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>> In recent years it seems that a meeting set to start at 9 am

There's your problem right there. 9am is a terribly antisocial time to organise a meeting. Have it later on.

Not all of us are morning people.
- Sometimes it's not their fault (accidents on the way, etc), still, yeah, for let's say, 80%, it's because they simply don't care

- Meetings are also a major waste of time and resources, so sorry, depending on the subject of the meeting it goes from mild annoyance to less productive than sending everybody home early
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Yeah, it's straight up calorie counting, which works for some people and doesn't work for others. But I think the other half of it is to use a rolling average for weight tracking, and it's surprising how few weight loss apps do that.
You miss my point. We can all agree that being late is bad. But why villianize late people as selfish, when in reality, most are just absent minded.
We have a rule that if you are >5 minutes late to a meeting, you have to bring cake next time. Its pretty effective.
I began watching Andrew Ng's course just this morning. I had also watched some part of the courses by Pedro Domingo at the Washington University a few months ago.

Having never been employed but having coded for 8, I wish I could get myself educated in this field.
Another good abuse example is setting weird cache related headers. For example caching the same 5xx page with response code 200 whenever on the browser or proxy engines like varnish
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I think the universal truth is that people have their own lives going on, and you need a way to sync up in order to accomplish goals with other people. That's why we set times for meetings.

If you are late for a bus, it leaves. The plane will take off. The walking tour will have walked away.

But I'm supposed to make my wife handle dinner with the kids because 4:00pm really meant 4:25pm and now we'll all be stuck in traffic heading home?

Normally I just listen to audible or finish some work when the other party is late. But when it starts to impact family life I get mad.
The lateness as it pertains to business is just bad management all over. Lateness in personal life is something that an individual has to decide if they will tolerate or not* but lateness in business is something that can and should be controlled.

* Example: I'm having dinner tonight with a friend of mine. I expect there's a 90% chance he's going to be late. This is typical behavior for him, and I understand it, and that's why I very rarely do anything with him that is time sensitive- but he's otherwise a good guy, and so I work around it.
I don't see a problem here, you can just get a gmail account and read mail however you like still, configuring mail client of choice.

UPDATE: wow, didn't know you can't even read messages without being google-user. Yeah, that's boorish a bit.

UPDATE2: turned out that's not true. You can read google group perfectly fine without signing in: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tmux-users
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Of course I've met people like these. They're also douchebags in other ways. And they're a minority of the chronically late.
Except you don't have a fault each check: You only have a fault if a fork has occurred.

Using getpid/gettid (or the keyring trick) you are doing a syscall for every check.
This post may offend some readers. But only because it’s going to cut close to the bone for many.

Well, I don't think I'm going to disagree with the thesis, but it's good to know I shouldn't even bother reading.

At least they're making their pre-emptive "I've got you all figured out if you think X" nonsense explicit. It's better than trying to engage with someone who has decided to lie to the audience (and/or themselves) that theirs don't exist.
It does not elaborate on the "problem of crowds", at all. On the contrary, it offers a rather positive view to the whole spontaneous reaction thing. Which is great, don't get me wrong. However, in this case, I believe the solution could have been much much simpler to begin with. But that's just me :)
Ok then. Fire them. Hopefully they'll find a place that has flexi-time. Some people can try all they want. They aren't going to come in 50 minutes early everyday(Required to guarantee for some commutes), just to make sure they're not going be late.

If you don't want to fire them, then you have decided that actually bring in more value, than the value lost by being late.

I'm terrible at this, I specifically plan my life around it(Make sure I have flexi-time, etc).
It's the ITAR:

https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html
Yes, it's still an issue. I prefer tab separated too, but it still doesn't help you.
I've configured emmet to create my own html boilerplate or to spit out large chunks of html that get used over and over in a simple web project where I don't use templating. In a json config file, you assign your desired html output to a key character. In an html file you enter that key character then hit `tab` and the html is rendered. Very handy.
I think it's due to the fact that the human brain does not work linearly, like a lexer. It recognises patterns of letters. And once you've seen the word 'pranker', it's hard to un-see. I think it's a particular problem with web addresses because you know there will be several words joined together without spaces, so you're already starting by trying to identify clumps rather than reading words. Plus web addresses often contain made-up words.
I am enjoying the comments of people making counter-arguments to this post as they're probably the ones this article is directed towards.

Generic Example: "I'm not late to the morning meeting, I just not a morning person." No, sorry, you're still late.
When shops open here at 9, they often open at 9:30 or 10. When you go to pay at the cash register, often there is no-one there and you have to wait 10-20 minutes. People stop in the middle of the road blocking everyone to chat for 15 minutes, no-one honks, usually people get out and join the convo.

Welcome to Spain. And no, I will not be in time and that's not rude; you are just obsessed with something extremely unimportant and overrated. And you'll get heart attacks and strokes from that kind of obsession in the end although I hoped you won't.

I'm from the Netherlands and actually my father (a very successful CEO) never has been on time once; it gave him an edge and the former CEO liked it, even when he was just a coder.
Yea, except for meetings where the organizer puts it at 9am and then is late themselves.

If you schedule me for a meeting in a time range where I can't be available, I'll tell you. That's true for timezone issues / conflicts / bad-time-of-day.
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TweetDeck seems to be exactly what I was looking for!

And that other site (twitter through their eyes) looks awesome. Thanks!
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I think they took this darker blue color to give it a modern UI look which bring back this Microsoft feeling.
That leaves 10-11 and 2-4 as the only acceptable meeting times, accounting for differing lunch times and the people who can leave at 4 because they showed up to work at 7:30 or 8.
Couple of points:

1. I'm not certain you understand how representative government works. You vote for a person, they do what they believe is in your best interest - and whatever they do must be in your best interest, because you voted for them. Do you want your representatives to send you notice of what they do every day?

Why can't the document be negotiated in secret, if EVERY piece of it is made public before it is signed into law by your government. Other than your 'need' for information, what is the purpose of requiring every step be made public?

2. You don't seem to understand how negotiations work.

It's (relatively) easy to negotiate on behalf of 300 million people. It's impossible to negotiate when a majority of the 300 million "want to know what's going on". What you believe is in your best interest isn't what Jim in Texas believes is in his best interest. What I believe is best for all of us isn't want you believe is best for all of us. A middle ground, based on experience and research is the starting point for any economic negotiations. Experts in the field are used (although we could debate how to define expert, and how to ensure they don't have any conflicts of interest).

You know what kills any negotiation? If one party is seen to be unable to make decisions for the group they represent. What both sides want is to know the other person at the table is able to say yes and no, with relatively strong assurance the decisions will be held in the future, or changed in ways that will still be acceptable.

You know what happens if every step of a negotiation this large is public at every point? Fox News, CNBC, and the like let their screaming head commentators loose on it, thereby undermining the appearance of negotiator authority - REGARDLESS of the actual content of the document. There are people, public, famous people, who make a living by complaining just for the sake of it - and they have a lot of fans.

With this many people involved, there will be loud voices of dissent on every.single.point.

Anyway, what is the difference between you knowing that on Tuesday we agreed to weaken X, in exchange for Y instead of having public access to the document once the initial negotiation process is finished but before it is ratified by our government? You still get your information, you still get to see what's going on, and you still get input. I don't see the issue with that.

And if you are seeking education on the matter, Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago Business School have one metric ton of research and publications out on negotiation theory.
Totally agree. Which is why I don't really understand the article trying to make this out as some epidemic. People are late because whatever they were doing took longer, and it would cost them more (not in money, in mindshare) to have stopped what they were doing earlier to be on time. It's a completely rational action. However, this happening in a work environment is like going to work with no shirt on because it's hot outside.
But hey, at least it's just text instead of an image. This is good for accessibility.
I guess it varies by culture. What would be considered late enough to be rude in Spain?
Yeah, it's only calorie counting, but it will work anyway.

It's a very basic approach but if you stick to the math... you will lose weight.
its the complexity of the queries, and the contextual awareness that makes it impressive. But yes, my immediate thought was either Android s-to-t or google speech api plugged into wolfram alpha might create a (much simpler, but also much easier) version of this.
Exactly!

> Why do people, invited for a dinner party at 7.30, think > its cool to arrive at 8.30? It’s rude. It’s inconsiderate.

If I invite you to a dinner party in Brazil at 7.30, I'm expecting you around 9. If you show up at the actual time, which has happened to me when I moved to Germany – and didn't realized the expectations were different – the food won't be ready. As a matter of fact, I won't even have started cooking! :-)

I now tell my German friends X and my Brazilian friends (X - 2) hours.
In my company, my direct reports are spread out over several buildings, so we expect them to be in on time. We do very little checking in on them, and we rarely have issues. These are mostly students directly out of college, so it's not an age thing, but I think the culture is probably significantly different from the article's.
This is absolutely correct. The algorithm is meant to quickly drop posts from the top. Such that even if a post has a record vote score, it still will only remain at the top for a few days.

The amix link above didn't load for me today, but I like this scienceblogs post on the algorithm.[1]

edit

It should also be noted that since reddit is open source, you can always dig right in! [2]

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2013/01/16/the-mathemat...

[2] https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s...
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I'm not a morning person either, but you can always ask the organizer to change the time. If you've agreed to meet at 9, stay true to your word.
More than a week late. That's a bit rude.

So when I'm meeting a plumber at 15:00 on wednesday, he often comes a week later. You just drink your coffee, wait till 16:00 and go away and turn up a week later.
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None of them seems to be supported by Internet Explorer ?
As I understand it, they only block russian IPs from accessing it. That seems ok to me. Every country has it's own laws. There is now completely free speach anywhere around the world.
10-12 and 2-4 has been the rule at several places I've worked. These have been considered core hours, and the best time to set up a meeting. Meetings at other times would still take place, but you would check everyone was OK with it first.
Correct, but I do find github issues - even as an email list much nicer.
I agree, this also struck me as a very judgmental article. I understand that some people are late because they lack respect. But that doesn't mean EVERY person that's late, does so for the same reason. One of my old professors was usually a bit late, but he had a heart of gold and really had no intention of being rude, he was just extremely disorganized in every possible way. But at the end of the day, he would often stays hours after class helping people without getting paid (on a Friday). I learned so much from him because he genuinely cared. Society is so quick to point at people and make judgements. Like normloman said, ... this article needs to chill out a bit.
I'm getting:

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There is no app configured at that hostname.

Perhaps the app owner has renamed it, or you mistyped the URL.
But that's exactly my point. In some situations, trying to help when you don't know what you're doing can make a situation worse. There are many examples where the obvious thing to do is not the right thing to do, from magnesium fires to drinking lots of water during marathons.

I don't mean to advocate "I can't help" as an attitude, rather I think it's important to consider whether what you're doing is, in fact, helping. The classic examples of the bystander effect involve unambiguously helpful actions, like calling the police when you hear screaming. This is a little bit different. An ambulance had already been called, the situation was relatively stable, and I've always heard that unless you know what you're doing it's best to wait for the professionals.

Regardless, my point isn't that the people there did the wrong thing. I don't have the medical experience to know (nor, I suspect, do you). Even if I did, they were there, I wasn't, they had a short time to make the decision, and perhaps there are other facts not available to us. My issue is that the retelling of the story as "kind-hearted people triumph over the bystander effect" is incomplete without knowing the actual consequences. With the benefit of hindsight, perhaps it'll be "mob of impatient amateurs exacerbates trapped man's injuries in rescue attempt".

I know it feels good as written, and it is heartwarming that so many people wanted to help, but I think it's irresponsible to encourage behaviour in that kind of situation that might be medically harmful.
The way to be more productive when the reality of actual unforeseen circumstances hits is for the 10 people to bring their work with them and/or not get sucked into unnecessary meetings or any meeting lacking an attendee relevant agenda. (No agenda, no meeting). Wasting time is a choice on any side of the table. Blame games are bikeshedding, signalling a likely lack of valuable industriousness. ("If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know.")
Being absent-minded just shows that someone doesn't care enough to make an effort. Someone who cares about something will not be absent-minded about it if they are willing to try.
Absent mindedness is a character flaw. It's fair game to blame or villianize someone over it.
Or it could just be that these days people just scheme through text. Just reading from left to right, you'd auto complete 'startup' and honestly without another 'p' ranker auto completes itself too. Which is why I am inclined to think that people are just scheming through words now.
You might like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624731 which was quickly flag/sunk when it was submitted despite of the number of points. Quite the controverse topic.
Google is playing angry teenager again.
Nutrition and weight loss are 2 very complex subjects to say the least. However, calorie counting and weight measurement pretty much fit into all programs, mainly for the sake of raising awareness.

Counting calories is like keeping tracking of your spending. It won't solve your problems, but it will highlight areas of concern. If you're caloric intake goal is 1800, and you're consistently eating 2000, calorie counting will help you figure out where you can drop those 200 calories.

Similar to weight measurements, if you're losing weight at a consistent rate (~1-2 lbs/week), you can stay the course. If you flat line or start going up, it's good time to start reviewing what you're doing.

Of course, the situation is nuanced. For example, you could eat 1800 calories worth of cookies, or your weight gain could be caused due to the growth of muscle (which does happen).

At the outset, however, those 2 practices will get the machine going.
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Running a marathon every day would also work, but both of them are pretty tedious and sub optimal ;)

A focus on nutrient dense foods will make you feel fuller and will be better for your nutritional status and disease risk.
In the case of a dentist making you wait it actually makes sense and is to be expected. Some patients take a lot longer, or someone might have an unexpected issue come up during a root canal or whatever. What's the dentist supposed to do? Just leave the other patient to make time with you?

You just aren't paying enough to justify the cost of making you not wait. Same is the case if a bank makes you wait a long time on automated machine before they take a call. You just aren't important enough. If you're a billionaire, pay your dentist for a whole day. Get a private banker. If not, get in line, you aren't important enough.
Fair enough, though gas imports from Russia have their environmental and human impact, too (up to and including a war in Ukraine, as the country is an inconvenient obstacle for cheap overland pipelines if it is not under Russian control in the way it was with Yanukovych).

BTW I find it somewhat scandalous that Russian gas companies can hire senior politicians (such as former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Finnish prime minister Paavo Lipponen) to assist the political approvals. Although these men are no longer in such official positions, it is obvious that they were given money to advance the interests of Северный поток through their connections in their respective social democratic parties.
When you let a program run other, externally provided programs, there are always risks. I agree. But in the case of Redis Lua scripting, the risks were definitely counter balanced by what the community did with this feature in the latest years. Today is hard to imagine Redis without Lua scripting capabilities.
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Been having a rough couple of days at work. This is very touching and very uplifting. Thanks for sharing
Being late every once in a while is not something I'll hold a grudge for - we all are late at one point or another for various valid reasons. It's those that are chronically late, to the point that the only thing you can count on is them being late, that to me are implicitly disrespectful. They are basically saying "Your time is worth less than mine", just not to your face.

It doesn't matter whether it is "intentional", because it is a relatively easy flaw to correct, especially given how many opportunities there are to practice getting better at it. So the lack of effort to correct it makes it basically equivalent to intent.

I wouldn't expect punctuality from a teenager, but by the time you are an adult, you've had plenty of time to figure out a strategy that works for you, whether it is setting your watch ahead, catching the earlier bus, waking up earlier, etc.
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>Someone who cares about something will not be absent-minded about it if they are willing to try.

I'd prefer a person who is constantly late than a one with your attitude.
I expect that using a better GPU will improve framerates. There's not much improvement that can be had with a CPU bound game when you're using a high end CPU to begin with. Next year's GPUs will be much faster comparatively to today's, then next year's CPUs.
> Extensions required to make the web usable:

> NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

Can you elaborate, how does noscript makes web more usable?
Is this intended to be searchable? It appears it only shows the top few.

Seeing the whole list and offering filtering options might make it a better tool for comparing social uptake and similar things.
corsix explanation of the bug is here: https://gist.github.com/corsix/6575486

it is a very good write up. it was not too difficult to convert it to 64 bit.

i'm fairly sure the demo page on the lua website is vulnerable: http://www.lua.org/demo.html but lua-5.3 is a little different fro lua-5.1 so i don't have a working exploit for this. but they let you load bytecode.
The article talks more about meetings than showing up for work. Flex-time doesn't mean you can show up at 9:30 for a 9am meeting.
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Not sure about MailChimp but Alexa is not very accurate when it comes to traffic data.
WTF is this about? Do we need a 'boss' to tell us not to be assholes? What's next, I have to tell everybody not to forget to breathe? Tell them to not drive after the friday afternoon drinks, and if they kill their drunk asses it's 'the boss' who didn't tell them not to be idiots?

It is being rude and selfish.
> A few others inevitably reached for their phones - although most were then subjected to a form of group self-policing. "A couple of people were saying 'Don't film it! Don't film it!'" Kyra says. "Nowadays you really think 'Oh, shall I video it?'," but thankfully most people felt it wasn't appropriate, she adds. "Anybody who did video got shouted at anyway."

I'm sorry, I fail to see what is so taboo about filming? At the very least it documents what happened... Is the concern filming someone in pain/suffering? We appear to have no problem with that when it's photographers in third-world countries. Not everyone can help directly so what is the harm in some people videoing what happened?