When I add and array to an object using prototype in Javascript, all instances of the object act like they're sharing one array
Javascript object members that are prototyped as arrays become shared by all class instances
Batch file to create Folder based on Date and Copy Files from One Location to Another Location? Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works There are tons of questions I could maybe post this as an answer to, but before choosing the best one, I'll just post this as an announcement question that can be linked elsewhere. The short story From now on, intra-word emphasis is possible in our Markdown version. That means you can now write  The &quot;V&quot; is for Model**View**Controller. That's un*fricking*believable.  and it renders like this:  The &quot;V&quot; is for ModelViewController. That's unfrickingbelievable.  This only works for asterisks, not for underscores. It works in posts and comments. The reasons There are two big reasons for this. For one thing, this is more or less the behavior of , which we eventually . &quot;More or less&quot; because CommonMark's emphasis behavior is still in flux, and supports a few things that we don't support yet, but at least with this change we're closer. The other reason is languages that don't even have the concept of &quot;words separated by spaces&quot;. See  and  for two examples. This change allow posts in those languages to emphasize words without having to resort to HTML tags. To use an example from the first linked post,  **北京**和**上海**是直辖市。   now renders like this:  北京和上海是直辖市。  Possible issues In the 99% cases, this should only make things better; I've only found very few posts where this change causes unintended bolding/italicizing. And even in those cases, note that the rendered versions of questions and answers are not re-rendered until a post is edited, so this will not affect anything in posts retroactively. Unlike posts, comments are rendered , so this immediately applies to all comments. In most cases this doesn't change anything or actually fixes things. Should you discover a rare case where this breaks an important comment badly, we can always edit it to fix. There's one side effect that I'd like to mention: If you find a great quicksort implementation on GitHub that has a bug that causes a crash when sorting Windows versions, and the author doesn't want to fix it, you may be inclined to say  f**k this s**t   (i.e., &quot;fork this sort&quot;). With intraword emphasis, this would however look like this:  fk this st  So you would have to escape the asterisks (one of them would actually be enough). I'm not worried about this case too much, since if you must put censor-worthy words into a post, you might as well have to jump through a little hoop. Some details This being Meta, there are probably lots of people interested in a more detailed description of the new behavior (don't feel bad if you're not one of them; just skip this section). Here are the major rules regarding intraword-emphasis:  As mentioned, it only applies to asterisks, not underscores. Underscores  this restriction was in place at all; asterisks are much less of a problem.  If a single or double asterisk is supposed to be interpreted as intra-word emphasis, it cannot have punctuation on one side; it actually must be inside a word. An example of an edge case this solves is  It's a web*-based solution. *see Wikipedia for a definition of &quot;web&quot;  where the asterisks after &quot;web&quot; could cause unintended italicizing if there was a second asterisk in the same paragraph somewhere.  For italics, the &quot;inside a word&quot; part of rule 2 is even a bit stricter. For bolding, any word or digit character is allowed; for italics, digits don't work either. That's because the asterisk is often used as a multiplication symbol, so  The game worked in 320200 and 640480 resolution.  wouldn't look right without this restriction.  A minor addition that I made that's only tangentially related to intra-word emphasis is that a sequence of more than three underscores or more than three asterisks will no longer take part in any emphasis. This shouldn't really cause any problems, but fixes some (e.g. the underline in the second blockquote in , while not really visible, is a weird combination of bold and italic underscore characters; after this change, it would just be (more) underscore characters). This behavior also matches CommonMark. /ɪ/ sound when not stressed I've seen that some words in English are pronounced with the /ɪ/ sound when the vowel is not stressed.  Some examples include: pocket /ˈpɒkɪt/, comet /ˈkɒmɪt/. But hundred /ˈhʌndrəd/.  Is there any pronunciation rule here when the words end in /t/? Did the Nazgûl retain their Rings of Power? In The Fellowship of the Rings, Frodo sees the true appearance of the Nazgûl:      He was able to see beneath their black wrappings. There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards him.   The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien - chapter 11, A Knife In the Dark   There's no mention of the Nazgûl wearing the rings of power that Sauron gave them, although their hands are referenced. Did the Nazgûl retain their rings of power once they became wraiths? Or did something else happen to the rings once the Nazgûl emerged?&#185;  &#185; As an FYI, I am currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy and am just pages from being done with The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm very familiar with the Peter Jackson movies. So that's where I'm coming from as far as canon knowledge goes. Windows Activation FAQ: How do language, version, 64-bit or 32-bit, and source affect ability to install and transfer Windows licenses? We get a lot of questions on Super User about Windows activation and licensing. This question is an attempt to answer the most common questions in one place with a .   When reinstalling Windows, the following questions often come up:   Can I transfer the copy of Windows from my old computer to a new one? Does the license key on the sticker on my computer work on any computer? If I have a 32-bit version, can I install a 64-bit version? I have an OEM version of Windows, but only a retail disk. Can I still use it? I want to install Windows with a different language. Do I need a new license in that language? I changed some hardware. Will I be able to reactivate my computer? Can I back up my activation before doing a reinstall? How many computers can I install my license on? Do I have to deactivate my old installation before transferring a license? If so, how? How does licensing work in Windows ? What are the restrictions on transferring, reinstalling, and changing versions of Windows? Within 300 km of Tokyo: Where for flora, landscape, nature? I plan to visit Japan for 10 days and apportion 5 days to Tokyo. For the remainder, I want to escape the megalopolis and enjoy picturesque backwoods or countryside. Please recommend? Criteria:   No dangerous animals or untamed boondocks. No  or snakes. I won't drive, and must rely on public transport and walking less than 5 km in total.  No shrines, temples or any religious edifice. OPTIONAL: I fancy  , the more  the better.   This instantiates, doesn't duplicate, . Is dimensionality reduction almost always useful for classification? Minimizing Application to system tray using WPF ( Not using NotifyIcon ) Remove windows XP after installing Ubuntu I have a program which I am trying to run, however when I run it; it just complains that it can't find a particular file.  However I have no idea which folder it is trying to find this particular file in. I have a copy of the required file, I just need to know which folder to copy it too.  Is there any way to show in real time which files are being accessed or which files are trying and failing to be accessed?  I am using Ext4 filesystem if that helps.  Thanks Should I sign, watermark or otherwise label a framed print? And if so how? I have an opportunity to show some of my work in a small local coffee shop.  Are there any guidelines/practices to signing, labeling or watermarking a photo which is to be on display?  Or should a photo be signed, labelled or marked at all? Is signing the back of the photo and showing my name on a separate card below the frame itself the "better" way to do this?   I noticed many people on the web put a very noticeable watermark with their logo, copyright and name right on the photo.  Personally, I find this distracting as it often ruins the photograph itself often turning what could be art to kitsch. Painters most often sign the painting itself but this to me is not distracting because it is done with the painter's own hand and it often "works" with the painting. How to remove all white spaces just between brackets [] using Unix tools? Bypass GeneratedValue in Hibernate (merge data not in db?) How to solve apt "package cannot be configured because package is in a different version" errors? I have a character playing a multiclass Barbarian/Monk. Does the resistance from rage combine with Deflect Missiles to negate the damage and make the reaction attack? Is it okay to vectorize this image to make a poster out of it even though the image is not Creative Commons or anything like that? I'm not using any part of the image directly and only going to use it as a guide to make my own SVG version.  This is the image:    Here is .  It says that it is CC licensed but the original NatGeo one isn't, I don't think.  I don't plan to make money off it or anything, I just want a nice poster and the quality of the original isn't that good. Should “two weeks vacation” be written “two weeks’ vacation” with a possessive apostrophe? I’ve always understood that the phrase two weeks usually turns into two weeks’ when used as a modifier as in   I’m giving my two weeks’ notice.  I get two weeks’ vacation. (“two weeks’ holiday” for Brits)   with an apostrophe on the word weeks’, indicating that the vacation “belongs” to the weeks.   One way to explain this is the phrase “two weeks of vacation” being contracted to “two weeks’ vacation” – the vacation is “of” the weeks; that is, it is possessed by them.  But I’ve seen a lot of people omit the apostrophe in casual writing, and thinking about it, it seems plausible that the noun vacation would be plainly modified by the adjectival phrase two weeks.  But on the other hand, shouldn’t adjectival phrases be hypenated, namely two-weeks vacation?  Yet that seems wrong, too: the hyphenate should be singular, two-week vacation (like two-tone shoes) because .   touches on this (and references a good ) but doesn’t explain why the plural must be possessive in this case.   suggests that two weeks might be adverbial rather than adjectival, and thus resists being used attributively. But that still doesn’t quite explain this particular muddle of pluralization, possession, and attribution.  Given all this, why should “two weeks vacation” be written “two weeks’ vacation” with a possessive apostrophe? Keyboard layout isn't kept upon reboot I had a problem with the keyboard layout changing from PT (I'm Portuguese) to EN automatically with the last Ubuntu updates in Ubuntu 13.10. After Ubuntu 14.04 came out, I formatted my computer and installed the new version.  After that I haven't had any problems until the recent Ubuntu base update 2 or 3 days ago, when I started having the same problem again. I even removed the English keyboard from the Keyboard configurations, left only the Portuguese one, but still, every time I reboot my PC I get the keyboard configured for EN, despite Ubuntu displaying the contrary?  How can I remove this? I don't want to format the PC again and I'm getting really tired of this problem, since it looks like many Portuguese/Brasilian Ubuntu users are having the same problem. Settings -> Applications -> All tells me that "Contacts Storage" uses 2.5MB which must be my contact data.  Since I had to revert to 4.03 after a faulty update to 4.1 my contacts seem inaccessible although the data seems to be there.  Could you please tell me where to find the associated data(base) for Contacts Storage? My phone is rooted. And no, my contact data is not on GMail and I honestly don't know why... I am in a situation where when I get an HTTP 400 code from the server, it is a completely legal way of the server telling me what was wrong with my request (using a message in the HTTP response content)  However, the .NET HttpWebRequest raises an exception when the status code is 400.   How do I handle this? For me a 400 is completely legal, and rather helpful. The HTTP content has some important information but the exception throws me off my path.