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by j_baker 12y ago
This is on github. Does this mean that MS is abandoning CodePlex?
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by j_baker 12y ago
You actually wouldn't have to do either of those. There's actual frozen ice on Mercury's poles, which means you have a relatively temperate environment, plenty of sunlight for energy, and water. The atmosphere and gravity sit
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by j_baker 12y ago
No, Mercury actually has a magnetosphere. I don't know about what kinds of protection you would need to get there though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mercury
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by j_baker 12y ago
There's one gaping hole in the idea though: where are we going to get water? One other interesting possibility is colonizing Mercury. It turns out to not be as crazy an idea as it seems at first. Mercury does have water, there's p
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by j_baker 12y ago
Agree with 10/12. > Schedule any meetings that really require 1 hour over lunch. For the love of God no. This almost always ends up turning into an excuse for managers to make your lunchtime into work time. > If our meeting is sc
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by j_baker 12y ago
There's one thing I would add to the equation: ((1-p) * s * e) + r < (m-c)*t r is the additonal compensation package that companies offer to employees of an acquired company. In an acquihire, the bulk of the proceeds go to the emplo
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by j_baker 12y ago
Not to mention that SO's content is released under a Creative Commons license, and for exactly this reason. Google doesn't really even need their permission to do something like this.
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by j_baker 12y ago
I've noticed that a lot of message queuing systems have an "delivery at least once" property. What exactly does the possibility that a message could be delivered more than once buy you?
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by j_baker 12y ago
How good is the ES6 transpiler used for this? My experience with ES6 transpilers thus far hasn't been great. The feature support seems to be very spotty.
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Surveillance Self-Defense Guide(ssd.eff.org)
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What Do Google, Elsevier, and Goldman Sachs Have in Common?(blog.engpolitics.com)
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It's legally risky to be a programmer(blog.engpolitics.com)
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Leak Trial Shows CIA Zeal to Hide Incompetence(huffingtonpost.com)
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by j_baker 12y ago
Our government has always been plutocratic. > The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last
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by j_baker 12y ago
Perhaps that was the point. Someone may not want this job to be filled for whatever reason?
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by j_baker 12y ago
Who'd have thought that the business-types (Rubin and Spector) are supportive of crunch, while the developer (Paxton) doesn't like crunch? Apparently, the business types like turning their organizations into meat grinders while
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by j_baker 12y ago
To be fair, here's a choice Snowden quote: """ I'm no different from anybody else. I don't have special skills. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watches what's happening a
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by j_baker 12y ago
That's basically what the wayback machine does: https://archive.org/web/
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by j_baker 12y ago
We don't really know the full relationship between substance abuse and mental illness. There's a very well-known correlation between the two, but it's questionable whether the substance abuse causes mental illness or the ment
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by j_baker 12y ago
I have to say, I can't help thinking the author doesn't know anything about Hemingway or Picasso. Both are very famous examples of how depression can be creative. You can name many others like Virginia Woolf or Emily Dickenson.
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by j_baker 12y ago
I think their expansion was actually quite brilliant. The store ended up selling just the high-margin items (cords, accessories, etc) that stores like Best Buy and Circuit City would upsell to offset the cost of low-margin, big-ticket items
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by j_baker 12y ago
Research has shown that engineers really tend to dislike being interrupted by outsiders (managers, salespeople, etc), but really tolerate a lot of interruptions from other engineers[1]. I feel like there has to be a happy medium. Ok, so w
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by j_baker 12y ago
> this will not be a zero-sum game Is there some kind of rule at YC that mandates that blog posts must insist that nothing is a zero-sum game?
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by j_baker 12y ago
> Reforming immigration only seems good at lowering employer costs. Are there any studies that show it would help growth? I don't have a source handy, but I believe studies have shown that immigration does indeed help economic growt
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by j_baker 12y ago
I'm kind of reminded of the discovery of the first exoplanet. Once we found it, we started finding more and more of them across the sky. How do we know that binary black holes aren't all that common? For instance, how do we know t
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by j_baker 12y ago
> Most people are very lazy. They don't want to take the time to think through new ideas or look at them in a new light. Once they've made up their minds about something, they don't change them. That's generally why m
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by j_baker 12y ago
Not to mention that even if the DOJ doesn't freeze your assets, defending yourself against the DOJ is an incredibly expensive proposition. It can deplete the life savings of even affluent people.
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by j_baker 12y ago
That's basically what ES6 will do: http://www.2ality.com/2014/09/es6-modules-final.html
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by j_baker 12y ago
I don't understand his argument. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that burnout is a form of depression and thus burnout exists in the mind. I think the issue is that burnout is a form of depression that is caused by
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by j_baker 12y ago
This is just a bad example. I would use a closure here for the simple fact that it's simpler. No need to create an extra class with __call__ magic when you can just return a closure. Now, if you're doing something more complex, a

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