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I'm looking to impose a hard limit on a movie. In particular when I have earbuds in and a reasonable volume set, loud or sudden sounds (gun shot, dramatic sound effects, gun fire, etc) are loud enough to hurt. Lowering the volume makes speech and other sounds hard to hear.
Is there a third party…
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Is there some way to quickly toggle the state of volume normalization in Windows 7? When it's off watching movies late is tricky, and when it's on it messes with music in a bad way.
It's a great feature, but argh, it requires me to make my way through so many dialogs... Any solution that requires…
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As I finish up the plans for Monday’s database design precon, I am getting pretty excited for the day. This is the third time I have done this precon, and where the base slides are very similar, I have a few new twists in mind. One of my big ideas for my Database Design Workshop precon has always…
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I am working on an application that requires the storage of location information such as city, state, zip code, latitude, and longitude. I would like to ensure:
Location data is accurate
Detroit, CA
Detroit IS NOT in California
Detroit, MI
Detroit IS in Michigan
Cities and states are spelled…
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I sort of understand the concept of database normalization but always have a hard time explaining it in plain English especially for a job interview. I have read the wikipedia post, but still find it hard to explain the concept to none developers. "Design a database in a way not to get duplicated…
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When learning a new programming language, one of the possible roadblocks you might encounter is the question whether the language is, by default, pass-by-value or pass-by-reference
So here is my question to all of you, in your favorite language, how is it actually done? and what are the possible…
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There’s a bunch of stuff going on at the moment in the SQL world, so if you’ve missed this particular piece of news, let me tell you a bit about it. Twice a year, the SQL community puts on its biggest virtual event – 24 Hours of PASS. And the next one is tomorrow – March 21st, 2012. Twenty-four sessions…
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There’s a bunch of stuff going on at the moment in the SQL world, so if you’ve missed this particular piece of news, let me tell you a bit about it. Twice a year, the SQL community puts on its biggest virtual event – 24 Hours of PASS. And the next one is tomorrow – March 21st, 2012. Twenty-four sessions…
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Congratulations to Erin, Andy and Allen on making the
Nomination Committee for 2014. As Mark Broadbent (@retracement) stated in his
tweet, there’s a great set of individuals for the Nom Com, and I could not
agree more. I know Erin and Allen, and I know how much value they will bring to
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Hi Team,
Could you please explain the following behavior of C# Class. I expect the classResult as "Class Lijo"; but actual value is “Changed”.
We’re making a copy of the reference. Though the copy is pointing to the same address, the method receiving the argument cannot change original.
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