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Comment on Fantasy football: temporary trades, borrowing, and collusion by theoden

theoden — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:56:13 +0000

Ignoring Draughn for now, if I understand the trade Team A gets RB Morris beginning in Week 5. In exchange, Team B gets QB Dalton beginning in Week 7. Personally, I would be okay with that sort of delayed trade because both teams are permanently exchanging useful players. It's similar to how an NFL team might trade a player now for a draft pick in the future. The trickier part of the deal is that RB Draughn is temporarily traded. The reason is probably that the delayed nature of the trade means that Team A would have to drop a player in Week 5 in order to add RB Morris. So Team A says, "You hang on to Draughn for me until Week 7 so I don't have to drop him." I'd like the deal a lot better if Draughn wasn't involved at all. However, it's not as bad as the situation I describe in my blog post because Draughn doesn't really help Team B in any way; in fact, he almost hurts Team B because now Team B has to waste a bench slot on a low end RB for two weeks. If I were to allow that trade, then I would mandate that Team B can not use Draughn in any way. So then the deal becomes: Team A gets RB Morris starting in Week 5 and gets to rent one of Team B's bench slots for two weeks. In exchange, Team B gets QB Dalton starting in Week 7. Though I'd have to think very carefully about whether bench space is a resource that I'd want teams to be able to include in trades.

Comment on Fantasy football: temporary trades, borrowing, and collusion by troy

troy — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:03:51 +0000

Ok I need your opinion. A player needs a rb. B player needs backup qb. They trade Alfred Morris for Draughn (rb) for week 5. For week 7 they trade Draughn (who never plays) for Andy dalton. Morris and Dalton stay permanently traded. Dalton (is only used one time with Morris to cover bye week for team A
Team B had never used Morris and only needs dalton to cover week 7 bye. Did these 2 team owners do anything wrong?

Comment on sh: read: -p: no coprocess by Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:33:39 +0000

Thank you for the info! My androids terminal didn’t work with the normal “read -p”, this worked though.

Comment on Fatal flaws with TalkSwitch TS-850i IP phones by Sanguivore

Sanguivore — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:50:44 +0000

Regards programming on a Mac, you don’t necessarily need to bridge your network connections. If you are connecting to the system with a known IP address you can bypass the auto-discovery of the Talkswitch system by “Connect to a system via IP”. By the way I found out recently newer versions of Java do not work with the Talkswitch software. If you run into issues you can download version 1.6 and it will work great. I support several Talkswitch systems and I have picked up a few tricks along the way!

Comment on jQuery: disable the submit button, but still send the button’s value by Tom P

Tom P — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:44:13 +0000

Solution 1 worked great. You’re correct about searching for a solution on this. I couldn’t find anything else on how to solve getting which button got pressed. – Tom

Comment on Using the QuickBooks SDK via JACOB Java-COM Bridge by jc

jc — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:15:20 +0000

This is an old thread but hopefully I can get an answer from here.

I ran the example to retrieve all Vendors and works very well, thanks for that! The insert example provided by Sam in 2008 might also work, haven’t tried it yet. I’m wondering if there is a way to fetch for a single Vendor record and also a way to edit it. Also, I see that “AppendVendorAddRq” is used for the Vendor scenarios but what about for other objects? Is there a site with documentation?

Thanks for any help!

Comment on How to recommend movies to friends on Netflix by Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:45:05 +0000

YES! It’s hard to believe that for something so basic as a social network/app for movie recs, that ISN’T an “app for that”. Netflix actually has an online dating app that allows singles to share movie ratings with other singles. It’s a cool concept, which makes it even more hard to believe that there isn’t something for friends. Some of the best music I recently discovered was found by peeking at my friends’ public playlists on spotify.

Comment on Using the QuickBooks SDK via JACOB Java-COM Bridge by Bert Riley

Bert Riley — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:49:17 +0000

Hello! I’m using QB SDK to cycle through transactions and delete them from a particular date onwards. The code works…up to a point. I’m using the ‘TxnType.GetValue’ to get the transaction type, which happens to be a number, and store it as a variable. When I try to use this value, in TxnDelType.SetValue, it does not work. It only works if I use the transaction type as the enumerated value eg tdlInvoice, etc. How can I convert the transaction type number to the enumerated value.

Comment on Using the QuickBooks SDK via JACOB Java-COM Bridge by Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:48:20 +0000

Super helpful! Thanks so much for posting this.

Comment on Using the QuickBooks SDK via JACOB Java-COM Bridge by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:01:44 +0000

Has anyone been able to create a purchase order through Java? I’ve been working on this for a couple of days, but I can’t populate the ORPurchaseOrderLineAddList. I’m assuming I need to append multiples here, but none of the examples I’ve seen goes through this. If anyone can point me in the right direction I’d be grateful.

Thanks!