j_baker

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by j_baker 12y ago
Blah. I have a smart TV that can use netflix, but I hardly ever use it considering that I have a Chromecast and XBox One that can use netflix.
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by j_baker 12y ago
April fools? It seems like an awfully poor way to do business for such a company to just go under without any advance notice. But then what are the company's customers going to do? Go somewhere else?
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by j_baker 12y ago
Well yeah of course I want the owner to be forced to act in a way other than what he chooses because the way he chooses to act affects me negatively. That's why we have laws. There are any of a number of things the owner could be doing
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Even as drought continues, California gets ‘second-hand smog'(nydailynews.com)
1 points by j_baker 12y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 12y ago
> Land taxes are efficient. They are difficult to dodge; you cannot stuff land into a bank-vault in Luxembourg. Whereas a high tax on property can discourage investment, a high tax on land creates an incentive to develop unused sites. La
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How Growers Gamed California’s Drought(thedailybeast.com)
170 points by j_baker 12y ago|157 comments
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by j_baker 12y ago
Perhaps I'm just old fashioned, but I'm making the assumption that people should be rewarded for actual accomplishments. Failure is a learning experience, but it is not an accomplishment.
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by j_baker 12y ago
Being accepting of failure is a good thing, but you have to wonder about the moral hazard that's being set up here. A person should be able to pick themselves up after a failure, but failure should not be rewarded . You should not be
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by j_baker 12y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with being negative per se. I work at Google, and can think of a couple of developers who complain about others' products a lot . And they can usually get away with it, and in fact even b
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by j_baker 12y ago
The argument (or lack thereof) that the author is making is hardly based on sound economic analysis. This "thought experiment" ignores a few fundamental facets of SF's rent control ordinance. As a "second-generation&quot
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by j_baker 12y ago
The Midwest would make a good alternative place to grow. It won't be as prone to droughts and will have a longer growing season due to climate change. Either that or giving farmers a subsidy for growing crops that require less water. O
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by j_baker 12y ago
I think that Arrays are so ubiquitous and (usually) so fast that most devs reach to them by default unless there's a good reason not to. I can count on one hand the number of times a linked list has really truly been the correct solu
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by j_baker 12y ago
Well yes, I think designing an ultrabook probably is difficult. I mean, you have to cram a lot of powerful components into a very small computer. You've only go so much space, so something's gotta give.
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by j_baker 12y ago
I think there's more to the open office epidemic than mere cost. Facebook is pouring tons of money into the largest open office in the world. Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg wrote in "How Google Works" that offices should
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by j_baker 12y ago
You know, this makes me wonder. If a car manufacturer or a toy company made a product that was found to be unsafe, there would be a recall. If hardware manufacturers make a product that is insecure, will there be a recall? Unfortunately, I
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Project Zero: Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
339 points by j_baker 12y ago|101 comments
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by j_baker 12y ago
If it were connected, you would figure the firing would come sooner than two years later. Though it is possible there was another incident.
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by j_baker 12y ago
Meth is quite possibly the most dangerous drug in existence. It's cheap. It's almost as addictive as heroin. It makes people aggressive, impulsive, and even violent for hours. Now, don't go trying to convert meth-heads to doi
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by j_baker 12y ago
Maybe I'm just obtuse, but this graph makes no sense to me: http://lmart999.github.io/assets/cluster_gis.png What exactly do the colors mean? And what do those brackets at the top and at the side mean?
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Google warns FCC plan could help ISPs charge senders of Web traffic(arstechnica.com)
1 points by j_baker 12y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 12y ago
What exactly is the author's point? It just reads like a collection of gripes about tech companies. And besides that, I don't see any evidence that Google is building a "Bay View" stateless walled city.
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A123 sues Apple, says it poached battery engineers(sfgate.com)
2 points by j_baker 12y ago|2 comments
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Pixar and Google Employees Are Vaccinating Their Kids, Say Pixar and Google(wired.com)
1 points by j_baker 12y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 12y ago
> there’s a disturbing trend developing of people deciding to found a company simply to get rich I understand what the author is getting at. But the purpose of a business is to make money. What's wrong with starting a company to get
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by j_baker 12y ago
What Aleynikov did was clearly slap-on-the-wrist-worthy. It's not like he took code and sold it to the highest bidder for zillions of dollars. It didn't merit depleting his entire life's savings and (almost) sending him to ja
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by j_baker 12y ago
Krugman's right about one thing: economies that have had large austerity pushes seem to have done worse than countries that have had smaller spending cuts. I don't know that I would agree with Krugman about how much spending needs
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by j_baker 12y ago
> Show me the strictly paper money system which has lived 1000 years (or even 100!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money "The first use of fiat money was recorded in China around 1000 AD. Since then, it has
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by j_baker 12y ago
You're talking about "participatory management". It was a fad in the 50s that comes up again from time to time. It sounds like a good idea, but it actually ends up increasing bureaucracy. There's a good article that di
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by j_baker 12y ago
The idea of holacracy is interesting to me, but something tells me it's more about marketing than anything else. Holacracy seems to do the exact opposite of getting rid of managers. It's actually making everyone a manager of somet
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by j_baker 12y ago
Ok, so I get that tech hasn't been very good at recruiting older workers. But this? Seriously? > In Silicon Valley's youth-obsessed culture, 40-year-olds get plastic surgery to fit in. This is unsubstantiated. Has anyone met a

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