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by j_baker 15y ago
As someone who has been paid to work on OSS, let me say that it is absolutely not about skill. Most notably, Google and Mozilla pay plenty people to work on Firefox and Chromium. Even Apple has some OSS projects (Webkit and Darwin come
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by j_baker 15y ago
Be a facilitator, not an irritator. Johnny Cochran called. He said he wanted his slogan back. Don't be 'that guy'. For the record, I like getting things done too. That's exactly why I focus so much on having the right tool for the job
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by j_baker 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, what is the last line for? 1;
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by j_baker 15y ago
I made no such comparison. It's called Reductio ad absurdum: http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio/ My point was that if we accept your argument, we must also accept the patently absurd (at least to me) argument that one must have compassion
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by j_baker 15y ago
It's very rare for someone to be so overtly sexist that the HR department can intervene. Usually, there's some doubt for the harasser to receive the benefit of. And besides that, how would that affect her reputation if she turns into "the
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by j_baker 15y ago
What makes you think Jeffrey Dahmer was a happy, mentally-healthy, well-adjusted human being? Where's the compassion for him?
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by j_baker 15y ago
I'm a guy who's taken "shit" from co-workers before, and it's no fun. Rather than keep coming up with witty retorts, it's usually best just to get out of the situation entirely.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think I speak for everyone here when I say that Turing's bill should be a power of two. I think Turing should get a £5.12 bill.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Here's more detail on the price: $180 million plus another $30 million or so in employee retention payments, Im told. Is this typical? It would seem that the employees are getting the shorter end of the stick on this deal.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I can see why someone who meant well could have said this without realizing it was offensive, but that doesn't change the fact that it genuinely was offensive.
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by j_baker 15y ago
If you enjoy women, why not let them do something other than get the beer?
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by j_baker 15y ago
Sorry, but I don't buy the "It is a truly wise man who believes he is not" meme. A truly wise man has confidence in his wisdom, and the humility to realize that it isn't infallible.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Likewise, I know people who are chaotic in every way, who don't adhere to many of the things almost everyone else considers to be the norm, who have little to no self-discipline for mundane tasks, who are non-conformist by choice, and who
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Have you signed away your kids' right to 'enjoy life'?(redtape.msnbc.msn.com)
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I would rather have an open plan than a cube farm. Cubical walls give the illusion of privacy. They let people think they can talk as loudly as they want to without distracting anyone. Plus, they inhibit meaningful collaboration by makin
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by j_baker 15y ago
I suspect it's neither. It's probably more that advertisers just don't care if their ads use up too much power. Probably the same reason why there are so many annoying Flash ads.
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by j_baker 15y ago
This test was run on a Nexus One, which was released in 2010. I'd be curious to see if they got the same results on a newer phone. I'd be willing to bet that this is mostly because ads require more network requests, which aren't as effici
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by j_baker 15y ago
True, fewer and fewer documents get mailed. But I think it's still a bit early to say that we're in a post-mailed-document era. I still get documents mailed to me every day! There are still some uses of physical mail that haven't been re
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by j_baker 15y ago
I recall a study concluding that difficult economic times leads people to support more extreme political candidates. This effect could be related to that.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Email has been around (in some form) since 1965. However, I think it's a bit too early to say that we're living in a "post-mail era". Will such a thing every truly happen? I don't see that happening until we invent teleporters for all th
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by j_baker 15y ago
How does one stay up-to-date on this stuff? Or is it just something that's easier to remember for someone who specializes in security?
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by j_baker 15y ago
My brother would disagree with you. He got a Samsung phone and he's stuck with it for years for the simple fact that it's the only phone he's learned to use and he doesn't want to learn a new one. If Samsung was running a stock version of
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by j_baker 15y ago
On behalf of everyone who has worked in a startup under a wannabe Steve Jobs or a do-it-yourself manager, let me thank you for this post. Far too many people forget that managing people is a valuable skill that is much more difficult to le
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by j_baker 15y ago
I dunno, I think the definition of "good speaker" really depends on the audience. I probably speak for many here as an introverted, deeply introspective outlier. It's worth pointing out that the first sentence is very extraverted . In f
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by j_baker 15y ago
It's worth pointing out that Samsung isn't necessarily keeping compatibility with Gingerbread as they are keeping compatibility with their own TouchWiz version of Gingerbread. For the most part, this is old news. It's reasonable to assume
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by j_baker 15y ago
I get what Gruber is saying here, but I disagree. Now to be fair, I think the problem of consistency is real, and I think this is something Android needs to be better about. Now, that said, I don't think the solution is to have manufacture
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by j_baker 15y ago
If you're a hacker and more than 5% of what you type goes anywhere other than your code repository, you should probably reevaluate what you're doing before you make it any easier to do it. You know, I was more than willing to "agree to di
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by j_baker 15y ago
For starters, the article is mistitled. A more accurate one would be "10 opinions About Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company". Although "platitudes" might be even more accurate than "opinions". But there's one thing in particular that a
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Servant Leadership(en.m.wikipedia.org)
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by j_baker 15y ago
Actually,I would argue that talented teams build products.

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