Peaker

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1. 931.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   Towing companies provide negative value to their paying customers, but seem to make a killing.
2. 932.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   I'd imagine from their POV, when you continue doing business with a company they find morally reprehensible, you're no longer "honest people". If their end goal is killing GoDaddy, these collateral losses might be worth it. Also, it might h
3. 933.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   I tried reading the code in intrusive/list_hook.hpp and intrusive/list.hpp, and it's quite difficult to read. However, it does seem that it inserts an extra pointer to the member (beyond the prev/next) in order to avoid the "cast". If it in
4. 934.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   The behavior of list.h essentially boils to downcasting from a list node to its container. Allowing multiple list nodes in the same container, and re-use of the same node for different lists. How do templates make this type-safe?
5. 935.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   Standard templated linked lists are suboptimal. Simple C lists ala Linux's list.h are simpler and more optimal, behavior-wise.
6. 936.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   Nitpick: EitherT err Logic a LogicT (Either err) a (The monad transformer takes the monad and the value type, not the monad applied to the value type)
7. 937.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   I believe patents apply to discoveries in the same way as inventions.
8. 938.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   According to the movie "Sicko", the doctors working in the Health Maintenance Organizations are being told: "You are not preventing care, you are preventing payment" as they are encouraged to deny as many requests as they can.
9. 939.▲
   by Peaker 14y ago

   Do you have the same numbers of users in your free/paid versions? Maybe the free ones are just exposed to more users?
10. 940.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    Bypassing my school's BIOS password was easy. Open up "DEBUG" in a DOS prompt, and write a few-line assembly loop that writes increasing register numbers to port 70h (register select), and 0 to port 71h (value) -- to reset CMOS memory with
11. 941.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    Isn't remote wipe enabled by default in iCloud?
12. 942.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    First mover advantage is pretty huge. Net effects are significant.
13. 943.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    I don't think checked exceptions are stupid. I think Java's checked exceptions are bad, because the type system around them is too weak.
14. 944.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    Then what you consider the invention here is really the touch screen and not the unlocking. Adding a physical button just for unlocking is less obvious than just using a gesture already available.
15. 945.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    > Nokia, Sony Ericcson, Palm and MS had touchscreen handhelds for years before the iPhone They had enough physical buttons to make button unlock a viable option. When you have only a touchscreen, the gestures available to you are taps a
16. 946.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    The problem is a patent may be worth so much because it is so trivial that doing anything else is silly. Apple should never have been granted a patent for slide-to-unlock, that's a trivial consequence of using a touchscreen UI.
17. 947.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    Users would vote on comments randomly just to see their score...
18. 948.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    If you have 0.5MB data to send right now, you could queue it all in your application layer, then you could still decide to cancel it or schedule your sends based on your own priorities. I agree that applications that care about this don't u
19. 949.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    0.5MB of buffer contributes a lot to latency when your link is slow. Assuming a 1Mbit link, it takes 4 seconds of latency to send the default SO_SENDBUF.
20. 950.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    By "expose it to the application", I mean in the flow-control sense. That send() (or select/epoll/etc) will block until there is room in the TCP window, rather than in the pre-determined buffer which will always be too small or too big. Th
21. 951.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    Some of us believe that copyrights impoverish society, and that paying for copyrighted content is encouraging the draconian copyright regime. I personally use free software, but I'd rather pirate something than encourage copyright-ridden so
22. 952.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    Some of the buffer bloat problem is due to SO_SENDBUF being statically set to some value, which also results in hiding the actual bytes-in-flight from the application. I think it would be much better to allow the auto-detected TCP window to
23. 953.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    What about the (stem?) cells that generate the sperm? What if they are damaged?
24. 954.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    I'm in Israel, got phone from http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005XYU45E/ref=oh_details_o... It is a "yakjudv" firmware which doesn't get updates. Apparently Google is advertising their Nexus line as auto-update ( http://www.google.com/n
25. 955.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    Please insert a newline somewhere in there so your alignment doesn't throw off all the code to the right-most 1/4 of the screen...
26. 956.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    I just cleared the data again, forced-stop, and checked for update again -- and it successfully checked and says I'm still up-to-date with my 4.0.1 Android.
27. 957.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    I checked it today.
28. 958.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    I checked the update notice. It says it just checked now and there are no updates. Google Nexus is actually not a phone model but a collection of many models which are only invisibly different. Some of them get updates, some don't, even tho
29. 959.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    4.0.1 is multiple versions behind even the 4.0 branch though. 4.0.4 is already available in the Galaxy Nexus models that run the Google-maintained version.
30. 960.▲
    by Peaker 14y ago

    I bought a Galaxy Nexus phone for my girlfriend so we wouldn't have to worry about updates anymore. It's still stuck on 4.0.1 with no update in sight...