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How to convert ISO 8601 date (string) to Date? I have Opportunity-lookup field on Opportunity (self),  Scenario:   Opportunity A if select Opportunity B using lookup then Opportunity B's same lookup field automatically populate with Opportunity A.   I tried to achieve this using trigger - before insert/update but its failing as:  System.DmlException: Update failed. First exception on row 0 with id 006G000000DHaBlIAL; first error: SELF_REFERENCE_FROM_TRIGGER, Object (id = 006G000000DHaBl) is currently in trigger Oppy_before_INSUPD, therefore it cannot recursively update itself: [] Who would get the longest road? Imagine the following setup. There are 3 (or more) players with an equally long road. What would happen if the longest road was broken? How is it decided who obtains the longest road from there on? Is there a program to mount all of my drives automatically? How to delete blank lines starting from line 5 I have this:  sed -i '/^$/d' temp_spec.rb   which is stripping blank lines and works well.  How can I make it only do this for lines 5-999 (or ideally 5 to end-of-file).  I tried:  sed -n5,999 -i '/^$/d' temp_spec.rb sed '5,999!d/^$/d' temp_spec.rb   but neither worked (no errors). How can you detect if users have created sock puppet accounts? How many users have created more than one profile on SO to vote themselves on their other original profile? There are some benefits when you have more reputation and sometimes you don't want a single -1 vote on your question or answer. In this case you may have an extra account to convert that -1 vote into 0 vote and  upvote for each of your questions and answers to gain reputation. I think it is not a good thing to do as a good developer.  Is there any way to recognize this situation? I think there should be some stats in each user's profile about how many votes are posted by each user on him/her or something like that.  So how many users have more than one profile? How to handle this situation? I have not created one yet but............ I don't think so :) Lunch Meeting Probability for two person to meet in given 1 hour slot and none would wait more then 15 minute. Two friends who have unpredictable lunch hours agree to meet for lunch at their favorite restaurant whenever possible. Neither wishes to eat alone and each dislikes waiting for the other, so they agree that each will arrive at a random time between noon and 1 pm, and each will wait for the other for 15 minutes or until 1:00. What is the probability that the friends will meet for lunch on a given day? Are groups satisfying $g=g^{-1}$ for all $g \in G$ abelian? Is the following statement true or false:  If $G$ is a group with the property that $g=g^{-1}$ for all $g \in G$, then $G$ is abelian.   I believe it is false since I know that abelian or commutative property implies that every element in $G$ must have an inverse. Thus $g\cdot g^{-1}= g^{1}\cdot g = e$. I need someone to check my attempt. How do I tell if a regular file does not exist in Bash? How to prevent system applications (like the Software Center) from asking for password? Are Stack Overflow people *still* nice? The title is a reference to . We had the good fortune, to start this experiment with a really positive culture and have managed to hang onto it through vast growth and several fairly bitter internal arguments. But that does not guarantee we'll keep it forever. Lately I've had a unscientific feeling that Stack Overflow has been a bit rougher on newbie mistakes. The actual composition of this question was triggered by the comment thread on  (now with pending delete votes, so it is in danger of being 10k only). The  currently has 3 reputation points and has been a member for all of two days. The question bear the obvious (to me, at least) hallmarks of being written by a non-native English speaker with a shaky grasp of the tongue, and it is a rather simplistic question that could be answered fairly easily by Google. Question body:  Sir, I am mc student, I have knowledge in c,c++,J2EE. I want to ask you should I command in Linux with J2EE. Is it worth?  Instead of trying to improve the question, to discern exactly what the OP meant, or explaining how the question should be improved we get this comment thread instead (without wanting to call out these posters in particular, this was just the thread that got be off my duff):  2 Can you elaborate? – Dave McClelland 21 hours ago 1 Absolutely yes! If it can run on your Blu-Ray player, imagine the possibilities it can do on Linux. – The Elite Gentleman 21 hours ago 1 Basically, it's as worth as running Java on any other platform. – Alexander Gessler 21 hours ago 1 @The Elite Gentleman, You can try run it on your sim-card too) – Stas Kurilin 21 hours ago 1 @STas Kurilin, really? What heapspace size must I give? sarcastic laugh – The Elite Gentleman 21 hours ago 1 @The Elite Gentleman I don't know. But there are some) See for details oracle.com/technetwork/java/javacard/overview/… – Stas Kurilin 21 hours ago @The Elite Gentleman, you're absolutely right given a full fledged desktop machine with Linux, Java would run so fast his program could go back in time and rescue whales from extinction. – Quaternion 21 hours ago @Stas Kurlin, if you have a program that runs on a sim-card isn't it hard to get output? I've always found processorless environments problematic. – Quaternion 21 hours ago @Quaternion - It was a joke) I've newer wrote such programs. But, I think there should be some processor. – Stas Kurilin 20 hours ago @Stas Kurlin, I was joking too, but I have to apologize after reading that page you liked to. You can run Java off a smart card... that's crazy and cool. +1 on account of good learning for the day. – Quaternion 20 hours ago @Quaternion Thanks. I heard about this stuff several weeks ago. Java at a sim card is a really cool argument) – Stas Kurilin 20 hours ago @Quaternion, lol, without having to worry about Segmentation Faults along the way. – The Elite Gentleman 19 hours ago  I've been leaving comments on threads like this from time to time, asking them to be a little more forgiving, but that is a drop in the bucket. Nothing flag-worthy here, but not a &quot;nice&quot; as things once were. There is very little effort to understand what the question may really be, nor why to explain why the question has been closed, what other resources exist, or how that decision could be reversed. With a brand new user who probably has a hard time with English. Ouch. Do we need an official re-iteration of &quot;Be nice.&quot;? Is there something else we can do to encourage our big city to keep the small-town feel we grew up with? Limit of $n$th root of $n$! I am asked to determine if a series converges or not:  $$\displaystyle\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{(2^n)n!}{(n^n)}$$  So I'm using the $n$th root test and came up with $\lim_{n \to {\infty}}\frac{2}{n}\times(\sqrt[n]{n!})$ I know that the limit of $\frac{2}{n}$ goes to $0$ when $n$ goes to infinity but what about the $(\sqrt[n]{n!})$? Hello I'm writing a beamer presentation and I would like to change the colour of the text in the theorem block from one place and it will affect my whole presentation.  Is this possible?  My example:  \documentclass{beamer}   \usetheme{Madrid}   \usecolortheme[RGB={201,20,35}]{structure}   \setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black}  \setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=white}   \setbeamercolor{theorem text}{fg=black}    %\useoutertheme{shadow}  \useinnertheme{rounded}   \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  \usepackage{default}   \begin{document}   \begin{frame}{Primul Slide}   Bla bla bla    Bla bla bla   \begin{theorem}  This is a theorem it is very important!!  \end{theorem}   \end{frame}   \end{document} The ability to undo reviews Among any three consecutive positive integers one is a multiple of 3 Pointwise convergent and total variation I'm preparing for a test for real analysis and I came across this problem in Royden's book:  Let $\{f_n\}$ be a sequence of real valued functions on $[a,b]$ that converges pointwisely on $[a,b]$ to the real valued function $f$. Show that $TV(f) \leq \liminf  ~TV(f_n)?$  This looks quite similar in form to Fatou's Lemma to me, but can't find any way to establish TV with integration, can anybody please help?  (TV is short for total variation) How do I remove duplicate "Open With" context menu items in Finder.app? For whatever reason, the "Open With" context menu in Finder is always listing every app four times (exactly).     I've read about (and tried) rebuilding the Launch Services database to restore the context menu to its initial state, but nothing seems to work. I've also used Onyx.app to clear user and system caches, but I'm still left with four repetitions of each app under the "Open With" service. I have restarted the system a few times just to be sure it was not some temporary corruption of the list.  I'm running OS X 10.6.6 on a 2011 17" MacBook Pro with a fresh install of OS X (i.e. I didn't use Migration Assistant.app or a Time Machine backup). I did, however, sync all my preferences and other files using MobileMe like I always do, so I imagine it's feasible that a preference file somewhere is causing problems? I didn't notice whether this was happening before or after my MobileMe sync.  How can I fix this so one app shows? I would like some help with this exercise.  Suppose that $f_1,\ f_2 \in V^*$ and that $\text{Ker} f_1 = \text{Ker} f_2$. Show that $f_1 = k f_2$ for some scalar $k$.  I expect your suggestions.  Thanks! How do I add a launcher for .sh applications? I have installed ubuntu (11.04).  I installed phpstorm which is simply an archive for you to extract and shove in your /opt directory.  To run it you would use /opt/PhpStorm-103.243/bin/PhpStorm.sh  In unity I had created a launcher on my desktop.  Now I have installed gnome-3(gnome-shell),  And I have nothing in my desktop.  So how do I run phpstorm quickly? Can I get it to show up in "applications"? Extruding surface while keeping the shape here is the picture of what I would like to get(example nr. 2). I need the edge frame to be same in width and length. Also the extrusion is on surface (without depth) I tried extruding region, but it did not give me the result I wanted.   I know I could just adjust the scale and do it manually, but that would be eyeballing without achievign accuracy. I would like to know if it is possible to extrude or inset while keeping the shape (even edge space)