For a small consulting firm, is it appropriate to use CEO or Managing Director as the owner of the business?
Can you please clarify if it's acceptable to use these terms interchangebly and if not point out to significant differences between these titles. It seems to me that it may be something with scale of an organization (perhaps, small/medium businesses have managing directors, and large corporations have chief executive officers) but I'm not sure. I do understand that a person may bear one or another of these titles formally, but what about real differences?
Don't include SE site in SE search filter? I couldn't find this question here, but I would like to be able to search all sites in the SE network except some sites. In my case, I want to remove the thousands of results from SO on a popular project for devs so I can see the handful of results on other sites from admins and users.  The current form only allows all sites or listed sites.  The answer linked does not tell me how to use the information in the answer. It is a poor answer for an average user.  As @Laurel describes in the comment below, the answer at  no longer works. What could cause a microcontroller to unexpectedly reset? One particularly irritating variety of bug in a microprocessor-controlled system is for the microprocessor to unexpectedly reset. An important tool for debugging this kind of problem is a list of possible causes. What could cause a microcontroller to unexpectedly reset? How to deal with spaces in a variable Computers on board Starfleet vessels are quite primitive compared to on board computers such as . At their best, they can decipher requests such as "Computer, delete that last sentence" and utter things such as "That crewman is no longer on board this vessel". Even real life computers will be capable of this within a decade or so (by some estimates). Even computers such as HAL 9000 are likely to be available within a few decades.  So, in a genre where intelligent computers are abound, why this strange absence? Did the Federation run into some Battlestar-Galactica-like problem with AI in the past and decide to keep on board computers decentralized?  But if that is the case, how can one explain Data and highly intelligent holographic characters? The technology and programming constructs clearly exist, yet Starfleet vessels continue to be manned by hundreds of people standing in front of consoles. Convergence of the arithmetic mean Let $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ be a convergent sequence with limit $a \in \mathbb{R}$. Show that the arithmetic mean given by: $$s_n:= \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n a_i \tag{A.M.} $$ also converges to $a$.  I have read:  but unfortunately the answers there don't help me much because I don't understand their substitutions and most of it all, why their substitutions seem to work.   What I know from the problem is that since $a_n$ is convergent and $\epsilon &gt;0$ is given, I can say that:   $$\exists N_1 \in \mathbb{N}, \forall n \geq N_1: |a_n-a|&lt;\epsilon_1 $$ I also know that since $a_n$ is convergent, it is bound, so $(a_n) &lt; M, \ \forall n \in \mathbb{N}$   I need to show that: $$\exists N_2 \in \mathbb{N}, \forall n \geq N_2: |s_n-a|&lt; \epsilon_2$$ I started as follows: $$ \left|s_n-a \right| = \left|\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^na_i -a\right|= \left|\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^m(a_i-a)+\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=m+1}^n(a_i-a) \right| \\ \leq \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^m|(a_i-a)|+\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=m+1}^n|a_i-a|$$ I believe to understand that the left sum after the $\leq$ is finite, bound and doesn't depend on the values that $n$ takes on. However, I don't understand where all the substitutions come from and make this proof so seemingly easy to complete.   Is there a general idea I can follow to complete such proofs? Because I know that the last step is to show that the given sum is smaller than $\epsilon$. I also know that I should bring the condition $a_n &lt; M$ into place somewhere, but I don't know where.  If I choose an $n \geq N: |a_n-a|&lt; \epsilon'$ what does that tell me about $|a_i-a|$? I know that they are seemingly the same just with a different index. When thinking about travelling, I often have to think about a place to visit, and then look up visa rules for that particular country. This can be a fairly painful process because official government sites can often be hard to find, and advice on (say) guidebooks or Wikitravel tends to be generic.  Is there any resource where I can enter my nationality/residency, and then look up a list of visa rules for various countries? SEO in Stack Overflow Use feature as module? Does anyone have experience with using a feature as a module? The usage I am talking about is strictly placing hooks inside the .module file. Can that trigger any sort of bug? How are we able to calculate specific numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence? I was reading up on the Fibonacci Sequence,  $\text {{1,1,2,3,5,8,13,....}}$ when I've noticed some were able to calculate specific numbers. So far I've only figured out creating an array and counting to the value, which is incredibly simple, but I reckon I can't find any formula for calculating a Fibonacci number based on it's position.  Is there a way to do this? If so, how are we able to apply these formulas to arrays? I'm told by smart people that $$0.999999999\ldots=1$$ and I believe them, but is there a proof that explains why this is? "It's time something was / were done about the problem." It's time something was done about the problem.   It is a sentence from Murphy's "Grammar". Using was confused me, for me it should be were. It looks like this clause is in subjunctive mood&mdash;something that is unreal / imaginary, and in that case you always use were for any object.  Unless, of course, it is not the subjunctive mood, what would knock me down. I am using a logit model. My dependent variable is binary. However I have an independent variable which is categorical and contains the responses: 1.very good, 2.good, 3.average, 4.poor and 5.very poor. So, it is ordinal ("quantitative categorical"). I am not sure how to handle this in the model. I am using gretl.  [Note from @ttnphns: Although the question says the model is logit (because the dependent is categorical), the crucial issue - ordinal independent variables - is basically alike, be the dependent categorical or quantitative. Therefore the question is equally relevant to, say, linear regression too - as it is to logistic regression or other logit model.] I am trying to install Microsoft Office 2013 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32-bit). I have downloaded an iso file of said product and installed wine1.4-i386 using the apt-get command on the terminal.  The question is I don't know the steps how to install it. I can't get much tutorials on Internet how MSOffice2013 can be installed on Ubuntu.  If any versions of wine isn't an option, what other options can be used to run Microsoft Office 2013? What can I use to typeset MATLAB code in my document? This question led to a new package:      Does anybody have a quick and easy way to typeset some relatively long MATLAB code in the appendix? I looked up a few methods, and the mcode package emerged as a possibility, but it seems to be unmaintained...  I have a ton of equations in my code, so I'd prefer a solution that avoids having to use $ to denote equations.  Also, if possible, if there's a way to keep all of MATLAB's "natural" coding colors (e.g. green for comments), that would be great...  Any idea? Floating Objects and Weight The Situation:  A ball is placed in a beaker filled with water and floats. It is also attached to the bottom of the beaker via a string.   The Question:  The ball is attached to the beaker, thus making the ball and beaker (and string included) a system. However, it is floating. Does the ball add to the weight of the beaker? How can I get Google Sheets to treat my form-submitted strings as plain text and preserve leading zeros? I have Google Forms where users enter information, some of which contains leading zeros (e.g. zip codes, ID numbers).   However, when this data is saved to the Google Sheet, it doesn't treat it as plain text and strips the zero. The form fields are text fields with no validation.   I have tried to format the range of cells containing these values as plain text, but it seems Sheets does not set the formatting as plain text unless there is already text in a cell. So I can format a column as plain text, submit the form, and the leading zero will still be stripped.   I tried writing an apps script to deal with this but there's no good way for me to deploy it to the users who would need it.   How can I get around this without having to instruct users to prepend a single quote to their form entry? This is such a small thing, but I can't find a good simple solution to what it seems must be a common problem. If I can't get this to work I may have to drop Google Forms/Sheets altogether. How to get the Runtime-Type of an Object dynamically (for Primitive Data Types and SObjects) Is it possible to get the Type of an Object (it's not an SObject)?  String s = 'test'; doSomething(s);  public static void doSomething(o Object) {     // need to find out if o is a string or an integer     type = IsThereAMethodToGetTheTypeOf(o) // ?     if(type='String') {         // do something for strings here ....     } else {         // do something else ....     } }   I think the Type class can't help me, because it has no way to get the type of an existing object instance, right? Any there any other way?  Since there is most likely no perfect solution possible within the current platform limitations, I posted an Idea on IdeaExchange here:   For SObject I have already this  public static string getType(SObject obj) {     if(obj==null) return '';     return obj.getSObjectType().getDescribe().getName()+''; } I want to communicate between several computers on my network (static Ethernet), through SSH. In order to do that I need to run ssh-add every time I log in on a specific machine, how can I do it so that it's set up once and it doesn't ask me for the passphrase every time I log in or reboot my machine?  I know that there is a way that you should add some lines to the bash_profile file, but I still need to type the password every time I reboot/log in to a specific machine.  if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] ; then     eval `ssh-agent -s`     ssh-add fi How to find $\sum_{i=1}^n\left\lfloor i\sqrt{2}\right\rfloor$ A001951 A Beatty sequence: a(n) = floor(n*sqrt(2)). [A001951 A Beatty sequence: a(n) = floor(n*sqrt(2)).][1]  If $n = 5$ then  $$\left\lfloor1\sqrt{2}\right\rfloor+ \left\lfloor2\sqrt{2}\right\rfloor + \left\lfloor3\sqrt{2}\right\rfloor +\left\lfloor4 \sqrt{2}\right\rfloor+ \left\lfloor5\sqrt{2}\right\rfloor = 1+2+4+5+7 = 19$$  Sequence from $1$ to $20$ is:  $S=\{1,2,4,5,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,18,19,21,22,24,25,26,28\}$  I want to find answer for $10^{100} n$? I'm working on a fairly big document that has a lot of graphs of functions- so far it has around 200, by the end it will have around 1500. I use pgfplots for each graphic, and the functions are pretty basic: exponential, rational, polynomial, and trigonometric.  Once I am happy with each graph, I don't necessarily need to see it every time I compile, and would like to minimize compilation time for future drafts. Naturally, the document is already chopped up into chapter files, but each chapter contains around 100 figures.  Having studied the pgfplots documentation, I haven't found a draft mode, but I'm interested in knowing if one could be created.    I'm envisaging something similar to the draft mode of the graphicx package, in which graphics are not included, and blank boxes are put in their place.  Some things I've considered:   the  documentclass; but with about 1500 figures, wouldn't this mean over-modulization?  tikzexternalize, but this still requires an initial 'monster' compilation to get the images externalized before the draft option could be invoked   Here's a MWE to play with  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgfplots}  \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture}     \begin{axis}         \addplot {x^2};     \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document}