iOS: Compare two less or equal NSDates
iOS: Compare two dates
Failed review audit - for me quite clearly off-topic, can it be removed from the audit set? Can I start and stop a tile floor job? I am tiling my bathroom floor and don't soon have a full day to dedicate to the job. Is it ok to lay down a few tiles each day and come back to the job when I have time? I would only lay mortar for the tiles I have time to lay each day.    My concern is that the mortar wouldn't properly "join" to the previously laid sections of tile and cause an inferior result, but I'm not really basing this concern on any facts. That is what I'm hoping to learn with this question. How can it be that the beginning universe had a high temperature and a low entropy at the same time? The Big Bang theory assumes that our universe started from a very/infinitely dense and extremely/infinitely hot state. But on the other side, it is often claimed that our universe must have been started in a state with very low or even zero entropy.   Now the third law of thermodynamic states that if the entropy of a system approaches a minimum, it's temperature approaches absolut zero.  So how can it be that the beginning universe had a high temperature and a low entropy at the same time? Wouldn't such a state be in contradiction to the third law of thermodynamics? A gateway to a new world/future where things can be improved with use This book is about an explorer (with robot companion) who walks through a "gateway" into the future/parallel world. In this world, things that are created do not fall into disrepair, instead things get better.  The main character is kidnapped early on in the story and forced to labor by beating the outside of a castle with a spear. It is explained to him that this makes the wall better and able to resist attacks by these weapons. In his cell, he meets a man wearing an extravagant shirt and asks about it and the man explains to him that the shirt has been in his family for several generations, which is why it looks so nice.   To escape from the jail cell, the man tears one of his zippers from his jump suit and uses it like a saw to cut a hole in the wall. He escapes with the man in the fancy shirt and a woman.   The woman, is something special in this world. (She can focus on the change that is happening to an item and somehow enhance or speed up the process)  The man makes a wheeled cart for them to escape in. While the wheels are at first rough and wobbly, they soon "become better" and spin better. Gradient Boosting for Linear Regression - why does it not work? Prove that if $b = dk$ where $gcd(m, a) = d$, there are $d$ solutions to $ax \equiv b \mod m$ I know that there exists at least one solution, because $ax \equiv b \mod m \implies ax - b = qm$  Rearranging terms gives $ax - qm = b$, and since $d | a$ and $d | m$, so $d | b$ it can be said that $b \equiv 0 \mod d$.  I implemented Euclid's extended algorithm and have been able to experimentally verify that the claim holds, but I do not see a pattern or how I can begin to show there are exactly $d$ solutions.  def euclid_extended(x, y, i=0):   if y == 0:     print("iteration {0} returns ({1}, {2}, {3}) - base case hit with ({4}, {5})".format(i, x, 1, 0, x, y))     return (x, 1, 0)   else:     (d, a, b) = euclid_extended(y, x % y, i + 1)     print("iteration {0}. ({4}, {5}) =&gt; ({1}, {2}, {3})".format(i, d, b, a - b * (x//y), x, y))     return (d, b, a - b * (x//y)) My book says:     For most of the small objects, both are same. But for mammoth ones, they are really different ones. And in a gravity-less environment, COG is absent; COM still exists.   Ok, what's the big deal when things are small and big? How these two :  &amp; ? EJB Transactions in local method-calls In the following setup, does method B run in a (new) transaction?  An EJB, having two methods, method A and method B  public class MyEJB implements SessionBean     public void methodA() {        doImportantStuff();        methodB();        doMoreImportantStuff();     }      public void methodB() {        doDatabaseThing();     } }   The EJB is container managed, with methodB in requires_new transaction, and method A in required transaction. thus:  &lt;container-transaction id="MethodTransaction_1178709616940"&gt;   &lt;method id="MethodElement_1178709616955"&gt;     &lt;ejb-name&gt;MyName&lt;/ejb-name&gt;     &lt;method-name&gt;*&lt;/method-name&gt;   &lt;trans-attribute&gt;Required&lt;/trans-attribute&gt;   &lt;/method&gt;   &lt;method id="MethodElement_1178709616971"&gt;     &lt;ejb-name&gt;MyName&lt;/ejb-name&gt;     &lt;method-name&gt;methodB&lt;/method-name&gt;   &lt;/method&gt;   &lt;trans-attribute&gt;RequiresNew&lt;/trans-attribute&gt; &lt;/container-transaction&gt;   Now let another EJB call methodA with an EJB method call. methodA now runs in an transaction. Will the subsequent call to methodB from methodA run in the same transaction, or does it run in a new transaction? (mind, it's the actual code here. There is no explicit ejb-call to method B) Where do I find the client id and client secret of an existing connected app? What is the difference between a predicate and function? I need to to understand the difference between predicates and functions in the context of Clasual Form Logic in order to define the Herbrand universe.  If I have p(x) :- q(f(x)) would I be right in saying that p and q are predicates while f is a function because it is "nested"?  By this thinking then if I have p(x) :- q(x) both p and q are predicates and I have no functions?  If this is incorrect then how can I tell the difference between a predicate and function? How to compile and run C/C++ in a Unix console/Mac terminal? How can I compile/run C or C++ in Unix console or a Mac terminal?  (I know it, forget it, and relearn it again. Time to write it down.) As in the title, I must prove that: If a complex function $f$ is Entire, and there exist $k,R &gt; 0$, $n \in N$ such that $|f(z)| &gt; k|z|^n$ for all $|z| &gt; R$: Then f is a polynomial.  We've already had a similar question with the inequality reversed, and found that it had to be a polynomial with degree less than n. I was able to show that if it was a polynomial, then it had to have degree less than n, but not that it had to be a polynomial in the first place.  Once again, I'm face with the same problem. I assume this time, the degree of the polynomial will have degree greater than or equal to n, but how do I show that such $f$ must be a polynomial?  It's not like I can go through every other possible function there is, can I? I can show it doesn't work for exponentials, for example, but I just can't think of how to show that this ONLY works for a polynomial... Android 5.0 (Lollipop) was officially announced on October 15th, 2014.  You can review the high-level changes at the  and the announcement on the official .  Of course, not all devices will get this update right away and others won't get it at all. Each manufacturer and carrier often choose to add their custom modifications which tend to delay the official release.  When will each device get Android 5.0, either officially or unofficially, if ever?  See also: Invoking JavaScript code in an iframe from the parent page After I installed Ubuntu 13.04, I can't mount my NTFS partition.  Error mounting /dev/sda5 at /media/mrxfly/xFLyDiskData: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda5" "/media/mrxfly/xFLyDiskData"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda5': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option. I know that Windows XP 32-bit can be configured, through , to support more than 3.5&nbsp;GB of RAM.  Is there a good tutorial to do this with Windows 7 32-bit?  As to why I don't simply use 64-bit Windows 7: The software for my Internet connection (cell phone-as-modem) will only work in 32-bit environments. Use induction to prove the following: $1! + 2! + .... + n! \le (n + 1)!$ how to pass value like 100,102,103 to view params I am trying to zoom plot numbers.Plot numbers like 1 10-12 13/P road 20(A) 100&amp;102 and etc.I am able to zoom to all combination plot numbers except 1,2,3.when I pass such value its trowing error:  1 feature types requested, but found 2 view params specified  geoserver sql view is:  select * from plotboundary where nmindar='%nmindar%' and plno='%plno%'   default values and validation are  Name  | Default Value   | validation  nmidar| Hanagawadi I A  | ^[\w\d\s]+$  plno  |  100,102&amp;103    | ^[ A-Za-z0-9_ *@.\/#&amp;+-\,()-_]*$   ajax function:   $.ajax({             url: 'http://XX.168.1.XX:8089/geoserver/XX/ows?service=WFS&amp;version=1.0.0&amp;request=GetFeature&amp;typeName=XX:vwplot&amp;maxFeatures=5000&amp;outputFormat=text/javascript',             contentType: 'application/json',             dataType: 'jsonp',             jsonpCallback: "parseResponse",             data: {                 viewparams: "nmindar:" + nmindar + ";plno:" + plno             }   Can any one tell me how to pass value to viewparams in geoserver, value includes comma. For example as mentioned above "100,102&amp;103" is a single value(plot number).Here   comma is not a separator. When is the sum of divisors a perfect square? Formula between wire size and current Is there a mathematical formula between wire size, current, temperature and wire type(Or resistance)?