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Typing practice fundamentals - Learning keyboard step by step

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  Typing practice fundamentals The 10 finger method is a very established technique to efficiently use your computer keyboard. With some practice and the correct finger positions you can type „blindly“ on the keyboard. If you have it down, you can significantly lower your error rate and increase your typing speed at the same time. 1  Hunt and peck Although the advantages of the 10 finger-method are perfectly obvious, still many people are hunting and pecking away. Here you are staring at your keyboard until you spot the right key and then hit it with your index finger. After some years you start using more fingers and you might know the positions of the keys better – however, without a distinct finger-key-combination only a few people can manage „blindly“ and equally fast. 2  Basic position for typewriting The basic concept of fast typing is quickly explained: Your fingers take up a fixed starting position, from where you can reach any key you need. Your left fingers are ...

How to highlight and copy text on sites that block it

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Personally, I would not advise any of my clients to implement these restrictions on their websites since it only gives your visitors a bad experience. Below are some of the ways you can copy content from a website that has disabled text selection and/or right-clicking. 1. Disable JavaScript from the browser As I mentioned in the beginning most website use JavaScript to disable text selection and right-clicking. Luckily browsers have a setting where you can either enable or disable JavaScript and in this case disable it, save and reload the page. Once done copying don’t forget to activate javascript because some websites like facebook and other heavy rely on JS and disabling it will break these websites. Disabling javascript on google chrome browser 2. Copy from website source code Shortcut : Press control + u  Websites are written in hypertext markup language (HTML). This code can be viewed by right clicking on the website if not disable...

Why do ceiling fans in the US have 4 or 5 blades, and fans in India have 3 blades?

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  In US and Canada, the primary requirement for the ceiling fan is to supplement the air conditioner in summer. In winter, many of these fans with a reverse switch, can be flipped to turn the direction of the rotation so that it will draw cold air from below so warm air from the heater (usually located along the walls close to the floor or with vents on the floor) can fill the room underneath the fans. So, the ceiling fan keeps a gentle air circulation in the room. Also, keep in mind, the height of ceilings and hence volume of rooms are quite low in US/Canada homes ~ 8 ft high compared to 10–12 ft in South Asia. Typical North American fan: The fans with 4 / 5 blades are slower. Also, these fans generally have a maximum of 3 speed settings. Also, the fact that they almost always double up as a lighting fixture with 1–4 bulbs under the central hub could be one of the reasons why they need to be slow and stabilized so as not to blow the lights. The Indian fans have about 5-6 speed set...

IS NPS good or bad ?

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  Lets calculate. You have got 30 more years to save and if we assume an average return of 8% throughout this period, then with a monthly investment of Rs. 5000, you'll achieve a corpus of around Rs. 75 lacs. Now, NPS lump sum withdrawl of upto 60% is tax free while annuitization is mandatory for a minimum of 40% of the corpus. Assuming a 4% annuity rate and assuming that you go for only 40% annuitization, you'll get a monthly pension of around Rs. 10,000 and walk away with around Rs. 45 lacs in hand as a tax free lump sum amount of money at retirement. PFA the calculator I utilized on the NPS Trust website. Edit 1:  NPS also enjoys tax benefits on contributions u/s 80 C and additional exemptions u/s 80 CCD of the Income Tax Act. You can not only claim exemptions under normal 80C exemptions of upto 1.5 lacs but also an additional exemption of ₹50k on contribution. Further, the returns are also not taxed. So NPS is also a good tax savings instrument.

Test-driven development in programming

Definition “Test-driven development” refers to a style of programming in which three activities are tightly interwoven: coding, testing (in the form of writing  unit tests ) and design (in the form of  refactoring ). It can be succinctly described by the following set of rules: write a “single” unit test describing an aspect of the program run the test, which should fail because the program lacks that feature write “just enough” code, the simplest possible, to make the test pass “refactor” the code until it conforms to the  simplicity criteria repeat, “accumulating” unit tests over time Expected Benefits many teams report significant reductions in defect rates, at the cost of a moderate increase in initial development effort the same teams tend to report that these overheads are more than offset by a reduction in effort in projects’ final phases although empirical research has so far failed to confirm this, veteran practitioners report that TDD leads to improved design qu...

Creating Hotspot Using CMD

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Open command prompt as administrator by pressing “windows_key+X” and selecting “command prompt(Admin)” from the menu. Click yes when prompted. 2.  Now type the below command in terminal and press enter. Replace Hotspot and Password with your hotspot name and yourpassword. netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Hotspot key=Password 3.  Now type the below command and press enter.This will turn on your hotspot. netsh wlan start hostednetwork 4.  Exit the command prompt Now your hotpot is up and running, but you have to do few more steps to share your internet over it. 5.  Now go to network and sharing center and click on change adapter settings. you can open network and sharing center through control panel or by right clicking on the wifi/computer icon at the right bottom on desktop. 6.  Right click on your Internet connection and select properties. 7.  In properties go to S...