mmillin

8 ms·

31.
by mmillin 4y ago
Timewarrior ( https://timewarrior.net/ ). It makes it super easy to correct mistakes (i.e. forgetting to start/stop tracking), which is pretty critical for me as I'm never 100% on remembering to track
32.
by mmillin 4y ago
One of my favorites is Peter Norvig's spelling corrector in less than 30 lines of python https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
33.
Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting banner?(ux.stackexchange.com)
376 points by mmillin 4y ago|203 comments
34.
by mmillin 5y ago
Probably related to effect size? Two thirds of the US are overweight or obese.
35.
by mmillin 5y ago
There was an article posted on HN a few days ago indicating such: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438315 Almost necessarily less harmful than the complete virus, but the spike protein isn’t entirely harmless it seems
36.
by mmillin 5y ago
This is likely due to the source data being vended in whole number increments in degrees Celsius. Converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit using only whole numbers would not allow for 60 to show up (it is between 15 and 16 degrees C, which
37.
by mmillin 5y ago
Since others are using this as a forum to share great CS papers, here’s one of my favorites: Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
38.
by mmillin 5y ago
Is discrimination based on current location illegal? I’m curious what case they would have given that many companies require certain time zones for remote employees.
39.
by mmillin 6y ago
While I don’t have sympathy for the cheaters who were caught, I really dislike this method of trying to catch them. When encountering an impossible problem, an honest student winds up not only wasting time trying to solve it, but also may g
40.
by mmillin 6y ago
You're moving the goalposts set in your original post, but a quick search[1] shows many articles on Hacker News about the gap between men and women in engineering. Many with more points than this post currently has. It does seem like t
41.
by mmillin 6y ago
One of the most effective pieces of media I’ve seen in favor of privacy is Surveillance Camera Man [1]. While I don’t support what the guy behind the camera is doing, the videos he has evoke a stronger reaction than any logical argument I’v
42.
by mmillin 6y ago
Given the blast radius of this (all regions appear to be impacted) along with the fact that services that don't rely on auth are working as normal, it must be a global authN/Z issue. I do not envy Google engineers right now.
43.
by mmillin 6y ago
There's a lot of good reasons why you shouldn't just connect straight to the database from client-side code. [1] So you'll always need some form of server sitting in between. Maybe you could store it in a new database system
44.
by mmillin 6y ago
On the 2016 series of Macbook Pros they are not in an inverted T shape. The up and down arrows are half-sized buttons stacked vertically. This results in a single line of 3 keys instead of the T shape.
45.
by mmillin 7y ago
> These advancements will be occurring in parallel to the rise of immutable databases in the form of blockchain platforms, applications capable of invoking quantum computing systems and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, which are n
46.
by mmillin 7y ago
It looks like there's a newer version (July 2019) available here: https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/adp6_22.pdf
47.
The Plain Text Project(plaintextproject.online)
498 points by mmillin 7y ago|202 comments
48.
by mmillin 7y ago
The previous administration is actually partially responsible for this allowing to be done without government intervention. See this hacker news post [0] for some more information. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
49.
by mmillin 7y ago
My favorite part of new tech company filings is looking at the risk section and finding something to the effect of: "We are not profitable, and may never be." > We have a history of losses and, especially if we continue to grow
50.
by mmillin 7y ago
Is there somewhere to read about how rust is tackling this problem?
51.
by mmillin 8y ago
Well GitHub isn't open source at all, so it makes sense that you still wound up with some corporate interest controlling that part of the stack.
52.
by mmillin 8y ago
Stack Overflow has a Salary Calculator[1] that allows for searching by role and region. The raw data used for that calculator and for past years can be found here[2]. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/salary [2]: ht
53.
by mmillin 8y ago
> So I've started a wiki, and I hope I can convince a few more people to help contribute content. Where can this be found?
54.
by mmillin 8y ago
For SSH, using your ssh config file[0] is probably the most idiomatic way to go about it. For web applications I tend to rely on using plain old bookmarks, using bookmark folders to keep related URLs together. It's a fairly simple syst
55.
by mmillin 8y ago
There isn't one BSD kernel like there is one Linux kernel, there are several different ones which might borrow from each other, but are developed independently. A comparison can be found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.o
56.
by mmillin 8y ago
The linked article says that there isn't a lot of evidence that was a deliberate design decision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Phillips
57.
by mmillin 9y ago
One tool not mentioned in the article is Jenkins X [0]. It leverages some of the technologies from draft to create a GitOps workflow for full build-push-deploy with CI and CD. [0] http://jenkins-x.io/
58.
by mmillin 9y ago
Only on certain Linux systems is it deprecated. On the BSDs netstat is still the preferred tool.
59.
by mmillin 9y ago
A basic start would be looking at network flow problems. While they don't extend to the complexity of real world airline scheduling, you can construct a simplified airline scheduling problem with it. Additionally, one of the methods to