I'm currently starting my internship, and I need to gather knowledge related with the integration of cloud services (SaaS).  I'm currently comparing integration platforms available in the market (iPaaS and similars), and the next steps are to analyze approaches to integrate services, and also look for open-source libraries related with the integration of services.  My question is in which Stack Exchange site should I ask for people's opinion on these issues?
After my lie down, I posted  on SO. As I suspected would happen, it got moved to programmers. Unfortunately, the kind of people I'm interested in getting answers from (litb,skeet et al - the top SO programmers in their respective disciplines) don't frequent Programmers much. So my question is, where to ask somewhat non-specific questions of high-powered users?
I  and while on other sites I did not get a 'Reputation Notification' to explain that I was given 2 upvotes for my answer - yet if I manually check my Profile here at meta.SE my total Reputation is in agreement with the amount there.  I'm not knowledgeable about the intercommunication between the servers and sites but I would explain it this way: Super User either failed to send or other sites failed to receive the message the I had a reputation update on Super User.  I should have received either two green star trophies (🏆) of 10 reputation each or one of 20; depending on when I returned to one of the Stack Exchange / Stack Overflow / Super User / etc. sites.  Here's a screenshot showing no reputation change notification for Super User:    Here's a screenshot of my Profile over at Super User showing that I was silently credited:    I'm bringing this up on Meta.SE in case the communication is broken between more sites than just Super User and everywhere else. Max Serial Cable Length? What is the maximum length of serial cable I can use, to connection work properly? Is length of serial cable in connection with baud rate? I am using about 5 meter cable at speed 38400 bauds and RS232 communication, is it too long? Hiding winforms app from taskbar Injection from $\mathbb{N}\to\{0,1\}$ to the set of all monotonic decreasing functions from $\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{Z}$ I want to programmatically create a site using custom web templates in sharepoint 2010.  In 2007 I used to get a   SPWebTemplate template = site.GetCustomWebTemplates(LCID)[number];   and used this SPWebTemplate in  SPWeb newSite = web.Webs.Add(url, title, description, LCID, template, true, false);   This worked quite well for 2007. But in 2010 the site templates are saved into the solution store  SPSite.Solutions   which only returns SPUserSolution objects and not SPWebTemplates.  So my question is: How can I programmatically create sites using the site templates from the solution store.    UPDATE: I tried to use  SPWeb newSite = web.Webs.Add(url, title, desc, LCID, templateName, true, false);   where templateName is a string like '{Template-GUID}#TemplateName', but it still does not work. It throws the following error:  Critical error: File or arguments not valid for site template '{4a2d8952-a0af-49a6-8f55-46a59c8d68a2}#CustomerSiteTemplate'. Parameter name: WebTemplate    Any other ideas how to create a site based on a SPWebTemplate? I need to get a history of which processes have run on my Windows machine, and when they were run.  However, I cannot use any third-party software, as I cannot guarantee that it will always be running.  Is there any way to get this information only using Windows built-in functionality? How can I connect the top loop to the down loop with faces Hey I want to connect the bottom loop with the top loop so that it forms a solid.  I have tried selecting multiple vertices and pressing F but that just creates a large face which I do not want. I have tried using grid fill bu that doesn't work either. The solution that seems to work is by selecting four vertices and pressing F and then selecting the next 4 and pressing F and on and on. That just takes too long. Why don't the White Walkers take the sea route to Westeros TimeSpan to String causing an error How to correctly install libpng12-0 on the Ubuntu 19.10? difference between accuracy and Rand index (R) I'm very confused, when I read on the wikipedia "From a mathematical standpoint, Rand index is related to the accuracy, but is applicable even when class labels are not used."   and   But when I use in R the rand.index function from fossil package and the Accuracy function from MLmetrics it doesn't give the same answer  &gt; Accuracy(predicted, real) [1] 0.8266667  &gt; rand.index(predicted,real) [1] 0.7114989  Please can someone explain to me the difference between these two and which one should I use?  NB:I use the k-medoids clustering algorithm (function pam from cluster package) The Sharpshooter feat includes an interesting feature: you can choose to take -5 penalty to hit with a ranged weapon attack to increase its damage by 10. Normally, I'd dismiss the trade-off as too situational, but I've only just thought of combining it with the Archery fighting style (+2 to hit with ranged weapon attacks).  After building a sample character using these features, the end result looks quite effective. My questions are: Is this build valid? Have I interpreted the rules correctly? If so, how well does it compare against other damage-focused builds?  5th level variant Human Fighter:   Ability Scores (via point buy): Str 10, Dex 16, Con 16, Int 9, Wis 12, Cha 10 HP: 47, AC: 17 (or 18 with disadvantage on Stealth) Weapons: Hand Crossbow x 2 Fighting Style: Archery Martial Archetype: Battle Master (with the Precision Attack maneuver) Feat (variant Human): Crossbow Expert Feat (4th level ability score improvement): Sharpshooter   The end result is a fighter capable of hitting targets 120' away, behind 1/2 or 3/4 cover, or engaged in melee with him, all without penalty. Normally, he can make 3 such attacks per round (Attack action + Extra Attack + Crossbow Expert's bonus attack). Once per short rest he can make 5 attacks per round via Action Surge (Attack action 1 + Extra Attack, Attack action 2 + Extra Attack, Crossbow Expert's bonus attack).  His normal attack bonus is +8 (3 proficiency, 3 Dexterity, 2 Archery fighting style), and normal damage is 1d6+3. Not amazing damage, but nice accuracy and flexibility (attacks can be focused on one target, or spread around; works equally well in melee and ranged combat).  The real winner is his ability to take -5 on any of these attack rolls to increase the damage by 10, to an average of 16.5 per shot (excluding crits). If he lands his usual 3 attacks, that's ~47 damage; 5 attacks is ~83. While the -5 to hit seems imposing, he's still got superiority dice: he can increase his attack roll by 1d8 after seeing the result, up to 4 times per short rest. And even without the superiority dice, his attack bonus is still an acceptable +3; ok for hitting low AC targets, or those granting advantage on attack rolls (e.g. surprised or prone + adjacent).  With a decent AC, a Fighter's HP, and the Second Wind feature, he can also take a decent amount of damage. He'll also have decent Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws.  This build seems almost too well rounded. 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If it makes any difference, I want to recover a  2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/tool that works on any kind of file. This is a  about hostname-awareness and proxying.   I know that some protocols are hostname-aware; that is, when I connect to the HTTP server at www.example.com it knows I want www.example.com's HTTP service, not www.example.net's, even though they are on the same IP address.  How can I do this for protocol foo?  (Temporary note: this question appears pursuant to .) Transform fancy usage messages in 1D string How can I adjust the mouse scroll speed? I'm currently working on a scene containing 1000+ objects which all need to be set to a different draw type to save on computationally expenses in the viewport. But doing this for every object separately is really tedious. Therefor I'm wondering if there's a way to change the maximum draw type of multiple objects simultaneously. Preferably only the selected objects. How can I render bokeh circles?  Nothing I do seems to work.   I tried using an empty as the focus point for a cube, with some point lamps in the background with about 2000 strength, but it doesn't work. It just makes everything blurry.  I also raised the blades to 4/5/6/12, and it doesn't make a difference.  I'm using Blender 2.74. What is a plain English explanation of "Big O" notation?