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by j_baker 12y ago
The thing that is weird to me is that Ellison is CTO. I don't really think he's a highly technical person, or is he?
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by j_baker 12y ago
There's a case to be made against the "always follow the law" argument: http://www.vox.com/2014/5/9/5691098/why-cyclists-should-be-a... TL;DR - These laws were made for cars, not bikes.
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by j_baker 12y ago
This has happened a few times. Usually, someone ends up forking the project. The funny thing about forks is that it can go either way. Either the founder gets kicked out and forks the project or someone within the project gets angry and for
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by j_baker 12y ago
I agree that Woz's contributions to Apple are greatly understated and Jobs's contributions are greatly overstated, but I think you're taking it a bit far. Jobs was clearly a dickhead, but it's difficult to dispute that h
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Inequality(medium.com)
1 points by j_baker 12y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 12y ago
There's a grain of truth to what he's saying. We don't write many new actual C++/Java MapReduce jobs. It's mostly flume. Although there is some momentum behind Go MapReduce.
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by j_baker 12y ago
I don't think you need to avoid private methods in Java. Rather, I think you should ask yourself if a private method is really necessary. Secondly, you should be asking yourself how you can test private code via the class's pu
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by j_baker 12y ago
I don't really see DHH giving any arguments as to why designing for tests leads to poor design decisions. I suppose I can buy the argument that there are cases where this isn't true, but I can't think of any and he's not
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by j_baker 12y ago
Am I the only one who's annoyed by the author's inappropriate use of the plural possessive apostrophe? s/Parsons'/Parsons's/g
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by j_baker 12y ago
This sounds like a perfectly reasonable take on the situation. As a general rule of thumb, expansionary monetary policies benefit smaller companies. Now that the fed will likely start tapering back some, I think we'll start seeing larg
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by j_baker 13y ago
Managed VMs are basically app engine apps that run on a compute engine instance. It gives you the ease of deployment and scaling of App Engine without the limitations of the App Engine sandbox.
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by j_baker 13y ago
> When starting out, forgo writing directives. You need a deep knowledge of AngularJS' internals to debug directives when they misbehave. Instead, start by writing a small controller and view. You can refactor these into a directive
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by j_baker 13y ago
> Popcorn Time as a project is legal. We checked. The law isn't quite so black and white. There are a lot of different theories good lawyers can come up with. At the end of the day, the only thing that's legal is what a court s
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by j_baker 13y ago
You're correct. Source: http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-mi...
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by j_baker 13y ago
> In fact, probably less than 5% of the best hackers are even in the United States. Startups clearly need to be basing more of their decisions on unfounded conjectures. I have to say that startups seem to have unreasonable expectations o
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by j_baker 13y ago
I seriously doubt that Merkel's intentions are pure on this. For starters, we know that Germany has given some degree of cooperation in NSA spying, including allowing the US to build an army base that will be used by the NSA[1]. Second
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Comcast buys Time Warner. What does it mean for cable customers?(csmonitor.com)
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Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirms he's leaving for Dropbox(engadget.com)
1 points by j_baker 13y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 13y ago
Technical debt isn't necessarily bad. However, people who take joy in pointing this out usually aren't the ones who end up paying it down every day. It's usually a (sometimes wannabe) pointy-haired boss who's just tryi
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by j_baker 13y ago
A lot of "technical debt" is also messy, real world code that its writers can't accept as being bad because they've dealt with it for so long and can't think about it any other way.
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by j_baker 13y ago
This is exactly where I'm at. If I had to characterize Python with one phrase, it's "blandly practical". Sure, Python gets the job done, and it's not a horrid mess like some languages. But at the same time, it'
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What Key NSA Overseers Don't Know About the Phone Dragnet(theatlantic.com)
3 points by j_baker 13y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 13y ago
Right. And this kind of polymorphism means that your program will still retain the same correctness no matter what data structure you use. Physically editing text is the most correctness-destroying thing you can do.
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by j_baker 13y ago
It sounds to me like you know enough to write such a book. ;-) I'd certainly like to read such a thin.g.
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by j_baker 13y ago
I see this as ultimately being a much better from an optimization standpoint. Now I can change L to a set or a linked list if I find that more efficient without having to change it everywhere . Language features are no substitute for algor
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by j_baker 13y ago
Hold on a second. OOP, markup, APIs, and HTML/CSS/JS are snake oil, while visual programming isn't? Say what you will about the former technologies, but they're being used for productive purposes. Visual programming is v
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by j_baker 13y ago
You're comparing the price people can afford to the price people are actually paying. For example, practically everyone can afford the median price of a pack of gum, but few car buyers can afford the median price of a Jaguar. Also wo
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by j_baker 13y ago
As a general rule of thumb, any organism's behavior is the result of a combination of its individual choices and the environment those choices are made within. I don't doubt that you have family members who have fallen behind as a
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by j_baker 13y ago
> Otherwise, the only people left will be the entrepreneurs and engineers. > “The bar is so steep, the only people who can locate here are the high-income earners,” Mr. Hancock said. “We’re losing our middle class in Silicon Valley.”
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by j_baker 13y ago
Your code may f'ing work, but my code works and is elegant. So what if my code takes a little bit longer to write? From a technical perspective, it's easy to see how this is good. Spending a little bit of time to make your code

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