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Couldn't the same be said of people who play sports or jazz or any other thing that involves making fast decisions?

It's like there's this desperate need of justifying playing video games with every new study that says 'look! I am not actually wasting my time!'

Personally I think no silly justification is needed as there's nothing wrong with enjoying entertainment.
Yea but you don't tell people you're late because they're less important than yourself.
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Soon enough we'll find out if most people _would_ 'steal' a car.
Having lived in one for 2.5 years (the Avalon in Sunnyvale), I strongly agree.
then you won't mind if the government makes you get tested periodically. its for the safety of others, so your rights are irrelevant
In NYC, no one ever seems to be "on time."
Yes, but playing sports or jazz isn't as demonized as playing video games is.
15 minutes in a coffee shop is one thing. 45 minutes in an office is another.
Man, these guys talk about $20 mil as if it were chump change. Probably because they have all that blog-money now.

If someone ever wants to buy my company for $20 mil, and I walk away with even half that, I will be a very, very happy man.
The "30 day trial" concept has been abused by scammy internet marketers to a point where I don't think people trust it as much, especially for a new or relatively unknown product.

Does your product work by any chance as a freemium model? I've had better luck with this than 30 day trials.

It combines the best of both worlds: a free product that requires no credit card to demonstrate the usefulness, but a premium version which requires credit card right away.
I ran into this problem, and I found that finding people to do stuff with is a good place to start.

I treated it like an RPG and leveled up my social skills. For instance, you can find people on http://www.meetup.com/
You can do community events to meet new people and interact with them. I also recommend reading (or in my case listen to) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...

You can also date people by a number of ways, and I recommend craigslist (where I met my fiance). If you go this route, then you will need the stamina to go through 1000s of ads and tens of disappointments, but there are many options. (I didn't want to pay any money, and I figured my significant other wouldn't want to spend money either.)

The key to it is: Don't give up.
If you plan ahead and start on time then you never have to be in a hurry.
Can't you treat SQLite as a key-value store? Create a table with two columns: key and value. Blobs can be pretty big.

Seems to me that a relational DB can easily impersonate a hash, but not vice versa.
Here's a very detailed article on the subject.
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol7-1/bradshaw.asp

Come to think of it, I'll go ahead and submit it on its own.
When I am in the zone playing COD for instance, I can run into a room, see three people and determine an optimum shooting strategy in under a second. For instance, if one guy is turned I can shoot him last and instead shoot the closest then the second determine the best place to duck to reload if needed. All the while, I process sound from everywhere else, keep a running map in my head (I'm very good with spatial orientation) and can check off where explosions have taken place or possible spawn points coming up.

I can also tell the difference between a player with an 80ms ping and a 30ms ping.

This all comes with a caveat. I have been playing for ~8 years off and on so I have experience and confidence in my abilities. Also, to achieve such a state to determine split second actions, my heart rate is well above a sedentary resting state. Once I figured this out, I stopped playing as much as I can only assume that the adrenaline rushes from gaming while sitting can only be bad for my health.

Two cents..
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Similarly, taking great offense at someone who may very well just be "running late" is rude and selfish, as it assumes your little thing is more important than anything which may come up in their lives.

Context. Always context. If your event does not require strict adherence to starting times, don't require strict adherence to starting times. If it does, keep your view of your importance in scope with theirs, and for God's sake learn to adapt when things don't go flawlessly so glitches don't stop everything. Life is rarely flawless.
> They are both restricted on the basis of being functionally equivalent to the input code.

But that goes for any compiled language, unless the compiler contains a bug.
+1

Yeah, where else can you develop for an API whose main features go from brand-new to unsupported in less than 12 months? (Not just deprecated, but completely unsupported...) Developing for Facebook essentially soured me to any social API. & Twitter API horror stories have been all too common since way back when the fail whale was still a daily occurrence.

Sorry Facebook, I don't have time to walk your treadmill for a pot of social fool's gold; I have no plans to include Facebook in my apps anymore. And Twitter? There's lots of people already trying to figure out how to monetize the service itself & thus far haven't really come up with anything that seems like it will really work... Not really the kind of foundation I want to build on.
That's not a valid reason. If you can't show up on time then don't agree to the appointment in the first place.
Actually, maybe I'm really busy, and doing the best I can.

No.

No matter how busy you are, if you're good at planning you can routinely be on time. If you're bad at planning, then you'll have problems no matter how little you have to do. And if you make a point of surrounding yourself with people who are able to manage to be on time, then you'll all get more done.

I value your time, but I value mine more.

As my brother drilled into me a long time ago, "Yes, but..." is just a dishonest way to say "No". Your actions clearly say that you DON'T value other people's time. There is no need to bother pretending otherwise.

And obviously you're not as in demand as other people are.

No. It is called "planning". And not being rude and selfish. You might learn this "planning" thing. It could let you get more done without putting as much effort out.

Sorry you can't appreciate that.

Apparently you are aware that it is inconvenient when other people prove to have desires that are at odds with your selfishness. But you clearly don't let that bother you too much.

My attitude is that people like you are productivity obstacles to route around and avoid.

(For the record I am someone whose natural tendency is to be chronically late. But not when someone else is depending on me.)
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If only ... if you're hoping to get clients with sluggish IT depts, be prepared for them to still expect IE6 support ... even after casually mentioning the huge security issues.

back to ensuring pixel level stylesheet compatibility for IE6-9.
Yup. Strong INTJ here. If I recall our earlier polls correctly, there are a lot of NTs on HN.
It's not too much of a stretch to look at just 'C' as a very sophisticated macro assembler.

And probably you should strip out the 'macro' bit there because in reality that's the pre-processor doing it's work and even though there isn't a C compiler without a pre-processor technically speaking it is not part of the compiler since all it does is output more C.
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Well, I made a number of good friends at the local knitting circle. I made a friend while geohashing. I made some friends by traveling around and meeting up people I knew from online communities. Your best bet is to do stuff you already like, see if there's a group in your city interested in that, and meet up with them. The friend-finding is a side effect. Also, try having conversations with random people, with no expectations.
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I got 30. People have remarked that I seem annoyed when I talk to people, as if their conversation is bothering me, even though it isn't.

Anyone else annoyed by the fact that they spent some mental effort to choose between "slightly" and "definitely", only have them weighted the same?
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No, I meant the culture of pressure on doing a lot of things the quickest way possible in the shortest ammount of time. Compare how people walk during working days on the streets of western big cities to what you see f.ex. in Gulf countries. Read a book on how business is made there. It's not a thing of being in a hurry because of bad time management, it's cultural impact on business.
This is not awsome, he's whoring himself out for Facebook and Twitter followers — and while doing it he's undermining design professionalism.
Wow, these slides are impressive. I knew dropbox was big but not this big.
I use scripts I wrote myself in combination with Linux CLI tools (dd, iostat). They give me 6 pieces of information: sustained sequential read and write throughput (at different LBA offsets), read and write latency (4kB I/O with queue depth of 1), and random read and write IOPS (4kB I/O with queue depth of at least 32, and, if necessary, using random data to characterize the effectiveness of any dedup/compression feature).

That's it. Once I have these 6 synthetic results, that gives me more and better information than 9 out of 10 benchmarking articles on the Net.

I usually don't need more complex synthetic benchmark results (eg. x% read / y% write). After that I simply test the real workload.
How important is the distinction between NaN versus NA? I agree this is a subtle issue.
It would be good if it had the gmail login, instead of putting in my password. I don't feel comfortable with that, but the interface looks great.
My personal zone generally starts with a round or two of F-Zero or Unreal Tournament at 130-150%. Once I get accustomed to those speeds, I've been kicked for aimbotting because I tend to enjoy weapons like the lightning gun, and am reasonably accurate on even bad days. It's like playing Halo instead of UT - people just float around, comparatively. Keeping track of a handful of people in a firefight becomes easy.

I wish I could switch it on and off as needed, but it definitely drains you more quickly, and gets harder to achieve after the first round or two. But it's exhilarating.
Even today, when you look at the core routines of for instance X windows C is still used in exactly that way, you don't have to but you definitely can and even though C compilers have advances tremendously the fact that there is a direct 1:1 correspondence between input and output is exactly why C is used in those situations.

C supports multiple stacks if you tweak setjmp and longjmp just right, and using co-operative multi-threading is possible without any OS support. Not very useful if you really have to do two things at the same time but a lot nicer than interleaving a bunch of code.

And an optimizing compiler is still a transformation of the input according to a given ruleset, you could not get the same level of optimization by just processing the output of the code generation stage of the compiler because you would lose a bunch of higher level information that is invaluable when optimizing the code but you could see it as just another stage in 'transforming' from one language to another without losing any functional bits along the way.
One way is to rank high on Google for the topic, as phrased by a semi informed journalism major. I am so not joking.
The strangest feature of chronic lateness is the view that meeting times can be gamed. Some avoid negative costs for early arrival, like waiting for tables. Others like the attention they get when they finally arrive. Yet others like that nothing happens until they appear.

Disentangling from the chronically late is worth the time. Some situations enforce punctuality. You can also pick a set-time activity for the meeting, like the start of a movie. You can also apply penalties: I once had a professor who allowed students to be as late as they want, but he would only collect homework until the start of class. Other situations, like travel, open the possibility of finding alternate arrangements. I have also resorted to giving earlier meeting times than the actual meeting time, but this has extra consequences.
The problem is a huge number of R packages use compiled code that won't be portable to this new VM.
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Such a claim would need to be accompanied by proof ;)
Despite the sarcasm I think this is a great response on a serious level. Most people are not late by intention just as this site wasn't intended to crash.
> You're spoiled then.

Spoiled? I remember search being horrendous back in those days. It was almost exact word matching and it took hours to find relevant results. Google was a breath of fresh air back then (especially since they didn't run all those X10 ads and popups ala Yahoo!).

I've switched to Bing a few months ago for tin-foil-haty reasons, and also being disappointed in the way Google interpreted some of my queries (for some reason the plus sign doesn't mean anything anymore).

I occasionally use Google when I give up on finding something on Bing, but 99% of the time 4-5 results of the first page are pages I already found on Bing, with the rest being irrelevant results.

I too wasn't aware of the search tools that Matt Cutts mentioned above, I'll give it a try the next time I'm having a hard time finding something with a date restriction.
No, it doesn't.

If you're asking about the bandwidth incurred by burnbit.com, no. They're just acting as a public bittorrent tracker, which does nothing other than tell its clients to connect to other people. Bandwidth consumption is trivial for a tracker.
How so? He says he's learning and this is a great way for him to learn.
The line that stood out to me most:

The amount of difference between a good programmer and a great programmer is going to get wider, in terms of the amount of value that you can create.
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Actually, Cuba has the highest life expectancy in its region, and is basically equivalent to that of the US.

In terms of social health (person to person), one can say that Cubans enjoy a better situation.

"Political health" is a debatable rathole, on the other hand.

The US has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, and the largest prison population. (One in 31 adults in the US are under the supervision of the criminal justice system).
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"Healthier" is one of the only words that I would never use to describe an American Cuba — their Soviet subsidy led to them educating a ridiculous percentage of their population as doctors, so many that most work in other fields. Even now they still have twice as many working doctors per capita as the US, and are third in the world behind San Marino and Monaco: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=doctors+per+capita+all+... — I can't find good historical data, but I'm pretty sure it was even higher back in the 70s.

Their mortality rates are the same as the US, and the food they eat is a lot healthier out of necessity due to low industrialization.
Mine is today! I guess I am your fence post.
Plurals don't require apostrophes. It's just "Fridays".
Whoring ones-self is working for dirt cheap which undermines the industry, working for free is philanthropic. Theres a rule that works well for most designers/developers, charge full price or work for free, never discount.
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I don't know why, but at some point I just stopped sweating this sort of thing. When others are late to a meeting, it doesn't really bother me. When someone cuts me off in traffic, whateva. These are all small things that just aren't worth the effort of getting upset.

I told her I have been coming to you for 15 years but don’t take me for granted.

...

Me? Am I ever late? Sure, sometimes. That’s inevitable even with the best intentions. But I never plan to be late. I never ‘let time slide’ because my stuff is more important than yours.

I am not talking about the odd occasion of lateness. I am talking about people who are routinely late. In fact, never on time.

You seem to give yourself much more slack than you allow others. You're not talking about people who are occasionally late, and yet you walked out on your dentist who was late once in 15 years, from the sound of it.
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Not really, I am also bringing on Guest Designers to do weeks as well. Say you are an up and coming designer, what better way to get your name out than doing something that costs the end user nothing, and if they like it, its free publicity! This isn't about me...I am not a professional designer, I just had an idea, and want to help people out! Sorry you feel this way!
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This would suck if one is also Dutch. We have kj appear rather frequently in words.
Lulz at "My dentist kept me waiting 50 minutes not long ago."

This is a pretty accurate measure of the value of a recruiter's time vs. a dentist's. Medicos maintain a queue to ensure almost full utilization for their valuable services.
Make something people want.

vs

Make people want something.
Read some books by Michael Lewis and then reconsider your plans.

You need to understand the psychology of markets, booms and busts and how the professionals fleece the wannabes. Understanding economics and reading Warren Buffet's remarks will lead you to invest in safe stocks, et al. That is not the way to getting rich anytime soon.
Hmm.. being Indian, I actually thought that he was praising us, rather than trying to offend.
No, I'm complaining about phone developers, which is why I said it's entirely their fault.
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Weird you are right! I didn't notice it because it has been working for me, but just checked it in IE...whoops...I think there needs to be a clear in there somewhere. Ill go look.
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But burnbit.com has to download the file and computes the hash signature to build the torrent file, if the URL hasn't been submitted by somebody else before. Did I miss anything here?
Do you think downtown MV (Castro St, etc) is any better? I actually just moved to the area myself, but haven't found my own apartment yet, so this is quite pertinent for me.
I wonder if it would help to give some feedback to the ones that you actually took into account?

I think I've tried more than a couple of times to give some feedback about the search results. Seeing that nothing happened, and getting nothing but an automated response, I've stopped doing that.

Reporting flashing ads to the ad team worked better, they were removed later the same day.
This is a huge pet-peeve of mine -- not just showing up late, but any action that communicates that you think your time is more valuable than mine. I view my time as my most valuable asset so I'm really sensitive to people disrespecting it.
Also, I take it you feel the same about Mountain View? Anything closer than San Mateo that you feel has character? I'm working in MV, and I'm not a huge fan of long commutes.
AirBnB was quite established before they got into YC.
I am not seeing where I used it, can you point it out?
Except that Heroku is very much targeting their brand for the do-it-yourself amateur projects (i.e. the handholding crowd) with their "starts-at-free" pricing, cutesy naming for all their a la carte features, and full-service VPS setup. At best, it's inconsistent and/or careless. At worst, this was their plan all along.
Matt, it's great that you think enough of us here to give direct feedback. I wish I could give you some example searches too, but most of what has bugged me lately relates to stuff which might brush up against NDA terms, so I don't feel comfy giving specifics.

Overall I still love Google, I must use the search service 50 times a day so complaints about shortcomings are a bit like grumbling about the paintwork on my free new car :-) So I'll try and identify two recurring (and relatively new-feeling) headaches:

1. quotes. When I put it "in quotes" I don't want ti speell-checked, or cleaned, or made case-insensitive, or whatever else. I would rather get not results and experiment with other strings, than think I've got results that turn out not to be exactly what I searched for. It seems to me like punctuation often gets stripped even if it's inside quotes. For some kinds of searches involving bits of source code or so, this can be a drag.

2. Content farming. I know you are constantly struggling against people gaming the system and so forth. I don't blame Google when I get 50 results of generic junk referring to obscure search terms...the "find [niche product] resellers, hints, tips!" types that are totally generic. but what does piss me off is that a few months ago Google offered a button that would let zap such results, and I could label clutter as clutter. Now on a deep search, I often spend several minutes trying to think what terms are common enough to content farms that -excluding them will prune the results sufficiently that the remaining search results are worth checking one by one.

You remember that Bing ad where someone says something random and their geeky partner starts hypnotically chanting associated but unhelpful phrases, implying an overbroad result set? Sorry, but they had a point.
You might enjoy Cory Doctrow's Print Crime[1] which centers on this exact topic.

[1]: http://craphound.com/?p=573
Seems logical. After hours and hours of poker I find it easier to figure out my odds in all sorts of situations. The same concept could be applied to video games.
Yes, I found that working with people from Italy, Spain, and Greece. They also use a similar flexibility for delivery dates of programming work, schedules etc...

It is considered rude in Germany, Sweden and the UK. Taking a book when going to meet someone, is also considered a little rude, but understandable.
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Maybe they have free incoming bandwidth.
If someone is late, that is no problem, stuff happens.

When someone is always late, that is rude and inconsiderate.
No comment on Indians in business situations. But my non-Indian mother learned very quickly when she and my Indian father threw a dinner party for some of his relatives. The start time was 6p, and nobody rolled in until 8p.

She'll now tell my dad's relatives to show up at 4p because they operate on "Indian Standard Time".

And funnily enough, my father is always 5 minutes early for everything...
In a sampling of 1000 families, the expected values of each kind of family is as follows:

2xB : 250
1xB, 1xG: 500
2xG : 250

Sampling this population ignoring any family that has no boys leads to the probabilities

2xB : 1/3
1xB, 1xG: 2/3rds

You're still looking at the same probabilities; the models agree.

I don't fully understand your two random variables formulation. I think the confusion you're getting at is that there is an assumption that the chance of any given birth being male is theta = 0.5. The question however is not

"I have two children, at least one is a boy, what is the probability that my next child is a boy?"

It instead has to do with binomial probabilities on the space of a few repeated trials under parameter theta. The distribution is no longer flat.

Here's a more stark example of a similar form.

"I have 300 children, and at least 1 is a boy. What are the odds that I have no girls?"