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The Boston Marathon

A line on a map connecting points that have the same average percentage of cloudiness is called Isoneph.

ACID means (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee validity even in the event of errors, power failures, etc.

In the context of databases, a sequence of database operations that satisfies the ACID properties and, thus, can be perceived as single logical operation on the data, is called a transaction. For example, a transfer of funds from one bank account to another, even involving multiple changes such as debiting one account and crediting another, is a single transaction.

The intention of the interviewer by asking this question is to discover the pain points for the candidate.

Here this can be explained with an example like this :

The administrative assistant might seem like someone whose job is simply keeping everything filed and organized and scheduled. But they actually are the building block of the entire office, making everyone's lives function more smoothly and with good access to information when they need it.

Sometimes I have so many things crossing my desk at a given time that I can get a bit overwhelmed. When this happens I take a deep breath and focus on prioritizing the work. Then I get a clear head again and can dive back in.

Kabuki

In the early 1950s two scientists, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, studied DNA using x-rays. Franklin produced an x-ray photograph that allowed two other researchers, James Watson and Francis Crick to work out the 3D structure of DNA. The structure of DNA was found to be a double helix.