We had an engineer at our house the other day to check an appliance and he used the term 'tickety boo' at least three times. Clearly being British I am aware of the expression, and I also think I know what it means i.e that everything is running smoothly. But what is its origin?
I heard myself saying something was "tickety-boo", meaning good, successful, or satisfactory. Does anyone know where this strange-sounding phrase originated?
How do you properly use namespaces in C++? I come from a Java background, where packages are used, not namespaces. I'm used to putting classes that work together to form a complete object into packages, and then reusing them later from that package. But now I'm working in C++.  How do you use namespaces in C++? Do you create a single namespace for the entire application, or do you create namespaces for the major components? If so, how do you create objects from classes in other namespaces? How to connect to Salesforce REST API without OAuth? How does Jitterbit do it? If the order of all nontrivial elements in a group is 2, then the group is Abelian. I know of a proof that is just from calculations (see below). I'm wondering if there is any theory or motivation behind this fact. Perhaps to do with commutators?    Proof: $a \cdot b = (b \cdot b)  \cdot (a \cdot b) \cdot (a \cdot a) = b \cdot (b \cdot a) \cdot (b\cdot a) \cdot a = b \cdot a$. How to use grep/awk/unix to match all lines from one file in another file, even if they are duplicates I'm trying to retrieve the the matching lines from a file, however the file that has the "index" or list of matches to retrieve also has duplicate entries and I want to print out the duplicates as well.  Example:  File 1 (index file or list of strings to match)  abc tgf abc ggg aaa fff   File 2 (what I want to retrieve for each of the matches in file 1)  Fred   1   3   abc Amy    2   4   ggg Dan    5   6   tgf Mike   9   1   fff Steve  2   1   aaa   My desired result would be (order is not important, just that I match every line):  Fred   1   3   abc Dan    5   6   tgf Fred   1   3   abc Amy    2   4   ggg Steve  2   1   aaa Mike   9   1   fff   I'm familiar and have tried grep as follows, but it does not print the duplicate entries.  grep -Fwf file1.txt file2.txt  Fred   1   3   abc Amy    2   4   ggg Dan    5   6   tgf Mike   9   1   fff Steve  2   1   aaa Javascript to set cookie Japan is a volcanically active country which means it has a plethora of onsen (hot springs) all around the country.  Visiting these onsen is supposed to be a popular vacation destination for the work-weary Japanese.    I've been told that, as with other things in Japan, there is a rather strict etiquette surrounding the use of the onsen.  In particular, the two things I've read about so far are   Swimming Suits are not allowed. It is very important that one bathe immediately before entering the onsen.   Are these true?  Are there any other taboos that a naive American should be aware of? What is the point of isomorphism concept? I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7. I need to shrink my root Ubuntu volume in order to get some free space to create a new partition. Are there any Windows based tools that will do this for me? I tried booting up in gparted to do this but I cannot tell which partition is which since I cannot find the size (it displays everything in blocks). Android: TextView automatically truncate and replace last 3 char of String I am completely new in Ubuntu. Just installed Ubuntu 14.04. On my other computer running Windows, I am using Avast, free edition.  Do I need anti-virus protection at all? vector space dimension of linear varieties Suppose $Y=Z(f_1,\cdots ,f_r)\subseteq \mathbb{A}^n_k$ where each $f_i$'s are linear homogeneous polynomials which are $k$-linear independent. Then $Y$ is also a vector space over $k$. My question: Is the vector space dimension of $Y$ is same as the dimension of $Y$ as an affine variety? If yes how?    Thank you. Must an ideal contain the kernel for its image to be an ideal? How to determine the direction of a wave propagation? In the textbook, it said a wave in the form $y(x, t) = A\cos(\omega t + \beta x + \varphi)$ propagates along negative $x$ direction and $y(x, t) = A\cos(\omega t - \beta x + \varphi)$ propagates along positive $x$ direction. This statement looks really confusing because when it says the wave is propagating along $\pm$ x direction, to my understanding, we can drop the time term and ignore the initial phase $\varphi$ while analyzing the direction, i.e. $y(x, 0) = A\cos(\pm\beta x)$, however, because of the symmetry of the cosine function, $\cos(\beta x)\equiv \cos(-\beta x)$, so how can we determine the direction of propagation from that?  I know my reasoning must be incorrect but I don't know how to determine the direction. So if we don't go over the math, how to figure out the direction of propagation from the physical point of view? Why $-\beta x$ corresponding to the propagation on positive x direction but not the opposite? How can I join these two meshes in a proper way? I know I can Ctrl J to join them, but how can I do so without having overlapping faces? What do you feel when crossing the event horizon? Why does volatile exist? What does the volatile keyword do? In C++ what problem does it solve?  In my case, I have never knowingly needed it. How do I enable hardware virtualization technology (VT-x) for use in Virtualbox? There are a few examples of pairs of words ending with -ee/-er like employee and employer or advisee and adviser. What I was curious about is if there was any rule that would describe the relationship of the objects in a pair like this and situations when it's appropriate to create a counterpart for a given word.   I'll give you an example. It's relatively common in the computer programming world to see the word dragee, which describes an object that is being dragged with a mouse. I understand that this is a relatively new word and could not be found in any dictionary (I've tried). Is that acceptable to make up words like this one or is it just bad English? Are Android OS updates region specific? Well, I have a Galaxy Ace with 2.3.3, build XWKPY and Samsung Kies doesn't show an update to 2.3.4 yet.  I'm thinking of manually updating it through Odin and I need to know if I can just download any Gingerbread 2.3.4 update file or is there anything else that I need to be worried about? Hoping someone can give me some thoughts on what might be going on here so I can be a bit more informed when I call a plumber.  Situation is, we got our water heater replaced a few years back and ever since this has been an issue. It's more noticeable when it's cold outside it seems, but still seems to be a year round problem. Whenever we  use hot water, we basically run out of it within minutes. In order to get an acceptable amount of hot water (enough to take a 10 minute shower), we literally have to prime the water first. By that I mean I have to turn on the hot water, let it run for a couple of minutes, then turn it off and wait 20 minutes. Then when we go to use the hot water again we'll get hot water for a respectable amount of time. Now I am fairly ignorant to all this, but it seems a 71 gallon hot water heater should be capable of holding enough water to not need to be primed like this. I should be able to take a 30 minute shower, let alone 10 without running out. My shower this morning was decently warm for maybe 2 minutes before it was just warm-ish.   So if anyone can give me some ideas on what might be going on I would appreciate it. We've just put up with this for some years assuming perhaps it was some eco friendly thing. Like the system doesn't maintain much hot water in the tank so it's not always running and only heats water up when you start to use it? I hope that isn't the case though and even so, I should be able to get more hot water out of it. Any help?  UPDATE Sorry everyone, I meant to tell you all that the water heater was gas. The pilot light is lit. I don't recall the specific model though I can look that up if people think it will help. I have actually turned up the thermostat on it above the default and when the water heater is putting out hot water, it can be very hot. Too hot. But again, that requires us to prime it before we get any decent amount of hot water out.  UPDATE 2 Looked it up, I believe this is the model info if that helps anyone: State Select: High Output. Model number: GS675XRRS 300