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by j_baker 15y ago
Even worse than "readable" and "unreadable" are "maintainable" and "unmaintainable". At least I know what "readable" means at some level. But "maintainable" usually turns into a generic catch-all term for "this doesn't scare me too much".
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by j_baker 15y ago
No good deed goes unpunished. It's sad but true. The key is to be helpful without being too helpful. If you get a reputation for being the one to call in an emergency, you'll be the one who gets called in emergencies. If on the other h
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by j_baker 15y ago
It's fortunate for Amazon . It apparently isn't fortunate for Amazon's employees. http://articles.mcall.com/2011-11-05/news/mc-allentown-amazo...
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by j_baker 15y ago
People would rate you "great" but you'll be able to say "How would you know?". At which point, the better you get, the worse you'll know you are. Anybody who rates themselves as "great" is probably on the uphill side of the learning curve
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VW deactivates employee email outside working hours(reuters.com)
183 points by j_baker 15y ago|124 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
This is certainly good of Scribd, but I suspect this is more about "Hey, we've got a billion pages!" than it's about "Let's stop SOPA!"
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by j_baker 15y ago
if my program compiled and my unit tests demonstrated correctness, that was enough. ... Your professors taught you unit testing? In terms of learning the "practical" side of programming, I think that right there gives you a leg up on mos
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by j_baker 15y ago
I suppose one could break this issue down into one of breadth vs depth. You probably can find someone who can do both designing and engineering, but unless you find one of those mythic geniuses, you're not going to get someone who goes v
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by j_baker 15y ago
I'm a former Apture developer/current Google employee (but I don't necessarily speak for either one). It's worth noting that Apture won't actually be shuttered until likely sometime in January (probably around the 10th). We had originally
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by j_baker 15y ago
The fact that this question is closed is one of the things that annoys me the most about stackoverflow. It sometimes seems like people can't ask interesting questions without others getting offended.
911.
by j_baker 15y ago
While we're waxing psychological, I should also point out the Just World bias[1]. Sometimes , capable people have difficulty getting jobs they're qualified for due to reasons outside their control. And having been on both sides of the ta
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by j_baker 15y ago
Am I the only one who finds the designation "product company" useless? To me, it's as meaningful as "wet water". Every company has a product. Now certainly some companies have more tangible products than others. And it's not always cl
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by j_baker 15y ago
I don't understand why some people beat themselves up so much over procrastinating. Sure, it becomes a problem when you can't get anything done because you're so busy procrastinating. But everyone has a day here and there where they just
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by j_baker 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but casting the result of malloc is generally considered bad form in C, isn't it?
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by j_baker 15y ago
Well no. There's no illusion to it. Customers do get a choice. Of course, the important question is how much that choice gets them.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Actually, the article did mention one strike against using one line (albeit briefly): And they prefer to choose their own line rather than wait in a single-file line for the next available register—even though that set-up has proven to be
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by j_baker 15y ago
Another change: As soon as there are three or more people waiting in a line, the retailer deploys "line busters," employees who scan items in shoppers' carts before they reach the cashier, says Mr. Carey, who works closely with the retaile
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by j_baker 15y ago
Which brings me to the final point of this article, one which most of the self-help books out there fail to cover: taking responsibility, getting involved, throwing yourself into the thick of things and making decisions Personally, I'm th
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Researchers find new creature with 16,000 eyes(thestatecolumn.com)
2 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Well, actually that's true . From Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung (the guy who came up with the terms introvert and extravert): "But if one is an introvert and the other is an extravert, their different and contradictory standpoints ma
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by j_baker 15y ago
Like a service? Make them charge you or show you ads. If they won't do it, clone them and do it yourself. Soon you'll be the only game in town! "We're just like service x, but we charge you money !" There is no way this business model is
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by j_baker 15y ago
Also from the second link: This research also demonstrates that teachers need effective classroom management strategies in order to maximize their instructional time and minimize disruptions. However, it is important to note that, as resea
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by j_baker 15y ago
I do that all the time, but not because I don't want to look stupid. Usually it's because they're talking about something I'm just not interested in, but I don't want to be rude about it.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Certainly there are better ways to build rapport than saying things like "I'm in the sort of sustainability space around kind of bringing synergistic value-add to other people's work around this kind of space" though, aren't there? Human in
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by j_baker 15y ago
I wonder what this company will switch to when people are flooded with useless IMs and useless messages on their Facebook-style messaging system?
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think that was actually his point.
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by j_baker 15y ago
How old are you? Because usually when I hear this speech, it's coming from some 25 year-old who gets a couple of years of experience under his belt and is convinced that qualifies him as a wise old programmer who can condescend to all thos
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by j_baker 15y ago
Since nobody is playing devil's advocate, I suppose I have to. :-) Have you done anything that doesn't fall under the "slashdot" header? If I saw this resume, my first instinct would be to say "Yeah, he made slashdot, but how do I know he
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by j_baker 15y ago
Ask and you shall receive: http://jasonmbaker.com/get-results ...although this probably isn't a ton better. :-)
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by j_baker 15y ago
Fair enough. It is amazing what people are willing to put up with if you meet 1 and 2 though. :-)

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