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I want to make a website similar to this Standoff' page. A long-form, story-driven site with moving images and such. Pretty sure that it works off of a template of some sort. What's the name for this type of website layout? \/ Thanks! That gives me a starting point. melon cat fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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melon cat posted:I want to make a website similar to this Standoff' page. A long-form, story-driven site with moving images and such. Pretty sure that it works off of a template of some sort. What's the name for this type of website layout? The name I've seen most is "Snowfall" - https://www.adweek.com/digital/10-snowfall-like-projects-that-break-out-of-standard-article-templates/ - Might be tough to find templates as snowfall is a common name, but I hope that helps! --- Lazy Dev question: I have some JSON files that I want to serve and query for a Github Pages project with client-side JS graphing. CouchDB on Zeit Now (or another cheap docker host) seems to be a good lightweight way to do this, right?
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Jul 12, 2018 18:30
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Nybble posted:The name I've seen most is "Snowfall" - https://www.adweek.com/digital/10-snowfall-like-projects-that-break-out-of-standard-article-templates/ - Might be tough to find templates as snowfall is a common name, but I hope that helps! Why not just load the JSON files directly with AJAX requests? Disclaimer: I know nothing about Github Pages, so maybe there is some technical reason you can't have .json files there.
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Jul 12, 2018 19:27
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Yeah, Github pages can load in JSON, but 1) I need to keep the full files private, 2) the files are quite large and just want to return the MapReduce results. I've never used CouchDB (and only just a little bit of MongoDB for that matter) so I'm curious if there are any alternatives that I'm missing when it comes to document databases that would be appropriate when I'm not planning on having any other backend.
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Jul 12, 2018 20:48
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Nybble posted:Yeah, Github pages can load in JSON, but 1) I need to keep the full files private, 2) the files are quite large and just want to return the MapReduce results. I've never used CouchDB (and only just a little bit of MongoDB for that matter) so I'm curious if there are any alternatives that I'm missing when it comes to document databases that would be appropriate when I'm not planning on having any other backend. Ah, gotcha. Check out Firebase. Their free tier should give you all you need, and you don't have to spin anything up.
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melon cat posted:I want to make a website similar to this Standoff' page. A long-form, story-driven site with moving images and such. Pretty sure that it works off of a template of some sort. What's the name for this type of website layout? ABC has done a similar thing with the Thai cave rescue and its' awesome. Speaking of awesome design, I'm self-teaching and looking for a good resource on the basics of making websites that don't cause your eyes to bleed. Googling "Webpage Design" is pulling up more stuff teaching HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and I have my sources for that information pretty much handled so far. Does anyone have a good resource on escaping the 90's design habits I still carry to this day, or maybe the keywords I should be googling to get information on "don't look like rear end"?
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Jul 13, 2018 02:17
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Do you have interests in doing design work, or are you a developer looking to make prettier things? If the latter it might be more useful to learn about existing design systems and how you can incorporate them in your workflow. I think from there you'll pick up some things or if the system is good the documentation will teach you why it made the choices it did. Like if you decide to use Saleforce's lightning system, you will learn a lot of design principles just by going through it's documentation, while learning to implement it and make a good looking app without having to be the designer. https://lightningdesignsystem.com/guidelines/overview/ If you aren't sure where to find design systems: https://adele.uxpin.com/
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Jul 13, 2018 02:41
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I heard bootstrap is a thing people use to make things looks good, stuff like forms. I also heard a lot of people say that it don't really deliver on that premise. But it works for me. Anything is better than "html 1.0". RAW unstyled html.
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Jul 13, 2018 09:15
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Bootstrap will certainly elevate the look a little bit. You're not going to learn any design principles from its documentation.
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Jul 13, 2018 12:13
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Skill level: Tables are that thing people use if they don't eat at their desk, right? I'm getting everything installed to make a MEAN stack application, but I'm not sure whether to use Angular or AngularJS. It seems like one of the biggest differences is Typescript vs traditional JS. This is mainly (at least initially) a project to learn the basics off of. It looks like Typescript has options for Object Oriented Design, which I like. But I'm not sure if I'd be handicapping myself in terms of basic web dev knowledge (trying to get from software IT to development) by skipping traditional JS. What should I go with?
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Jul 13, 2018 13:30
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From what I can recall, Angular can be used with or without TypeScript. You may as well go with Angular. AngularJS is pretty much the 1.0 of Angular. They had a fucky versioning scheme for a while before finally settling on the Angular name.
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Jul 13, 2018 14:12
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I've been looking at antidesign and brutalism in web design tendencies recently, and the more I read about it, the more I realize many of these people writing medium articles about it don't really understand what brutalism is. Many just confuse it with anti-design or postmodern design, but I think brutalism would be a lot closer to writing raw unstyled html that is preferably well structured than in using garish colors, considering brutalism comes from the word for "raw concrete". Goons love brutalism, let's ruin the internet.
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Jul 13, 2018 15:21
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Maleh-Vor posted:I've been looking at antidesign and brutalism in web design tendencies recently, and the more I read about it, the more I realize many of these people writing medium articles about it don't really understand what brutalism is. Many just confuse it with anti-design or postmodern design, but I think brutalism would be a lot closer to writing raw unstyled html that is preferably well structured than in using garish colors, considering brutalism comes from the word for "raw concrete". Yeah, if you understand what Brutalism is in architecture beyond than 'concrete with more concrete and maybe a window here or there' then describing a web design antipattern as Brutalism is probably just conflating not liking Brutalist architecture with not liking lovely web design. Maciej Cegłowski probably argues most eloquently for the web design equivalent of Brutalism http://idlewords.com/talks/ (specifically, http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm and iirc in http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm)
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Jul 13, 2018 16:09
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IronDoge posted:From what I can recall, Angular can be used with or without TypeScript. You may as well go with Angular. AngularJS is pretty much the 1.0 of Angular. They had a fucky versioning scheme for a while before finally settling on the Angular name. WRT Typescript, you're going to use Typescript regardless, but you can dial down the strictness on type-checking until it's not much more than vanilla JS.
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Jul 13, 2018 17:04
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Munkeymon posted:Yeah, if you understand what Brutalism is in architecture beyond than 'concrete with more concrete and maybe a window here or there' then describing a web design antipattern as Brutalism is probably just conflating not liking Brutalist architecture with not liking lovely web design. Maciej Cegłowski probably argues most eloquently for the web design equivalent of Brutalism http://idlewords.com/talks/ (specifically, http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm and iirc in http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm) Those were pretty good, and kind of make me feel embarrassed for the designs I just delivered and consistently have to deliver to my employer. I'd probably get fired immediately if I even tried to present a design that looks anything like what he suggests though. Still, I have been working towards making some projects conform better to web standards and be more efficient, even if those increase complexity.
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Jul 13, 2018 18:25
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Skill level: Tables are that thing people use if they don't eat at their desk, right? I think you should go with Angular, download the Angular cli (tool that lets you easily set up projects, add scaffolds for certain types of objects, test locally & build your app for production) and following along with the tutorial to get started. I've worked extensively with AngularJS & Angular and strongly prefer Angular - they did a hard break from AngularJS for a reason!
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Jul 13, 2018 21:46
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Anyone want to give some input, architecture-wise? I have an Django application where users will import a number of text+image records, between 200-20+k of these records at a time. Each will be processed by about a two dozen or so operations. The operations range from fuzzy text matching, to NLP, OCR and image classification etc. Each operation is independent from another, they can occur in any order. The only requirements are: 1) Each operation processes a record at least once 2) Post-operation, the user can see the state of that record. #2 is important because the user will have a dashboard that shows the progress of their records. If the user links 20k records during high load, they'll be left staring at a progress bar or something similar for quite a while. Typically, I'd send things out to a task queue like Celery + whatever broker/backend choice, but I worry about that high load + high amount of records situation slowing that solution down to a crawl. At some point, we're going to integrate real-time retrieval of new records as they're generated. Ideally, the solution should incorporate that possibility, too. I was looking at Kafka or Apache Storm, but having not worked with either, I feel like I could be shoehorning tech where it doesn't belong. Literally, "look into X" would be enough to help.
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Jul 17, 2018 00:58
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salisbury shake posted:Anyone want to give some input, architecture-wise? I'm not sure what issues you're imagining you'd encounter, but Celery should have no problem with that if you design your tasks correctly. Of course, that's the case with anything you'd replace Celery with as well. Whatever product you choose, it's going to be all about how you design your tasks/pipeline.
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Jul 17, 2018 01:39
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This is gonna sound like a stupid question but does the comment blocks in Laravel in the controllers actually do anything in the long run or can I delete those? Stuff like code:
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ConanThe3rd posted:This is gonna sound like a stupid question but does the comment blocks in Laravel in the controllers actually do anything in the long run or can I delete those? It's mostly for IDE's to aid in auto-complete or for generating docs. It's safe to delete.
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Jul 17, 2018 13:53
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Does anyone have any experience implementing both Google Tag Manager and Analytics in a React app that uses React Router? Do I need both Google products? From what I知 reading, I can easily use GTM to create triggers on window location changes, but the actual user interactions are going to have to be coded into the event handlers with analytics.js Is that right?
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Jul 17, 2018 22:19
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Grump posted:Does anyone have any experience implementing both Google Tag Manager and Analytics in a React app that uses React Router? Do I need both Google products? From what I知 reading, I can easily use GTM to create triggers on window location changes, but the actual user interactions are going to have to be coded into the event handlers with analytics.js Yeah but there are libraries to make it work more nicely with react, like this one by the NY Times: https://github.com/NYTimes/react-tracking I haven't used it but it might be worth looking into.
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I need portfolio advice. Harsher or more critical advice, it seems. In the past I've shared a project I had worked on and it was described by goons as "a decent portfolio project." Unfortunately, it hasn't proven to be good enough to get an interview so I suppose that I either need to make another portfolio project or I need to polish what I already have even more somehow. Here was the portfolio project I shared and polished according to goon advice in the past: https://wanderrful.github.io/korean-learning-app/ Should I continue to polish this and add more features? Or should I start a second portfolio project of some kind, and if so how do I decide what to make such that it will demonstrate skills that aren't already reflected in the above portfolio project? Love Stole the Day fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jul 22, 2018 |
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Jul 22, 2018 02:52
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I think you might need to take a step back on your expectations. There are still some obvious flaws with your project (in development is unnecessary and looks like an error, too much emphasis on Question X of X, there are no directions and the error/success interactions re weird) but I don't think a single project, especially in that scope, is going to land you much. You might need to do both, tweak that a little and have more variety, but it could also be all the stuff outside of your portfolio.
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The Dave posted:I think you might need to take a step back on your expectations. There are still some obvious flaws with your project (in development is unnecessary and looks like an error, too much emphasis on Question X of X, there are no directions and the error/success interactions re weird) but I don't think a single project, especially in that scope, is going to land you much. Thank you for the feedback! What will land you much of anything, though? Also, about the specific points you made -- I don't see the "question X of X" or the "in development" thing are on there anymore. They used to be, but the thing has since been updated a lot.
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Jul 22, 2018 23:54
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Love Stole the Day posted:Thank you for the feedback! What will land you much of anything, though? Crazy my browser must have launched a really old cached version of it or something. Quick wins: - Change the title to Korean Vocabulary Quiz - Match that in your title tag - Make the button stand out - Give the button a nice visual hover/focus state - Maybe dock the wrong guess to a bottom corner (will need mobile consideration) - Make the Skip say Skip this one and use a text link instead of a button - When I hit skip the interaction is really weird and I never get to see what the word was That's a super quick look at some quick tweaks, but I think you're close to trying to squeeze blood from a stone with that single project.
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Jul 23, 2018 00:54
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The Dave posted:That's a super quick look at some quick tweaks, but I think you're close to trying to squeeze blood from a stone with that single project. This is great feedback again, thank you! I will also take the "squeeze blood from a stone" comment as high praise. What I'm trying to figure out here is how more I can demonstrate value and demonstrate skills relevant to these jobs. I am repeatedly told that if I demonstrate the value and demonstrate the skills, then the interviews will come... but I don't see any interviews coming. So, therefore, I must not be demonstrating value and I must not be demonstrating relevant skills. Right? So what more do I have to do, is what I need to figure out.
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Love Stole the Day posted:This is great feedback again, thank you! I will also take the "squeeze blood from a stone" comment as high praise. In my many decades of professional job having, there is one thing I have learned that is demonstrated to be true over and over and over again: It's not what you know, it's who you know.
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Lumpy posted:In my many decades of professional job having, there is one thing I have learned that is demonstrated to be true over and over and over again: It's not what you know, it's who you know. Starting a new contracting job at a big company next Monday after two years at a small web dev shop. I imagine it's going to be a bit of a culture shock and I'm still skeptical of contract work, but the pay looks right and gives me hands on experience with using React in production. Should be interesting.
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So. I知 learning git and I知 backing up my laravel projects. I知 wondering what I can omit from my repositories with gitignore (on the basis that I can run composer to get those files anyway) and, so I知 not doing this every framework I知 using, if there痴 some sort of listing for the default files of framework packages available.
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Jul 24, 2018 09:47
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ConanThe3rd posted:So. I知 learning git and I知 backing up my laravel projects. I知 wondering what I can omit from my repositories with gitignore (on the basis that I can run composer to get those files anyway) and, so I知 not doing this every framework I知 using, if there痴 some sort of listing for the default files of framework packages available. I am a newbie myself too, but I believe the entire vendor directory should/could be excluded, has composer will change there whatever is required. The content of vendor seems to be "server sensitivy" has the content must be different for different versions of PHP. Things from PHP 5.4 will break in PHP 7.1 and things from PHP 7.1 will break in PHP 5.4. The last version of PHPUnit will work with PHP 7.1, but will not work with PHP 7.0. Because I am a newbie, I don't know the best good practices, that seems to be what you are asking for. I imagine if you put vendor in git, and two developers have very different versions of PHP in their workstations (why?), problems will arise.
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Cugel the Clever posted:This is one of those things that I am fully cognizant of, yet have entirely failed to act on. I get out to local Meetups, but sit on my computer rather than "network" as chatting with random people is excessively taxing after a long day at work. I know all I really need to do is introduce myself and ask about what they do and see if things flow from there, but overcoming the initial mental hurdles to take the first step isn't easy. Since you're not even getting phoners there could also be things to adjust with your resume or how you approach the application. At past jobs engineering really just used your portfolio to gauge if you had any competency, but cared more about talking to you in person and seeing how you whiteboarded solutions. Similarly when hiring designers I care way more about everything leading up to the finished product. Do they handle deadlines well, do they work well/collaborate well, how do they handle changes in requirements that happen mid-sprint, how do they balance multiple tickets.
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ConanThe3rd posted:So. I知 learning git and I知 backing up my laravel projects. I知 wondering what I can omit from my repositories with gitignore (on the basis that I can run composer to get those files anyway) and, so I知 not doing this every framework I知 using, if there痴 some sort of listing for the default files of framework packages available. Typically you would ignore 3rd party stuff that is pulled in through composer/npm and anything that is sensitive information or not directly related to the project. In Laravel this is typically: - vendor - node_modules - .env - any IDE files - public css/js if you are using webpack or similar (this will really depend or your workflow and deployment) - public/storage Additionally you should make sure the composer.json/composer.lock and the package.json/package-lock.json IS versioned so other devs can match dependencies. This will also allow you to keep track when dependencies are updated (ie when a bug is fixed in another git branch) Git is not backup; it is version control. While it can be used to backup stuff to remote repos, a proper backup solution should be in place as there will be files that are not under version control but are needed in the course of development.
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Anyone have any recommendations for an animation library that works with React that can smoothly change CSS property values on scroll? Like, as you're scrolling down to x height from the top of the screen, and an element ups its opacity smoothly to 1 at x, then starts fading out as you scroll more. Skrollr can do this and I'll post an example in a bit, but it doesn't want to integrate with React and it's rather old anyhow. There's a skrollr-react package that appears to be totally useless as you can't attach any styles to the components it includes.
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ConanThe3rd posted:So. I知 learning git and I知 backing up my laravel projects. I知 wondering what I can omit from my repositories with gitignore (on the basis that I can run composer to get those files anyway) and, so I知 not doing this every framework I知 using, if there痴 some sort of listing for the default files of framework packages available. GitHub has a really handy repository of recommended .gitignore files for various languages and frameworks here: https://github.com/github/gitignore Here are their recommendations for Laravel: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Laravel.gitignore
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Let me try asking this a different way: what are some important or relevant skills w.r.t. web development that are not clearly demonstrated by the portfolio project I posted earlier? (here's the link again for those who don't want to scroll back up: https://wanderrful.github.io/korean-learning-app/)
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Love Stole the Day posted:Let me try asking this a different way: what are some important or relevant skills w.r.t. web development that are not clearly demonstrated by the portfolio project I posted earlier? No one is going to look at your project beyond a cursory glance. That has been my experience applying to jobs. Your resume needs to get through a key-word filter, than some HR drone who can't tell java from javascript will ask you a bunch of questions from a sheet. Then if you answer those satisfactorily, you might get to talk about your project. If you're not getting callbacks your issue is exclusively your resume. A new project which lets you add more key-words might be helpful, but the people looking at your project are only going to do so after a phone screen, and if they do its going to be mostly "oh hey, there's a project, cool". So if your issue is not getting a job, and not having callbacks, don't worry about your project, worry about your resume.
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And because of the subject matter (knowing Korean) people are closing your project faster than usual.
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TheCog posted:No one is going to look at your project beyond a cursory glance. The rightest post. Depending on the hiring organization, the first bajillion filters you have to get through don't care about your project. So, if you're not getting past those filters its not your project that is your bottleneck. Once you get past those filters, again no one is going to really care about your project but they may click the link to it and spend 10 seconds there. The person or committee or whatever entity who is going to care the most about your project is the final or close to final yay/nay decision maker...and there's a good chance they're still not going to care a whole lot because no one likes screening new hires. On the other hand, everyone wants and needs new hires. It's a perverse system we've got here. That's part of the reason networking is an effective way to get jobs because no one involved on either side likes the system or even thinks its particularly effective. edit: Speaking of, if anyone needs some freelancing backend work done I've got some open time over the next month or so (or any time really depending on your needs)! I've been concentrating on Django lately, but I can do whatever. Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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Thermopyle posted:On the other hand, everyone wants and needs new hires. It's a perverse system we've got here. That's part of the reason networking is an effective way to get jobs because no one involved on either side likes the system or even thinks its particularly effective. Also many companies offer really sweet referral bonuses and employees are thirsty to get it, and referrals bypass a lot of the BS at the beginning of the process.
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