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I feel like a lot of people are missing the larger point of this story: BE KIND. Because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.

I'm not going to excuse her rant or her poor decision making skills as she navigates her way through life. What I am going to sympathize with is the fact that she had a rough start in life and precious few examples around her to show her how to make good vs. bad decisions. I meet plenty of people like this; people who are unprepared for the rush of responsibility they carry when thrust out in the world to care for themselves. Most of us at least know what we should be doing even if we don't always do it. We had an example. I don't think this young woman had that benefit and now she is learning the hard way all of the lessons she should have been learning long ago.

So may very well be a spoiled-brat entitled millennial, but I'm more inclined to suggest that her story is a lot more complicated than we've been led to believe, even given what we've learned about her upbringing from this article.

(Side note: one of my buddies is now retiring from the US Marine Corps; I didn't find out until I heard from someone planning his retirement party that before he joined the Marines he'd been homeless. When I tell you that he's one of the most inspiring and intelligent people I know, I'm not exaggerating. BE KIND.)
I think there is still a disconnect between management and programming. Making changes to a large program seem trivial to management while it might be a daunting tasks for programmers as it may fundamentally change the overall design on the program.

Have you read the book Mythical Man-Month ?

Its a good read on the subject of time and management.
I don't need to have empathy, I have memory. I've been easily as poor as she was.

I lived a year and a half in Washington DC on $1000 per month. My living budget for working on the startup in SF was barely more than that.

I don't really care to be lectured about stress either. Living in SF and trying to do a startup was the most stressful part of my life, and at one point my doctor told me if I didn't get out I was going to die at 30. I was the sole technical founder of a startup, and I happened to have severe tendinitis in my forearms, which I had to work through. I didn't have enough money to actually get treatment or go to physical therapy, either.
> the total number of atoms in all those universes combined would be close

Close?? Wouldn't it still be roughly 10 billion times smaller...?
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By all means, let us ignore the herd of elephants stomping through the room.

This is all about the strange and disastrous new European fear of offending Those Who Must Not Be Offended. In this case a visiting Iranian head of state, but we see this stuff played out all over Europe every day, from this level and all the way down to minor, personal encounters.

But please, let us pretend we don't.
throwing a Exception would actually make the code as horrible as it already was. You would either need a static method that transforms the exception into a runtime exception or you would need a catch block that never occurs
I bet the fundamentals do not support this valuation.

What is their cashflow look like?
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The manga guide to Calculus is a great book. It helps me reason on a topic that is hard for me to grasp. Someone must think SQL is a difficult topic too.

TACOP is extremely dense and put me to sleep every time I tried to read it. I recently donated my copy of 0-4 to my work library, where nobody was interested in reading it.

The fact that we both have opposite views of your example books shows that this is a difficult process for librarians.
I'm curious how the author found the link to this - I looked at Norvig's home page but could not find it, which made me wonder how many more goodies he's got up there that we don't know about!
I'm in Brooklyn as well some parts are very inexpensive if you're willing to not live in the gentrified fantasyland that most of northern Brooklyn is.
Ever pushed above 45 min continuous jogging ? Very often I experienced a change in metabolism around 40min. All of a sudden I feel my temperature raising, lungs opening, sweating more, all of this with significantly less pain overall.
The guy on lsd still gets eaten by the tiger.
"DevOps consultants" can probably afford better (I should hope so). She was doing a low-level call center job, something that requires no skills other than basic literacy. It's awful work, and pays little more than minimum wage.

Throw in the uniquely American problem of employee-provided health insurance (with no insurance for low-end employees), and you have a real recipe for suffering. A friend of mine once worked in a call center for a major phone carrier. In order to qualify for health insurance as part of her job, she had to spend six months as a "manager". "Managers" didn't actually manage anyone, and had less authority to solve problems than regular customer service reps. The job consisted of taking the calls of people who screamed "I WANT TO SPEAK TO A MANAGER!!!!", not so much for authority but for a target to yell out their frustrations. Her job, then, was to get yelled at, all day, every day, and not be able to do anything to help the angry people. For a sensitive soul, it was torture.

Welcome to America.
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You would legally force a private company to share its property with others?
He might advise her to not spend money to move to somewhere for a job that cannot pay her rent.
> This is fairly bullshitty and something I question as to being real. My immigrant family has always bought cheap shit. $30 shoes from DSW or wherever lasted a long time.

Lasted a long time doing what? Doing farm work every day will wear out shoes a lot faster than just walking around in the streets.

> There's simply not a price/durability relationship in fashion.

You need a certain minimum price to get a certain minimum quality, simply for materials expenses. Stuff can't get cheaper than that, even if there's nothing stopping you from slapping a "premium!" sticker on it and selling it for ten times as much as it's worth.

> Of course leather boots last longer

Leather boots can last longer. You can have crappy worksmanship with leather boots too – sure, the leather will last forever, but if it's poorly done, it'll fall apart after a year or five anyway.

It's not just boots, anyway. Computers (Thinkpads and Macbooks last forever, you don't hear anyone saying that about the $200 notebooks off Walmart), appliances (a good washing machine can survive their owner while a cheap won't last 10 years), …
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I don't know what you're arguing against here.

More expensive stuff definitely lasts longer, in general.

> $30 shoes from DSW

These shoes aren't cheap, they are what is called "seconds." They have design flaws. I buy shoes from DSW because they are $300 shoes for $60 because they are missing a stitch. They are still technically $300 shoes...

> Our clothes from Sears lasted forever.

That's fine, but Sears is mid-ranged. If you buy something from Walmart it's going to lose the wear-ability very quickly. Maybe a polo would be fine, but a Jacket, pair of shoes, or pants will not hold up like something a few times more expensive will.

> Middle class people don't sigh in relief about being able to afford hipster boots, they just buy the same sneakers they always did.

Middle class people generally buy $100-$200 Nikes.

> My fancier clothing wears out faster, my more complex lifestyle means more handymen and repairs, etc.

??? What? What are you buying, exactly?

> Its really not. When we were poor we just didn't buy into the consumerist lifestyle. We just kept stuff forever.

Very-cheap end things don't last as well as mid-ranged things do. It's a fact. You won't be buying new TVs, but the consumables you buy suck: watches, jackets, the food, your cars, dishes, forks and knives, computers (for work), so on... which leads to you purchasing them more often.

It doesn't mean the HIGHEST END stuff is much better. You have diminishing returns. But, it's very tempting to buy the CHEAPEST when you are poor.
It's not just about looking cool. You're over-simplifying and trivializing the impact of poverty on a person's ability to live life in the way a not-poor person lives.

And then there's the fact that being poor actually impairs IQ.[1] And that hopeless feeling that leads to immediate pleasures over long-term goals. [2]

1 http://www.citylab.com/work/2013/08/how-poverty-taxes-brain/...

2 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-bra...
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I've had lunch with the guy. My point still stands - he's not just "some developer".
> I'd prefer you didn't get to know me

I'd prefer not think about it and just get to know people as well. That's what I was trying to get at.

It's disappointing that my attempt to express the catch-22 from my end turns you off to the point of ending the conversation. This is part of the problem with 'diversity' qua 'diversity' IMO.

Culture blew past tolerance and on to something else a long time ago. I'm not sure we want real diversity so much.
I think there are literally hundreds of examples from the past century where huge swaths of the population lost all of their wealth due to political and economic turmoil. You are welcome to keep all of your funds in the hands of the central bankers if you believe in them, nobody will stop you. I will keep a portion of my money in my own hands in BTC where no corrupt politician or banker can get it.
The article is either really profound or a giant wankathon, and I still can't tell which after reading it twice.
Why is it the company's responsibility to determine if you can afford to work for them or not? They would adjust their practices if the market demanded it.
This is a very weak result indeed. The authors have made no attempt at accounting for multiple testing [1]. Any such correction, such as the Bonferroni, would likely result in a negative (and less headline-worthy) result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
I wondered the same a while ago, maybe the responses there will give you some insight:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9711738
Also continuously modify / rotate the movement / exercise being done. Avoids the adaptation to a specific type of movement, all else being equal.

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But also, speaking from many years of experience with Crossfit and military high intensity circuit training... your explanation leaves out a little bit:

High intensity can be achieved in different ways depending on how your workout is structured.

If a given workout specifies the movements, how much weight to use, and how many reps / sets to do, then your independent variable becomes the time it takes to complete. To increase the intensity, complete the workout faster. Thus you see in many interval workouts, one's "score" is their time. Getting better over a period of time means decreasing the time for a given workout of this structure.

Second, a given workout can specify movement(s), weight, and workout time, say 20 mins. And the independent variable becomes reps and/or sets. Your score, and axis to increase intensity then is doing more reps/sets.

Third, workout specifies movement, time, rep/sets. Variable / score / axis for improvement is then what weight did you use. Or, if it is some kind of increasing weight ladder within the workout (work up to X rep max)... what weight did you work up to.

Lastly, one can view selection of movement(s) themselves that , put together make up a given workout, holding weight, time, and reps generally constant, as a another axis along which one can move along to avoid a plateau / adaptation to a workout one would see from repeating the same workout structure over and over.

Increases in overall work capacity are achieved by improving performance along all of these different axes, for multiple different exercises / movements, as well as collections of movements that together make up specific "workouts / circuits".

While not necessarily randomizing, but at least varying workout structure along these axes deliver optimal efficiency (most bang for your buck... time and effort spent in the gym) and results when results are measured in terms of GPP[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_physical_preparedness

These are the general principles that Crossfit and other circuit style workouts follow. The key insight these programs use is not falling into one repeated structure of workout done over and over without variation, that most people naively employ when working out in the gym, that is never modified and thus quickly becomes adapted to.

(Go to gym and do X reps for Y sets at Z weight. Take your time, no sense of urgency or goal of completing in as little time as possible. Time thus becomes fixed, as well as the general rep/set structure. Plateau is reached and intensity of workout is low).
This is just not true.

There are offices that have legitimate reasons for requiring employees to be there at certain times. I've worked in secured locations that were all but inaccessible at 6:01 pm and you needed a good reason to be there after 5. In an environment like that, you can't stroll in at 10:30 because you prefer to sleep in.

A lot of folks on HN seem to have this idea that as long as you show up it shouldn't matter what time you get there, how long your lunch is, when you leave, or how many hours you are working vs. sitting on Facebook, and there should be this pure meritocratic judgment based solely on the quality of your work. Maybe that's ideal, but it's 100% unrealistic. In an office environment, showing up on time, not leaving early, and not taking a two hour lunch should pretty much be the minimum.
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Also, regarding this point:

>and bought a pair of Doc Martens
Of course leather boots last longer,

Look at this: http://drmartensforlife.com/

Coach (bought my GF a wallet for her birthday once, ~$250) and Gucci have similar policies.
On your comment about running while "under the weather" :

I've heard that if you have symptoms from the neck up (sore throat, headache) it's usually okay to run if you're up for it.

But symptoms below the neck (eg coughing or breathing difficulties) then you shouldn't run.
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Extrapolating the analogy, this leads me to believe that there will eventually be a company that uses the blockchain to deliver a killer app, but it won't be Bitcoin.
Comcast is publicly traded. And it behaves closer to a utility more than anything else.
EE problems will be addressed in later versions of the system. The hope is that it will be able to monitor voltage and current requirements and tie those into the math. Circuit board type problems are a back burner thing for now.

If you want to contact me, you can get my email from the team page on cadwolf.
What would really help is if the exercise machines were geared towards interval training.

That makes me wonder if I can program my somewhat fancy elliptical. Why don't we have a machine that you can program from your phone yet? It has like 20 built in things, none of which are optimal for what I want to do, why can't I create a new program with an app and upload it to the machine?!

Time to do some research!
I'm having a hard time understanding why people are latching onto the Bulleit Bourbon - it's $15.
I usually tip well and complain to management when I get bad service for this reason. Unless business is slow and the server is obviously goofing off in the back or something.
Yes there's a lot in there about the lifestyle she lived but I think none of that matters I've been slammed into some awful situations with deadbeat landlords or roommates bailing with 30 days notice you have to have something to fall back on putting that burden on your employer as if it's their job somehow is unacceptable.
I dunno... I'm a huge Atari 2600 fan - I have my prized heavy sixer, and have even made my own "game" (https://github.com/mrspeaker/plops) in 6502 assembler... but if I'm honest, 95% of Atari 2600 games are terrible. Unplayable. Because no one really knew what a "video game" was or could be, they tried EVERYTHING to see what would stick. Some things stuck, and formed the basis of good game design fundamentals today. Most things did not stick.

The games that remain truly fun to this day (for me) are two-players-at-once games, where the challenge is beating your friend.
Yes, I've read it, it's a classic.
I'm trying to formulate your comment into a "falsehood" PMs believe: "A very small change to a large program takes very little time." or sth.
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I love video games and became a developer because of them. I've always wanted to make a game and mobile is supposed to be the renaissance of indy game development.

But I just can't do it. I hate the touch screen. It is a horrible input device for gaming. It makes every game as frustrating as typing a sms full of auto-corrects. I can't imagine any game I would make would be fun.
Of course if you're the star paid a percentage bonus on profit, then take the profit, halve it, subtract 50 million, wash, rinse, repeat until profit is actually in the negative.
We’re calling rm, but we’re calling it cp. Fortunately, cp is not one of the programs that cares what we call it.

Something is contradictory here. Perhaps rm is such a program?
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NYC outside of Manhattan is cheaper. Transit is better. Better infrastructure. I'd move to NYC over SF purely on cost reasons myself.
Why optimize for stupid usages of Optional?
> Why is it the company's responsibility to determine if you can afford to work for them or not?

Using the word responsibility changes the meaning of this. How about we use a different phrase:

> Why [should the company care] if you can afford to work for them or not?

Because that's the point of working for a company.
>This is all about the strange and disastrous new European fear of offending Those Who Must Not Be Offended

No it's not: The article describes several examples of such censorship, none of which had to do with Muslims (which I guess you're alluding to).
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Yep. They are a bit of a special case in that they often enjoy protection from competition in their cable business, so such a rule might make more sense attached to that (which would be nice for the satellite operators).

I don't really buy the story that an ever bigger Comcast does the public in general any good at all (there would be plenty of investment in the cable space if there were 20 companies operating). The basic premise of a corporation is that it is beneficial to afford the shareholders some extra protection to encourage investment, so I'm fine drawing lines that I don't think will hurt investment but will probably benefit or protect the public.
As with film cameras, internal combustion cars have a long logistical tail that is highly dependent on the continued existence of the current volume of use. So when electric cars start squeezing them out, gas stations and repair garages will start to disappear, prices will go up for fuel and parts. Poor people with junker gasoline cars they really don't want to replace will be driving longer to find fuel and sooner or later will be driven to either convert their car or sell it for scrap. The only demographic that will be able to afford to run them will be moneyed enthusiasts. Once they effectively disappear from the roads (and the voting booth) the government will ban them.

I expect that taxis and trucks will be mandated self-driving before cars will, because the safety upside will be obvious and huge, and the government is used to meddling in those industries. Seeing the results of that, there will be a sustained public pressure to mandate it for cars, with each accident splashed on the news and reporters saying "if only". As above, they'll first become rare and then banned.
The point he makes is that those instruments and theories have an inherent bias to the kind of reality we perceive. That reality is a result of our evolutionary fitness and is not objective. Even the words we use to describe concepts are a function of the limitations our vocal cords and frontal lobe.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3CptVZDYU
It's like $60 for a huge bottle.
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Obviously they can do what they want, but does it make them good people? Not in my book.
Why is this getting so many down votes?

At the very least, we need to break Comcast into content producer and content distributor (ISP).
That's not how muscles work.
The comment you replied to, and Talia's original post, is representative of the market demanding it.
When you're dealing with numbers on the order of 10^80 to 10^170, I think you're entitled to calling that "close".
iOS only? It looks fun, but I don't have a working iOS device at the moment.
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The tiger don't care if you're on LSD. It will still eat you. And the universe don't need an observer for shit to happen. In 10 years I bet the current quantum theories /interpretations will make us laugh our asses off
> precious few examples around her to show her how to make good vs. bad decisions.

I don't need examples to conduct basic arithmetic to show that I cannot afford somewhere to live. There are millions of people with similar or worse upbringing who actually learn something from that upbringing and decide to not do dumb shit that has a high chance of introducing financial ruin.
Yeah, I'm not on the bandwagon either.

Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry.

Okay, sure. How many are still going, and how many didn't completely sink the money of the respective investors?

I get that Bushnell is a smart game guy, but IMO Atari was a lightning strike he's been trying to replicate ever since.
This is something I've been thinking about recently. Nintendo really should move into that gap since they can't seem to directly compete with XBox or Playstation. They should engineer a control system of some sort that works for iOS and Android, then write content that is compatible. It wouldn't be something you could just use while waiting in line or waiting for your food at a restaurant, but if the content was excellent, that wouldn't matter. People would find time to play, just as they find time to play gaming systems now.
How is everyone so sure that "Dirty Derek" doesn't work for the government and do this exact thing with no oversight?
This is a very nice argument!

Our senses are still only tuned in to detect portions of "reality" that are relevant to life on earth. For example, our eyes detect the band of EM radiation most useful during daytime on Earth. But even though are eyes are narrow band and highly non-linear sensors, they (+our other equally flawed senses) have served us pretty well as far as understanding the true nature of EM waves.

I guess my point is that our senses still aren't evolving to detect reality in some sort of true pure mathematical sense.
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As someone with a lot of student loans, I welcome the hyperinflation.
For my marathon training, between my long runs, I did spend one day a week to just do one 5-10 minute sprint, at 95-105% max heart rate. ("Oh god I'm going to die..")

The days after I did those, were the clearest, most relaxed days of all.

I ended up with a resting heart rate in the 30s.
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Comments on HN if they Yelp had done that:

> "I can't believe Yelp forced their employees to move to a different location just so they could keep paying them lower wages."
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