I have found that my Unicorn Coin Mining Strategy is not giving me payouts in large enough sums.   My current strategy is to mine the rocks in the order they appear. Then after I have mined 5 rocks to reset the mining widget as it seams that rocks payout fewer coins over time (law of diminishing returns)  Is there a better strategy for mining for unicorn coins? As I would really like to divide everyone else's rep by 10 and set my own rep above the level of the all mighty Jon Skeet.  Praise be to the Unicorn.
I want to earn Unicoins for free but I can't seem to find the best way mine coins faster. There are also sometimes when I get 20-30 Unicoins at one time, and I think that there is some clue so that we can know which rocks contain lots of Unicoins.. So do you have any idea you can share?
When cutting/copying some cells to paste them into another sheet/page, sometimes Excel freezes/locks up and fades out. At the top toolbar it says in brackets "not responding".  Eventually, I must click 'X' to close the program. It offers to wait for the program to respond, but never does – it just does nothing until I finally close it, where it offers to recover files etc.   Is there an issue with memory here? What can I do to stop it locking up? Inheriting constructors Why does this code:  class A {     public:          explicit A(int x) {} };  class B: public A { };  int main(void) {     B *b = new B(5);     delete b; }   Result in these errors:   main.cpp: In function ‘int main()’: main.cpp:13: error: no matching function for call to ‘B::B(int)’ main.cpp:8: note: candidates are: B::B() main.cpp:8: note:                 B::B(const B&)   Shouldn't B inherit A's constructor?  (this is using gcc) Cann I use a 19.5V 4.62A laptop charger for 19V 4.74A laptop? 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And the hash or pound sign seems a weird choice too, is there a history or any reason involved? I get Chrome notifications from several websites and they work when I don't even have any tabs open for those sites.  But sometimes I get these Chrome notifications when I am not at my desk or looking at my laptop.  As some of these notifications are useful to me, I would like to be able to access any that I have missed.  Is there a way to view the notification history? How can I add reflection to a C++ application? I'd like to be able to introspect a C++ class for its name, contents (i.e. members and their types) etc. I'm talking native C++ here, not managed C++, which has reflection. I realise C++ supplies some limited information using RTTI. Which additional libraries (or other techniques) could supply this information? So I was taught that:  Kinetic Energy (of electron) = Energy (of photon) - Ionization Energy  If E(photon) = IE, then KE=0 of the electron.   What does this physically/theoretically mean?   My current thoughts/interpretation is that enough energy/force is applied to ionize the electron so it is 'sufficiently far' from the atom, and then I guess it just moves with whatever speed it is moving at with natural kinetic laws, since no more energy/force is being applied....?  Any clarifications would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance. I wrote a simple backup script which back ups my stuff on a remote server, everything is working great but I'd like to have some sort of report like "backup successful or not".  this is my script   # backup CHECK date1=`date +"%d.%m.%y - %H.%M"` host=`hostname` twdate=`date +"%d.%m"` performtw=`ls -la|grep "tw"|grep "$twdate" &gt; tmp1.txt` echo $performtw if cat tmp1.txt|grep "tw" then echo backup successfull printf "tw backup success!" | mail -s "tw backup check $date1 repor$ rm tmp1.txt else echo backup failure printf "sitename backup failure!" | mail -s "site backup check $date1 repor$ rm tmp1.txt fi exit   But this isn't working really well and I ask you if there's some simpler and more powerful way to do it? Basically it just needs to check if file exists with the name starting xyz and was created at date xyz. I accidentaly forbid SSH connection to a remote server... What's next? Let's say it again, we all make mistakes, and I have just made one.  A brief history: I was doing some stuff on a VPS (Debian) I'm renting, when I noticed some strange behaviour. Using the netstat command I saw an non-authorized connection through SSH. I didn't know what to do, so I decided to close his connection using iptables:  iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -s IP -j DROP   But I am tired, and I wrote  iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j DROP   and I kicked myself (and everyone else) out...  How do I fix this? pygame.event.get() not returning any events when inside a thread Can a ring of positive characteristic have infinite number of elements? An "urgent" tag for questions that need answers within minutes I often find myself in a spot of trouble, and when I have minutes left to fix it, I sometimes turn to SO/SF to start the "community help process". 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What else should I check to find out why certain fields, views or blocks are not showing to a user?  I also found there is a  for reporting on permissions called  but it is not available for Drupal 7.  I am using various permission related third-party modules:   - devel node access 7.x-1.x-dev   - fast permissions administration 7.x-2.0  - organic groups access control 7.x-1.x   - profile2 group access 7.x-1.x-dev   - ur-node access 7.x-1.x-dev My 8 year old son won't fall asleep We put him to bed at 9pm and he stays up til 1am or later. When I go to check on him he is always playing with his hands and sometimes talking. I ask him why he is awake and not trying to sleep and he says it's because he just wants to play. He never comes to tell us that he is having a hard time sleeping or that there is anything wrong. The weird thing is that he used to be the first one to fall asleep out of 3 boys and the staying up started a few months ago. He does this every night and on top of keeping us awake, he is now waking up his brothers.   About a month or so ago, we decided to punish him by grounding him from video games. He doesn't want to be grounded, but he still keeps doing it. Nothing we do seems to be helping and it seems to be getting worse. I have talked to him about why it is so important to get enough sleep and why it's even more important for kids. He also gets plenty of exercise and time to play during the day.   I'm really starting to wonder if he is doing it just to be defiant. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.  The problem is that he is being disruptive to everyone in the house and it has been EVERY night for the last 3 months.   He is tired and emotional during the day, and it is causing his brothers to be tired during the day while they are at school.   Because he is tired during the day he doesn't really want to be as active as he used to be. However, I do still encourage him to be active. We have always had a bedtime routine. We have asked him many different times if he is just having trouble sleeping, if he is uncomfortable, and if there is something wrong. He always tells us that he just wants to play.   At the beginning of all this he told me that he wants to be the one to decide when he goes to sleep and when he wakes up. Which is why I would even ask if it was out of defiance.   We really didn't want to get to the point of punishing him, but nothing else seemed to help and it was only after he started keeping his brothers awake.   It's not like we haven't asked him what he thinks would help or what would help him sleep better. He ALWAYS says that he just WANTS to stay up and play because it is fun. We know it is important for him to get enough sleep, and I'm worried because I don't think he is (and he's preventing the rest of us from getting enough, too).