j_baker

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by j_baker 11y ago
It's not as much about how many hours you work so much as how much of your life revolves around your job. Ask yourself this: if things aren't going well in your job, what happens? If your life revolves around one thing and that th
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by j_baker 11y ago
AA still has its place. A lot of people like its philosophy. Plus, some people just don't respond to anything else other than its "tough love" philosophy.
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by j_baker 11y ago
Is it just me, or does this seem horrendously insecure? How does this prevent arbitrary third parties from accessing your terminal?
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by j_baker 11y ago
The "show only ads from people who aren't assholes" is basically what AdblockPlus does.
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by j_baker 11y ago
> Well yeah... it's completely delusional to think a 3 month developer should earn the median income for programmers. $75k is not the median income for programmers. $75k is the median income for anyone in SF. Which is exactly my poi
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by j_baker 11y ago
So what you're saying is that it's "crappy programmer entitlement" to: * Expect to earn the median income * Expect to have a decent lifestyle. * Expect to be able to have a family Sounds like crappy employer entitlement
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by j_baker 11y ago
Yeah, but you know what? The cost of living has also skyrocketed dramatically in Silicon Valley. I mean, you make it sound like engineers here are on a gravy train where we spend 3 months learning a language and can suddenly move to San F
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by j_baker 11y ago
Honestly, I think these people are dicks: http://kalw.org/post/how-tiny-shipping-container-community-c... Not only is this an issue of residential codes. The other problem is that they're doing manufacturing in a
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by j_baker 11y ago
Well, there are still cases where object pooling might make sense. Some games on mobile devices still use object pooling. I suppose I could also see the need to use object pooling for a very busy server or a very large hadoop job.
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by j_baker 11y ago
At most private companies, stock options aren't worth the paper they're written on. Unless of course the company sells, in which case they're worth slightly more than the paper they're written on. And besides that, to ex
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by j_baker 11y ago
Because there's no one they can sell their shares to. With a public company, you can sell your shares on the stock market.
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by j_baker 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it would seem like Ocean Acidification would be less prone to "Climate Commitment" than regular climate change. Meaning, if we just stopped emitting greenhouse gases, OA would stop increasing. The
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Silicon Valley should drop peer grouping to determine CEO pay(sfchronicle.com)
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by j_baker 11y ago
You don't. It is not considered necessary for you to correct downvotes.
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Study: Smart Phones Accurately Detect Depression(chicago.cbslocal.com)
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The Airbnb Impact(sfchronicle.com)
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by j_baker 11y ago
Blah. Yet another "new-fangled technologies have no place" post. Granted, there's a grain of truth to the core thought. As I've become more experienced, I've seen more frameworks and libraries that re-invent the whe
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by j_baker 11y ago
You're not trying to say the two are comparable are you?
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by j_baker 11y ago
For better or worse, this is life for top executives. Example: the president of the US's popularity is correlated with the economy in spite of the fact that they have very little control over it. It's not uncommon for one executiv
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by j_baker 11y ago
They quote Shiller as saying that we're in a bubble, but then they conveniently leave out another quote: > But I'm not sure that the current situation is a classic bubble because I'm not certain that most people have extra
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by j_baker 11y ago
What he took was proprietary infrastructure-related code that didn't involve any of Goldman's trading algorithms. His claim is that it was so tangled up with the open source code he wanted that he had to take it out to get it.
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Supreme Court denies Google request in Java infringement case(computerworld.com)
1 points by j_baker 11y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 11y ago
How is this any different from when tobacco companies fund studies that say that smoking isn't bad for you?
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by j_baker 11y ago
I think this is a great point. I try to stick to a philosophy of "support the person, critique the idea".
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by j_baker 11y ago
I have to say: working in a civil work environment makes a huge difference in terms of job satisfaction and job performance. Civility works for the business, the worker, and the customer. Nobody really benefits from incivility except for th
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by j_baker 11y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that the uncivil boss is the real victim?
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by j_baker 11y ago
I'll say one thing: I think that there really are a number of business groups with vested interests in skewing the science one way or the other. On one hand, you have the Koch brothers who want you to believe global warming is a non-is
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by j_baker 11y ago
I wouldn't treat this as a complete reversal just yet. These kinds of "paradigm changing" studies get shown to be flawed all the time. It's just that the press rarely reports when that happens.
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by j_baker 11y ago
> Based on previous studies, it was believed that individuals with social phobia had too little serotonin and that SSRIs increased the amount of available serotonin. In a new study published in the scientific journal JAMA Psychiatry, re
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by j_baker 11y ago
I don't see why living in a home and investing in it are mutually exclusive. The way I see it, my monthly housing payment is an investment in addition to a cost of living. Sure it costs more in maintenance, but you also get more custom

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