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Came here to post something on the order of this. One time I was nailed for > $250 and the correct ordering would have been only one overdraft for about 30cents and a penalty of $35. I was working at a min-wage job at the time and taking home less than $200/week. I lost over a week and a half of pay to the bank, couldn't afford to pay rent and had to leave my place. I got slammed less than two weeks later and that pretty much finished me. Situations like this happened to me a few times and happened quite often to a few friends I had. I walked into the bank and told them I wanted overdraft protection or they can close my account. They refused and I haven't had an account since then. I'm still on chex systems over that snafu, but why would I pay them for money I never had or used?

Banks are just awful things for people who are poor. There really isn't much point when you live payday to payday and you have zero dollars by the time payday comes.

You have to pay $3 for ATM fees and you may forget exactly what you have in the account, overdraft by $1, and then get hit by $150 overdraft fees. It would be helpful if the ATM showed the real amount of money left on the cards, but no, they showed one number then another number the next day.

I still don't know what banks can do for me, but I thought the idea was a safe haven to keep and save your money. All I've experienced are predators who take my money and then refuse me basic services.

As for the reason for reordering, since I didn't use it for anything high priority, they couldn't use that story on me. The bank blamed the merchants and the way that the system ordered the money. I cried foul, saying that I can't believe that a bank, who's singular expertise is managing money, can't figure out how to add and subtract a few numbers.

As an experiment, try this for three months: Open up a bank account, put $150 in it and use it for paying for the bus, your food, clothes, soap, shavers or whatever expense you may need. Of course, if you get hit by the overdraft, you can't pay it. The next month, put $150 in the account and live off that minus the overdraft fees. See if you can manage it and then come back and tell me poor people are making a stupid choice by keeping the money in their wallet.
Try the Vimium plugin for Chrome for a bit of fun.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
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It is generally safer to not tell your secrets to people who have reason to be vindictive. If it hadn't been his stash, it would have been something else.
The article mis-interpret the data. It actually measures the full UI latency, which includes touch input, event system, and UI graphics system. It is somewhat well know that Android event and graphics systems have higher latency. At least, I took it for granted for 5 years. The touchscreen is a hardware component, its latency mostly depends on hardware choice. Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita have much lower latency, because the software stack is highly optimized for games (which obviously wants low latency).
Do most good CrossFit gyms get concerned about poor standards and rapid expansion of the brand? Yes. Do most coaches mean well and concern themselves with preventing injury? Yes.

I do wonder about significant injuries. Why is Hackernews, which is a community that prides itself on scientific method and the like, upvoting sensational articles that don't have substance? Where are the studies that say injuries are significant? Relative to what? To not working out? To regular sports? To people at Gold's Gym?

CrossFit is far from perfect, and it's not for everyone, but the vast majority of the coaches, owners, etc mean well and want to help their clients achieve goals in ways that are different, and effective, compared to the status quo.
I just started and couldn't stop until I've see it all. Great stuff. Thanks.

Any other BoS talks you recommend?
I think the business world has realized many professions don't need the Ph.D. 'Give me a hungry kid who's willing to
learn' --Gekko That's one of the lines that really resonated. Actually, that movie, along with Platoon
really captured the duality of man--at least for me.
Off subject, but I'm off today.
Well, I think it depends on how you approach to it. It doesn't have to be a competition with anyone but yourself. I agree that tracking results is at the core of CF, and when there's something measurable in a group setting, there is ample space for the competition. But it doesn't have to be - the choice is for the person to make. If you can let your mind and not your ego drive you, then you don't have to harm yourself for no reason.

As for peer pressure - I think when a person above 22 or so of age is not able to withstand peer pressure to do something he thinks is harmful for him/her, there's something wrong happened on the way. Adults are supposed to be able to say no. Of course, you may make a choice to push yourself and take a risk, but that's what being responsible adult is all about - seeing where are the bounds of acceptable risk (and those can be different from person to person) are for you. Of course, again, good teacher is important - so you could always can consult what would be good for you on this exercise. Good coach can see how you do the exercise and tell if this weight or this form is good for you or you have to scale it down. That's where you have to, again, master your ego and be responsible too.

And of course it is a given that you shouldn't go to a group which has different views on how competitive it should be and pressures you into something you're not ready for. There's a lot of difference between supporting and cheering somebody when one chooses to push oneself and pressuring somebody into doing something one is not ready for. If you find yourself in a group that does the latter and not the former - just leave. There are a lot of better settings.
As a (perhaps permanent) refugee from academia, my $0.02.

You get out of academia what you put into it. If you go in with no plan of action or just wanting to be like your mentor/advisor, or solely dependent on his funding or the department's TAship still thinking this is like undergrad, but only you get paid for it, you will be in for a rude awakening.

The signs do take longer, maybe one or two years, but they are there. Your prospective advisor has no pull in the department, or can't twist elbows and get a RAship for you. Or he puts you on a project to reproduce someone else's experiment with unreplicable results. You start to notice his papers with foreign colleagues have serious mistakes that get through peer review. You wonder why he hasn't been properly funded in years.

I managed to get out alive, with a degree and a good publication on the way (with people at another institution), despite one adviser leaving the university nine months after I joined and everyone else being broke. How did I do this? I came in with a overarching research goal (learn how new techniques in quantum information could be used to solve chemical problems), one that encompassed more just my advisor's research area. I executed on the overall goal and when things got harder, I doubled down even more. I didn't let departmental barriers stop me from learning what I knew I needed (quantum field theory for condensed matter) to solve problems, even if those courses weren't in my department and even if the connection wasn't immediately apparent. I sought out conferences on my own, paid for them myself, networked my way into summer visiting positions and invited talks, because nobody was sitting there and spoon-feeding me little bite sized research topics. In fact, I lived in my office for three months when I couldn't afford rent anymore and no one gave a shit. I am reasonably sure people would probably have taken 3-4 months to wonder where I had gone to had I jumped off a bridge.

My central point here is that many people in grad school don't recognize that your adviser's interests and incentives are not necessarily your own (just like your boss's). Unlike your boss, your adviser will never be held responsible for bad management. If your _department's_ incentives and interests become unmoored from your own -- well, then in the words of Mr. Garrison it's a "big lowercase t for time to leave"

The sooner you recognize that and find a happy medium between your needs and theirs, the sooner you can be productive for all concerned. Every contingency measure I took in terms of classes, planning, networking in terms of the overall goal, all were leveraged and all were necessary to bring things to a reasonable close.

I know this was posted here a while back, but this really is the best description I've read (he finished, while I left with a Master's and may go back elsewhere but the hustle necessary was much the same.) http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm
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> But what makes it “even more tragic,” Mr. Herrera said, “is that on top of the inhumane treatment, the State of Nevada was trying to have another jurisdiction shoulder the financial responsibility for caring for these people.”

Sigh... that isn't the tragic part, not by a long shot. The tragic part is the human souls involved. That statement is so telling towards San Francisco's true motives in the lawsuit. I just hope the people that Nevada neglected get justice and change Nevada's course.

The gentleman seems to be very happy with the city of SF though, from his quote at the end of the article.
For others: IMAP long predates the iPhone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protoco...
Most of the time if you do not get a job is because no one wants to work with you.
In my opinion, PhD to PhD, is that you have to learn to be modest and do not sound like an overconfident asshole.
you are not an used car to sell. Academia is famous for making people who loves the smells of their own farts. Be humble, be modest, demonstrate that you are good, and you'll get a job.
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Journalist detained at US/Canadian Border
Systemic abuse at border crossings.
Ouch, I feel for these guys. A false start, unauthorized launch right when BB announces the bad news. I'm sure they have had a very long week!
I think it was more to discourage people from digging through and maybe leaving a mess (not necessarily the person in the story).

It's true that there have been cases where someone is successfully sued in this manner; the source of the danger (which could be food or a uncovered hole in the ground that someone falls into) is known as an 'attractive nuisance', ie something dangerous that is also irresistible. However, that's usually only successful in cases where children or animals are drawn towards the attractive nuisance because they lack better judgment. It would be hard for an adult to persuade a jury that he couldn't anticipate the risks of eating food from a garbage can.

IANAL, didn't do a review of AN cases, TINLA.
I agree. I think he has a high degree of self-awareness, and he is able to communicate in a way that many people can understand.
After learning vim and its keyboard shortcuts I became so used to navigating and manipulating text with them that I feel severely limited without them.

However, that's the only part of vim that I miss when not using it. I regularly use other editors that have vim keybindings. For example: Sublime Text is pleasant in Vintage mode and, and I regularly use IntelliJ IDEA with the IdeaVim plugin because of its advanced IDE features for ruby and JavaScript.

except that it can run in a terminal, which is nice on remote servers or in tmux
I worked at TJ's as a teenager and they gave away the expired bread to a homeless shelter.
I believe S. Brin and L. Page have locked that dissertation topic up.....but might take a while to submit.
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> but the idea that you _must_ sooner or later learn it is wrong.

I think a person who is going to do anything with UNIX/Linux owes it to him or herself to learn either Vim or Emacs, if only for the occasional editing that needs to be done over a remote terminal connection. There are other editors, of course, but these are powerful ones.
This is a really wordy article to express very simple ideas.
The author is trying hard to dismiss those of us who prefer the non-corn-syrup taste, but I don't think they've succeeded here.

At best they've shown some combination of:

* It's a minority of people who prefer the non-corn-syrup taste.

* Some people prefer glass bottles.

* Most people aren't that conscious of the difference.

As to this suggestion to Coca-Cola:

> Bottle American HFCS-sweetened Coke in Mexican Coke bottles, and just tell everyone it comes from Mexico.

They do sell corn syrup coke in single-serving glass bottles at some places. I have sometimes bought them mistakenly thinking it was the Mexican one. When this happens I taste the difference and don't like it.

Corn syrupy beverages just taste unpleasant to me. It took me a while to realize this, but once I did I found I can consciously discern the taste of corn syrup. I have the same objection with bottled sweetened tea, for example. Some brands have corn syrup and some brands have sugar. I tend to like the latter and dislike the former. This has happened to me even when I wasn't aware of the ingredients.
This happens frequently enough, in all disciplines, including the "hard" ones like math, physics, etc.
I think that is reasonable because that's the defined and expected interaction between HTTP clients and servers.
Our gym is not perfect, but we set standards and have a mission to serve clients in the most effective way possible.

What if HQ has good goals and it's not about "milking," but exposing people to a more effective fitness methodology?

Personally, I believe that quality is going to drive the success or failure of CrossFit, and that's why we (and many other successful gyms) have been very devoted to making sure quality is a driver in our service.
My brother is an MD in internal medicine, got rhabdo on his first P90X workout and was in hospital 4 days. Off to read the article now...
Here is my take after reading the slides from a student perspective. If we put more resource on marketing would it mean at some point we will oversell our service? In other words, we can only handle 100 users but now 120 users because of the good marketing? Then we have to hire more people (but that takes time too) to make the system more robust (from both deops and software engineering). That's a problem, isn't it?

Would it be okay to say a startup should have a good estimate of how many users they can handle at each cycle?
You missed the point. Yes you can receive many small payments, but to spend them again will cost me almost as much again in fees. Combining lots of small inputs is not efficient.
https://www.coursera.org/ there is enough material and knowledge on this site to stay busy for years to come.
Your first paragraph is a bit too simplistic. There are still political issues (institutional political issues) that impede otherwise good researchers (and some, many even, dropout--there's a reason that "ABD" exists as an abbreviation, and it isn't because PhDs needed a quick and handy shorthand to cast aspersions) from getting the degree itself.

Doing the research necessary to write a dissertation really isn't that tough for somebody who is bright enough to tackle the problem. Its navigating the waters of academic politics and knowing the right people to be able to get into a research program that fits one's skills that is the toughest part. If this seems like it's familiar, it should be: academia has as much political and networking based "merit" as any place else. It just manifests differently there.
That's not how HTTP servers work. They are not cars and when they send information back it is not as if you have set foot on property.
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Is that your experience? I travel a lot and find that most gyms do a good job.
I know that is what they (you?) claim, and I don't have any real evidence to the contrary. The contrary hypothesis, however, explains some otherwise puzzling behavior in Google's search results. So I would like to know if you can offer any evidence for your claim (statements by Google employees are not evidence).
Oh, I know. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_acceptance_factor
I'm speculating another issue at hand (not that this one caused issues for BBM itself) that a substantial number of users downloaded fake BBM apps that were made to look like from "BBM Inc" or "BlackBerry Inc" (BB itself is registered in Google Play store as "BlackBerry Limited").

These apps had full access permissions to Phone Logs, SD Card, and Network Communications. Users were forced to provide a rating for the apps before the app "allowed" them to login and then crashed.

A related article here: http://trak.in/tags/business/2013/09/21/fake-bbm-apps-fools-...
I believe it's a combination between of San Francisco's homeless support services (which aren't great, but are something), and Nevadan bigotry.
There was some irony in there...
This excites me very very much!
I've definitely seen distinctly TJ products at food banks. Meat, canned goods, etc.
Huh. I know almost all of those key bindings in vim, because I have to use vim when I'm editing over ssh. And that brings me to about 20% efficiency compared to what I can do with a modern text editor (I don't use Sublime, but another GUI IDE -- which one doesn't matter, except that it's not Eclipse). So I guess there are different levels of "proficiency" of editor use?

On a related note: I've never understood the fixation with being able to enter numbers into vim. I almost never know the exact number of characters or lines I need to move/delete/indent/whatever, but key repeat is fast enough to "replay" or redo an action that I'm likely done with it before I would have figured out the exact number.

I like the general concept of being able to "program" an editor with strings of commands. But in practice I'm much faster with the GUI approach. As a bonus, all of the commands I need to know to edit text in a Firefox window, or in any other window in a GUI-based OS, also follow the GDI standards, so I get a base level of efficiency in whatever program I need to enter text in.

VIM is great for editing over ssh. When I have no choice. But I feel seriously handicapped having to use ONLY the basics to move around, copy, paste, and edit, when I'm used to having much more powerful functionality at my fingertips.
> Real professionals should not need spammy social networks to prove themselves.

Yup. As far as I can tell/am concerned, the old fashioned 'meatspace'-networking method never stopped working.

I get recruiter spammed without them, so even for that they don't seem necessary.
Microsoft's response to Siri: Say hello to Cortana.
Did I miss something? BitWall sits on top of Coinbase. Coinbase right now eats transaction fees (or if it is Coinbase 2 Coinbase, then it's just an "in the network" transaction that possibly does not need to hit the bitcoin network and incur a transaction fee).

Satoshi Dice is an example of how not to do volume micropayments because you incurr transaction fees. If you want to do micropayments the right way, either you need to sit on top of someone else's payment network, or build your own.

The biggest fees right now are the hassles of opening and waiting for an exchange account, and the associated exchange fees associated with converting $ to bitcoin, and bitcoin to $. With something like BitWall, you can start accepting and spending bitcoin without the hassles of dealing with an exchange.
I think the low percentage is attractive, but I disagree with "you could easily add it". It will be strongly contingent on each publication's technical environment.
@mathias is actually one of the contributors http://www.w3fools.com/#contributors not a bot.
doesn't it sound like an FBI matter - basically kidnapping (as it was against their will - i.e. they didn't give informed consent) and transfer across state lines? One can only wonder there are all the overzealous federal prosecutors when their services are really needed.
"specialized non-intellectual profession (plumbing) that does not value general problem solving"

Haven't worked with any plumber I take it? A plumber does quite a bit of general problem solving.
I feel there are several rather nuanced views on this. You are likely looking at from the affiliate owner perspective. Others might be looking at from an outsiders perspective. I'm looking at as from a programming standpoint. And I'm sure there are other viewpoints as well, many overlapping to some degree.

All that said, you don't need data to show that kipping pullups are a bad idea. We could get data on the number of tears or injuries, but from a programming perspective, they do not belong anywhere near an athlete. Anywhere (I really hope you don't kip in your affiliate. Please tell me you don't). Particularly a novice. And if I was a games athlete, I'd never want to see them. One wrong kip and there goes your year. Which, of course, could be said for most any lift, but the kip is particularly egregious in this regard.

And when I walk into a Crossfit gym in Phoenix and they have their intro class kipping on their first day, that negatively effects you. Like it or not, you and all other crossfit gyms are linked. Just as bad service in one Subway likely taints my view of Subway generally. Just the way it works.

And you have to remember, you as an affiliate have your name associated with HQ. And HQ is just plain bad. A couple of days ago they promoted this on their FB page. https://www.facebook.com/crossfit/posts/10151589356812676

Now, I don't care what you think about anything else, HQ should not be promoting this type of thing. There was no caveat, no disclaimer. Just some hashtags of #sketchy #nailedit (from the original poster). I know Glassman has a staunch libertarian view on the world, but fucking hell, HQ is supposed to be the role model. And this effects you, negatively, frankly, b/c you are an affiliate. Just as when some fraternity out there gets caught up in a huge rape scandal, all fraternities get slammed.

And then there is the sexist posts from HQ.

And the bad programming.

And Castro.

And Glassman.

And the Robb Wolf dust up.

And the Rippetoe dust up.

IMO, as an affiliate, you should be DEMANDING higher standards. The affiliates should be getting together and creating these standards, forcing them on HQ and making damn sure they are adhered to. HQ is obviously incapable of leading. Someone has to...might as well be you.
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Spot-on. I never learned through the explanations in K&R; I just did the code examples and analyzed deeply stuff I didn't understand.

Really, most of programming is really easy. The boring stuff is reading library documentation and using libraries to do stuff.
Ah makes sense. I can see why some homeless given a choice would prefer SF. But I guess from Nevada's point of view I am not sure if they really do want to help or just want to get rid of them. Maybe if they sent them to Chicago in the middle of the winter, whoever made that decision could in theory be criminally prosecuted somehow.