- Enrollment is subject to the acceptance of your application by the insurer.
- Premiums are subject to confirmation from the insurance company upon acceptance of the application.
- All applicants may be required to fill in a confidential medical history form that may affect the final amountof the premiums initially presented in this document.
- When eligible, installment payment may be subject to additional fees.
- Local cash payment subject to USD 60 fees to cover international bank transfer fees to the insurer.
- All our insurance policies include medical assistance (evacuation / repatriation).
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Poll: opioid crisis
by Castanet StaffA Kelowna mother knows all too well about the lack of addiction services in Kelowna.
Both of Helen Jennens' sons died from drug overdoses – Rian from a combination of prescription pills in 2011 and Tyler from fentanyl in 2016. And while several years have passed since her family was forced to seek help, very little has changed.
“Access to affordable treatment is next to impossible, we are so under-resourced in Kelowna. We have 10 detox beds, that's about a third of what we need,” she said.
“You just have to look at the death count, it just mounts daily ... This city is literally dying, people are dying.”


UK Ratings: ‘Ehd-e-Wafa’ on Hum TV tops Pakistani TV genre
by Raj BaddhanHum TV shows continued to lead in UK ratings, with ‘Ehd-e-Wafa’ remaining the most watched programme across all Pakistani TV shows in official BARB data for week ending Sunday 17th November 2019.
1. Ehd-E-Wafa (Hum TV)
Audience: 73,600 viewers
2. Ishq Zah-e-Naseeb (Hum TV)
Audience: 66,200 viewers
3. Daasi (Hum TV)
Audience: 62,600 viewers
4. Main Na Janu (Hum TV)
Audience: 59,000 viewers
5. Yeh Dil Mera (Hum TV)
Audience: 50,700 viewers


The principles of universality of access irrespective of hardware or software platform, network infrastructure, language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental impairment are core values
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the WWW
UNLEASH THE FUTURE
Firefox OS
A complete mobile operating system entirely built with Web technologies
Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x
Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET
Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x
Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET
Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x
Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET
WAT. Yet another mobile OS?
Today: proprietary platforms
We don’t want the third place
We want the Web to be the platform on mobile
“We want the Web to redo on mobile what it did on Desktop 15 years ago”
Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Principal Evangelist
Minimal manifest file
{
"name": "My App",
"description": "My elevator pitch goes here",
"launch_path": "/index.html",
"icons": {
"128": "/img/icon-128.png"
},
"developer": {
"name": "Your name or organization",
"url": "http://your-homepage-here.org"
},
"default_locale": "en"
}


quicksilver.js (**Optional: Inclusion will enable quicksilver like similarity matching.)
Dependencies
jQuery >= 1.2.6 (Others are Untested)
Options
ajax: if you want to load data via ajax, include a url. The query text will be appended as ?q=$value.
data: include data here if you aren’t using ajax.
minChars: the minimum number of characters before triggering the drop-down (and ajax, if applicable).
delay: milliseconds after typing that the results are re-evaluated. Make this longer if your ajax is bogging down.
matchCase: specify that the drop-down should be case-sensitive.
match: ‘substring’ for exact match-as-you-type, ‘quicksilver’ for similarity matching. Auto-detects whether quicksilver.js is included and active, and defaults to quicksilver mode if it can.
matchContains: use with ‘substring’ only, means that what you type can match anywhere in the choice item, not just the beginning.
mustMatch: if you’re not using any auto-select option, use this if you absolutely need the typed value to end up matching one of the list items in the end. If something is typed but no match is found, the text field and all fields specified in additionalFields instantly get blank values.
extraParams: extra parameters for the ajax url.
autoSelectFirst: keep the first item selected as you type, and tab or enter will automatically fill in the rest from the top item.
selectSingleMatch: use this if NOT using autoSelectFirst, to make the control automatically select the top item when there is only one matched item left.
maxItemsToShow: only show up to x number of items.
additionalFields: (a jquery object with one or more elements) more fields to update with the extra data. Not honored when converting a select/option group to a quickselect control. For example, you may want to provide quickselect on a zipcode field, but when selected, update the city and state field automatically with the results.
autoFill: use this if you want the text input to automatically try to finish what you’re typing as you type, based on the top entry. This only works well if your settings make the top listing exactly match what you’re typing.
width: set the width of the drop-down list.
formatItem: assign a function to use for formatting the list items. The function is called with arguments: data, index, total. See example #2.
inputClass: css class for styling the text input
loadingClass: an extra css class for styling the text input while loading
resultsClass: css class for styling the drop-down list
selectedClass: css class for styling the currently-selected item in the drop-down list


Ever heard of the Backstreet Boys?
Backstreet Boys are an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The group consists of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson. They became famous in the 90's with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys(1996). They released their second international album, Backstreet's Back (1997), folowed by the third and fourth albums respectively, Millennium (1999) and Black & Blue (2000). After a two-year hiatus, they regrouped and released a comeback album Never Gone (2005). After the conclusion of the Never Gone Tour in 2006, Kevin Scott Richardson left the group to pursue other interests. The group then released two albums as a quartet: Unbreakable (2007) and This Is Us (2009). In 2012, the group announced that Richardson had rejoined them permanently. The following year, they celebrated their 20th anniversary and released their first independent album, In a World Like This (2013). On January 25, 2019,the group released their 9th studio album DNA through a collaboration with the group's own K-BAHN record label and RCA Records.
Why the Backstreet Boys?
Boy bands come and go, but the Backstreet Boys are forever! The group has been on scene for over three decades with no signs of stopping, having sold over 180 million albums worldwide, making them the most popular boy band of all time in terms of sales, and one of the world's best-selling music artists. I'd always pick them over any other bands because of the following reasons:
- Their music never gets old. If you walk into an arena and a Backstreet song is playing, most people will be signing along. Their is a song for every emotion you could possibly ever feel. I am a fun of cheesy music, music that lightens up your soul.
- Their personalities and love for fans. It's impressive that they have the same fun-loving personalities as when they first started the group. All are very different from each other, but still extremely funny and charismatic.
- Their songs make you want to join in and dance. Everyone knows signature boy band dancing, but in the '90s it was at another level. I mean, who could forget the moves in “Backstreet's Back”? That signature “rock your body right” move will live on forever.
- Their undeniable swag.
- Their voices are so beautiful, in every single way possible. I mostly like Nick's and Kevin's voices.
Backstreet Boys members' Mini Bio
Howie Dorough
Howie Dorough was born in Orlando, Florida on August 22, 1973. He started his entertainment career at a tender age of six when he participated in an Orlando Production, The Wizard of Oz. As he grew old, he became more active in their school choir and theater. Howie has also performed in various Nickelodeon productions and other movies.
AJ McLean
AJ McLean was born in West Palm Beach, Florida on January 9, 1978. Like Howie, he was also a product of Nickelodeon and Disney Productions. AJ joined the group after a series of auditions with original co-members, Howie Dorough and Nick Carter.
Nick Carter
Nick Carter was born in Jamestown, New York on January 28, 1980. Being the youngest member of Backstreet Boys, Nick at his very young age of 12 hit the music industry along with his co-members with his rasping but melodic voice. True artist at heart, he also auditioned in several acting roles and appeared in the popular in 1990, the Edward Scissorhands. Nick together with AJ McLean and Howie Dorough was recruited by Lou Pearlman in his forming group. Nick Carter is the elder brother of singer Aaron Carter.
Kevin Richardson
Kevin Richardson was born in Lexington, Kentucky, USA on October 3, 1971. Kevin grew up in a farm with his parents and two siblings. After graduating in high school, Kevin left his family to pursue his dream of becoming an actor and a singer. He along with his older brother went to Orlando, Florida to try his luck. He became a model, tour guide at Walt Disney World and a dance instructor. At age 21, he joined Backstreet Boys and convinced his cousin, Brian Littrell to also join the group. Kevin left the group on June 23, 2006 and rejoined on April 29, 2012.
Brian Littrell
Brian Littrell completed the Backstreet Boys group as its fifth member in 1993 after a phone audition to Lou Pearlman. Brian is the cousin of Kevin Richardson. Born on February 20, 1975 in Lexington, Kentucky USA, Brian began singing as a child in a nearby church. He went to Orlando, Florida and completed the group on April 20,1993.
My Top Twenty songs by Backstreet boys include:
- The one
- I Want It That Way
- I Will Be Yours
- I'll Be There For You
- The One
- Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
- Shining Star
- You Wrote The Book On Love
- Who Do You Love?
- It's True
- Larger Than Life
- Nobody But You
- Shape Of My Heart
- It's Gotta Be You
- Lay Down Beside Me
- Missing You
- Love To Love
- Lose It All
- Not For Me
- Roll With It
My favorite songs and album by the band
Even though i love all the songs sang by Backstreet, there are these four songs that i love most from the 'DNA' album (my favorite), which i could listen to all day long. 'No Place' in the album is my most favourite of the four especially because of the lines sang by Nick "..I’ve been all around the world, done all there is to do But you’ll always be the home I wanna come home to..." . You can always check the songs out on youtube:


The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
A wolf found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs.
But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep.
The lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the Wolf was wearing, began to follow the wolf in the sheep's clothing; so, leading the Lamb a little apart, he soon made a meal off her, and for some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoying hearty meals.
Appearances often are deceiving.


Spluttering Spurs held at home by Sheffield United
Tottenham Hotspur's winless run in the Premier League stretched to five games as George Baldock's equaliser earned an impressive Sheffield United side a 1-1 draw on Saturday.
LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur's winless run in the Premier League stretched to five games as George Baldock's equaliser earned an impressive Sheffield United side a 1-1 draw on Saturday.
It was the least the visitors deserved as they were comfortably the better side before halftime and were victims of a highly-dubious VAR decision after it.
The hosts were fortunate to go ahead in the 58th minute through Son Heung-min's goal - Tottenham's first shot on target - and even more so when David McGoldrick's apparent equaliser soon afterwards was ruled out for offside by VAR.
Tottenham could not capitalise, though, and Chris Wilder's United side kept plugging away, earning their reward when Baldock's miscued low cross sneaked in at the back post and the goal was allowed to stand after another anxious wait for VAR.
Tottenham finally began to display some urgency late on and they almost snatched victory in stoppage time when substitute Lucas Moura's piledriver was tipped over by Dean Henderson.
Sheffield United are now unbeaten in five Premier League games and moved up to fifth with 17 points.
Tottenham, who are yet to win consecutive matches all season, slipped to 12th, three points worse off as their season continues to splutter.
"When you don't win you are disappointed and it's impossible to be happy," Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino told reporters.
"We didn't start the game well. We knew we were up against an energetic, well-organised team, probably the worst kind of team after a long trip in the Champions League.
"The last 15 minutes we dominated but from the beginning we suffered a lot."
Pochettino's side were as dreary as the north London rain in a dreadful first-half display in which their prosaic build-up play rarely troubled the visitors.
The sides had not met in a league clash for 12 years and you have to go back to 1991 for the last United won at Spurs.
But they should have been ahead by halftime.
Oliver Norwood and John Fleck both forced Paulo Gazzaniga into saves and John Lundstram failed to connect with a gilt-edged chance in front of goal before rattling the post.
VIRTUAL SPECTATOR
Tottenham's Harry Kane was a virtual spectator although he should have done better from Serge Aurier's low cross.
There was little evidence of an improvement after the break but Tottenham went ahead when Enda Stevens inadvertently played in Son who fired through the legs of Henderson.
Two minutes later Stevens made amends when his slide-rule cross was tapped home by McGoldrick.
But after a near four-minute delay for a VAR check, prompting a chorus of boos around the ground, referee Graham Scott disallowed it for an offside in the build-up, although video replays were inconclusive.
When Baldock's cross-shot ended up in the net the travelling fans again feared the worst as the video screen displayed "checking goal". But this time they could celebrate a hugely impressive performance.
"I'm proud of the players, the performance, and I thought we took the game to the opposition from the off," Wilder said.
"I believe we were the better side today."
(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)


Our recommended recipe to try today:
Full British Breakfast
Ingredients:
4 English Pork Sausages
4 slices Back Bacon
6 ounces Mushrooms, Sliced
1 cup Canned Beans in Tomato Sauce
2 Ripe Tomatoes, Cut in half
pinch of Salt, Small
2 slices Black Pudding
2 slices White Bread
4 large Eggs
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Epiphone Les Paul Special II LTD Electric Guitar
Epiphone's number one selling model LP Special II is a great way for beginners to get started on guitar while getting the feel and tone of a Les Paul. Seasoned pros also love the Special II because it's a great-sounding workhorse of a guitar that allows them to leave their more expensive axes at home.


Pull and Push are two different protocols that describe how a data Producer can communicate with a data Consumer.
What is Pull? In Pull systems, the Consumer determines when it receives data from the data Producer. The Producer itself is unaware of when the data will be delivered to the Consumer.Promises and Observables provide us with abstractions in JavaScript that help us deal with the asynchronous nature of our applications.
A promise is an object that may produce a single value some time in the future: either a resolved value, or a reason that it’s not resolved (e.g., a network error occurred). This lets asynchronous methods return values like synchronous methods. Instead of immediately returning the final value, the asynchronous method returns a promise to supply the value at some point in the future.
{{"
performSyncTasksV1(): void {
const birthdayWish = this.waitForBirthdayWishSync(5000);
console.log('Synchronous', birthdayWish);
console.log('I waited for the Birthday Wish 😊');
}
waitForBirthdayWishSync(timeInMillis: number): string {
const start = Date.now();
while (Date.now() - start <= timeInMillis) {}
return 'Happy Birthday 🎂';
}
"}}
{{"
performAsyncTasksV1(): void {
this.waitForBirthdayWishAsync(5000)
.then((wish: string) => {
console.log('Asynchronous', wish);
}, err => console.log(err));
console.log('I did not wait for the Birthday Wish 😢');
}
waitForBirthdayWishAsync(timeInMillis: number) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
setTimeout(() => {
resolve('Happy Birthday 🎂');
}, timeInMillis)
});
}
"}}
An Observable is a lazy Push collection of multiple values. It is a lazily evaluated computation that can synchronously or asynchronously return zero to (potentially) infinite values from the time it's invoked onwards. An Observable is a Producer of multiple values, "pushing" them to Observers (Consumers).
{{"
performSyncTasksV2(): void {
const iter = waitForBirthdayWishesSync(5000);
let wishCount = iter.next();
while (!wishCount.done) {
console.log(`Synchronous Happy Birthday 🎂 from Person ${wishCount.value}`);
wishCount = iter.next();
}
console.log('I waited for all the Birthday Wishes 😊');
}
function* waitForBirthdayWishesSync(timeInMillis: number) {
const start = Date.now();
let i = 1;
while (Date.now() - start <= timeInMillis) {
if (Date.now() - start === i * 1000) {
yield i;
i++;
}
}
return 'Everyone has already wished!';
}
"}}
{{"
performAsyncTasksV2(): void {
const wishes$ = this.waitForBirthdayWishesAsync(5000)
.subscribe((wishCount: number) => {
console.log(`Asynchronous Happy Birthday 🎂 from Person ${wishCount}`);
}, (err: any) => {
console.log(`Cannot make Birthday wishes 😭 : ${err}`);
}, () => {
console.log('Everybody has wished for the Birthday! ✅');
});
console.log('I did not wait for the Birthday Wish 😢');
}
waitForBirthdayWishesAsync(timeInMillis: number) {
/** Using RxJS operators */
if (Number.isNaN(timeInMillis) || !Number.isFinite(timeInMillis) || !Number.isInteger(timeInMillis)) {
return throwError('Time in milliseconds is not a valid number');
}
const list: number[] = [];
for (let i = 1; i <= timeInMillis / 1000; i++) { list.push(i); }
return from(list).pipe(
// tap(val => console.log(`Spy value: ${val}`)),
concatMap(val => of(val).pipe(delay(1000)))
);
}
"}}
A real world example of Promise would be buying food at restaurant. When we pay we get a ticket with an order number. Then, when that number is called we can go and get our food.
A real world example of Observable would be any online streaming service such Netflix, Spotify, etc. When we subscribe we get a subscription with a validity period. Then, using that valid subscription we can consume the services offered by these apps (On-Demand).
Key Points to remember regarding Observable:


@Disabled
public abstract class Bendy
extends com.qualcomm.robotcore.eventloop.opmode.LinearOpMode
LinearOpMode
| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
|---|---|
(package private) com.qualcomm.robotcore.hardware.ColorSensor |
groundColor
The color sensor on the robot
|
(package private) com.qualcomm.robotcore.hardware.DcMotor[] |
motors
Stores all the DcMotors on the robot
|
(package private) java.lang.String[] |
names
Stores the names of the gamepad buttons
|
(package private) com.qualcomm.robotcore.hardware.Servo[] |
servos
Stores all the Servos on the robot
|
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
Bendy() |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
(package private) void |
clamp()
Toggles the state of the claw on the robot
|
(package private) void |
drive(double angle,
double power)
Drives the robot at an angle until stopped
|
(package private) void |
drive(double y,
double x,
double turn)
Drives the robot at a certain degree on an x and y plane based on the power set in those
directions
|
(package private) void |
drive(double y,
double x,
double turn,
int position)
Drives on an x and y plane based on encoder units.
|
(package private) void |
drive(double y,
double x,
double turn,
int position,
int runAngle)
Drives the robot on an x and y axis, runs the robot to a position, and uses the gyro sensor
to keep the robot aligned to a certain rotation.
|
(package private) void |
encoderStop(java.lang.String name)
Waits for a motor to reach its target position, then allows for the code to proceed.
|
(package private) void |
gyroAlign(double position)
Aligns the robot to a certain angle.
|
(package private) void |
gyroCalibrate()
Sets up the gyroSensor to be used
|
(package private) void |
initTensorFlow()
Initializes TensorFlow object detection for recognizing stones in the FTC skystone
competition
|
(package private) void |
move(java.lang.String name,
double power,
int position)
moves a motor to a certain position.
|
(package private) void |
setPosition(java.lang.String name,
double position)
Deprecated.
|
(package private) void |
setUp()
Initializes all the variables through retrieving their values from HardwareMap.
|
(package private) boolean |
toggleButton(java.lang.String name,
boolean button)
Returns when a button has been pressed on the gamepad.
|
handleLoop, idle, init_loop, init, internalPostInitLoop, internalPostLoop, isStarted, isStopRequested, loop, opModeIsActive, runOpMode, sleep, start, stop, waitForNextHardwareCycle, waitForStart, waitOneFullHardwareCycle
com.qualcomm.robotcore.hardware.DcMotor[] motors
com.qualcomm.robotcore.hardware.Servo[] servos
com.qualcomm.robotcore.hardware.ColorSensor groundColor
java.lang.String[] names
void setUp()
void initTensorFlow()
void drive(double angle, double power)
angle
- The angle that the robot moves at. This is not the orientation of the robot.power
- The power that the robot sets to the drive system. Between 1 and -1.void drive(double y, double x, double turn)
y
- The power set to the forward and backwards movement. Between 1 and -1.x
- The power set to the sideways movement. Between 1 and -1.turn
- The power set for the rotation of the robot. Between 1 and -1.void drive(double y, double x, double turn, int position)
y
- The power set to the forward and backwards movement. Between 1 and -1.x
- The power set to the sideways movement. Between 1 and -1.turn
- The power set for the rotation of the robot. Between 1 and -1.position
- The position for the robot to run to. Ex. 3000 would be 3000 encoder unitsvoid drive(double y, double x, double turn, int position, int runAngle)
y
- The power set to the forward and backwards movement. Between 1 and -1.x
- The power set to the sideways movement. Between 1 and -1.turn
- The power set for the rotation of the robot. Between 1 and -1.position
- The position for the robot to run to. Ex. 3000 would be 3000 encoder unitsrunAngle
- The angle, in degrees, at which the robot should remain at by using the gyro
sensor.void setPosition(java.lang.String name, double position)
name
- The name of the servo in the configuration file.position
- The position that the servo needs to be set to.void move(java.lang.String name, double power, int position)
name
- The name of the motor in the configurationpower
- The power that the motor will be set to. Between 0 and 1.position
- The position that the motor will be set to.encoderStop(java.lang.String)
void encoderStop(java.lang.String name)
name
- The name of the motor in the configuration.move(java.lang.String, double, int)
boolean toggleButton(java.lang.String name, boolean button)
name
- The name of the buttonbutton
- The button's current valuenames
void gyroAlign(double position)
position
- the angle, in degrees, to have the robot run to.void gyroCalibrate()
void clamp()


Chile president plans tougher security after protests
by Associated PressSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile’s president is announcing measures to increase security and toughen sanctions for vandalism following protests that have left at least 20 dead.
President Sebastián Piñera said Thursday that the measures that he’ll send to Congress include bills against looting and the destruction of property. He said that some will seek the re-enforcement of aerial surveillance and police intelligence to fight crime.
The unrest began 21 days ago over a hike to subway fares, and it has grown into a massive movement demanding a broad range of changes.
Most protests have been peaceful, but some have turned violent with daily clashes between police and demonstrators. There have been cases of arson and looting.
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Welcome
Hi there and thanks for dropping by! As you seem interested in Collapp let me just give you a short insight into what the app is all about:
Collapp is a plugin based community platform, which enables online groups to adjust and extend features to fulfill their community demands. Most available solutions mainly provide a very basic set of features. I think this falls short of the wide range of very diverse online groups and their ever evolving needs. That’s why I started Collapp.
Right now I am looking for early adopters to join the open beta, who are willing to establish close collaboration. The intention is to accompany you on your journey of creating an online community. This will allow me to understand your needs as well as to understand what parts of my app need improvement. So my offer to anyone interested is as follows
- Free access
You will get free access to all app features. If at some point in the future the app goes live and introduces any sort of premium functions, you will also get access to those for free. - Plugin development
I will develop any plugins you need for your online community, so that you can unlock the full potential of your group.
What’s next
So if that sounds interesting to you I would love to have you on board! I believe that we can create something great together. In order to start, just follow the listed steps to get us going


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Here are the links to some of the projects i've created.
~Educational background:
~I decided to take a class on programming because I really had a passion for it and I also wanted to challenge myself. I thought the class would teach me certain skills like:communication,teamwork and even technology as a whole.
~When i get the time,I enjoy being physically active by spending alot of time playing sports.I also like watching movies and sports as well.


Supports user-defined modes for quickly toggling between sets of settings
Use the GitLens: Switch Mode command to quickly switch the active mode
Use the GitLens: Toggle Review Mode command to toggle Review mode
Use the GitLens: Toggle Zen Mode command to toggle Zen mode
For more options or to add your own custom modes, open Settings and search for gitlens.modes


The Butcher Boy (1998)
Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle, Aisling O'Sullivan Screenplay: Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe Producers: Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley Runtime: 124 min. US Distribution: Warner Bros. Rated R: violence, language
By Nathaniel R. Atcheson<EMAIL_ADDRESS>I'd like to believe that we all see films that strike us in ways that we know will not affect every viewer. I was looking forward to The Butcher Boy mostly because Neil Jordan is a brilliant artist, and one of my favorite film makers; he has proved this over and over again, in films like Mona Lisa and The Crying Game. But I have a glaring personal issue with this film -- the main character, Francie Brady, and the portrayal of him by young Eamonn Owens. I can say that it's a good performance, but I'd be misreporting my feelings, because it's also one of the most intensely annoying performances I've ever had to watch.
But that's not my only problem with The Butcher Boy. This is supposed to be a black comedy, but I found absolutely none of it even the slightest bit amusing, let alone funny. And it's a crazy picture, full of misguided energy and expletives, and any kind of meaning that Patrick McCabe inserted into his novel (on which this film is based) is not at all clear to me from Jordan's film. It's ironic, really, the amount of energy that this film tries to harness, because, for all of the wacky music and graphic deaths, it left me feeling pretty drab.
The film is about the childhood struggles of Francie Brady, a young Irish boy who lives with his alcoholic father (Stephen Rae) and suicidal mother (Aisling O'Sullivan).  His best friend is Joe (Alan Boyle), and they spend a lot of time in the woods chasing each other around.
Francie's nemesis is the evil Mrs. Nugent (Fiona Shaw); he goes to school with her son, and Francie finds pleasure in torturing the young boy. Later, Francie pulls a prank (a vicious prank, I should say) on Mrs. Nugent, which gets him sent to a boarding school. Just when Francie seems to be improving, the head priest at the school turns out to be a pedophile; Francie, of course, has no idea what this old man's problem is, but the incident allows Francie to return to his hometown in Ireland.
The film doesn't follow strict plotting, nor does it have a truly cohesive narrative. I don't mind these elements so much, but in The Butcher Boy, I was never quite sure what I was supposed to be watching for. Clearly the focus is Francie, but both the character and Owens' portrayal of him are static throughout the picture. If any child ever had attention deficit disorder, then Francie is that child, for this is a boy so out of control, so crazed, so maniacal, that I simply could not manifest sympathy for him. I never saw him as anything more than a sadistic little demon, and this fact simply wrings every bit of comedy out of the film for me.
In addition to this, I can't see where Jordan has tweaked the material to move it over the dubious boundary from serious to funny. Elliott Goldenthal's musical score is adequately twisted, but it takes more than music to make this kind of material funny and engaging. Jordan has dabbled in graphic violence in his other films (both The Crying Game and Mona Lisa have sudden moments of extreme violence), but he never wanted it to be funny before. Here, I get the feeling that I'm not supposed to take it seriously, but there's no incentive to laugh. So, I took the movie seriously, and what I got was a rather disengaging biography about a heinous, unsympathetic child.
The other performances are very good, and probably what I like most about the film. Stephen Rae is a terrific actor (and always in Jordan's films); here, he does a good job of making us care about this man who has wrecked his son's life through neglect and alcohol abuse. Fiona Shaw is an underused and underappreciated actress, and her work here proves that she needs to make more films; her intense and often exaggerated performance as Mrs. Nugent is the one element in The Butcher Boy that I think works with the black comedy-feel that it seems Jordan was going for. Unfortunately, she, like the rest of the actors, is stifled by the handling of the story.
I find great distaste in criticizing Jordan so harshly, since he is such a fantastic film maker and because I am just a self-proclaimed critic, but I'm confident knowing that this is the first misstep in his distinguished career. As for Eamonn Owens and young Francie Brady, both are people whom I hope to never meet for as long as I live.
** out of **** (4/10, C-)
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| 012:100 Khan | : |
And he raised his parents to the throne and they fell down before him prostrate. And he said: "O my father! This is the interpretation of my dream aforetime! My Lord has made it come true! He was indeed good to me, when He took me out of the prison, and brought you (all here) out of the bedouin-life, after Shaitan (Satan) had sown enmity between me and my brothers. Certainly, my Lord is the Most Courteous and Kind unto whom He will. Truly He! Only He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. |
| 012:100 Maulana | : |
And he raised his parents on the throne, and they fell prostrate for his sake. And he said: O my father, this is the significance of my vision of old -- my Lord has made it true. And He was indeed kind to me, when He brought me forth from the prison, and brought you from the desert after the devil had sown dissensions between me and my brethren. Surely my Lord is Benignant to whom He pleases. Truly He is the Knowing, the Wise. |
| 012:100 Pickthal | : |
And he placed his parents on the dais and they fell down before him prostrate, and he said: O my father! This is the interpretation of my dream of old. My Lord hath made it true, and He hath shown me kindness, since He took me out of the prison and hath brought you from the desert after Satan had made strife between me and my brethren. Lo! my Lord is tender unto whom He will. He is the Knower, the Wise. |
| 012:100 Rashad | : |
He raised his parents upon the throne. They fell prostrate before him. He said, "O my father, this is the fulfillment of my old dream. My Lord has made it come true. He has blessed me, delivered me from the prison, and brought you from the desert, after the devil had driven a wedge between me and my brothers. My Lord is Most Kind towards whomever He wills. He is the Knower, the Most Wise." |
| 012:100 Sarwar | : |
He raised his parents on the throne and they prostrated themselves before him (Joseph). He said, "This is the meaning of my dream which God has made come true. He has granted me many favors. He set me free from prison and brought you to me from the desert after having ended the enmity which satan sowed between my brothers and I. My Lord is certainly kind to whomever He wants. It is He who is All-forgiving and All-wise. |
| 012:100 Shakir | : |
And he raised his parents upon the throne and they fell down in prostration before him, and he said: O my father! this is the significance of my vision of old; my Lord has indeed made it to be true; and He was indeed kind to me when He brought me forth from the prison and brought you from the desert after the Shaitan had sown dissensions between me and my brothers, surely my Lord is benignant to whom He pleases; surely He is the Knowing, the Wise. |
| 012:100 Sherali | : |
And he raised his parents upon the throne and they all fell down prostrate before ALLAH for him. And he said, 'O my father, this is the fulfillment of my dream of old. My Lord has made it come true.  Surely, my Lord is Benignant to whomsoever HE pleases; for HE is the All-Knowing, the Wise. |
| 012:100 Yusufali | : |
And he raised his parents high on the throne (of dignity), and they fell down in prostration, (all) before him. He said: "O my father! this is the fulfilment of my vision of old! Allah hath made it come true! He was indeed good to me when He took me out of prison and brought you (all here) out of the desert, (even) after Satan had sown enmity between me and my brothers. Verily my Lord understandeth best the mysteries of all that He planneth to do, for verily He is full of knowledge and wisdom. |
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Being pythonic
Introduction of Python unique data structures of high performance and summary of pythonic ways of coding
Python collections
Here is collection ducumentation
Besides list
, dictionary
, tuple
, python provides some high-performance container datatypes in the module collections
, which I find extremely useful when dealing with hashtable or stack problems. You can always implement these by using basic list
or dictionary
, but it really eases your life if you know their existence and are familiar with their APIs beforehand.
deque (pronounced “deck”, not “D-queue”)
Deque is basically a double-ended-queue structure and supports efficient operations like appends and pops from both sides. It has totally same operations as list
, but runs in O(1) in operations like pop(0), appendleft(x).
To initialize: It takes a iterable and a maxlen. From official document:
If maxlen is not specified or is None, deques may grow to an arbitrary length. Otherwise, the deque is bounded to the specified maximum length. Once a bounded length deque is full, when new items are added, a corresponding number of items are discarded from the opposite end.
deque = collections.deque([],maxlen=3)
for i in range(4):
deque.append(i)
print deque # deque([1, 2, 3], maxlen=3)
List of methods from official document:
-
append(x): Add x to the right side of the deque.
-
appendleft(x): Add x to the left side of the deque.
-
clear():Remove all elements from the deque leaving it with length 0.
-
count(x): Count the number of deque elements equal to x.
-
extend(iterable): Extend the right side of the deque by appending elements from the iterable argument.
- if you extend a string, it will treat every char as an element
for i in range(4):
deque.append(i)
deque.extend("[4,5,6]")
print deque # deque([0, 1, 2, 3, '[', '4', ',', '5', ',', '6', ']'])
-
extendleft(iterable):
Extend the left side of the deque by appending elements from iterable. Note, the series of left appends results in reversing the order of elements in the iterable argument. -
pop(): Remove and return an element from the right side of the deque. If no elements are present, raises an IndexError.
-
popleft(): Remove and return an element from the left side of the deque. If no elements are present, raises an IndexError.
-
remove(value): Removed the first occurrence of value. If not found, raises a ValueError.
-
reverse(): Reverse the elements of the deque in-place and then return None.
-
rotate(n): Rotate the deque n steps to the right. If n is negative, rotate to the left. Rotating one step to the right is equivalent to: d.appendleft(d.pop()).
OrderedDict
If you want to keep the order of the items you insert into a dictionary, OrderedDict
is the one you need.
>>> # regular unsorted dictionary
>>> d = {'banana': 3, 'apple': 4, 'pear': 1, 'orange': 2}
>>> # dictionary sorted by key
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: t[0]))
OrderedDict([('apple', 4), ('banana', 3), ('orange', 2), ('pear', 1)])
>>> # dictionary sorted by value
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: t[1]))
OrderedDict([('pear', 1), ('orange', 2), ('banana', 3), ('apple', 4)])
>>> # dictionary sorted by length of the key string
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: len(t[0])))
OrderedDict([('pear', 1), ('apple', 4), ('orange', 2), ('banana', 3)])
defaultdict
This datatype provides a factory function to store customized key-value pairs into dictionaries.
From doc:
It is easy to group a sequence of key-value pairs into a dictionary of lists:
>>> s = [('yellow', 1), ('blue', 2), ('yellow', 3), ('blue', 4), ('red', 1)]
>>> d = defaultdict(list)
>>> for k, v in s:
... d[k].append(v)
...
>>> d.items()
[('blue', [2, 4]), ('red', [1]), ('yellow', [1, 3])]
This technique is simpler and faster than an equivalent technique using dict.setdefault():
>>> d = {}
>>> for k, v in s:
... d.setdefault(k, []).append(v)
...
>>> d.items()
[('blue', [2, 4]), ('red', [1]), ('yellow', [1, 3])]
heapq
Tricks
(to be filled)
sorted()
enumerate()
It is an efficient way to loop through a list and get the index and value at the same time.
enumerate(sequence, start=0) # start is optional, from 0 as default
>>> seasons = ['Spring', 'Summer', 'Fall', 'Winter']
>>> list(enumerate(seasons))
[(0, 'Spring'), (1, 'Summer'), (2, 'Fall'), (3, 'Winter')]
>>> list(enumerate(seasons, start=1))
[(1, 'Spring'), (2, 'Summer'), (3, 'Fall'), (4, 'Winter')]
zip()
list comprehesion
Python provides a very natural way to construct list, no matter what dimension.
Basic syntax:
[ expression for item in list if conditional ]
which is equivalent to
for item in list:
if conditional:
expression
so to initialize an empty 2D array in python is:
# Creates a list containing 5 lists, each of 8 items, all set to 0
w, h = 8, 5;
Matrix = [[0 for x in range(w)] for y in range(h)]
but note here, append does not work as expected in list comprehension, it only mutates array rather than returns value:
a = [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]]
a = [x.append('a') for x in a]
# return [None,None,None]
another example:
Here it returns the first node in a value list of a dictionary that has more than 1 node. if node[1]
will cause IndexError: list index out of range
, but if node[1:]
works.


// No need to return anything for human
if mode != "human":
return outfile
// No need to return anything for human
if mode != "human":
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Alternative testing
by The Fat Man
Introduction
Hi. I know you're all pretty busy; I'll try to keep this short.
Alternative testing
Alternative testing
Or, "how can we test more, and better, with less work"
Alternative testing
Or, "how can we test more, and better, with less work"
There're a million ways. I'm going to cover two I like.
Alternative testing
Or, "how can we test more, and better, with less work"
There're a million ways. I'm going to cover two I like.
1) Stochastic
2) Property based
Alternative testing
Or, "how can we test more, and better, with less work"
1) Stochastic
2) Property based
There is established tooling support for this in JS, Perl, Ruby, and PostgreSQL. As a combined tool, originally comes from Haskell land, I think, in QuickCheck. I learned about it from the Erlang port eqc
.
I am programmar and wat is this
stochastic randomized property based eigenvector cascade with a chroniton neutrino flux in the b-code parse tree until the warp tokenizer has a core breach in the increasing monotonic zermelo-franklin functor monad matrix because vector fetch macros are phase-transductive when mapped to a sequential left-zipper on closure clauses
Two related things
Two related things
- Stochastic
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
- AKA
- "fuzz testing,"
- "randomized testing,"
- "dart testing,"
- "lazy systematics"
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
- AKA ...
- Property based
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
- AKA ...
- Property based
- "Given these circumstances, the answer should feel like X"
- Gets less vague with examples
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
- my_function( rand_int(), rand_string() )
- Property based
- "Given these circumstances, the answer should feel like X"
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
my_function( rand_int(), rand_string() )
- Property based
- "Given these circumstances, the answer should feel like X"
- A function that returns the square of a float should always return a float"
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
my_function( rand_int(), rand_string() )
- Property based
- "Given these circumstances, the answer should feel like X"
- A function that returns the square of a float should
- always return a float
- always
return >= 0
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
my_function( rand_int(), rand_string() )
- Property based
- "Given these circumstances, the answer should feel like X"
- A function that returns the square of a float should
- always return a float
- always return >= 0
- never underflow
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
- Property based
- "Given these circumstances, the answer should feel like X"
- A function that ... should ...
Two related things
- Stochastic
- Testing with Math.rand()
- Property based
- A function that ... should ...
- Not joined at the hip
- Can be used seperately
- Two great tastes that go great together
Not identical
These are powerful tools that complement one another very well, and are easy to make alongside one another; so they often occur together and lots of people think of them as the same thing. You sometimes see this around classes and inheritance, too - you can have classes without inheritance and vice versa.
Not identical
- Randomized can also be "constructive" eg
Not identical
- Randomized can also be "constructive" eg
- Manufacturing test cases randomly with known specific answers
Not identical
- Randomized can also be "constructive" eg
- Manufacturing test cases with known answers
- Usually you manufacture the answer alongside the test
- "Okay, we'll put

around it, and then require the answer to be { b: { i: 'whatever' } }
"
Not identical
- Randomized can also be "constructive" eg
- Manufacturing test cases with known answers
- Property based can be "exhaustive" eg
Not identical
- Randomized can also be "constructive" eg
- Manufacturing test cases with known answers
- Property based can be "exhaustive" eg
- Search the entire space, every property combination
- Can get very expensive
- Is often impossible
- Randomization sparse search is the natural cure
- Sometimes you actually need to test every answer though
Let's talk about stochastics
Stochastic testing
Stochastic testing
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try negative numbers"
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Negative numbers
- Non-numbers in my math function
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Negative numbers
- Non-numbers
- Missing values, who would forget the argument
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Negative numbers
- Non-numbers
- Missing values
- that weird and impossible grouping of settings
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Negative numbers
- Non-numbers
- Missing values
- "that grouping" of settings
- Dude who would call this with two extra arguments? That doesn't even make sense
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Negative numbers
- Non-numbers
- Missing values
- "that grouping" of settings
- Wrong argument counts
- Chinese
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Negative numbers
- Non-numbers
- Missing values
- "that grouping" of settings
- Wrong argument counts
- Chinese
- Writing the month as a word, abbreviation, or in euro format
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Negative numbers
- Non-numbers
- Missing values
- "that grouping" of settings
- Wrong argument counts
- Chinese
- Unexpected notations
- Most of the things which make you want to stab users
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- "I didn't realize the behavior was
o(n^3)
"
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Quite a bit better at this than unit testing
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Quite a bit better at this than unit testing
- It's documentation which fights back
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- One good stoch test is worth dozens of (related) unit tests
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- "I didn't realize the behavior was o(n^3)"
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- One good stoch test is worth dozens of (related) unit tests
- For matrix coverage, dozens per axis
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- One good stoch test is worth dozens of (related) unit tests
- For matrix coverage, dozens per axis
- These arguably accumulate by multiplying, not adding, so for five axes, this is effectively tens of thousands of tests
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- One good stoch test is worth dozens of (related) unit tests
- For matrix coverage, dozens per axis
- Potentially thousands of free tests
- Fast and easy because not exhaustive (especially over many properties)
- Still alarmingly good at finding counter-examples
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Lets you test properties (hurr durr hence the name)
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Lets you test properties
- "This function is well defined under these circumstances:"
- Oh yeah? Show me.
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Does not limit itself to the stuff you thought of
- Lets you test properties
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Does not limit itself to the stuff you thought of
- This turns out to be very important in testing
- Lets you test properties
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Stochastic testing
The small idea
"Please do horrible things to / for me"
- Very good at finding subtle bugs in old, trusted code
- Does not limit itself to the stuff you thought of
- Lets you test properties
- Much cheaper than unit testing
- Creates verifiable documentation
- Testing on dice
- "I hate writing all these coverage cases"
- "I never thought to try..."
- Unexpected consequences
Property based
The big idea
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Pause: Someone please explain what cent splitting should do
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Pause: Someone please explain what cent splitting should do
- Please look into how that was phrased.
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Assertions made about expectations
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Assertions made about expectations
- Driven by clauses - "X should Y, except Z, when Q"
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Assertions made about expectations
- Driven by clauses - "X should Y, except Z, when Q"
- In many ways very similar to Eiffel contracts (sup Al)
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Assertions made about expectations
- Driven by clauses - "X should Y, except Z, when Q"
- In many ways very similar to Eiffel contracts
- Much simpler and easier to work with IMO
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Assertions made about expectations
- Driven by clauses - "X should Y, except Z, when Q"
- In many ways very similar to Eiffel contracts
- Much simpler and easier to work with IMO
- Non-invasive - easier to read; not quite as strong
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Assertions, clauses; like contracts
- Results the way you want
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Assertions, clauses; like contracts
- Results the way you want
- "Here is a case where your function defies the rule that you set:
[5, "tuesday", 11, 1988]
"
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Results the way you want
- "Here is a case: [5, "tuesday", 11, 1988]"
- Even without context, you get some idea what's gone wrong there
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Results the way you want
- "Here is a case: [5, "tuesday", 11, 1988]"
- Even without context, you get some idea what's wrong
- Need more counter-examples? Cool. Run it again.
Property based
The big idea
- Testing the way you think
- Results the way you want
- "Here is a case: [5, "tuesday", 11, 1988]"
- Even without context, you get some idea what's wrong
- Need more counter-examples? Cool. Run it again.
- In better tools there's "reduction"
- The tool will work with the case to try to make it simpler
- "Oh it looks like [1,"saturday",0,1988] fails too."
- Now we know it's probably the day label or the year
- We don't even know what the property is
:D
Why bother?
Why bother?
- More coverage
Why bother?
- More coverage
- Easier, once you get it
Why bother?
- More coverage
- Easier, once you get it
- Great at finding edge cases
Why bother?
- Models the definition
- More coverage
- Easier, once you get it
- Great at finding edge cases
But this doesn't work for
But
- UI/UX
- Round trip testing
But
- UI/UX
- Round trip testing
- Checking if the images load
But
- UI/UX
- Round trip testing
- Checking if the images load
- etc etc etc
But
Yep. Property/Stoch is a pretty special case testing tool. PagerDuty doesn't cover everything either.
So where does it work for us?
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
- Bizarre cases
So where does it work for us?

So where does it work for us?
- Actually lots of other places too
The list was getting long and boring, and I had lots of other boring stuff to say. Be glad I trap-doored. But seriously, the more comfortable you get with property and stoch testing, the more places you see that it can be applied, often to great effect.
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
- Bizarre cases
- Where user stupidity matters
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Be ready for purchase of multiple "tickets"
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Be ready for purchase of multiple "tickets"
- Always return the value for one purchase
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Be ready for purchase of multiple "tickets"
- Always return
- the value for one purchase
- a non-negative price
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Be ready for purchase of multiple "tickets"
- Always return
- the value for one purchase
- a non-negative price
- a price in whole cents
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Be ready for purchase of multiple "tickets"
- Always return
- the value for one purchase
- a non-negative price
- a price in whole cents
- within one-cent-per-ticket of
total / count
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Be ready for purchase of multiple "tickets"
- Always return
- the value for one purchase
- a non-negative price
- a price in whole cents
- within one-cent-per-ticket of
total / count
- Always add up to exactly the right price, iteratively
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Be ready for purchase of multiple "tickets"
- Always return
- the value for one purchase
- a non-negative price
- a price in whole cents
- within one-cent-per-ticket of
total / count
- Always add up to exactly the right price
- No matter what order, grouping, etc
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Be ready for purchase of multiple "tickets"
- Always return
- the value for one purchase
- a non-negative price
- a price in whole cents
- within one-cent-per-ticket of
total / count
- Always add up to exactly the right price
- If any of those fail, something is seriously wrong
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- A function splitting cents in a group purchase should
- Our old cent splitting stuff violated several of those
- This was in production
- I hit it in real use, not testing
- Remember cents rounding lady
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Cent splitting
- Tag-aware text trimming (Sup Andy)
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
- Bizarre cases
- Where user stupidity matters
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Unicode (holy jesus srsly)
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
- Bizarre cases
- Where user stupidity matters
So where does it work for us?

 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOCH PLEASE STOCH OH GOD I WILL DIE
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Unicode
- Checking if our libraries work against all tags
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
- Bizarre cases
- Where user stupidity matters
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Oh, it takes nine arguments and half are real valued?
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
- Bizarre cases
- Where user stupidity matters
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Oh, it takes nine arguments and half are real valued?
- Time to make a dart board
- It turns out it takes 2 million monkies to make Hamlet
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
- Bizarre cases
- Where user stupidity matters
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
encode
/ decode
- Verifying tool behavior
- Bizarre cases
- Where user stupidity matters
So where does it work for us?
- Algorithms
- Support coverage
- Partial exhaustion
- Anything functionally round-trip
- Verifying tool behavior
- DOM-compare pre-minify to post-minify
- Great for sussing out limitations ahead of time
- Bizarre cases
- Where user stupidity matters
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Daily Mindfulness
What did I learn from my 'mindfulness conversation'? How did the other person find it?
It felt somewhat odd having to fill a certain amount of time just talking when I actaully felt like getting some feedback from the other person, having my own words then fed back and rephrased through her words was quite interesting and somehwat insightful. We both found it hard to fully remember everything. While this wouldn't be my preferred style of communicating in everyday life, I found this to be a really useful technique in conflict-resolution situations in workplaces.
Which of the three suggested techniques will I use to sustain my practice?
I already have a friend who is a sounding board when it comes to mindful insights so that ticks the 'have a buddy' box. Do less than you can sounds great and definitely doable, and could be my lame excuse for when I forget to take my one mindful breath a day.
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Updates:
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Notes:
- You can open the extension by typing Alt+Shift+F. You can go to the next and previous search results by hitting Enter and Shift+Enter, respectively. Esc clears results.
- This extension uses the JavaScript regex engine. I create a regular expression using 'new RegExp(regexp, flags)', where flags are currently either 'g' or 'gi'.
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This plugin is a simple to use but very specific implementation classical type of modal popup windows.
It dynamically creates modal popups with a title, a body and and ok and/or cancel. miniModal also provides the necessary events to create those popups in a repeatable manner. So, if you have 12 instances of a "about him" popup on a page. The dynamic hooking to all those buttons and how each modal can open and close is already available as easy to change parameters.
This sample provides "edit" button to a list of poem as a degradable javascript enhancement. The behavior is added dynamically and each modal windows hook themselves automatically.
Twittered the raven, "Nevermore". And the raven, never clicking, still is loading, still is loading On the disabled button just below my open form; Twittered the raven, "Nevermore".
Roses are red, violets are blue My dog is dead, what can I do
Roses are red, violets are blue My dog is dead, what can I do
Note that this plugin requires jqModal and can be optionnaly be coupled to jquery.Metadata.
More configuration options are available, refer to the plugin's default settings for reference.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="skins/familiarLook/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="jqModal.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8">

Edit poem

 <textarea class="editPoem" style="width: 600px; height: 100px;"></textarea>

 Twittered the raven, "Nevermore". And the raven, never clicking, still is loading, still is loading On the disabled button just below my open form; Twittered the raven, "Nevermore".

 Roses are red, violets are blue My dog is dead, what can I do

 Roses are red, violets are blue My dog is dead, what can I do

$(document).ready(function(){ $(".poem").each(function(){ $this = $(this); poemId = $("pre", $this)[0].id; $this.append($('<button id="btnEdit-' + poemId + '" class="editPoemButton {poemId:' + "'" + poemId + "'" + '}">Edit</button>')) }); $(".editPoemButton").miniModal({ overlay: 10, onBeforeShow: function(hash, $this) { var poem = $("#" + $this.metadata.poemId).html(); $(".editPoem", $this).val(poem); return true; }, onOk: function($this) { $("#" + $this.metadata.poemId).html( $(".editPoem", $this).val() ) return true; }, templateWindow: function($this) { // Returns a custom template taken from a hidden div in the dom var newModal = $("#editPoemModalTemplate").clone(); newModal[0].id = ""; return newModal; } }); })
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Storing Digital Data on an Audio Cassette
A few days ago my dad bought a simple audio cassette player/recorder to make a digital copy of an old tape recording he had of Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system. I had the opportunity to try something I always wanted to try: Storing data on an audio cassette. After some researching, I decided to use RTTY (Radioteletype). I found an awesome program called Digital Master 780, which is part of a freeware Ham Radio software package, Ham Radio Deluxe.
To connect the tape player, I needed to use two 3.5mm TRS cables, one for my computer to hear the cassette player’s output, and another one to send audio to the player’s audio input for recording.
Since I only own one cable, I made a second one by using two old earphone wires, wire strippers, two alligator clips, and tape. It looks messy, but it gets the job done!
For reading and writing digital data to the tape, I tried out several audio formats that the program could use. Due to the low audio quality that the tape can store, I was only able to get away with using RTTY. After further experimentation, I decided that these are the best settings I can use:
100 Baud, 170 Hz shift, 7 bits (ASCII), 2 stop bits.
Success! Here’s a video of me writing two paragraphs of “Lorem ispum” text to the tape:
And here's a video of me reading the data back:
And here’s the audio if want to know what it sounds like, or even decode it yourself:
Although slow, I just had to try storing a file on it. I took a low-quality 70-70 pixel .gif image and used this online tool to convert it into copyable Base64-encoded text. It took about ten minutes for it to write the data to the cassette, and it used up half of the tape! After a ten-minute reading of the tape, I was able to use the same website to convert the Base64-encoded file back into its original form. It worked!
So what can I conclude about storing data on an audio cassette? It’s possible, but it’s extremely slow and space-consuming. If anything, it’s only good for storing text, as even the smallest files will consume half of your tape if you’re using Base64-encoding and RTTY-100.
What I did is not new, by the way. Some of the first desktops and early microcomputers used cassettes for data storage. The difference, however, is that they did not use RTTY (which was designed for over-the-air text communications), and instead used FSK (Frequency-shift Keying). As noted on Wikipedia, they could transfer data as a rate up to 2000 bits/s, which results in a 660Kb capacity for a 90-minute tape.
n 2011, storing data on audio cassettes is pointless and impractical. However, if you happen to have a tape and a tape recorder, it’s pretty fun to do it anyway.


CINEMA PARADISO A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1990 Mark R. Leeper
Capsule review: A loving look at a post-World War II Sicilian village and a boy who loved the movies. Salvatore Cascio is excellent as the boy and Philippe Noiret is good as his mentor. Sentimental but often moving. In re-editing much of the thrust of the film has apparently been redirected to make it a much different film than was screened in Italy. (If you have seen the film, please read the note at the end of the review.) Rating: low +3.
It is just after World War II in Giancaldo, a small town in Sicily. Life is hard, troubles are large, and most pleasures are small. One pleasure is big, bigger than the richest man in town. It is the big screen down at the Cinema Paradiso. The big screen tells big stories, stories of tortured love, action stories, musicals with big production numbers.  To Toto there is school, there is sleep, there is work, there is food, and there are movies. The first four are mundane and leave Toto in Giancaldo. Movies are magical and can take him any place in the world, from the houses of the rich to the Wild West. To Toto not just the stories are magical but the theater is also, with its bright beam coming from a sculptured lion's mouth. Toto has even sneaked a look at the machine that makes the picture and at old Alfredo, the irritable man who runs the machine that makes the movies. For Toto to get closer to the movies he will have to make friends with Alfredo and maybe learn how Alfredo runs the projector.
Thus begins a life-long friendship between young Salvatore--called Toto--and Alfredo the poor projectionist. And the friendship is built around the love both have for the movies. Set against the backdrop of the Sicilian peasant village the story shows Salvatore himself become a projectionist; we see him grow up and fall in love. The story is told in flashback as it is remembered by the adult Salvatore on the night that he has heard of Alfredo's death.
CINEMA PARADISO, directed and written by Giuseppe Tornetore, is full of loving detail about the post-war movie exhibition business and has many endearing portraits of the Sicilian peasants who mob the theater to get a touch of something that transcends their unglamorous lives. Ennio Morricone scored this film, originally three hours in length, shown in Italy at two and a half hours in 1988, and cut to about two hours for American audiences. This is a sentimental and endearing film that will be well remembered. I rate it a low +3 on the -4 to +4 scale.
(Note for those who have seen the film, spoiler for those who have not: The following is a quote from the VARIETY 11/23/88 review of the film, then called NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO. It reveals an important plot twist edited out of the version released in this country. "[Salvatore] returns to Sicily for Alfredo's funeral and finds his long lost love, now played by Brigitte Fossey. Amid many tears, Salvatore learns it was his blind friend who broke up this one, true romance of his life." In fact, it was a weakness of the film that that loose end was never tied up. Apparently the American distributor did not want Alfredo to be made less sympathetic, though anybody who steals pieces of films is not particularly sympathetic as far as I am concerned.)
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Games Task Scheduler (GTS)
A multi-processor scheduling framework for games engines
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Modules | |
| ComputeResources | |
| Implementations | |
Classes | |
| class | gts::ComputeResource |
| A ComputeResource represents a entity that can execute a Workload in a Node. More... | |
| class | gts::MacroScheduler |
| A MacroScheduler builds ISchedules for a set of ComputeResources from a DAG of Node. More... | |
| struct | gts::MacroSchedulerDesc |
| The description of a MacroSchedulerDesc to create. More... | |
| struct | gts::WorkloadContext |
| The context associated with the task being executed. More... | |
| struct | gts::WorkloadType |
| An enumeration of all supported Workload languages. More... | |
| struct | gts::ComputeResourceType |
| An enumeration of all supported ComputeResources. More... | |
| class | gts::Node |
| A Node represents a task in a generalized task DAG. It contains Workloads that are scheduled onto a ComputeResource by a MacroScheduler. More... | |
| class | gts::Schedule |
| The execution schedule for all ComputeResources. More... | |
| class | gts::Workload |
| A Workload is a base class for describing a task that can be executed by a set of ComputeResources. More... | |
Typedefs | |
| using | gts::ComputeResourceId = uint32_t |
| The UID type for identifying each instantiated ComputeResouce. | |
Variables | |
| constexpr ComputeResourceId | gts::UNKNOWN_COMP_RESOURCE = UINT32_MAX |
| The UID of an unknown ComputeResouce. | |
| constexpr ComputeResourceId | gts::ANY_COMP_RESOURCE = UNKNOWN_COMP_RESOURCE |
| The UID of any ComputeResouce. | |
Coarse-grained, persistent task scheduling framework.


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I started programming my first year of high school in C++, then tried different languages and technologies, to figure out what I liked to work with. Having tried C++, Java, Python and Objective-C, I ended high school without really knowing what I wanted to do, except I knew et had to be related to computers and programming.
Right after high school I got a full-time internship at a company in Germany, which hosts an auction platform for the European gasmarket. The internship was 8 months and I primarily concerned myself with development of a regression testing framework for the company. This framework was created with Java and Selenium, and after its completion taught to the operational team, so they could use and expand on it, after my leave.
After my internship I went to The Technical University of Denmark as a Network Engineer. This, however was not my cup of tea, so currently I'm looking for a job, learning Assembly, and just applied for Computer Science on the University of Copenhagen.


The actuator rods are analogous to the logic rods of the Digi-Comp I. It is the actuator rod which alters the states of the bits.
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The picture shows an actuator rod from a three bit knex-i-comp. The two tined fork of the conrol actuator linkage rests on the gray pully and engages with the white strut at the top of the actuator rod. The red (arity 3) connectors and white struts provide sufficient stiffness so that the actuator rod doesn't flex during operation. The gray (arity one) connectors on the left combine with white struts vertically mounted on the bit frame to form hinges on which the actuator rod can swing. The blue struts, in addition to providing structure, will engage with yellow struts mounted on the programming hardware to alter the state of a bit assembly during phase 4 of operation. The light gray (arity 2) connector near the bottom of the assembly engages with the actuator driver during phase 4 of operation. The yellow strut at the bottom engages against the actuator back-block to hold the actuator rod off-normal during phases 2 and 3 of the operation cycle. |


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Berkeley DB provides support for nested transactions. Nested transactions allow an application to decompose a large or long-running transaction into smaller units that may be independently aborted.
Normally, when beginning a transaction, the application will pass a NULL value for the parent argument to DB_ENV->txn_begin(). If, however, the parent argument is a TXN handle, the newly created transaction will be treated as a nested transaction within the parent. Transactions may nest arbitrarily deeply. For the purposes of this discussion, transactions created with a parent identifier will be called child transactions.
Once a transaction becomes a parent, as long as any of its child transactions are unresolved (that is, they have neither committed nor aborted), the parent may not issue any Berkeley DB calls except to begin more child transactions, or to commit or abort. For example, it may not issue any access method or cursor calls. After all of a parent's children have committed or aborted, the parent may again request operations on its own behalf.
The semantics of nested transactions are as follows. When a child transaction is begun, it inherits all the locks of its parent. This means that the child will never block waiting on a lock held by its parent. Further, locks held by two children of the same parent will also conflict. To make this concrete, consider the following set of transactions and lock acquisitions.
Transaction T1 is the parent transaction.  C1 also wants to acquire a write lock on A; this succeeds. If C2 attempts to acquire a write lock on A, it will block until C1 releases the lock, at which point it will succeed. Now, let's say that C1 acquires a write lock on B. If C2 now attempts to obtain a lock on B, it will block. However, let's now assume that C1 commits. Its locks are anti-inherited, which means they are given to T1, so T1 will now hold a lock on B. At this point, C2 would be unblocked and would then acquire a lock on B.
Child transactions are entirely subservient to their parent transaction. They may abort, undoing their operations regardless of the eventual fate of the parent. However, even if a child transaction commits, if its parent transaction is eventually aborted, the child's changes are undone and the child's transaction is effectively aborted. Any child transactions that are not yet resolved when the parent commits or aborts are resolved based on the parent's resolution -- committing if the parent commits and aborting if the parent aborts. Any child transactions that are not yet resolved when the parent prepares are also prepared.


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WITNESS LIST Public Education Committee April 20, 1999-2:00P HB 8 For: Dunn, David (TASB) Lara, Rene (TFT) Levin, Jay (TSTA) Martinez, Louann (TASA and TSTA) Pace, Sheryl (TTARA) Pierce, Wayne (Kaufman ISD) Rogers, Don (Texas Assoc. of Communitiy Schools) On: Hollingsworth, Lonnie (TCTA) HB 1242 For: Braswell, Ray (Denton ISD) Carpenter, Bill (Fast Growth School Coalition and Cypress Fairbanks ISD) HB 2282 For: Cortez, Evangelina (Self) HB 2326 For: Bowman, Billy (School Administrator-Santa Gertrudis ISD) Grusendorf, Bill (Tx Assoc. of Rural Schools) Howell, Mollie (Follett ISD) King, Scott (Klondike ISD) O'Hanlon, Kevin (Santa Gertrudis ISD and Stafford ISD) Perry, Russ (Harrold ISD) On: Anderson, David (TEA) HB 2341 For: Burnett, Quentin S. (President, TASA) Grusendorf, Bill (Texas Assoc. of Rural Schools) On: Braswal, Ray (Self) HB 2544 For: Caloss, Ron (H.E.B. ISD/ Texas School Alliance) Casey, Daniel (Texas School Alliance) Frailey, Alton (Spring Branch ISD and Texas School Alliance) HB 2900 On: Hollingsworth, Lonnie (TCTA) Lara, Rene (TFT) Wall, Majorie (TSTA) HB 3485 On: Hollingsworth, Lonnie (TCTA)


| base.ownany {pbdBASE} | R Documentation |
For advanced users only.
base.ownany(dim, bldim, ICTXT = 0)
dim |
global dimension |
bldim |
blocking dimension |
ICTXT |
BLACS context |
A simple wrapper of numroc. The return is the answer to
the question 'do I own any of the global matrix?'. Passing a distributed
matrix is allowed, but often it is convenient to determine that information
without even having a distributed matrix on hand. In this case, explicitly
passing the appropriate information to the arguments dim=
,
bldim=
(and CTXT=
as necessary, since it defaults to 0) while
leaving x
missing will produce the desired result. See the examples
below for more clarity.
The return for each function is local.
## Not run: # Save code in a file "demo.r" and run with 2 processors by # > mpiexec -np 2 Rscript demo.r library(pbdBASE, quiet = TRUE) init.grid() iown <- ownany(dim=c(4, 4), bldim=c(2, 2), CTXT=0) comm.print(iown, all.rank=T) finalize() ## End(Not run)


[gecode-users] Distinguishing advisors by pointer or reference?
Sebastian Albert
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Sat Mar 24 19:54:12 CET 2018
Dear list
I'm currently trying to get started with Advisors, and I'm wondering
what would be the correct way to go.
I have a propagator with four different IntViews that play different
roles, and I want to use advisors to tell which one has changed. Can I
keep references to them in my propagator object and compare these to the
advisor passed into the advise function? How should I go about this?
The two examples in MPG are sort of special and do not seem to do that,
since the first one only has advisors for variables playing the same
role, and the second one has only one, inferring the different roles
from the variable types (boolean vs. integer).
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Class Summary |
| ALog |
Convenience logging when it's just the odd log message. |
| Base64 |
Encodes and decodes to and from Base64 notation. |
| Base64.InputStream |
A Base64.InputStream will read data from another
java.io.InputStream, given in the constructor,
and encode/decode to/from Base64 notation on the fly. |
| Base64.OutputStream |
A Base64.OutputStream will write data to another
java.io.OutputStream, given in the constructor,
and encode/decode to/from Base64 notation on the fly. |
| Cache1 |
A one slot cache |
| Closure |
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| Context |
A class for setting and keeping named values. |
| Convert |
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| DatasetUtils |
Internal Dataset/DataSource factory + graph equivalents. |
| DateTimeStruct |
Parse an xsd:dateTime or xsd:date lexical form |
| ExprUtils |
Misc support for Expr |
| FmtUtils |
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| IndentedLineBuffer |
IndentLineBuffer is a buffer that records an indent level
and uses that to insert a prefix at each line. |
| IndentedWriter |
A writer that records what the current indentation level is, and
uses that to insert a prefix at each line. |
| IteratorTruncate |
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| IterLib |
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| LabelToNodeMap |
Map from _:* form to bNodes |
| Loader |
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| MappedLoader |
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| ModelUtils |
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| NodeFactory |
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| NodeIsomorphismMap |
Map nodes to nodes. |
| NodeToLabelMap |
Map nodes to blank node representations. |
| NodeToLabelMapBNode |
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| NodeUtils |
Node utilities. |
| PlainGraphMem |
A lightweight implementation of graph that uses syntactic identity
for find(), that is, .equals(), not .sameValueAs(), and also compares
language tags canonically (as lowercase). |
| PrefixMapping2 |
A prefix mapping based on global and local mappings. |
| PrintableBase |
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| PrintSerializableBase |
Simple implementation of PrintSerializable. |
| PrintUtils |
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| QueryExecUtils |
Some utilities for query processing. |
| QueryUtils |
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| RefBoolean |
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| ResultSetUtils |
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| RomanNumeral |
References:
Wikipedia on Roman Numerals
Therobs Lex & Yacc Example: Roman Numerals
which is were the idea of working right to left, instead of looking ahead, originated for me. |
| RomanNumeralDatatype |
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| SetUtils |
Non-destructive versions of set operations. |
| StringUtils |
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| Symbol |
A way to write constants |
| Timer |
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| TranslationTable |
Maps string to string for use with convenience names. |
| Utils |
Miscellaneous operations - not query specific |
| VarUtils |
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| Version |
Manage version information for subsystems |


New Years Day Announce UK And Europe 2020 Tour
New Years Day are coming back to the UK and Europe at the start of 2020
Fresh off tour with Halestorm and In This Moment, New Years Day have revealed a headline tour of the UK and Europe for next February and March.
Kicking off at The Key Club in Leeds, UK, on February 18, the continental run will end at the Legend Club in Milan, Italy, on March 8.
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“We are so excited to headline in the UK and Europe for real!” says vocalist Ash Costello. “We loved being the opener for Halestorm and In This Moment, but we are ready now to bring the full New Years Day experience to our extended UK and Europe family!”
Catch New Years Day at one of the gigs below. Get your tickets here.
New Years Day UK/Europe tour 2020
February
18 Leeds The Key Club, UK
19 Southampton 1865, UK
21 London Islington O2 Academy, UK
22 Manchester Club Academy, UK
23 Glasgow Garage, UK
25 Birmingham O2 Academy 2, UK
26 Bristol Fleece, UK
28 Paris La Maroquinerie, FR
29 Amsterdam Melkweg OZ, NL
March
01 Hamburg Bahnhof Pauli, DE
02 Copenhagen Pumpehuset, DK
04 Cologne Luxor, DE
05 Berlin Musik & Frieden, DE
06 Vienna Arena Small Hall, AT
07 Munich Backstage Halle, DE
08 Milan Legend Club, IT
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Before we get into the details, let's get a clear picture of what functions are about.  Most of you have probably come across them before in other languages, but as a brief introduction, functions serve two primary development roles:
As in most programming languages, Python functions are the simplest way to package logic you may wish to use in more than one place and more than one time. Up to now, all the code we've been writing runs immediately; functions allow us to group and parametize chunks of code to be used arbitrarily many times later.
Functions also provide a tool for splitting systems into pieces that have a well-defined role. For instance, to make a pizza from scratch, you would start by mixing the dough, rolling it out, adding toppings, baking, and so on. If you were programming a pizza-making robot, functions would help you divide the overall "make pizza" task into chunks—one function for each subtask in the process. It's easier to implement the smaller tasks in isolation than it is to implement the entire process at once. In general, functions are about procedure—how to do something, rather than what you're doing it to. We'll see why this distinction matters in Chapter 6.
Here, we talk about function basics, scope rules and argument passing, and a handful of related concepts. As we'll see, functions don't imply much new syntax, but they do lead us to some bigger programming ideas.
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