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Codewars is an educational community for computer programming.On the platform, software developers train on programming challenges known as kata.These discrete programming exercises train a range of skills in a variety of programming languages, and are completed within an online integrated development environment.
In 1993, SoftKey International was created out of a three-way merger between SoftKey Software Products, WordStar International, and Spinnaker Software. [32] [33] Shareholders of Softkey Software represented about 53 percent of the new company's shares. [33] After the merger, the company moved to Spinnaker's offices in Cambridge, Mass. [34]
Its similarity with a spinnaker is that it is not attached to a stay along its luff, and typically has a slightly larger curvature than a genoa. Luff shape and tension is maintained by the halyard and a bolt rope which is woven into the sail itself, and it is this stiff tensioned rope which allows the sail to be furled on itself.
A spinnaker is a type of sail. Spinnaker can also refer to: Spinnaker (software), an open-source continuous delivery platform; The Spinnaker (building), in Durban, South Africa; The Spinnaker, the official student newspaper of the University of North Florida; Spinnaker Tower, a building in Portsmouth, United Kingdom
A jib, left, compared to a roughly 110% genoa, right. The foretriangle is outlined in red. The term jib is the generic term for any of an assortment of headsails.The term genoa (or genny) refers to a type of jib that is larger than 100% of the foretriangle, which is the triangular area formed by the point at which the stay intersects the mast, and deck or bowsprit, and the line where the mast ...
Spinnaker is a free and open-source continuous delivery software platform originally developed by Netflix and extended by Google. [2] It is designed to work with Kubernetes , Google Cloud Platform , AWS , Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud .
Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may be classified in a variety of ways, including by its orientation to the vessel (e.g. fore-and-aft) and its shape, (e.g. (a)symmetrical, triangular, quadrilateral, etc.).
The jib sheet attaches to the clew of the jib, and controls it. The jib has a sheet on each side, only one of which (the leeward one) will be in use at one time. The spinnaker sheet attaches to the clew(s) of the spinnaker, if carried. A symmetrical spinnaker has two sheets, an "active" one and a "lazy" one, in the same way as a jib, but they ...