DrJokepu

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by DrJokepu 14y ago
There's really no need for the pointer inside the struct. You could just use a flexible array member (introduced in C99) or a "struct hack" if you're still using C89.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
When I have set up my (UK) employer's Developer Program account around March 2011, they have definitely asked for a DUNS number. We already had one fortunately. The whole process took about 3-4 weeks. It seems to me that unlike individual a
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Off topic, but the as the sidebar refuses to resize it's really difficult to read this on the iPhone.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
From what I've gathered from various friends and acquaintances working in law enforcement and criminal justice, the vast majority of criminals are really not the kind of intelligent folks who would do such research. That's why they're crimi
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
The Cocoa documentation does not seem to suggest that the numItems parameter of the initWithCapacity message is in any way optionally handled by the runtime. It repeatedly states that the array will be initialised "with enough memory to h
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
It's trivial to get these values from software and it is (was) a very common practice amongst app developers, advertisers etc. to collect this information and store it in a database. I can guarantee you that the IMEI in the majority of thes
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Different time zones.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I'm not arguing whether Curiosity has found evidence for life on Mars or not but I would like to point out a logical fallacy in the cited argument; in particular, the statement "device X wasn't designed to do Y" does not imply "device X can
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
> It does improve performance, but doesn't magically turn it into a ASM/C/C++ executable for the reasons set out above. Isn't that, however, exactly what the Mono folks are doing with MonoTouch to get apps written in C# run on iOS (and
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
It would be more interesting and supportable for you . People are different and have different interests and motivation. I'm not making a value judgement here, just pointing out something.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
"Almost everyone" is basically almost everyone you know . It's difficult to find data on the market share of pay as you go plans in the UK but I'm sure it's a significant portion of the market. These plans typically charge for individual t
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
You might find this useful: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.location...
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I think a large part of the article is very much about addressing your point. In particular, these parts are relevant to your comment: > Desktops, on the other hand, are perfectly justifiable. That is, if you want three monitors, eight
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
How about StackOverflow? Even though it's ran by a for-profit entity, all user-provided content is licensed as Creative Commons and they offer regular database dumps for download.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
In 2012, using bit shifting in your code for multiplication or division by powers of 2 is a bad idea. It makes the intent of your code less obvious and it's not always safe (think 2's complement negative numbers). The compiler or the JITter
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
> Notably, the second option is not available to Tim Cook. But they could just send in Forstall, he could easily do it and get away with it.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Lovefilm is not the equivalent of Netflix in the UK, it’s its direct competitor.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
This is a horribly naive theory (I have no idea what I'm talking about) but if you have foreign keys you need to get those indexed anyway (otherwise inserts or updates will need to do a sequential scan), and with index-only scans, if the re
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Are these two concepts exclusive?
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Especially since you have no means to refuse the delivery of a text message other than telling your operator to stop delivering messages for you entirely. I have never really understood the rationale behind the US model of charging for rece
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I wonder what the legal background of this is. My understanding that every work created by the UK government is protected by crown copyright which is only waived in certain very specific cases (and this is not listed amongst those). Can any
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I believe the following parts of the iOS App Store Review Guidelines answer your question: * We have lots of kids downloading lots of apps, and parental controls don't work unless the parents set them up (many don't). So know that we're kee
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
No, seriously, what’s wrong with mc in Terminal.app? I mean, OS X and Terminal.app take over function keys for other purposes like, I don't know, changing the volume, but these things can be disabled if you want to use function keys for som
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Isn’t this standard procedure for any relational database?
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Just like Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky”, its purpose was more to communicate something about the brand rather than to serve some useful functionality. In Google’s case, it communicates playfulness, in Twitter’s case, it was geeky openness. C
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
You mean SVGs being larger than PNGs? No, that wasn't the case, we were using integers and in the prerendered PNGs there was a 1:1 mapping between the integers and the pixels in the PNG.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
We have used SVG in past on the web for rendering waveforms but we have replaced them with prerendered PNG images. The reasons are: the performance is abysmal, the file size is considerably larger than PNG (even with gzip compression), brow
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
My theory is that they aren’t successful because they’re popular, they’re successful because the business model is lucrative. If what they say is true and the bulk of their revenue comes from a small portion of their “customers”, they need
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
At the end of the day, Apple makes money by selling iPhones and iPads. App Store revenues are rounding error. The App Store has one function for Apple: to help selling more iPhones and iPads. (In Q3 2012, iPhone and iPad sales constituted 7

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