delay

I am trying to delay an AJAX request so that it is sent out 2-3 seconds after the LAST keyup of an input cell. So far I have managed to delay the requests, but after 2-3 seconds I get one request sent for every keyup in the field... How can I make jQuery cancel the first ones and just send the last keyup? Here's the code so far: $('#lastname').focus(function(){ $('.terms :input').val(""); //clears other search fields }).keyup(function(){ caps(this); //another function that capitalizes the field $type = $(this).attr("id"); // just passing the type of desired search to the php file setTimeout

I'm using the sox tool and I would like to merge two audio files , let's say long.ogg and short.ogg to output a file output.ogg . This is very easy using $ sox -m long.ogg short.ogg output.ogg . Thing is, I would like the short.ogg to be played after n seconds (while long.ogg should start right from the beginning). To do so, I've found the pad effect. But I don't understand the syntax to delay only the short.ogg input file, not the long.ogg one. I found a (dirty) way of doing so (with n=6): $ sox short.ogg delayed.ogg pad 6 $ sox -m long.ogg delayed.ogg output.ogg I would like not to have to

I'm playing WAVs on my Android phone by loading the file and feeding the bytes into AudioTrack.write() via the FileInputStream > BufferedInputStream > DataInputStream method. The audio plays fine and when it is, I can easily adjust sample rate, volume, etc on the fly with nice performance. However, it's taking about two full seconds for a track to start playing. I know AudioTrack has an inescapable delay, but this is ridiculous. Every time I play a track, I get this: 03-13 14:55:57.100: WARN/AudioTrack(3454): obtainBuffer timed out (is the CPU pegged?) 0x2e9348 user=00000960, server=00000000

Relating to my other question Haskell collections with guaranteed worst-case bounds for every single operation? , I'm curious: How long pauses can be caused by garbage collection? Does Haskell use some kind of incremental garbage collection so that a program is stopped only for small periods at a time, or can it stop for several seconds in an extreme case? I found two SPJ's papers on the subject: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/non-stop/index.htm . But I didn't find a reference if these ideas were actually adopted by GHC (or other Haskell implementations). GHC is