| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| AbstractRuleFactory | |
| IConstantRule | |
| IDoubleCommunicationRule | |
| IPriorityRule | |
| IRule | |
| IStochasticRule |
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| AbstractRule |
This class represents all kind of rules, intended to be extended to fulfill
the requirements of each P-System group
|
| HandRule |
This class provides common functionality for Left Hand Rules and Right Hand
Rules
|
| InnerRuleMembrane |
This class represents membranes which, in models which accept collaboration,
are the children membrane of an outer membrane involved in the rule
|
| LeftHandRule |
This class represents left hand rules
|
| OuterRuleMembrane |
This class represents the outer, main membrane of each hand rule
|
| RightHandRule |
This class represents right hand rules
|
| RuleComparator | |
| RulesSet |
A Set for rules
|


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JAMON, JAMON (HAM HAM) A Film Review Copyright Dragan Antulov 2000
Everyone knows that good marketing can sell bad films, but this phenomenon isn't limited to the plebeian masses. Even the critics might fall for couple of well-thought catchphrases and give raving reviews to films that don't deserve it. That slogan can be something like "outrageous sexy comedy coming from the country of Pedro Almodovar". This is the only way to explain why JAMON, JAMON, 1992 comedy by Spanish director J.J. Bigas Luna, won all those festival prizes.
The plot takes place in small Spanish town where young Jose Luis (played by Jordi Mola) works in the underwear factory owned by his parents. His 18-year girlfriend Sylvia (played by Penelope Cruz), who works in the factory, is pregnant so Jose Luis decides to propose her.  In order to break the engagement Conchita hires services of local stud and underwear model Raul (played by Javier Bardem) who is supposed to seduce Sylvia. However, her scheme doesn't go as planned - Conchita falls in love with Raul, Jose Luis finds solace in Carmen, while Jose Luis' father begins making moves on his son's fiancee.
JAMON, JAMON was supposed to be comedy but is actually a drama. Lack of humour is just one of its problems - Bigas Luna desperately tries to compensate laughs with series of outrageous romantic twists more suitable for South American soap operas. His attempts to give some "cool" visual identity to the film through Freudian images or explicitly sexual images barely keep our attention because of their repetitiveness. Acting is fine, but commanding screen personality of Javier Bardem, as well as girl- next-door charm of Penelope Cruz seem wasted. The ending sacrifices dramatic plausibility for the sake of "meaningful" final shot and therefore only underlines the impression of a movie which could be perfectly described by the phrase "artsy-fartsy".
RATING: 4/10 (+)
Review written on October 3rd 2000
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JE ships with several command line tools that you can use to help you manage your databases. They are:
Dumps a database to a flat-text representation. Options are:
-f
Identifies the file to which the output from this command is written. The console (standard out) is used by default.
-h
Identifies the environment's directory. This parameter is required.
-l
Lists the databases contained in the environment. If the -s
is
not provided, then this argument is required.
-p
Prints database records in human-readable format.
-r
Salvage data from a possibly corrupt file. When used on a uncorrupted database, this option should return data equivalent to a normal dump, but most likely in a different order.
This option causes the ensuing output to go to a file named
dbname.dump
where
dbname is the name of the database you are dumping. The
file is placed in the current working directory.
-R
Aggressively salvage data from a possibly corrupt file. This option differs from the -r option in that it will return all possible data from the file at the risk of also returning already deleted or otherwise nonsensical items. Data dumped in this fashion will almost certainly have to be edited by hand or other means before the data is ready for reload into another database.
This option causes the ensuing output to go to a file named
dbname.dump
where
dbname is the name of the database you are dumping. The
file is placed in the current working directory.
-s
Identifies the database to be dumped. If this option is not specified, then the -l
is required.
-v
Prints progress information to the console for
-r
or -R
mode.
-V
Prints the database version number and then quits. All other command line options are ignored.
For example:
> java com.sleepycat.je.util.DbDump -h . -p -s VendorDB
VERSION=3
format=print
type=btree
database=VendorDB
dupsort=false
HEADER=END
Mom's Kitchen
sr\01\01xpt\00\0d53 Yerman Ct.t\00\0c763 554 9200t\00\0bMiddle Townt\00
\0eMaggie Kultgent\00\10763 554 9200 x12t\00\02MNt\00\0dMom's Kitchent\00
\0555432
Off the Vine
sr\01\01xpt\00\10133 American Ct.t\00\0c563 121 3800t\00\0aCentennialt\00
\08Bob Kingt\00\10563 121 3800 x54t\00\02IAt\00\0cOff the Vinet\00\0552002
Simply Fresh
sr\01\01xpt\00\1115612 Bogart Lanet\00\0c420 333 3912t\00\08Harrigant\00
\0fCheryl Swedbergt\00\0c420 333 3952t\00\02WIt\00\0cSimply Fresht\00\0
553704
The Baking Pan
sr\01\01xpt\00\0e1415 53rd Ave.t\00\0c320 442 2277t\00\07Dutchint\00\09
Mike Roant\00\0c320 442 6879t\00\02MNt\00\0eThe Baking Pant\00\0556304
The Pantry
sr\01\01xpt\00\111206 N. Creek Wayt\00\0c763 555 3391t\00\0bMiddle Town
t\00\0fSully Beckstromt\00\0c763 555 3391t\00\02MNt\00\0aThe Pantryt\00
\0555432
TriCounty Produce
sr\01\01xpt\00\12309 S. Main Streett\00\0c763 555 5761t\00\0bMiddle Townt
\00\0dMort Dufresnet\00\0c763 555 5765t\00\02MNt\00\11TriCounty Producet
\00\0555432
DATA=END
>
Loads a database from the output produced by DbDump
.
Options are:
-c
Specifies configuration options. The options supplied here override the corresponding options that appear in the data that is being loaded. This option takes values of the form name=value, where name is the configuration option that you are overriding and value is the new value for the option.
The following options can be specified:
database
The name of the database to be loaded. This option duplicates the functionality of
this command's -s
command line option.
dupsort
Indicates whether duplicates are allowed in the database. A value of
true
allows duplicates in the database.
-f
Identifies the file from which the database is to be loaded.
-n
Do not overwrite existing keys in the database when loading into an already existing database. If a key/data pair cannot be loaded into the database for this reason, a warning message is displayed on the standard error output, and the key/data pair are skipped
-h
Identifies the environment's directory. This parameter is required.
-l
Allows loading databases that were dumped with the Berkeley DB C product, when the dump file contains parameters not known to JE.
-s
Overrides the database name, causing the data to be loaded into a database that uses the name supplied to this parameter.
-T
Causes a flat text file to be loaded into the database.
The input must be paired lines of text, where the first line of the pair is the key item, and the second line of the pair is its corresponding data item.
A simple escape mechanism, where newline and backslash (\) characters are special, is applied to the text input. Newline characters are interpreted as record separators. Backslash characters in the text will be interpreted in one of two ways: If the backslash character precedes another backslash character, the pair will be interpreted as a literal backslash. If the backslash character precedes any other character, the two characters following the backslash will be interpreted as a hexadecimal specification of a single character; for example, \0a is a newline character in the ASCII character set.
For this reason, any backslash or newline characters that naturally occur in the text input must be escaped to avoid misinterpretation by db_load.
-v
Report periodic load status to the console.
-V
Prints the database version number and then quits. All other command line options are ignored.
For example:
>java com.sleepycat.je.util.DbDump -h . -s VendorDB -f vendordb.txt
>java com.sleepycat.je.util.DbLoad -h . -f vendordb.txt
>
Examines the identified database for errors. Options are:
-h
Identifies the environment's directory. This parameter is required.
-q
Suppress the printing of any error descriptions. Instead, simply exit success or failure.
-s
Identifies the database to be verified. This parameter is required.
-V
Prints the database version number and then quits. All other command line options are ignored.
-v
Report intermediate statistics every N leaf nodes, where N is the value that you provide this parameter.
For example:
> java com.sleepycat.je.util.DbVerify -h . -s VendorDB
<BtreeStats>
<BottomInternalNodesByLevel total="1">
<Item level="1" count="1"/>
</BottomInternalNodesByLevel>
<InternalNodesByLevel total="1">
<Item level="2" count="1"/>
</InternalNodesByLevel>
<LeafNodes count="6"/>
<DeletedLeafNodes count="0"/>
<DuplicateCountLeafNodes count="0"/>
<MainTreeMaxDepth depth="2"/>
<DuplicateTreeMaxDepth depth="0"/>
</BtreeStats>


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This tool accepts ONLY files of type {{file_types}} with a size limit of 15MB.
After uploading, the server will run the checker with your file.
The checker will try to build your code (if needed) and run it with input.
The output of your code will then be compared to the output we got from the reference (secret) implementation.
Upload your code, then see a job ID, and you can check the status of the job from your browser.
At this time, this tool is for your checking yourself. You can use it as many times you need
It does NOT replace submitting to Moodle!
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Thank you, Cassie Mackenzie, for designing our logo, invitations and posters. Your patience and skills are priceless!
We are so lucky to have people volunteer not only their time but creative ideas, energy and support. Thank you, everyone!


1.0.6 / 2017-09-14
- Improve @std/esm compatibility.
1.0.5 / 2017-03-17
- Maintenance.  Thanks to @bastien-roucaries for the help.
1.0.4 / 2016-12-15
- Bump dev dependencies.
- Make sure
err.message
is filled on throw.
- Code examples for utf-16 string encoding & object compression.
1.0.3 / 2016-07-25
- Maintenance: re-release to properly display latest version in npm registry
and badges. Because
npm publish
timestamp used instead of versions.
1.0.2 / 2016-07-21
- Fixed nasty bug in deflate (wrong
d_buf
offset), which could cause
broken data in some rare cases.
- Also released as 0.2.9 to give chance to old dependents, not updated to 1.x
version.
1.0.1 / 2016-04-01
- Added dictionary support. Thanks to @dignifiedquire.
1.0.0 / 2016-02-17
- Maintenance release (semver, coding style).
0.2.8 / 2015-09-14
- Fixed regression after 0.2.4 for edge conditions in inflate wrapper (#65).
Added more tests to cover possible cases.
0.2.7 / 2015-06-09
- Added Z_SYNC_FLUSH support. Thanks to @TinoLange.
0.2.6 / 2015-03-24
0.2.5 / 2014-07-19
- Workaround for Chrome 38.0.2096.0 script parser bug, #30.
0.2.4 / 2014-07-07
- Fixed bug in inflate wrapper, #29
0.2.3 / 2014-06-09
- Maintenance release, dependencies update.
0.2.2 / 2014-06-04
- Fixed iOS 5.1 Safari issue with
apply(typed_array)
, #26.
0.2.1 / 2014-05-01
- Fixed collision on switch dynamic/fixed tables.
0.2.0 / 2014-04-18
- Added custom gzip headers support.
- Added strings support.
- Improved memory allocations for small chunks.
- ZStream properties rename/cleanup.
- More coverage tests.
0.1.1 / 2014-03-20
- Bugfixes for inflate/deflate.
0.1.0 / 2014-03-15


Bolt is a pure Go key/value store inspired by [Howard Chu’s][hyc_symas] and the [LMDB project][lmdb]. The goal of the project is to provide a simple, fast, and reliable database for projects that don’t require a full database server such as Postgres or MySQL.
Since Bolt is meant to be used as such a low-level piece of functionality, simplicity is key. The API will be small and only focus on getting values and setting values. That’s it.
[hyc_symas]: https://twitter.com/hyc_symas [lmdb]: http://symas.com/mdb/
Bolt is stable and the API is fixed. Full unit test coverage and randomized black box testing are used to ensure database consistency and thread safety. Bolt is currently in high-load production environments serving databases as large as 1TB. Many companies such as Shopify and Heroku use Bolt-backed services every day.
To start using Bolt, install Go and run go get
:
$ go get github.com/boltdb/bolt/...
This will retrieve the library and install the bolt
command line utility into
your $GOBIN
path.
The top-level object in Bolt is a DB
. It is represented as a single file on
your disk and represents a consistent snapshot of your data.
To open your database, simply use the bolt.Open()
function:
package main
import (
"log"
"github.com/boltdb/bolt"
)
func main() {
// Open the my.db data file in your current directory.
// It will be created if it doesn't exist.
db, err := bolt.Open("my.db", 0600, nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer db.Close()
...
}
Please note that Bolt obtains a file lock on the data file so multiple processes
cannot open the same database at the same time. Opening an already open Bolt
database will cause it to hang until the other process closes it. To prevent
an indefinite wait you can pass a timeout option to the Open()
function:
db, err := bolt.Open("my.db", 0600, &bolt.Options{Timeout: 1 * time.Second})
MIT
Ben Johnson et al


Extending JMVC could not be easier. Basically You can either use the JMVC.extend function which manages
automatically the JMVC namespace
, either write into the JMVC namespace (with some care) or create Your own ns.
Once You wrote your extension, save it within the app/extensions/ folder, require and use it in the Controller
action.
If You save Your extension in /app/extensions/foo/mylib.js the right path to load it with the require function is 'foo/mylib'
There are some good reason to use the JMVC.extend function:


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1 tablet |
oral |
MDMA |
(pill / tablet) |
| |
0.5 tablets |
oral |
MDMA |
(liquid) |
I have always been one who likes to have a good time, and I always make sure to that. In my fifteen years of life, I haven't been extreme when it comes to drug use, but I have been smoking pot since I was twelve as well as drinking, and I have done mushrooms countless times. My best friend had been asking me to do ecstasy with her for quite a while (she had done it before) and I finally agreed to it since her parents were going to be out of town and we had the house to ourselves. We had planned to get 2 tabs, one for each of us.
Well, before we got our E, we started drinking. This was at around 5:30 PM. We decided to down some Weisers (for those of you who don't know, it's a type of Canadian Whiskey). I can't remember exactly how much, but we were both pretty tipsy. We then decided to go and walk to guy's house who had our stuff. It was about a fifteen minute walk, and when we got there, we went down into his basement where he handed us our tabs in a plastic baggie with not two but three tabs. We also sat and smoked a joint with him, and he gave this all to us for $25 Canadian, being of course that he is a good friend of my friend's brother.
Since I had never done ecstasy before, I didn't know of the different types, and I still don't know what kind we took. All I remember is that they were greenish blue tablets. Well, my friend and I walked back to her house, drunk and baked, and when we got there we waited about an hour or so (it was now about 7:30) and then each swallowed one tab. I sat down, waiting for the effects to start. I asked my friend for a drink, and she brought me some water, with (little did I know...) half of the third tab crushed inside. She told me she wanted us both to have the best possible effects, and she thought I'd be too pussy to consume a whole one and half of another, since it was my first time. Normally, I probably would be a little mad that she did that without informing me, but at that point, I was drunk and anxiously awaiting the effects, so I didn't care.
Well after waiting for about 30-45 minutes, I looked in the mirror and my pupils were quite big. I don't remember feeling anything super intense when it started to kick in, since I was expecting something like a sudden rush of intensness but it seemed to just gradually come on, making me feel giddy and happy even more so second after second. I just couldn't help but smile and my friend and I were babbling on to each other about 300 words per second it seemed. Everything just seemed so lovely and wonderful.  My friend said that she felt as though she couldn't breath properly, and she was taking large, deep breaths, but as for my breathing, it felt perfectly normal.
Well, after about twenty-five minutes, we decided to call up some friends to come over. I phoned one of my friends and asked what was going on tonight. He said that he'd stop by with some people and we'd all figure out what we'd do for that night. He ended up driving over by himself, and my friend and I asked him where everyone was. He informed us that everyone was at the movies, then heading out to a party at the lake. My friend and I wanted to go, because we were straight fucked at this point and all we felt like doing was moving around, talking (babbling would be more like it) and dancing.
Instead, we ended up going into the woods with our friend that had just come over and we went 4bying. Being high off the ground in his truck felt amazing, and the whole time, I couldn't keep my hands off the back of his neck, because touching felt great. Soon, we came to a little clearing and parked the truck. We got in the back of the truck and each had a cigarette, which felt like absolutley nothing. It felt like I was sucking on very pure, clean air.
 My friend got a hold of one guy (we'll call him T) that she knows fairly well, but who was at this point just an aquaintance to me. He stopped by the house in about five minutes, with a friend of his, who is quite a bit older than I am. I had never seen T's friend before, and instantly, I felt like I was in love with him. My friend and T went upstairs to chill and hook up, so T's friend and I were left alone downstairs. Mostly, we just talked while he slammed back about six beers, and I had about three. After a while, T's friend and I (let's call him A) totally hit it off, and we couldn't keep our hands off each other. We were making out for about an hour on the couch, and his hands and lips felt so soft and wonderful and I just wanted more and more of him.
Well this was now about eleven o'clock maybe, and the effects of the E weren't quite as powerful as earlier on, but I wasn't coming completely down yet. I somehow go the brilliant idea to go jump on the trampoline in the backyard, so we did so. Jumping on that thing made me feel like I was jumping into clouds. We soon went back inside and I was uncrontrollably (or so it seemed) moving my tongue back and forth as quickly as I could against my teeth, causing the metal of my tongue ring to scrape them. Well I was feeling soooo horny at this time, so A and I went upstairs where we had sex about 3 times through the course of the night.
After I started coming down off the E, I started to feel very tired and kind of sad, almost depressed. A kept asking me if I needed more, and I said know I'll just have a drink or two. So we went down stairs, where he made me a rum and coke, and then another, and then another. I felt as though I was going to pass out, but I can handle my alcohol better than any girl my age I know, so we just went and layed on the bed for a bit and stared at each other as though we were madly in love. We then drifted off to sleep in eachother's arms.
The next morning, we woke up in my friend's parents' bed. I opened my eyes, aware of my surroundings and the guy next to me, but I was thinking 'O shit, what have I done?'. He woke up, and started to cuddle me. To be honest, I felt a LITTLE uncomfortable, but at the same time I felt kind of nice. Hungover, but nice.
I have to say, although this sounds a little mean, that A was about 200 times better looking when I was high then that morning, not to say he was ugly or anything. Anyway, all in all, it was a great experience that I will definatley do over. As fun as ecstasy is, I would just like to say CAUTION to those who will be drinking at the same time. As much as alcohol impaires your judgement, taking E at the same time does it even more so. So be careful and have fun!! :)
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Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC > Class Template Reference
[Integer propagators]
#include <element.hh>
Inherits Gecode::Int::Element::View< VA, Gecode::VB< P, b >, VC, PC_INT_DOM >.
Detailed Description
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
class Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >
Domain consistent element propagator for array of views.
The propagator uses staging: first it uses bounds-propagation on the array of views and the uses domain-propagation on the array of views.
Requires
#include "gecode/int/element.hh"
Definition at line 193 of file element.hh.
Public Member Functions | |
| virtual Actor * | copy (Space *home, bool share) |
| Perform copying during cloning. | |
| virtual PropCost | cost (ModEventDelta med) const |
| Cost function. | |
| virtual ExecStatus | propagate (Space *home, ModEventDelta med) |
| Perform propagation. | |
| virtual Reflection::ActorSpec | spec (const Space *home, Reflection::VarMap &m) const |
| Specification for this propagator. | |
Static Public Member Functions | |
| static void | post (Space *home, Reflection::VarMap &vars, const Reflection::ActorSpec &spec) |
| Post propagator according to specification. | |
| static Support::Symbol | ati (void) |
| Name of this propagator. | |
| static ExecStatus | post (Space *home, IdxView< VA > *iv, int n, VB x0, VC x1) |
| Post propagator for . | |
Protected Member Functions | |
| ViewDom (Space *home, bool share, ViewDom &p) | |
| Constructor for cloning p. | |
| ViewDom (Space *home, IdxView< VA > *iv, int n, VB x0, VC x1) | |
| Constructor for creation. |
Constructor & Destructor Documentation
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::ViewDom | ( | Space * | home, | |
| bool | share, | |||
| ViewDom< VA, VB, VC > & | p | |||
| ) | [inline, protected] |
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::ViewDom | ( | Space * | home, | |
| IdxView< VA > * | iv, | |||
| int | n, | |||
| VB | x0, | |||
| VC | x1 | |||
| ) | [inline, protected] |
Member Function Documentation
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| Actor * Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::copy | ( | Space * | home, | |
| bool | share | |||
| ) | [inline, virtual] |
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| PropCost Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::cost | ( | ModEventDelta | med | ) | const [inline, virtual] |
Cost function.
If in stage for bounds-propagation defined as dynamic PC_LINEAR_LO, otherwise as dynamic PC_LINEAR_HI.
Reimplemented from Gecode::Int::Element::View< VA, VB, VC, pc_ac >.
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| ExecStatus Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::propagate | ( | Space * | home, | |
| ModEventDelta | med | |||
| ) | [inline, virtual] |
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| Reflection::ActorSpec Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::spec | ( | const Space * | home, | |
| Reflection::VarMap & | m | |||
| ) | const [inline, virtual] |
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| void Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::post | ( | Space * | home, | |
| Reflection::VarMap & | vars, | |||
| const Reflection::ActorSpec & | spec | |||
| ) | [inline, static] |
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| Support::Symbol Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::ati | ( | void | ) | [inline, static] |
template<class VA, class VB, class VC>
| ExecStatus Gecode::Int::Element::ViewDom< VA, VB, VC >::post | ( | Space * | home, | |
| IdxView< VA > * | iv, | |||
| int | n, | |||
| VB | x0, | |||
| VC | x1 | |||
| ) | [inline, static] |
The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
- gecode/int/element.hh (Revision: 7285)
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During my five-week internship at SightWorks, I worked with a small team of designers and engineers on a new digital product called 'Style360,' which addresses the market need for an industry-tailored website builder and educational resource for hair stylists. My roles included researching the onboarding process of related websites, sketching and wireframing the mobile and desktop versions of the product, and creating a framework UI for the reusable styles and components of the product.
Research: I conducted industry research by walking through the sign-up and onboarding process on desktop and mobile for Behind The Chair, Styleseat, Sephora, and Boooker, comparing the time investment, number of screens, and barriers to entry encountered when creating a profile. The most successful user flows took less time and fewer screens to get a working profile set up, and followed up with thorough, clear next steps for profile customization via email.
Sketch Mock-ups: We wanted to create a sleek, simple sign-up process that quickly gets stylists in the system and gives them a business website that's ready to go as is, but is also highly customizable. With those details and the needs of Style360's users in mind, I mocked up a couple prototypes in Sketch that display the onboarding process. Stylists are able to sign up and have a working business page within a matter of minutes.
Developing a framework and style guide: Beyond design, I also grew my front-end dev skills during this internship by building a library of reusable, responsive React components. Another SightWorks intern and I worked together on a typography and style guide, and from there I started creating a Style360 Framework UI to be used internally by developers. This internship was a unique opportunity, as I was able to design products across the entire product life cycle and work closely with a multidisciplinary team of senior designers, engineers, and the founders themselves.


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Once upon a time, I was at a big dinner put on by my financial advisor's firm. Everyone they worked with was invited, and they had someone from American Funds come in to pitch us. I don't remember much about who that person was or what was said, but I remember this chart.
Investing in index funds? See how 5 U.S.-focused American Funds have fared better since index funds launched. https://t.co/pyrx0M3wAI
— American Funds® (@AmericanFunds) May 6, 2017
Of course, I was supposed to be taking from it that American Funds are awesome. And they certainly did well here, and the chart makes their point well. But what really got me is this: you put $10k in an investment—even a boring, bad long-term investment like an index fund—and you can turn it into a 70x return. The American Mutual Fund, which is based on preservation of principal, still beat that and got you an 87x return. If you stuck with a mutual fund that targeted exclusively growth (AMCAP), you saw a 200x return (you also saw some terrifying dips, but it paid off in the end).  So how did these numbers get so big?
The real power of this wasn't the financial products themselves. That's not how you win. The financial products just determine how much you win. You win with the time-value of money: the combination of $10k and 40 years is the winning combination. Money through time allows you to tap the power of compound earnings. Money over time is exponential.
If you need to see that in practice, check the chart again: the funds that did the best were the ones that gained the most on the upswings. Even though they suffered worse on the downticks, they still were ahead...and when the next upswing happened, they had a head start which allowed them to pull even farther ahead. The more conservative funds couldn't catch up, and so they had to settle for mere 70x returns instead of 200x returns.
"Wow," I thought to myself, "I wish I had been forced put $10k away when I had 40 years before my retirement." I wasn't making very much at that point: I was working data entry for a sketchy and semi-predatory car loan place, so it didn't pay much, but I was living with my folks and eating their food and begging for gas money off them. I could have stashed away $10k over the course of a couple of years. If I had done that, simply by hiding that money away and ignoring it, I could be retiring with a lot of cash on hand no matter what else happened in the meantime. That'd be nice.
"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe." -Albert Einstein#quote pic.twitter.com/ZlkZeq5goX
— Nick Vail (@IntegWealthNick) October 28, 2017
I was thinking about this and about how youth is wasted on the young, and that's the point when I realized: I was forced to put money away before retirement. Specifically, that big FICA bite that came out of every paycheck added up to $10k pretty fast. If you make $40k/year, you're contributing $10k in FICA every 4 years. If you make $20k/year (roughly $10/hr), you're contributing $10k in FICA every 8 years. If you put in 4 years at $40k or 8 years at $20k before your 30th birthday, you have putting enough into social security to have earned $2,000,000 in the bank when you retire at 70. And that's if you never made another penny for your entire life. Two million.
So just how much are you putting into social security? The tax that goes to social security is called OASDI, and the Social Security Administration has historical rates. The short answer is that since 1990, 6.2% of your paycheck is taxed for social security. We'll start our calculation from 1990 simplicity's sake. Given that number and some ballpark values about income history, here's how much you've contributed, and how much your social security contributions would be worth if you invested them in 30-Year T-Bonds (the safest investment possible—basically, how much the money is worth to the government), high-yield bonds (a riskier but more profitable investment), and the 12% return rule.
Maybe you have been doing a better job than me saving for retirement, but my retirement funds aren't anything like the value of the money that I have contributed to the social security fund. Seeing those value curves going up makes me really wish that I had that kind of money at my disposal. But, the government's got that money, and they'll give me money when I get to my retirement age. So maybe I'm not missing out...? At this point, I went looking for what my social security payout can expect to be.
Right up front, let me say that I am ignoring the ugliness. As of this writing, the Social Security Trust Fund (which pays the social security benefits) is in a bad way, because Baby Boomers are drawing from it much faster than Millenials are refilling it. This was a predictable problem, and the trust fund had stashed away some surplus, but it is looking like we did not stash away enough: since 2010, we've been draining the account; in 2022, overall cost is expected to exceed total income for the fund; in 2034, the fund is completely depleted. (See the Trustee's Report Summary, search for "Key Dates for the Trust Funds".) The worst part is that it's not like we are being caught off-guard—every year since 1990, the Trustee's Report has predicted the fund being depleted between 2029 and 2043. (See Table VI.B1.) Once the fund is depleted, Social Security is expected to only be able to pay 70% of its obligations.
But let's ignore that. Let's pretend that social security is bailed out by the general fund, or some other miracle occurs, and that social security benefits for people retiring in the future remain consistent with what they are now. What would today's workers expect to receive?
There's a lot of complexity in calculating exactly what your benefits are, having to do with the amount of your income, your years working, your family situation, and your retirement age. However, there is one simple constant that cuts through all of this: the maximum benefit. You will not receive more than $2,150/mo from Social Security retirement. Period. Full stop. So if you are banking on Social Security, you are maxing out your retirement lifestyle at $25k/year, and you are only going to get that if you made $128k or more for a decade or so. (Oh, and did I mention the money you get back is taxable as income?)
At this point, let's take a look at our chart again. Let's extrapolate out using average returns on investments and our pattern of raises, and see what kind of retirement that implies for us. We'll figure that we work for 40 years and drop all our social security contributions into 12% Rule investments. Then we will retire for 60 years without making another penny. Since we don't want a stock exchange collapse or a recession to ruin our retirmeent, we'll move all our investments into Treasury Bonds (T-Bonds): T-Bonds are both safer and have a slightly better return on investment than storing the cash under our bed. During our retirement, we'll take half our interest and cash it out, and we'll save the other half, and we'll withdraw our principal evenly. This is all extremely conservative. How does that compare to Social Security's maximum payout?
Behold the power of compound interest! You will probably end up dying with money in the bank, earning nontrivial amounts of interest. This is an account that you can leave to your children. It's intergenerational wealth, which is a stark contrast to the way social security works: if you die after 62 or with adult children, the contributions just vanish. There's no more value to you or your children. It's just a tax you paid and now the money's gone.
All of this makes a pretty compelling case that, at least when it comes to ensuring a comfortable retirement for our citizens, the existing Social Security system should be replaced with an investment account. It's just hard to argue with the numbers and the power of compound interest.
Okay, so our existing Social Security structure is a really bad investment vehicle, and we (and our children) would be much better off if we took that money and invested it responsibly ourselves. "But," Clever Interlocutor says, "That's not the point! It's effectively a socialized insurance policy for death and disability, along with old age. When one of those things happens, Social Security ensures that you aren't entirely destitute." This is a totally fair point, Clever Interlocutor. Thanks for bringing it up.
I would be a poor Christian indeed if I wanted to take away support from widows and orphans. But this is where you need to know an important truth, which every employer is acutely aware of but which many employees don't know: the FICA payments you see coming out of your paycheck are literally only half the story. The government also taxes your employer at 6.2% of your income. This is beyond the 6.2% they already required your employer to take out of your paycheck, for a total of 12.4%.
So this means that there's a second pool of time-value: the first is the time-value of your contributions, amounting to 6.2% of your income; the second is a matching pool with just as much value contributed by your employer. This means that literally every worker could have a matching non-worker who they supported. That person could have an identical retirement even though they never worked a day in their life. It would be entirely possible for Social Security to just pair people up at birth, one from a low socioeconomic setting and one from a high socioeconomic setting, and then have the two of them have the exact same benefits throughout their life. It'd be like The Prince and the Pauper, Retirement Edition. Although that is an interesting concept for a story, it's a pretty ham-fisted way to go about things. For the moment, it suffices to note that there is a pool of money available to address these issues which is equal in value to the pool of money that people have generated for their own retirement.
"I will let that slide for the moment," Clever Interlocutor interjects, "But caring for others is only part of the issue. People routinely lose their financial security when economic crashes happen, such as the Enron implosion or the Great Recession in the 2000s. Even when we are talking about the individual, Social Security provides a kind of guarantee of a baseline income in retirement, which stock investment portfolios simply cannot do."
Again, you're right, Clever Interlocutor. So there are some important caveats that we need to note. A total stock market collapse would indeed wipe out a lot of financial products, including high-yield bond and stock investments. There are a whole world of even riskier investments that people are often sold, and there is the unfortunate fact that investors—especially amateurs who consider themselves well-informed—tend to think they are leading trends when really they are following them, which is a very risky and expensive behavior for an investor. (The excellent book, Nudge, covers this is detail.)
The purpose of Social Security is not to make you rich in retirement or build intergenerational wealth. (Although it's awesome if it can do that, too.) The purpose of Social Security is to ensure that you are capable of retiring, and to do so without becoming destitute. So any kind of Social Security account would need to have a lot more constraints on it than a voluntary retirement account. We saw this in our scenario in the conservative behavior: withdrawing only a small amount of our principal at a time, reinvesting half our interest, and putting our money into T-Bonds. Without those kind of regulations being in place, an individual account is not serving one of the key purposes that Social Security is there to serve.
In case the graphs above have not made the power of compound interest really obvious, let me tell you the Parable of the Prodigious Daughter. There was a family that had two twin children, a daughter and a son. The daughter scrimped and saved early on in her life and put away $15,000 in 12% Rule investments. She then went to work with impoverished and homeless communities, which meant she didn't have any more money to save up. Her brother, on the other hand, began contributing to his retirement only after his sister did. He also didn't "go nuts" like she did, instead contributing $1000 a year for the next 39 years. He copied is sister's investments identically. When it came time to retire, he had contributed $39,000 and had almost $700,000 to retire on. Not too shabby! But she had only contributed $15,000—that's less than half of what he had contributed—yet retired with more than twice the cash her brother did. One year makes that much difference when compound interest is in play.
This power of compound interest is the secret to the account-based Social Security alternative. It's why this approach will stay effectively solvent while the existing Social Security system is failing. This power, however, needs to be protected. There's going to be a tendency for people to want to get at their money. That's a reasonable desire, and I get it. Yet for an account-based Social Security alternative to work, the first key regulation must protect the time-value of worker's contributions by preventing account-holders from withdrawing money too soon. They need to be like the daughter, not like the son, becuase the contributions alone aren't enough to provide for retirement. This isn't a hypothetical fact, this is a demonstrated fact: sacrificing the time-value of money is exactly the reason the current Social Security system has failed.
The current Social Security system is based on the current workers paying taxes which directly pay for the benefits to retirees, based on the promise that when the current workers retire, the new breed of current worker will support them. But this system only works if the workforce and its income keeps growing faster than the people dependent upon it. The problems with this approach are identical to a Ponzi Scheme, which is not an accident. An account-based Social Security alternative avoids the existing Ponzi scheme problems, but it can only work if workers are forced to leave their money in the accounts. Otherwise, the power of compound interest is lost, we are dependent on the contributions alone, and that's just not going to work.
(BTW, if anyone ever says that Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme, please correct them: Ponzi Schemes promise high rates of return.)
So far, I've been assuming a lot about return on investments for the sake of simplicity. But there is a nasty devil in the details, and it has to do with risk. It's an assumed truth that the stock market will always go up given a long enough period of time, and that assumed truth is the key to Warren Buffett's wealth (among others), so it seems safe for us to depend on it. Given enough time, you'll always win if you play the markets broadly. The problem is what happens when you run out of time.
Between October 9th, 2007, and March 9th, 2009, the NASDAQ, S&P 500, and Dow Jones all lost 55% or more of their value (cite). Given that the stock market does always go up given enough time, this translates into a firesale for those with time to wait, but does that lost value hamstring their ability to grow? And how does this impact people without time to grow? This sounds like we need another chart.
In the following chart, we have two people who make the same amount of money (the median US income, $40k), and they have both put all their money into the market at 12% Return Rule investments, but they get hit with a 55% market downturn at some point in their 40 year contributing career. The chart below shows how being hit at different times (or not at all) impacts the money available at the end of the career.
Taking a major hit from a market downturn is clearly painful no matter when it happens, but it is especially painful as you get closer to retirement: the amazing power of compound interest is foiled by a huge market downturn without time for the compound interest build up again. Good mutual funds—especially those that emphasize "preservation of principal"—already understand how to protect against market downturns, and they do so by using government bonds (and other low-risk bonds) as a hedge. We actually already used this approach (in an extreme way) in our retirement calculator: we shifted all our investments into Treasury Bonds at retirement. A Treasury Bill (aka: T-Bill) is basically a contract with the US Treasury where you give them your money for a certain number of years, and they give you a percentage return on that interest.
It would take the effective collapse of the US government for T-Bonds to lose their value, so they are the ultimate insurance policy for US investors. They are also the lowest possible risk investment, and therefore the lowest possible return investment. Although you do make some interest off T-Bonds, you are missing out on the potential of making a lot more. But if the purpose of Social Security is to ensure that people are able to retire and not be destitute, then T-Bonds are exactly a product we can use to get there, and the accounts should be required to carry an appropriate amount of T-Bonds as investments to mitigate risk, even if that limits our returns. That's the cost of security.
The conventional wisdom is that you should have some multiple of your age in bonds, with that multiple being somewhere between 0.5 and 2.5. The higher that multiple, the more you carry in bonds, and the less overall return you would expect to see in the long run. However, the higher that multiple, the more you carry in bonds, and the less you will expect to lose in short-term market downturns.
To see this balancing act in action, let's take a look at Alice and Bob again, but this time assuming they start work at 20 years old, retire at 60 years old, carry T-Bonds equal to their age in percent. Since they hit their market downturns at different ages, the impact of this insurance will be be markedly different on their account balance.
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. It never works to your advantage to carry insurance with a mere 55% market downturn (ie: the Great Recession). But we know that it can get worse than that. So let's take a look at the worst downturn in US history: the crash of 1929. This is the Big Baddy, the one that started the Great Depression. It was a 82% downturn (cite), so let's take a look at that.
Wow. Even in this worst-case-in-history example, people hit early on in their investment careers are better off without the insurance that bonds provide. In fact, the bond insurance hurts you more than it helps until are well over halfway through your investment career, and that help isn't significant at all until you get to the last 5 to 10 years. Even then, the help is not very significant: it protects about 20% of your principal in the case of a second Great Depression hitting. As we saw above, anything less was pure downside with no upside.
Now, these models aren't realistic: they treat the hit as a one-time thing, and immediately resume 12% Rule levels of returns. Truly severe economic downturns take years to recover and don't have those levels of return in the meantime. However, they make the point that the damage done by low returns is worse than the damage done by economic downturns, assuming you have time to wait for the recovery and are playing the market as a whole.
Before we get too excited about dumping our bonds, there are three important caveats that we need to remember.
It's important to remember that some people have zero time to wait: those who are in retirement cannot afford a 55% or 82% loss on their principal, because they are living off of it. So T-Bonds are the perfect investment vehicle for those folks, because preservation of principal—that is, not losing any money—is the most important thing.
Second, it's important to remember that the guaranteed recovery comes from playing the market as a whole, not individual stocks or even sectors. It's entirely possible to lose everything in stocks, such as with folks working at Enron who invested in company stock.
Finally, it's important to remember that Social Security is not primarily an investment vehicle. Social Security is a social safety net: it's the last resort to ensure that we do not have people left destitute because they cannot work due to age or disability, or because their spouse or parent died. So although an overall insurance policy may not make sense, we also cannot allow a market collapse to leave folks destitute. There must be a financial foundation and lifestyle floor provided by Social Security.
I mentioned above that there's a matching 6.2% Social Security tax required from employers, and that this creates a pool of money which can be used to supplement others. Just how much are we talking, though, and how much of a difference can that make?
Let's start by looking at the breakdown of income by percentile, so we can get a sense of just how much we're talking when we talk about the available income.
Okay, so there's our hockey stick of earnings. But how does that translate into the amount of money available? That's a simple matter of math, so here's the graph.
It's amazing how big numbers multiply and get even bigger really fast. There are
167,736,100
working Americans. That means there are 167,736
working
Americans per percentile. If their employers pay in 6.2%
of their income, that's
a lot. It's $31,282,111,706
in 2016 for the top percentile alone. That's
$96
for every adult American.
BTW, if you're curious about proportions of contributions, here those are by quintile.
So, my thinking is that everyone should help everyone below them. Let's take that money from the employers match and split it among the accounts of everyone in a lower percentile. If we do that, here's what the breakdown benefits looks like.
Yikes. That doesn't look like much. Let's consider the case of someone who makes literally no money. This would be a stay-at-home parent or extremely disabled individual, for instance, so it's an important group to consider. Their account only gets $1900/year. What does that look like in terms of saving for retirement?
Folks who never work a day in their life (for whatever reason) retire at over $40k a year. Not too shabby, and definitely better than the existing social security system. All of this is based on only $1900/year contributed over 40 years—if you're not getting the point yet, compound interest truly is amazing. More importantly, this could be our new absolute basement for lifestyle in retirement in the United States.
We have one last group to consider, and that is the severely disabled. The existing social security system provides support for those who have disabilities severe enough to completely prevent them from working. For these folks, however, a contribution of $1900/year isn't going to keep them alive, much less provide for their long-term security. We will return to these individuals and how we can financially provide for them once we get a bit farther down the road. But we need to keep them in mind.
We have all the pieces that we need to put together a sane alternative to our existing Social Security system. But, before we do, let's revisit the question: Why do we bother? I mean, the existing social security system is astoundingly bad at managing our money, but bureaucratic incompetence isn't the main reason it needs to be replaced. Financial security in our society is found in wealth: money in the bank that generates interest is true financial security, while an entitlement payout keeps people destitute, demoralized, and dependent. We want a society where people are financially fit, and we clearly need a universal mandate for some baseline savings in order to get there.
After digging through all this, here is what seems to make sense.
First, we need to get money out of the existing social security system and into our investment-based system.
Now that we have money on hand, we can invest it.
How do we invest this money? On the one hand, this account is our society's baseline account, and we don't want to mess with it much. On the other hand, we saw above that time provides its own insurance policy against risk. It's also important to notice that we also want to keep things simple and straightforward to minimize the opportunities for corruption or abuse, as well as minimizing the amount of work the government has to do. Here's how to balance that out.
Social Security is there in part so that we can have a baseline level of wealth in our society. We want to make sure those who are disabled or destitute have a financial platform from which they can continue to thrive, while continuing to reward the drive to industry that characterizes the American spirit and makes America such an incredible economic and cultural powerhouse.
To that end, there are two kinds of sharing: Social Sharing and Familial Sharing. The purpose of Social Sharing is to ensure that baseline level of prosperity throughout our society. The purpose of Familial Sharing is to ensure that all members of a family unit benefit from the family's collective labor, and to help realize the American dream of giving our children a better life than we had.
There's an important concept that we introduce when it comes to sharing: the Contribution Percentile. Your contribution percentile is the sum of your mandatory contributions into your Individual Security Account, multiplied by some coefficient (representing the conversion of your income into a "household income" number, along with some a need for social support as necessary), and then calcuated as a percentile within the US population. The multiplier is detailed in Fiddling Details below.
Here are the two kinds of sharing that people participate in:
That familial sharing may seem a bit odd, but it has two purposes.
The less important purpose is to stabilize the accounts between spouses, especially ensuring that non-working spouses are getting some pittance into their own accounts. We especially want to support people who leave the commercial workforce to raise children. Given divorce rates, gender inequality in pay, and the like, this minor levelling is necessary.
While that is a nice side benefit, the primary purpose of familial sharing is to get children benefitting from compound interest starting from infancy, because time is the primary value that we are capitalizing on. Just in case the power of compound interest has stopped impressing you, here's another interactive chart to play with. It shows the benefits of just the parent's contributions to a child's account until the child reaches retirement age.
Keep in mind the chart above assumes that the child has a sibling and never contributes to their own account. This is notably also not including any sharedown. The investments are also conservative: it's 30 Year T-Bills until 18, 12% return from 18 until 50, and then back to the T-Bills until 65.
So now we see how the money gets into the accounts. Since the money is in an individual account, we are not terribly picky about how people withdraw it: we don't need the level of oversight and concern that the existing Social Security system has. However, we do want to institute some rules, because we don't want a 20 year old to empty their account and then end up starving at 30.
The first way we will control that is by setting a limit on how much can be withdrawn. Since the purpose of these accounts is to generate lasting, intergenerational wealth, we want to ensure that the account has money in it at the end, and it is okay if a bit is left over when the account holder dies. Therefore, we set the terminal date of the account at 125 years after the holder's birth. The amount you can withdraw is such that the current account balance is evenly split between now and that terminal date. These withdrawls can be made weekly. You have two options for how to calculate the amount you can withdraw each week.
The second way to control withdrawls is by defining eligibility criteria. These are to be managed by the financial institution holding the account, which is audited for compliance by the SSA. Here are the eligibility criteria:
So these handle cases of disabled individuals who cannot work, people who are (or should be) out of the workforce for some reason or another, or the classic moments of life hardship. These criteria aren't too hard to meet, but you have to prove they occurred and provide auditable evidence of that to the institution that holds the account. That slight hurdle is the extent of the discouragement: otherwise, it's up to you to be reasonable with when you withdraw from your account, keeping in mind that the only person you're hurting is your own retirement.
Also, since we do not want a market downturn to hurt those who are already suffering, we need to institute a rule: while you are withdrawing from your account and for one year afterwards, new investments and re-investments must be made into T-Bills. This includes maturing bonds, dividends, and sharedown contributions. All that goes into T-Bills. It is hurting the long-term profitability of your account, but someone in that position is too financially fragile to be able to weather ups and downs. If you don't like that, don't withdraw. If you have no choice but to withdraw, then you're one of those fragile people.
Sure. If you have enough money in your account to live a reasonable lifestyle, then go for it.
Create some art, start a business, make a living crafting, take some time to garden or raise your kids. Enjoy.
Ssssh. Don't tell anyone!
(I mean, not really, but it's about 80% of Universal Basic Income without putting any burden on the state to fund it, so close enough.)
Here are some fiddling details for the financial wonks in the audience. They are in no particular order.


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Karnataka is the largest state in South India and sixth largest in India. The state is in the south western region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956.
Karnataka is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to the north, Telangana to the northeast, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the south. It is the only southern state to have land borders with all of the other 4 southern Indian sister states.
Lalbagh is a 240 acres (0.97 km2) garden and is located in south Bengaluru. It holds two flower shows and has over 1,000 species of plants with many trees that are more than a hundred years old.
ISKCON Temple Bangalore is one of the largest Krishna Hindu temples in the world, affiliated with ISKCON Revival Movement. It is located at Rajajinagar, in North Bangalore.
Bangalore Palace is a royal residence located in Bengaluru that is owned by the Wadiyar Dynasty and is open to tourists and public. This palace was a summer resting place for the Wadiyars.
The Statue of Lord Shiva in Murudeshwar is the second biggest statue of Lord Shiva in the world. The statue and temple are located on the beach in Murudeshwara, which lies on the Arabian Sea coastal line.
It is the second highest plunge waterfall in India. It is a segmented waterfall which depends on rain and season becomes a plunge waterfall.
Virupaksha Temple is located in Hampi in the Ballari district of Karnataka, India. It is part of the Group of Monuments at Hampi, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Mysore Palace is a historical palace and the royal residence at Mysore in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the official residence of the Wadiyar dynasty and the seat of the Kingdom of Mysore.
The Bringavan Garden is laid out in 3 terraces which contain water fountains, Ficus trees, foliage plants such as Duranta plumaria and Euphorbia and flowering plants like Celosia, Marigold and bougainvillea.
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3. Select styled by bootstrap's form-control CSS rule
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This control is simple, old style, three drop down for Year, Month and Day for selecting Date. Calendar style date controls are little complicated to choose for longer year range. But this is still the most simple way to choose date yet.
Value property of AtomDateControl accepts date as JavaScript Date object, or Microsoft Rest Date Format in /Date(334343433)/ form or simple parsable Date format.
Year drop down is loaded with range specified by startYear and endYear properties. Both these properties are relative to current Year and they are added to current Year and the range is loaded automatically. In above example, you can see that year starts 5 years back in the past till 20 years in the future. Also note, in order to make things simpler, we have set values in curley braces, so values are recognized as proper javascript numbers.


[UPDATE, IT’S REAL] Android 5.1
Few hours ago, Google updated their site for Android One in Indonesia with Android 5.1.
And now, it’s real and confirmed. Android 5.1 is now running on Evercoss One X, Mito Impact and Nexian Journey. And it will also available to update for Nexus 5,6 and 9 very very soon.
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We mentioned this few hours ago:
Android One is coming to Indonesia very very soon and the phone will running the ‘latest’ version of Android 5.1. What? 5.1??? YES, 5.1 not 5.01!
Android 5.1
The sweetest version of Android, 5.0 Lollipop is announced during Google I/O 2014. And now Google ‘introduce’ the new Android 5.1 indirectly but it sound legit.
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BULLETS OVER BROADWAY A film review by Michael John Legeros Copyright 1994 Michael John Legeros
Directed by Woody Allen Written by Allen and Douglas McGrath Cast Jim Broadbent, John Cusack, Harvey Fierstein, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-Louise Parker, Rob Reiner, Jennifer Tilly, Tracey Ullman, Joe Viterelli, Jack Warden, and Dianne Wiest MPAA Rating "R" (presumably for language) Running Time 99 minutes Reviewed at Colony Theater, Raleigh (5NOV94)
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"It's a tragedy." "I'll say." - Palminteri back to Tilly
Let's face it, Woody Allen never changes and his yearly movies never disappoint. That much we know. His films always open with the same nondescript titles, they always star an great ensemble cast, and, lately at least, they always comment on the role of the artist.
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY is set in the 1920's and stars John Cusack as a young Village playwright with a mob boss as a backer. The catch: the boss's mistress (Jennifer Tilly) has to get a part. The girl can't act, but she's no worse than the material--dialogue that a needs doctor and needs one badly. Help arrives in the form of the bodyguard (Chaz Palminteri), who has a better ear than the author and who starts suggesting rewrites to the playwright.
Light, loose, and a little bit overlong, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY has several side-splitting sequences. The best, by far, is the first meeting between the playwright, the mobster, and mistress. Who else but Jennifer Tilly can pronounce "hors d'oeuvres" as "horse dervs" and sound so natural? Then there's Dianne Wiest, enormous fun as an aging theater queen who bears no small resemblance to Norma Desmond. Her great line: "Don't speak."
OSCAR WATCH: Wiest and, maybe, Tilly and Palminteri.
BOTTOM LINE: Weighted with just a handful of heavy themes, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY is Woody Allen's lightest film in years.
Grade: B+
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Module forma.primitives
Primitive (line, rectangle and circle) patterns.
This module provides convenience functions for the generation of basic pattern shapes. So far including lines, squares/rectangles and circle rasters.
Usage:
-- Draw some squares local square_pattern = primitives.square(5) -- 5x5 local rectangle_pattern = primitives.square(3,5) -- 3x5 -- Draw a line local line = primitives.line(cell.new(0,0), cell.new(10,10)) -- Draw a circle about (0,0) with radius 5 local circle = primitives.circle(5)
Geometry primitives
| square (x, y) | Generate a square pattern. |
| line (start, finish) | Generate a line pattern. |
| quad_bezier (start, control, finish, N) | Draw a quadratic bezier curve. |
| circle (r) | Generate a circle pattern. |
Geometry primitives
- square (x, y)
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Generate a square pattern.
Parameters:
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- line (start, finish)
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Generate a line pattern.
According to Bresenham's line algorithm.
Parameters:
- start a forma.cell denoting the start of the line
- finish a forma.cell denoting the end of the line
Returns:
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a pattern consisting of a line between
start
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- quad_bezier (start, control, finish, N)
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Draw a quadratic bezier curve.
Uses an algorithm from rosettacode.org.
This function returns both a pattern consisting of the drawn bezier curve,
and a list of points along the curve. This may be important in case the
curve back-tracks over existing cells, which cannot be represented in a
forma pattern. The full pattern consists of
N
of these points, joined by bresenham line segments.Parameters:
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- control a forma.cell denoting the control point of the curve
- finish a forma.cell denoting the end of the curve
- N (optional) number of line-segments to construct the curve with
Returns:
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a pattern consisting of a bezier curve between
start
andfinish
, controlled bycontrol
- an ordered list of cells consisting of points along the curve.
- circle (r)
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Generate a circle pattern.
Bresenham algorithm.
Parameters:
- r the radius of the circle to be drawn
Returns:
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circular forma.pattern of radius
r
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You might really like the Harry Potter series but really dislike the Lord of the Rings trilogy. One way you can input these preferences into recommenders is by rating the Harry Potter series an 8 out of 10 but the Lord of the Rings trilogy a 4 out of 10. The recommender then matches your preferences with other users who have similar preferences. Then, it recommends to you items that these other users like. For example, other users who like Harry Potter but dislike Lord of the Rings love The Golden Compass. The Golden Compass would be presented to you as a recommendation. Recommenders do not even need your ratings to provide recommendations. They can provide recommendations based on things like what you've clicked on or how long you stayed on a page. Many researchers focus on building collaborative filtering recommender systems based on these ideas!
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Agile: The Good Parts
Let’s just forget about story points, pigs, chickens, daily stand-ups, burndown charts, sprints and scrummasters for a second. In my experience all of that weird jargon is really hurting Agile’s adoption among the no-nonsense type of developer that doesn’t have time for fluff and wants to know the real benefits of something before investing time in learning about it (instead of a million other things they could be learning).
I’ve also seen that when anyone happens to cite a failed experience with Agile, the explanation from Agilists is invariably the cryptic “you weren’t doing it right”. This is a bit of an irritating response to anyone that’s spent a significant amount of time following the ceremonies and speaking the lingo though. Instead I’d like to submit that you have a much better chance of succeeding with Agile if you know the real reasons behind the madness.
There are a number of Agile values I’ve noticed in my years of practicing scrum and XP that I think stand on their own even if you’re not doing Agile and just want to improve your development process in some small way. I’m going to list them (and try to stay jargon-free) because I imagine that they would be useful individually, but they do have a sort of self-reinforcing quality to them where their effects will somehow be amplified if you use them together. You should also feel free to break the rules where you feel they need to be broken, but I’ve very rarely found that to be necessary. Usually when I’ve broken these rules, I’ve regretted it later, because what I thought was an exception didn’t really end up being an exception.
Create a team, not just a group of individuals.
A project will move faster when it is being developed by a team that self-organizes around its goals rather than a group of individuals working separately. Here are few rules of thumb to creating a team instead of just having a group of individuals:
- Don’t assign tasks to individuals. Let the team figure out who works on what, and let the team take responsibility for all tasks rather than individuals. Everyone on the team needs to agree on what it means to be done and how, and everyone on the team needs to take responsibility for it.
- Strive for cross-functional skillsets. Let the team members teach each other so they can better help each other in the future rather than allowing one person to become the bottleneck for any particular kind of task.
- Try not to change team size or membership very much. A good team can be a fragile thing.
- Throw out the notion of individual code ownership. The entire team owns the code.
- Create more of a bullpen environment where the team members are all basically in the line of sight of one another and can just talk to one another about what they’re working on. This was tough, because it made us give up our individual offices, telecommuting, and deciding our own hours, but it was well worth it for the improvement to the quality of our work day. Almost anytime a developer has to use some means of communication other than his voice to talk with a teammate, you have unnecessarily wasted time.
- Put QA personnel on the team so that testing can be can be on-going and so the team can more easily take on QA and testing as a team-wide responsibility.
- The whole team needs to agree on what kind of work is necessary for each task before it is to be considered “done”. (coding standards, documentation standards, how rigorously they test, etc, etc)
- The result of this was a highly capable team that could “swarm” to complete goals reliably and quickly. We actually developed a sort of sports team mentality that made this way of working genuinely fun, and helped us push ourselves to be better all the time. There are a lot of challenges to creating a great team that can inter-communicate openly and honestly, but it’s an amazing thing to behold when it happens.
Estimates need to come from developers.
This is can be very hard for some organizations to swallow, but developers are the ones that are most qualified to do estimations, and as professionals, they should be working diligently to improve their estimation capability. When a developer is responsible for estimation, that developer feels a sense of ownership about his work and will feel a vastly greater sense of responsibility to meet the estimate. Developers that have never learned how to estimate will not be good at it at first, but there’s no other way for them to get good at it than to have them do it. There are a few major things that can vastly help estimation too:
- Always break work down into tiny chunks. We generally broke work up into chunks that were less than 3 days of effort. I’ve never seen a task that couldn’t be broken down into subtasks that are this small or smaller, if the developers are so inclined.
- The team should take a look at bad estimates in retrospect and figure out where they went wrong. Recognize work that will be impossible to do due to lack of clarity from the business, or unmet dependencies and push to have those requirements met.
- For highly speculative work, just commit to doing a proof-of-concept, or time-boxed research.
- The more developers that are involved in the estimation process, the better. You’ll probably want to include QA/testers as well, because good ones have unique insights.
Context-switching should be avoided mercilessly.
This means that each developer needs the discipline to make sure he only works on one task at a time, that the team works on as few tasks at one time, and that developers need sustained uninterruptable timeboxes where the priority of work is not allowed to change.
Most people (especially non-developers) have no idea how much of a huge time-suck that context switching is, and few realize how seldom it’s actually worthwhile. Also if the team is tackling as few tasks as possible at once, if any task can be finished by having more developers on it at once, then that’s what the team should do rather than starting as many tasks as possible and working on them in parallel. This might sound counter intuitive, but with the team ultra-focussed on as few tasks as possible at once, they can get the totality completed faster.
Try to always improve.
The team must commit to continually improving. At regular intervals, the team should look at how things are going and pick a few actionable things to make their work better/faster/easier. You’d be surprised at the huge speed improvements that can come from this practice over time. If the team has a shared calendar, set up a reoccurring meeting at a regular interval to have this meeting, and be laser-focussed on deciding what improvement you want to achieve and how exactly you’ll try to achieve that. We’ve always set aside 1 hour per week, but your mileage may vary. Start every meeting by evaluating how successful the team was with the previous meeting’s goals.
If something is difficult or time-consuming, do it more often.
This sounds crazy to the uninitiated but there are two reasons for this:
- Doing difficult things more often will drive out new creativity in making them less difficult. Pro-tip: Automation is almost always the answer when the problem is testing (See TDD, BDD, ATDD) or deployment. (See Continuous Delivery)
- Many types of tasks get more difficult the longer they are postponed and so are always easier if you do them more often instead of letting the risk of complexity pile up. Integrating code into the main branch is one example (See Continuous Integration). Deploying is another (See Continuous Delivery).
Be merciless about achieving high quality
Over the long haul, speed comes from quality, so everyone on the team needs to make quality their job. Everyone needs to test, and everyone needs to think about how to continually make testing easier without cutting corners.
- Have QA personnel on every team, and have them testing as the team works.
- The whole team needs to agree on what level of quality is needed, and what quality metrics will be used to judge every check-in.
- Perform a root-cause-analysis on each defect. Try to figure out how to avoid that class of defect in the future.
Do everything in tiny increments.
Tiny increments reduce the risk of compounding problems, and allow you to get feedback and correct your course more often.
- break-down your work into tiny tasks
- plan just-in-time and just enough to do work.
- test as you go, instead of in huge batches
- merge code to the mainline early and often.
- deploy early and often.
- don’t add anything to the system that you don’t need until you need it (YAGNI)
Get customer feedback early and often
Get customer feedback early and often to converge on the best possible solution as fast as possible by constantly correcting course instead of blindly following some long-running plan or doing unnecessary work. The customer’s priorities and vision of the product will change as he sees results, so it’s better to not find out about these changes after a lot of unnecessary work has been done.
- Do work in priority order as dictated by the customer. This will allow them to see the aspects that they care about most as early as possible, and therefore help you converge on a unified vision of the product faster.
- Work break-down is better done in vertical slices where the customer can get some amount of real value from each piece (or at least see some evidence of work) rather than having many non-user-facing tasks, where possible. This allows for more potential for feedback.
- The work shouldn’t be considered done by anyone on the team until the customer, or a representative of the customer agrees that it’s done.
- Constantly improve estimation skills so that they are generally more reliable so the customer knows the cost of the work he has requested and can make realistic decisions based on that.
Anyway, feel free to try what you want and throw out the rest!


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Choice arguments are pointers of type void*.
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