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Author Archives: Patrick
Patrick Kaeding
LivingSocial/Fiesta Americana Resort Bait & Switch Scam
UPDATE: I contacted LivingSocial about this issue, and they responded in a timely manner, and offered a partial refund, which I feels remedies the situation. I am leaving this post up to tell the story, and to alert people that they should always be on guard for issues like this, but at least LivingSocial has made a [...]
Accessing Erased Type Parameter Information in Scala
One of the things holding scala back from being a more robust language is the fact that it runs on the JVM. (On the other hand, this is also one of its strengths–you can easily interoperate with existing Java code and libraries, as well as any other code that runs ont he JVM, like Groovy [...]
US orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant– Coverup or Hoax?
In the Morning, I came across an article from the Pakistani news source, The Nation, titled US orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant. If this is true, it is terribly troubling–both because of the implications of a nuclear meltdown in the midwestern United States, as well as the idea of a government coverup [...]
Mapping site should be faster now
Over the past few weeks, I have been noticing that the site I created to allow users to plot multiple addresses on Google Maps would sometimes become very slow when a lot of people are using it. So, I started to investigate the cause. (I am going to split this post into two sections, the [...]
New Homebrew Question/Answer site
I’ve been active on the programming question & answer site, StackOverflow.com for a few years now, and in the past several months, the company behind that wonderful resource has branched out into other topics. This week, the new Homebrew.StackExchange.com site launched in public beta. The software this site runs on is finely tuned for asking [...]
Prioritizing Netflix traffic with DD-WRT
Network traffic shaping is an interesting topic, that allows you to ensure that certain traffic gets priority over other traffic. When applied at the ISP level, this can get controversial, as you start getting into Network-Neutrality issues (where one company’s traffic gets priority over another company’s, which could lead to large media corporations silencing grassroots [...]
Proof that Netflix is the only thing holding the USPS afloat