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function retry(isDone, next) {
    var current_trial = 0, max_retry = 50, interval = 10, is_timeout = false;
    var id = window.setInterval(
        function() {
            if (isDone()) {
                window.clearInterval(id);
                next(is_timeout);
            }
            if (current_trial++ > max_retry) {
                window.clearInterval(id);

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<?php

// 1. The class name must match the filename (i.e., "foo.php" for JSON_API_Foo_Controller)
// 2. Save this in your themes folder
// 3. Activate your controller under Settings > JSON API

class JSON_API_Example_Controller {
  
  public function get_posts_by_meta_query() {
    global $json_api;

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function graph(data, w, h, color) {
  var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
  var max = 0;

  // normalize
  var len = data.length, i;
  for(i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
    max = Math.max(data[i], max);
  }
  for(i = 0; i < len; ++i) {

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#! /usr/bin/env bash

#clone the repo
git clone -q "${1}" "clones/${2}"

cd "clones/${2}"

#update the submodules (how do we handle errors here?)
git submodule --quiet update --init --recursive

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#!/bin/bash
#
# Script that checks GitHub's status API before continuing. If GitHub does not return "good" then
# you will be prompted whether you want to continue.
#
# Information messages are echoed to stderr so it is still possible to pipe the results of stdout to
# a file.
#
# Example Usage:
#   $ if-github-up make clean

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A backup of http://sites.google.com/site/redcodenl/creating-shazam-in-java-1 just in case
Why is this necessary? Read http://sites.google.com/site/redcodenl/patent-infringement
Please fork, tweet about, etc.
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Creating Shazam in Java
A couple of days ago I encountered this article: How Shazam Works

This got me interested in how a program like Shazam works… And more importantly, how hard is it to program something similar in Java?