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Diabetics are allowed to not fast. The old, the ill, the young, travellers, and women menstruating or pregnant are also allowed to not fast. Moreover, people with extraordinarily difficult manual labour jobs are allowed to break their fast - given that they redo those days on their days off. If it puts your health in serious harm, don't fast.

However, elderly who are capable do fast. Athletes do fast. Even children do fast. Most people want to participate because it's a community celebration. I grew up in a Muslim country, and Ramadan is a month I've always enjoyed. Friends, neighbours, and family visit each other. Everyday we receive food parcels from half the neighbourhood, and we send out an equivalent amount. Halfway through the month we have Nasfa, which is basically Halloween but we wear traditional clothes and go house to house collecting candy. This is then followed up with Eid 2 weeks later, which is a 3 day non-stop celebration. It's the most commercial month of the year. Restaurants are packed. Every TV channel comes out with dozens of 30-day series. People stay out till dawn. It's also the month when the most charity is given in the Muslim world and a lot of volunteering also occurs during this month.

It's also a very spiritual time. I still fast, despite my lack of belief, like I've done since I was a child. I feel calmer, and more meditative in my everyday life. I use this month to cut out most of my bad habits and vices, which ultimately is harder than depriving yourself of food. It's a time when you spend more time thinking about the struggle of the less fortunate. The feeling of deprivation from food, water, sex, and many comforts of the world really incentivizes you to give more. It motivates you to be a better person continuing throughout the year. When I was religious, I used to spend my time quite similarly: participating in prayer, study, and recitation.

Of course there's also drawbacks: I tend to lose a lot of weight this month due to only eating a single meal most days. My appetite noticeably shrinks, and I feel more sluggish. I'm healthy and I'm still able to perform my job fully, go for walks, and participate in activities, albeit more sluggishly. I've studied this a bit by using my completion velocity for tasks when I'm fasting versus when I'm not and haven't found conclusive results yet. Last year, I underperformed my normal velocity by 5%. This year I outpaced it by 3-4%. I believe the difference this year is better meal planning.

Towards the end of the day, I'd get cranky due to dehydration and lack of sugar. Oddly enough, a lot of people go the other way and gain weight by binging after sunset. It's quickly becoming a very commercial season, where all consumption and materialism are kicked into overdrive.
If I understand correctly, the book was marketed as a memoir at the insistence of the publisher ... because sexism and racism?

The tense relationship between authors and publishers is as old as books. Publishers want to move lots of units. Authors want to realize their vision. Sometimes the two go hand in hand, and sometimes not. Pretty common in every creative industry.

I don't want to trivialize and dismiss the author's experience but she has no qualms doing the same to her fellow (white, male) authors, who apparently have it so easy attaining credibility and earning a living practicing their craft.
It is the month that is believed to be when Mohammed had the Quran revealed to him, hence that superstition thing you refer to is taken quite seriously.

I know you don't buy it, judging from the wording. But that is why everyone is so laser-focused at this time. The Quran specficially outlines this, believe it or not.

http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=2&verse=185
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To a, presumably, educated person like yourself, yes, religion is likely more in the domain cultural evolution. Can the same be said for all? Many would claim to have a personal relationship with their deity(ies).
You mostly have a reverse dress code in Silicon Valley. Just start showing up to your job as a Software Engineer at an SV startup in a suit and tie and see how people react.

People are quick to judge, even in SV.
We should give up on democratic process and pasteurization because they are so old.

I swear, when docker and lxc turn ten, I will uninstall them and never look back.
Possibly but it would probably lead to people disregarding the data they are being provided with, effectively removing a lot of the benefits of the automation.
I'm not an academic, but I think you'll find many academics would be against this. Things would get more complicated because there would obviously need to be a vetting process on who could comment. Things shouldn't be a popularity contest, so I think a reputation system would be counterproductive.
https://github.com/mrtazz/restclient-cpp ? 2 LOC. Wraps libcurl.
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Yes, but this doesn't add much because any human situation involving more than 2 people involves interpersonal dynamics, AKA politics. It's a question of how much.
Yes, my point was that this is an example of a NON-market-driven system, i.e., not an example of capitalism at work.
I really like:

"A bad arrangement is better than a process."

I might surreptitiously slip that into the next coding style guide I come across.
Appeal to authority fallacy.
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I agree 100%. This is why I say "Yes" to every single meeting request and mostly don't question the way things are done for the first few months of any new job. You have to get established before you can even hope to influence how things are done.

I do feel that firing the lot of them was really an overreaction. What they should have done was treated it as a teachable moment and explained the situation and why their response was exactly the wrong thing to do.

On the other hand, in their place, I'm not sure I'd want to work for someplace that would fire a whole group of people for something so small. As another comment puts it, the best places to work are those that treat interns the same as other junior employees.
Money isn't the end goal. It's just the scoreboard. You do something like that because it's thrilling.

But yes, if money were your end goal, someone smart enough to pull that off could probably make more elsewhere.
In my experience growing in a muslim country -- most moderates understand this and imply it without explicitly saying it. And most of the education and the scholarship happening in Islam focuses on the Madhab, fatwa, hadeeth, and interpretation. All of which is merely people using their best judgement to supplement and evolve religion.

Of course, fundamentalists -- as apparent from the name -- read things very literally and "speak" or "hear" directly from God.
>Things shouldn't be a popularity contest

You clearly are not an academic. Publishing papers is a popularity contest.
Why keep a policy that you can't motivate?
I am in a similar boat.

With DSC, I am increasingly excited with the idea end user computers can also shift to immutable, or approaching what we call immutable, infrastructure that has logically valid weight in the communities represented here.

The problem? Culture. So many people do not understand when I say the following things:

- Do not install with the GUI, please use the deployment system to document unattended installation.

- You should not have to log into a computer and manually install and customize things, especially if you forget to document.

- You should not be doing things, install, configuration change, with following this AND updating the team in your notes, so when I ask you, you in fact remember.

These things are the product of less fires, as I see it, and why I too have to re-image everything (although is largely out of concern for any malware, especially with the majority of our userbase).
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Where in Spain you rarely go over 38hr/week or will get decently paid those extra? Man, things must have changed for good in the last 5 years.
That indictment is some serious bullshit. Did you actually read it?

The first count is for identity fraud from requesting a subpoena. No evidence that they intended to present themselves fraudulently, just the fact they filed a request.

The second is "making a false statement" that "some of these checks appear to have not been deposited but cashed illegally". The burden of proof on this would be insane, there's no way to show the defendant knew this to be untrue.

Finally, just FYI, the notification statute applies to banks, not individuals. The bank has to notify you of a subpoena, and it just has to do it before the information is released. It doesn't make just requesting one flat out illegal.
> Approaching HR....

No! Never talk to HR unless there's a problem with your benefits or something. They are never on your side; they're basically there to protect the company from you. If you ever get into a situation you feel can't be resolved without involving HR, just start looking for a new job.
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Yes. Specifically, rents are much higher in SF/SV than in NYC. SF has even higher rent than Manhattan. Most of NYC (not Manhattan or Williamsburg) can be quite reasonable.
The satelite constellation will orbit at 1100km according to Wikipedia [1]. It takes light 3.7 ms to travel this distance [2]. It seems plausible that this could be faster over very long distances (though I don't want to do the math).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_development_f...

[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1100km+%2F+c
"How many centuries, did you say?"

"0.01 centuries."
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If a good guy with a gun is on-board that's either paying for someone on every flight. Or your letting random people on board and ya know bad guys can also get guns.

Don't forget, we already lost an aircraft because the door locks and a pilot had a death wish. So, even if you pay someone with a gun to be on board he could be a terrorist, so now you need two guys with guns...
According to the original letter, the writer and other interns did ask their individual managers, and were told no, without repercussion. Their response was to band together and create a petition to 'argue' their point. The petition, not their discussions with the manager, got them fired.

Taking collective action to try and overturn your manager's decision to enforce pre-existing and clear company rules, is pretty entitled. To do that when you're an unpaid intern, suggests a high degree of entitlement to me.

Whether that justifies millennial bashing, or whether all generations are like that at 18, is another matter.
Of course they were right. But it's possible to be right, and still be a pain in the ass. Might make it easier, even.
And changing the law was what I was hinting at
* 5 days in *

"Half of engineering team fired for starting a petition demanding higher class shares in equity compensation. Apparently nobody in management knew of the petition as the letter of notice originated from the email of one of the engineer's mothers and was accidentally logged in a spam folder. Management only found out after engineers failed to show up to work in protest.".
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I've used this analogy before, but here goes: Slackware is the muscle car of linux distros. If you own one, you're going to need to know how to get your hands dirty, but once you do the thing is going to be fast, lean, and stable. If you enjoy tinkering, swapping things out, compiling from source, editing configs without GUIs...Slackware is for you. If you just want to spin up a linux, install some packages (including all the default-to-on dependency trash that comes with them), and be on your merry way...I'd stay away.

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I have no idea what you are asking.
> Also, how many 62-year olds can recognize HP on the spot?

how disconnected from reality do you expect to be at 62?

Harry Potter has been a pretty huge franchise since around 1997. A 62 year old would be 43 at release. That's a pretty common parenting/soon-to-be-grandparenting/grandparenting age, I'm sure more than a few of them would be exposed to it.

I don't know whether or not what they say is true, but I disagree with ageism playing into their credibility.
fyi I contacted them and they sat on it for 3 weeks before responding with a code test and without responding to the questions in my email. I hesitated to post this, but it was not how I'd think you'd treat a potential colleague.
The indictment accuses them of intending to steal money from the bank accounts, and seems to refer to the allegation the journalist is investigating as a "statement which he knows to be false."

I hope this is the end of Judge Weaver's career and that the Grand Jurors are found culpable.
It's an application of Duff's Device co-routines. This is handy for event driven parsers.
The comparison got flawed because Apple markets and treats its' OS as their property, in reality when you buy the hardware with software preinstalled you own the software, otherwise they should sell it without iOS. Users should decide how they pay for their applications, not Apple. So it was never Apples restaurant in the first place, or do they sell hardware without the App Store preinstalled? does it not run on the users hardware? Anyways the analogy went bananas. Enjoy your Apples!
Those locked doors need to last for 3+ hours on a flight over the ocean. Which might be possible but probably not.
If you're good, you get comped a lot more than swanky rooms. A friend of mine has done this for a couple decades. He gets comped cars. Nice ones. He sells them. He's always selling stuff like $1,000 Saks gift certs online.

He gets what they call RFB (room, food, and beverage) out the wazoo. He's drank more expensive wine that most sommeliers. At one point it was hard to find an expensive restaurant in Vegas I hadn't eaten at, and I only saw him a tiny fraction of the time.

He gets his plane trips to basically anywhere with a casino paid for, often in a chartered jet. A guy with a sign with his name meets him at the airport.

In most parts of the country, if you ask enough girls if they want to go with you on a private jet to a luxury suite at the Wynn, one will say yes. Not a direct perk, of course, but an attractive indirect one for a single guy.

The value of the perks is substantial. You could buy them, but it would cost a lot.
Are you saying that number theory has not in fact been a core part of mathematics for hundreds of years.
Yes that's what I meant. That's how bad was (and still is) the situation here.
I agree that the whole notion of petitions being an effective tool is a recent phenomenon but I feel the general premise is the same: The older generations have always criticized the younger generation of refusing to embrace the rules, having it so much easier, being disrespectful, wanting what they haven't earned, etc.

Though I do think the advent of upvote/downvote discussion forums has emboldened the attitude of "I can just downvote/ignore/blockout anything to which I do not agree". That's an annoying and recent behavior (which affects us all, not simply the millennials) which really drives me crazy.
I hate apps that do 1 job and do it extremely well and it insists I update just so I am on the latest version. It works now stop bugging me. I don't care if you changed the color scheme!
Shoes are expensive. Even if you are working a low-paying job along with the unpaid internship, it isn't something that most folks can get when they are just starting out.

And even harder to find is a tailor, unless you are in a decent sized city. I had access if actually needed - my mother. My mother did tailoring work off and on to make ends meet, and more later on for herself, excluding bridal shops. Often, there were between zero and one other person in the area doing the work. Most were just to make pants shorter, and few were willing to pay a fair wage for the bigger tailoring.
LTE in the unlicensed 5 GHz spectrum is coming soon (since the cell companies somehow only just realized that even if it's not pristine spectrum they also don't need to pay billions of dollars to access it) so there will actually be a legal way to use this in the future.
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I remember reading the other day in /r/sysadmin how a school initiative to teach with video games was completely thrown out because their was no way to sandbox Steam in such a way that it could be rolled out to school computers. Steam community was unhelpful and a lot of people were disappointed. Could be an interesting application of itch.io.
I have to agree. It seems the vast majority of daemons that run as root only do that to get the special port they want. It made a tiny bit of sense in the days of multi-user systems. Those days are over.
In this case we first moved to JRuby (after verifying a similar performance profile to MRI) and once on JRuby we used jedis [1]. I simplified the tale a bit -- apologies if I got your hopes up on MRI.

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I appreciate the civil discussion and insight.

What is prayer if not speaking directly to a deity?
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an indictment won't present evidence. you want to skip the judicial process and have everything in step one. that's now how our judicial system works.

count 3 is the false statement charge, not 2. this isn't a civil defamation case. what the defendant knew is irrelevant.

your last statement is wrong.
But it's a different type of popularity contest. Commenting on publications is virtually non-existent. It's not that there is no venue of commenting, we do have plenty of academic conferences; but the amount of comments received in the conferences is virtually none. People do ask questions, but seldom give constructive (be it positive or negative) comments.
>The older generations have always criticized the younger generation of refusing to embrace the rules, having it so much easier, being disrespectful, wanting what they haven't earned, etc.

And that's not what is happening here. This is the younger generation criticizing other members of the younger generation for being spoiled, self-absorbed narcissists. I criticize the older generation for making them this way with their helicopter parenting and their special snowflake "everyone wins" nonsense.
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I have fasted for the past 20 years during the month of Ramadan. It is the most revered month for all Muslim friends and family that I know. If you think Ramadan is restricted to just not eating, you need to learn more about why Muslims are advised to fast. Not eating during fast is the least of my concern as most days I am on an intermittent fast which lasts for 16 hours as well. Personally, I have rarely experienced any decline in performance, or asked for any exceptions or exemptions from work duties. It becomes challenging waking up in the middle of the night, 3 AM, to eat and drink and go back to sleep. This year’s timings are roughly from 330 AM to 830 PM in New England area. These timings change depending on your location. I make up for this lost sleep at lunch break around noon by taking a 30 minute nap. I come back to work after a nap with increased freshness of mind.

It has been a great month to inculcate new habits. I also seem to have have more time than my colleagues and get done with more work than usual days. I wouldn’t do it for the whole year as I love food too much.

My charity spending also spikes in this month and this is usual for most practicing Muslims. I calculate how much money I would have spent on food on my lunch in a normal month and give that money away to someone in need. This is besides the increased almsgiving that most observant Muslims would experience.

If you are sick, young, elderly, pregnant or have any health concerns you are exempt from fasting. You fast only if you are capable.
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My hovercraft is full of eels:

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Thanks for the correction; fixed. I misremembered that bit of the yak-shaving adventure when I went to write my comment.

The conclusion still holds, though: I don't think special-casing particular capabilities makes sense. And in the case of the dynamic linker, it doesn't actually have that information available; it relies on the AT_SECURE bit set in the process's "auxiliary vector" (see "man getauxval"), which the kernel sets when the process has any privilege its caller didn't have.