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Why bosses who are civilized and caring but incompetent are horrible(bobsutton.typepad.com)
23 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Sure. I'm just curious how out of sync the map is from the territory.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I'm generally a Linux user, but I've grown to appreciate OS X's keyboard shortcuts. Cmd-C will copy text on just about any OS X app including the terminal and emacs. On the Linux terminal, you have to use Ctrl-Shift-C to copy (to avoid se
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by j_baker 15y ago
Silly question: If I'm understanding this correctly, doesn't this essentially mean that statistically it's possible to live forever? Or is there a point when you statistically have 100% probability of dying?
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by j_baker 15y ago
I have a confession to make. I voted this article up simply based on the title. Even if it turned out to be incredible link bait (which it didn't), I'm just happy that someone out there is at least recognizing the desire to have a reasona
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by j_baker 15y ago
I would probably correct the title to "Things I hate about enterprise Object-Oriented Programming", as that seems to be the gist of this.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Wouldn't this work? I can't test it at the moment. print_function = lambda c: getattr(colored, c) printred = colored.print_function("red") printred("This prints in red")
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Acrobatic Velociraptors may inspire next generation of robots(foxnews.com)
1 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Neither would I. But some people are stuck in jobs where they have to support Windows. If that's never been the case for you, consider yourself lucky.
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by j_baker 15y ago
What if your package manager doesn't support the version of Python you're targeting? The most common place this happens is if you have some old RHEL 5 boxen that haven't been upgraded (and who that uses RHEL doesn't?). Or suppose you use
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by j_baker 15y ago
So much to say here. I think this is an important issue. Being kid-like is central to being creative. But at the same time, being adult-like is central to being productive. The key isn't to become a creative kid who does nothing product
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Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?(martinfowler.com)
2 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
I generally think of it this way: a manager tells you what you have to do. A tech lead tells you what you'd be stupid not to do. You won't have much formal authority. At the same time, you hopefully won't be under much formal author
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by j_baker 15y ago
I personally find "not in" to be a bit more readable. If I say: if not x in y: ... Do I mean: if (not x) in y: ... Or: if not (x in y): ... Same with "is not".
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by j_baker 15y ago
Right, but with Paxos, you could elect a new leader as soon as the old one is destroyed.
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by j_baker 15y ago
...but whatever you do, don't talk about "crushing" your competition, especially in public. This is a terrible idea from a legal perspective.
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Italy fines Apple $1.2 million(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
You never know. I'm sure you could have a more "distributed leadership". I'm sure this could be accomplished with a clever enough application of paxos.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Well, now we're getting into the theoretical issues. For instance, if we develop wormhole technology, the ship could very well be there before the enemy can see it. Otherwise, I just don't see interstellar space warfare as being that pract
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by j_baker 15y ago
I admit to skimming this, but there are a couple of things I see wrong with this. 1. You can see a spaceship from the next solar system for sure. But it would take years for you to see it. 2. I doubt the future of combat will involve hum
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by j_baker 15y ago
This is a strawman. Clearly mhartl is doing something good for society. If his goal in helping society is so that he can build a pool of money he can dive into like Scrooge McDuck, why do you care? Is helping society only good if the per
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by j_baker 15y ago
Perhaps the grandparent isn't making that great of an argument. But at the same time, I don't see you doing anything but arguing. And yet, I have no idea what you're arguing for . I assume that you're making the case that companies ne
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by j_baker 15y ago
...and heaven help anyone using JAWS on such an interface.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Perhaps Firefox never had a monopoly, but they did reach a point where they likely felt overly secure and could do whatever they wanted because they would always be the open source browser gave users a warm and fuzzy feeling when they insta
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by j_baker 15y ago
It's more likely that the vast majority of Chrome users are upgraded to the latest version automatically while IE users are fragmented across multiple versions.
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by j_baker 15y ago
MMM does indeed say that too many programmers do indeed make a project late regardless of how far behind that project already is. Nine women can't have a baby in a month and all. Have you really read it? The book makes this quite clear
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Google's Stanislaw Lem doodle open sourced(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
9 points by j_baker 15y ago|1 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Deployment comes to mind as one reason to go with this approach; fewer systems have Python installed than Java runtime. I would like to see proof of this. Perhaps Windows has fewer Python installs, but I would find it hard to believe tha
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by j_baker 15y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something here. Argument 1 seems to basically be that Java code is bigger than Lisp code. Argument 2 is that big code bases tend to use all of a language's features. Why couldn't you solve the second problem with the
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by j_baker 15y ago
This is why Lisp is a HackerLanguage instead of a commercial language: hackers are generally loners who don't care if others can figure out their code (at least while they are in the mode or role of hacking). Thus, they build their own lit

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