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Everest is the worst example of mountaineering. For many it's just an achievement, not an experience, not something that's worthwhile on its own merits. And in that light it makes it more obvious why so many people fall into the trap of tackling it unprepared. Many people don't understand how challenging it can be and they think that if they just struggle through and be miserable for a few days they'll come out the other end with a shiny brass ring they can decorate their life with, something that will serve as bragging rights and help define who they are as a person for their life. It's really not much different than, say, college, for that matter. When you have people who have been rewarded so much for gaming the system, when you have people who struggle constantly in the search for authenticity and meaning in their life they are prone to try to fake their way through.
It's pretty clear what they're referring to. Consider the title of the article.
Interesting read! I like how the final request foreshadows the creation of agile software development techniques. But as far as I know the shuttle software stayed with a classic linear development model (waterfall or V model?).

Agile development is tough in embedded systems. Test automation only works up to a point. Integration and system testing turns into a monstrosity requiring hardware in the loop. And there are the inevitable failure modes that need to be caught reliably, but can only be simulated by modifying the hardware under test (I.e. manual testing). All of this means that no purely iterative model.is going to work. You must have discrete testing phases in your project. And in theory they need to be redone entirely before every iterative update that gets into production.

Right now, testing efforts are reduced by doing impact analysis of the changes and reducing the scope of the tests to affected portions of the code. But this requires the impact analysis to be perfect and without omissions. This article nicely shows how an impact analysis can be wrong, causing major issues down the road from a simple change (a single, seemingly unrelated changed constant).
I do actually have a little bit of a martial arts background. That's actually why the officers' story seemed plausible to me - I know both how fast combat happens and how easy it is for an innocent person to look threatening because of the ambiguity and pace of it.

I can't say that the officers acted well or badly here - I wasn't there. All I am saying is that this sounds like a tragic misunderstanding to me. And that people not understanding what real threats look like can lead them to behave in ways they don't realize are dangerous, and that's a real problem, and maybe something we can do something about on the civilian side.

I find it really unlikely that cops kill people for laughs. Does their training make them too high strung and jumpy? I mean, I've seen it, and given the threats they face, I don't really think so.

I do have sympathy for police. I know police officers. I train with some sometimes. I'm not saying there aren't bad ones or that there isn't bad training - I'm just saying that it would be a lot easier for them and the people they interacted with to stay safe if everyone understood what being non-threatening actually looks like, and how to surrender safely. I just hate to see a tragic outcome result from a misunderstanding. And maybe that's not what this is, but it's what it sounds like.

I think a lot of people have this really unreasonable standard for police, that they're supposed to know who's good and who's evil, and who's attacking and who's panicking... and man, they're just trying to get the situation under control so it can get sorted out. They aren't God. They aren't even juries and courts. You can't just be innocent, you also gotta act safe. I understand the outrage when innocent people die - I do. I'm just trying to offer a practical way to make the world a safer place. I don't think outrage at police alone is necessarily practical. There are some practical issues when people who don't know what combat looks like wind up in a tense situation, and they're real issues, and being mad at police isn't a great solution alone. All I'm sayin.
That assumes everything goes well. When things start to not go well then the survival outcomes start changing dramatically based on who has more preparation and experience.
but NIMBYs still have not had their core claim dismissed: that new residential capacity is not being augmented with better transportation infrastructure or even schools. most NIMBYs gave up on neighborhood parks, they seem just impossible now. amusingly, even retail is being shunned (residential is build, sell and move on, which is why places like Silver Creek in San Jose only have one tiny pathetic market for 5k homes). most cities now have to force retail components on to developers

if you live in the US, chances are you attended a public school built by a developer in exchange for development rights, and the school was accessible by a road also built by the developer. the park was set aside as such and not filled with homes; instead the developer paid to put in a swingset and a tennis court

now developers refuse to augment transportation infrastructure or build schools (and it is illegal to decline a development due to predicted pressure on local school), and NIMBYs want to know why. all they get in response are downvotes on message boards or personal attacks

thousands new rental units are going up along Lawrence Expressway in Santa Clara...but no new road capacity and no new schools, and no parks or open space at all. what kind of a community would you like to live in? in a few years the same urban professionals who are the core of the YIMBYs will be freaking out about no schools or parks, because they are going to want them.
I've reviewed dozens of minimalist shoes and gotten some custom made.

Vivo is hit and miss in terms of quality. Some models are quite good. In my opinion, their classic desert boot Gobi is the best item in their lineup. Some variations are offered with insulation and/or water resistance.

IMHO, the very best minimal shoe money can buy is a Russell Moccasin [1]. And I say this as a European that in principle prefers high end English (Edward Green), Spanish (Carmina) and Austrian (Saint Crispin) shoes.

Some words of warning, though. It's a traditional company. Orders are very slow and there's little feedback. Plus their QC is sloppy. Some pairs are very well finished, others are not.

[1] http://www.russellmoccasin.com/minimalist-footwear-custom-ma...
Ok. What do you actually disagree with.
Text is pretty darn accessible to begin with. That the markup has gotten to the point where deciphering it with AI becomes a serious suggestion is fairly depressing.

Perhaps putting the HTML standard on a diet would be a more efficient approach?
I like to keep a clean desk, the cleaner the desk the better my mental state. However I do leave checks and dollars bills on the desk, it’s like some kind crazy motivation.
It seems that we are in the cyberpunk world of sovereign corporations when it comes to tax avoidance but not when it comes to free speech, so take from that what you will.
These kind of comparisons are so dishonest, at least you used Finland and Iceland instead of Germany and Switzerland, but the basic flaw still remains: Did you actually compare the gun regulations in place [0] instead of just comparing raw numbers of guns in circulation?

Because it's exactly those proper gun regulations which allow these countries to have many guns, without irresponsible owners constantly getting innocents killed and police being forced to treat everybody they encounter as a potentially armed suspect. That's also the reason why not every police officer in Iceland needs to carry a gun [1].

Case in point: Neither Finland nor Iceland has "open carry", they actually require you to have a reason for wanting to get a permit. In Iceland, applicants have to go through a government course to show they are actually responsible and able enough to own a firearm. In Finland, each individual gun is registered with its own permit.

Contrast that with the situation in the US: There is no federal gun regulation, each state makes its own laws, which leads to lots of loopholes (buying guns at gun shows) and ultimately leads to a flood of unregulated guns getting into the hands of people who lack the training and responsibility to own such a "tool".

Additionally many of these "high ownership, barely any shootings" countries put in place peer control by demanding that gun owners actually state a reason for wanting to own a gun. This entails either regular participation in organized shooting sports or in actual hunting clubs.

Nobody there gets a gun "just because" as getting a legal permit entails quite a bit of work, effort, and responsibility on the side of the applicant. Which is the exact opposite sentiment of that present in the US.

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

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/18...
I wish I could take credit for it, but it was a messed up quote from the first Supergirl/Flash crossover.

Cat = Calista Flockhart playing Cat Grant.
Cat: All four of you standing there doing nothing. You look like the attractive yet non-threatening, racially diverse cast of a CW show. Who are you?
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If only we could separate the power to reshape society for personal benefit from the ability to score "mine is bigger than yours" points. Zuck, Gates, the Kochs, and others probably have "buy a President" money, and could probably also develop personal nuclear arsenals. Let them play that video game and compete for new high scores.
Current Chromebook Plus/Pro already have a stylus.
Why do you think blame has to be singular? both the Swatter and the officer who fired can be criminally liable. You can't 'pay' for something like this because you can't buy someone's life back after they're dead. You can make the Swatter suffer as a disincentive to others, but that won't eliminate the behavior any more than harsh penalties for other crimes can be shown to substantially lower crime. Many countries have far less severe penal regimens than the US and also lower levels of crime.

Swatting is easier and more popular in the US because police in this country are much more willing to rush into things.
I can only hope that your level of apathy and contempt is not shared by more web designers.

Words like "apathy and contempt" do not seem to be "just trying to acknowledge that artificial limbs". Instead they are directly saying that people who hope for artificial limbs are apathetic and have contempt for the problem.

In-fact the complete opposite is true.
Speaking of AI, there's pretty interesting project which aims at creating 0AD bot that uses hierarchical planning, not just some random heuristics: https://github.com/agentx-cgn/Hannibal
The Nordics are doing way better precisely because they have the highest taxation rate and the largest states.

Statoil is a massive mixed enterprise and it's doing just fine, and unlike the rest of the countries where wealth from oil gets funneled overseas or goes to a few corporations, it goes into the largest sovereign fund in the planet to safeguard people's wealth.

The Nordic nations have the proportionally massive states and nobody's saying that they would be better off with fewer public services... because they wouldn't, and it's obvious to anyone who wants to make the debate global.
Shel Silverstein's literary estate is also known to take scholars and biographers to court under some misguided notion of protecting the brand.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/10/my_shel_sil...
Text isn't - and has never been - the problem. It's navigation, and richer information that just text.
Python and Node use far more memory than Java. Golang uses less but not by orders of magnitude, maybe 3x less. Sounds like your JVM GC settings were off, Golang has GC just like Java.

Most Netflix and Google services are built in Java...
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Regarding your first question: is this prescribed by a doctor, or simply you deciding to use it?

I can't answer the second question until you answer mine.
It's missing the antecedent.
So for this to make sense in Eng it should read:

Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its [own|healthcare|something] top to bottom.

Otherwise it looks like "Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its [top] [to [the] bottom]."
yea. The question kinda sucks but I sure could use front end software job in Chicago. I'd be perfect for a place that could let me grow... let me blossom... let me M A K E
The Shed at Dulwich
This reply might not be a popular (judging by the comments in this thread), but I worked in an abattoirs for 4 years and I want to point out that the article has a bit of an agenda:

> The only slaughterhouse job worse than eviscerating animals is cleaning up afterward. The third-shift workers, as the cleaners are often called, wade through blood and grease and chunks of bone and flesh, racing all night to hose down the plant with disinfectants and scalding water. The stench is unbearable. Many workers retch.

I should mention that I worked in New Zealand so YMMV, but this was never my experience. There was cleanup with high pressure hoses throughout the day, most of the time cold water to save power. No animals were eviscerated, they want as little wastage as possible; if it isn't consumable by humans it can be sold as animal food. The animals were knocked out (like a strong taser) before they were killed. Nobody was retching; it smelled bad (particularly pigs) but you get used to in the same way you adjust to any bad smell.

I agree with the comments here that we need to move quickly to lab-grown meat or a vegetarian diet. But I have to acknowledge that the abattoirs I worked at acted as responsibly and humanely as possible
Apparently you've never been to Iraq or Afghanistan. It's also interesting your empirical research methods have a terrible fear of analysing history..

Besides the above, how did that recent uprising in Catalonia work out...

Tweet, hold signs, vigils, hashtag whatever.. Without the blood of sacrifice and guns to make it painful, those people were really just pissing into the wind.
Three extra classics:

* https://books.google.es/books?id=YseqCAAAQBAJ

* http://www.concrete-semantics.org/

* https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/
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CWO2 retired

Being in the Marine Corps is one of the hardest, craziest, challenging, worst, miserable job I have ever had. But I wouldn’t change a thing.

Semper Fi
It lists the mass shootings between 2000 and 2014. Take a look at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/05/obama-gun-co... for more information.

The Finland events are obviously Jokela and Kauhajoki.
If you wanted to reduce the crowds on Everest, you’d ban guided climbs, not solo climbs. Solo climbing big mountains is rarified territory that attracts relatively few participants.
I look forward to sending many emails your way!

Spam is a daily problem for me. I can't use auto-filters, because I live in Taiwan and most emails written in Chinese are flagged as spam. That includes important messages from my bank, colleagues, and landlord. Eventually I gave up using auto-filters, and I now manually delete ~50 spam every day.

Being able to do something useful with that will make my spam-sorting a little less mind-numbing.
Stay tuned over the next five years. Most of the European welfare systems are teetering on the brink. The pension funds are busted, the healthcare systems are having huge budget problems, and yields are shooting up on the municipal and national bonds.

Eventually you run out of other people's money. Remember that Greece looked pretty good ten years ago.
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True. I'd consider those mid-rises though whereas the article is talking more generally about high rises.
Yes, it talked about the dangers. I took the parents comments as saying that you don't need to take drugs. The reality is, you shouldn't take advice like that from a comment. See a doctor. Work with them to find what works for you.

What I saw from the OP was dangerous advice.
Right, but look who is stuck with IBM technology now.
You are more likely to get a job fixing existing software than coding something new. Plenty of existing software is already written in an object oriented style. The majority of Java jobs out there would require a reasonable understanding of the paradigm.
employees should not be compensated with stock. Stock based compensation creates incentives for such employees to increase just the stock price without increasing the underlying value generation mechanism. Paying in stock also means you're forcing the employee to 'invest'. While it's true that paying with stock is a form of hand-cuffing to make sure the employee's incentive aligns with the company, i feel it's just too easy to 'game' this stock metric.
Here is how you can get a gun in the Iceland[1]:
" all automatic and semi-automatic rifles and most handguns are banned for public use in Iceland.

People who hold a gun license can buy semi-automatic shotguns, bolt-action rifles, single-shot rifles and double-barrel rifles to hunt with but all rifles over 8 millimeters in caliber are banned in Iceland, although with a special permit to hunt large animals abroad, such as elephants or African cape buffalos.

It is also possible to obtain a special collector’s license for handguns and sports associations practicing marksmanship can apply for a license to use small indoor 22 caliber handguns as used in the Olympics.

To obtain a gun license people must attend a course and pass a test at the police station. They also have to pass a medical examination where they are specifically asked about their mental health. The gun license is issued by the respective District Commissioner."

Legal firearms in Finland must be registered and licensed on a per-gun basis[2]

Do you the see the problem? In the US, the second amendment makes it extremely hard to make sure that bad actors (a small percentage of the population) don't get a gun. In the countries you mentioned, they have an effective of preventing this from happening.

[1]http://icelandreview.com/stuff/ask-ir/2011/02/10/what-kind-g...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Finland
I have long pondered this also. I don't have a great answer for you, sadly. I have come to decide that there are many factors involved:

1. People want to feel safe, and for a long time (and still in many small towns) police were/are viewed as protectors and people that will help you when you've been wronged by another. Because of this they are willing to give benefit of the doubt, even when it isn't justified. I've seen some of these people starting to come around actually, especially after that nurse at the hospital in Utah.

2. Many people aren't actually all that anti-government. I've come to believe that only about 10% of the population here actually is. A surprising number of people vote for and continue to vote for politicians that just continue to grow the size and power of government. They support government control over things as long as it doesn't affect them. They also like to stick their nose in other's business, and then using the government to force that person to live the way they think they should.

Those are some random thoughts, and could be completely wrong, so take with a heap of salt :-)
I agree completely, and I have had nothing but pleasant encounters with the police. Even when I was pulled over going 25 miles over the speed limit in Mississippi and I didn't have proof of insurance and had an out of state license.

He gave me two tickets - one for speeding and one for no insurance. I paid the speeding ticket by phone when I got home and faxed them my insurance card and they dropped the other one.

I can't walk around with a chip on my shoulder expecting the worse out of people when I live in a county where when I show up to
my sons school for the first time they immediately know who my stepson is even though we look nothing alike.

But I still tell my son if he's stopped put both hands on the top of the steering wheel, make no sudden movements and always tell the policeman what he is about to do - if he is reaching to grab his wallet, etc. if it's night, turn the inside lights on in the car before he stops and if he is wearing a hoodie because it's cold, take it off.
>It's missing the antecedent. So for this to make sense in Eng it should read:

It's not missing the antecedent, it's near the end of the previous sentence, just like the other person you replied to said.

Singapore, which we wrote about in October, tinkers with its health care system all the time. Taiwan, in contrast, revamped its top to bottom.

The its clearly refers to health care system from the previous sentence.
I think it looks very good by itself, since you don’t have other skyscrapers around. If they build a second one, they will have to get more creative.

Also I believe they have to conform to very strict earthquake standards.
Maybe not everyone wants to be packed in areas and have their cities turn into an ugly hate-filled clone of new York City?
you're neglecting the fact that the nordics have the lowest rate of inflation among all of the countries in europe, in other words, the state steals the least from its (poorest) people.
I started taking Adderall recently and so far, I've had the inverse experience socially. It's made it much easier for me to meaningfully engage with people. By gaining control over my focus, I can now overlook "the little things", and I'm no longer compelled to "chase dopamine".
How are you going to get people to use your platform? That's the problem with all of these "Facebook but better!" ideas, the killer feature of a social network is the people and Facebook has them.
I did.

Doesn't change what I said, nor should it. The OP was potentially offering dangerous advice. I see all too often people suggesting things about ADHD, medication and drugs that are dangerous. Speak with a medical professional.

If you are taking drugs you have not been prescribed, see a doctor.

As for your "want to be successful" argument, that's a fallacy. You are causing more harm by abusing drugs to get ahead than you realize.

Read the article? No, go see a doctor.
Just hiking to Everest Base Camp and nearby Kala Pattar (8.5 days, ~18,500 ft) was brutal for me -- and that was with porters carrying my heavier gear.

Hopefully this will save the lives of a few Sherpas (who, btw, are an ethnic group; it's not a job title). They're inevitably tasked with attempting to save rich Western idiots doing stupid stuff like climb Everest without support.

I'd just add my personal experience on the mountain: it's hard to describe how brutal Everest is. You're so cold and so tired and so out of it, 99% of us (those without natural-born mountaineering gifts) being up there unaided is just a recipe for disaster.

Next I'd like to see the Nepalese government double the Everest permit fee (currently $11,000) and pass $$ onto Sherpas.

Doubt it will happen, but this is at least a small victory.
Are you sure about that?

I'm a perfectly able person, yet I've had to roll a number of bookmarklets just to make most sites halfway readable. And Jesus help you if you have to rely on a screen reader for the crazy sites we have today.

I think this lady was spot-on in her article, but everyone wants so much control that every website ends up reinventing the wheel, badly.
The law in many US states and most European countries views the machine in this article as a moped or motorcycle. It is throttle-operated, instead of being proportional to pedal torque, and it has no speed limiter. If it was limited to 20MPH, it could be a "class 2" or "type 2" e-bike in many jurisdictions. If it was pedal-operated and limited to 28 MPH, it could be a "class 3" e-bike. But as built, it's a moped. You need a license, registration, insurance, and a helmet to operate it.
Being at war with the Klingons has a lot to do with it.

Did they even show what life was like on earth?