millerc

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by millerc 12y ago
If anything you should thank them for forcing on you the very measures that might have saved your business. But of course, conspiracy theories and big companies being unfair against the nineteny-nine-percent, are all much more newsworthy th
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by millerc 12y ago
Then, maybe the correct course of action for the EFF would be to work on improving the warrant system, rather than working on keeping alleged drug-dealing, unlicensed gun owners, illegal immigrants out of legal trouble?
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by millerc 12y ago
<sarcasm>Wow. Save (an alledged) drug trafficker from incriminating himself in plain view. They really did the public a huge favour here. </sarcasm> As much as I support the rule of law, there's no way I can interpre
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by millerc 12y ago
> That's why I claim that online revocation checking is useless - because it doesn't stop attacks. Doesn't mean there are "no" cases where it works. It just means any attacker dedicated enough can work around th
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by millerc 13y ago
Been there 20 years ago. Almost dropped out of CS on my last year, average dropped from 3.8 to 1.5 at the time. Your mentor has my vote. Drop out, rebuild yourself first and foremost. You have successfully learned to work, but you haven&
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by millerc 13y ago
Well... nobody can say the title is misleading.
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by millerc 13y ago
I'd bet on 3) Levine isn't interested in just "more of the same", and his mission (Irrational's) is to create. I'm sure someone else can license the names and characters if what they want is "more of the
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by millerc 13y ago
> What if the movie came with the full set of trailers (preview, theatrical, etc.) [...] could even throw in an entirely different ending for the movie [...] Awesome idea! Throw this in a locked device with some kind of DRM to make sur
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by millerc 13y ago
...which is precisely what is meant when one says "there's no market for this". At this point, content owners have the choice of either being permissive, or clamping down on the community using IP laws.
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by millerc 13y ago
Beyond that simple statement, I'd agree with Jason. My first impression upon reading their webpage was "why?" Scrolling through I didn't find an answer. No differentiator in apps, function, power, memory or price. I&#
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by millerc 13y ago
> interception of a “large number” of calls placed from Washington when a programming error confused U.S. area code 202 for 20, the international dialing code for Egypt, according to a “quality assurance” review Oh please give me a break
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by millerc 13y ago
Because life is hard. You might think yourself part of an advanced civilization, but the moment you step out of society, you live in a jungle. "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of th
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by millerc 13y ago
Sad post IMO, which will unfortunately and unduly tarnish Microsoft's reputation. I would suppose it was written by a developer who has just become senior enough to see some of what's going on, but has not yet realized it's everywhere like
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by millerc 13y ago
In principle you'd be right, although Google/Youtube have never(?) made any promise about data retention. I've started to notice a number of older inactive links (say 5-10 years) have become stale, so I'd suspect they started to clean-up t
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by millerc 13y ago
I could say the same about being enamoured with Google's "Don't be evil" motto to the point as to disregard general management... and accusing me of being childish for recording predictions publically. But hey... if we can't have an adult
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by millerc 13y ago
GMail, 2004: "keep giving people more space forever", in stark contrast to Hotmail and all other providers who delete your data after a few months of inactivity. GMail, 2013: "You can tell us what to do with your Gmail messages and data fro
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by millerc 14y ago
I wish people would stop making such jumps in logic to justify an untenable position. Facilitating the download of illegal content has nothing to do with "speech" or personal opinion, even if the phrase can be rewritten as "telling people
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by millerc 14y ago
Stupid move, so much that words fail me. "Korea" (as they call themselves, they don't acknowledge the autonomy of the South) has been looking for months for investors to replenish their economy in the face of mounting sanctions. TPB is gi
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by millerc 14y ago
No need to be sarcastic. I find it interesting that somebody goes through the trouble of creating a new user account, just to confirm a theory that nobody could confirm without getting in trouble. It doesn't prove anything, but it certainl
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by millerc 14y ago
Interesting argument. Seeing as Mason created from scratch a company valued at around $20B using Lefkofsky's seed investment of $1M, it seems to me like a very respectable accomplishment. Whether the current business model is viable and ho
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by millerc 14y ago
Dear Andrew, One bad year and a couple missed objectives, and your boss fires you? Looks like you were dealing with somebody who doesn't invest in training his employees... you'll be much happier working for somebody else. Love, an observe
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by millerc 14y ago
That whole debate is becoming utterly ridiculous. Either it works as Tesla Motors says, or it doesn't. If it's so hard to get cold temperatures in the States, just send one unit up here a few miles North to Canada, we'll be back in the -20
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by millerc 14y ago
Besides the reasons discussed elsewhere, I see many reasons: - The device in itself disrupts the mining hardware market. Should they mine by themselves, others would take notice and make their own ASIC hardware. They're in a much better p
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by millerc 14y ago
I don't see how the FAA could do differently, given the budget cuts and the rule that prevents them from spending more than 40 hours on a project. Until they can justify splitting up a battery into a multitude of projects (N projects on th
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by millerc 14y ago
Many people seem to assume that the business proposition in itself is the reason why Google offers FTTH. I think it should be considered that their main interest might be one of the strategic downfalls of the service (ex. free raw trafic),
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by millerc 14y ago
Comparing sales between a phone you find in every shopping mall and could buy without knowing the differentiators, and a new class of device? That doesn't sound like an unbiased argument.
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by millerc 14y ago
I love it. This may very well be the first monetization attempt I can tolerate from Facebook: it's (finally) a win-win scenario for all parties involved, and it makes a superb use of both the social graph and the fact that nowadays every a
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by millerc 14y ago
Call me dense, but why on Earth would this raise a Floating-Point exception in any compiler? That seems wildly misleading considering there are no FP operation going on, the integer division is supposed to stay in the integer domain - or r
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by millerc 14y ago
That's an excellent point. Would you have any advice/thoughts on how to license software in those countries with the same effect as public domain, and also how to plan ahead so that it eventually becomes public domain?
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by millerc 14y ago
None at all. Save the $700. You don't need to spend it now unless it's literally on fire and burning your hands. Learn to save. You'll be glad you have money piled up when you leave the family nest. It's a tough world. Have an old desk

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