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by j_baker 15y ago
It's worth pointing out that Adobe has only declared mobile Flash dead. They have yet to say anything to that effect for desktop Flash. That's not to say they aren't thinking it of course.
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Google Maps adds real-time traffic(google-latlong.blogspot.com)
3 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
C# accomplishes this with structs: http://weblogs.asp.net/dixin/archive/2007/12/20/understandin... Such a thing could be done in Java if Oracle added structs. They're basically just "unboxed objects". I believe there's more to it than
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by j_baker 15y ago
Whether it is or isn't appropriate is the topic of a separate discussion altogether. That would have to touch upon personal and community etiquette, professionalism, audience, and so forth. You don't think that's important? If you had pu
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by j_baker 15y ago
It's important to verify your intuitions, and it doesn't have to be a grand science experiment or a research project. If your intuition is that there are a lot of silver cars, a good place to start would be remembering the last time you sa
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think that's debatable. I don't see anything blatantly wrong with any of those, but I could see how someone might find titles like that inappropriate. I personally don't have a problem with it.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Well sure. But at the same time, it would be setting a bit too high a standard for me to expect people to do a scientific study for every silly little comment they leave on HN, don't you think? If someone claims that something happens "al
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by j_baker 15y ago
No, I mean the specific examples that prompted you to make the comment I was responding to. You wouldn't make such a broad claim without at least one or two examples, would you?
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by j_baker 15y ago
Your experience is different than mine. My answers usually seem to get voted up proportionally to how good they are. Granted, it's been a while since I've actively participated, so things may have changed.
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by j_baker 15y ago
If it's used all the time, it must be easy for you to provide a few examples. I've seen a few cases where a post title used profanity in a way that's arguably unnecessary, but I can't think of any examples of outright linkbaiting.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Swearing serves a purpose: to express strong emotion. In this case, the author is expressing that it's really important to take breaks. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Sometimes I think we have an addiction addiction. To me, it sounds like real work is more boring than consuming information for the author. My solution? Find less boring "real" work. I generally find that the amount of time I spend on H
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by j_baker 15y ago
Google's alternative is to not have fixed deadlines. I'm not sure there's really much else to say there. :-) For the most part, Google's philosophy is "Hire smart people and get out of their way." Granted, there's an ever-growing list of
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Windows Phone challenge attracts a bad element: Lawyers(news.cnet.com)
5 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
I don't know that there's really that much data on the subject (and if there is, I probably wouldn't be able to disclose it). I will say this though: I've never been asked to work long hours. Nor have I ever been assigned enough work tha
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by j_baker 15y ago
...so it sounds like you resented that job due to giving you limited time for sleep/food/unwinding?
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by j_baker 15y ago
Adobe is a business. Businesses are supposed to make money. Where's the conflict?
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by j_baker 15y ago
If we're only concerned about Adobe's customers not leaving , it's very certain that Adobe is in a losing proposition. That's the position Microsoft is in and IBM was in for a long time. Why would anyone want to pay for Flash over WebGL
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think it's valid to take on Technical Debt, but only when it's been explicitly decided that there's a good reason to take on technical debt. It's when you make a habit of always taking the quick and dirty approach and never take the time
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by j_baker 15y ago
So if Netflix can already buy bandwidth on Comcast's public network, why can't I stream Netflix without it counting towards my bandwidth cap? Same with hulu or any other video service. If Comcast were offering this service to anyone, I co
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FTC urges new laws to protect consumer privacy(usatoday.com)
1 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
You've never been unemployed for a long period of time, have you? Unemployment makes you realize how few principles really are important. At the end of the day, I'll value being able to eat over some abstract sense of morality. But if
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by j_baker 15y ago
One could argue that violence by more organized societies is worse. I mean, there's no way a loosely organized band of hunter-gatherers could come up with an Atomic Bomb. Nor could they fight a World War.
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by j_baker 15y ago
If the economy keeps going down, we could be. Bad economic times have a tendency to put extremists in power. Do you think it's a coincidence that Hitler rose to power during the great depression?
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by j_baker 15y ago
Because I'm sure it'll be brought up, don't confuse creating content for the iPad (with your full-fledged Mac computer) with creating content on the iPad. The former is, of course, happening all the time, and that's great. But unless you'r
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by j_baker 15y ago
What's wrong with the iPad being a device for consuming? I like consuming. And isn't it a good thing if people have more ways to consume the content producers are producing? Production without consumption is useless.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Closure compiler is also very useful for making JS a bit more safe and fast https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think this post is a non-sequiter. I think the observations the author is making are accurate, but I don't think that any of them but #2 really make a strong case for C++. And even that one is debatable.
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by j_baker 15y ago
It's certainly great that Facebook is taking a stand for privacy. But this is clearly more of a PR move than anything else. I mean, will Facebook really sue someone for demanding an applicant's password during an interview?
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by j_baker 15y ago
Indeed, but they're by far not the only ones working on OSS. They're simply the most recognizable. I've worked on OSS for companies with far less stellar track records when it comes to hiring.

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