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Myspace Relaunches With New Justin Timberlake Single 'Suit & Tie'(wired.com)
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A few thoughts on Depression(noahpinionblog.blogspot.com)
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MIT launches probe into Swartz case(thedailybeast.com)
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by j_baker 14y ago
3D/4k/8k -- these don't have any advantages over their predecessors, except that they deliver "more/better" on an axis that people demonstrably don't care too much about. People don't care about picture quality? I mean, I get what you're
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by j_baker 14y ago
It's worth noting that Go has interesting handling for empty values as well. A nil basically means "the zero value for a given data type". Thus, an empty array compares equal to nil: http://tour.golang.org/#36
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by j_baker 14y ago
I don't agree with the OP's definition of "asshole". Some people set a higher standard, and this oftentimes rubs people the wrong way. It's a mistake to label these people assholes, because they usually serve a valid purpose. The people t
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by j_baker 14y ago
It strikes me as being officious to judge a person's actions as "inappropriate" without having the proper context (what their NDA says, what Google considers confidential, etc).
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by j_baker 14y ago
You don't know that anything he said is confidential. You don't know that he didn't get approval for this, which you say he "should" do clearly without knowing anything about Google's policies. I'm also assuming you don't know what his ND
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by j_baker 14y ago
What confidential information did he reveal?
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by j_baker 14y ago
I think it's unfair to call the OSS project leaders "charity workers" and not the contributors. Either way, if OSS project leaders have so little free time, why wouldn't they spend more of it fostering developers into being more productive
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by j_baker 14y ago
I agree implicitly. I've seen all kinds of drama play out, and at the end of the day, it never really matters. I've learned to just tune it out. It's best just to accept that you approached the situation the best you could, and figure ou
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by j_baker 14y ago
There's no other way to put this, so I'm just going to come out and say it: you're not only flat out wrong, you've got the truth backwards. Forgiving people implies that said person has done something to wrong you. Thus, you're still plac
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by j_baker 14y ago
Having worked with Guido on App Engine, I believe I can answer this. Just because someone wrote a language doesn't mean they have no other talents as engineers. I will say that apart from being a good language writer, he is also a good Eng
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Business Lessons From a Former Gang Member(businessweek.com)
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by j_baker 14y ago
Many times, a story is important not for the reasons that people perceive it to be important. Ironically, I view it as important for exactly the reason you view it as unimportant. Why on earth does Microsoft feel the need to resort to suc
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by j_baker 14y ago
Did Microsoft recently hire Karl Rove as head of marketing? This is classic push polling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll
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by j_baker 14y ago
Then I suppose I'm saying that I support you, but not your literary devices. :-)
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by j_baker 14y ago
We pondered this for a while and the conversation meandered elsewhere, no doubt because my companions were embarrassed on my behalf. I had committed one of the basic errors of inexperience with the state of programming: Assuming that you'r
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by j_baker 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_phases_of_a_big_project The six phases of a project: 1. Enthusiasm 2. Disillusionment 3. Panic 4. Search for the guilty 5. Punishment of the innocent 6. Rewards for the uninvolved This is the way it
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by j_baker 14y ago
You know, if there's one thing I hate, it's a set of rigid coding conventions. They're the joy of the petty and officious and the bane of people who just want to get things done. This isn't an excuse to get rid of them altogether. It's a
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by j_baker 14y ago
I would like to point out that I never suggested that one should ignore their seniors and especially not their peers. I merely suggested that seniority only buys a person so much respect. It's important not to exceed that quota.
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by j_baker 14y ago
By and large, US law is considered to be stable and has been duplicated precisely for this reason. That's not to say that there aren't areas that couldn't be improved or made simpler. Rather, it's to say that we have a society where laws
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by j_baker 14y ago
You know, I think we as programmers have a tendency to want everything to be well-defined, and that can sometimes turn tedious. In this particular case, that's what the OP is doing. Congress simply isn't capable of writing these laws fast
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by j_baker 14y ago
My advice: don't pay too much attention to what more senior developers tell you. senior != more_talented
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Implementing functional languages: a tutorial (Simon Peyton Jones, 1992)(research.microsoft.com)
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by j_baker 14y ago
I will give you one thing: euphemism is an artform . :-)
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by j_baker 14y ago
Well, either way you look at it, it's hard to imagine that Gassée is unbiased and objective. That doesn't mean he's wrong , but it does mean that you need to read it differently. Rather than accept the text as objective reality, you shou
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by j_baker 14y ago
Oh. Well if "usability professionals" have offered opinions, it must be settled, right? They are the authorities on OS business models.
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by j_baker 14y ago
It's worth pointing out that you should take Gassée's views with a grain of salt. Gassée is a former Apple exec who led the Mac team, thus I'd imagine that he still has a significant amount invested in Apple (although there is a question o
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by j_baker 14y ago
Much as I hate to agree with a (somewhat notorious) tech crunch writer, I agree. Once you put an idea out there, you shouldn't back down. That doesn't mean that writers need to stick to their guns in the face of evidence you're wrong. Ra

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