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by j_baker 13y ago
$1300 per server per year sounds a bit expensive, at least when compared to Amazon ELB. What's the benefit?
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by j_baker 13y ago
From the linked wikipedia article: Dodge is often misread or mistaught as setting a legal rule of shareholder wealth maximization. This was not and is not the law. Shareholder wealth maximization is a standard of conduct for officers and d
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by j_baker 13y ago
Remember that both Google and Facebook are publicly‐traded transnational corporations that are legally mandated to act in the best interests of their shareholders. This is a huge misconception. The idea that corporations should maximiz
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by j_baker 13y ago
It seems like you're focusing on the specifics of what I said without getting the general idea of what I said. The key phrase in my original comment was "or having similar problems". I'm not saying that you must freeze
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by j_baker 13y ago
I find it very bizarre that you don't see a need to keep out people who are overconfident. Are you afraid of people less confident than you? Would that deter you even if they demonstrate "superior technical skills" (whateve
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by j_baker 13y ago
Truthfully, I'm not certain I'd trust someone who can go through an interview without freezing up or having any similar problems. Confidence is a valuable thing, but only in moderation.
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by j_baker 13y ago
True. Sr developers need to be able to handle stress. However, I don't think an interview accurately measures a person's ability to handle under stress.
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by j_baker 13y ago
You're absolutely right. You should never tell someone you're firing why you're firing them. They should already know that before they've even walked in the room.
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The NSA Searches Ten Times as Much of the Internet as It Said It Does(theatlanticwire.com)
93 points by j_baker 13y ago|16 comments
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by j_baker 13y ago
Meaningless make-work is the worst . Having nothing to do isn't so terrible. I can come up with plenty of useful ideas left to my own devices. It's when I have to do busy-work that's bad.
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by j_baker 13y ago
I think a simpler explanation is that people enjoy being productive. Otherwise, why would people have a problem with meaningless jobs?
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by j_baker 13y ago
I think the officials who do things like this should be prosecuted under the same terrorism laws they're supposed to be enforicing. This is clearly an act of terrorism on the part of the NSA and GCHQ.
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by j_baker 13y ago
I think more likely is character assassination rather than physical assassination. A physical assassination would just be too obvious. Then again, maybe he keeps sticking his neck out because he has the least to hide.
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by j_baker 13y ago
Ahem... Google's downtime caused a 40% drop in global (to gosquared) traffic. I think the title is misleading under this context.
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by j_baker 13y ago
You talk about the verb when we're talking about the noun. I call cherry-picking. And yet the point still stands. You can accidentally misuse something. How many people have accidentally misused C pointers?
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by j_baker 13y ago
All I'm saying is that Obama is provably not in command of all the facts needed to prevent a blunder like this. Whether that means he had no idea about the scope of abuse or whether he was simply unaware that anyone would prove his li
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by j_baker 13y ago
Accidental abuse is abuse nonetheless.
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by j_baker 13y ago
According to Google, abuse means the improper use of something. Regardless of whether it was accidental or intentional, abuse is abuse.
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by j_baker 13y ago
A part of me wishes all these dossiers would become public. If everyone's skeletons were out of the closet, we wouldn't care about skeletons so much.
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by j_baker 13y ago
You know, I would have to imagine that if Obama were in full possession of all the facts, he would have known that Snowden had those slides and kept his mouth shut. Obama's just too smart to make a blunder like this.
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by j_baker 13y ago
What the hell does facebook's HTML 5 app have to do with the subject at hand? And how is HTML 5's experience subpar for a video app like youtube?
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by j_baker 13y ago
That seems like a far more useful introduction than the one in the article. I mean, I'm sure the plivo vision for telephony is interesting, but I'd rather learn more about what the changes mean to me .
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by j_baker 13y ago
Perhaps I just haven't spent enough time dealing with telephony, but I still haven't got a clue what BYOC is. Can someone give me a TL;DR?
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by j_baker 13y ago
You certainly seem to be spending a lot of time sending your child the message that she's special and important, which is admirable. Are you certain you're not overdoing it? If your child grows up always feeling like they'r
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by j_baker 13y ago
One statement in the investigation sticks out to me: As Anderson put it, “None of this happens without the speed.” So now that we've got evidence the speed wasn't so high, what does that mean for the investigation?
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To learn spying software, NSA analysts “unlock achievements” to win “skilz”(qz.com)
2 points by j_baker 13y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 13y ago
Far reaches are what the White House and DOJ lawyers excel at. Particularly during the Bush era.
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by j_baker 13y ago
The only one on here that strikes me as odd is the prohibition on selling fake hair or hair extensions. I'm curious why that is? I suppose I could see prohibitions on selling human hair, but fake hair seems odd.
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by j_baker 13y ago
Any "civil officer of the United States" can be impeached. In fact, judges are the majority of officials that have been successfully impeached. Calls for impeachment are more often frivolous than they are serious though. How do
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by j_baker 13y ago
"Ok. You win. Give us a few more days to redact the hell out of the opinion, and then we'll give it over to you."

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