Houseplants are most active during the spring and summer because of the abundance of light. Fertilization is most important during these times. Your fiddle leaf plant is begging for nutrients and cannot grow and prosper without them.
Fiddle leaf figs, or ficus lyrata, love to be fed! Their large leaves and relatively fast growth demand plenty of nutrition. But how often should you fertilize? The rate that you should fertilize your fiddle leaf fig depends on the season you’re in, how fast you want your plant to grow, and the type of fertilizer you are using.
Plants often suffer because of under-fertilization, which leads to slow growth and yellowing leaves. Proper fertilization will give your plant the best health and keep it deep green and gorgeous. Let’s expand more on each of these factors now.
But before we start, keep in mind that as pre-requisite for growth, you must keep your plant in ideal growing conditions light and water-wise. An unhealthy plant that’s fighting for its life, that’s overwatered or dried-out, is not going to grow, no matter how much fertilizer you add. Follow the tips on this blog to help you with all things plant care if you need it. See The Basics of Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree Care as a starting point for ficus lyrata specific tips, or the universal advice on How to Water your Indoor Plants the Right Way, which covers all types of houseplants.
- FERTILIZING FICUS LYRATA FOR YOUR LOCATION AND SEASON
- FERTILIZING FICUS LYRATA FOR GROWTH
- Type of fertilizer that is perfect for ficus lyrata
- Fast Growing Houseplants
- Healthy Soil & Roots For A Pretty Houseplant
All fiddle leaf fig plants need nutrients, whether they are actively growing or not. But those that are growing a lot will deplete their soil of nutrients more quickly. Your fertilizing schedule depends on how fast you’d like your plant to grow.
If you have a young plant that you’d like to grow quickly, you can fertilize with our custom-formulated Fiddle Leaf Fig Plant Food each and every time you water. This ensures that your plant gets a gentle but steady supply of the nutrition it needs. Fiddle leaf figs can grow 12 to 18 inches each year when fed properly and given an abundance of natural light!
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All fiddle leaf fig plants need nutrients, whether they are actively growing or not. But those that are growing a lot will deplete their soil of nutrients more quickly. Your fertilizing schedule depends on how fast you’d like your plant to grow.
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Do you also love to see new baby leaves unfurling?
Caring for your fiddle leaf fig can be complex and overwhelming, especially if you are a first time plant owner. In fact, according to Claire Akin, author of The Fiddle Leaf Fig Expert (available on Amazon now), most fiddle leaf fig owners are first time plant owners! This creates a tricky situation, since ficus lyrata can be particular about their needs.
For now, you can check out this simple yet useful List of Fast-growing Houseplants that will ravish you with new babies to marvel at more often than average.
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科学杂志-林奈300周年的生日 Supporting tagline
Happy 300th Birthday, LinnaeusJohn BohannonA series of reports on connections between science, culture, and the arts from Science Contributing Correspondent John Bohannon, who, in true gonzo style, will participate in the events he covers.
One thing was clear to me by the time Åke Bruce entered the room wearing a powdered wig and finery: This was by far the strangest birthday party I had ever attended. The birthday boy, Carl Linnaeus, is long dead--he was born 300 years ago. But to mark this nicely round number, Sweden was determined to throw a party befitting one of her most famous scientific sons. He is best known as the inventor of modern taxonomy, the Latin names that divide organisms into species based on shared traits. The innovation helped pave the way for Darwinism a century later. But like a rock star who is only remembered for that one catchy song, Linnaeus's numerous other contributions are appreciated only by the groupies. He invented field biology. Linnaeus named thousands of species himself and trained a generation of biologists who journeyed to the four corners of the world in search of the rest. (Half of them died in the process.) And that's not all. He helped local astronomer Anders Celsius design the modern thermometer. He wrote important treatises on physiology, history, and economics--and the list goes on. There seemed to be no academic realm the Swede left untouched. So it was not surprising that while I was in Sweden, there were no fewer than three Linnaeus-celebratory conferences under way. Bruce wanted his party to stand out. As a nutrition scientist at the Swedish National Food Administration, he knew just how to do it. "Linnaeus was passionate about food and diet," he says, and not just as an epicurean or a "foodie." Based on the man's published works, says Bruce, food--its origins, how best to prepare and serve it, and its effects on health--lay at the intersection of all of Linnaeus's interests. So for the past 3 years, Bruce has led a team of Swedish researchers to prepare the ultimate Linnean foodfest. Scholars from around the world were invited to explore the culture and science of food in the time of Linnaeus, as well as the progress that food science has made 300 years hence. And to get everyone in the proper frame of mind, master chefs collaborated. The output was 3 days of food-related lectures by diverse experts--biochemists, historians, agricultural scientists, and psychologists--punctuated by recreations of 18th century meals. And to entertain us, Bruce wrote a play based on Linnaeus's journals and correspondence. The 10 roles were divvied up, with Bruce playing Linnaeus. His wife, Ingar Ribbe Bruce, not only performed in the play, but she also designed and handmade all the period costumes for the troupe. (She is a surgeon at Uppsala University Hospital when not acting or sewing.) For the title of the event, Bruce turned to a treatise by Linnaeus in which he compares the food culture of his time with that of ancient Rome and Athens: Culina Mutata, the changing kitchen. All illustrations by Katrien Kolenberg What's AheadWhat people ate in 18th century Europe depended on their place in the social order. The diet of a farmhand was strikingly different from that of a Swedish nobleman just down the road. So the meals, researched and designed by food scholar Gunilla Lindell, provided a kind of walking tour through late Baroque society. We worked our way up through the strata, starting from the bottom with a peasant's lunch. And here was my first surprise. What comes to mind when you think of peasant food? For me, it's a steaming bowl of gray gruel. But I would be proud to serve this smörgåsbord for my own birthday. To wake up the tongue, it began with salted herring and fresh onion. (The fish was prepared as in the time of Linnaeus, even saltier than what you find today--so "shock" the tongue is more accurate.) Balancing this blast of flavor were green peas and an addictive warm salad of pearl barley, parsley, and pork. Then came a sort of light omelet with embedded crayfish morsels, washed down with a drink made from lightly fermented juniper berries, and rounded off with a creamy dried plum tapioca. Published08 April 2009
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| CAG repeats | {A1_CAG} |
| CCG repeats | {A1_CCG} |
| Intervening status | {A1_STRUCTURELABEL} |
| Intervening structure | {A1_STRUCTURE} |
| Intervening sequence | {A1_INTERVENING} |
| Backwards slippage ratio | {A1_SLIPPAGE} |
| Somatic mosaicism score | {A1_MOSAICISM} |
| ScaleHD confidence | {A1_CONFIDENCE} |
| Secondary allele | Genotyping summary |
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| CAG repeats | {A2_CAG} |
| CCG repeats | {A2_CCG} |
| Intervening status | {A2_STRUCTURELABEL} |
| Intervening structure | {A2_STRUCTURE} |
| Intervening sequence | {A2_INTERVENING} |
| Backwards slippage ratio | {A2_SLIPPAGE} |
| Somatic mosaicism score | {A2_MOSAICISM} |
| ScaleHD confidence | {A2_CONFIDENCE} |
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| Primary allele call | {A1_SNP} |
| Primary call score | {A1_CALLSCORE} |
| Secondary allele call | {A2_SNP} |
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| Exception raised | {SHDFLAG_EXCEPTION} |
| Homozygous haplotype | {SHDFLAG_HZYG} |
| Neighbouring peaks | {SHDFLAG_NEIGHBOUR} |
| Diminished peak presence | {SHDFLAG_DIMINISH} |
| Novel atypical allele structure | {SHDFLAG_NOVELATYP} |
| Alignment warning | {SHDFLAG_ALNWARN} |
| Atypical alignment warning | {SHDFLAG_ATYPALIGNWARN} |
| CCG Rewritten | {SHDFLAG_CCGREWR} |
| CCG Zygosity rewritten | {SHDFLAG_CCGZYG_REWR} |
| CCG Uncertainty | {SHDFLAG_CCGUNCERTAIN} |
| CCT Uncertainty | {SHDFLAG_CCTUNCERTAIN} |
| SVM Failure | {SHDFLAG_SVMFAIL} |
| Differential confusion | {SHDFLAG_DIFFCONFUSE} |
| Missed expansion | {SHDFLAG_MISSEDEXP} |
| Heuristic filter success | {SHDFLAG_FILTERPASS} |
| Peak inspection warning | {SHDFLAG_PEAKINSPECT} |
| Low distribution reads | {SHDFLAG_LOWDISTREADS} |
| Low allele-peak reads | {SHDFLAG_LOWPEAKREADS} |


Nintendo Reveals Its Best Black Friday Deals For 2019 (North America)
Lots of discounted games and a console bundle
by Ryan CraddockWe're fast approaching Black Friday 2019 - which technically takes place on 29th November - and Nintendo has let us in on its very best offers on Nintendo Switch consoles, games, and accessories.
The highlight of the bunch is a Nintendo Switch console bundle which throws in a copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at no extra charge. Starting on 28th November, you'll be able to get the bundle for $299.99 - the regular price of a standalone Switch console.
That's not all, though, as a selection of major Nintendo releases will have $20 knocked off their recommended retail price, and you'll even be able to save on accessories like Joy-Con and the Poké Ball Plus.
Here are all the offers, prices, and dates you need:
| Product |
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| Nintendo Switch + Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle | Starts Nov. 28 | $299.99 | $59.99 |
| Super Mario Odyssey | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| Super Mario Party | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| Splatoon 2 | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| Mario Tennis Aces | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| Kirby Star Allies | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| Octopath Traveler | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus | Starts Nov. 27 | $39.99 | $20 |
| Pair of Joy-Con controllers (Gray or Neon Red & Neon Blue) |
Starts Nov. 27 | $59.99 | $20 |
| Poké Ball Plus accessory | Starts Nov. 28 | $19.99 | $30 |
We'll be making sure to keep an eye on Nintendo's activities over Black Friday to share any of these great offers with you as and when they appear in stores, so make sure to check back with us nearer the time.
Hoping to pick up a Nintendo bargain this Black Friday? Let us know in the comments.


When this question is asked it divides opinions and thoughts about him. Some say that he was the devil and others call him an angel or even the father of technology. No doubt that Jobs has improved or even created many devices through his life until the day that he died, there are many reasons to believe both of the sides, he copied some ideas, however, he had some others. this website is going to bring you into this new world and give you some ideas about him with just a few facts about his personal life and career. Please scroll down to start this adventure.
Charismatic attitude, passionate demeanor, risk-taking temperament, and non-traditional conducts define Steve Jobs’ personality who lived from 24 February 1955 to 5 October 2011.
His work has often exhibited his fidelity towards his work. We all are well conversant with his potentialities in his domain and believe it or not, an individual’s conducts in his professional life exhibit a lot about the traits his personality has. Steve Jobs’ personality type is ENTJ. This type of personality people are born leaders.
Often heard that Steve Jobs had such a rude and abrasive personality trait that he would yell at his colleagues and team anytime if things didn’t go well or according to his expectations. There have been a lot of instances where he embarrassed people in interviews. If things are not of his standards, he will leave it. Be it a hotel or anything else.  His cantankerous nature has led the creator of the outstanding retail stores; Rob Johnson and the vice president of Global Marketing leave their respective positions. There is always something positive in everything, and maybe this personality trait of Steve Jobs made him what we know him for today because had he allowed others’ influence on his vision, he might not have become the Steve Jobs we all admire.
Steve Jobs was known for rebellion, his vision, and his creativity. But most of all, the name Steve Jobs became almost synonymous with innovation. To see an Apple product is to see the results of Jobs' thoughtful drive. Some notable quotes from this master of innovation tell us how thoughts become things. Jobs showed the world that truly valuable innovation starts first with a belief, which then frames a perspective, which then inspires an idea, which eventually becomes a tangible reality. Jobs' beliefs can be adopted and adapted by anyone who strives to be a true master of innovation as well.
Steve Jobs fathered a child when he was just 23. But he spent years denying that he was the father, going so far as to swear in a court document he was, "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child." That was not true, obviously. When he was becoming rich from Apple, the mother of his daughter was going on welfare. However, later acknowledged he was in the wrong, and became closer with his daughter.
He would harass people interviewing for work. "How old were you when you lost your virginity?" he asked. The candidate looked baffled. “What did you say?” “Are you a virgin?” Jobs asked. The candidate sat there flustered, so Jobs changed the subject. “How many times have you taken LSD?” Hertzfeld recalled, “The poor guy was turning varying shades of red, so I tried to change the subject and asked a straightforward technical question.” But when the candidate droned on in his response, Jobs broke in. “Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble,” he said, cracking up Smith and Hertzfeld. “I guess I’m not the right guy,” the poor man said as he got up to leave.
He short-changed his best friend on a bonus. While working at Atari, Jobs recruited Wozniak's help to build a scaled down version of Pong. There was a big bonus involved in getting it done quickly and efficiently, and Jobs lied about how much money was involved, pocketing the majority of the money for himself.
He was rude and cruel with people, for instance, The Xerox Star was supposed to be the hot new computer that came out in 1981 (it was ultimately a flop). Jobs and his team went to go check it out, but were absolutely unimpressed. A few weeks later he called Bob Belleville telling him how bad he was and offering a job with him , one of the hardware designers on the Xerox Star team.
Even with the opinions divided it's right and easy to say that Jobs has a huge popularity throughout the world even after his death his name is still a synonym of creativity as this website believes or even of plagiarism as other people say, in this website you will be able to know some more facts about him and his life, career, problems and some other things that were part of this incredible mind. Something that everybody agree is that Jobs had the skill of manipulation through his own methods he was capable to make people think in the same way as him or the way that he wanted them to think. This skill was the most critical one that lead him to the success.


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XPMP2::Aircraft represent an aircraft as managed by XPMP2. More...
#include "XPMPMultiplayer.h"
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#include "XPLMCamera.h"
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| class | XPMP2::Aircraft |
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XPMP2::Aircraft represent an aircraft as managed by XPMP2.
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Command Line Interface¶
The command line interface provides the ability to tangle and weave markdown files.
prosecode tangle¶
Process the markdown file mdfile, extracting all code. The code is placed in the directory given in the option –srcdir.
prosecode tangle [OPTIONS] MDFILE
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prosecode weave¶
Process the markdown file mdfile into a LaTeX or HTML document.
If –execute is set to True, then the blocks of code will be executed and their output placed in the text.
The –format option specifies the output format. Valid options are latex or html.
The output file is specified in the –outfile field. If omitted, it will simple change the extension on the input file from .md to .tex.
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--- layout: post title: Why is ruby on rails Ubuntu server setup so damned hard to do? date: 2013-10-16 21:10:14.000000000 -05:00 type: post published: true status: publish categories: [] tags: - MongoDB - Nginx - Rails - Ruby - Ruby on Rails meta: _edit_last: '15714693' _zemanta_has_recommendations: '1' publicize_twitter_user: broberts_az publicize_twitter_url: http://t.co/KUVenZ7eUu _wpas_done_482036: '1' _publicize_done_external: a:1:{s:7:"twitter";a:1:{i:199393780;b:1;}} author: login: broberts65 email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>display_name: Bob Roberts first_name: '' last_name: '' ---
Well, I was messing with server setup for Ruby on Rails again. I had created a script to walk thru the steps but it still seems to be a combination of try this, get an error, google the error, apply the fix, and try it again. If it works go to next step, and if not; repeat over and over.
Now the best option for hosting Rails apps is Heroku but this is not always an option. A lot of the other 'paid' Rails hosting options have 'one-click' server setup. What I am talking about is setting up a brand new Ubuntu 12.* server for Ruby on Rails.
I will be updating my step-by-step server setup and posting that soon...
Today I want to talk about an awesome script that I found. It is called Railsready by Josh Frye.
Well, I wanted more, so I added more. I have taken Josh's fine script and added some options that I wanted.
I now have it setup to ask what version Ruby you want installed. Right now that is a choice of 1.9.3 or 2.0.0. I am planning on setting that up to prompt for which version but I worry that users will enter a non-existing patch.
I have also added Nginx server install plus your choice of Unicorn, Thin or Passenger.
Next up is I am going to add option to choose from Mongodb, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Take a look at it and see what you think... https://github.com/brobertsaz/railsready


Functions for Discriminant Analysis and Classification purposes covering various methods such as descriptive, geometric, linear, quadratic, PLS, as well as qualitative discriminant analyses
| Version: | 0.1-29 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.15.0) |
| Suggests: | MASS, FactoMineR |
| Published: | 2013-11-15 |
| Author: | Gaston Sanchez [aut, cre], Charles Determan [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Gaston Sanchez <gaston.stat at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| URL: | http://www.gastonsanchez.com |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| CRAN checks: | DiscriMiner results |
| Reference manual: | DiscriMiner.pdf |
| Package source: | DiscriMiner_0.1-29.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: DiscriMiner_0.1-29.zip, r-release: DiscriMiner_0.1-29.zip, r-oldrel: DiscriMiner_0.1-29.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: DiscriMiner_0.1-29.tgz, r-oldrel: DiscriMiner_0.1-29.tgz |
| Old sources: | DiscriMiner archive |
| Reverse suggests: | mlr, mlrCPO |
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A notion that there are certain identity formation strategies which a person may use to adapt to the social world. Cote & Levin 2002 developed a typology which investigated the different manners of behavior that individuals may have. Their typology includes:
| Psychological symptoms | Personality symptoms | Social symptoms | |
| Refuser | Develops cognitive blocks that prevent adoption of adult role-schemas | Engages in childlike behavior | Shows extensive dependency upon others and no meaningful engagement with the community of adults |
| Drifter | Possesses greater psychological resources than the Refuser (i.e., intelligence, charisma) | Is apathetic toward application of psychological resources | Has no meaningful engagement with or commitment to adult communities |
| Searcher | Has a sense of dissatisfaction due to high personal and social expectations | Shows disdain for imperfections within the community | Interacts to some degree with role-models, but ultimately these relationships are abandoned |
| Guardian | Possesses clear personal values and attitudes, but also a deep fear of change | Sense of personal identity is almost exhausted by sense of social identity | Has an extremely rigid sense of social identity and strong identification with adult communities |
| Resolver | Consciously desires self-growth | Accepts personal skills and competencies and uses them actively | Is responsive to communities that provide opportunity for self-growth |
Kenneth Gergen formulated additional classifications, which include the “strategic manipulator”, the “pastiche personality”, and the “relational self”.
The strategic manipulator is a person who begins to regard all senses of identity merely as role-playing exercises, and who gradually becomes alienated from his or her social “self”.
The pastiche personality abandons all aspirations toward a true or “essential” identity, instead viewing social interactions as opportunities to play out, and hence become, the roles they play.
The relational self is a perspective by which persons abandon all sense of exclusive self, and view all sense of identity in terms of social engagement with others.
For Gergen, these strategies follow one another in phases, and they are linked to the increase in popularity of postmodern culture and the rise of telecommunications technology.


1 __all__ = [
2 "Nonlinearity",
3 "LogisticFunction",
4 "ExponentialFunction",
5 "HistogramNonlinearity",
6 "BlobNonlinearity",
7 "TanhBlobNonlinearity"]
8
9 from _cmt import Nonlinearity
10 from _cmt import DifferentiableNonlinearity
11 from _cmt import TrainableNonlinearity
12 from _cmt import InvertibleNonlinearity
13 from _cmt import LogisticFunction
14 from _cmt import ExponentialFunction
15 from _cmt import HistogramNonlinearity
16 from _cmt import BlobNonlinearity
17 from _cmt import TanhBlobNonlinearity
18


Clock Replacer Algorithm in C++
This post introduces the Clock Replacer algorithm and an implementation in C++.
Post Outline
Motivation
The Clock Replacer algorithm is a page replacement algorithm. Page replacement is the database problem of deciding what pages to hold in memory as opposed to on disk.
The purpose of a clock replacer is to allow the client, restricted by storage size, to only store the most important items by removing pages that will not be needed in the near future. It accomplishes the same purpose as the more well-known LRU (least recently used) cache.
Explanation
The general idea of the algorithm is that a client can add a new page at any point in time. If there is room in the clock replacer, it will simply be added. Otherwise the new item replaces the least used item. Least used is defined by the clock replacer algorithm. Besides adding and victimizing frames, we can also pin and unpin frames. Pinning a frame means that the page id in that frame will not be considered for eviction until it is unpinned.
We will represent the replacer using 3 boolean vectors, inClockReplacer, clockRefFlag, and pinned. If inClockReplacer is true at a particular index, that means that index (aka frame id) is holding a page. The vector clockRefFlag holds the reference bit and pinned stores whether the frame is pinned or not.
Accessing A Frame
Accessing a frame means either adding a new page to that frame or reading from an existing page at the frame. Either way, the code is the same. We mark the frame as storing a page and set its reference flag to 1.
bool ClockReplacer::AccessFrame(int frame_id) {
if (frame_id < 0 || frame_id >= numPages || pinned[frame_id]) return false;
inClockReplacer[frame_id] = true;
clockRefFlag[frame_id] = true;
numFramesInClockReplacer++;
return true;
}
Victimizing A Frame
Let’s picture the clock replacer as a circular buffer. Each slot in the circular buffer represents a frame, which can hold a single page at any point in time. Each slot also has a reference bit. When a page is first added or accessed afterwards, the reference bit is set to 1. A clock pointer (an integer) loops around the buffer and sets the reference bit to 0. If the reference bit is already 0, then the item is chosen to be victimized. We use the input pointer *frame_id to hold the value of the frame id that was victimized.
bool ClockReplacer::VictimizeFrame(int *frame_id) {
// Loop while there are still frames to be victimized
while (numFramesInClockReplacer != 0) {
// Only consider victimizing frame if page is stored there and
// frame is not pinned
if (inClockReplacer[clockPointer] && !pinned[clockPointer]) {
if (clockRefFlag[clockPointer]) {
// Set reference bit to 0
clockRefFlag[clockPointer] = false;
} else {
// Identified frame to be victimized
*frame_id = clockPointer;
inClockReplacer[clockPointer] = false;
numFramesInClockReplacer--;
return true;
}
}
clockPointer = (clockPointer + 1) % numPages;
}
return false;
}
Pinning and Unpinning
We will use a boolean vector to keep track of which pages are pinned. Pinning and unpinning are defined by the Pin() and Unpin() methods, which update the boolean vector pinned.
Code
The full code is in this repo. To run the tests, use the following command:
g++ -std=c++17 -g -Wall -W -o a.out clock_replacer_test.cpp clock_replacer.cpp && ./a.out


Now you know the basic commands for starting and stopping Emacs and
for working with files. Chapter 2 builds on
these commands to give you the skills
you need for editing with Emacs. Table 1-4
summarizes the commands we covered in this chapter.
Table 1-4. File handling commands
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Keystrokes
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Action
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|---|
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C-x C-fFile
Open File
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find-file
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Find file and read it in a new buffer.
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C-x C-v
|
find-alternate-file
|
Read an alternate file, replacing the one read with C-x C-f.
|
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C-x iFile Insert File
|
insert-file
|
Insert file at cursor position.
|
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C-x C-sFile Save (current
buffer)
|
save-buffer
|
Save file.
|
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C-x C-wFile Save Buffer As
|
write-file
|
Write buffer contents to file.
|
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C-x C-cFile Exit Emacs
|
save-buffers-kill-emacs
|
Exit Emacs.
|
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C-h
|
help-command
|
Enter the online help system.
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C-h fHelp Describe
Function
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describe-function
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Gives online help for a given command name.
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| | | |
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C-h kHelp Describe Key
|
describe-key
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Gives online help for a given keystroke sequence.
|
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C-h tHelp Emacs Tutorial
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help-with-tutorial
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Start the Emacs tutorial.
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C-h iHelp Browse Manuals
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info-goto-emacs-command-node
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Start the Info documentation reader.
|
Emacs doesn't do what this
book says or look like our screenshots. Make sure that you
have GNU Emacs 21.3.5
or
later running by typing M-x version
Enter or selecting Help About Emacs. Read the
section "Making Emacs Work the Way You
Want" in Chapter 2. You may
need to install a graphical version of Emacs if you are running in a
terminal window; see Chapter 13 for details.
The toolbar icons are completely
different. The icons changed between Emacs 21.3.1 and
Emacs 21.3.5. The older
icons do the same thing; the newer ones
are substantially better looking and more intuitive. Upgrade Emacs
using instructions in Chapter 13.
You can't access menus using
the mouse. Use
the text-based menus instead by
pressing F10 or M-`. Better yet, install a graphical version
of Emacs using the instructions in Chapter 13.
PgUp doesn't work
properly when
using text-based menus. PgUp is
probably bound to some application-specific function, such as
scrolling in the Mac OS X Terminal application. Press Shift-PgUp, F10, or M-`
to access the menus.
You can't see a mode line or
minibuffer.  See Chapter 10 for information on how to get Emacs to
start with a reasonable window size. As a temporary workaround,
resize the window. (On some Windows systems, maximizing the window
ironically makes it smaller, solving the problem.)


Emotional Intelligence
Learnings from Chapter One
Baseline Experience vs Transitory Experiences
I enjoyed the point that people generally assume the baseline of emotional experience as fixed, whereas actually it is highly flexible and depends on deliberate actions and mental habits. This feels like such a great thing! I definitely often live on the assumption the baseline is out of my control and look for stimulatory experiences to take me above my that level.
Accessibility through Language
I liked the language used a lot. I definitely found it made the concepts and practice of mindfulness more relatable. I sometimes find that I shut my mind to something if language used feels vague to me, alluding but not actually refering to something relatable, probably just because I have a limited experience to relate from.
More importantly, bringing the attention to the body enables a high-resolution perception of emotions. High-resolution perception means your perception becomes so refined across both time and space that you can watch an emotion the moment it is arising, you can perceive its subtle changes as it waxes and wanes, and you can watch it the moment it ceases.
With this kind of language it all seems much more approachable.
Felt Experience
It's continually amazing to me that emotion, intuition, perceptual awareness are often mainly experienced through body sensations. Not through rational inspection, or mind states, but through felt sensation. Just, awesome, we are such complex and capable creatures. I guess it makes sense, but it's not the way I grew up thinking.
Deliberate Relaxation
I like the idea that calmness under pressure is a trainable skill, at the moment I can find it easy to have a high level of stress that doesn't feel useful. I really aspire to that kind of well-held inner calm and would like to practice it.
Something Old and Natural
I like the reminders in the book that it's not all that complicated ('embarassingly simple'), but just takes effort. As far as I can tell these practices, developing and focusing attention, self-awareness and mastery, are as old as people and as natural as eating or learning to walk and talk. It's just that today we're out of touch with a lot of innate human capacities so when then reappear in dialogue and common experience they can seem new.
Empathy
I think I'm ok at focused listening and understanding the situation and perspective of other people, I also can definitely go for long periods where I ignore and lose that connection or get socially anxious and shut down a bit, I reckon I'd enjoy and get a lot from developing this.
Two Minutes of Mindfulness
I really enjoyed this. I felt able to calm down and focus a surprising amount. 2 minutes intially felt too short but actually when I did it it was very accessible.


| | | | Total Parliamentary Electorate (thousands) | % Change |
| Rank | Parliamentary Constituency | County (C) or Borough (B) | 2013 | 2014 | 2013/14 |
| 1 | East Devon | C | 69.3 | 72.7 | 4.9 |
| 2 | Wellingborough | C | 73.0 | 76.1 | 4.2 |
| 3 | Tonbridge and Malling | C | 70.2 | 72.7 | 3.5 |
| 4 | Northampton South | B | 57.5 | 59.4 | 3.4 |
| 5 | North Cornwall | C | 63.7 | 65.5 | 2.7 |
| 6 | Wantage | C | 81.9 | 84.1 | 2.6 |
| 7 | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | C | 69.3 | 71.0 | 2.5 |
| 8 | Ashfield | C | 74.3 | 76.2 | 2.5 |
| 9 | Workington | C | 55.5 | 56.9 | 2.5 |
| 10 | Ludlow | C | 63.6 | 65.2 | 2.5 |
| | | | | | |
| Source: Office for National Statistics, Electoral Office for Northern Ireland | | |
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(in
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bbox_process_element
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bbox_process
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created_at
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can_user_access_workflow()
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creator
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cron
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capabilities_wrong_root
(in
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CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST
(in
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CRONJOBS
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centroid_process_element
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create_data_doc()
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CronTestCase
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delete()
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dir_path
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DATABASES
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datatype
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describe_processes_root
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DEBUG
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describe_url
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dispatch()
(in
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delete()
(in
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description
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E
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EdgeAdmin
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execute_url
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Edge
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EditorView
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extra
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filehandler
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format
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from_task
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format
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formatter
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G
get()
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get_execute_url()
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)
get()
(in
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get_cap_url_from_scc_vm
(in
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get_file_path()
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get()
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get_cap_url_from_scc_vm_wrong
(in
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identifier
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inlines
(in
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INSTALLED_APPS
(in
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)
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(in
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input
(in
Edge
)
individual_name
(in
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)
InputOutput
(in
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L
language
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list_display
(in
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(in
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LANGUAGE_CODE
(in
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list_display
(in
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)
login_url
(in
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last_modifier
(in
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(in
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)
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(in
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)
last_workflow
(in
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)
list_filter
(in
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)
login_url
(in
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M
max_occurs
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Meta
(in
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)
min_occurs
(in
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Meta
(in
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)
Meta
(in
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)
model
(in
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Meta
(in
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Meta
(in
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model
(in
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(in
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(in
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model
(in
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Meta
(in
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Meta
(in
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models
(in
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)
Meta
(in
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)
MIDDLEWARE
(in
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)
N
name
(in
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)
name
(in
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)
ns_map
(in
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)
O
OurLoginView
(in
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)
overwrite_input_output()
(in
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)
ows_em
(in
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)
OurLogoutView
(in
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)
overwrite_process()
(in
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)
output
(in
Edge
)
overwrite_server()
(in
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P
parameter
(in
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parse_service_provider_info()
(in
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)
post()
(in
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parse_execute_response()
(in
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(in
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(in
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(in
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(in
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(in
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(in
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verbose_name
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verbose_name
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verbose_name
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(in
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Welcome to the HashiCorp Terraform and Vault workshop! These workshops can be done together or separately. The terraform code in the first workshop builds a lab that you can use for the Vault workshop. Each workshop contains around 3-4 hours of content. Ready to begin? Start with the links below:


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This is a mini-sumo robot which I created almost 7 years ago and till this day it's working just fine ;)
the robot is based on Atmel(Microchip currently) AVR ATmega124 microcontroller along with two optical sensors in front for opponent sensing, four reflective sensors for line sensing and accelerometer for collision detection.
Development of this included design of electronics/PCB in Eagle, manual assembly the outer shell was designed as 2D in Sketchup, cut out of a sheet of aluminum and bent manually.
I published more extensive description(In Polish) along with more photos as a post on "Forbot" forum:
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Namespace Advanced.Algorithms.DataStructures
Classes
ArrayList<T>
A self expanding array (dynamic array) aka array vector
ArrayListEnumerator<T>
AVLTree<T>
BinaryTree<T>
A complete binary tree implementation using pointers
BinaryTreeNode<T>
BinomialHeapNode<T>
BinomialMaxHeap<T>
BinomialMinHeap<T>
BloomFilter<T>
A simple bloom filter implementation in C# A probabilistic data structure as an alternative to HashSet Keeps track of given keys and returns answer to key exists query with very low probability of error
BMaxHeap<T>
BMinHeap<T>
BpTree<T>
A B+ Tree implementation TODO support initial bulk loading TODO: make sure duplicates are handled correctly if its not already
BpTreeEnumerator<T>
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BSTExtensions
BTree<T>
CircularLinkedList<T>
A singly linked list implementation
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CircularLinkedListNode<T>
D_aryMaxHeap<T>
D_aryMinHeap<T>
Dictionary<TK, TV>
A hash table implementation (key value dictionary) with separate chaining TODO improve performance by using a Prime number greater than total elements as Bucket Size
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key-value set
DInterval<T>
An interval object to represent multi-dimensional intervals
DIntervalTree<T>
A multi-dimensional interval tree implementation
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A disjoint set implementation
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A singly linked list implementation
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range tree
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HashSet<TV>
A hash table implementation (key value HashSet) with separate chaining TODO improve performance by using a Prime number greater than total elements as Bucket Size
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key-value set
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Red black tree implementation
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A singly linked list implementation
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Stack<T>
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A simple suffix tree implementation using a trie
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A Dictionary implementation using balanced binary search tree (log(n) operations in worst case) This may be better than regular Dictionary implementation which can give o(K) in worst case (but O(1) when collisions K is avoided )
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A HashSet implementation using balanced binary search tree (log(n) operations in worst case) This may be better than regular HashSet implementation which can give o(K) in worst case (but O(1) when collisions K is avoided )
TreeNode<T>
Trie<T>
Interfaces
IDistanceCalculator<T>
A concrete implementation of this interface is required when calling GetNearestNeigbour


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--- layout: post title: ! 'Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things!' categories: - releases author: David published: true date: 2006-03-28 06:02:00.000000000 +01:00 ---
The biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived. Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make everyday life a little smoother, a little rounder, and a little more joyful.
But of course we also have an impressive line of blockbuster features that will make you an even happier programmer. Especially if you’re into Ajax, web services, and strong domain models — and who isn’t these funky days?
The star of our one-one show is RJS: JavaScript written in Ruby. It’s the perfect antidote for your JavaScript blues. The way to get all Ajaxified without leaving the comfort of your beloved Ruby. It’s the brainchild of JavaScript and Ruby mastermind Sam Stephenson and an ode to the dynamic nature of Ruby.
Here goes a few sample rjs calls:
# First buy appears the cart, subsequent buys highlight it<EMAIL_ADDRESS>== 1 ? :appear : :highlight) # Replace the cart with a refresh rendering of the cart partial page[:cart].replace_html :partial => "cart" # Highlight all the DOM elements of class "product" page.select(".product").each do |element| element.visual_effect :highlight end # Call the custom JavaScript class/method AddressBook.cancel() page.address_book.cancel # 4 seconds after rendering, set the font-style of all company # spans inside tds to normal page.delay(4) do page.select("td span.company").each do |column| column.set_style :fontStyle => "normal" end end
And that’s just a tiny taste of what RJS is capable of. It takes the Ajax on Rails experience far above and beyond the great support we already had. Bringing us even closer to the goal of “as easy as not to”. Read more about RJS in the docs or in Cody Fauser’s tutorial about element and collection proxies and his introduction to RJS (it shouldn’t surprise you that Cody is writing about book about RJS for O’Reilly).
But its not just the view we’re giving some tender love, oh no. Active Record has been blessed with bottomless eager loading, polymorphic associations, join models, to_xml, calculations, and database adapters for Sybase and OpenBase. It’s a huge upgrade and made possible through the fantastic work of Rick Olson (who was recently accepted into Rails Core, not a minute too soon!) and Anna Chan. Let’s dig into three of the top features:
Bottomless eager loading gives you the power of pulling back a multi-level object graph in a single JOIN-powered SQL query. Example:
# Single database query: companies = Company.find(:all, :include => { :groups => { :members=> { :favorites } } }) # No database query caused: companies[0].groups[0].members[0].favorites[0].name
You can mix’n’match too. Using both multi-level fetches and first-level ones in the same call:
# Just 1 database query for all of this: authors = Author.find(:all, :include => [ { :posts => :comments }, :categorizations ]) authors[0].posts[0].comments[0].body # => "Rock on Rails!" authors[0].categorizations[0].name # => "Less software"
Polymorphic associations and join models give you access to much richer domains where many-to-many relationships are exposed as real models. Say Authorship between Book and Author:
class Author < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :authorships has_many :books, :through => :authorships end class Book < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :authorships has_many :authors, :through => :authorships end class Authorship < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :author belongs_to :book end
…or addresses that can belong to both people and companies:
class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address, :as => :addressable end class Company < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address, :as => :addressable end
Now let’s have a look at the new respond_to feature of Action Controller that makes it much easier to launch your application with both Ajax, non-Ajax, and API access through the same actions. By inspecting the Accept header, we can do clever stuff like:
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base def create @post = Post.create(params[:post]) respond_to do |type| type.js { render } # renders create.rjs type.html { redirect_to :action => "index" } type.xml do headers["Location"] = post_url(:id => @post) render(:nothing, :status => "201 Created") end end end end
The recently launched API for Basecamp uses this approach to stay DRY and keep Jamis happy. So happy that he wrote a great guide on how to use respond_to
Speaking of Jamis, he also added the third layer of testing to Rails: Integration tests.  It can really give you a whole new level of confidence in your application. The 37signals team used it heavily in Campfire from where it was later extracted into Rails. See Jamis’ great guide to integration testing for more.
These highlighted features are just the tip of the iceberg. Scott Raymond has done a great job trying to keep a tab on all the changes, see his What new in Rails 1.1 for a more complete, if brief, walk-through of all the goodies. And as always, the changelogs has the complete step-by-step story for those of you who desire to know it all.
And as mentioned before, Chad Fowler’s excellent Rails Recipes has in-depth howtos on a lot of the new features. If you desire some packaged documentation, this is the book to pick up.
Upgrading from 1.0
So with such a massive update, upgrading is going to be hell, right? Wrong! We’ve gone to painstaking lengths to ensure that upgrading from 1.0 will be as easy as pie. Here goes the steps:
gem install rails --include-dependencies
rake rails:update
That’s pretty much it! If you’re seeing any nastiness after upgrading, it’s most likely due to a plugin that’s incompatible with 1.1. See if the author hasn’t updated it and otherwise force him to do so.
If you’re on Ruby 1.8.2 with Windows, though, you’ll want to upgrade to the 1.8.4 (or the script/console will fail). And even if you’re on another platform, it’s a good idea to upgrade to Ruby 1.8.4. We still support 1.8.2, but might not in the next major release. So may as well get the upgrading with over with now.


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bitcoinjs-lib bitcoin/crypto library.
The extension adds multisig aware wallets,
JSON transaction import/export, network sync, and transaction
broadcast capabilities.
Note that the extension is designed for the original
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there are no server compenents.
Confirmed transaction data and new transactions are
pulled from/pushed to a blockchain service
(blockr.io is the default because
it returns multisig data for addresses).
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This demo uses TestNet.
As of this writing, network functions have only been tested on Firefox.
fee = 0.00001
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Officials told to conduct Grama Sabhas to identify beneficiaries
by Staff ReporterSrikakulam Collector J. Nivas directed all the officials concerned to conduct Grama Sabhas in all villages on Wednesday to identify beneficiaries for various schemes.
He said that the officials should understand guidelines for various schemes and explain them to the people during the Grama Sabhas.
The Collector also spoke on YSR Nava Sakam programme, designed to issue new cards for ration, pensions, fee reimbursement and other schemes. According to him, new ration cards would be issued for the families which have below ₹10,000 monthly income in villages and ₹12,000 in urban areas.
However, farmers who have more than 3 acres of wet land and 10 acres of dry land are not eligible for the cards. Monthly power usage should not cross more than 300 units in order to avail the benefits of the government schemes. People who own car will be barred to get the benefits.
Srikakulam ZP Chief Executive Officer G.Chakradhara Rao, DRDA Project Director K.Kalyana Chakravarti, Srikakulam Revenue Divisional Officer M.V.Ramana and other officials were present in the meeting.


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The project was out in collaboration with JDA Software, a leader in global supply chain management. The aim of the project was to create a collaborative dashboard for master planners in the supply chain industry to aid them in efficient decision making. A user-centered design approach was followed. Based on the user interviews, personas and use-cases sent by the client, insights were drawn with respect to the roles, responsibilities and tasks of master planners. These insights were used to showcase role specific data i.e performance based indexes (KPI's), trends, alerts/warnings, deadlines, etc. on a platform that is seamlessly integrated for both desktops and other portable devices. Wireframes and mockups were created and a funcional prototype was test built for evaluation.
Planners need to constantly take care of facility profiles on map, fiscal calendar, scorecard.They need to see a lot of information at the same time and need to collaborate a lot with others for inquiries and feedback.
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The final iteration was the improvement over the previous ones. This iteration improves upon information access and interactions with the system. This design for converted into a limited functionality prototype for user evaluation. The following features were introduced and implemented in the prototype.
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To make the dashboard dynamic, we have introduced a ticker at the bottom which runs the latest news of the company.
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“Good luck with finding a better replacement”- Tottenham slammed by club legend for sacking Pochettino
by Neelabhra RoyTottenham legend Gary Lineker slammed the club for sacking Mauricio Pochettino, claiming that they won’t find a better replacement for him.
The Argentine’s five-year spell at Spurs ended with 159 wins out of 293 matches. Tottenham have had a disappointing run of form this season as they are currently 14th in the Premier League table.
Lineker who had a pretty successful spell at the club, wrote on Twitter that they will have a hard time finding a better replacement for Pochettino. The former England international wrote: “Mauricio Pochettino has been sacked by @SpursOfficial. He helped the club to punch massively above their weight for years. Good luck with finding a better replacement….ain’t gonna happen.”
SEE MORE: Official: Jose Mourinho announced as new Tottenham manager and explains why he took the job
Tottenham may have been in a bad situation but they could’ve tried keeping Pochettino a little longer. The club has appointed Jose Mourinho as their new manager and it’ll be interesting to see how the Portuguese fares there.
His first game in charge is against West Ham on Saturday. A win for Spurs could see them move to the top ten of the Premier League table.


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We had a debate party tonight for the Biden-Palin debate. It’s nice to watch it in a group of like-minded people.
After the debate was over, I wanted to discuss the debate. After all, it’s weird to watch something for an hour and a half and then just ignore that we spent that time watching it. The problem is that I hate the punditry. No one actually said "did Palin do what she had to do?" (I probably would have screamed) but it’s just really hard not to talk about "what will people think of this debate?" And part of that is because we all know what we think. We saw through Palin deliberately ignoring the questions and reading her already-prepared speech.  It’s nice to share little stories (like stories from the article about how McCain is a jerk). But it’s so damn hard not to fall into a discussion about the horserace, about what other people will think. Why is it so hard to talk about what we think? Not what we analyze, but what we actually believe? Instead of predicting something that will come to pass regardless of our predictions, shouldn’t we be developing our own beliefs? That seems far more relevant to our lives.
There’s probably a lot of reasons for that. It’s intimidating to be entirely genuine, to speak without irony. And all the news is about the horserace, so we are all well informed, it makes it easy to talk.
I think a large part of the problem is that the spectrum of opinions is so narrow (even if also bifurcated) that it’s hard to have an interesting discussion of political issues. Lacking anything of real substance to discuss, we discuss the discussion, we make predictions instead of forming real opinions. While I’m willing to blame many things on the Republicans, this is the product of both parties, of the narrow ignorance of "conventional wisdom." For instance, the debate about the economic bailout has been rich with rhetoric but starved of any real ideas. I didn’t even realize how limited the debate was until I listened to this interview where Steve Fraser kind of says, well, we can do whatever we want. That is to say, we can actually make collective decisions about the direction of our economy, instead of the impotent position that is assumed in all current debates, where we can only poke lightly at the economy (and it’s implied anything more would destroy it).
We can’t really talk about what kind of healthcare system we’d like, because the system nearly everyone wants is not an acceptable part of conventional wisdom. Socialized healthcare is the only reasonable option, but of course there’s lots of ways it could work, there’s lots of room for genuine and important discussion. But instead we have a staggeringly horrible proposal, and a merely not quite as bad as the current situation proposal. Given this set of options you can’t have real discussion.
In the end our own happiness is mostly in our own hands. The choices we make for ourselves are more significant than the choices made by the government (the choices we make collectively). But our collective choices do matter. We certainly haven’t figured out happiness. And maybe government does best when it has the least effect on our lives, but while that’s one end of the bifurcated conventional wisdom, as an idea it remains largely uninspected. When I consider many of the pleasant conveniences in my life, government is part of a lot of them. It doesn’t do much to make me more spiritually fulfilled, but the idea that government is a hopeless place to look for our collective happiness is a truism that lacks real consideration.
Political discussion is stuck in a terrible intellectual rut. Blame falls equally on both parties. They hold on greedily to their monopoly of political thought. It’s like religious doctrine, something to which politicians must submit before being allowed to progress, a sign of submission to a larger system of power. I have this hope that Obama is going through the rites with discipline but without true belief, that he is being subversive, diving straight to the belly of the beast. But this is only speculation, perhaps a naive dream, a desire to project my hopes onto a figure of vague and general hope.
I don’t really want to spend too much time discussing all the things that are wrong. This is the depressing comfort zone of the left. I want to talk about how things could be right, about how we can make a world that isn’t just less unjust but a world that is more beautiful, more wonderful, more full of life and freedom and passion. I want to exult in the potential of the future.
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I’m not sure I can follow the thread that your lack of political debate with like-minded friends is the fault of the two parties. That’s not in defense of recent politics, but you’ve defined the issue long before you stated it. If you’re going to sit in a room of like-minded individuals, you can’t expect much diversity in thought.
Similarly – though not on purpose – I found myself in a packed bar in Brooklyn, surrounded by people cheering Biden and booing and laughing at the obviously scripted and well-trained Palin. Everyone was proud to react as such and I found very little difference in the crowd.
Like-minded groups are not the place for honest discussion.
Our politicians and our media have their parts in this, but so do we – Every last one of us.  Feeding their families and feeding their BS are one in the same.
Nice post!
Narrowing the spectrum of the political discussion is a very conscious decision of the US government, achieved by tight control over mass media.
I’m currently reading [Hegemony or Survival](http://www.democracynow.org/2003/10/22/noamchomskyonhegemonyor_survival) (which I much recommend), in which the author suggests that the narrowing of the spectrum, or the “taming the beast” (the public), is a key weapon of the ruling class of any type of government, from despotism to (fake) democracy, to keep themselves in their position. In dictatorships this is more easily achieved by means of force, in democratic countries it happens by means of [propaganda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda).
The author also suggests that both Democratic and Republican parties, during their election campaign, stick to an arranged script, which makes it hard for the issues that really matter to enter the public discussion. The public is trained through the media to be like-minded. People with opinions outside the spectrum are easily dismissed.
We were like-minded insofar as we disliked one side and liked the other. That this is what passes for “politically like-minded” is what I have a problem with. In fact I’m quite certain we’d all disagree on lots of other things, but the mainstream political discussion is so narrow and the spectrum of ideas so small that there’s little room for diversity among well-informed people. Yeah, I could go out and seek someone who really likes Palin an discuss politics. But that person is almost certain to be ignorant, disingenuous, or just deeply wrong-headed, and I can’t have a reasonable discussion. I could try to understand that person, sure. But understanding another person’s position isn’t the same as having a constructive discussion.
The absoluteness of this statement disturbs me, Ian:
“But [someone who likes Palin] is almost certain to be ignorant, disingenuous, or just deeply wrong-headed, and I can’t have a reasonable discussion.”
I do not pretend to like Palin, or even to be informed enough to have an opinion. But the idea that the opposite side is so ignorant or deeply wrong-headed that you can’t have a constructive discussion with them…
Frankly, I think the potshots at Palin and McCain in your article detract from the more interesting point of your article, which I agree with. Also, the comparison to religious doctrine offends me, as I do not subscribe to any religious doctrine for the reasons you mention. Dogmatic and institutional doctrine has those properties, but the idea that all religious doctrines are dogmatic or institutional is wrong.
Again, I really appreciate the main thrust of the article. Political debate in this country is completely stagnated, as is religious debate. Unless you happen to find someone with whom you can be open (a rare treasure, indeed), both debates belong to certain institutional views that no one is allowed to challenge. What disappoints me is the degree to which you broadcast those views in this article.
I feel like making offerings to some “non-partisan” stance is falling into the two-sets-of-ideas mindset. I’m not interested in a Republican/Democrat debate, because I think the Republican stance completely lacks credibility and is disingenuous. I don’t particularly believe in the Democratic stance, but at least there’s room to discuss. All of which is not to say that conservative values lack credibility, or that holding those view is a disingenuous stance. But in letting the parties serve as placeholders for ideas, we discard genuine discussion.
I also believe that a useful discussion needs to start with some common understandings between the people. Finding the person I disagree with most and debating them serves no point. Finding them and trying to understand where they are coming from is interesting in a kind of scientific way, but without some common understandings it isn’t constructive. It might tell me about the world as they see it, but it does little to inform my own opinions.
As to political specifics, I think McCain is a very troubling figure, but Palin is beyond the pale, and I can’t respect anyone that with genuine and well-informed support of her. At some point I feel the need to set aside positions I find despicable — I can rail against those ideas, but it doesn’t improve my own ideas. And I’m not going to hide the fact I find the Republicans despicable. The whole idea “the truth is somewhere in the middle” is wrong. That’s the entire point I was trying to get across. First: there are no ends to the lines of thought so that you can measure to the middle. Second: there is no single line of ideas that can have a middle (it isn’t even 2D or 3D). Third: truth and falsehood exist, and all perspectives are not equally valid.
As to religion, it was not my intention to disparage religion. It was more my intention to allude to, say, the medieval politics of the Catholic church. To practices and philosophies that are enforced but not put to any consideration, that are accepted without critical thought but still made a requirement of “true belief.” And… well, that could describe certain religious doctrine, and I suppose I’m okay with that, as I do not have respect for intellectual obedience. But that’s certainly not all religion, not even most religion, and if I implied that I’m sorry for the offense.
the VP debate was stunning. Palin did a decent job faking about 20% of the questions and didn’t even bother answering the other 80%.
i couldn’t help thinking of the end of the movie Billy Madison, when the debate moderator says to Adam Sandler, “Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
It’s unfortunate that there is no alternative to Obama Barack, but the system makes it impossible to have a real choice. Certainly the Republican ticket is not a choice for informed individuals.
The notion of a non-partisan stance is, as Ian points out, simply not possible when it comes to these two parties; as an editorial in today’s nytimes points out, mccains choice of palin is either very cynical or an unforgivable blunder; this isn’t some government position up in alaska, it’s the vp position of a country that is not only the most important economic power in the world, but one that’s been warmongering for five years.
I think the frustration you are feeling has to do with the fact that we are allowed choices on most every thing in our lives except who we vote for. All of the “candidates” who end up in the “horse race” are vetted, bought and paid for by the moneyed elites in this country. A “choice” between 1 of the two wings of the single “American Political Party” is not a choice at all. Mass media “political discussion” is tightly framed and only allowed to reach so far by the media, pundits and candidates themselves.
I tell everyone when asked who I will vote for that I will not vote and give the above reasons why. As well as the fact that it is not the people who cast votes that decide these contests, it is the people who count them.
Modern life is a return to serfdom. I do not think there has been a clean election in this country in 60 years. Most “progressive” people tell me I am doing exactly what they want me to do by not voting, but I think the opposite is true. First off, by voting you are giving a completely corrupt and criminal government recognition and validation. Secondly, if more and more people chose not to vote, and this brought down the number of eligible voters down to a laughable number, that would create more political upheaval than if even more people validate the “choices” thrust upon us.
I don’t know, I’ve really given up on any kind of political “change” here. Really step back and think about this: As the white house moves from GOP to DEM and back, what real changes are there in foreign policy and most domestic policy that is not window dressing like tax rates and other minor things? Clinton killed almost as many people in the middle east as Bush. (Of course we get more dead and maimed for our money with the GOP in charge).
In other news, Feline Lukemia still has no cure.:)
[Kathleen Hall Jamieson](http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/Bio.aspx?myUsername=kjamieson “bio”) and [Brooke Gladstone](http://www.onthemedia.org/about/brooke.html “bio”) provided insightful and fair commentary about the VP debate and the debate format in general during the [opening segment of the 3 Oct 2008 Bill Moyers Journal](http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10032008/profile2.html “PBS”). You’re wondering “how how things could be right.” Dr. Jamieson has some advice, as regards presidential debates anyway.
Nice post Ian.
“I feel like making offerings to some “non-partisan” stance is falling into the two-sets-of-ideas mindset. I’m not interested in a Republican/Democrat debate, because I think the Republican stance completely lacks credibility and is disingenuous. I don’t particularly believe in the Democratic stance, but at least there’s room to discuss. All of which is not to say that conservative values lack credibility, or that holding those view is a disingenuous stance. But in letting the parties serve as placeholders for ideas, we discard genuine discussion.”
To my mind, this is the real insight that you article could benefit from stressing further. Swap the positions of Republican and Democrat in the paragraph, and I could see myself saying it…but then that’s really the rub, isn’t it?
I think the bigger issue at stake here is the fact that presidential elections steal the voters’ collective focus from the (still somewhat effective) representation they should expect from Congress. Local representatives, in most areas, have to campaign with a much more tangible agenda. Neither Obama nor McCain will accomplish 90% of their “platforms”, and that’s by design. “Party platforms” are an all-you-can-eat buffet, there’s something there for everyone, but if they made you eat some of every dish, nobody would eat there.
If I were the king of the forest…. I would make the presidential ballot a multiple-choice survey that asks the voter where they stand on the top 5 issues (pick any 5 really) and casts their vote for the candidate they are most aligned with. It would be a terrible system for choosing the next president, but is arguably more accurate in choosing the one who the majority of the people “agree with”. This could eliminate the primaries as well as the first 2 years of campaigning. I suggest we use the free air time to show reruns of Fraggle Rock.


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