a 6 Round Swiss format –
- CHAMPIONSHIP U195 including Premier U175
- MAJOR – Under 155 including Intermediate U135
- MINOR – Under 115 including Challengers U95
The Congress is ECF Game Fee Registered and is part of the English Chess Federation 2016/17 Grand Prix Event.
The entry form is available here.
Further details about Castle Chess and this tournament may be viewed at www. castlechess.co.uk


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Mormon leader encourages more baptisms for the dead
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A top Mormon leader reminded church members Saturday about the importance of performing ceremonial baptisms on dead ancestors who didn't receive the ordinance while alive.
Henry Eyring told a worldwide audience during a twice-yearly Mormon conference that God wants all his children to come "home again." He encouraged listeners to use the religion's massive genealogical database to trace their roots.
Ceremonial baptisms occur when a member brings an ancestor's name to a temple. Mormons believe the ritual allows deceased people a way to the afterlife if they choose to accept it. The belief that families are sealed for eternity is one of the faith's core tenets.
The practice is becoming more common than ever because of young church members who embrace it.
"They have learned that this work saves not just the dead; it saves all of us," said Eyring, a member of a top governing body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. "There are now many people who have accepted baptism in the spirit world. ... This is the work of our generation."
But ceremonial baptisms offend members of some other religions, especially Jews, who became upset years ago when they discovered attempts by Mormons to alter the religion of Holocaust victims. They included Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager forced into hiding in Amsterdam during the Holocaust and killed in a concentration camp.
In the 1990s, after negotiations with Jewish leaders, the church agreed to end the ceremonial baptism of Holocaust victims. After it was revealed that they continued, Mormon leaders put up a virtual firewall in the database to block anyone who attempted to access the names of people who died in the Holocaust.
Erying gave the opening speech of a two-day conference in which leaders speak about a range of topics aimed at providing guidance and inspiration to the faith's more than 15 million members worldwide.
Nearly 100,000 church members are expected to attend five sessions on Saturday and Sunday.
Thousands more around the world will listen to the conference or watch it on television, radio, satellite and internet broadcasts in 90 different languages.


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The company responsible for cloning the dinosaurs has created a theme park adjacent to the wildlife park area where the dinosaurs are kept. All the movies follow a similar plot of something going wrong with all or some of the dinosaurs and the humans having to fend for their lives. The Jurassic Jackpot logo is strikingly similar to the logo used in the Jurassic Park movies, and of course the slot features dinosaurs as symbols, but that is where the similarity ends.
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Market News
|May 06, 2007
When Carbon Is Currency
|(By HANNAH FAIRFIELD) - Amid steadily increasing carbon emissions, and a federal government hesitant to take the lead on climate legislation, 10 states have joined to create the first mandatory carbon cap-and-trade program in the United States. They aim to reduce emissions from power plants by 10 percent in 10 years.
Leaders of state environmental and energy regulatory agencies hammered out the detailed model for the program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, over the course of three years. The program sets a cap on the total amount of carbon that the 10 states -- as a whole -- can emit. Starting in 2009, each state will receive a set amount of carbon credits for its power plants, and each plant must have enough allowances to cover its total emissions at the end of three-year compliance periods.
In 2003, George E. Pataki, then New York's governor, invited governors of 10 other states from Maine to Maryland to discuss a program to cut power plant emissions. All but one of the states joined the program; Pennsylvania has observer status.
Officials have closely watched the European Union, which started its carbon trading market in 2005; analysts say the Europeans have stumbled on some fronts. ''We've learned a lot from the Europeans,'' said Judith Enck, adviser on environment issues to Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. ''The way we distribute the allowances will be vastly different than the European experience.''
To build a carbon market, its originators must create a currency of carbon credits that participants can trade. In Europe, power companies received these credits directly and could buy or sell from one another as needed. But most companies passed the cost of the credits on to consumers even though they received them free -- giving the companies windfall profits. Power companies in Britain alone made about $1 billion from free credits in 2005, according to a study by the British government.
Participants in the United States want to avoid that problem by selling some or all of the credits at auction, with the proceeds going to state energy efficiency programs.
In Europe, power companies were not the only businesses to profit from the new carbon market. Because power plants there can use credits earned from offset projects that take greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere (or put less of them into it), businesses wanting to earn offset credits inundated the Europeans with proposals -- many of which would have a negligible effect on emissions or were for reductions that would have taken place anyway.
To sidestep that problem, the program here limits offsets to five categories: capture of landfill gas, curbs on sulfur hexafluoride leaks, planting of trees, reductions in methane from manure, and increased energy efficiency in buildings. Power companies can offset 3.3 percent of a plant's total emissions from any combination of the five categories.
''We saw what happened in Europe, so we limited the categories and set our criteria upfront,'' said Christopher Sherry, chairman of the regional program's staff working group and a research scientist at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. ''We did that so we would have assurance that the reductions actually take place.''
Although Northeastern states have taken the lead in inaugurating a mandatory carbon market, California and some of its neighbors are not far behind. Those states are watching closely; Mr. Sherry and others involved in the 10-state effort are already helping California figure out how best to accomplish its climate plan.
''The idea is to see what everyone else has done, and learn from it,'' said Dale Bryk, a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council who has been involved with the Northeastern regional program and California's advisory committee. ''Let's not start from scratch.''


text: Corsairfoxfouruncle 19,552 #1 Posted January 2, 2019 (edited) Hello everybody ... Well I decided i couldn't wait to start my Bandai AT-ST Walker. Being that im coming from an Aircraft modeling base i have loads of extras in 1/48 scale. My intentions are to build this as a Resistance captured/operated walker. Ive chosen to build it as a Temperate/Junglie L.R.R.P. Unit. This will have extra weapons possibly uprated armor, stowage, and a nice Camouflage scheme over everything. Something like the scheme #'s 7, 9, & 10 from @Gekko_1's walker thread. Im hoping Gekko you dont mind me linking to this ? I take inspiration from several other builds of Star Wars models not just walker's. I have thank @Gekko_1, @AndyRM101, @monsterpartyhat, & @Pete in Lincs all your sci-fi works have inspired me to do this. Dennis Edited January 2, 2019 by Corsairfoxfouruncle 2 1 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I have no right to blog. In fact, there are many reasons why blogging is a particularly bad idea for me.
First of all, I'm a competitive soul so I obsess about the stats. There, the truth is out. I analyse (within myself, of course) what should be deemed an above average viewing per day, or per month. I still don't know what the average stats are but I visited other blogs and saw 5,000 hits, 20,000 hits and even came across one that will probably hit a million views in the next few weeks. After 2 months of blogging, I started to panic. I didn't have that many hits yet! 'Oh, no, everyone hates my blog', I heard myself thinking one day. But I suppose my disappointment at my seeming mediocre stats wasn't enough to stop me from blogging.
It didn't help that I was so sure I would run out of things to blog about after the first ten posts. This was my second worry. Between my business addiction and my family, I found limited resources to guide me on what people may find interesting. It complicated matters that I wanted to be me (hence, the Me-Brand was one of my first posts). I wanted to write about stuff I was interested in and disengage from the conflict between what is popular and what is honest and pure. I was relieved when many tips I came across encouraged honesty and the charm of being real. Still, every post I wrote felt like the very last drop of creativity in my bones. I believed I was real enough, honest, engaging and all that good stuff but I wondered: 'Is there really a bottomless pit of ideas?' This among other questions, kept me up at night.
Thirdly, I work in the oil and gas industry. Although, the industry is high-tech and risky, with hefty men drilling holes in the ground and putting stuff in them, the demographics is largely one of fairly low-tech folks who don't warm up to technology as much as one would expect. In an industry where only an estimated 25% are on Facebook, 10% on Linked In and 1% are bloggers, I couldn't help feeling like a square peg in a round hole. Am I the 1% that blogs? And if I am, who in the world is going to identify with me? To stop the avalanche of negative thoughts, I had to keep reminding myself (and still do) of why I started to blog in the first place:
Blogging is an opportunity to write about my passions. I'm passionate about my family, my friends, my job, God, love (yes, I believe in love AND love at first sight), business, the idea of being an entrepreneur, doing things properly, fashion, honesty, a fair and righteous world, and on and on. And I'm passionate about writing, which is something I've tried to ignore. So here I am still blogging after 3 months…with more than 1,000 hits I might add. It's perhaps nothing in some worlds but more than I could have asked for in mine. I am always elated by that new reader that comments or likes any of my posts. In any event, I still want to get better at articulating my points and The Daily Post is a fantastic opportunity for frequent practice. But a word of caution is that I am committed to being real and writing about my passions and not anyone else's. Hopefully, I will be charming along the way as I try to ignore all the strong reasons why I have no right to blog.
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Who We Are
Neoen, the majority owner of the Dubbo Solar Hub is an Independent Power Producer specialized in renewable energy projects. The company is headquartered in Paris (France) and operates across renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind, and biomass with an experienced staff of 70 employees.
Neoen develops, finances, constructs, operates and maintains its projects as a fully integrated renewable energy player, with a genuine long-term approach. Since its founding in 2008, Neoen expanded beyond its local market in France and currently has its main projects in Portugal (2010), French Guyana (2011), Australia (2012), Mexico, USA/Canada and Egypt (2013). It is also actively developing projects in other African areas, in the Pan-Caribbean region and in the Asia-Pacific region.


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It doesn't snow often in Placerville, but when it does, no one enjoys it more than my two siberian huskies, Luna and Vesta. They are truly in their element in the snow, and it shows. It snowed unexpectedly yesterday, and I rushed to take a few photos before it melted today. This is the first time my new camera really got a workout; the lighting conditions were very challenging since we shot while it was snowing heavily. I protected the camera with a ziploc bag, bundled up in warm clothes, and photographed the dogs until my fingers were too cold to shoot any more.
Huskies in the snow in Placerville
Wonderful pictures. You got the lighting just right. The expressions are priceless.
Eden, I think these are my favorite pictures of Vesta & Luna ever. I am so excited for you as a pet mommy that you have this magical moment captured. The girls are so beautiful in the snow and they are so happy!
Best yet! Love them!
Fabulous shots!!!
Wonderful pictures! I too have a husky mix. She's 14 now and hangin' in there and still LOVES a good romp in the snow. I always try to get all the pictures I can of her!
Two of my favorite canines. Love these shots of the Girls in the snow. You captured their wonderment of the environment.
Love these shots, particularly the first one of Vesta in profile. I just dig how you captured the snow and her wonderful coloring.


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Christian Worship The Sabbath.
Choice of God, thou blessed day,
At thy dawn the grave gave way
To the power of him within,
Who had, sinless, bled for sin.
Thine the radiance to illume
First, for man, the dismal tomb,
When its bars their weakness owned,
There revealing death dethroned.
Then the Sun of righteousness
Rose, a darkened world to bless,
Bringing up from mortal night
Immortality and light.
Day of glory, day of power,
Sacred be thine every hour,
Emblem, earnest of the rest
That remaineth for the blest!


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Abbey Road on the River has extended the deadline for performers to enter the Abbey Road on the River Imagine Peace Songwriting Contest. Live at the festival singer-songwriters will perform originals songs not exceeding 4 minutes inspired by John Lennon's lifetime commitment to peace and love.
To enter register online here [4].
This year's distinguished judges panels include:
Saturday 1-3pm
- Steve Sizemore (AROTR Performer)
- Marion Dries (WFPK)
- Jenna Foster (Louisville.com Music Contributor)
Saturday 3-5pm
- Rachel Blanton (AROTR Performer)
- Brooke Jacob (AROTR Performer)
- Dave Lempke (AROTR Performer)
Sunday 1-2:30pm
- Michael Barrett (AROTR Performer)
- Paul Pickard (Guitar Center- Contest Sponsor)
- Annette Skaggs (Louisville Public Media)
Sunday 3:15-4:30
- Paul Pickard (Guitar Center- Contest Sponsor)
- Laurence Juber [5] (2x Grammy Winning Guitarist, AROTR Performer)
- Catherine Feeny (JLSC Winner)
- Tyler Morrison (Liquid Recording Group Incorporated)
- Matt Anthony (WFPK)
Photo: courtesy of AROTR website [6], duPont Manual High School Poster Contest


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West African Iron Ore Corporation, the TSX-listed company focused on development of its mineral resources in the Republic of Guinea, announced that it has arranged an unsecured convertible debenture financing agreement with Sky Alliance Resources Inc. – a privately owned international mining and consulting firm incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and based in Hong Kong.
The BVI company will finance up to CAD$2.0 million by up to four drawdowns of CAD$500,000., each of them in the form of a convertible debenture with 8% annual interest rate and a term of 5 years. During this term, Sky Alliance Recources will have the option to convert all or any portion of the outstanding Debentures into common shares of West African, at a price of CAD$0.10 per share for the first CAD$500,000, and for all other drawdowns at the market price at the time of drawdown, subject to a minimum conversion price of CAD$0.10 per share.
BVI-registered Sky Alliance Resources, directly and through its wholly-owned subsidiary, has ownership and control of 24,697,000 common shares of West African, which represent14.09% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Canadian company. Assuming conversion of the first drawdown of the debenture, Sky Alliance would own and control 29,697,000 common shares, representing 16.49% of the then issued and outstanding common shares of WAI.
The debenture was acquired by the BVI company for investment purposes. Sky Alliance's shareholders plan to fully support West African's efforts to complete its initial NI43-101 technical report and raise additional funds for business development.


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Product Engineer
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Describe your current job:
I design and test window regulators that will be installed in Honda, Audi, Volkswagen or Toyota vehicles. I use Catia V5 CAD software to design 3D models per customer standards. I build and test prototype window regulators with guidance from the customer. I also perform stress analysis on all components within the design to determine life cycle and reliability of part.
What is the most rewarding and the most challenging part of your job?
The most rewarding part of my job is the ability to work within a team on a design and receive input from each member of the team. Being able to see a design that I have worked on for months finally put into a prototype design and being tested helps me learn the benefits and flaws of my design. The most difficult part of my job is dealing in a customer driven business where cost and time are the highest priorities, which make it more difficult to have many solutions to a problem. Also a challenging part is dealing with customers that are located in different countries that speak different languages, as the language barrier is sometimes difficult to overcome.
If you had a campus job or internship, how did they impact your career development?
I had an internship every summer during my time at WMU, and it greatly aided in the skills and knowledge I have now. I worked at a water heater manufacturing facility (Bradford White), a fire protection research and development group (Viking Corp) and an injection mold/machine build group (Summit Polymers), which helped broaden my knowledge in the process of how my degree could be applied in different ways. These places were critical in helping me using my studies from school and apply those skills into the 'real world'. I was able to determine that I excelled more at CAD, and now have a job that I am able to use the design skills I learned at in all the different engineering groups I worked for.
What advice do you have for others pursuing a career similar to yours?
A piece of advice that I would give for someone pursuing a career in CAD or especially in the automotive field is make sure that this is the field you want. I would definitely try to obtain an internship in the automotive field. It is a difficult business, as price and time drive the automotive field. For the CAD side of my career, make sure you have a passion for design work. Whether it is reverse engineering a video game controller or a remote. Make sure you enjoy the CAD side of it. If you have a passion for CAD and striving to make improvements any time you can, then this is the profession for you.


text: Our brand new market located on the roadside at 1154 Perkins Lane (near the USCG and Dollar General on Weeksville Rd.) is now open to the public and ready for business! We have "traditional" as well as "non-traditional" vegetables grown on our farm as well as from other local farmers in our area and the east coast! We also carry hoop cheese, seasoning meat and free-range farm eggs. We will be primarily set up on "self-service / honor system" but will always be on call and nearby if needed! Our business phone is (252)619-3920. Bobby is a 3rd generation farmer following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather farming land that has been in his family since the early 1940's! He is very knowledgeable and passionate about farming! We also wholesale our veggies to Montero's restaurant & the Circle II here in Elizabeth City as well as approximately 25 restaurants in VA from Suffolk-Va Bch and approximately 5 restaurants on the OBX that we ventured into last spring. Stay connected for current information and updates! Thank you for your business and support! We look forward to seeing you! We are directly behind the ball field and Big Daddy's Pizza on Weeksville Rd. To get to us, head towards the intersection right before the Dollar General that is near the USCG. Turn right at the intersection onto Pitts Chapel Rd. Drive 1/4 of a mile and turn right onto Perkins Lane. Drive 1/2 mile and you will see us on the right-hand side.


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That's the exact question that came to me 2 years back when I was also going to go to sleep early tonight14
Meanwhile, in some college in India, when professors try their best to make an interesting question paper.
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Sharing a short story.
Time: 1:30 am
Conversation between me and a night watchman in my society.
I was walking and this watchman suddenly stopped me and started asking questions.
Watchman: Isn't it late at 1:30am. When do u sleep?
Me: I sleep very late (replied in a very uninterested manner)
Watchman: Which year are you?
Me: Final year of Graduation
Watchman: Which branch?
Me: (a bit annoyed now) Software Engineering
Watchman: So you know programming?
Me: (little shocked that he knows what's programming) Learning
Watchman: So, do your university teaches C, Python and UNIX?
Me:(completely shocked by his knowledge) Yup. Except UNIX, others yes.
Watchman then asked some fees related questions and placements scope.
I was annoyed when he approached me for a little talk.. But had a wonderful experience talking to this person. It's great when you meet such unexpected person having such knowledge.
When I asked him how he knows all these, he said he talks like this to many students and learnt it.
His last line to me when I said that you know a lot, was:
Sir, you are the ocean, I am a needle in it.
Truly awesome moment... Never judge anyone by looks or his occupation... Knowledge is something that anyone anywhere can gain...
Respect to that watchman...6
When you find out your office's bathroom is really active on Github (yep that's my beard and yep I'm a tall guy)9
Found out the most interesting window of the century!!!
Though the user forgot to keep it in full screen mode.
Outside world - Real Life 2.0 (reallife2.exe)
Source: Instagram14
Saw a video of an interview on Cloud Computing...
That genius guy says: "Cloud computing is highly risky. Because if it rains, all the data will be lost."4
Wrote 800-1200 LOC
It went through code review which was apparently my first code being reviewed
Took me 1 month and more to fix most changes (per day more than 10-12 hrs of effort)..
That 1 month was a nightmare. Every day I thought of giving up programming. I shouted to myself every night why did I never considered these myself. How can I be so dumb.
Half of the reviews I didn't even know how to implement. Didn't even know what to Google.
I consider it as one of my toughest phase as a developer till date.
I still get goosebumps remembering those days.9
Manual Data Entry: Most boring job
This reminds me of one conversation with one of my faculty..
Faculty: Why not try some Machine Learning Project?
Me: Cool. Any ideas you have already thought
Faculty: Comes up with a really noble idea
Me: Awesome idea. But we need data
Faculty: Don't worry. I will get it. Just help me setup Hadoop (see the irony.. no data yet, and he wants big data setup)
Me: But we don't have data. Let's focus of data collection, Sir
Faculty: I will get it. Don't worry. Trust me.
( I did setup for him twice coz he formatted the system on which I did the setup first time)
After 6 months,
Me: (same question) Sir, Data??
Faculty: I got it.
Me: Great. Give me, I can start looking into it from today.
Faculty: Actually, it's in a register written manually in a different language (which even I can't understand) I will hire data entry guys to convert it into English digital contents.
Me: *facepalm*
Road to Manual data entry to Big Data
Dedicating this pencil to the individuals keeping the register up to date and Sir in hopes of converting it into big data..
Long way to go..5
I've always been anxious about putting my stuff on GitHub.
However, I did upload a project of mine there.
Thoughs few minutes after uploading it:
"Omg, is anyone judging how bad my code is?"
"I'm sure they will criticize it."
"O shit, I forgot a // TODO in there."
"O shit did I upload my credentials by mistake?"
"Does this commit message sound right?"
"Should I commit more often?"
"Do I commit too often?"8
I just heard someone call GitHub a "social network for developers".
I have never felt so offended in my entire life.11
1+infinity = 1
infinity + 1 = NaN
My entire maths fundamental shuttered by the beautiful JS language....26
I was working as a contractor for a client who just got enough funding to hire a full-time dev. I lovingly referred to him as "Mr. Koolaid" because he was obsessed with whatever the newest hotness was and cried constantly about how the 3-year-old code-base didn't use The Next Big Thing(tm). This was my first interaction with him:
Mr. Koolaid: I'd like access to the github repository. My username is xxxx.
Me: We currently aren't hosting the code on github. If you send me your public ssh key, I'll get you access to the private server.
Mr. Koolaid: I'd like to access the github repository.
Me: It's not on github; send me your public key and I'll get you access.
Mr. Koolaid: Can we skype real quick? You don't need my public key to grant me access to the github repo.
*Mr. Koolaid proceeds to forward me github's documentation on adding users to an organization and the documentation for adding users to a private repo. The email is written in a very passive-aggressive tone.*
Folks, introducing my first pet in devrant...
His name is Charlie.
Charlie, say hi to all dev ranters....10
Job interview..
Interviewer: gave me a question
Me: (took 40 mins to solve it)
Interviewer: Ok. 2nd question... Asks the ques..
Me: (relieved that 1st ques got over) Took some time 5 mins to come up with solution..
Interviewer: ok. 3rd question..
Me: ( feeling so happy that I solved 2 questions and reached the 3rd question)
Interviewer: Let's go back to first question and tell me a scenario that will fail in ur logic..( yes this is the 3rd question)
Me: Damnnn.. My heart stopped.. It took me 40 mins to figure out the logic that worked with different inputs I tried n now, I have to find some scenario that won't work...10
The world of storage gonna change..
Yesterday, scientists successfully stored and retrieved back an entire OS, a movie and some other files from a DNA.
It is estimated that a single gram of DNA can store 215 million GB of data. ( Now the storage can be as small as invisible. )10
Overheard 2 colleagues having an interesting telephonic meeting late night at my room.
Dev 1: Wait. I am trying to fix it.
Dev 2: Ok. Take your time
Dev 1: Shit. I found it. I knew I was doing something wrong here.
Dev 2: Oh. Nice. What was the bug?
Dev 1: It was a super silly mistake. Don't want to tell. Folks will laugh at me.
Dev 2: Don't worry. It happens with everyone. Come tomorrow at office, and whisper it in my ears. Noone will know.8
Kudos to @trogus and @dfox for introducing the new refresh button on the nav bar instead of the odd position at the end of the comments.
It's looking awesome now.
Note: If the screenshot violates anyones privacy. Let me know. It is just a random screenshot16
I was taught from waterfall process model to Agile development..
But no one taught me this real software development process..1
Even during games, I find bugs in it...
Just found NULL in FIFA GAME.
Wonder which object failed to pass it's value2
Apologies to everyone.
I got sick.
Hence, resulted in service unavailability.
Current health status: 100% OK
Please continue to enjoy me aka github7
Past few weeks, I have started to work late night and sleep whole day. I go to office at around 7pm and returns back next day 8-9am. I found it super productive.
But, my manager wasn't happy about it and now, she shifted daily scrum at 1 PM and emailed me to make sure I attend it daily.
Now, I have to fix my sleeping cycle... Nights are so great to work. Silent and nobody around.
Now, from tomorrow, I got a new challenge everyday to make it to scrum daily.6
Any folks willing to join the GIT family in devrant...
Steps to join:
Change username with prefix "git" followed by your favorite available commands..
Example: gitpush(already taken and co-founder of this gang), gitpull68
When I solved a machine learning problem using naive Bayes in R for the first time.
I still remember it was 5am. Had been stuck for weeks and when it worked.. I called my teammate at 5am and said.. "I think solving this feels better than having sex".3
Finally, after almost a month waiting, got my offer letter..
Gonna start a new journey..
Here I come,
Into the Corporate World..4
Nightmare came true..
Stackoverflow down..
I am not able to access it...
Checking if it's really down or VPN issues..
Update: VPN is not an issue. It's down.7
Yesterday My girl broke up with me. From today, I started contributing to Github. I'm happy at least my commits are being counted now.8
Spent weekend building DevRant Api Wrapper in Python.
Link: https://github.com/aayush26/pirant
How to Install(tested in Python 2.7):
sudo python -m pip install pirant==0.1.3.dev1
Currently, only features to getRants. More features coming soon....30
Super stressed.
What I did is:
1. git pull --rebase
2. Forgot to build to check if everything is working after pulling new changes
3. git push
4. Now, I realized I forgot to implement a method of the recently changed interface.
It's a production code. Not a joke. And was my first push to prod and I messed it up.
Sad life. Fixing it. Senior Devs must be crazy for my silly mistake.8
Once i began using Github i have become really addicted! Like holy shit! I feel like i wanna use Github for everything!3
Stole this from my friend's status
Browser Toolbar is greater than life. Third party apps are dangerous.3
This new UI update is just aweful, i mean, i love github, i work using github, i do so many things with it, or should i say that i used to ....
This update seems so un-natural, it just doesn't fit.
Why would the collabs be shown so obviously ??
Why would the main window be so narrow while the rest is widescreen ????
My eyes get tired so quickly when i use it now.
It used to be something nice, easy to use, but now it is more like a social media than a professional coding tool.
That horrific feeling when the code that worked last night.. suddenly stops working the next morning... And the debugging continues..
Ending up identifying a new corner case.....2
Use Cache wisely, otherwise they gonna pile up and no one would like to clean that shitty mess
Pic source: Instagram
Tldr; If you don't use github, don't waste precious christmas holiday time reading further
Just sharing a cool github repo to generate a summary of your github profiles.
A friend and a co-worker who prefers loneliness and interact only required.
Comes to office morning, connects to WiFi, looks at the mobile, keeps scrolling and laughs for an hour(quite in nature). This is what his been doing since month.
Curiosity among colleagues, we took his phone and found neither WhatsApp, nor Facebook and not even 9gag. His browser history had all dev problems googled..
Then, the day came, when we asked to him and the reply was...
DEVRANT(heard by all for the first time)..
Now many of us into devrant busy reading, ranting and laughing.
The outsiders unaware of such app might look at us think weird.. perspective and awareness matters..4
When you work hard on building frontend and suddenly, you realise whenever you restart your localhost, some URLs don't work. And it's random. Error logs also seem meaningless as the latest error report keeps changing the error location from file to file. Wasted hours to identify the abnormal behaviour.
I always had the mentality to keep its programmers fault in order to always consider all possible flaws.
But realised later that it was the OS setting issue. Did a stacktrace about 300 lines and found out the root cause(hopefully as no issues till now). The bug was related to total allowed open files at a time.5
During my internship.
Got wonderful opportunity to present a project to a senior Director of a different team.
And just moments before meeting, my project stopped working.
Was a disaster.
Later came to know there were internal issues in the service I was using in my project.
Though not my fault, but during the meeting, I managed to show a video of the project.
Let me know if folks wants to know what happened later..3
General folks reads "!rant" and says grammatical error.. "!" should be in the end..
Developers can only understand.. and often end up using more times as prefix instead of at the end ...
RIP Grammar, we prefer logical operators..2
For every developer, who lives a nocturnal life.. the toughest job is baby sitting for a week..
At least for me.. Already missing the 3 AM idea cracks and coding..
Waking up at 6am is not my cup of tea and getting the kids ready for school.. I would rather prefer to work all night...
Another 3 days to go...11
New achievement unlocked..
Feels great when my Stackoverflow profile mentions..
"Top 7% this month"2
dfox and trogus are devrant++ users but there names are not listed in devrant++ supporters list..
You both missed to add your names.. or took the privilege of being the founders and developers..5
Superpower to instantly create variable names every time I need to declare a new variable based on the perfect matching with the code being written..
Today marks the first day i needed to use a fork of a Github repo, because it just didn't contain a very basic feature i needed. The PR which fixes it has been open for months without a comment on why it's not merged.
I mean i'm glad i found a solution at the end, but goddamn it's so sad when a popular repo is not maintained well.3
No users found with username @devrant
Is it unavailable or no one ever came up with having it as username?21
Happiness is getting free T-shirt from a start up from different country for just signing up their product...
My best wishes to the company..
And thanks for sending it..6
When you end up wasting more time setting up company built in tools and environments for your application than coding..
Today I went to Yogurtland, the wall tiles looked like a user's busy Github history. When I got to the order counter I said, you guys have been busy on Github, haven't you?
The employee gave me the most confused stare I've ever seen. I just chuckled and walked out.
Submitting a pull request seems a good way to end the week. That's what I love about (some) projects on GitHub; instead of just ranting about bugs or out-of-sync documentation, you can fix the problem and send a pull request upstream. :-)2
Me been in the company for almost more than a year now and still understanding the system.
Another developer, been here for around 4 months, and where ever I look, she will be contributing. Whether it's coding or resovling complex host issues. She works a lot.
I feel lucky to be able to work with her and also all other Devs in this team are awesome.
My motivational source and inspiration to work harder and contribute more and more to the team.
Expectations VS. Reality : A new Software Project (After all designs and requirements are clear and fixed.)
Day 1: Create workspace, Configure tools
Day 2: Implement high priority Feature
Day 3: Write UT and peer review
Day 4: Push first feature to Prod.
Day 1: Create workspace, Setup configurations
Day 2: Still setting up configurations
Week 1: Almost done setting up configurations
Week 2: New migrations issue, again reconfigure before coding starts
Week 3: Take a vacation
Month 2: Finally things are working but God knows what was the issue...1
Weather Report: Thunderstorms and heavy downpour
Stuck at office wondering whether I really hate tab more than spaces that it wore out OR is it that I use it way too much.
PS: Currently fixing the tab button10
Finally, it's working..
A new device added to my Collection.
Welcome Echo Dot !!!!!
Long list of skills planning to implement..7
When you can't sleep, because you are more worried about your code review...
That's my state right now...
Woke up super late (evening), was planning to work on my personal project, but didn't have a table where I can comfortably code and sketch out my ideas.
Hence, dressed up immediately and went to a furniture shop.
Getting table, chair and a bed (which I was planning for a long time) tomorrow.
Gonna just sit and code whole day tomorrow...2
@dfox You complained about the mobile version of GitHub, so maybe this could be interesting for you!7
University wants a final year major project which should give an output as a research paper published in some conference or journal. All seems great. Department rejected all web app related projects because it's too generic.. Still makes sense..
And then suddenly, department asks where are customer requirements, where is ER diagram, where are Selenium tests??????
And they still expect a research paper to be published....
Why do they don't understand the difference between software development and research works.. !!!!!!1
That's the difference... #SoftwareEngineers #DataEngineers #DataScientists
The choice is yours... !!!4
Ranting after many light years (oops that's a unit of distance)
Damn Damn Damn.
There is complex workflow engine, and the only thing I know is once you fix and get success response from method A(), call method B().
After 2 days and nights effort, method A() is fixed and I am getting success response.
Now, when I pass this response to B()
One data is missing and hence failing.
Where the hell is that data getting kicked out...
I am in a dead end. I don't even know where to look.
Pinged engineers for help but all in vain till now.
Working on one of world's largest system, and I am miserable in debugging with this system.
And the worst part is there is nothing that I can turn off and on so that it works.
(Don't blame me. I am not that dumb. I just started using it since 3 days)2
Team Meeting with Senior senior manager(SSM) from headquarters.
Post lunch break (casual talks)
SSM: You all people in this office live in luxury. Each and every door has a security guard to open and close the door for all of you. HQ doesn't have these.
Me: So, does it mean that there are no doors or no security guards at the HQ?
Everyone in my team with a very big facepalm. Manager telling me not to get high after having the lunch.
Footnote: All my colleagues and my manager often tells me that I get high just by eating food.4
Crossed the 3k mark.. 😁
Thanks to everyone.
Every rant, comment and conversation has been wonderful.
One of the best decisions I took in last 1 year was to join DevRant...9
Which framework can jump the most?
Java Spring Framework.
Which framework can store hot water?
Python Flask
Which framework is believed to cause extinction of dinosaurs?
Meteor JS
Which script devs like to drink the most?
Made an organization on Github. Let's hope that I come across some amazing people and amazing ideas.
Best part of working in Company:
Getting learning sessions from Seniors and sharing design aspects and their pros and cons.
Had an awesome session on how to focus on making a code testable.
With hands on coding too.
Never expected to have such a great experience.
Joy is when you learn that long press on microphone button on your earphone changes the track..
No more need to Everytime unlock the phone to change the track..1
8 years ago,
I studied in a small school and every year we had computer classes, but most of the times, it gets cancelled or we just sit and browse and sometimes few of us don't even get a computer.
In that time, the only reason I was attached with the computer was due to games.
Our curriculum mentioned HTML, CSS, Access and Excel, which none of the teachers taught us for past 2 years. I wanted to learn all does, but gave up since no one cared about it.(please note that time, I didn't know even to use YouTube or W3schools to learn stuffs)
Then, a new student joined in our class and also a new computer ma'am joined our school. Both of them turned out to be really fun when it comes to learning computers.
She was active during last sessions and teach us HTML, CSS. I even started writing blogs which she taught. The most surprising part was she was super frank. She went beyond her duty, and taught me what Facebook is, how to use it, and opened an account for me which I am still using it, and she sent a friend request to herself. (In lab, past teachers would shout to students trying to open fb. All of them were super strict.)
She was kind and friendly, and during theory classes, the new student in our class would answer every single question. Then, somehow we both started sharing sits in computer class, and he will tell me answers and we both raise hands to answer the question. My teacher will also keep asking interesting questions which made me more inclined to computer science.
My story isn't related to learning a programming language or an algorithm, but it was the wave that brought me closer towards CS and after 2 years, I joined CS in University and till now, haven't look back and always thanked both of them, my respected ma'am and my dear friend, who inspired me and brought out my curiosity towards computers.
Note: My friend is doing Medical currently and when I teased him that I did CS and now, I know more than you and this time, I am gonna whisper in your ears if someone asks any question, to which he replied, I accept I am doing Medical, but I still love computers and know a hell lot about it.
My teacher got married and she also got a cute baby. We talk occasionally in fb and she is going great too.
I hope to meet both of them someday soon.
Improving my English using DevRant
Note: Will be of great help in writing precise documented code 😜1
How I learnt to Program!!!
Went for a University Project recruitment Interview in my 2nd year.
Senior: Which domain you wanna join?
Me: (as I was from software engineering Dept.) Coding domain.
Senior: Pointed to a table where 5-8 students were solving a coding question paper.
Me: (saw the questions and went blank. The questions were so tough, like check a number is even or odd.)I don't know anything in the paper.
Senior: why are you here then?
Me: (with full determination to join the project) Give me 2 weeks time, and I will learn all of it. (Didn't know learning all was never gonna possible, but that's how I started learning programming)
P.S. Yes, I got into the Project and was leading the Coding domain after an year.2
Few weeks back, late night, busy watching online series and suddenly, junior pings me and asks for doubts related to implementation design and then implementation in nodejs (which I touched long long ago). And, me being attracted towards debugging, and kind heart to help the junior(hihi kind heart), helped to completely resolve the issue by texting and screenshot of logs sent over message.. just to mention. Time was around 2-3 am.. my most effective time period..
Working on Ruby on Rails for first time..
Blogs mention it's more human readable..
I guess I feel like semicolons, args and braces to be more readable...
I'm not sure what to do right now.
I'm pretty stuck between the decision of leaving my project on my own GitHub repo or putting it in an organization and I know an organization would look better because the profile would be specifically made for the project and its plugins, but it's already set up on my own account by itself and I'm really not sure which one I should choose.
So.. should I post it on its own GitHub organization or should I leave it on my own account?2
I am working with a team that's producing tons of new services..
And me being a fresher, reading new designs every other day with God knows complex implementations and business requirements and attending design review meetings(where I can barely understand anything)
having a great learning curve..
Hopefully, I survive this period and cope up with the inputs...
Note: Just don't ask what's my contribution.. I am gearing up for the D-Day to make my impact(not a negative one).. 😎
Life sucks when you get an error which you have seen this error like plenty of times and when you start debugging it and run out of all the ways you have always followed to fix it and all those didn't fixed the problem.
With nothing left now to approach, wondering what may have gone wrong.
The fundamentals are shattered
When you mess up the repo, the bestfriend to help out is named "stash".
Personal record: 9 times stash in a row with no commits.
Comment to share your personal records...4
I hate debugging document oriented data types..
Can't even sysout easily like primitive data types.
Need a debugging duck.1
People think Machine Learning is all about using Super Complex Prediction Models...
But turns out to devote most time in data gathering and data cleaning(preprocessing).2
Passed out college this year...
Got a job too (lucky 😀)
Now all juniors are asking me how to prepare for placements... N keeps asking my resume..
And m saying everyone same stuff.. DS and algo is must.. n chk my LinkedIn for resume..
Soon, seems like m gonna tell them join devRant first and then I will say further..
Note: Placement starts in few weeks and they care now on how to prepare for it.. Folks say it's better to start late than never.. but still.. I wud love to help them but asking same questions repeatedly not gonna help them..1
Recently, I have planned out my weekends to learn new stuffs.
And guess what, since I needed a project to start with, I have taken devrant related projects.
Example: Writing a python library as devrant api wrapper.
I have few other stuffs to learn too which I will begin once I finish this. That too most probably will also have some relationship with DevRant..
1. When you are super busy, stuck at work, fixing codes with deadlines overshoot, and then, an intern comes to ask a question. Leaving all my important tasks aside, I turn to help him out and then he asks me:
"Where can I get the Table Tennis bat?"
Seriously, I gave all my attention to help him out since he is new and he ended up asking this..
2. Scene: My manager and me having a serious discussion regarding design reviews and future tasks.
2.a) An intern of my team comes and just stands near us. My manager asks him if he wants to talk urgently with anyone of us, and he says no. I am just standing and listening.
2.b) This time a step ahead. He actually intervenes to ask me about some stuff during a serious conversation between my manager and me.
When your website is tested after months of efforts and then tons of bugs come up....
Gonna fix each of it..
Y am such a poor developer.. !!!! 😖😞2
Simple but useful..
Wrote a greasemonkey script to convert url text to hyperlinks..
Reduced lots of time in finding the log url from the error response..
Helping me in debugging faster..
The day I understand how CSS works will be a lifetime achievement...!!!
Having hard time when you have to design and develop a website at a time... I just hate designing... (No offense.. personal opinion)7
Some people are so crazy about Hadoop, that for every problem, they think of solving it using Hadoop. Even when you need to process a 10MB file!!!!2
Not writing tests for your code is like leaving it unguided in the hands of future Devs who gonna just change something and break the core logic and there won't be any regression test to run and check the integrity.
It's an irony in my case. Python is so simple and fast to implement that I end up doing all my projects ( web dev, ML, crawlers, etc.) But still I can't use Python for solving competitive programming. Python seems unknown if I don't have access to google. Way to go to learn Python. Though able to think Pythonic nowadays.. ;p3
To all Git Gang members,
It's overwhelming to see the growth of git gang over a single night.
Welcome everyone..
Lets share the world's best git rants, git hacks and git-ish puns..
git add ./\*.rants
git commit -m "gitGang in devRant"
git push
Feel free to join at https://discord.gg/zPEuRzn
New members are always welcomed.. :)1
Anyone ever wondered how hard it is to fill feedbacks and performance growth of your own, which the manager will be evaluating..
The situation is so ironic.. u want to write the best about you, but don't want to look like bragging abt yourself in the same time..4
Types of users in devrant with high #++
Type 1. Who posts minimum rants, but each ones get most ++
Type 2. Who posts a lot of rants, but each ones gets low ++
Type 3. Who posts minimum rants, but give lots of comments even if each comment gets low ++
Tyoe 4. Who posts minimum rants, and minimum comments, but both gets high amount of ++
In which type would you classify yourself?
Or did I missed any other type...8
Yesterday, was my last of Internship. It was wonderful to work with all the software engineers and the amount of stuff I learnt in this period was immense.. I would like to also give special thanks to my Manager who gave me opportunity and trusted on me. And I can't miss to mention my mentor. She helped me in solving so many problems.. in my early stages, she was my only hope to start things working.. she taught me not only how to program, but also how to program effectively. And yes, the smartest thing I did in my internship was introducing devrant to my mentor.. she liked it a lot, and her posts gets so many ++ compared to mine.. (m so jealous, 😝😜😓😂)
I get to learn so many different things in DevRant, that I want to add it as my task in the Sprint Board
So apparently GitHub now allows you to embed any gist in any given programming language as JavaScript code.
For example
will be
<script src="https://gist.github.com/psdtohtml5/..."></script>
thoughts? is GitHub another CDN?2
What to do when for a single issue, multiple contributors send out different PRs doing the same stuff?
I feel bad to close a PR without merging when they have spent there time in it.
I never expected that my repo will ever attain such dilemma for PRs.6
Struggling to debug a test which prints out like 400-500 lines of logs in console and I can't find any of those to be useful.
Me while debugging with DevRant ..
Is this the end of my life!!!!
Even without a wife..
I should start collecting some bucks,
And buy some ducks,
The devDucks,
To accompany me through the mist of the unknown console logs,
Playing treasure hunt,
Performing stunt,
And find out the hidden treasure behind this mist2
Learn the hard way:
Episode 1:
Struggled 4 hours building my package. Some dependent package was failing build. Tried everything and atlast, contacted that package developer. He checked and said: "It seems it's broken. You can use v1.1 instead."
Lesson learnt: Sometimes, it's better to ask instead of banging your head and debugging things out.
3 years ago,
Team of 3(team's first and last competition together). ICPC ACM Multiprovisional round.
1st question super simple. Teammate came up with the algo.
I was the one who wrote the code. Missed a brace after a 'if' statement.
Wasted 45 mins, debugging and coming up with new approaches. From a possible top 10 rank finish, we got 44th at the end of the competition.
If I wouldn't have done this silly mistake, our team wouldn't have failed.
Till now, hacktoberfest has been really bad more me.
Why so?
I got 4 PRs for my project, out which 3 were identical.
I reviewed them and commented to fix the bugs. The Unit Tests are failing and they don't bother to send out a correct PR. And they don't even bother to fix them and respond. They just want to make 4 PRs to get the free T-Shirt.
Just finish the PR and make it pushed to the mainline.2
Why the hell am I so talkative!!!!!
I think it's better I work alone so that I be less of an annoy for others...
Side-effects of me working at day time..
Missing working at night time all alone..3
Spent 2 weeks writing code in different services
Today D-Day for integrating all of it. And guess what, Friday evening and it's not working.2
I always find reading small configuration files way more difficult than reading a big codebase.
I accept config files do really help in writing a better flexible code and separating the logic and settings but always offer a stiff learning curve.
And often, people make changes in config either unintentionally or with half knowledge which works in local but later blows up the entire system.
Wondering how config files can be presented in a way that the learning curve is minimal and the understandability of its impact is more visible.
I do really like annotations or decorators which provides a closer visibility between config and code.
Realised I was working with the outdated version of JavaScript library and all my months effort needs redo. Shit!!! Why do devs change code so much that backward compatibility becomes an issue.....3
How many of you find the color of disabled ++ for self posts in devrant seems more appealing as not disabled???1
How often have you seen a manager working as an individual contributor when things are urgent and the assigned engineer is sick!!!
Such type of managers are the rarest species that can be found on Earth.
I hope everyone gets such managers and then, all Devs gonna have a great time working in tons of interesting and feasible projects.
Sharing my colleague's recent experience..
He was working in development of version 1.0 for an application last month, and it was scheduled to be released but when I asked him today how did the roll out went, he said "I am assigned to directly release the v2.0 of this application."
AI based epidemiologist with a simulator support to rerun it's experiment. It can identify trends in epidemic arrivals and provide solutions to stop it. Advantage will be faster and safer experiments, which is now done manually.
Colleague asks me to use github to help manage the co-producing of the project. I create github account and place the project's starting files on a repo. He does not use github afterwards...5
What's the process to like contribute to open source on GitHub or some thing. Like despite having a GitHub for a bit now I've only made just temporary repos so I don't actually really know much about like forking and branching and stuff :/5
When you come 1000kms away from office to home.. and promise to do WFH and the wifi at home is slow...
Killing me!!
Too many backlogs this sprint...
Never read any github tutorial. Decide to wing it, create repo, make 10 changes. Check progress, Where are my old files 😭
Went to a food stall, ordered the dishes(very simple and must have dishes in any food stall) in menu, and they replied it not yet available.. coming soon...
I immediately thought that IT world has affected the food industry too..
Now, they have coming soon and TODO in their Menu..
Imagine, waiters telling:
"Sir, the dish you ordered is currently in beta testing phase, and we are working to push it into prod soon. Meanwhile, enjoy the existing features(dishes) provided by our restaurant"
I use google auth for 2FA. Had to factory reset my phone for some reason. Meanwhile, github one day forced me to change my password. So I used the back up recovery code to change the password and then logged out. I was in a hurry and actually forgot to set up the new 2FA. But hey I have got the recovery codes right.
But, guess what? The recovery codes are not working anymore! Wtf github?
I prefer it doing 2 tasks parallely during the initial phase of requirement gathering and design phase.(makes more sense if you are working extremely new system and framework)
1. Keep collecting requirements from clients and understand them.
2. Collect different designing aspects for the project and parallely, build a POC for 2 purpose: to get hands into the new Framework and also as a demo to clients. Working on POC helps in 3 ways: Improving understanding of requirement, improving framework knowledge, and playing around with code whenever bored of designing and reading tons of existing designs..
3. Once primary requirements are clear and fixed, analyse all different designs, if possible I setup meetings with senior devs, principal engineers (they help a lot when it comes to reviews on scalability and reliability of a design)
4. The above design is mostly architectural level. Once design is fixed, then I start taking each component and prepare a detailed implementation design. (Notice that whenever I am bored of designing, I spend sometime in building POC)
5. In detail design, I focus on modularity and flexibility. Anything defined should have getters and setters for example. This will help you reuse your code. Keep the interface between components in your design as generic as possible, so that in case your MySQL is change to Postgre or NoSQL, your design should be able to adapt new features..
6. Instead of building entire project, define feature targets and deliver small features.. this will help you to be in line with the requirements with minimum deviation.
I am working more effectively nowadays from home rather than from office.
At office, I end up spending most time in eating, playing table tennis and meetings.
The only thing I am missing at my house is my 2 big 27" 4k office monitors.
Sometimes, I feel my codes follow quantum mechanics... Uncertainty everywhere.. Either it will run or follow proper standards.. Expecting both at a same time.. is not yet possible..
I can find a new excuse about my uncertain codes... If quantum engineers solve the uncertainty principle, then only my codes also will learn to behave as expected..
Aaargh, GitHub pain:
"This branch is 65 commits behind x:master."
So GitHub ffs, give a bl**ding button that says "Sync" instead of a long f***ing series of steps I have to complete for something that should just be a single god*mn click.11
I dont dare share my github with potential profesional partners, its 40% contributions, 10% my public projects and 50% insulting other libraries in their issues because i become irritated when i cant get it working :P
When you invest days to come up with a better design of a system, and the moment you discuss with senior devs, and they present a even better design which they have already considered in their roadmap for a while..
Waiting for the day, my design is the better one and being accepted..1
These many Python libs exist for machine learning....
Used only scikit and gensim till now...
Little of theano...
Teacher was asking for project submission using J2EE servlets and jsp.
That very moment, in my laptop, I was working on another project using PHP...
I showed this project.. and he was so happy that only I did the project he requested...
Didn't even bother to check once that it was developed using PHP. He was overwhelmed.
Though, at the of semester, he spent almost 90% just telling about internships and placements.. and nvr taught Advanced Java..
For partially downloading folders from GitHub repo e.g. examples folder, DownGit web app (no install) is good.
String concatenation using + instead of StringBuilder....
Using prototype objects instead of singleton wherever required..1
Sadness is:
1. Being assigned as mentor just because my ex-mentor wanted me to be a mentor too or did just for fun. The sad part is the mentee that is assigned to me
2. Bestie coming to my city for convocation but can't meet me because her bf wants all the time together
3. Both 1 and 22
When you wanna be a Data Scientist and always land into internships where you are assigned with web development...
Learnt Node, Flask, Spring frameworks across different internshis...
Thanks to my parents to create an Application Context and autowire all my Dependencies required to live a happy life.. !!! The best framework that provides IOC -- Parents.
Note: Finally understood spring framework IOC and DI concept.. many more to understand..
For some reason
I hate GitHub
This is something I wanted to get off my chest because all of my friends are in love with it and I love how it's got proper documentation and stuff but idk
I feel tooo
to push stuff on the git
GONNA KEEP MY CODE WITH ME IF ANYONE WANTS IT, use email
Or get a pendrive19
The bad thing about github library's readmes is that every time i act as it's step by step guide i encounter errors that no not mentioned how to solve it any where
Somebody fucker told me that GitHub is excellent for open source project contributions.
I fucked for 3 straight hours and found horse shit floating on the sea of projects when I was looking to contribute. I c++ and am fucked.6
recently noticed that Github is warning some users that their password has been compromised in a data breach by "HaveIBeenPwned". what is this about?8
Want to go to my University from where I passed last year to take Placement interviews, but it seems chances are almost null..
I believe in miracles.. Tmr others are going.... Someone pull me in too..
At least I will be good enough for shadow interview...1
When you realise CHROME and FIREFOX needs different JQuery syntax to work with AJAX...
#respectForAllWebDevs #newbieWebDev5
Why do I end up sleeping while reading design documents...
I need COFFEE.. When will this reading phase be over, and I would acquire all the knowledge the docs have and start doing coding..
Everyday, m opening devrant and would see a new UI UPDATE.
My fingers go to click a tab and realises it's not there.. and takes some time to search where it went.
Devrant on revolution..!!!
Week starts with awful events:
#reached office late
#my desktop crashed. Had to force boot. (Most probably lost some unsaved codes. Still unaware though)
#realised after sometime that I left my phone in the Cab (had to run in the early morning. got it back. Was an office cab and I knew the cab no.)
Praying for no further events...
So since Im new to programming, I thought it was a good idea to make a github. Was that a good call?7
What's your prediction on when Apple will have a great fall, with recent failures of mobiles technologies?2
does anyone else find it ironic that github (used for the development of open source, free software) has paid features?6
User forked UnrealEngine on GitHub and gave write permission and subscribed everyone (~100K)
Thats not how you git it.
I'm sorry my GitHub was inactive all 2018. Doesn't mean I wasn't coding. I just put my recent projects up so maybe I can fill out those little squares on my profile
Hey @skayo , I want to join the devRant community on github. please add my username @kiranbabumuddam as a member.15
GitHub PRs
You want to know whether it's merged already so you scroll and read every comment, tension is building...
it was open months ago... you keep reading in June
comments are March 25, (OK)
(reads another 20 comments) (OK)
May 1st (fuck I don't want to see any dates close to today)
keep scrolling - May 9th (fuck fuck, no, please be merged by now!!!)
Many of them asking for the merge with dozens of upvotes
next 16 days ago saying "Is this going to be merged now"?
And you keep reading and hoping and it gets to today and it's just hanging in there
When all the discussion about a PR took place somewhere else so anyone looking at GitHub thinks they just blatantly disregarded GH etiquette
in an event and checking Github issues. This is what i commented;
"... Otherwise I'll solve your problem tomorrow. Today I'm in an issue.." :facepalm:
When people on GitHub respond to issues I subscribed to with "+1" instead of using reaction emojis. 😡 I get an email everytime...
Has anyone forked (not fucked) a github project/gem just because the owner no longer gives a fuck to make those PR's?2
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Icarus NANO Reserve: High Tech, Low Volume, Dependable Durability.
The ICARUS NANO Reserve has revolutionized the low pack volume reserve. With the NANO you get the same low pack volume as its competitor with the added piece of mind that your NANO is made with a more dense low volume fabric that is more resistant to line friction and thereby a safer, more structurally superior last resort.
Even with a more dense fabric, Icarus maintains 30% lower pack volume than the conventional Icarus reserve. Icarus has tested the NANO above and beyond the specifications required by the FAA's TSO C23d. The NANO offers the same unparalleled opening, flight and landing characteristics as the ICARUS Reserve, now with a much lower pack volume. With high technology, low pack volume, and dependable durability, the NANO is the clear choice. Icarus offers the NANO in sizes ranging from 99 to 253 square feet.
20 DENIER FABRIC vs 30 DENIER FABRIC IN RESERVE PARACHUTES
The goal of manufacturers within the skydiving industry is to produce quality products that offer athletes the tools to progress, but also increase the safety of our sport. As the demand for smaller high performance canopies has increased, the size of containers have followed suit. Few companies have succeeded in manufacturing reserve canopies that pack small enough to allow skydivers to carry large reserves in small volume containers. ICARUS Canopies recognized the merit of this idea and devoted resources to find a solution of its own.
Before Icarus looked for the ideal way to build such a reserve, the company began researching low bulk products currently in the market. Icarus discovered that thinner material with less energy absorbing capability was being used in place of the traditional reserve canopy fabric. Technically, the volume of the reserve was reduced because 30 denier fabric was replaced by 20 denier fabric. So what is a denier? In simple words: Weave Density. Parachute fabric is woven from nylon yarn. A single yarn consists of a thread made up of 10 parallel fibers. Denier is the weight expressed in grams for 9,000 meters of yarn. For example: 9,000 meters of 20 denier yarn weighs 20 grams; and 9,000 meters of 30 denier yarn weighs 30 grams. Bottom line: 30 denier fabric is actually 50% more material than 20 denier fabric.
Before thinking about the why denier matters, we need to understand why structural integrity is important specifically regarding reserve parachutes.
Using your reserve is never the result of an ideal situation, therefore it is important to prevent as many unforeseen outcomes as possible if it must be used. After a cut-away or direct deployment to reserve, a skydiver could be under unusual stress and possibly in a less than desirable pre-deployment attitude (ex. spinning, head down, back to earth etc). The reserve parachute deployment will be affected by such circumstances. Line twists, line overs and faster deployment speeds could all occur and would lead to additional friction between the suspension lines and the canopy fabric.
Generally, parachutes are over-designed for nominal conditions to ensure they meet all TSO requirements. Nevertheless, it has been proven time after time that nylon strength diminishes as temperature increases. Friction is detrimental to nylon and suspension lines can produce a great deal of it.
When equal loads of friction occur, 20 denier fabric will reach a high temperature faster than 30 denier fabric. This is due to the fact that 20 denier fabric consists of less material, therefore it heats up faster than 30 denier fabric. If this temperature reaches nylon melting point, structural damage called "line burn" occurs. This can make a huge difference in a canopy's structural integrity after opening. 30 denier is more resistant to this kind of stress but it packs larger. This is a tough decision- pack volume or more friction resistant fabric? ICARUS wanted both.
ICARUS has put years of research into weave design into finding a way to have the best of both worlds. The new ICARUS NANO reserve is made of specially woven 30 denier fabric which packs just like 20 denier fabric. Working within the specifications defined under the standard PIA-C-44378-T4, with smaller than required tolerances, we have reduced the pack volume by 30% compared to the Standard Icarus Reserve.
This superior technology allows the ICARUS NANO to provide structural superiority and the lower pack volume that is being demanded by skydivers around the world. Icarus is proud to present the first of its kind, the new durable low volume ICARUS NANO!
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Guest Columnist Gary Weber:
President at G.M. Weber and Associates LLC
I've spent nearly half my life working in and around Washington, DC. I began my career in 1987 and knew I would have to work hard to gain respect. I quickly realized there was an equally valuable commodity to capture. It is an elusive commodity yet valuable to all, the commodity, trust.
As a father, I consider the image of the trust of a young daughter as they cross a bridge. The father, scared says: "Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river." His daughter replied: "No, Dad. You hold my hand." "What's the difference?" "There's a big difference," she said. "If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go."
The anonymous author concludes: "In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond. So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting them to hold yours." Extrapolating this to business, you will be rewarded for having a bond with your customers, protect and value them and you gain their trust.
What is trust worth? Trust is a commodity worth millions to individuals, politicians and businesses; we are at risk if we forget this fact. Taking time to "monetize" trust in you, your business or product is worth the effort. Then you can invest appropriately in gaining and maintaining trust.
I would like to share some examples that I believe relate to the value of trust, how to achieve it and the cost of losing it.
1979: The First Turn-Around for Chrysler "If you can find a better car, buy it"
Lee Iacocco's ability to save Chrysler is deeply rooted in the company's decision for him to take on the role of the very public face of Chrysler. He thus became a central element of their marketing and communications strategy. It worked when he said "If you can find a better car, buy it."
1996: The Beef Industry, Lobster of the 21st Century?
In 1979, a friend of mine said "look at the decline in beef demand, within 30 years it will be like lobster, tastes great but too expensive to eat often and then only in a fancy restaurant."
I disagreed because cattle and other ruminants are the ultimate, sustainable contributors to our growing demand for animal protein products.
In 1996, after over 20 years of declining beef demand, the threat of Mad Cow Disease arrived in America on March 22, 1996 with the announcement that "Mad Cow Disease", caused a new variant of Creutzfeldt Jacob disease, beef consumption in the United Kingdom dropped by nearly 50 percent.
In the United States, in 1996, every one percent change in beef consumption would equate to over $300 million in farm and ranch income alone, a 50 percent decline would have cost the beef industry over $1.5 billion.
Who would have thought Oprah Winfrey and the guy Oprah reportedly called "the boring beef guy," Gary Weber, would end up, for a brief time, being the "faces" of the beef industry?
There were two Oprah Mad Cow Disease episodes, April 16, and 23rd 1996. In spite of all of the concern about BSE, consumer confidence data illustrated an increase in confidence in beef. Why, because the media was saturated by science based messages assuring consumers that beef was safe and Oprah's last words on her second show; "Well, just keep on keepin' on, we're counting on you" (the beef industry) helped prevent a catastrophe.
2012: Lean Finely Textured Beef
Our social media driven society is a challenge. Recently, BPI's lean finely textured beef (LTFB), aka, pink slime, was "attacked." A damaging message got traction, a lack of trust in the product or company, failure to put a face on an industry or product were insurmountable.
Upon hearing about LTFB, it's likely; consumers didn't feel it fit their increasing interest in and demand for "natural" and organic products.
"Humpty Dumpty was pushed" in this case, all King's men, (U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Iowa Governor Terry Branstad became the faces of LTFB), left Humpty Dumpty in pieces.
This is an example of the impact of not having or losing public trust, in this case, it surely has cost BPI hundreds of millions of dollars.
2012: Biotechnology, Proposition 37
In the 1980's the first commercially viable genetically altered products began to raise significant public concern. In 1993, the USDA funded a survey to ask consumers what their concerns might be with respect to food biotechnology.
The biotechnology industry chose a path of avoiding much public disclosure of these powerful technologies.
The recent Proposition 37 debate in California indicates there continues to be significant concern about biotechnology.
The biotechnology industry hasn't measured up, who is saying "If you can find a better, safer food buy it."
By John Dunham:
Managing Partner, John Dunham & Associates
"Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives."
So began one of the great cult movie classics of all time, Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space.
The narrator of the film was a former radio announcer known as the Amazing Criswell. As we suggested last year, over time Criswell's predictions became more and more bizarre, including a prediction Denver would be destroyed by a space ray, London would be destroyed by a meteor in 1988, and that Kansas (in one prediction) would become an uninhabitable dust bowl, or (in another prediction) would become the most important state in America and that Wichita would be the nation's capital.
2012 was full of predictions that went wrong. Of course the Mayans were off, and the University of Colorado's election forecasting model predicted a Romney landslide. Maury Harris, UBS's Chief U.S. Economist, touted as the "most accurate" economist on Wall Street suggested this time last year that the American housing market would be booming by now; and of course Nouriel Roubini, who can always be counted on to predict calamity, suggested that there would be another global recession in 2012.
So how did JDA's 2012 predictions fare? In general we were correct. We said that the basic machinery of the American economy was sound but that a serious lack of confidence in the country's economic institutions locked the country into a kind of "stag-flation" where the inflation is less visible than it was back during the disco era. We suggested that asset prices will begin to stabilize.
JDA was not correct; however, in suggesting that inflation will be the key economic event of 2012, and that higher inflation will spur consumption and eventually force the Federal Reserve to abandon its artificially low interest rate loose monetary policies.
On the world front, JDA predicted that slow growth in Europe, continued net contraction in Japan, and slower growth in Russia and China due to political instability would keep overall growth in world economic activity in check.
Overall JDA predicted that US GDP would grow by just under 2.8 percent in 2012, and through the third quarter, it looks like GDP will grow by just 2.5 percent. This has helped keep a lid on the inflationary problem that we predicted. Our forecast was 3.8 percent, and the BLS is reporting inflation at just 1.8 percent through November. We were also way off on interest rates as the inflation prediction was so high.
Here is what JDA thinks will happen in 2013:
The world economy will continue to be weak – hovering just this side of expansion. The fiscal and monetary situation in Europe as well as in China will continue to be a headwind to world economic growth. The American economy will not go into recession; however, the problems with American tax, fiscal and monetary policies will not be addressed in at least the next two years. The massive tax increases scheduled to occur in January will remove at least 500 basis points from growth. In addition, the regulatory environment will continue to discourage business formation which will hamper hiring since only smaller businesses are net job producers.
JDA's 2013 forecasts have tempered our inflation expectations reflecting continued slow growth in the world economy– although this is still the biggest long-term risk facing the American economy. We do not see any recovery in Europe and weaknesses in both the European and American economies will keep pressure on prices. The reelection of President Obama, and certain reappointment of a doctrinal Keynesian as the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve will also keep interest rates in the United States artificially low. These two factors, along with higher taxes, will keep US GDP growth in check – although we do see some pickup in 2013 – and unemployment artificially high.
Based on these general findings, most recent forecasts for 2013 are presented in the following chart.
About JDA
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Sisense gives you the easiest way to get real business insights from complex data with radically innovative business analytics. Sisense empowers everyday business users to independently manage, analyze, and visualize complex data quickly and cost-effectively. Our mission is to transform complex data into insights everywhere, enabling access to business intelligence across the entire organization. Our leading innovation is used by companies seeking to gain insights to their own business, and also embedded by technology and service companies that aim to provide additional insights and value for their customers. To learn more about Sisense, visit www.sisense.com We are proud of the recognition we receive for our passionate commitment to customer support and innovation: - Named a Visionary in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms - Recognized by the Software & Information Industry Association as Best Business Intelligence Tool and Platform - Named to Annual Forbes 2018 CLoud 100 List - Earned "perfect recommend" ranking and recognized as market leader in Dresner's 2017 Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study - Chosen as 2018 Best BI Software by FinancesOnline - Picked as one of NYC's top tech companies by Built in NYC
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We disrupt the Business Intelligence market. Our product allows business users to analyze humongous amounts of data without being experts and without help from IT. How? By building on a set of unique and cutting edge technologies, wrapped up in a killer product.
We're looking for a talented and passionate Business Development Representative (BDR) to join our awesome team at our NYC offices.
We are seeking a gifted hunter for lead qualification and development for the North American market. Our ideal Business Development Representative (BDR) is first and foremost an effective communicator. The Business Development Representative loves to reach out to decision makers at companies that may never have heard of Sisense, and to bring back qualified prospects with a need for our software.
- Become an expert in engaging and converting prospects over the phone
- Profile potential prospects via predetermined criteria
- Quickly research and strategize an approach to create interest and engage
- Be able to identify and leverage compelling new business entry ways for targeted outreach
- Manage a variety of sales automation and online prospecting tools
- Generate new business opportunities to fuel the SMB and Enterprise Pipelines by scheduling demos with qualified prospects
- Prioritize and manage the lead queue volume effectively to maximize new sales opportunities
- Work closely with Account Executives to move prospects through pipeline and closing
- Learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of Sisense's product, BI industry trends and competition
- Achieve or exceed quarterly quotas of demos and qualified opportunities generated
- Minimum 1-2 years of inside sales or sales development experience (selling over the phone, cold calling), preferably B2B at a software company
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- Excellent speaking/listening skills and ability to engage prospects over the phone
- Fearless attitude and a hunter mentality– willing to take intelligent risks
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St Leonards-on-Sea based Hypnotherapist Jen Popkin would like to invite local people struggling to lose and maintain their weight, to take part in a free trial for a hypnotic weight loss system, which incorporates the Virtual Gastric Band, developed by UK clinical hypnotherapist Sheila Granger.
The treatments are delivered in four weekly sessions and the participants undergo a hypnotic version of bariatric surgery in the first session to reduce the stomach to the size of a golf ball. This is followed by three further sessions which deal with the psychological triggers that cause a person to overeat.
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MISSION � Veterans Memorial High School (VMHS) senior Victoria Trevino has been recognized by the College Board's National Hispanic Recognition Program as a Scholar. This program provides national recognition of the exceptional academic achievements of Hispanic high school seniors and identifies them for postsecondary institutions.
Students enter the program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) as high school juniors and by identifying themselves at Hispanic. Only about 5,000 of those students have been recognized as National Hispanic Scholars, based upon their PSAT/NMSQT scores and their academic achievements.
The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 5,000 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Their program includes the SAT, the PSAT/NMSQT, and the Advanced Placement Program (AP).