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Possible Pentagon destruction of evidence in NSA leak case probed(mcclatchydc.com)
2 points by j_baker 11y ago|1 comments
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by j_baker 11y ago
Hey, he worked on this app for a whole 30 hours . That's like 3/4 of a work week! In all seriousness, when you figure it out, that's about $15/hr. I think a number of entrepreneurs would give their right arm to make tha
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by j_baker 11y ago
You know, it can be very difficult to tell the difference between Bipolar II and unipolar depression because the manic phases are so muted and short. Food for thought. :-)
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by j_baker 11y ago
With very confident people, flattery will get you everywhere. They have to see things your way because they're so smart. Even better is to convince them that what you're trying to tell them is really their idea. If it comes fr
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by j_baker 11y ago
I think a lot of tech workers are used to being the smartest person in class. When they come to SV and work with lots of other smartest people in class, it can cause egos to clash.
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by j_baker 11y ago
Robert Shiller had an interesting analysis of the current stock market's "frothiness": http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-shiller-stock-market-b... Basically, the stock market is a bit overvalued, and peop
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by j_baker 11y ago
Lithium's really only useful if you're treating bipolar depression. It has mood stabilizing properties, and giving lithium to a non-bipolar patient will "flatten" their moods.
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by j_baker 11y ago
It seems like a no-brainer to me. Training police officers to think like warriors indicates that they're fighting in a war. We already have enough issues with gangs turning our streets into battlegrounds[1]. Why do we need police offic
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by j_baker 11y ago
$50 million seems like an arbitrary amount of revenue to expect DuoLingo to pull in. How do you come up with that number?
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by j_baker 11y ago
I don't think becoming a doctor or a lawyer are easy or low-risk. You have to go through years of school after which you are faced with a high probability of being unemployed. If you do find a job, you're likely going to work a
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by j_baker 11y ago
You know, every time I personally write a blog post, I've learned to just assume that people will only read the title. If I'm lucky they may also see a subtitle or read the first paragraph. But unless you just write some compellin
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by j_baker 11y ago
Does OCaml not already support multicore? Is concurrency green thread based? Even at that, there's nothing stopping a user from starting multiple processes....
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by j_baker 11y ago
"It's ok to build an unjust work environment just as long as it fits with my religion of 'shipping above all else'."
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by j_baker 11y ago
Some people just like to work like that, and that's ok. What's wrong is when you require people to work like that or when people who work like that get ahead disproportionately.
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by j_baker 11y ago
Perhaps because building a diverse workforce that gives everyone opportunities regardless of culture/ethnicity/sex/gender/sexuality is the right thing to do? I mean, having a culture of shipping is great and all, but it
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by j_baker 11y ago
I think that's comparing apples to oranges. The $20,000 cost is merely the cost to provide housing. The $100,000 cost is the cost to provide court systems, mental health care, and physical health care. The problem is that the cost of h
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by j_baker 11y ago
I'm skeptical. I mean, it's not as though the idea of public housing is new, and it has been used in places far more liberal than the US who have not eliminated homelessness. My first question is "Where are they keeping all t
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by j_baker 11y ago
Node.js certainly seems to have a high turnover rate for project leadership. I wonder what role Joyent is playing in that. I don't think Ryan Dahl stepped down on good terms. Isaac Schluter might be a different story.
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Why housing protests in S.F. and Oakland annoy urban planning chiefs(bizjournals.com)
2 points by j_baker 11y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 11y ago
As someone who lives next to the port of Oakland, allow me to say that ships are indeed an issue in urban environments, and they do cause large amounts of pollution. And besides the ships, there are usually a number of diesel trucks that ar
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by j_baker 11y ago
> These include the concept of changeset evolution coming to life and the announcement of both Facebook and Google choosing Mercurial over Git. Perhaps this is true for Facebook. But I can say that Google most certainly does not use Hg o
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After Aaron's Law reintroduced, new counter-bill aims to crack down on hackers(zdnet.com)
2 points by j_baker 11y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 11y ago
Someone should create a <script>alert('PAC')</script>
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is great for elites. Is it good for anyone else?(vox.com)
2 points by j_baker 11y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 11y ago
You know, after the "Blurred Lines" incident[1], it wouldn't surprise me if the music industry started pushing for more limits on copyright enforcement. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar&
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by j_baker 11y ago
> Today it may seem obvious that communication using programming languages is protected by the First Amendment. Actually, I didn't realize this. Good to know! Though I kind of wonder what the limits to this are. Does a reporter have
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by j_baker 11y ago
I'm curious, is there any real-world application for this? Or is it mostly interesting from a research perspective? It seems like this wouldn't perform very well in the real world for most applications, but I could see it being us
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A New Theory on San Francisco's Inequality Problem(psmag.com)
2 points by j_baker 11y ago|0 comments
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Aleynikov Lawyer Tells Jury Goldman Code Copying Is No Crime(bloomberg.com)
3 points by j_baker 12y ago|1 comments
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by j_baker 12y ago
I think this is exactly the reason why you should make code generic enough to be re-used. We have no idea what code is going to be re-used where, so it's better to try to make sure it's easier to plug code into other unexpected pl

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