TheMiller

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by TheMiller 7d ago
This thread made me laugh. I worked on network printing software in Banyan VINES a century or two ago, and my wife always wondered why I hated printing software so much. Everything about the printing software stack, especially in Windows, i
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by TheMiller 4y ago
Washtenaw is certainly an affluent county, but not that rich. I live in another part of the county and used to work in Mauch's part of it; it's by no means mostly millionaires. I think the simplicity of the project's goal -
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by TheMiller 5y ago
A minor correction: West was bought by Thomson (no "p"), which later merged with Reuters to become Thomson Reuters.
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by TheMiller 5y ago
Well, I still use some UML diagrams fairly often. Not so much for permanent or comprehensive system documentation, but to help me think through specific features or behaviors, and communicate these designs to others. I usually use a smallis
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by TheMiller 7y ago
I do get it. I've been using it for several months, and I run into problems fairly often. Nothing wrong with the implementation, AFAICT, but it takes a fair amount of thought to assign sites to different containers, and you can easily
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by TheMiller 7y ago
I think this is a mischaracterization. The relational model which motivated relational DMBSs is based on predicate logic. Mappings to graphs are obvious, but are not the organizing principle. This was one of the strengths of the relational
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by TheMiller 7y ago
> UBI is cargo cult finance. It's a broken mental model that will kill the system. Such dismissiveness is unwarranted. There's a lot of intriguing research on the topic that indicates that it may be a cost-effective replacement
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by TheMiller 7y ago
I second the recommendation for TheOldReader. It's where I eventually ended up after Google Reader's demise.
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by TheMiller 8y ago
At least, it's not the normal case in the U.S. We call that a "holding tank", not a septic tank.
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by TheMiller 8y ago
The rural township that I live in is considering the possibility of providing municipal broadband; hence my interest in this report. From a security point of view, I am skeptical about the ACLU's recommendation in this report to provid
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ACLU Report: The Public Internet Option(aclu.org)
2 points by TheMiller 8y ago|1 comments
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by TheMiller 9y ago
Discover had a service like this more than a decade ago, which I used quite a bit. But they shut it down after a few years.
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by TheMiller 10y ago
It's no more of a "technicality" than the fact that some people happened to be born within the somewhat arbitrary borders of a particular nation, through no effort of their own, and thus happen to be considered citizens of th
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by TheMiller 10y ago
Actually, in that scenario, the campfire is more likely to be a health threat to asthmatic members of the public (about 7% in the U.S.) than the cigar!
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by TheMiller 10y ago
> It was created by people who had no experience in databases and are learning as they go[4]. As they started adding things that are essential for database they realized it's not that simple. This sounds exactly like what MySQL dev
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Google open sources its AI engine, TensorFlow(wired.com)
8 points by TheMiller 11y ago|0 comments
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The Ocean Cleanup(theoceancleanup.com)
2 points by TheMiller 11y ago|0 comments
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by TheMiller 12y ago
SpiderOak. When I decided I wanted auto-syncing cloud storage, I chose them exactly because of the temp file issue. I ended up also liking their security policies and pricing quite a bit. https://spideroak.com/
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by TheMiller 12y ago
I agree with many of the recommendations here, but am surprised to see no mention so far of "the three B's": Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and Ben Bova. All excellent hard science fiction authors.
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by TheMiller 12y ago
"... but those other states' property taxes rise with the value of the houses every year, ..." In Michigan, it's a bit more complex. The assessor calculates a State Equalized Value (SEV) on which the tax is based, and th
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Intriguing statistics on ethics in secular families(latimes.com)
1 points by TheMiller 12y ago|0 comments
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by TheMiller 12y ago
I'll second the recommendation for The Culture series, and add "A Fire Upon The Deep" by Vernor Vinge.
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Adobe Digital Editions spies on you, ineptly(the-digital-reader.com)
2 points by TheMiller 12y ago|0 comments
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by TheMiller 12y ago
I just find it utterly fascinating that these discussions on the merits of (Common) Lisp still draw 100 comments within such a short time. This has been going on for decades, in many different venues. This by itself should clue newcomers in
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by TheMiller 12y ago
I believe that this convention is borrowed from Common Lisp. I always thought of it more as a way to highlight importance. Three semicolons for block comments outside of top-level constructs, which usually explain the purpose or usage of th
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by TheMiller 12y ago
Actually, I can remember at least one commonly used alternative name from my time in a German-speaking country. The term "Pfund" (literally, pound) was frequently used to refer to a half-kilogram. I remember it being particularly
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by TheMiller 12y ago
They're not mistakes; read the article. "Equality" is not the singular, unambiguous concept that many programmers think it is.
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by TheMiller 12y ago
Ahd in Common Lisp, EQ, EQL, EQUAL, and EQUALP. See http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html for an explanation of why.
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by TheMiller 13y ago
The cracking community, unlike the bulk of the mainstream programming community, has not lost the art of disassembling executable code. Hiding source code provides negligible additional security.
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by TheMiller 13y ago
> Exceptions are cute for small amounts of code. But as soon as you get a sizeable codebase, you have zillions of functions just waiting to explode your call stack in ways you could never expect. Exceptions do not "explode your call

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