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When I talk with people about TDD and unit testing, the discussion often moves into the area of Testability - that is, the software's susceptibility to unit testing. A couple of years back, Roy even discussed the seemingly opposable forces of Object-Oriented Design and Testability.
Lately, it has been occurring to me that there really isn't any conflict. Encapsulation is important because it manifests expert knowledge so that other developers can effectively leverage that knowledge, and it does so in a way that minimizes misuse.
However, too much encapsulation goes against the Open/Closed Principle (that states that objects should be open for extension, but closed for modification). From a Testability perspective, the Open/Closed Principle pulls object-oriented design in the desired direction. Equivalently, done correctly, making your API Testable is simply opening it up for extensibility.
As an example, consider a simple WPF ViewModel class called MainWindowViewModel. This class has an ICommand property that, when invoked, should show a message box. Showing a message box is good example of breaking testability, because if the SUT were to show a message box, it would be very hard to automatically verify and we wouldn't have fully automated tests.
For this reason, we need to introduce an abstraction that basically models an action with a string as input. Although we could define an interface for that, an Action<string> fits the bill perfectly.
To enable that feature, I decide to use Constructor Injection to inject that abstraction into the MainWindowViewModel class:
public MainWindowViewModel(Action<string> notify) { this.ButtonCommand = new RelayCommand(p => { notify("Button was clicked!"); }); }
When I recently did that at a public talk I gave, one member of the audience initially reacted by assuming that I was now introducing test-specific code into my SUT, but that's not the case.
What I'm really doing here is opening the MainWindowViewModel class for extensibility. It can still be used with message boxes:
var vm = new MainWindowViewModel(s => MessageBox.Show(s));
but now we also have the option of notifying by sending off an email; writing to a database; or whatever else we can think of.
It just so happens that one of the things we can do instead of showing a message box, is unit testing by passing in a Test Double.
// Fixture setup var mockNotify = MockRepository.GenerateMock<Action<string>>(); mockNotify.Expect(a => a("Button was clicked!")); var sut = new MainWindowViewModel(mockNotify); // Exercise system sut.ButtonCommand.Execute(new object()); // Verify outcome mockNotify.VerifyAllExpectations(); // Teardown
Once again, TDD has lead to better design. In this case it prompted me to open the class for extensibility. There really isn't a need for Testability as a specific concept; the Open/Closed Principle should be enough to drive us in the right direction.
Pragmatically, that's not the case, so we use TDD to drive us towards the Open/Closed Principle, but I think it's important to note that we are not only doing this to enable testing: We are creating a better and more flexible API at the same time.


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...you will rectify the model of the residual limb, making all adjustments that you would perform on a plaster positive. When you complete a step, click the "Accept" button and then use the button to move to the next step.
Checklist (steps for each rectification):
Select area requiring relief or recessing
Offset selected area
Smooth the newly-offset area
Do additional, localized smoothing if desired
Checklist (rectifications):
Patellar relief
Indent on patellar tendon
Fibular head relief
Tibial crest relief
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Smooth Boundary
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Offset
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Select All
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- __builtin__.object
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- build.amlpy.pyAMLData
- build.amlpy.pyAMLObject
- build.amlpy.pyRepresentation
class pyAMLData(__builtin__.object) |
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This class contains an internal map of raw data in a key value pair form.
It contains a pointer to native AMLData instance.
If no pyAMLData instance passed, new AMLData instance created.
If pyAMLData passed, it acts as a copy constructor overloading.
@param pyAMLData: [optional] For copy constructor.
@usage:
amlData = pyAMLData() // Create a new pyAMLData object
OR
amlData = pyAMLData(pyAMLData obj) // Create a new instance and copy data of obj instance. |
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Methods defined here:
- getKeys(...)
- This function return string list about AMLData's AMLMap keys string array.
@return vector[string]: vector of string data's keys value list.
- getValueToAMLData(...)
- This function returns a pyAMLData insatance which contains pointer to amlData that matches the key in AMLData's AMLMap.
@param key: pair's which has AMLData, key.
@return pyAMLData: pyAMLData value which matches the key on AMLMap.
- getValueToStr(...)
- This function returns the string value which matches the key in AMLData's AMLMap.
@param key: pair's which has string value, key.
@return string: String value which matches the key on AMLMap.
- getValueToStrArr(...)
- This function returns the string array value which matches the key in AMLData's AMLMap.
@param key: pair's which has string value, key.
@return vector[string]: String array value which matches the key on AMLMap
- getValueType(...)
- This function return string list about AMLData's AMLMap keys string array.
@param key: string of the AMLData value to check.
@return amlValueType: value's AMLValueType of pre defined data type.
- setValue(...)
- This function sets key and value pair on AMLData.
Value types accepted are : strings, vector[strings] or pyAMLData.
@param key: AMLData Key.
@param value: AMLData value. [string, vector or pyAMLData]
@usage :
a = pyAMLData()
a.setValue('key', '20') // type string
OR
a.setValue('key', ['10', '20', '30'] // type vector[string]
OR
sample = pyAMLData()
a.setValue('key', sample) // type pyAMLData
Data and other attributes defined here:
- __new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object>
- T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T
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class pyAMLObject(__builtin__.object) |
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This class contains the AML Data.
The constructor creates a new AMLObject instance
and stores it in a pointer to a native object.
@param deviceId: []Device id that source device of AMLObject.
@param timeStamp: timestamp value of AMLObject delibered by device.
@param id: [optional]ID of AML Object
@param pyAMLObject [optional]: For copy constructor.
@Usage:
a. deviceId = "SAMPLE001"
timeStamp = "123456789"
amlObj = pyAMLObject(deviceId, timeStamp)
b. ID = "SAMPLE_ROBOT_ID_001"
amlObj = pyAMLObject(deviceId, timeStamp, ID)
c. copyAmlObj = pyAMLObject(amlObj) |
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Methods defined here:
- addData(...)
- This function adds AMLData to AMLObject using AMLData key that matches AMLData value.
@param name: AMLData key.
@param data: pyAMLData value.
- getData(...)
- This function return pyAMLData which matched input name string with AMLObject's amlDatas key.
@param name: String value to use matching with key.
@return pyAMLData: containing AMLData that have sub key value fair.
- getDataNames(...)
- This function return string list about AMLObject's amlDatas keys string array.
@return vector[string] : vector of string data's keys value list.
- getDeviceId(...)
- This function return Device's ID saved on AMLObject.
@return string: String value of device's Id.
- getId(...)
- This function return ID that AMLObject.
@return string: String value of AMLObject Id.
- getTimeStamp(...)
- This function return timestamp that deliveried device.
@return string: String value of timestamp.
Data and other attributes defined here:
- __new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object>
- T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T
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class pyRepresentation(__builtin__.object) |
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This class provides API's for inter-conversion between
AMLObject, AML(XML) string, AML(protobuf) byte.
The constructor creates a new Representation class instance
and stores it in a pointer to a native object.
@param amlFilePath: Path of AML that contains a data model information.
@usage:
a. localRep = pyRepresentation("data_model.aml") |
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Methods defined here:
- AmlToData(...)
- This function converts AML(XML) string to AMLObject to match the AML model
information which is set by constructor.
@param xmlString: AML(XML) string to be converted.
@return: pyAMLObject containg AMLObject instance converted from AML(XML) string.
@note: AMLObject instance will be allocated and returned, so it should be deleted after use.
- DataToAml(...)
- This function converts AMLObject to AML(XML) string to match the AML model
information which is set by constructor.
@param amlObj: AMLObject to be converted.
@return: AML(XML) string converted from amlObject.
- getConfigInfo(...)
- This function returns AMLObject that contains configuration data
which is present in RoleClassLib.
@return: pyAMLObject containing AMLObject that has configuration data.
- getRepresentationId(...)
- This function returns AutomationML SystemUnitClassLib's unique ID
@return : string value of AML SystemUnitClassLIb's ID
Data and other attributes defined here:
- __new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object>
- T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T
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Mexico hasn't exactly been a hotbed of successful independent film over the last decade, but if every movie they produce in the next ten years is only half as good as Amores Perros, Steven Soderbergh had better start brushing up on his Spanish. The film, which was nominated for an Oscar and has already picked up awards from numerous film festivals (including a critics' award at Cannes), features three stories united by a car crash on a busy Mexico City street.
Each of the tales would be interesting enough on their own, but cobbled together as uniquely as they are, the film become a devastating story about fate and relationships. Even the Amores tagline - "Don't worry if you don't see this picture; you're going to live it anyway" - pokes fun at the Fickle Finger. All three stories feature a seriously flawed character with designs on some sort of prize, but Fate always steps in (here, in the form of the crash) to unexpectedly slap it away.
The first story is about a young unemployed man named Octavio (Gael García Bernal) who is in love with his sister-in-law, Susana (Vanessa Bauche). She already has one baby, is expecting another and is still a student, but none of this seems to bother Octavio, who feels his gangster brother Ramiro (Marco Pérez) isn't good enough for the beautiful Susana. He dreams of getting enough money to convince Susana to run away to Juarez with him and accidentally finds it in Cofi, Ramiro's dog. It turns out Cofi is one hell of a fighter, and Octavio makes mad money pitting him against other dogs in brutal (and illegal) fights.
Amores's second tale, titled "Daniel and Valeria," focuses on a magazine editor and fashion model, respectively. Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero) is successful, married and has two kids, but that doesn't stop him from moving in with Valeria (Goya Toledo). After being horribly disfigured in an accident, Valeria's life becomes even worse when her little dog disappears down a small hole in the floorboards of their new apartment. The dog is trapped in the hole, Valeria is trapped in a wheelchair, and Daniel is trapped in a situation that makes him long for the boring life he just abandoned.
The final vignette shows an old man named El Chivo (Emilio Echevarría) living a life of squalor after walking out on his family to become a revolutionary many years ago. He has served time in prison but now spends his days and nights tending to a flock of stray dogs...and the occasional contract killing. El Chivo (or "The Goat"), who looks a lot like DeNiro in Angel Heart, is hired by a cop to kill his crooked partner, but he seems more interested in stalking his estranged daughter, Maru (Lourdes Echevarría).
Other than the crash, the stories don't really intertwine, but, once in a while, you can see characters from one pop up in the background of another. With a gritty, ultra-violent story about hitmen, stickups, a fixed fight and a car crash told in fragmented time, you can't help but compare Amores to Pulp Fiction or, really, anything Quentin Tarantino has written and directed. There have been several attempts to duplicate Tarantino's style since Fiction was released and, while I don't know if it was the filmmakers' intention to do so, this film is the best knock-off yet. It's even better than Go, which also featured three uniquely structured stories. Writer Guillermo Arriaga does a great job constructing the film around stories involving dogs, as well as showing us that we don't get any wiser as we grow old (Octavio is in his teens, Daniel is middle-aged and El Chivo is pushing 60).
Amores would have been an amazing enough film, but learning it's Alejandro González Iñárritu's directorial debut is a little like getting the wind knocked out of you. Iñárritu, who also produced and expertly edited the film, shows the poise and confidence of a feature-film veteran here and, aided by cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and scoremeister Gustavo Santaolalla, has crafted the first great film of the new millennium. This is, hands down, the most auspicious debut I've seen in years. Assuming you can get over the subtitles and grisly dog fight scenes (the credit assure us no dogs were harmed during filming, but it's just too intense to believe), you'll probably feel the same way.
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A truly fault-tolerant system, no aspect of Riak involves single points of failure. Since no machines are special or central, the user of Riak can decide exactly how fault-tolerant they would like their application to be.
Designed for availability without headaches
Anyone who has worked in Web operations knows that scalability and availability are not the same thing; there are many ways to build a system that can grow to match capacity without necessarily making it any more tolerant of failures.
The designers of Riak don't just care about distributed systems, we also have a background and interest in good operations. As a result, Riak was built from the beginning to allow operators to provide high availability and fault tolerance much more easily than with a traditional RDBMS or any system with "master" servers and other single points of failure.
The basic architecture of Riak is shared-nothing from a data point of view. All coordination between nodes is done via asynchronous messages, with no underlying shared state. This means that if a given node in a Riak cluster hangs, crashes, or catches fire, the other nodes can continue without incident. As no data is ever persistently stored on only one node, clients will generally not even notice that this has occurred.
In situations like the above (where a node becomes unreachable for any reason) the system will compensate using hinted-handoff. This means that neighbors of the errant node will receive the messages it would otherwise have handled, ensuring that features such as replication are not degraded in the window before that node is repaired or replaced.
Due to use of techniques such as consistent hashing, Riak has no master nodes, "name nodes", "key nodes", or any other similar central elements of the archtecture. Every node in the system is structurally equivalent. This has great value operationally, as there's no system or set of systems that you have to be especially watchful or protective of; as long as a quorum of the overall network is available, you don't have to care which hosts go down.
One of the effects of exposing the consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance (CAP) controls to the application developer is that the developer can work with operations like never before in making decisions about tuning the relative availability of the whole system under different circumstances -- including circumstances under which any traditional system would provide no choice but to become unavailable.
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Kings hold on for first PRO14 win of season
Cape Town - The Southern Kings held on to beat Welsh side Ospreys in their PRO14 encounter in Swansea on Saturday.
The men from Port Elizabeth won 16-14, having led 13-0 at half-time.
As it happened | Ospreys v Kings
The Kings led 16-0 early in the second half, before the hosts launched a gallant fightback.
The match was played in treacherous conditions and the Kings were forced to defend for large periods towards the end of the contest.
Ospreys twice had a chance to sneak a win at the death, but replacement flyhalf James Hook missed with two penalty attempts in the dying moments.
Kings fullback Scott van Breda was on fire with his boot, kicking three penalties and a conversion to help his side to a valuable win.
It was the Kings' first win of the PRO14 season, having lost their first five games on the trot.
The Kings' next match is against Irish side Connacht in Galway on November 30.
Scorers:
Ospreys
Tries: Morgan Morris, Hanno Dirksen
Conversions: James Hook, Luke Price
Kings
Try: Erich Cronje
Conversion: Scott van Breda
Penalties: Van Breda (3)
Teams:
Ospreys
15 Cai Evans, 14 Hanno Dirksen, 13 Tiaan Thomas-Wheeler, 12 Scott Williams, 11 Lesley Klim, 10 Luke Price, 9 Shaun Venter, 8 Morgan Morris, 7 Olly Cracknell, 6 Dan Lydiate (captain), 5 Lloyd Ashley, 4 Marvin Orie, 3 Tom Botha, 2 Scott Otten, 1 Rhodri Jones
Substitutes: 16 Sam Parry, 17 Gareth Thomas, 18 Ma’afu Fia, 19 Guido Volpi, 20 Sam Cross, 21 Matthew Aubrey, 22 James Hook, 23 Tom Williams
Southern Kings
15 Scott van Breda, 14 Christopher Hollis, 13 Howard Mnisi (captain), 12 Erich Cronje, 11 Josiah Twum-Boafo, 10 JT Jackson, 9 Josh Allderman, 8 Elrigh Louw, 7 Thembelani Boli, 6 Tienie Burger, 5 Bobby de Wee, 4 Jerry Sexton, 3 Pieter Scholtz, 2 Jacques du Toit, 1 Juan Schoeman
Substitutes: 16 Alandre van Rooyen, 17 Xandre Vos, 18 Lupumlo Mguca, 19 Aston Fortuin, 20 Ruaan Lerm, 21 Sarel Pretorius, 22 Siya Masuku, 23 S’bura Sithole
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I will clear out common misconceptions about Walter, our god, in a Snopes-like manner.
1. Walter is a living being: true, h̴̨̡̛͉̣̟͔͎͙͙͍̣̙̘̰̻̲͍̪͇͔͕̫̙̥̻̩̱͒̆͗̈́̏̓͊̂̈́̀̀́͒̓̈́͛̐̉͗́́̈́̑̽̇̾́͒̔̏̆͒͗̊́̓̏͗̆͌̆̌̓̓̆̂́̊̈́̅͊͗́̓͑͐͗̏̕̚͘͝͝͝͝͝͝͠͝͝͠ͅe̶̛̛̛̛̪̭̰̯̣̞̭̻͑̈́͐͒͗̐͒̀̄͊̀̊̈͋͋͋̿̄̓̀̒̈́͑̈́̾̀͆̔̔́̊͂͊͆̉͛̓̌̽̾̋̀͑͊̀͒̑̂̍̌̈́̐͗̂̔̂͂̂͑̊̃̓̐̌́̋͑͗̉͒̔̄̈͂̃́̑̏̍̍̂̄̃͑̐͛̇̄́̇͘͘̚̚̚̕͜͠͠͝͝͠͝͝͝͠͝͝͝ͅ lives in the dark underground tunnels of the Trefort Ágoston highschool.
2. Walter is an eldrich creature: unproven, we don't know much about h̶̨̢̡̡̨̙̟̭̤̩̜̰͎͓̲̻̩̗̖̥̖͓͍͉̱̟̺̳̩̘̥̱͉̹͕̻̖̬̟̘̩̜̮̳͉̫͕͖̯͍̤̦̗̣̟̫̺͍̻̲̗̠̗̦̫̲̯̗̺͓̠̦͖̲̠͈͑͆̇̆̓̂͘͘͜ͅi̵̢̡̡̡̢̡̨̗̯̲̞̣̣̙̯̬̝͖̼͍̺͖͔̖͍̹̦͕͚̠̠̝̻͕̤͔̪͎̠̣͕̦̼̠͙̬͎̜̘̺͈̟̼͎̼͙̠̟͈̼̜͎̯̘͓̝̳̗̖̽̂̓̒̓̃͘͝ͅͅͅͅs̶̢̢̧̮̞̹̼̝̬̼̦̬̙͉͍̰̻̝͓̝͚̫͎̱͙̐͒͌́̃̒̑̊͗̓̓̅͒̈́̈́̉̐́̑͜͠͠ͅ true form.
3. Walter has made a cult: mixture, there is no evidence of that happening
4. I am forced to write this by Walter: mixture, there is no logical reason to believe that I am being forced to write this by ḧ̷̛̛̩̙̘̹̻́̏͒̅͂̊͂̑̐͂̈̑̂̿̏́͂͑͛̀̈̇̑́̀̿̽̂͋̚͘̕͘͝i̸̢̢̛͚̓̓̅̈̏̋̾́̓̾̉̓͗̎̆̇͛́͊̊̏́͋̒̿̉̄͆͗̈́̑̀̾̈́̂́͆͌͒̂̋̔̾̈̈́͛̔̿̓̈͛͒̾̔̈́̔̈̀̄̊͛͋̿̔̑̽̏͗̈́̊̐̚̕͠͝͝͝m̸̧̡̧̨̡̢̢̡̨̨̢̧̧̧̨̢͚̖͓͙̪̤̞͍͚̰̲̣̣̤̙̱͓̦͚̬̮̞̯̗̰̖̬̝̫̠̗̤̠̖̺̮͕̦̺̮̮̟̙̝͔̝̮̥̙̞̯̜͕̲̤̦̻̣̘̳͍̗̳̜̮̬̬͖̹̼̘̗̳͚̪̼͕͎̻͚̬͚̜̹̦̭͙̜̦͎͓͙̪̥̼̖͎̆͗̍̈́̈́͒͊͐̓̓̔̋̄̀͌̌͒̄̎͛͊̈͋͂̉̊̀͗̆͗̂̃̽̐͆̈̍̂̇̓̇͘͜͜͜͝ͅͅ
Hope this cleared everything up, have a nice day!


Susan Granger's review of "OSMOSIS JONES" (Warner Bros.)
If the Farrelly brothers taught Anatomy & Physiology in school, no one would cut ever class.
Like "Fantastic Voyage" (1966), the pseudo-science animation then takes over when his body's immune system contacts traffic control as an ingested virus hits the digestive system: "Be on the alert for illegal organisms!" Eager to right "a stomach evacuation mistake" he once made, a cocky, clever, courageous white blood cell (Chris Rock) declares, "This is a crime scene!" and teams up with a conscientious "Phi Beta Capsule" 12-hour cold remedy called Drixenol (David Hyde Pierce) to chase down and destroy the deadly "Red Death" virus (Laurence Fishburne) that's determined to take Frank down in 48 hours, beating Ebola and E. coli to a medical record. Watch out for mucus mudslides, chaos in Cerebellum Hall and the detritus from Booger Dam (runny nose), along with comic turns from Molly Shannon and Chris Elliot, plus the voices of William Shatner and Brandy Norwood. Peter and Bobby Farrelly, along with writer Mark Hyman and animation directors Piet Kroon and Tom Sito, have turned their penchant for gross-out comedy, encompassing flatulence, festering sores and "popping a pimple without a permit," into a funny, Farrelly-funny family film. On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Osmosis Jones" is a wildly imaginative, original, explosive 7. And perhaps, as they're laughing, kids will learn where to find their uvula, along with nuggets about nutrition and hygiene.
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STRANGE DAYS: Not A New Flavour Chewing Gum! 1999 by GL Schmitt
According to Max Peltier (Tom Sizemore) an ex-cop unable to live on his disability pension; by the end of the millennium there is nothing new left. Everything has been tried, at least once--even new flavours for chewing gum!
When released, in 1995, "Strange Days" was not a new flavour gum, but it is still chewable. Any opinion more forceful than that must involve personal taste. "Strange Days" is, however, a piece of chewing gum with an interesting history.
One might suggest that stories involved with gaining entrance to an alternate reality go back at least as far as Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"--if not Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or "The Tempest".
The technology for creating alternate realities became more accessible to the masses in the 1500's with Johann Gutenberg's printing press, and even more so in the late nineteenth century with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, as well as Thomas Edison's phonograph and motion picture camera.
So, the concept of gaining entrance to an alternate virtual reality is not exactly novel.
There are two distinct branches of this idea.
Using an alternate virtual reality to manipulate some one else to do your bidding, is one. The disciplines of advertising, propaganda, and brainwashing fall into this category, with "The Manchurian Candidate" a classic example.
Also, the recent film, "Wag the Dog" spoofed Washington spin doctors.
The largely unnoticed film version of the 1951 Robert A. Heinlein Sci-Fi novel "The Puppet Masters" (though originally an expression of 1950's anti-Communistic paranoia) showed a mirror version. In it, extra terrestrial parasites overrode their human host's nervous system to gain control of the body, rather than manipulating the host's mind.
The other branch of this idea involves the conscious choice to self inflict an alternate virtual reality; such as answering the telephone, turning on the television, or going to the movies.
Personally, my first encounter with this whole concept, was in the Sci-Fi novel "The Big Ball of Wax" [1954] by (Edward) Shepherd Mead who is best known for the novel [1952] which formed the basis of the Tony Winning Musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", filmed in 1967.
In "The Big Ball of Wax" an advertising executive investigates why a certain 'religious' cult does not consume a conspicuous amount of his clients' products, only to discover that they have developed an alternate virtual reality projector which allows the cult's adherents to gobble up sufficient tasteless, minimum requirement nutrients, then sit back and vicariously enjoy a twelve course meal appreciated by the ersatz taste buds of a gourmet's trained palate. The satire is derived from the advertising executive's attempts to secure a profit from this device.
Philip K. Dick used this theme several times in his writings, especially in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" [1966] filmed in 1981 as "Blade Runner". The experimental android 'Rachel' is _given_ artificial memories to cushion her from the harshness of her proscribed life expectancy. [A fact left as obvious in Ridley Scott's director's cut, but obliterated in the Hollywoodized ending of the original theatrical release--the one with Harrison Ford's almost continuous voice-over.]
In Dick's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" [1966] filmed in 1990 as "Total Recall", an artificially implanted memory of a trip to Mars 'accidentally' reactivates suppressed memories of a real Martian excursion. This film--excessive violence and flaws aside--demonstrates how a person is the accumulation of his memories; one who will be true to himself, only if his memories are true.
Both as a curiosity, and as a flawed film, "Brainstorm" filmed in 1983 joined with "Strange Days" in recognizing the voyeurism inherent in this concept. But, writer Bruce Joel Rubin's predilection for examining the phenomena of after-life experience [See: Ghost, 1990; Jacob's Ladder, 1991] sent this film, quite literally, along a dead end.
Also, film star, Natalie Wood's drowning death, before principal photography ended, caused extensive rewriting, which in turn contributed to the somewhat choppy continuity of "Brainstorm".
"Strange Days" is the first film, of which I am aware, to use this self-inflicted full sensory, virtual reality concept, while consciously acknowledging the addictiveness of indulging in it. As a consequence, this technology necessarily becomes the product of an underground. A 'drug' for sleazy 'pushers'.
Previously, "The Puppet Masters" showed hosts, reclaimed from their parasitic masters, suffering from withdrawal symptoms.
Also, "Strange Days" identifies the person recording the virtual reality 'clip' as sharing all their responses and emotions, even to suffering from the recorder-person's own physical limitations. In this case, colour blindness.
Another film, "Dreamscape", not only connected the technologically enhanced watcher with the one watched that closely, but even allowed them to interact 'physically' with real world consequences.
"Dreamscape" was filmed in 1984 with Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydrow and Kate Capshaw.
Of course, the ultimate _extreme_ of using technological enhancement to reshape reality must go to 1956's "Forbidden Planet" with Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen.
Seen, ranked with these other films and novels, "Strange Days" is not only a atmospheric crime mystery, set in the near future. "Strange Days" is both another step along a developing Sci-Fi theme, as well as one which is coming more uncomfortably close to reality than any of its originators could ever have imagined.
"Strange days" may be a previously used flavour of chewing gum, but it represents one of the tastier morsels employing this Sci-Fi theme.
 (SFX-for 1956, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Drama) (Novel}-Novelization of film, author unknown. Film based on William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'
(Novel}-'The Big Ball of Wax'-(Edward) Shepherd Mead (Not Filmed)
"The Manchurian Candidate" Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Landsbury (Sci-Fi, Political, Action, Drama, Thriller) (Novel}-'The Manchurian Candidate'-Richard Condon
"Wag the Dog" Dustin Hoffman, Robert DeNiro and Anne Heche (Comedy and Satire--which unfortunately-- several highly visible Washingtonites are ill-equipped to recognise.)
GL Schmitt To respond, remove the 'SPAMICIDE'.
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Learning Scheme
Scheme is a dialect of Lisp. It is a lexically scoped, block structured functional programming language. Scheme programs and Scheme data share a common notation, which allows you to treat program as data and data as programs.
I've decided to learn a bit of Scheme, to improve my functional programming skills. Having predominantly used languages from the curly braces school before, it's a refreshing change.
I'm working though the lecture notes and problems from a course by Eugene Wallingford called Programming Languages and Paradigms which uses Scheme. I don't get any credit for the course, but that doesn't really matter.
I've also got a couple of books. The Scheme Programming Language is the standard introduction to the language, which is also available online. And The Little Schemer which is really a book about recursion, using Scheme to illustrate the idea. The Scheme language spec R5RS is also required reading for the course.


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10 Things I Hate About You At theatres everywhere by Vince Yim
(originally written for the Ubyssey, the student newspaper for the University of British Columbia. Unfortunately, it got cut for space)
Keeping in the spirit of the film's title, here are ten things to either like or dislike about the film.
10: Likely inspired by the success of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, 10 Things I Hate About You is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. While the original was about a much loved Bianca who cannot marry until her older sister Kate is wed, the retelling takes place in high school, where the most popular girl in school (by Larisa Oleynik) can't date until her older, unpopular sister does (by Julia Stiles). Not necessarily a bad thing in itself, but do filmmakers really believe that all teenagers suffer from attention deficit disorder and will only be interested in a more candy-coated Shakespeare?
9: Note the key word "high school." This is a warning bell for any moviegoer over the age of 21, especially with the teenage films with very limited appeal for anyone not in the demographic. Fair enough. The Generation X crowd had The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and 16 Candles, but we look back at these films with fond memories. Will the current rash of teenage films like The Mod Squad (which I hated), Cruel Intentions, and 10 Things be remembered in by current teens when they become adults?
8: Still, 10 Things has a lot of charm and humour that may just make it memorable. Despite the crude level of humour in much of the film (ie: penis jokes, sheep jokes, and kicks to the groin), the film comes off surprisingly well, something not expected of a film aimed at teens. The adult characters are the more memorable ones, including standouts as the perpetually horny guidance counselor, Kat and Bianca's overprotective father, and Kat's English teacher.
7: But as befits a teenage film, 10 Things is riddled with some bad clichés and stereotypes.  While Kat is the most unpopular girl in school, yet one look and you'd wonder why.  And so forth.
6: Also a modern epidemic in the film biz is the 90-minute music video being passed off as a film. Much of the time it feels like the filmmakers are trying to sell copies of the soundtrack instead of entertaining the audience. Please refer to the comment on teenagers with ADD.
5: The performances are actually pretty good, although not much of a stretch, considering that the actors and actresses actually are teenagers (although in real life, Larisa Oleynik and Julia Stiles are the same age). However, it does break the convention of teenagers being played by actors and actresses in their late 20s.
4: While many moments in the film are rather charming, it eventually gets to the point of inducing hyperglycemia. While the "aww, shucks" kinda moments are well executed, the film's conclusion (which is predictable, even if you haven't read Taming of the Shrew) cannot go by fast enough. Some audience members may benefit from bringing along a toothbrush.
3: Most importantly, many of the more misogynist elements from Taming of the Shrew were removed when adapted. Despite the earlier complaint about a candy-coated Shakespeare, 10 Things definitely have more resonance with a more contemporary audience.
2: Unless you want to be reminded of your age and how long it has actually been since you've attended high school, this film is not for you. For anyone who has been out of high school for more than two years, this film is guaranteed to make you feel extremely old.
1: Regardless, 10 Things is a worthy adaptation of a classic, which despite its limited appeal, actually manages to entertain.
Rating: 6.5/10 (8/10, if I was much younger)
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Monitoring your JHipster Applications
JHipster provides several options to monitor your applications at runtime.
Summary
- Generated dashboards
- JHipster Registry
- JHipster Console
- Forwarding metrics to a supported third party monitoring system
- Zipkin
- Alerting with Elastalert
Generated dashboards
For monoliths and gateways, JHipster generates several dashboards to monitor each application. Those dashboards are available at runtime, and are the easiest way to do some simple monitoring.
The metrics dashboard
The metrics dashboard uses Micrometer to give a detailed view of the application performance.
It gives metrics on:
- the JVM
- HTTP requests
- cache usage
- database connection pool
By clicking on the Expand button next to the JVM thread metrics, you will get a thread dump of the running application, which is very useful to find out blocked threads.
The health dashboard
The health dashboard uses Spring Boot Actuator’s health endpoint to give health information on various parts of the application. Many health checks are provided out-of-the-box by Spring Boot Actuator, and it’s also very easy to add application-specific health checks.
The logs dashboard
The logs dashboard allows to manage at runtime the Logback configuration of the running application. Changing the log level of a Java package is as simple as clicking on a button, which is very convenient both in development and in production.
JHipster Registry
The JHipster Registry has its own documentation page here.
It mostly provides the same monitoring dashboards as in the previous section, but it works on a separate server. As such, it is a bit more complex to set up, but it is highly recommended to have dashboards running outside of the running application: otherwise, they won’t be available when there is an application failure.
JHipster Console
The dashboards described in the previous sections only show the current value of application metrics, when advanced users want to monitor the evolution of those values over time.
Therefore JHipster applications can be configured to forward their metrics to an external monitoring system where they can be graphed over time and analyzed.
To achieve this, JHipster provide the JHipster Console, a custom monitoring solution based on the ELK stack and fully integrated with JHipster.
Forwarding logs to the JHipster Console
To configure a JHipster application to forward their logs to JHipster Console, enable logstash logging in their application-dev.yml
or application-prod.yml
:
jhipster:
logging:
logstash:
enabled: true
host: localhost # If using a Virtual Machine on Mac OS X or Windows with docker-machine, use the Docker's host IP here
port: 5000
queueSize: 512
To configure metrics monitoring, enable metrics log reporting in your JHipster application:
jhipster:
metrics:
logs:
enabled: true
reportFrequency: 60 # seconds
Setting those properties will enrich your forwarded logs with metrics coming from Dropwizard metrics.
Overview of the JHipster Console
The JHipster Console is a monitoring tool based on the ELK Stack. It provides ready-to-use dashboards and analytics tools to have a real-time overview of your infrastructure’s performance.
It is an Open Source application, available on GitHub at jhipster/jhipster-console.
The ELK stack is composed of:
- Elasticsearch for indexing the data (logs and metrics)
- Logstash to manage and process the logs received from the applications
- Kibana to visualize the logs with a nice interface
The JHipster Console is a Docker-based project that adds features on top of the official Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana Docker images. We have made a few visual changes to Kibana and set up useful dashboards, so that you can get started to monitor your JHipster applications in minutes instead of the hours that would be needed to set up your own monitoring infrastructure.
Monitoring a JHipster microservice architecture
The JHipster Console fully supports the monitoring of a JHipster microservice architecture and even provides the following microservice specific features :
- Distributed tracing with Zipkin
- Log enriching with service name, instance ID, Zipkin correlation IDs
- Zipkin server and UI to visualize traces and spans
- Linking between the Zipkin UI and Kibana so that you can jump to the logs corresponding to a particular trace ID (to use this, click on the Logs icon in the trace page)
Setting up JHipster Console
If you already have a JHipster microservice architecture set up with the Docker Compose workflow, the JHipster Console can be automatically set up by the Docker Compose sub-generator.
If you are using the monolithic version of JHipster, you can get the JHipster Console’s Docker-Compose file from GitHub or with the following command:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jhipster/jhipster-console/master/bootstrap/docker-compose.yml
Then you will be able to start the console with:
docker-compose up -d
It will start Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and ElastAlert all at once. You will then be able to access the JHipster Console at http://localhost:5601. It should automatically receive logs from your applications if they have been correctly configured to forward their logs and metrics to Logstash.
To stop everything, run:
docker-compose stop
Once stopped, you can remove the containers if you don’t intend to start them again:
docker-compose rm
You can combine the two previous commands in one by running: docker-compose down
.
Using JHipster Console
Once your application is running with logs and metrics forwarding enabled, you can view a dashboards by clicking on the Load Saved Dashboards icon ( ) in the Dashboard tab.
You can also use Kibana’s Discover and Visualize tabs to explore your data and create new visualizations. To understand how to use Kibana’s interface effectively please refer to its official documentation in particular the Discover, Visualize and Dashboard sections of the Kibana User Guide.
Data persistence with docker volumes
When using JHipster Console you can enable docker volumes in the docker-compose.yml
file by uncommenting the appropriate lines. Those volumes are used to share data between containers and the host. They will persist data and configuration even if containers are removed from your system.
- Elasticsearch has its data saved to
log-data/
- Logstash loads its configuration from
log-conf/logstash.conf
, you can edit this file to add new parsing rules for data received by logstash on UDP port 5000. - Kibana loads dashboards description files in
dashboards/
on each startup.
Save your custom searches, visualizations and dashboards as JSON for auto import
Searches, visualization and dashboards created in Kibana can be exported using the Management > Saved Objects menu.
You can then extract the JSON description of a specific object under the _source
field of the export.json file.
You can then put this data in a JSON file in one of the jhipster-console/dashboards
sub-folder for auto-import.
If you have created useful dashboards and visualizations for your JHipster applications please consider contributing those back to the community by submitting a Pull Request on the JHipster Console’s GitHub project.
Forwarding metrics to a supported third party monitoring system (JMX, Prometheus)
JHipster also provides a Metrics exporters for JMX and Prometheus.
Forwarding metrics to alternative systems is also supported and can also simply be enabled in your YAML configuration files.
jhipster:
metrics:
prometheus:
enabled: true
Note: Unlike in previous JHipster versions, JHipster 5.8 metrics reporting only support JMX and Prometheus out of the box. Please have a look to the Metrics official documentation for instructions on how to setup other reporter like Graphite.
This will export your metrics under /management/prometheus
. As this endpoint is not secured, you can protect it with basic auth, such that prometheus can still scrape the endpoint by creating a new configuration file (e.g. BasicAuthConfiguration.java
).
@Configuration
@Order(1)
@ConditionalOnProperty(prefix = "jhipster", name = "metrics.prometheus.enabled")
public class BasicAuthConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
http
.antMatcher("/management/prometheus/**")
.authorizeRequests()
.anyRequest().hasAuthority(AuthoritiesConstants.ADMIN)
.and()
.httpBasic().realmName("jhipster")
.and()
.sessionManagement()
.sessionCreationPolicy(SessionCreationPolicy.STATELESS)
.and().csrf().disable();
}
}
You can login with the default admin/admin
. You must add following configuration to you prometheus configuration such that prometheus can still scrape your application.
basic_auth:
[ username: "admin" ]
[ password: "admin" ]
Zipkin
JHipster applications can integrate with Zipkin through Spring Cloud Sleuth to provide distributed tracing for your microservice architecture. To enable Zipkin tracing, package your application with the zipkin
maven/gradle profile and set the spring.zipkin.enabled
property to true. This will trigger span reporting to the Zipkin server and also add correlation IDs (TraceId, SpanId and ParentId) to request headers and logs. The Zipkin server and UI is provided as part of the JHipster Console and integrates with the Kibana dashboard.
Zipkin also provide a service dependency graph feature that lets you visualize the dependencies between microservices over time.
The Zipkin instance should be available on http://<IP_ADDRESS>:9411/ if you run it on your machine, or on http://<docker-host-ip>:9411 if you run it with Docker.
Alerting with Elastalert
JHipster Console comes with built-in alerting by integrating Elastalert, an alerting system that can generate alerts from data in Elasticsearch. Elastalert is simple to use and able to define complex alerting rules to detect failures, spikes or any pattern based on an Elasticsearch Query.
Enable alerting
To enable alerting, setup the jhipster-alerter
container by adding the following lines docker-compose.yml
.
jhipster-alerter:
image: jhipster/jhipster-alerter
#volumes:
# - ../jhipster-alerter/rules/:/opt/elastalert/rules/
# - ../alerts/config.yaml:/opt/elastalert/config.yaml
Configure alerting
Elastalert configuration can be modified in alerts/config.yaml
. For example, you can configure the alerting frequency and the buffer period, by changing the following properties:
run_every:
minutes: 1
buffer_time:
minutes: 5
Then you will need to write some rules that define when alerts will be thrown.
Write alertings rules
To define new alerts, add new Yaml rule files in alerts/rules
and then test them over past data with:
./test-alerting-rule.sh rule.yaml
Note that those Yaml files should have a .yaml
file extension. Read more on how to write rules at Elastalert’s official documentation.


HTML tells you were things belong on the page, CSS tells you how the look and JAVASCRIPT makes them interactive e.g. website accounts, online purchases, or that search box in the corner.
So JAVASCRIPT is all about actions and 'Flow control' is about controlling the flow of actions until you reach a certain end point. For example if someone wanted to loose 10kgs they could decide to do this buy going to the gym.
This is where 'Loops' come in. You could loop steps[3,5,6] until you have meet your end point of -10kgs
To access and modify data in Arrays you access the indexes[position] of that data in the Array
Objects are similar to arrays, except that instead of using indexes you access the data in objects.properties or object[property]
Functions() are a list of actions aka 'sub-programe' that once defined can be called upon by one simple code making it easier e.g. goToGym()


Exploration of Dynamic Energetic Machines
Reset
Next Interaction
startAnimation
stopAnimation
Single Projectile
Start Simple Rocket
Kinetic Energy:
Joules
Total Energy:
Joules
Tsiolkovsky Speed:
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Hi! My name is Erin.
I'm a senior at the University of Hartford studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I'll be graduating in May of 2020 with two Bachelor Degrees.
In Electrical Engineering, I have spent my academic career focusing on Communications Engineering, Controls Engineering, and Networking. I also have a solid base in circuit and electronic design, electromagnetic field theory, and microprocessing applications.
In my Computer Science courses, I have focused on Software Engineering and Development, Database Management and Design, and Web Development.
August 2016 - May 2020
Dual Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Selected to be part of a team to automate the selection of items to be donated from Amazon's distribution centers to charities. Helped with Amazon's goal to donate $50,000 worth of goods every week for two months.
November 2019 - December 2019
Partnered with a mentor in industry to complete a real world software engineering assignment related to the Music Technology industry.
October 2018 - November 15, 2018
Participated in a preliminary coding challenge presented by the Connecticut Techonology Council. Based on results from this round, I was selected to represet the University of Hartford as part of a team in the final round. For the final round, a website was created to inform Connecticut Citizens about the opiate crisis in their communities and the resources available.
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Contributed to a Senior-level Capstone Project. Worked with project leaders to create a robot with the ability to take a patient's heartbeat and blood pressure. Using IoT sensors, the data was transferred to the cloud and used to make predictions on level of health and possible aliments, while relaying this information to both doctor and patient. The project was awarded second place at the college-wide design expo.
September 8 -10 2017
Participated in building a working demo and business plan for a new type of Insurance Technology (Insurtech). Designed, tested, and developed a web-based ecommerce insurance provider that helped support struggling artists in the Hartford area. This project was awarded 1st place out of more than 10 teams, earning a monetary prize of $5,000.
February 26 - 28, 2018
Led an interdisciplinary team to build and deploy a working demo for an artificially intelligent 'therapy bot'.
November 2-3, 2018
Created a website to help first year college students and other individuals living on their own for the first time adjust to their new responsibilities.
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We live in a world where communities of people hold prejudices against one another. India’s caste system signals a person’s place in society – their worth, their jobs, their history. In much of the United States, given the string of events from September 11 to the rise of ISIS attacks in recent years, some hold strong prejudice against people of particular looks. Sikhs who wear turbans, Muslim women who wear hijabs, and many more types of people are assumed to be the same – somehow linked to terrorist networks. In almost all parts of the world, the wealthy and the poor live side-by-side – whether it be a household wife with her maid or a gated community a few minutes from a favela. We rarely have conversations with one another, nor do we fully understand who each other are and how each other live.
Clicking Together aims to break boundaries and prejudices. Our mission is to develop the next generation of empathetic citizens who seek to understand people who are different.
Hannah was born in Taiwan and moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of 10. She is interested in social entrepreneurship — how business can be used to alleviate poverty. She has done development internships in Guatemala and Peru and traveled extensively in Southeast Asia to learn more about the role of social entrepreneurship in international development. In college, she started a socially-responsible t-shirt business EthiCAL Apparel and taught a course on Social Entrepreneurship. In addition to social entrepreneurship, she is passionate about creative writing, photography, and videography.
Hannah studied International Development Studies and Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. She now works as an analyst in a consulting firm in San Francisco.
Shiv is a recent graduate from National University of Singapore – much to everyone’s surprise, he studied Industrial and Systems Engineering. Instead of studying, he ended up spending most of his time in the theatre and cramped dorm rooms shooting his films. He was an enthusiastic member and twice the President of NUS Stage. It was with NUS Stage that he directed a musical, and then wrote and acted in The Good the Bad and the Sholay, which won him a nomination for Best Script at the Life! Theatre Awards in Singapore. He’s also co-founder and creative lead of The Film Guys, a film start-up.
Shiv has always been interested in education, and how he can contribute to making things a little better. Clicking Together affords him the opportunity to work at the intersection of three areas that are close to his heart – photography/film, education, and community building.
Charmaine Poh was born and raised in Singapore. She moved to Boston for college, where she studied International Relations and Communications and Media Studies at Tufts University.  She was also deeply involved in the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice, which took her to the streets of Yangon, Burma, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she documented various stories.
Charmaine is now back in Singapore, and continues to write and photograph. Sometimes she posts things at http://psxcharmaine.wordpress.com/.


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Maharashtra CM announces Rs 5,380 crore relief for rain-affected farmers
Cyclone Kyar brought heavy unseasonal rains to the state, destroying crops over an area of 94.53 lakh hectares in 352 talukas of 34 districts.
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday sanctioned relief of Rs 5,380 crore from the state contingency fund for farmers who suffered crop loss due to unseasonal rains.
The announcement was made through Fadnavis' Twitter handle @CMOMaharashtra in the evening.
Fadnavis had held a meeting with his deputy Ajit Pawar a day earlier to discuss ways to provide additional support to distressed farmers.
Cyclone Kyar brought heavy unseasonal rains to the state, destroying crops over an area of 94.53 lakh hectares in 352 talukas of 34 districts.
When the state was under President's Rule, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari had announced a relief package on November 16.
The compensation stood at Rs 8,000 per hectare for up to two hectares for Kharif crops and Rs 18,000 per hectare for up to two hectares for horticulture/perennial crops.
On November 2, Fadnavis, as caretaker CM, had declared relief of Rs 10,000 crore.


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N_PZ_38 <= ((SW9_CPLD AND NOT SW1_CPLD)
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OR (NOT SW8_CPLD AND NOT SW0_CPLD AND N_PZ_38)); |
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disp_seg_o(2) <= ((NOT s_result(3) AND s_result(2) AND NOT N_PZ_41)
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/testbin/kitchen
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Runs four copies of sink. It may be useful for
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kitchen should function correctly once assignment 2 is complete.
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kitchen does not wait for its child processes to exit.


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The Startup of a Lean Doctorate
Using agile practices to tacle a long-term research project
19 October 2018 | 15 November 2018
phd tools agileAt the start of my doctoral study, things are a bit woozy. The use of that word “bit” may be the inverse of exaggeration: shaping an abstract idea into a malleable and well-defined project is a process that can easily take up months. After that you still have to “start” actually doing stuff in context of your invented project! Most doctorates are classical examples of a waterfall process: come up with an abstract, do your (and a lot of) literature study, reach certain milestones. It’s clearly visible in the Arenberg Doctoral School Roadmap.
As an agile software engineer, that uncertainty leaves me with an unpleasant feeling as I struggle to define clear goals on a weekly basis. Sprints of 2 or 3 weeks are out of the question… Are they? Why should they be? A quick “agile doctorate” lookup in Google Scholar nets me academic papers like An Agile Approach to the Doctoral Dissertation Process and The Conclusion. The only problem with these papers is that they propose to change the formula all together in an experimental context. There is - surprisingly - next to nothing academically published about someone’s PhD process in an iterative or agile way!
How to be an Agile Academic
Maybe we should ask Jeff Sutherland on how to achieve this, but I doubt the SCRUM Alliance principles were in his head when he did his doctorate. Katy Peplin wrote a nice article about being an agile academic that advocates for principles like getting feedback, fast(er) and using Test Driven Design. As some wise men once said,
Fail fast, fail often.
Early feedback
To fail means to get feedback. To get feedback means to publish. That’s right, publish as early and as often as possible! But how can you publish papers when you haven’t even started researching, let alone writing something useful yet? I’m not only talking about lean publishing of academic papers (as Jake VanderPlas said in defense of extreme openness), but also about concepts. Anything you put on (virtual) paper can be used to get feedback.
For example, Katy identified daily stand ups used in agile teams as a useful way to identify what was blocking her progress by doing a stand-up with… yourself! That way she got feedback from herself. A PhD can be a lonely process indeed, but it doesn’t have to be that way. You can change that yourself by explicitly asking feedback to your peers, colleagues and friends.
My way to get feedback is to follow in Jake’s footsteps and to simply publish everything on Github. Add a big “feedback” button that redirects to the Github Issues page to invite people who come across your work to leave valuable insights. Why only publishing a paper, if you can publish everything related to your work, including papers? It contains reports of meetings, brainstorms, concept items I’m working on, definitions, bibliography, … Literally everything. Document everything - a useful tip!
Another way to get feedback if you’re developing is using your trusty Unit Tests and Continuous Integration system. As I’m not coding for my PhD, this might not apply, you might think. But actually, I can still take those concepts and try to apply them to my writing:
- Create separate pages for separate ideas/subjects. (Test Classes)
- First write down what you’re trying to write down. (“X in here”, “WHEN I’m finished with this, X and Y SHOULD be defined here”). (Given, When, Then Test Cases)
- Then write, and rewrite, and rewrite. The expected outcome of that page might also change.
Publishing these pages as a website using Hugo
makes it very easy to share a link and ask someone for feedback. Of course, before simply pushing everything into the open, your supervisor (and possibly your Faculty) should agree with this. But after showing the advantages of being open, I’m sure that won’t be a big problem.
Demo or die
Closing the feedback loop might not be that simple: professors are usually extremely busy and have a tight schedule, so don’t expect them to read every long piece you’ve written. Most PhD students meet with their supervisor once a month, just like me. I know students who are less lucky and have more trouble squeezing in a meeting. If you’re really unlucky, your supervisor might not show any interest at all in your research. That’s quite sad and should not happen.
In most agile software development companies, teams present their progress weekly or every two weeks. This is a short moment of reflection that allows for (in their case last-minute) feedback from all stakeholders. I try to emulate this principle by meeting with my supervisor once a month, and meeting with another interested party in the field - also once a month. If you plan this in alternating two weeks, you can gather feedback every 14 days.
The added benefit of gathering feedback from people in the field is another important angle of approach. The result is not a pure theoretical academic work but a good balance between theory and practice. Our Engineering & Technology Faculty at KU Leuven obliges PhD students to write a valorisation report to prove applicability. Another thing more easily checked off…
Reading
Another way to tap into the brains of others is to simply read. Reading books related to your subject will spark new ideas and might even make you rethink certain options. Static feedback is still feedback, even if it’s your own responsibility to interpret written opinions of others.
I am not talking about your typical academic literature, but also about popular science books, philosophy, sociology and psychology, … - anything that even remotely touches upon your research questions might be worth looking into. I prioritize my reading list based on interest instead of relevance: embrace the possibility for new ideas coming from any direction. For example, I’m researching non-cognitive skills in software engineering; Work Rules!, Mindset and The Reflective Practitioner are currently on my list.
Planning
Another useful tip you hear often might be to “try to work on a weekly basis”. They are talking about planning your week. If planning a whole doctorate is too difficult (it is, and it’s scope will change often) - simply plan each week. I use Trello for that and you guessed it - it’s open to the public. It’s a bit more intricate than your average “todo - doing - done” list, but not by much:
- Todo - backlog: anything in here. Things I will need to do in the next months - years. Very vague items. Might and probably will be split in multiple items.
- Todo - Week X [Deadline Y]: Something to work towards, for example a seminar you’re attending or holding next month, or a brainstorm week you’re holding with a research group where you can get feedback from your supervisor (or others).
- Todo - Week X: the current week. What will you be doing this week? Try to be as descriptive and concrete as possible.
- Doing
- Done: timestamped.
Apart from that, I’m relying on the following labels:
- Red: BLOCKED (no separate column, preserves the overview). You want as little as possible of those. Check on those daily!
- Green: WRITING
- Blue: LITERATURE STUDY (research from others to go through)
- Orange: FEEDBACK
- Yellow: DOCTORAL STUDY (classes to attend)
- Purple: ADMINISTRATION
The lean Tools used to battle with
1.  I am the one who decides what to focus on and I am the one who decides which direction to go to - of course all in dialogue with my supervisors. But that liberating feeling generates a lot of wild new ideas. Those ideas present themselves on unexpected moments - so you better make sure you have something to write with and something to write on. My love for pen & paper is well known. I jot down ideas, mindmaps and summaries of papers and manage to fill at least 2 A4 papers every single day.
 See my post about journaling in practice for details on how to set up an easy, working system.
After the rough sketching skep, ripened and mature ideas might be worthy of a more substantial body.
2. Use simple digital tools
Writing requires a… typewriter? Text editor? Sublime Text. Pushing to a github repository means we’ll be using git
and the command line (iTerm
) a lot. I’m a big fan of Markdown thanks to small but great generators like Hugo
used on this site. Instead of redirecting everyone to the Github repository homepage, I converted my PhD repository to a Hugo website and published it as a Github Page. That means written Markdown files are instantly and easily readable by a bigger audience and sharing the work through a website is a bit easier.
Sublime works well in combination with Git and Markdown; especially with plugins like WordCount, MarkdownEditing, GitGutter, BracketHighlighter and Compare Side-By-Side. My choice for using Markdown instead of LaTeX might sound strange for academics, but Hugo’s publishing skills are simply unmatched if you want feedback, fast. Things like Pandoc and AcademicMarkdown can be used to convert .md
files to academic .pdf
papers, like Eric J. Ma did. More on that later when I’m on the verge of actually publishing something in an academic journal.
Anything else?
I’m sure my methods of bootstrapping my research can be further enhanced by people who’ve been through the whole process and are also agile advocates. If you think my work might benefit from some other tool or practice not mentioned here, please let me know by adding an issue in the Github repo as feedback. Every remark is greatly appreciated!
In the meantime, take a second to skim through my work so far. Thank you!


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The orthographic system used here has previously been utilised in the published text collection, so an elaborate justification will not be necessary here. The letter h is used solely as a diacritic indicating interdental laminal articulation in lh, nh, dh. Underlining of n d l indicates retroflexion. The two rhotics are glide (approximant) r and tap r. Velar nasal is ng, palatoalveolar laminal nasal is ny. Palatoalveolar laminal stop is j. Semivowels are y and w. The sequence ng is a cluster of n followed by g, ly is 1 followed by y, and so forth.
Basic vowels are a, i, u and their long counterparts a:, i:, u:. The sequence as is a cluster of two vowels (with two syllabic peaks), though this sequence is sometimes contracted to a long a:.
In addition to the regular phonemes, a few morphophonemic symbols are used in citation forms of stems and affixes. The symbol N is used for an unspecified nasal archiphoneme which is realised on the surface as a nasal homorganic to a following consonant (unless it is zeroed). It is alphabetised like n. The symbol G is likewise employed for an unspecified stop (I have used D in some earlier publications) which has no direct surface realisation but which has a hardening effect (like g and other stops) on following consonants. Both N and G occur in this transcriptional system exclusively in morpheme-final position. G is alphabetised like g.
Morpheme-initially, a distinction is made in citation forms between w1 and w2. The principal difference is that, in hardening environments, w1 becomes g while w2 becomes b. In addition, w1 is more likely than w2 to disappear word-initially before a or medially when surrounded by a-vowels, and is more likely to become y in the environment i_a. The difference between w1 and w2 is not considered in alphabetisation. In some cases a stem is given in citation forms with the initial semivowel specified as w without diacritics, either because the w cannot occur for some reason in hardening environments or because of inadequate data.
The alphabetical order adopted here is based on that of English, with interdentals preceding orthographically simple consonants and retroflexed consonants following, and with ng and ny following n. The order is therefore:
| b | dh | d | d | g | j | lh | 1 | 1 | m | nh | n | n | ng | ny | r | r | w | y |
All stems are treated as though beginning in a consonant for purposes of alphabetisation. Stems beginning in a or a: are alphabetised as though beginning in wa(:), those in i as though beginning in yi, those in u as though beginning in wu. This is because extensive morphophonemic alternations between initial a(:) and wa(:), and so forth, would make finding entries difficult if the vowel-initial stems were listed separately from the others. See below for further discussion.
In citation forms, the = boundary is used before verb stems. (In complete word transcriptions, = is also used before NAdj (adjectival) stems when functioning as predicates with intransitive verbal prefixes.) The - boundary is used for other morpheme breaks, but nouns are usually shown without these boundaries in citation forms if they can occur without affixes (as is usually the case).


periodicjs.core.utilities
Periodic's Core Utilities module contains a group of utility functions for restarting periodic's express application and helper functions to manipulate strings and other data structures
Installation
$ npm install periodicjs.core.utilities
This is a part of Periodic's core.
Usage
Querying for tag
JavaScript
var Utilities = require('periodicjs.core.utilities'),
CoreUtilities = new Utilities(resources),
Tag = mongoose.model('Tag');
req.controllerData = (req.controllerData) ? req.controllerData : {};
var createTag = function (req, res) {
var newtag = CoreUtilities.removeEmptyObjectValues(req.body);
newtag.name = CoreUtilities.makeNiceName(newtag.title);
newtag.author = req.user._id;
CoreController.createModel({
model: Tag,
newdoc: newtag,
res: res,
req: req,
successredirect: '/p-admin/tag/edit/',
appendid: true
});
};
Development
Make sure you have grunt installed
$ npm install -g grunt-cli
Then run grunt watch
$ grunt watch
For generating documentation
$ grunt doc
$ jsdoc2md lib/**/*.js index.js > doc/api.md
Notes
- Check out https://github.com/typesettin/periodicjs for the full Periodic Documentation


The Way Back
Writings on nature, permaculture, locavorism, making, and our idea of the good life
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Day 2
Okay, well I may not be updating this blog every day, since today wasn't all that different from yesterday. Between a morning and evening spent double-digging the garden, I did manage my first first day of working remotely. My internet's a little slower than what I'm used to, but other...
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Day 1
I'm writing this at the end of our first day officially living at our new place, here in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina. It's been a crazy weekend that started Friday afternoon when we picked up the moving truck. From then on, we've been packing, loading, drving six hours,...
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And So It Begins... Part 2
Last year, we started as small as we possibly could with livestock: We got a couple bee hives for the backyard. Last trip we made to North Carolina, a couple weeks ago, we moved the bees, or what's left of them. We weren't sure when we were moving them, in...
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The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
I read “The Shock Doctrine” over a year ago, but it’s definitely one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read, and it has really informed a lot of my recent thinking about corporate capitalism and the Deep State. The central metaphor of Klein’s thesis is the concept of “shock”...
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And So It Begins... Part 1
After many months of defining and redefining our objectives and thousands of miles traveled in search of the right property, Tasha and I finally found a place in northwestern North Carolina. Actually, we bought the place in November and have been so busy with other tasks--directly or indirectly related to...


Log into your D&D Beyond Account. Move your mouse over the 'Creations' tab at the top of the window and select 'My Characters'. Find the character you want to convert and click 'View'. Take a look at the Address bar, it should look something like: https://www.dndbeyond.com/profile/YourUserName/characters/8675309 Find the Character ID. In the above example it's 8675309. Paste this ID in the 'Character ID' text box and click 'Get Character Data'. It will take a short while in order for the data to populate. Click the 'Download XML' button to save the character to your computer.For instructions on how to import the XML file into Fantasy Grounds, please watch this video by Digital Dungeon Master.


@* * Copyright 2021 HM Revenue & Customs * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. *@ @import uk.gov.hmrc.hmrcemailrenderer.templates.tdq.params.TdqFphReportParams @(params: Map[String, Any]) @uk.gov.hmrc.hmrcemailrenderer.templates.helpers.html.template_main(params, "Fraud prevention headers report for VAT (Making Tax Digital)") { @defining(TdqFphReportParams(params)) { reportParams =>
Dear @reportParams.developerName
To help protect your customers' confidential data from criminals and fraudsters, we monitor API calls and send you feedback every month.
Our logs show that the fraud prevention headers submitted for @reportParams.applicationName between @reportParams.fromDate and @reportParams.toDate do not meet the specification on the HMRC Developer Hub.
From feedback and suggestions, we've updated the fraud prevention specification. Version 3.0 includes new headers and formatting requirements. In these reports, you'll start to get warnings related to the changes.
You have 6 months to implement changes that affect your application. From July 2021, warnings about the changes will become errors.
Submitting header data for VAT (MTD) APIs is required by law. You'll find version 3.0 of fraud prevention specification and the Test Fraud Prevention Headers API on the HMRC Developer Hub.
To meet the specification, you need to:
If the Test Fraud Prevention Headers API shows that you're submitting the correct headers, check if your end users are using an outdated version of your application.
Most organisations are able to send all header data required for their connection method. If you're unable to submit a value, check what you need to do in the missing header section of the specification.
@if(reportParams.hasErrors || reportParams.hasWarnings) {We've made basic checks on header values sent by your application. This includes requests with all headers missing. It does not include headers that appear to be valid.
If your application sent requests via an additional connection method, you'll receive a separate report.
@if(reportParams.relatesToMultipleVersions) {Errors and warnings relate to more than 1 version of your software, as provided in the Gov-Vendor-Version header.
} @for(extraDetails <- reportParams.extraDetails) {| Error | @error.message | @error.shortPercentageDescription |
| Warning | @warning.message | @warning.shortPercentageDescription |
We continue to accept calls with missing or incorrect headers but improving the header data you submit will help protect your customers' data.
} }If you need to contact us, email SDSTeam@@hmrc.gov.uk. Make sure you include your application ID: @reportParams.applicationId.
This email address is registered on Developer Hub for @reportParams.applicationName.
If you're no longer working on @reportParams.applicationName, an application admin needs to remove you from the team on Developer Hub.
You need to have at least 1 contact for each application, you may need to add a new team member.
From HMRC Transaction Monitoring Team
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