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IQueryable's get converted to expression trees which then get converted to sql. It's more of a "translated" to sql rather than a "compiled" to sql.

You've just described how compilers work, minus optional attempts at optimization and optional excess passes. Most of which take place either after the expression tree has been generated, or somewhere during the conversion process. Therefore I'd call what you've described "compilation".
I don't know what is or is not innovative about this particular editor concept, I just pointed out that it's more useful to be able to see things like procedural flow without having other things cluttering the screen just because they happen to be in the same files as what you're interested in at a given point in time.

Another nice example of the file-centric approach failing is Photoshop comps. It's a lot easier to just have an interface where I can quickly toggle between various comps in a single project file than it is to have two dozen slightly different files, each representing one comp.
Facebook ads are usually creepily relevant because they feed off keywords in your chat logs and interests.
That's nothing! Soon enough, Facebook will be capable to infer one's secret lovers. A great opportunity to monetize for sure.
Actually, it was more of a "AT&T accepted Apple's terms when it came to developing a new phone back before anyone had seen the original iPhone." As thanks, they got a 5-year exclusivity agreement with Apple.
Unless there are two Julian Assanges that call themselves "proff", yes.
I'm one of those angry former customers. You can yell at PayPal all you want but you won't get that data.

Honestly, I think there needs to be some regulation here, since there's just no incentive for the large incumbents to change.

From a security perspective, it's a huge disservice to the consumer. It's a great thing to not worry about storing card details in your application. The auth.net/paypal policies incent anyone using those providers to store those details anyway to ensure portability.
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The .Count() method in LINQ to objects checks to see if the IEnumerable implements ICollection, and if so then just calls the .Count property.

Of course, calling the .Count property yourself is more efficient, but not by orders of magnitude.
It's reminiscent of that quote again:

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers

I don't buy lottery tickets (building apps may be my equivalent) but I know many who do. It isn't much to spend compared to other pastimes and helps people get through the work week.
On iPhone, automatically redirects to a general home page; this story buried among the other headlines. When will companies learn basic mobile web ux?
The company in question, Games Workshop, has a reputation for being even more draconian than Apple in mistreating customers while exploiting the large fan base. That's what happens when you have products that make your users wear pink goggles and conjure an idealistic image about them.
Advanced Flash Quiz XML AS3
This is an advanced XML driven quiz, highly customizable. It can generate any type of quiz varying from single choice, to multiple choice, to user input quizzes, with time limit, per question or general, or without time limit, acting as a survey. Easily add your own questions and combine the options user has to answer them. Use features like auto-close, auto-open and auto-scroll, to make it easy for the user to answer questions without loosing focus on scrolling or opening/closing the questions. It can show a splash screen with instructions for the following quiz. Add a message for each final score range and have the possibility to process the results using a server side script (basic example provided). Optionally show the correct answers after quiz is completed.

XML Settings:
- set component width adn height
- setup logo
- setup scrollbar
- show answers page
- show initial splash page
- set if quiz has timer or not
- send data to server script (basic script included)
- set time per question or time for the entire quiz
- start questions expanded or not
- auto-close, auto-open, auto-scroll questions
- set total score
- simple choice, multiple choice or user input

Enjoy this new release from Oxylus Flash.
Probably not... MS' dominance on the desktop isn't in any immediate danger, and MS is the puny upstart in the mobile market. (There's also the arrogance thing over there.)

It sounds a lot like the UNIX vs UNIX (et all) vs NT thing, too. Back when NT was new, the UNIX vendors had better hardware as well as more mature OS's... but they were too fragmented to stop the rise of the legion of computer vendors using x86 and Windows, and didn't start paying attention until Intel eclipsed almost all of them. (There's really only one left.)
"News that Google Android-based devices are outselling the iPhone may be a sign that consumers are fed up with Apple's increasingly restrictive policies and behavior that, in the minds of many, could be characterized as nothing short of bullying."

Or it may not be, as we present no data to back this claim, but that's OK because we put the "may be" qualifier in there, so now we can write the rest of the article assuming that our premise is true.
These numbers are a few months old, but they may help you make your decision:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/25/6-ways-iphone-and-and...
According to http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/featu... and http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/... the people directly involved reported being happier, by more than the experimenters expected. There's no information there about (1) whether the happiness gains lasted or (2) whether they had any effect on other people.

Slough's population is ~120k, so I'd be surprised if any "seeding" effect produced measurable results on the population as a whole.

I don't see any sign that the BBC has either put the episodes online or offered them for sale.
I would like to see a portion of lottery ticket purchases end up in an individuals retirement/savings account, locked away for some pre-determined period of time, transferable on death to relatives, interest split between the state and the individual. It's a shallow proposal, but seems like a nice idea, anyway.
The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
I remember seeing a study not too long ago that examined how many apps a typical user on each platform downloaded and how many they paid for. The iPhone users were just a little more spendy than the Android users.

Now, there is a whole lot more competition in the App Store and Android is growing a lot faster. So I suspect the real answer is Android, but that is just conjecture and doesn't take into account the iPad.

I wish I could remember where that study was.

Edit: Magneus linked to what I was thinking of
'Hope insurance' makes a lot of sense. The question we should ask is, do lottery ticket buyers get their money's worth?

If it makes them feel more hopeful and happier, it might be worth the price, even if they never win anything substantial.

But if it becomes an addiction that ruins their lives, then it's pretty obvious that they aren't getting more than they put in.
I just started using one of these. Today is day 4. (The weekend was in the way, so it's consecutive day 2) So far the only real change is my back is hurting in a different place than with the cheap chair I had. (upper back instead of lower) I'm giving it till Friday because I've heard that back pain is normal at first mostly due to muscles being used that you weren't using before.
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This note simply describes the bare facts underlying Scroogle's outage and that they've emailed Google to ask some relevant and perfectly reasonable questions.

How is any of what they say "irrational"? Where do they imply that they're entitled to anything from Google?

As for Google being "bad guys", well, that really depends on how much you value privacy and whether you think Google is acting in ways that respect their users' privacy.
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I could have actually used this instead of botching my garden by putting everything out too early.

I signed up for the free one, when you get to the calendar view its for the entire year. I would maybe limit that and keep it within three months or even two, so it is immediate, more so then what I am supposed to do next February. I would also, when you click instructions it links you an entirely different page, it would be so much better if it just dropped down there were illustrations in the same style as the home page in an easy 1,2,3 style.

But you should not be scared I think it will definitely catch on. It might be nice to expand it to flowers
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Here's what he said about Spain:

"Spain, which has to choose a new constitution. It might be prepared to adopt a sensible one. I don't think its really likely in Spain, but it's an example. And they may prove so successful that after all it is seen that there are better ways of organizing government than we have."

It seems to me he is only referring to Spain's potential new constitution, that they might adopt a sensible one.
People engaging in program trading generally want the exchange not to nullify trades. Trade nullification is unpredictable, and program traders want the markets to obey a set of predictable rules.

The main beneficiaries of the broken trades are retail investors who placed stop loss orders. Many high frequency firms are actually hurt by this, namely the ones who bought at the bottom and sold near the top. Their buys were broken, but their sells were not.
I will definitely support a YC company and use Octopart next time I need to compare prices, and tell my EE friends about it. However, it seems to lack a few features that I'd need to use it to discover new components (such as the ability to compare ADCs by word size and sample rate or other category-specific attributes), and the TOS prohibition against deep linking seems overly restrictive considering there's an API (what if I want to link to an Octopart category from a parts list on an open project's web site?). I look forward to seeing what Octopart becomes, and what others do with the API.
It looks like the article is being updated (without being so marked). Shortly before I posted it said that "Apple summarily fired the engineer who lost the phone".
Toy benchmarks frequently use large data volumes. That is easy to do. What is harder to do in a benchmark is providing realistically complex logic to go with those volumes. Many systems work well on the simple cases, but have bad edge cases that can get tickled by a more complex problem.
3 years ago I bought my first Apple computer. Coming to the Apple platform, I was amazed by all the apps my fellow co-workers would buy for their Macs. Most of them were just simple stupid things that cost only a few bucks but I could never see an average non-Apple user buying. I have no statistical evidence, but it seems like Apple users are more susceptible to buying apps, ring tones, songs, and other junk. My advice would be build for the iPhone and if you get something that is very popular or making you a ton of money, then port it over.
I second this question.
government doesn't spend 100s of millions of it's own/taxpayer's money!

lotteries are after all profitable, unlike most start-up's.
The fact that he thinks it's a one-or-the-other choice. My employer has an iPhone, an Android and a BlackBerry app. My personal project (Phonalyzr) is available in both Android and BlackBerry flavours (no iPhone due to SDK restrictions).

All three platforms have pretty big market shares, focusing on one exclusively seems like bad business.
However you want to swing it, Apple went with AT&T as the provider.
Ideally, the tools should figure all this out. In practice, figuring out if there is enough work for parallelism to save you time is a hard problem, and programmer annotations help a lot. Additionally, PLINQ (parallel LINQ) in different than single-threaded LINQ in ways that can affect your program. For instance, it may return the results of a query in a different order than they were inserted into the collection. Some programs rely on the ordering in LINQ, so PLINQ is opt-in, rather than opt-out or tools-decide, at this point. There is more detail on this issue and some others here ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163329.aspx ).
So a company that produces iPhone apps think the iPad is awesome, there is a shock.
'gem install rails' is no easier or harder than 'cpan -i Catalyst::Devel'

...Perhaps from your perspective.
I don't think lotteries are ruining a lot of lives the same way casinos do. One's lottery spending is pretty limited.
I heard about that about them also. I don't know much about that forum, but I would think that anything that encourages your customers to be more involved in your product would be a good thing.
Yet can you imagine a public and political campaign to remove lotteries? Any kind of reasoning will sound condescending, especially with the reward structure build around infrequent but noticeable payoffs keeping the players coming back to it.
I think they might.
I would want/need the option of using it with a custom domain for it to be relevant for me.
i think this has a lot of potential - many people here have mentioned the pain points of the urban/apartment gardener and you guys seem like a goot fit. Someone mentioned the anti-famville - which I love from a marketing angle. Prepotted ready to go is a bit harder to do but I think that is a killer service for urbanites. I live in the country (Petaluma, Ca) and there is an abundance of amazing nurseries near by so tuning in to the urbanites seems like were you want to go. could be cool to run a few very geo-targeted (one city) adwords campaigns to see if you get some early pickup.
>Apple rarely (never?) releases products as loss leaders

Ever heard of the iTunes music store? Minimally profitable and repeatedly referred to as a driver for iPod/iWhatever sales rather than a profit center. Without the iPhone's popularity, the same concept would apply to the App Store as well. When announced, it was directly compared to the music operation, and not expected to make any measurable impact on the bottom line.

This analysis (though obviously flawed by Apple's own sales data release policies) largely backs up these statements:
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/255967-timeline-strategy-c...
I personally like in simple scenarios using List<T>.ConvertAll:

var foo = new List<int>{ 1, 2, 3};
var bar = foo.ConvertAll(x => x * 2);

over the the Linq equivalent:

var foo = new List<int>{ 1, 2, 3};
var bar = from x in foo select x * 2
Elliot Haughin's original library is here:
http://www.haughin.com/code/facebook/
if those are state-owned lotteries, then some profits do end-up as pensions anyway trough state-funded pensions.
Thanks, those are all good points. The seeds will be organic/heritage, and when we talk about beds we're talking linear feet.

Lots of good ideas, thank you.
I'm not amazed at all. I would guess that most violators of Google's terms of service don't even get noticed by Google until and unless their actions begin to significantly impact Google's bottom line or Google feels threatened in some other way.

The API changes that resulted in Scroogle no longer being able to get results from Google may not have had anything to do with Scroogle violating Google's terms of service.

But if it did, then it's likely Scroogle was performing a significant number of searches and Google noticed. This would lead me to believe that there is a serious demand among a significant number of Google's customers for more privacy, and Google itself was not meeting that demand.

I hope other privacy-respecting search engines step up to the plate and fill the void left by Scroogle's demise.
Neither. I've been in the business for over a year and the money isn't bad, it's just not enough to sustain a business in and of itself. I wrote about it here: http://techneur.com/post/440686528/its-all-our-fault-why-bui...

If you want specific numbers, just email me.
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I used to shuffle around my birth date on Facebook, but it seems it is now locked down.

Is there a way to edit it?
I think this is going to push the price of used games down; meaning that EA gets $10 they didn't get before, and people selling used games get $10 less.
FWIW I've been quite pleased with PayPal, both standard and "pro." They get a bad rap (somewhat deserved), but for ease of setup and low barriers to entry, they're the best I've found.

For one customer (a music festival) I set up paypal integration for ticket sales three years ago and haven't had to change anything since.
Thanks for speaking up! The other posters are right that it's basically a time issue. I struggled with whether to even release at first in the entire U.S. or just San Diego.

I do care about non-us folk. One of the main reasons why I built the software the way I did (using weather data to calculate planting dates) is that I can theoretically extend the site to anywhere that I can get weather data for.
What about deleting your account, waiting the 14 days, and then creating a new profile that just contains your contact information so you can reach your friends? Would that effectively let you start fresh? Facebook served a purpose for me when I was a freshman in college, but now that I'm older I don't really want that stuff associated with me. It is really unclear what remnants will remain from the old account.
I work for a small software company that makes iPhone and Android applications. From what I understand we make much more from the iPhone apps. I'm not exactly sure why this is, but I think the store is just set up in a way that favors free apps. Also the Android store allows for VERY easy refunds.
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I'm extremely privacy-sensitive and nothing they've done has come close to shaking me off as a customer. Key detail about my use of Facebook: I don't publish things on Facebook that I'm concerned about, and I don't use it for work social networking.
In the early days of Google, back while it was still beta, I remember having to go to my backup search engine—remember Altavista? :)—for queries where I just needed a boatload of sites, or where I had a complex boolean thing, or where I needed to search for a whole phrase.

Of course, back in the 90s Google knocked out my reasons to backoff to Altavista, one by one, adding boolean queries, and phrases, and of course adding a boondle of data. So I was eventually able to stop using Altavista.

For the last few months, DDG is my primary and I love it. I still use Google for:

* a few queries that DDG can't find anything for

* to find out what other people will see when they "google it"

* YouTube and maps.

YouTube will be hard to ditch because that's where the content is, although I suspect I can wean from maps if I actually try.
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If he's just the one guy he might already be swamped by supporting one major application for one platform.
depends on the kind of app?
I don't think that'd fulfill the purpose of buying a lottery ticket, though.

I look at it in terms of different marginal utility functions of money. A dollar a day isn't going to take you from poor to rich. Over a year, that's $365. Over a working life of 50 years, that's slightly under $20k. $20K in a retirement account isn't going to last you very long or buy you very much.

$50M, however, is a very different experience. You're rich; you don't have to work. You don't have to look at the price tags on items. You can buy all the things you dreamed of before.

Lottery players are completely rational, they just don't think in terms of numbers. They think in terms of "I can go from poor to poor, or I can have a chance of going from poor to rich." There's a qualitative difference between having $50 in the bank and $50M in the bank. There is not really a qualitative difference between having an income of $13,000/year and having an income of $12,635/year.
Yeah, sorry about that. I'll add a message to the site and in the future be more sensitive about this. I didn't think about it enough, and I'm disappointed that I didn't even do the minimum amount of acknowledgement that there is a world outside the U.S.

My other post below explains things a little, but support for other countries is definitely planned.
"but not too much, plants mostly" is a reference to the advice given on how to eat in The Omnivore's Dilemma.
i think we have differing opinions on what is beautiful and sexy.
I tried to race the release of FTW with my reading of Makers. I don't remember why I stopped reading it. (Maybe the part of the debacle of New works movement was too much for me) but I failed. I am still in the middle of Maker and now also in the middle of a dilemma should I read Makers, ftw or my Math text book for the finals??
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According to http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39411 (written last summer) this Spring (likely April) is targeted for a production release of a usable subset of Perl 6. The same information is posted to http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?Rakudo_Star.

They obviously didn't make that. I don't know what the current state is or what the exact thinking is now.
You might want to consider Beanstream -- they're based out of Victoria and offer services broadly similar to Braintree (data vault for CCs, etc).

IIRC, it is possible for a Canadian company to use Braintree and other US based payment processors, but you need:
a) A US EIN number
b) A US chequing account

The US chequing account is easy -- you can get that through Harris (www.harrisbank.com). They are actually a subsidiary of BMO, and so are used to opening US accounts for Canadian individuals and companies. You can work with them entirely by mail/e-mail (including the account opening process). I know foreign companies can apply for an EIN -- but it's not something we've done, so I can't speak from experience there.
I don't think it's theft at all. It's perfectly rational for a gamer to buy and sell used games. But it's also perfectly rational for EA to try to make as much money as possible from the used game market which completely undermines its business.

I suspect the used car market is also a thorn in the side of auto manufactures. They probably carry higher prices at retail to compensate for the used market as much as possible (assumption). That works for them.

EA could do the same thing and raise the prices of its games to $80-$100. However, they have options. EA would rather shift the cost from 'good' gamers buying new games and go after 'bad' gamers buying from the used market who are only indirectly customers.

Why is this wrong? In the end, somebody has to pay for what EA produces.
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That would be my first impression too, but maybe compulsive lottery players are just less visible than casino addicts (because they don't all gather in the same spot)? I'd have to see some numbers to be sure.
It's sad that the article also uses the phrase "increase loading times by 200%-400%" - who in their right mind would want to do that?

I read stuff like that, and hope that the so-called "reporter" gets immediate re-training to become a dishwasher.
It's funny how natural you take to the remote processing of speech, when I first outlined that as a concept to potential investors about a decade ago I was literally laughed out of the room :)

But yes, that's definitely an option, but 'limited domain' speech recognition on mobiles is a fact today, to do better would require a lot of work but I think that it is possible.

Don't forget that you'd be about as 'personal' with that computer as possible, nobody else would ever use it, so one dimension of the problem can be collapsed to '1'.