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You’re working on a snippet of code, and out of the blue, you happen to need a class of which you should only have one instance of, and which needs to be referenced by other classes.
Sounds like a job for a singleton! Or is it?
Realistically speaking, if you’re using a singleton solely to store state, you are doing it wrong. What you’ve made isn’t a singleton — what you’ve made is a bunch of glorified globals. Using singletons to store state seems appealing at first, because you want to avoid using a global and every programmer knows that globals are evil. But using a singleton in this case is just abstracting the globals one layer back so that you can feel happy about your code not having globals.
Furthermore, having globals will make your code unpredictable and bug-prone. This becomes exponentially worse as the number of dependencies in your singleton increases. If you are using a singleton because you need its global properties, it’s because you are not taking advantage of dependency injection (DI) / inversion of control (IoC). You should be passing the state around with IoC, not by creating a giant global and passing around the global fields.
Singletons can’t be easily tested when they are integrated with other classes. For every class that uses a singleton, you will have to manually mock the singleton and have it return the desired test values. On top of this, singletons are notoriously difficult to debug when multi-threading is involved. Because your singleton is a major dependence for several classes, not only is your code tightly coupled, but you will also suffer from hard-to-find multi-threading bugs due to the uncertain nature of globals.
Occasionally, you may be tempted to use a singleton to perform an expensive IO action exactly once, and then store the results. An incredibly common example of this is using a singleton for a database connection. But doing so in addition to having multi-threading will cause massive headaches unless your connection is guaranteed to be thread-safe.
In general, database concurrency will not be easy to implement if you are using a singleton for the connection. What you really want is a database connection pool. By caching the connection, you avoid having to repeatedly close and open new connections, which is expensive. As an added bonus, if you use a connection pool, you simply won’t need to use a singleton.
You just need a data transfer object. No need for a singleton here. And worse, giving your singleton access to methods that can modify the data makes your singleton a god object. It knows how to do everything, knows all of the implementation details, and is likely coupled to basically everything, violating almost every software development principle.
Worse yet, using a singleton to provide context is a fatal mistake. If a singleton provides context to all the other classes, then that means every class that interacts with the singleton theoretically has access to all the states/contexts in your program.
Actually, this is really one of the few acceptable use for a singleton. Why? Because a logger does not pass around data to other classes, provides no context, and there is generally minimal coupling between the logger and the classes that require the logger. All the logger needs to know is that given some log request or string, it should output the log as a file or to the console.
As you can see, a logger will provide nothing to classes that require it — there is nothing to grab from the logger. Therefore, it’s impossible to use the logger as a glorified global container. And best of all, loggers are incredibly easy to test due to how simple they are. These properties make loggers an excellent choice for a singleton.
In the future, you’ll probably find a scenario where you’re considering using a singleton for any of the reasons above. But hopefully, you’ll now realize that singletons are not the answer — inversion of control is.
In Python, there are two types of arguments : Positional arguments and keyword arguments.
A positional argument is a normal argument in Python. You pass in some data as input, and that becomes your positional argument.
There’s nothing unique or inherently special about positional arguments, but let’s say you have a function that evaluates your pet. Is your pet happy? Is your pet healthy? Is your pet playful?
That’s fine and dandy, but what does it look like when we call the function?
The result is correct, but the function call is absolutely unreadable.
A reader who has never read the documentation for evaluatePet will have a difficult time understanding what it does. From a quick glance, it takes three booleans. But what do those booleans describe? Whether it’s alive? Whether it’s a ghost? Whether it’s a flying ten thousand feet tall purple dinosaur?
The solution to this issue of readability is to avoid using a positional argument, and instead use a keyword argument.
A keyword argument is an argument that follows a positional argument, and allows the user to pass in arguments by explicitly stating the argument’s name, and then assigning a value to it.
In other words, you can call evaluatePet(True, True, False) in any of the following ways, without changing anything in the evalulatePet function.
#Switching the order of the arguments.
#the order can be anything you like.
#are AFTER the positional arguments.
However, there are some things that you can’t do.
#"Positional argument follows keyword argument."
#Also will error for the same reason.
It would be a huge understatement to say that this is the only thing that keyword arguments can do.
You can also load in defaults.
Now, all three arguments become optional, and become automatically assigned to False if that specific argument has not been assigned.
#and the rest will automatically be False.
Convenient, isn’t it? You can give your function a ton of default values, and then allow the user to change any defaults they don’t like, without requiring them to rewrite all the default values.
Underneath all of this magic, Python created a dictionary with a key value pair, where the keys are the argument names, and the values are the values you assign to those argument names.
If you want to prove this fact, you can use a true keyword argument by putting a double asterisk before an argument.
In other words, Python has been converting evaluatePet’s arguments into a dictionary.
Naturally, Python wants the group of keyword arguments together, because it is cheaper to lump all the arguments together if they are all within one specific range (and not broken up between multiple ranges). In addition to this, Python can’t accept a positional argument after a keyword argument because it is impossible to determine which argument you are referring to. Are you referring to the first argument? Or the argument after the keyword argument?
These two reasons combined are why you can’t put in positional arguments, and then keyword arguments, and then another positional argument.
Since there are only three arguments, and two of them are keyword arguments, the third argument must be “isPlayful”.
So while Python could potentially have allowed this special case to work, their mantra of sticking strongly to rules prevents you from doing so.
In a nutshell, keyword arguments are simply augments to Python’s core philosophy that “readability counts”. Without keyword arguments, readers must examine the documentation to understand what the arguments mean, especially if there are many arguments. The use of defaults also makes functions shorter if the user is unlikely to modify the defaults.
Shorter argument lists? Argument defaults? Understandable parameters? That’s elegant.
You’re sitting at your desk, glaring at your monitor, but it glares back at you with equal determination.
Every change you make introduces new bugs, and fixing a bug causes another bug to pop up.
You don’t understand why things are randomly breaking, and the lines of code just increase every day.
However, by coding in a rigorous and specific fashion, you can prevent many of these issues simply by being slightly paranoid. This paranoia can save you hours in the future, just by dedicating a few extra seconds to include some additional safeguards.
So without further ado, let’s jump right into the top five tips for safer code.
As you call foo and bar and other functions, all of which depended on garbage_input, you find that everything has turned into garbage. As a result, functions will start throwing errors a few dozen passes down the line, and things will become very difficult to debug.
Another common mistake is attempting to correct the user’s input in potentially ambiguous cases, which leads to the second tip.
Imagine you had a box that exported values from 0 to 1 on a display, depending on the number the user passed in.
The technique shown above is known as clamping, which is basically restricting the value to a certain range. In this case, it is clamped to 0 and 1. However, the problem with the above example is that it is now impossible to debug the code.
If the user passed in bad input, you would get a clamped answer, instead of an error, and if the calculateValue function was buggy, you would never know. It could be slightly inflating the value, and you would still never know, because the values would be clamped.
As an exaggerated example, if calculateValue returned 900,000,000, all you would see is “1”. Instead of embracing and fixing bugs, this tactic throws them under the carpet in the hopes that no one will notice.
If your code is going to fail, then fail fast and fix it fast. Don’t try to polish garbage. Polished garbage is still garbage.
Many programmers already adhere to this principle, but some do not.
Since Python prevents the bug caused by double checking a boolean value, I will be using Java, as the bug can only happen in languages where assignment is possible in if statements.
Aside from being redundant and taking up extra characters, this practice can cause horrible bugs, as very few programmers will bother to glance twice at an if statement that checks for true/false.
At first glance, you would expect it to print out “1 + 1 is not equal to 3!”. However, on closer inspection, we see that it prints out “1 + 1 equals 3!” due to a very silly but possible mistake.
The programmer had accidentally set someBoolean to true instead of comparing someBoolean to true, causing the wrong output.
In languages such as Python, assignment in an if statement will not work. Guido van Rossum explicitly made it a syntax error due to the prevalence of programmers accidentally causing assignments in if statements instead of comparisons.
This is a nifty trick that piggy backs off the previous tip. If you’ve ever done defensive programming, then you have most likely seen this before.
Flip the order such that null is first.
Null is immutable, meaning you can’t assign null to the object. If you try to set null to obj, Java will throw an error.
As a result, you can prevent the silly mistake of accidentally causing unintentional assignment during equality checks. Naturally, if you set obj to null, the compiler will throw an error because it’s checking a null object when it expects a boolean.
However, if you are passing around methods inside the if statement, it can become dangerous, particularly methods that will return a boolean type. The problem is doubly bad if you have overloaded methods.
In this example, the user expects foo to be passed in a boolean of whether or not x is equal to a constant number, 5.
However, instead of comparing the two values, x is set to 5. The expected value if the comparison was done correctly would be false, but if x is set to CONSTANT_NUM, then the value will end up being true instead.
It doesn’t matter what language you use, always leave your uninitialized variables as null, None, nil, or whatever your language’s equivalent is.
The only exception to this rule is booleans, which should almost always be set to false when initialized. The exception is for booleans with names such as keepRunning, which you will want to set initially to true.
In particular, for Python especially, if you have a list, make sure that you do not set it to an empty list.
The same also applies to strings.
There is a world of a difference between a null/None/nil list, and an empty list, and a world of a difference between a null/None/nil string, and an empty string.
An empty value means that the object was assigned an empty value on purpose, and was initialized.
A null value means that the object doesn’t have a value, because it has not been initialized.
In addition, it is good to have null errors caused by uninitialized objects.
It is unpleasant to say the least when an uninitialized string is set to “” and is prematurely passed into a function without being assigned a non-empty value.
As usual, garbage input will give you garbage output.
These five tips are not a magical silver bullet that will prevent you from making any bugs at all in the future. Even if you follow these five tips, you won’t suddenly have exponentially better code.
Good programming style, proper documentation, and following common conventions for your programming language come first. These little tricks will only marginally decrease your bug count. However, they also only take about an extra few seconds of your time, so the overhead is negligible.
Sacrificing a few seconds of your time for slightly safer code is a trade most people would take any day, especially if it can increase production speed and prevent silly mistakes.
Your friend, Ruby, goes out and buys Java a pet duck. But wait, on closer inspection, it’s not a duck at all! It just walks like a duck.
And quacks like a duck.
“What’s the matter?” Ruby asks.
“It’s not a duck!” Java complains, distraught that the pet has no inheritance relations with the Duck class.
So what is duck typing?
Duck typing is a feature that allows a language to call a method on an object, if it has the method. Ruby doesn’t care what the object is, but rather, what methods the object has.
However, a caveat of duck typing is that the it tends to only be built-in to the language if the language handles type checking during runtime. This means that duck typing will only work on dynamically typed languages, such as Ruby. In languages like Java and C++, type checking is done during compile-time. As a result, if there is a type conflict, the program will not even compile. Languages that do type-checking during compile-time are called statically typed languages.
The type (int) is explicitly stated, which means that Java checks for types during compile-time, making it a statically typed languages.
Ruby sees that x was assigned a number at runtime. Since x was assigned a number, Ruby automatically knows that x must be a Fixnum.
First, we need two different objects that have the same method name. However, the method can’t be given to the object via the same superclass, because it would instead be inheritance.
Let’s take a look at a simple example of duck typing.
puts "I'm not a duck, but... Quack!"
I'm not a duck, but... Quack!
In Ruby’s mind, the Alien instance and the Duck instance are essentially the same. When we called the try_quack method, Ruby wanted an object that had a quack method.
In this case, when we passed in the Duck instance, Ruby saw that the Duck object would quack, so it called the Duck instance’s quack method.
For the Alien, even though the Alien class has nothing to do with the Duck class, it still has a quack method. As a result, Ruby happily calls the Alien class’s quack method.
Duck typing is a powerful feature of Ruby that allows you to call methods on seemingly different objects, as long as those objects have the same method names. As a result, there is no need for inheritance. You simply call the method, and if the object has it, it will work.
Ruby doesn’t care who the object is, but rather what it is.
You open your favorite programming IDE, and right there. A glorious mess of spaghetti code. You have no clue what it means, and you can’t understand a single thing.
Bad code can waste precious hours of time, when it really should have only taken a few minutes to understand the code if it were refactored and cleaned up.
So today, I’ll teach you, in five simple tips, how to spare other programmers from facing a giant plate of spaghetti.
Everyone knows this, but few actually do it correctly. First of all, and this is the critical, stop shortening your variable names. Yes, you can shorten the word “minimum” to min, but if you’re working on an application that handles time, your reader may think min refers to minutes. In particular, if you’re shortening a word, and that shortened word can possibly refer to more than one word, don’t do it.
Readers may also be confused if your variable names don’t actually say what you mean.
For example, imagine if you created a variable called “days”. What does that mean? Days elapsed? Days before something happened? The amount of days in the month? Be specific. Refactor days to daysElapsed, daysInMonth. Do NOT put a comment and write “days refers to the days elapsed since …”. That is absolutely nonsense. Make your variable names self-explanatory.
3. Keep It Simple, Stupid!
If you’re programming a certain function, be clear. Avoid using silly round-about ways. Especially avoid “clever” solutions. Clever and tricky solutions may be shorter or faster, but they can cripple reading speed. Usually, when people do these clever solutions, they will put comments everywhere to compensate for the fact that no one actually understands what they wrote, which ties into tip #1.
This principle also applies to re-inventing the wheel. If your language comes built-in with a feature, use it. Don’t re-implement a data structure that already exists. Often, it isn’t the programmer’s fault, though, since they might not know about the existence of a certain feature. However, this is not an excuse when you are working with other programmers. If what you wrote in 100 lines could be replaced by 1 line, then it should be refactored.
A good object is one that knows only what it should know, and no more.
A god object is one that knows too much, in particular, things that it shouldn’t.
For example, imagine you had a chair object. It should not know anything except for itself. If your chair knows your social-security number, how much money you make a year, and how many chairs there are around it, then your chair is either the world’s greatest secret spy agent, or it shouldn’t exist.
All variables in a class should be private, unless there is a very compelling reason for a variable to be public. There are very few reasons for a variable to be public, unless it is a global constant, such as Math.PI.
The inverse of this is also true. Stop exposing your privates! If your private variable does not require a getter, do not make a getter. You should be encapsulating your code.
If you have a rectangle class, and you only ever need its area, then don’t make a getter for its width or length. Just make a single public method that multiplies the private width and length variables.
Hide your implementation details! If you have a computer, and you just want to send an email, then there is no reason the user would need to know about the internal workings on the computer. The user doesn’t care how many volts the computer needs. The user doesn’t care about how many gigabytes of RAM the computer has. The user just wants to send an email. And your computer should allow them to do exactly that, in one simple function, without knowing anything else about the computer.
Remember these five points, and you’re sure to write cleaner code.

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You ’re working on a snippet of code , and out of the blue , you happen to need a class of which you should only have one instance of , and which needs to be referenced by other classes .
 Sounds like a job for a singleton ! Or is it ?
 Realistically speaking , if you ’re using a singleton solely to store state , you are doing it wrong . What you ’ve made is n’t a singleton — what you ’ve made is a bunch of glorified globals . Using singletons to store state seems appealing at first , because you want to avoid using a global and every programmer knows that globals are evil . But using a singleton in this case is just abstracting the globals one layer back so that you can feel happy about your code not having globals .
 Furthermore , having globals will make your code unpredictable and bug - prone . This becomes exponentially worse as the number of dependencies in your singleton increases . If you are using a singleton because you need its global properties , it ’s because you are not taking advantage of dependency injection ( DI ) / inversion of control ( IoC ) . You should be passing the state around with IoC , not by creating a giant global and passing around the global fields .
 Singletons ca n’t be easily tested when they are integrated with other classes . For every class that uses a singleton , you will have to manually mock the singleton and have it return the desired test values . On top of this , singletons are notoriously difficult to debug when multi - threading is involved . Because your singleton is a major dependence for several classes , not only is your code tightly coupled , but you will also suffer from hard - to - find multi - threading bugs due to the uncertain nature of globals .
 Occasionally , you may be tempted to use a singleton to perform an expensive IO action exactly once , and then store the results . An incredibly common example of this is using a singleton for a database connection . But doing so in addition to having multi - threading will cause massive headaches unless your connection is guaranteed to be thread - safe .
 In general , database concurrency will not be easy to implement if you are using a singleton for the connection . What you really want is a database connection pool . By caching the connection , you avoid having to repeatedly close and open new connections , which is expensive . As an added bonus , if you use a connection pool , you simply wo n’t need to use a singleton .
 You just need a data transfer object . No need for a singleton here . And worse , giving your singleton access to methods that can modify the data makes your singleton a god object . It knows how to do everything , knows all of the implementation details , and is likely coupled to basically everything , violating almost every software development principle .
 Worse yet , using a singleton to provide context is a fatal mistake . If a singleton provides context to all the other classes , then that means every class that interacts with the singleton theoretically has access to all the states / contexts in your program .
 Actually , this is really one of the few acceptable use for a singleton . Why ? Because a logger does not pass around data to other classes , provides no context , and there is generally minimal coupling between the logger and the classes that require the logger . All the logger needs to know is that given some log request or string , it should output the log as a file or to the console .
 As you can see , a logger will provide nothing to classes that require it — there is nothing to grab from the logger . Therefore , it ’s impossible to use the logger as a glorified global container . And best of all , loggers are incredibly easy to test due to how simple they are . These properties make loggers an excellent choice for a singleton .
 In the future , you ’ll probably find a scenario where you ’re considering using a singleton for any of the reasons above . But hopefully , you ’ll now realize that singletons are not the answer — inversion of control is .
 In Python , there are two types of arguments : Positional arguments and keyword arguments .
 A positional argument is a normal argument in Python . You pass in some data as input , and that becomes your positional argument .
 There ’s nothing unique or inherently special about positional arguments , but let ’s say you have a function that evaluates your pet . Is your pet happy ? Is your pet healthy ? Is your pet playful ?
 That ’s fine and dandy , but what does it look like when we call the function ?
 The result is correct , but the function call is absolutely unreadable .
 A reader who has never read the documentation for evaluatePet will have a difficult time understanding what it does . From a quick glance , it takes three booleans . But what do those booleans describe ? Whether it ’s alive ? Whether it ’s a ghost ? Whether it ’s a flying ten thousand feet tall purple dinosaur ?
 The solution to this issue of readability is to avoid using a positional argument , and instead use a keyword argument .
 A keyword argument is an argument that follows a positional argument , and allows the user to pass in arguments by explicitly stating the argument ’s name , and then assigning a value to it .
 In other words , you can call evaluatePet(True , True , False ) in any of the following ways , without changing anything in the evalulatePet function .
 # Switching the order of the arguments .
 # the order can be anything you like .
 # are AFTER the positional arguments .
 However , there are some things that you ca n’t do .
 # " Positional argument follows keyword argument . "
 # Also will error for the same reason .
 It would be a huge understatement to say that this is the only thing that keyword arguments can do .
 You can also load in defaults .
 Now , all three arguments become optional , and become automatically assigned to False if that specific argument has not been assigned .
 # and the rest will automatically be False .
 Convenient , is n’t it ? You can give your function a ton of default values , and then allow the user to change any defaults they do n’t like , without requiring them to rewrite all the default values .
 Underneath all of this magic , Python created a dictionary with a key value pair , where the keys are the argument names , and the values are the values you assign to those argument names .
 If you want to prove this fact , you can use a true keyword argument by putting a double asterisk before an argument .
 In other words , Python has been converting evaluatePet ’s arguments into a dictionary .
 Naturally , Python wants the group of keyword arguments together , because it is cheaper to lump all the arguments together if they are all within one specific range ( and not broken up between multiple ranges ) . In addition to this , Python ca n’t accept a positional argument after a keyword argument because it is impossible to determine which argument you are referring to . Are you referring to the first argument ? Or the argument after the keyword argument ?
 These two reasons combined are why you ca n’t put in positional arguments , and then keyword arguments , and then another positional argument .
 Since there are only three arguments , and two of them are keyword arguments , the third argument must be “ isPlayful ” .
 So while Python could potentially have allowed this special case to work , their mantra of sticking strongly to rules prevents you from doing so .
 In a nutshell , keyword arguments are simply augments to Python ’s core philosophy that “ readability counts ” . Without keyword arguments , readers must examine the documentation to understand what the arguments mean , especially if there are many arguments . The use of defaults also makes functions shorter if the user is unlikely to modify the defaults .
 Shorter argument lists ? Argument defaults ? Understandable parameters ? That ’s elegant .
 You ’re sitting at your desk , glaring at your monitor , but it glares back at you with equal determination .
 Every change you make introduces new bugs , and fixing a bug causes another bug to pop up .
 You do n’t understand why things are randomly breaking , and the lines of code just increase every day .
 However , by coding in a rigorous and specific fashion , you can prevent many of these issues simply by being slightly paranoid . This paranoia can save you hours in the future , just by dedicating a few extra seconds to include some additional safeguards .
 So without further ado , let ’s jump right into the top five tips for safer code .
 As you call foo and bar and other functions , all of which depended on garbage_input , you find that everything has turned into garbage . As a result , functions will start throwing errors a few dozen passes down the line , and things will become very difficult to debug .
 Another common mistake is attempting to correct the user ’s input in potentially ambiguous cases , which leads to the second tip .
 Imagine you had a box that exported values from 0 to 1 on a display , depending on the number the user passed in .
 The technique shown above is known as clamping , which is basically restricting the value to a certain range . In this case , it is clamped to 0 and 1 . However , the problem with the above example is that it is now impossible to debug the code .
 If the user passed in bad input , you would get a clamped answer , instead of an error , and if the calculateValue function was buggy , you would never know . It could be slightly inflating the value , and you would still never know , because the values would be clamped .
 As an exaggerated example , if calculateValue returned 900,000,000 , all you would see is “ 1 ” . Instead of embracing and fixing bugs , this tactic throws them under the carpet in the hopes that no one will notice .
 If your code is going to fail , then fail fast and fix it fast . Do n’t try to polish garbage . Polished garbage is still garbage .
 Many programmers already adhere to this principle , but some do not .
 Since Python prevents the bug caused by double checking a boolean value , I will be using Java , as the bug can only happen in languages where assignment is possible in if statements .
 Aside from being redundant and taking up extra characters , this practice can cause horrible bugs , as very few programmers will bother to glance twice at an if statement that checks for true / false .
 At first glance , you would expect it to print out “ 1 + 1 is not equal to 3 ! ” . However , on closer inspection , we see that it prints out “ 1 + 1 equals 3 ! ” due to a very silly but possible mistake .
 The programmer had accidentally set someBoolean to true instead of comparing someBoolean to true , causing the wrong output .
 In languages such as Python , assignment in an if statement will not work . Guido van Rossum explicitly made it a syntax error due to the prevalence of programmers accidentally causing assignments in if statements instead of comparisons .
 This is a nifty trick that piggy backs off the previous tip . If you ’ve ever done defensive programming , then you have most likely seen this before .
 Flip the order such that null is first .
 Null is immutable , meaning you ca n’t assign null to the object . If you try to set null to obj , Java will throw an error .
 As a result , you can prevent the silly mistake of accidentally causing unintentional assignment during equality checks . Naturally , if you set obj to null , the compiler will throw an error because it ’s checking a null object when it expects a boolean .
 However , if you are passing around methods inside the if statement , it can become dangerous , particularly methods that will return a boolean type . The problem is doubly bad if you have overloaded methods .
 In this example , the user expects foo to be passed in a boolean of whether or not x is equal to a constant number , 5 .
 However , instead of comparing the two values , x is set to 5 . The expected value if the comparison was done correctly would be false , but if x is set to CONSTANT_NUM , then the value will end up being true instead .
 It does n’t matter what language you use , always leave your uninitialized variables as null , None , nil , or whatever your language ’s equivalent is .
 The only exception to this rule is booleans , which should almost always be set to false when initialized . The exception is for booleans with names such as keepRunning , which you will want to set initially to true .
 In particular , for Python especially , if you have a list , make sure that you do not set it to an empty list .
 The same also applies to strings .
 There is a world of a difference between a null / None / nil list , and an empty list , and a world of a difference between a null / None / nil string , and an empty string .
 An empty value means that the object was assigned an empty value on purpose , and was initialized .
 A null value means that the object does n’t have a value , because it has not been initialized .
 In addition , it is good to have null errors caused by uninitialized objects .
 It is unpleasant to say the least when an uninitialized string is set to “ ” and is prematurely passed into a function without being assigned a non - empty value .
 As usual , garbage input will give you garbage output .
 These five tips are not a magical silver bullet that will prevent you from making any bugs at all in the future . Even if you follow these five tips , you wo n’t suddenly have exponentially better code .
 Good programming style , proper documentation , and following common conventions for your programming language come first . These little tricks will only marginally decrease your bug count . However , they also only take about an extra few seconds of your time , so the overhead is negligible .
 Sacrificing a few seconds of your time for slightly safer code is a trade most people would take any day , especially if it can increase production speed and prevent silly mistakes .
 Your friend , Ruby , goes out and buys Java a pet duck . But wait , on closer inspection , it ’s not a duck at all ! It just walks like a duck .
 And quacks like a duck .
 “ What ’s the matter ? ” Ruby asks .
 “ It ’s not a duck ! ” Java complains , distraught that the pet has no inheritance relations with the Duck class .
 So what is duck typing ?
 Duck typing is a feature that allows a language to call a method on an object , if it has the method . Ruby does n’t care what the object is , but rather , what methods the object has .
 However , a caveat of duck typing is that the it tends to only be built - in to the language if the language handles type checking during runtime . This means that duck typing will only work on dynamically typed languages , such as Ruby . In languages like Java and C++ , type checking is done during compile - time . As a result , if there is a type conflict , the program will not even compile . Languages that do type - checking during compile - time are called statically typed languages .
 The type ( int ) is explicitly stated , which means that Java checks for types during compile - time , making it a statically typed languages .
 Ruby sees that x was assigned a number at runtime . Since x was assigned a number , Ruby automatically knows that x must be a Fixnum .
 First , we need two different objects that have the same method name . However , the method ca n’t be given to the object via the same superclass , because it would instead be inheritance .
 Let ’s take a look at a simple example of duck typing .
 puts " I 'm not a duck , but ... Quack ! "
 I 'm not a duck , but ... Quack !
 In Ruby ’s mind , the Alien instance and the Duck instance are essentially the same . When we called the try_quack method , Ruby wanted an object that had a quack method .
 In this case , when we passed in the Duck instance , Ruby saw that the Duck object would quack , so it called the Duck instance ’s quack method .
 For the Alien , even though the Alien class has nothing to do with the Duck class , it still has a quack method . As a result , Ruby happily calls the Alien class ’s quack method .
 Duck typing is a powerful feature of Ruby that allows you to call methods on seemingly different objects , as long as those objects have the same method names . As a result , there is no need for inheritance . You simply call the method , and if the object has it , it will work .
 Ruby does n’t care who the object is , but rather what it is .
 You open your favorite programming IDE , and right there . A glorious mess of spaghetti code . You have no clue what it means , and you ca n’t understand a single thing .
 Bad code can waste precious hours of time , when it really should have only taken a few minutes to understand the code if it were refactored and cleaned up .
 So today , I ’ll teach you , in five simple tips , how to spare other programmers from facing a giant plate of spaghetti .
 Everyone knows this , but few actually do it correctly . First of all , and this is the critical , stop shortening your variable names . Yes , you can shorten the word “ minimum ” to min , but if you ’re working on an application that handles time , your reader may think min refers to minutes . In particular , if you ’re shortening a word , and that shortened word can possibly refer to more than one word , do n’t do it .
 Readers may also be confused if your variable names do n’t actually say what you mean .
 For example , imagine if you created a variable called “ days ” . What does that mean ? Days elapsed ? Days before something happened ? The amount of days in the month ? Be specific . Refactor days to daysElapsed , daysInMonth . Do NOT put a comment and write “ days refers to the days elapsed since … ” . That is absolutely nonsense . Make your variable names self - explanatory .
 3 . Keep It Simple , Stupid !
 If you ’re programming a certain function , be clear . Avoid using silly round - about ways . Especially avoid “ clever ” solutions . Clever and tricky solutions may be shorter or faster , but they can cripple reading speed . Usually , when people do these clever solutions , they will put comments everywhere to compensate for the fact that no one actually understands what they wrote , which ties into tip # 1 .
 This principle also applies to re - inventing the wheel . If your language comes built - in with a feature , use it . Do n’t re - implement a data structure that already exists . Often , it is n’t the programmer ’s fault , though , since they might not know about the existence of a certain feature . However , this is not an excuse when you are working with other programmers . If what you wrote in 100 lines could be replaced by 1 line , then it should be refactored .
 A good object is one that knows only what it should know , and no more .
 A god object is one that knows too much , in particular , things that it should n’t .
 For example , imagine you had a chair object . It should not know anything except for itself . If your chair knows your social - security number , how much money you make a year , and how many chairs there are around it , then your chair is either the world ’s greatest secret spy agent , or it should n’t exist .
 All variables in a class should be private , unless there is a very compelling reason for a variable to be public . There are very few reasons for a variable to be public , unless it is a global constant , such as Math . PI .
 The inverse of this is also true . Stop exposing your privates ! If your private variable does not require a getter , do not make a getter . You should be encapsulating your code .
 If you have a rectangle class , and you only ever need its area , then do n’t make a getter for its width or length . Just make a single public method that multiplies the private width and length variables .
 Hide your implementation details ! If you have a computer , and you just want to send an email , then there is no reason the user would need to know about the internal workings on the computer . The user does n’t care how many volts the computer needs . The user does n’t care about how many gigabytes of RAM the computer has . The user just wants to send an email . And your computer should allow them to do exactly that , in one simple function , without knowing anything else about the computer .
 Remember these five points , and you ’re sure to write cleaner code .


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The shooting test or live fire qualification is to test your shooting fundamentals and accuracy from the presentation and a holster (if you don't have a holster we have on you can borrow). You can bring any caliber firearm up to a .357 mag that you'd like. If you don't have a firearm we have a 22lr you can rent for $10 which includes ammo. You can use a revolver or a semi-auto handgun.
The test starts at 3 yards and goes to 15 yards. You shoot 10 rounds at 3, 5, 7, and 10 yards and then 5 rounds at 12, and 15 yards. The test is timed but it isn't really anything to worry about. It's not set up to fail the student.
However you shoot at the range normally is the way you'll shoot here unless we see something that you're doing dangerously, at that point we'll correct it and go from there. If you feel you need some training prior to class we offer 1 on 1 sessions at $25 hr and can generally get newbies fairly range proficient with one hour of working on fundamentals of shooting using 50-100 rounds of ammo.
We don't make you shoot with both eyes open during the test. We do however go over this in class and how the sympathetic nervous system works and how your body operates under pressure in an attack situation and point shooting.
This test isn't that hard and can be passed by anybody that pays attention in class and to the instructor on the range.
Our shooting range is indoor and is held with one student at a time. We don't line you up with a bunch of students. We have the instructor and 1 student on the range behind closed doors so nobody else is watching. We find this to be more comfortable for most students especially new shooters.
Basically anything less powerful than a 357 mag.

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The shooting test or live fire qualification is to test your shooting fundamentals and accuracy from the presentation and a holster ( if you do n't have a holster we have on you can borrow ) . You can bring any caliber firearm up to a .357 mag that you 'd like . If you do n't have a firearm we have a 22lr you can rent for $ 10 which includes ammo . You can use a revolver or a semi - auto handgun .
 The test starts at 3 yards and goes to 15 yards . You shoot 10 rounds at 3 , 5 , 7 , and 10 yards and then 5 rounds at 12 , and 15 yards . The test is timed but it is n't really anything to worry about . It 's not set up to fail the student .
 However you shoot at the range normally is the way you 'll shoot here unless we see something that you 're doing dangerously , at that point we 'll correct it and go from there . If you feel you need some training prior to class we offer 1 on 1 sessions at $ 25 hr and can generally get newbies fairly range proficient with one hour of working on fundamentals of shooting using 50 - 100 rounds of ammo .
 We do n't make you shoot with both eyes open during the test . We do however go over this in class and how the sympathetic nervous system works and how your body operates under pressure in an attack situation and point shooting .
 This test is n't that hard and can be passed by anybody that pays attention in class and to the instructor on the range .
 Our shooting range is indoor and is held with one student at a time . We do n't line you up with a bunch of students . We have the instructor and 1 student on the range behind closed doors so nobody else is watching . We find this to be more comfortable for most students especially new shooters .
 Basically anything less powerful than a 357 mag .


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tokenized: This course is designed for providers who must maintain state of the art knowledge of the specialty . This conference is being held at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress hotel . This activity provides a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ . Fulfills the Part 2 requirement for ABA 's Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program ( MOCA ® ) . Please see our website for more information .


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La Manga Strip Mar Menor offers adventure, culture and entertainment in one exciting trip. The famous la manga strip along the southeastern coast of Spain offers activities that appeal to young and old. Family holidays in La Manga del Mar Menor offer adventure, culture and entertainment in one exciting trip. The famous strip along the southeastern coast of Spain offers activities that appeal to young and old. The region kitchen, hot water and recreational activities make it the perfect place for a family holiday. La Manga del Mar Menor is a 22 km strip of land between Spain and the Mediterranean. Due to its unique location, the largest saltwater lake in Europe comprises’s Lake, Mar Menor. The temperature is much warmer than its larger cousin, the Mediterranean Sea. The strip is a few kilometers with the widest and 300 meters at its narrowest point. It gives visitors a choice of two different sizes of water for swimming and where to play.
One Bedrooms, Sleeps 4, Sea Views, Spectacular Swimming Pool.

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La Manga Strip Mar Menor offers adventure , culture and entertainment in one exciting trip . The famous la manga strip along the southeastern coast of Spain offers activities that appeal to young and old . Family holidays in La Manga del Mar Menor offer adventure , culture and entertainment in one exciting trip . The famous strip along the southeastern coast of Spain offers activities that appeal to young and old . The region kitchen , hot water and recreational activities make it the perfect place for a family holiday . La Manga del Mar Menor is a 22 km strip of land between Spain and the Mediterranean . Due to its unique location , the largest saltwater lake in Europe comprises ’s Lake , Mar Menor . The temperature is much warmer than its larger cousin , the Mediterranean Sea . The strip is a few kilometers with the widest and 300 meters at its narrowest point . It gives visitors a choice of two different sizes of water for swimming and where to play .
 One Bedrooms , Sleeps 4 , Sea Views , Spectacular Swimming Pool .


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Saiki Kusuo is a typical 16-year-old high school student… except he has psychic powers. He can use them to get whatever he wants, but he also knows everything that people are thinking.
Meet Louise, a budding magician. The students at the Tristein Academy call her "Zero Louise", due to her current record of zero successes with magic. In fact, her magic tends to go spectacularly wrong.

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Saiki Kusuo is a typical 16 - year - old high school student … except he has psychic powers . He can use them to get whatever he wants , but he also knows everything that people are thinking .
 Meet Louise , a budding magician . The students at the Tristein Academy call her " Zero Louise " , due to her current record of zero successes with magic . In fact , her magic tends to go spectacularly wrong .


text: This is handy. A magnifier with the compass points etched into the base so you can line it up with the compass rose on your chart. It's a 4-power magnifier, is 3" in diameter, and almost 1-3/4" tall, and heavy enough to keep the chart in place. Scratch resistant crystal, this comes in a nice felt-lined box. From the fine folks at Weems and Plath.

tokenized: This is handy . A magnifier with the compass points etched into the base so you can line it up with the compass rose on your chart . It 's a 4 - power magnifier , is 3 " in diameter , and almost 1 - 3/4 " tall , and heavy enough to keep the chart in place . Scratch resistant crystal , this comes in a nice felt - lined box . From the fine folks at Weems and Plath .


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to homeschooled students, secondary students, postsecondary students, and professionals taking licensing tests.
Appointments do need to be made to schedule a testing time, and drop-in requests can not be accommodated.
- Scheduling a testing time with the Library.
- Verifying that the testing institution accepts the Library’s proctoring policies.
- Ensuring the Library has received all required testing materials.
(this includes sufficient postage and envelopes to return your completed test if necessary).
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to homeschooled students , secondary students , postsecondary students , and professionals taking licensing tests .
 Appointments do need to be made to schedule a testing time , and drop - in requests can not be accommodated .
 - Scheduling a testing time with the Library .
 - Verifying that the testing institution accepts the Library ’s proctoring policies .
 - Ensuring the Library has received all required testing materials .
 ( this includes sufficient postage and envelopes to return your completed test if necessary ) .
 after the testing date unless otherwise directed by the testing institution .
 or call ( Middletown : 513 - 424 - 1251 / West Chester : 513 - 777 - 3131 ) .


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Patrick Barron, an Austrian Economist: Why Isn't QE Causing Inflation?
Why Isn't QE Causing Inflation?
Our monetary czars lecture us to be unconcerned about their unprecedented expansions in base money and the money supply, since there has been little sign of inflation in the economy. For the purposes of this essay, we will assume that there has been no inflation, although John Williams at www.shadowstats.com and anyone who tries to make ends meet on the same money income will tell you a different story. Our purpose is to explain the theory behind the price level and how theory can explain the so-called miracle/mystery of an increase in monetary aggregates with little or no inflation.
There is no miracle or mystery as to why prices have not gone significantly higher. Our monetary authorities have not found the magic formula that allows the government to engage in noninflationary spending sprees, funded neither by an increase in taxes nor an increase in interest rates. Our monetary masters remind me of the story of the man who jumps off the Empire State Building. As he is passing a floor on the way down, an office worker leans out a window and asks him how he's doing. He replies: so far, so good!
unspent, it will have no effect on the price level. In fact, if the demand to hold money exceeds the growth of the money supply, prices actually will fall. Likewise, notice the importance of the supply of goods as that portion of production actually sold. For example, inventory accumulation does not affect the price level. The goods must be both offered on the market and sold at some market clearing price for them to affect the price level.
Therefore, two events, or a combination thereof, can cause prices to rise--an increase in sales expressed in money terms, independent of whether or not the supply of money has increased, or a decrease in supply sold on the market, even if increased production goes into inventory accumulation. The opposite of these two events, of course, will cause prices to fall.
We easily see from this simple yet powerful explanation that a falling price level need not be of concern, if it is the result of an increase in the supply of goods offered on the market. As John Stuart Mill explained over two hundred years ago, the purpose of production is consumption. Goods are produced to satisfy human wants. The Keynesian view that digging holes and filling them up again adds to the general welfare of an economy is nonsense. Jean Baptist Say explained that increased production becomes the means by which increased sales are realized. Again, man produces for the purpose of consumption, and his production becomes the means by which he consumes via market exchange expressed in money terms. Digging and refilling holes does not represent anything that would be valued on the market. Neither would printing money and giving it to welfare recipients to spend.
OK, but what would cause an increase in the demand to hold money that would suppress the price level? And is this increase in money demand something that we can rely upon to hold down the price level forever?
Ludwig von Mises explained that there are three phases to monetary destruction. Murray N. Rothbard summarizes Mises' explanation in his Mystery of Banking, Chapter V (The Demand for Money), pages 68 through 72.
In phase one the monetary authorities inflate the currency, but the public expects that prices will not rise or may actually fall, so they withhold their spending, which is the same thing as saying that they increase their demand to hold money. Prices may actually drop during this period of monetary inflation, which seems paradoxical but actually is explained by proper theory. The demand to hold money rises faster than the supply printed by the monetary authorities. The people believe that whatever crisis causes an increase in money will end and prices will fall to pre-crisis levels or even lower. They are long accustomed to lower prices or even a gently falling price level. Therefore, their firmly held belief in lower prices becomes self-fulfilling, at least for awhile, because their increase in demand to hold money brings about this very situation.
Phase one may last a long time, but eventually the demand to hold money abates and prices start to rise, gently at first but more robustly as time progresses. In this second phase the people come to believe that prices are not going to fall and that they actually will continue to rise. Therefore, they begin spending more to purchase goods before the inevitable increase in prices. In this phase, even if the monetary authorities shrink the money supply, prices still can rise, because the people's demand to hold money is falling too fast. Again, the people's belief that prices will continue to rise becomes self-fulfilling. Price increases in phase two come faster and faster, as more and more people accelerate their spending to thwart the falling purchasing power of their money.
Phase two morphs into phase three, when people lose all confidence in the future purchasing power of their money and demand to hold money goes to zero. In this final phase the monetary authorities are unsuccessful in stopping the loss of monetary confidence even if they take drastic action to curb monetary inflation. People wish to exchange their money for any vendible commodity. The panic feeds on itself. This is what Mises calls the "crackup boom", because there is a flurry of buying as everyone tries to exchange his money for whatever he can.
Not only do our monetary masters fail to understand the real danger of monetary destruction that they have unleashed with their zero interest rate and quantitative easing policies, they do not understand the true nature of money as part and parcel of the market. For example, they fail to understand that money is not neutral. Its expansion does not fall upon the economy equally, perhaps raising the price level but not disturbing its underlying structure. In his eighteenth century book, An Essay on Economic Theory, Richard Cantillon first observed that money enters the economy in certain places, enriching the early receivers of new money at the expense of later receivers. Money expansion transfers wealth within society, benefiting the politically connected and harming the true engines of progress, the savers. This is the Cantillon Effect of the non-neutrality of money. In his first great book, The Theory of Money and Credit, Ludwig von Mises went even further and corrected a major deficiency of the classical economists by integrating money into general economic theory that governs all economic processes. For example, money is just as much subject to the law of diminishing marginal utility as all other goods and services. Our monetary masters admit as much when they muse that more recent quantitative easing measures have had less effect on their favored monetary metrics than earlier ones. What they do not understand is that the economy was not helped by increases in money. Quite the contrary.
At the conclusion of The Theory of Money and Credit, Mises introduced another great contribution to economic theory: that bank credit expansion is the source of the boom/bust business cycle. Money and GDP aggregates fail to identify the capital destruction set in motion by monetary interventions. GDP may indeed increase but only due only to the Keynesian fascination with monetary aggregates. The capital structure of production is set in disequilibrium, sending too much capital to the earlier, long term stages of production which eventually cannot be completed due to the fact that there never were enough resources in the economy for their profitable completion. Mises termed such misallocation "malinvestment".
No one can predict when people will begin to lose confidence in the purchasing power of the dollar. Each new dollar that the Fed creates is like one more strand of straw laid on a mountain of straw. The real question is "Is this next strand of straw going to be the one that breaks the camel's back?"
I love the strand of straw image.

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Patrick Barron , an Austrian Economist : Why Is n't QE Causing Inflation ?
 Why Is n't QE Causing Inflation ?
 Our monetary czars lecture us to be unconcerned about their unprecedented expansions in base money and the money supply , since there has been little sign of inflation in the economy . For the purposes of this essay , we will assume that there has been no inflation , although John Williams at www.shadowstats.com and anyone who tries to make ends meet on the same money income will tell you a different story . Our purpose is to explain the theory behind the price level and how theory can explain the so - called miracle / mystery of an increase in monetary aggregates with little or no inflation .
 There is no miracle or mystery as to why prices have not gone significantly higher . Our monetary authorities have not found the magic formula that allows the government to engage in noninflationary spending sprees , funded neither by an increase in taxes nor an increase in interest rates . Our monetary masters remind me of the story of the man who jumps off the Empire State Building . As he is passing a floor on the way down , an office worker leans out a window and asks him how he 's doing . He replies : so far , so good !
 unspent , it will have no effect on the price level . In fact , if the demand to hold money exceeds the growth of the money supply , prices actually will fall . Likewise , notice the importance of the supply of goods as that portion of production actually sold . For example , inventory accumulation does not affect the price level . The goods must be both offered on the market and sold at some market clearing price for them to affect the price level .
 Therefore , two events , or a combination thereof , can cause prices to rise -- an increase in sales expressed in money terms , independent of whether or not the supply of money has increased , or a decrease in supply sold on the market , even if increased production goes into inventory accumulation . The opposite of these two events , of course , will cause prices to fall .
 We easily see from this simple yet powerful explanation that a falling price level need not be of concern , if it is the result of an increase in the supply of goods offered on the market . As John Stuart Mill explained over two hundred years ago , the purpose of production is consumption . Goods are produced to satisfy human wants . The Keynesian view that digging holes and filling them up again adds to the general welfare of an economy is nonsense . Jean Baptist Say explained that increased production becomes the means by which increased sales are realized . Again , man produces for the purpose of consumption , and his production becomes the means by which he consumes via market exchange expressed in money terms . Digging and refilling holes does not represent anything that would be valued on the market . Neither would printing money and giving it to welfare recipients to spend .
 OK , but what would cause an increase in the demand to hold money that would suppress the price level ? And is this increase in money demand something that we can rely upon to hold down the price level forever ?
 Ludwig von Mises explained that there are three phases to monetary destruction . Murray N. Rothbard summarizes Mises ' explanation in his Mystery of Banking , Chapter V ( The Demand for Money ) , pages 68 through 72 .
 In phase one the monetary authorities inflate the currency , but the public expects that prices will not rise or may actually fall , so they withhold their spending , which is the same thing as saying that they increase their demand to hold money . Prices may actually drop during this period of monetary inflation , which seems paradoxical but actually is explained by proper theory . The demand to hold money rises faster than the supply printed by the monetary authorities . The people believe that whatever crisis causes an increase in money will end and prices will fall to pre - crisis levels or even lower . They are long accustomed to lower prices or even a gently falling price level . Therefore , their firmly held belief in lower prices becomes self - fulfilling , at least for awhile , because their increase in demand to hold money brings about this very situation .
 Phase one may last a long time , but eventually the demand to hold money abates and prices start to rise , gently at first but more robustly as time progresses . In this second phase the people come to believe that prices are not going to fall and that they actually will continue to rise . Therefore , they begin spending more to purchase goods before the inevitable increase in prices . In this phase , even if the monetary authorities shrink the money supply , prices still can rise , because the people 's demand to hold money is falling too fast . Again , the people 's belief that prices will continue to rise becomes self - fulfilling . Price increases in phase two come faster and faster , as more and more people accelerate their spending to thwart the falling purchasing power of their money .
 Phase two morphs into phase three , when people lose all confidence in the future purchasing power of their money and demand to hold money goes to zero . In this final phase the monetary authorities are unsuccessful in stopping the loss of monetary confidence even if they take drastic action to curb monetary inflation . People wish to exchange their money for any vendible commodity . The panic feeds on itself . This is what Mises calls the " crackup boom " , because there is a flurry of buying as everyone tries to exchange his money for whatever he can .
 Not only do our monetary masters fail to understand the real danger of monetary destruction that they have unleashed with their zero interest rate and quantitative easing policies , they do not understand the true nature of money as part and parcel of the market . For example , they fail to understand that money is not neutral . Its expansion does not fall upon the economy equally , perhaps raising the price level but not disturbing its underlying structure . In his eighteenth century book , An Essay on Economic Theory , Richard Cantillon first observed that money enters the economy in certain places , enriching the early receivers of new money at the expense of later receivers . Money expansion transfers wealth within society , benefiting the politically connected and harming the true engines of progress , the savers . This is the Cantillon Effect of the non - neutrality of money . In his first great book , The Theory of Money and Credit , Ludwig von Mises went even further and corrected a major deficiency of the classical economists by integrating money into general economic theory that governs all economic processes . For example , money is just as much subject to the law of diminishing marginal utility as all other goods and services . Our monetary masters admit as much when they muse that more recent quantitative easing measures have had less effect on their favored monetary metrics than earlier ones . What they do not understand is that the economy was not helped by increases in money . Quite the contrary .
 At the conclusion of The Theory of Money and Credit , Mises introduced another great contribution to economic theory : that bank credit expansion is the source of the boom / bust business cycle . Money and GDP aggregates fail to identify the capital destruction set in motion by monetary interventions . GDP may indeed increase but only due only to the Keynesian fascination with monetary aggregates . The capital structure of production is set in disequilibrium , sending too much capital to the earlier , long term stages of production which eventually can not be completed due to the fact that there never were enough resources in the economy for their profitable completion . Mises termed such misallocation " malinvestment " .
 No one can predict when people will begin to lose confidence in the purchasing power of the dollar . Each new dollar that the Fed creates is like one more strand of straw laid on a mountain of straw . The real question is " Is this next strand of straw going to be the one that breaks the camel 's back ? "
 I love the strand of straw image .


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The mission of Metro Denver Partners is to promote a safe and growth-oriented environment in which at-risk youth can develop and flourish through: friendship and commitment; mentoring and role modeling; education and guidance; and family support.
There are many kids in our community who would benefit from someone taking the time to connect with them. They want and need a caring adult to listen to what's on their mind and give them good advice. That's what mentoring is all about. You just need to be yourself, and share what you've learned from your own life experiences. It's really that easy. You'll share activities, be supportive and listen, become a friend, and show the youth you care.
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The mission of Metro Denver Partners is to promote a safe and growth - oriented environment in which at - risk youth can develop and flourish through : friendship and commitment ; mentoring and role modeling ; education and guidance ; and family support .
 There are many kids in our community who would benefit from someone taking the time to connect with them . They want and need a caring adult to listen to what 's on their mind and give them good advice . That 's what mentoring is all about . You just need to be yourself , and share what you 've learned from your own life experiences . It 's really that easy . You 'll share activities , be supportive and listen , become a friend , and show the youth you care .
 Would you recommend Metro Denver Partners ?


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Pip Coburn became famous for writing some of the liveliest reports on Wall Street. He quoted everyone from Machiavelli to HAL, Anaïs Nin to Yoda, Einstein to Gandhi. But along with the quirky writing, he consistently delivered sharp insights into technology trends and helped investors pick stocks with long-term potential.
After years of studying countless winners and losers, Coburn has come up with a simple idea that explains why some technologies become huge hits (iPods, DVD players, Netflix), but others never reach more than a tiny audience (Segways, video phones, tablet PCs). He says that people are only willing to change when the pain of their current situation outweighs the perceived pain of trying something new.
In other words, technology demands a change in habits, and that’s the leading cause of failure for countless cool inventions. Too many tech companies believe in "build it and they will come"— build something better and people will beat a path to your door. But, as Coburn shows, most potential users are afraid of new technologies, and they need a really great reason to change.
The Change Function is an irreverent look at how this pattern plays out in countless sectors, from computers to cell phones to digital TV recorders. It will be an invaluable book for people who create and invest in new technologies.

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Pip Coburn became famous for writing some of the liveliest reports on Wall Street . He quoted everyone from Machiavelli to HAL , Anaïs Nin to Yoda , Einstein to Gandhi . But along with the quirky writing , he consistently delivered sharp insights into technology trends and helped investors pick stocks with long - term potential .
 After years of studying countless winners and losers , Coburn has come up with a simple idea that explains why some technologies become huge hits ( iPods , DVD players , Netflix ) , but others never reach more than a tiny audience ( Segways , video phones , tablet PCs ) . He says that people are only willing to change when the pain of their current situation outweighs the perceived pain of trying something new .
 In other words , technology demands a change in habits , and that ’s the leading cause of failure for countless cool inventions . Too many tech companies believe in " build it and they will come " — build something better and people will beat a path to your door . But , as Coburn shows , most potential users are afraid of new technologies , and they need a really great reason to change .
 The Change Function is an irreverent look at how this pattern plays out in countless sectors , from computers to cell phones to digital TV recorders . It will be an invaluable book for people who create and invest in new technologies .


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Are you looking for quality appliance repair in Long Beach CA ?
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Mitsubishi Electric de Mexico S.A. de C.V.
 5665 Plaza Drive , Cypress , California 90630 - 0007 , U.S.A.
 3400 Lawrenceville Suwanee Road , Suwanee , Georgia 30024 , U.S.A.
 One Penn Plaza , 250 West 34th Street , Suite 4303 , New York , New York 10119 , U.S.A.
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Greetings Cougar Nation and Brinkhater Army. Hope you all had a Happy Monday.
Because I am too dumb to read, I couldn’t consult Mr. Webster to see if my distinction has any relationship to real words or fact.
With that in mind, I am left to simply tell you what I THINK the differences are between the two words/concepts. Simply put, in Brinkhater’s book, a “prediction” is something that you THINK might happen. A declaration is something that is GOING TO HAPPEN (or not).
So, to illustrate the distinction, I will give you a few examples from me own ‘lil life.
First, lets get the prediction thing clear: Each week, I PREDICT the Cougs’ fortunes. And, in spite of my gaudy record recently (17-0), my predictions are simply that: I THINK that they are going to happen. But I don’t really KNOW (if you know what I mean). But in my near 4 decade long tenure as resident Sports Dork del Mundo, I have also been privy or part to several important Declarations.
Like many of you, I spent my wee early days pretty high on Steve Largent and the rest of the expansion Seattle Seahawks.
I remember being SO excited when the Hawks became the quickest team to ever finish with a 9-7 record. “We’re going to the playoffs next year” I said to anyone who would hear me.
Unfortunately for me, someone did.
Now, mind you, my dear Uncle is more often funny than serious. So, when he made that statement, I HAD to take notice. I mean, it wasn’t as if he was saying that he THOUGHT that the Hawks might not make the playoffs with Zorn, he was saying that the Hawks would NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER make the playoffs with “Jimmy Puke Puke” (as he called him) at the helm.
In short, He was making a DECLARATION.
Now, at that time, I was really making a prediction. But in hindsight, because I was right, I was really making a DECLARATION.
Years after that, I made a similar statement about another #10 (Zorn was the first) and his fate. Although this time, it WAS a DECLARATION. I let anyone (and it was no one besides Rooster, Sedi, and maybe Hooty who may have read one post or e-mail during that time) that Alex Brink would NEVER lead us to a bowl game.
Tragically, I was right. And to this day, I have the world’s worst Moniker to show for it as a HORRIBLE battle scar.
But, instead of being humbled by the righteousness of my past declarations (and to quit while I’m ahead), I feel the need for more.
You all know who this is? Its defensive coordinator Jody Sears.
Grant you, the only thing I REALLY know about Jody Sears is that he was an average player on the first Cougar team that I fell in love with (1989).
I also want you to know that despite being the most unfair person in the world, Brinkhater TOTALLY gets the fact that its unfair to judge Mr. Sears on his record at Eastern. After all, who can get a decent defensive player to commit to EASTERN of all places?
That said, Mr. Sears didn’t exactly light the world on fire at Eastern, did he Cougar faithful?
So, if any of you “homers” out there are questioning where I am going with this, I beg of you to look at the state of affairs over at Montlake.
Now, with regards to Mr. Sears, I am sure that he’s a good recruiter and a good coach.
But, as a former WR, does he know SO MUCH about the other side of the ball that he is able to match wits with some of the greatest offensive minds in the game?
Does he know enough to be able to coach up sub-par talent and get them to compete with All-Americans who are bigger, faster, and stronger?
The Washington State Cougars will NEVER make a bowl game with Jody Sears as the Defensive Coordinator.
You all can bicker about all the things that you want, but I BELIEVE that Coach Paul and the rest have what it takes to turn this whole thing around.
But how Coach Paul deals with his dear friend Jody will be the most telling and critical decision of his tenure.
He already demonstrated his ability to call a spade a spade and cut ties with Rosey.
Now, the fate of the program rests with this last deep, personal connection.
Sears won’t take us where we need to be, folks, its plain and simple.
Take the ball out of his court. Demote him or let him go.
The fate of the program depends on it.
You are currently browsing the archives for the Jody Sears category.

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Greetings Cougar Nation and Brinkhater Army . Hope you all had a Happy Monday .
 Because I am too dumb to read , I could n’t consult Mr. Webster to see if my distinction has any relationship to real words or fact .
 With that in mind , I am left to simply tell you what I THINK the differences are between the two words / concepts . Simply put , in Brinkhater ’s book , a “ prediction ” is something that you THINK might happen . A declaration is something that is GOING TO HAPPEN ( or not ) .
 So , to illustrate the distinction , I will give you a few examples from me own ‘ lil life .
 First , lets get the prediction thing clear : Each week , I PREDICT the Cougs ’ fortunes . And , in spite of my gaudy record recently ( 17 - 0 ) , my predictions are simply that : I THINK that they are going to happen . But I do n’t really KNOW ( if you know what I mean ) . But in my near 4 decade long tenure as resident Sports Dork del Mundo , I have also been privy or part to several important Declarations .
 Like many of you , I spent my wee early days pretty high on Steve Largent and the rest of the expansion Seattle Seahawks .
 I remember being SO excited when the Hawks became the quickest team to ever finish with a 9 - 7 record . “ We ’re going to the playoffs next year ” I said to anyone who would hear me .
 Unfortunately for me , someone did .
 Now , mind you , my dear Uncle is more often funny than serious . So , when he made that statement , I HAD to take notice . I mean , it was n’t as if he was saying that he THOUGHT that the Hawks might not make the playoffs with Zorn , he was saying that the Hawks would NEVER , EVER , EVER , EVER make the playoffs with “ Jimmy Puke Puke ” ( as he called him ) at the helm .
 In short , He was making a DECLARATION .
 Now , at that time , I was really making a prediction . But in hindsight , because I was right , I was really making a DECLARATION .
 Years after that , I made a similar statement about another # 10 ( Zorn was the first ) and his fate . Although this time , it WAS a DECLARATION . I let anyone ( and it was no one besides Rooster , Sedi , and maybe Hooty who may have read one post or e - mail during that time ) that Alex Brink would NEVER lead us to a bowl game .
 Tragically , I was right . And to this day , I have the world ’s worst Moniker to show for it as a HORRIBLE battle scar .
 But , instead of being humbled by the righteousness of my past declarations ( and to quit while I ’m ahead ) , I feel the need for more .
 You all know who this is ? Its defensive coordinator Jody Sears .
 Grant you , the only thing I REALLY know about Jody Sears is that he was an average player on the first Cougar team that I fell in love with ( 1989 ) .
 I also want you to know that despite being the most unfair person in the world , Brinkhater TOTALLY gets the fact that its unfair to judge Mr. Sears on his record at Eastern . After all , who can get a decent defensive player to commit to EASTERN of all places ?
 That said , Mr. Sears did n’t exactly light the world on fire at Eastern , did he Cougar faithful ?
 So , if any of you “ homers ” out there are questioning where I am going with this , I beg of you to look at the state of affairs over at Montlake .
 Now , with regards to Mr. Sears , I am sure that he ’s a good recruiter and a good coach .
 But , as a former WR , does he know SO MUCH about the other side of the ball that he is able to match wits with some of the greatest offensive minds in the game ?
 Does he know enough to be able to coach up sub - par talent and get them to compete with All - Americans who are bigger , faster , and stronger ?
 The Washington State Cougars will NEVER make a bowl game with Jody Sears as the Defensive Coordinator .
 You all can bicker about all the things that you want , but I BELIEVE that Coach Paul and the rest have what it takes to turn this whole thing around .
 But how Coach Paul deals with his dear friend Jody will be the most telling and critical decision of his tenure .
 He already demonstrated his ability to call a spade a spade and cut ties with Rosey .
 Now , the fate of the program rests with this last deep , personal connection .
 Sears wo n’t take us where we need to be , folks , its plain and simple .
 Take the ball out of his court . Demote him or let him go .
 The fate of the program depends on it .
 You are currently browsing the archives for the Jody Sears category .