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flickr.photos.search strange behavior with nested xml response

- by JohnIdol

I am querying flickr with the following request: view-source:http://www.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=MY_KEY&text=cork&per_page=12&&format=rest if I put the above url in the browser I get the following as I would expect: <rsp stat="ok"> <photos page="1" pages="22661" perpage="12" total="271924"> <photo id="4587565363" owner="46277999@N05" secret="717118838d" server="4029" farm="5" title="06052010(001)" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587466773" owner="25901874@N06" secret="32c5a1a57f" server="4002" farm="5" title="black wine cork 2 BW" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4588084730" owner="25901874@N06" secret="b27eef5635" server="4032" farm="5" title="black wine cork 2" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587457789" owner="43115275@N00" secret="ae0daa0ab6" server="4034" farm="5" title="Matthew" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587443837" owner="49967920@N07" secret="2b4c1a58de" server="4066" farm="5" title="Two car garage" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4588050906" owner="45827769@N06" secret="72de138f7e" server="4067" farm="5" title="Dabie Mountains, Central China" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587979300" owner="36531359@N00" secret="e5f8b30734" server="3299" farm="4" title="stroll" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587304769" owner="7904649@N02" secret="995062f550" server="4034" farm="5" title="IMG_4325" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587306827" owner="7904649@N02" secret="b92d7ff916" server="4050" farm="5" title="IMG_4329" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587311657" owner="7904649@N02" secret="bb1b34ccf8" server="4053" farm="5" title="IMG_4336" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587933110" owner="7904649@N02" secret="f733b1d482" server="3300" farm="4" title="IMG_4334" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> <photo id="4587930650" owner="7904649@N02" secret="9bc202b3ed" server="4018" farm="5" title="IMG_4331" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" /> </photos> </rsp> Now I've got something very simple PHP to query the exact same url, called from javascript through AJAX - it all works as I can see putting a breakpoint in my javascript function that handles the response: function HandleResponse(response) { document.getElementById('ResponseDiv').innerHTML = response; } Looking at response value in the snippet above I see what I expect (xml formed as above) - then the strangest thing happens: when I inspect the DOM instead of having photo elements all as children of photos they're all nested within each other. What amI missing - How is this possible in light of the fact that the response string is definitely formed as I would expect it to be?

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Is there any self-improving compiler around?

- by JohnIdol

I am not aware of any self-improving compiler, but then again I am not much of a compiler-guy. Is there ANY self-improving compiler out there? Please note that I am talking about a compiler that improves itself - not a compiler that improves the code it compiles. Any pointers appreciated! Side-note: in case you're wondering why I am asking have a look at this post. Even if I agree with most of the arguments I am not too sure about the following: We have programs that can improve their code without human input now — they’re called compilers. ... hence my question.

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App Engine datastore does not support operator OR

- by JohnIdol

I am trying to query the google datastore for something like (with pm -- persistanceManager): String filters = "( field == 'value' || field == 'anotherValue' )"; Query query = pm.newQuery(myType.class, filters); When I execute - I am getting back: App Engine datastore does not support operator OR. What's the best approach in people experience for this kind of queries? Any help appreciated!

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What's the "Hello World!" of genetic algorithms good for?

- by JohnIdol

I found this very cool C++ sample , literally the "Hello World!" of genetic algorithms. I so decided to re-code the whole thing in C# and this is the result. Now I am asking myself: is there any practical application along the lines of generating a target string starting from a population of random strings? EDIT: my buddy on twitter just tweeted that "is useful for transcription type things such as translation. Does not have to be Monkey's". I wish I had a clue.

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What's the difference between Application.ThreadException and AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledExcep

- by JohnIdol

Alright, this is an easy one: What's the difference between Application.ThreadException and AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException and do I need to handle both? Thanks!

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Uniform distribution of binary values in Matlab

- by JohnIdol

I have a requirement for the generation of a given number N of vectors of given size each consistent of a uniform distribution of 0s and 1s. This is what I am doing at the moment, but I noticed that the distribution is strongly peaked at half 1s and half 0s, which is no good for what I am doing: a = randint(1, sizeOfVector, [0 1]); The unifrnd function looks promising for what I need, but I can't manage to understand how to output a binary vector of that size. Is it the case that I can use the unifrnd function (and if so how would be appreciated!) or can is there any other more convenient way to obtain such a set of vectors? Any help appreciated!

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WCF client hangs on response

- by JohnIdol

I have a WCF client (running on Win7) pointing to a WebSphere service. All is good from a test harness (a little test fixture outside my web app) but when my calls to the service originate from my web project one of the calls is extremely slow to deserialize (it takes up to 10 times longer) and not just the first time. I can see from fiddler that the response comes back quickly but then the WCF client hangs on the response itself for more than a minute before the next line of code is hit by the debugger, almost if the client was having trouble deserializing. This happens only if in the response I have a given pdf string, base64 encoded chunked. If for example the service raises a fault (this pdf string is not there) then the response is deserialized immediately. Again, If I send the exact same envelope through Soap-UI or from outside the web project all is good. I am at loss - What should I be looking for and is there some config setting that might do the trick? Any help appreciated!

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