j_baker

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by j_baker 15y ago
I think it's a question of appropriateness. Cursing gets peoples' attention and stirs up powerful feelings and attitudes. Use a curse word at just the right time, and you turn a mediocre presentation into a good one. Or it can turn a go
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What Android fans think of iPhone users(pcworld.com)
1 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think you're mixing concerns a bit. For data warehousing purposes, I agree that it's absolutely preferable to have all the data in one place (like hadoop/HDFS). For production OLTP stuff, I'd argue that it's a bad idea to do the kind of
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by j_baker 15y ago
Not to mention that they may get a retention bonus if they were part of a startup that was recently acquired. This could easily add up to $250k.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I'm calling troll. Having a serious discussion about NoSQL databases begs the exact same question as having a serious discussion about cancer: what kind would you like to have a serious discussion about? I think the most important lesson w
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by j_baker 15y ago
I don't think there's anyone credible out there who will say that there is never a case where garbage collection isn't appropriate. Sure, rocket guidance systems, military software, video games, and software from 1983 aren't a good fit f
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by j_baker 15y ago
According to the link, that's 320k operations per server, which means that it handles 8 million operations per second with 25 servers. I don't think it's a stretch to say that any database that has 25 servers should be able to handle at
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by j_baker 15y ago
If I recall correctly, mongo only requires that the index gets stored in memory. The actual data itself can go on disk.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I agree in principle, but not in practice. Yeah, in an ideal world, everyone would set aside their own personal desires and wants to focus on the business's goals. And yes, you have to choose the customers' goals if the two should ever co
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by j_baker 15y ago
Either that or find interesting problems that are valuable.
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by j_baker 15y ago
Ah, ok. I parsed the title as meaning "HTML 5's time has come again".
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by j_baker 15y ago
Sometimes it's useful to have a new way to think about the same boring old problem. Personally, I like this set of guidelines because it focuses on things that make code more readable and pleasant to work with instead of getting bogged dow
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by j_baker 15y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the author's logic, but it would seem that the real world does: http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/10/the-persuasive-power-of-swe... ...at least that is assuming that "shit" has the same effect as "damn".
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by j_baker 15y ago
Can someone translate this from bureaucrat-ese to English for me? I really don't understand what this is saying and what its importance is.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think the cause for header/footer tags is that there's no way for another program (like googlebot, browser extensions that use JavaScript to access the DOM, page scrapers, etc) to figure out where the header and footer are. Sure, it's ea
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by j_baker 15y ago
Just because things are breaking doesn't mean google is moving fast and operating like a startup. Big companies that move slowly can also break things. Case in point: Microsoft.
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by j_baker 15y ago
I think it's possible to do this with one company. A good counter example to Elon Musk would be Richard Branson: he did music, mobile service, airlines, and space travel.
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In honor of Dennis Ritchie, 50% off all C/C++ ebooks(shop.oreilly.com)
102 points by j_baker 15y ago|39 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Fair enough, but it sounds like you're critiquing the author's writing style rather than their point, which I think is a reasonable one. Personally, I think there's a bigger lesson to be learned though: you shouldn't emulate anyone excep
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by j_baker 15y ago
I don't see your point. I absolutely agree that sometimes you have to piss people off to be the boss. But wouldn't you agree that this is offset by the number of times you have to empathize with people and be their friend? After all, a
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by j_baker 15y ago
I don't think anyone (the paper's authors included) would claim that this is objective proof that Perl is bad. I personally share your concerns. But wouldn't you at least agree that it's an interesting concept to try to test?
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by j_baker 15y ago
I didn't intend the title to be flame bait. I only wanted to get to the gist of the matter as tersely as possible, which isn't easy. What would you have titled this? EDIT: And why the downvote? I would actually be interested to hear a b
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Perl is no more accurate than randomly-generated language(neverworkintheory.org)
131 points by j_baker 15y ago|53 comments
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What Futures Shall We Make? (John McCarthy)(www-formal.stanford.edu)
3 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Just because you can be financially successful being an asshole doesn't make being an asshole ok. I think there's a subtle (but important) distinction. Smart people can get away with having poor people skills: accidentally offending peopl
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by j_baker 15y ago
You have to exceed it twice in a 6-month period for them to contact you. The third time, your service may be suspended for a year. http://customer.comcast.com/Pages/FAQViewer.aspx?Guid=ce29df...
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by j_baker 15y ago
It's certainly better than throttling BitTorrent, but it's very easy to go over if you get 2 or 3 techies living together. Personally, I think the whole thing is somewhat anti-competitive. It discourages people from using services like Hu
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Steve Jobs Was Making Product Plans Until the End(mashable.com)
2 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 15y ago
Indeed I have. And most of those libraries are unfinished, poorly documented, or both. In short, it's great that people are putting the effort in. But Haskell has a long way to go still before it can compete with languages like python
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Sun was close to licensing Java patents to Google for $28 million(pcworld.com)
1 points by j_baker 15y ago|0 comments

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