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In the case of my dad's 401k: The company's fund manager actively traded shares on the way down, repeatedly moving the balance from declining symbols to those that seemed more stable but were really just slightly behind the curve. ...Then did the same thing when things started recovering, trying to target the stocks that seemed to be going up the fastest. Quite literally decimated their retirement.

Good point. Here's a part listing: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=10231-1

At first glance, looks like the only unique parts are the sticker set (~$5-$17) and the minifigs ($3-5). How many other parts you need to buy would depend on the size and variety of your collection.

They offhandedly mention pneumatic control (look for "beeks" on the indiegogo page). Think milking pipeline, but for honey.

Though the analysis in this article I'm linking is disingenuous ( it compares Apple laptop+iphone+ipad+ipod sales to Windows laptop sales...) its graphs tell the story pretty clearly: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/2/12/apple-passes-mi...

Look at the little sliver of black that represents Mac computer sales (looks like ~5m sales/quarter) and compare with the orange line that represents Windows computer sales (just under 80m sales/quarter).

Even if 100% of the Macs are laptops and only 10% (as a pessimistic guess) of the Windows machines are laptops, sales are still heavily in the Windows territory.

Link to the referenced analysis, for those interested like me: http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/01/30/war-spikes-in-the-eve-o...

Hadn't seen that one before. Looks closer to what I need -- thank you! I like that it includes a fly-out menu and exists on several CDNs.

A small cup of apple cider vinegar cures it for me, and is much easier (imo) to get down

As a counterpoint, since doing anything advanced in VB6 (game-making-wise - that's what I learned it for) required low-level calls to GDI, OpenGL, or DirectX libraries, I feel I obtained a better picture of how the OS operates at that level than if I had started on C#. C#'s nicer, for sure, but if you're just doing it to learn how computers work anyway...

Time to invest in wax and a signet ring

I've wanted to do this for some time, but don't get summers off unfortunately. How do you divide the time? ~8hrs/day for a couple weeks, or ~2hrs a day for the whole summer?

Thanks for validating the concept!

I want to like this... with Amazon video, I can read reviews, see related items, and play the video on the same page. With Amazon music I can read reviews and find related items, but to play it I must first 1) add it to my library, 2) navigate to the cloud player 3) search for the album in my library, 4) click play.

After finding an album using Amazon reviews and related items, this is faster: 1) Search GrooveShark/YouTube from the Chrome URL bar, 2) click play.

Starcraft was ported to ARM in 2010 to run on the Windows Mobile platform. Details are rather light, so I don't know if they used the same approach, but it's likely.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/StarCraft-arrives-for-Windows...

> "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and the first variable"

Wouldn't that be "... and the first constant"? ;-)

Direct link to the full article with a detailed explanation of the exploit: http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...