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by j_baker 15y ago
Perhaps it's just me, but I find myself wanting to say "If you think it's so easy then do it yourself" to designers rather than it coming from them.
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by j_baker 15y ago
"Now if you are raging to some serious dubstep, its easy enough to miss that small typo, you go screw it and do it live, and deploy to production. Python will simply create the new variable and not a single thing will be said." Erm... Did
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Beyond SOPA (in support of OPEN)(nytimes.com)
2 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Indeed, but it's worth pointing out that in this case "different" doesn't necessarily imply "easier". Instead of having to access the data across many concurrent connections, you have to be able to store the data efficiently so that it doe
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by j_baker 15y ago
One thing I've found is that scaling rarely means solving difficult problems. Rather, it means putting more time into finding optimal solutions to problems that are trivial at smaller scale. For example, should your startup use Apache, ng
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by j_baker 15y ago
I realize this may not be a popular opinion on HN, but there's something to be said for planning ahead. I've seen this story before and already know how it ends: you wait until the last possible moment to switch to a more horizontally sca
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Adderall shortage hits America's youth hard(policymic.com)
2 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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Toward a more inclusive naming policy for Google+ (pseudonyms and nicknames)(plus.google.com)
3 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Often these results are irrelevant for users, such as when Google links to Mark Zuckerberg's empty Google+ profile on a search for "facebook". For the record, Mark Zuckerberg can make his profile not visible to search engines if he so wan
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by j_baker 15y ago
Fair enough, but what if said company convinced you to take a lower salary because the company was always dropping $100 bills? Cutting back there would effectively be a salary cut, and you would have a right to be upset. I think the real i
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by j_baker 15y ago
Hence why I wrote "employers" rather than "employees". :-)
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by j_baker 15y ago
in spite of the 90% of entertainment industry lobbying that goes to Democrats. I would like to verify this. Got a source?
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Larry Page's Grandfather Kept A Lead Pipe To Defend Against His Employers(businessinsider.com)
3 points by j_baker 15y ago|3 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Rebellion against authority has a weird way of turning into its own authority. Or as Einstein said: To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I'm calling contrarianism. The fundamental premise behind this article is flawed. Things get worse without getting better all the time. We still have the Patriot act, the DMCA, the Copyright Term Extension Act, ACTA, etc. Make no mistak
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by j_baker 15y ago
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains
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End of the line for Code Quarterly(gigamonkeys.wordpress.com)
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think the author's point still stands: there's little evidence to support that similarity seeking is beneficial, and some evidence that it might even be harmful.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I would imagine the vast majority of users would notice something in their Google results before they notice a name in a news report. People search every day. Not everyone reads the news every day (sadly).
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by j_baker 15y ago
You know, this actually makes me wonder what the impact on the economy would be if Google went down for a day. I would imagine a lot of people would just use Bing for a day (which would probably be terrible for Google in and of itself),
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by j_baker 15y ago
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your understanding. Urgh... Couldn't they have phrased this any differently? The only thing that's missing is "Please hold. Your call is important to us."
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by j_baker 15y ago
For one thing, the friendships were actually closer and longer lasting at the small colleges, suggesting that there is nothing intrinsically beneficial about seeking out similar people. (Opposites don’t attract, but they should.) This is
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by j_baker 15y ago
Actually, this tactic has worked quite well for me. More commonly, it's a case of person A asking me to do X and then person B asking me to do Y not realizing that I'm working on X already. When this happens, I usually say "I'm already wo
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by j_baker 15y ago
Equally scary to me is "UFT8". https://github.com/search?langOverride=&language=&q=...
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by j_baker 15y ago
I would be curious to see an example of such dangers. It would certainly take a lot of effort to do something stupid in such a way that your program won't necessarily crash with an exception (I'm thinking things like segfaults, heap corrup
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by j_baker 15y ago
At the same time, I'd prefer our generation to be raised to follow our passion to what the previous generation was taught: get a 9 to 5 job where you'll be miserable but make a ton of money and live a nice, safe, and boring life with your
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by j_baker 15y ago
I'm always skeptical of this attitude. It reminds me of politicians who go to the Midwest looking to campaign to "real" Americans, and end up campaigning to no one. The thing is: I know what I want. I have absolutely no clue what anyone
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by j_baker 15y ago
I realize that the author is probably joking in saying they "learned enough to be dangerous", but I think it's worth pointing out that you can't really learn enough Python to be dangerous. That's one of the nice things about it. If you sc
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by j_baker 15y ago
Personally, I think such a thing would serve no purpose other than to make people on HN feel as though they've contributed something. I think it would be better for the fight against SOPA if everyone who voted yes wrote their congressperso
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11 Books Every Leader Should Read(bobsutton.typepad.com)
2 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments

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