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Difference between IF & FOR to make Fireworks in Flash.
You must have seen Fireworks in Flash on many blogs/sites, but today I’m going to tell you how to make Fireworks in Flash using If and then For loop. You will be noticing the difference between these two Loops. We will be using duplicateMovieClip and setProperty commands alongwith defining variables. So it will be very informative for you.
I don't know that regular people would consider someone not figuring out string theory "stupid." Sure, I can watch a 2 minute YouTube video on it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0Kaf7xYMk - but, that doesn't mean I consider anyone that doesn't "get it" immediately stupid.

That line of thinking seems very...well...stupid.
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Windows CE -> Windows Mobile 6.5 is all the same codebase.

It doesn't matter anyway - adages are just rules of thumb. The point is that Microsoft isn't as bad at creating good products... eventually.

Think about these: XBox, Bing (esp travel search), C#, F#, etc

Try WinMo7 - it's quite impressive and different to the iPhone or Android.
OMG that was the first domain I blocked.
Hacker News doesn't have a monetization strategy. Can you imagine it with ads? I can't. Quora I can, though.
You could try blogger outreach to find people that may be interested in writing about it. Not to link drop, but I literally just put up a post saturday at imjontucker.com that may be helpful. Lots of links and tips re finding bloggers. Let me know if its helpful.
Racket has been rocking my world lately.

In particular, I love that you can arbitrarily define (or redefine) patterns for the match construct using macros.

It leads to some damn elegant code:

http://matt.might.net/articles/red-black-delete/

http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/
Yep, or akin to Bvlgari... which is what helped turning Backupus Vulgaris into Bvckup. But in the end I had to keep a safe distance from #uckup for obvious reasons.
Software Calculates Appearance Of The Average Woman in 41 Countries
Following Diogenes
I think the bigger point here is "taking pride in working long, rather than working smart." Putting in long hours and working inefficiently rather than working quickly.
>Since I can just get whatever information I need by googling there's really not a point to the site anyways. Is that your argument?

Absolutely not, and you clearly know it. That's like me saying your argument is that we should get rid of the rest of the internet because one can post lolcats to Wikipedia as notable examples of, er, lolcats.

>But you think "woah, wait a minute, I can't handle all this information" and so it gets shoved into a sidenote on a two page summary of "clam digging"

No I don't. But you're getting sidetracked by the fabricated analogy and forgetting that the removed articles don't have the [fictional] notability of the subject of your story and would have been very unlikely to have been removed if they had and would have certainly been reinstated.

>To remove a page about Alice ML is exactly the same as marking Fra Angelico's page AfD because you don't personally know about his notability

Let's try this as a first approximation on notability. The internet is probably the main repository of CS info - 120 Google Scholar articles mention "'Alice ML'" (appear to be some false positives). Arguably art history is better represented in works that are yet to be fully integrated online - 17000 Google Scholar articles mention "Fra Angelico".

How about books as a further approximation. 33 book results for "'Alice ML' programming" (18 are obvious false positives too). "'fra angelico' ~painting" (I don't think it's ambiguous without the addition of "~painting" but for equivalence ...) gives 133000 book results.

Popularity and plurality don't dictate notability of course. Notability in this case is a function of the appearance of notability to the authors and editors too, hence pop-stars, etc..

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On the subject of the AfD (articles for deletion). I've looked now at the one for Alice ML, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

The oppositions are clearly poor. Most of them are based on the false assumption that Alice (software) is what is at question. A couple mention notability based on being in a book and the proposer convincingly counters these IMO. Vorov2 is the only dissenting voice that appears to know what they are talking about and gives a reasonable argument. Again, it seems clear that the proposer was most knowledgable about the subject, knew the relevant reference works (so had researched) and knew the WP policy well. SarekOfVulcan makes the deletion.

So in summary, one flagged, another gave good opposition, yet another deleted.

In many ways the fact that there was no other decent opposition to this deletion leads me to believe that it was the correct course of action. Note that Alice ML is still present in Wikipedia in a priori relevant places (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksH...).
Here's the other half of the story: it takes two to nag.
Just about enough to sell tickets to Comic-Con.
"using OSX was just untenable for our business practices and environment.”

Please explain.

Despite working in various IT and coding positions for the past few years I’ve always gotten this oblique and infuriating answer. Generally it’s due to networks that are ghosted (there are custom rsync solutions) but I’ve seen more than one business stuck on XP and IE6 because of some jackass who programmed the business systems in VB and didn’t leave source.

Personally, I’m convinced that because of Android and iOS’s rise—the uptake of personal-favorite platforms in business—it’s no longer smart to build a network around a single OS, in that workers do want to use their platform of choice. The best workers will resent you based on this (and possibly leave), whether they hate having to use Windows or Mac, iPhone or Android. (The last two especially, I’m friends with IT people who hate iOS and implemented an Android-only policy, while knowing the other side: the workers who prefer iOS and have to deal with my friends’ jackassery.)
The benefit of hindsight
A good way to think about market cap, is if a company had 100 equal shares, and those 100 shareholders stood in a room. Then if 2 of them traded shares and told everyone what the value of the company was, and the other 98 didn't say anything, so the statement of the 2 goes down on record. That's market cap. It's the instant opinion of a minority of shareholders as to the going value based on the trading value of a small percentage of shares. In other words, it means absolutely nothing.
Probably sales, getting people to buy the ads.
Actually, Samsung does all that (including as much CPU design as Apple does: http://hothardware.com/News/Analysts-Confirm-Apples-A4-Simil... ) except for the core Android software. However, they do have Badu, which is their own custom OS.

I was genuinely puzzled what you meant by "vertically integrated". Now at least I understand what you are talking about - I still don't think that's a conventional definition of vertical integration - but my response wasn't trying to be snide.
I think after todays performance it was interesting that watson had a hard time with the much harder questions (specifically the $800 dollar questions) but was able to answer the much easier questions. I have a suspicion that in the next round watson may have more problems answering questions but I still think that watson overall will win.
When I first found this feature, I tried to write an email to Skype to thank them for including it. Sadly, there is no way to do such a thing. I looked all over their website for a contact email address, and I finally found one on a hard-to-find page, but when I wrote my message to it, I just got an auto-reply saying basically “please don’t send email to us. Call us or open a support ticket.” Opening a support ticket just to say “thank you” didn’t seem right. It’s sad that the company provides a way for people to complain about the program not working, but not for people to thank the makers of the program. (And I don’t think it’s because thank yous are useless to the company – knowing what your customers like is valuable feedback.)
It's neat. I do recommend you make some rules about when to fire off the ajax request. On every keypress/keyup/focus is a bit much because you're making necessary requests even if the value didn't change. Maybe make a cache that remembers the last search term.
I would add to this:

Stop and think about your relationship.

Put your effort into things that are worthwhile. I've caught myself many times putting my energy into the aspects of our relationship that don't matter, while missing big big things because I thought I had the whole thing covered.
For someone like me who's not really into chess nor Jeopardy, I find this much more exciting than Deep Thought's matches. Here, without ever really thinking about strategies for Jeopardy before, I can easily spot Watson's. Eg. it tried to "kill off" Daily Doubles early on by picking bottom up (and boy did it got lucky) so the humans won't have a chance to double up later to re-coupe or take a huge lead. After it found the Daily Double, it keeps picking low value tiles. I think the strategy is that if time runs out (time can run out for a round back when I was watching the game like 10 years ago), high value tiles which are more dangerous to Watson then lower value ones may be skipped.
That is the exact change I was thinking of making. Thanks for the nudge.
That seems like a lot of options to explore at once, and could be quite expensive from an R&D and product development standpoint, while at the same time failing to capitalize on large returns to scale. Rather than a 4-pronged strategy I'd rather see 2 pronged strategy. Keep Android, dump WP7 (it's a laggard and Ballmer's MS seems incapable of generating any big wins) and select one of either MeeGo or Symbian.
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.

In other words... DEBUG = False when you're exposing the rest to the world.
I'm not sure what your implying, but I wonder if aggression correlates better with entrepreneurial skills.
Watson (IBM's computer) starring in Jeopardy
Sweet Sound of APIs Contest
Their statement sounds like ones that come out of politicians. That can only end well...

I was watching some meego videos on youtube, it does not look that impressive and launching the phone usually takes a full minute. Whats up with that. Its an early build i guess, but as software ages, it generally gets more bloated meaning even slower.
tl;dr; with a voice synthesizer of some sort.
The music in the first stage sounds familiar, anyone familiar with it?
I fully expect Apple to begin doing this across their entire laptop line as a precursor to a full migration to an ARM-based MacOS/iOS hybrid.
SongKick (YC S07) Raises $2m More to Out-Innovate Other Concert Alert Services
This might help: http://sellitontheweb.com/blog/ecommerce-101/
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Vim: Copying to and retrieving from the clipboard
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The problem is that people think WinPhone7 competes with Google/Apple. It doesn't. It competes with Blackberry and will eat their lunch. If they can get some consumers to go along for the ride too it will be great but WinPhone7's differentiating feature will be a decent UI (better than blackberry and on par with Apple/Google) and excellent enterprise integration (which will be on par with blackberry), as well as leveraging the enterprise developer toolchain (Visual Studio). Once those are in place it's just a matter of offering incentives to get enterprises to ditch Blackberry. Blackberry is the next Lotus Notes.
spoilers dude...
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A core issue for modern websites is one of cache invalidation. The linked article essentially sidesteps the issue, with the in-memory speed of memcache obscuring the problem.

For traditional LAMP-style document-producing engines, cache invalidation strategies rely either on TTL (leading, as he says, to stale data) or on polling the source data (leading to an unavoidable performance hit, amortised over the improved speed of the cache).

Leaving aside TTLs, the key issue is that cache invalidation is driven by GET and not POST requests. I wrote a thesis proposal where part of the concept was to drive all cache invalidation from POSTs. New comment added to a story? A regeneration is queued up. New post on front page? A regeneration is queued up.

Firstly, you can improve both staleness by only regenerating when new data is added, and you improve performance by not needing to poll the source data for currency every time you touch the cache. In an ideal situation you could come close to raw HTTP serving speed.

You also allow some degree of dynamic responses to load. Under high rates of POSTs you can batch up regeneration events to prioritise the GETs.

However, I won't be pursuing that project -- I've been accepted for one I was more interested in.
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I've only seen a couple of Gary Taube's blog posts, and I found them to be quite deceptive. I'd suggest avoiding him for nutrition advice.

A blog post I wrote illustrating one of his deceptions: http://crazybear.posterous.com/how-1-graph-reveals-what-3000...
I would suggest malaysia instead. It might be %20 more expensive than indonesia/thailand, but they have very good 3G internet deployment throughout the entire country, beautiful beaches, better roads and infrastructure, better english, they're the hub for air asia and most importantly a sane visa system.

For example theres things like my second home:
http://www.mm2h.gov.my/
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By the way here is Wolfram on Watson (from January):

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/01/jeopardy-ibm-and-wolf...
My friends and I tested both the 555's and 595's in the shop to see which one we wanted to buy, and all of us agreed on the 555's because they sounded better to us.

I seem to recall something about not being so blatantly bass-ey and being able to hear the mid range more.
It's one thing for an individual user to ask not to be bothered by results from an entire domain. It's quite another for Google to make that call for EVERYONE. I think this is a great first step. If the evidence is overwhelmingly against a domain, I would hope that Google would use that as a strong negative signal against the domain to adjust the ranking of the site.
1 * (x^2+(y-sqrt(x^2))^2=1) would be a Bob Marley song.
After Jeopardy: The next job for Watson — hired hand
Officially any kind of work is not allowed. Thailand is very thai centric, only thais can own land, citizenship is difficult to obtain, and business is fairly similar. Malaysia is far more business friendly in that regard.
sorry if I've touched a nerve there. I've never said (on this forum or elsewhere) a bad word about WP7. I've never seen one but I'm quite willing to believe all the positive things I've read about it. I was just having a light dig at your '3 attempts' remark, that's all
In my case it helped that I was in the right. My reasoning wouldn't have depended on leniency or mercy from the judge.
Jeopardy update: IBM educates market, Watson performance
IBM is playing Jeopardy, or rather it is letting a cluster of 3000 machines play. Here's an analysis what IBM gets out of it, on the business side and on the technical side.
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http://nokiaplanc.com/ is up :)

No affiliation, but I think it's funny.

(For those who don't get it, Nokia was originally a rubber goods manufacturer)
And the arguments against getting rid of the optical bay just got more interesting...
I had a pair of my 555's sent for repair twice over 5 years. Once under warranty for a bad speaker module, and once for cracking.

Still it's lasted this long, one pair 6+ years, another going on 3 now, so I'm pretty satisfied with them.
Beat me to it. Italy is one of the most touristed countries in the world and the Sistine Chapel is one of the most popular spots in the country.

If you have issues with crowded places, be prepared for this one as it is nearly always packed with people. What you'll smell is probably primarily body odour and what you'll hear is yabbering tourists, and guards telling people off for taking photos.
Apple is "forward" vertical integration.
I think it's too early to tell based on day1 scores. In the preview round few weeks back, it was the opposite, Ken and Watson was tied before the last $1k question to put Watson in the lead and Brad was _way_ behind with only a couple hundred bucks.

"Jennings has never beaten Rutter" Hmm, they only matched up like once or twice, right?
Any success stories of people successfully regaining lost items through your service? What about "losing" some items in popular spots around the country that have been tagged?
Funny enough, I was watching The Drawn Together movie last night and there were parts where you had a robot's HUD's POV. When I paused to see what the scrolling code was, a lot of it was CSS with some <script> tags with references to Google.
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haha no I meant how does it come up with answers!
They seem like decent enough projects for fun. But anything long term might be slightly tricky. I particularly liked memify.me and it seems like it could catch on. leftright, as someone had pointed out, seems similar to what's been done. An extension of leftright could be including some sort of question for people to guess - could be age, location, etc.
Clickable: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbd...
Mobile phones are practically fashion accessories. You can buy jeans for $20 (if you don't mind the quality and lack of a brand), but lots of people still buy Levi jeans.
Oops - I thought you were the poster I was replying to and were missing the point. Sorry!

And yes: I agree that Microsoft managed to spend a lot of time & money on mobile operating systems that turned out to be dead ends.
For the record, Vim's "+ register reflects the contents of the X11 primary selection (used for X11's middle-click-paste functionality) while "* reflects the system clipboard (used for Edit menu cut/copy/paste in most GUI apps).

Type ":help quoteplus" in Vim for more information.
Embraced like you embrace a smelly alcoholic uncle/aunty in a family gathering. Sickening but unavoidable.
They've put the source code for the project up on bitbucket for anyone interested: https://bitbucket.org/charliehoey/gatsby/src
Agreed. But in this case, Apple really has been kicking ass in the product department for the last few years. They are on a roll. They must be doing something right. And as long as the fundamental causes behind their ability to execute continue to hold true, the market expects them to continue hitting it out of the park. Whether that will happen or not, nobody can know. But in a bet between evidence versus speculation, my money is on evidence.
Maybe they could offer them with different coloured, interchangeable covers?
Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database
My fandango account is completely irrecoverable because of this ... I turned my name@gmail.com address into name+fandango@gmail.com and was able to login without any trouble, but of course when I went back to login months later, I had completely forgotten about it, so I couldnt get into my account (kept putting in name@gmail.com and couldn't figure out what the problem was)

Naturally I reset my password, and the temporary password arrives in my account, but when I went to put in the new password, it puked on the email I was using ... then I remembered what I had done, but till today whenever I go to put in the new password with the correct login (name+fandango@gmail.com) ... I keep getting sent back to the reset password screen, over, and over and over.

It knows its me, because my credentials (Hi xxxx) are displayed in the top right hand corner, but it simply won't reset my password correctly.

Fandango support is well ... worse than useless.

Its all very maddening ... an account I've had for lord-knows-how-long containing my entire theater going experience, inaccessible. Thats what I get for trying to be clever.
Great work. You should list it on the Chrome Web store.
When I said "ecosystem" I meant a modern mobile platform with all the pieces needed to compete in the current market. Yes, they don't have mobile users right now, but they will be able to graft users from other markets that they own. The phone world can't be completely separated from other platforms.
For every founder who sticks with bad odds and succeeds there are ten who stick and fail.

Pretty much everyone will say "I stuck with it", and almost all of them will be right - they did stick with it, at least for a while. The thing is, could they have held on for even longer? Put another way, almost no startups fail because the founders go completely bankrupt and don't pay the server bill and the site is shut down by their hosts even has the founders still frantically keep working to stave off death. But most people give up at some point before then - after there's a launch but no traction and no investors for three or six or eighteen months, when they are not literally bankrupt or have not literally exhausted every last possibility, but it seems hopeless and that 100K/year Google offer starts looking a lot more rational.
interested!
Can you please not use undefined Wikipedia terminology here? I have no idea what AfD and WP:N are referring to.
The first item in the list really bugs me. It's not enough to just tell me not to do something, teach me why it's bad. That way, I can explain to others why this is a mistake instead of just regurgitating the same explanation of 'it's a performance disaster'.
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the difference between Blackberry and Lotus Notes is that Notes is and has always been universally despised whereas Blackberry has always had a very loyal following
Some other suggestions:

- efreedom.com

- experts-exchange.com
They wouldn't be able to fly without it - they aren't aero stable
I love Songkick. I've gone to a whole bunch of concerts that I never would have known about if it hadn't been for them.
The entire repo is 125 MB?
Facebook's Growing Web of Frenemies
I'd like to apply "Everyone thinks they can race cars but only a few are very good at it" here especially to the Groupon model.

Why?

Well because, unlike Facebook, Twitter etc as the article states Groupon's website appears to people as very simple, in the fact that it is like an eCommerce site.

Thus everyone thinks, all I need to do is get a few merchants to offer me X off a product and I can easily get Y people to buy it. Hence the saying applies because, everyone thinks they are great at sales, although only a few are extremely good at it which is why Groupon are so good at what they offer because, they have built a great sales team, focusing on contacting merchants as well as the sales copy themselves and this is why many of its rivals aren't anywhere near Groupon's scale because, they haven't focused on this aspect of their business.