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> My dentist kept me waiting 50 minutes not long ago

> Sure she was “busy”, another patient took longer than she expected, blah blah.

Imagine if you had to do 10 short coding challenges, one after another, without knowing the full scope beforehand and had to say exactly when each one would finish. Now on project 9, your client shouts at you for delivering late because they are your CUSTOMER and you must not take them for granted!

Did she have to stop in the middle of someone else's appointment to deal with you?

Any story that goes "it happened for years without me saying anything then I got angry" would probably have been handled better for everyone if they'd talked about it to start with. Can't wait? Tell them!

Many people might have a spare half an hour and overall everything goes faster if occasionally the last person needs to wait 30 minutes so that typically more people get seen during the day. But no, because you have a requirement you've not specified, everyone else needs to deal with the consequences.

Or tell them when you make the appointment that you will have to be out by a certain time, there's likely to be a better place to be in the schedule.
2012.

Yes, it's very moving. Hopefully, enough so that people will donate to pancreatic cancer research. It's a cancer that kills most people, and yet we do little research.

Steve Jobs and Randy Pausch also left this world way too young:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
I made no connection when I briefly saw the news. Her post and the attitude of giving meaning to a senseless loss (isn't death always senseless?) is moving. There are many lessons she learned that are useful to us all. Everyone loses loved ones. From old age, from accidents, from completely unexpected events. In the end, all that matters is what we, the people who stay alive, do out of it.
For confirmation of this, stop a car sometime on a highway flyover bridge. These are mostly reinforced concrete. Even normal traffic makes it jump and rumble. A big truck going past makes them positively wobble.

Concrete can be quite bendy.
Usually, judgmental behavior stems from the incredible all-encompassing feeling of self-importance of those making a judgment.

Chilling out is a preferred course of action. Also, hundreds of millions of people are parts of the cultures where it's absolutely normal to be late.
> In the case of a dentist making you wait it actually makes sense and is to be expected.

Occasionally, perhaps, but if it's a regular occurrence, they need to schedule better. My wife's usually the first appointment of the day with one of her specialists and they're very regularly 30+ minutes late. No earlier patients to use as an excuse, and they have a hypocritical "7 minutes late = reschedule" policy for patients.
"never has been on time once; it gave him an edge"

What edge?

If you are late to certain meetings people will turn you away. Yes, this happens.

Small delays are acceptable, but apparently he got lucky (or made his career in Spain)
Its not really flexi-time, if you set a meeting at 9am everyday.
While I enjoy such war stories and love hacking ad-hoc systems myself, I can't help myself not to think how much time they wasted instead of going to someone familiar with shipping industry. There is a saying in my home country: "Not everyone can sing through the vilage!"
Nutritional knowledge in the last 20 years hasn't resulted in much difference in outcomes. Folks are still too fat. There's been no breakthrough.

People can lose weight and achieve goals using a wide variety of dietary programs (or none at all, if you throw in exercise).

If the hacker diet works for somebody, that's great. If not, they're plenty of other stuff to try.
On the contrary of your belief,
I think your point plainly shows the author point of view
"distributed systems are a UX problem".
Or in other words a "business problem"
which cannot be solved only at the system level.

In your case you choose to minimise the risk of not fulfilling an order
by having a shop per stock.
This is a perfectly acceptable choice.
But there are other options which maximise sales opportunities
at the price of more risks, which have to be compensated in turn
by a whole chain of business/logistic/human/technical processes and mechanisms.
I agree that democracy depends on transparency, I don't know where you got the idea I thought otherwise. I just stated that sometimes, and I mean sometimes as in not all the time, it is in the best interest of the public to not have all the information.

Alright say there is a pretty decent leader who has a personal trait which would make them unelectable to the public, but really shouldn't in any reasonable situation effect their ability to lead and make decisions. Is it in the public's best interest to know about that trait prior to the election?
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Some dentists are always on time +/- 10 minutes, and some are always late. No, this is not the nature of the dentistry business - it's poor planning, and not caring enough to change it.
Privacy concerns raised as Canada seeks to expand collection of biometric data
Currently travelling through Japan for the first time. They ask if you have now finished placing the cash that you wish to pay with. This means I have been able to put notes in the tray and then shuffle through my coins attempting to get rid of as many 5Y and 1Y coins as I can. Cash in such a modern technology forward country is still weird. I have already broken my wallet due to the over use of the coin pouch. Prior to coming here it had never been used. New Zealand, where I am from adopted Eftpos over 25 years ago. We are already chip and pin, and pay wave has found its way into most POS areas. Japan is behind here but in a way I find to be very enjoyable.
Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash
Well, run the tests against the hack and we'll see :)
My wife is one of the sweetest most caring person I met in my life. She is also to a fault extremely concerned about any ethical slights people might feel. She confesses any bad thought she has or possible slight error she did.

She is ALWAYS late and she is the least selfish rude person I know. Time is just something that clicks with her.

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It's called being rankbanned.

A mod did that to you. See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165780
Professionally? Completely unacceptable. Talk to your employees about the importance of timeliness, and act if they don't respond to suggestion.

Personally? Chill the fuck out. There are a great many things in life more important than having a few drinks with you, or coming to your party. If there is no specific time pressure (e.g. a movie start time), then recognizing the distinctly lower priority of precision in socializing is pretty fundamental to a successful interaction with others.
Who said it was every day? Change 9am to 3pm, if that helps you.
I was thinking that myself but then realised most of the 12 tonnes mentioned is going to be towards the base (engine, etc). A double decker isn't going to be a top heavy object else it'd tip over any time it hit a corner a bit too fast

They'd have had to do some serious tipping to make it fall over https://i.imgy.org/NO2zZn26.jpg
For a rehearsal, why not always use a fake name?
Why isn't POST a synonym for QUIT?
Seeing this again takes me back. After reading this a number of years ago (2002 or 2003 or so?) I actually gave my first effort to trying to lose some weight and get in better shape, which caused me to learn / figure out a bunch more, and actually start taking an interest in my physical abilities.

While I'm no serious athlete I now enjoy -- and recognize that I enjoy -- getting out and doing things, pushing myself when hiking or biking, and this has given me the ability to spend good deals of time outdoors enjoying the world. It's a great change of pace from the almost-completely-computer-focused stuff I'd done previously.
34 photos that will make you want to grab a map and travel Britain
There are lots of big projects that use an email-based code review
workflow: the gcc family (gdb, libstdc++, and gcc itself), git, Linux, Mercurial... You submit the patch to the
mailing list and people comment on your patch inline. You submit
updated patches as necessary until everything looks good and approved.

It's pretty low-tech, but like plain text itself, it's also very easy
to participate. There's no setup involved other than an email client.
And rewrites don't require you to add more commits, thus cluttering
history; or to `git push --force`, thus destroying the previous
version of the patch that people had commented on. It's also trivial
to cherry-pick and rebase: just apply the patch. You can do this even
with a VCS that doesn't have rebase or cherry-pick commands.

There are definite advantages to the email-based system.
Before I give you my list, here is the most important thing:
Write every day. Every day touch your work.
If you are blocked, write through the block.
Do not make deals with yourself, like "I will write after my enjoy my coffee." Bullocks. Write, then enjoy the coffee.

When you start to write, know that what you are writing is shit.
It is supposed to be. It's a first draft, and it's OK.
Anything can be fixed, but right now, get that ink on paper.

1. Read, and write notes in the margins. It's your book. Break it. Mark every time there is conflict.
2. Understand that writing is re-writing
3. You will learn more from cutting than writing.
4. Actively critique other writers work (like at scribophile.com)
5. Join a writers group...either online or IRL.
6. Bare your soul.

Websites to consider:
750words.com (write everyday)
stackedit.io (simple mark up that can push to gist/github for revisioning)
Google+ Saturday Scenes. (Read daily works in progress)
www.narrativebreakdown.com podcast (writing craft podcast)
deadrobotssociety.com (writing podcast)
www.typehammer.com podcast (3 geeks writing podcast)

There is so much more, but what I really hope you take away from this is that you write Every Fucking Day :)
No in the Netherlands and then northern EU after that. The edge (which I notice too) is that you seem stronger if you have the balls to show up late, even if there are people 'higher up' in the room (or people you want something from). Anecdotal: in a meeting with an AXA director and his colleagues (a potential client) I was 45 minutes late (not on purpose, I don't do it on purpose) and he said; 'here is a guy who is more important than I am wink wink'. We got the project and we became friends.

Must say that in NL in the beginning of my career I always was punctual (getting up 1 hour early to make sure I was there ahead of time); when I stopped doing that, I got more successful. Not sure if that's related, but I also have no more stress, so I'm not changing that myself.
Carbs being bad is very much outdated. As are unsustainable eating methods for short term benefits. Eating 6 times a day is also seeing some push back as to whether it is really any healthier. Calorie counting not being important was a fad (if its possible to have a negative fad). How can you have an ideal macro split for a diet when each of those macros has a calorie value without also taking into account your overall calorie needs?

It may become more prevalent that the notion of eating consistently will change too. You cannot eat at a deficit for any period of time without getting pretty severe diminishing returns as your body adapts to its in vs out. 5:2 is a very simple model of calorie cycling, just an unsustainable on.

Protein and calories have the same calorie content per gram, so if you hit your protein macros then there is no downside to eating carbs, and actually for active people your gains and recovery will suffer dramatically from lack of carbs. Overloading on protein has the same downsides as overloading on carbs in simple calories in vs out terms.

I think it's fairly common knowledge now that fats are largely good (saturated fats help with testosterone regulation for example) even though food producers seem to be wilfully slow in catching up (low fat items being filled with sugar thus making them far more unhealthy).

I'm not sure I entirely buy into the if it fits your macros (IIFYM) way of thinking, but it's not a bad strategy for a lot of situations.
http://www.startupranking.com/nginx is a startup?
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boil down to communicating about the thing that you're planning to do, and describing accurately

Yes, effective communication is very important.

instead of distorting it based on a certain convention (e.g. if you say that we start at 9 but everyone shows up at 10:30 instead

This is a funny example to use directly after emphasizing clear communication, considering how ambiguous "start at" can be.

We "start at" 9, but that's very common language with a flexible schedule. If I went home last night with my earliest accepted meeting at 10:30, nobody bats an eye when I roll in at 10:25.

Perhaps the words you're looking for are "we don't have flexible hours" or "without discussing it with me first, you must be in the office by X and not leave before Y."
not only that, the ranking is also defined by the overall activity in the sub-reddit it is posted in. So you can see a post with fewer upvotes, posted later over a post which has a lot more upvotes posted earlier. Which means, even submissions to very small sub-reddits have a decent chance to be promoted to trending and to r/all even
Thanks for sharing. Before clicking through, I thought this was going to be the story of inventing gmail.
That is like saying that the gold watch should cost the same as the gold plated watch, which shouldn't depend upon the supply and demand of the materials it is made out of. Also, considering most digital goods can be copied in mere seconds, it would appear that they should be priced at $0.01. As for food, beef that is 30% fat should cost just as much as beef that is 3% fat.

And heaven forbid we apply this to relationships. If you are looking for a one night stand and spend the required hours, then you must get a one night stand. The supply and demand of your particular looks/social skills aren't factored in, only the time you invested.
PCRE Heap Overflow in Regex Processing Lets Users Execute Arbitrary Code
So I think most people with a basic grasp of Newtonian dynamics get that if you're in a sealed box moving at a constant velocity, you can't actually tell if you're moving, or how fast. That's not too tricky (though you need Special Relativity to deal with why that's true even if you are moving very very fast, to explain why light inside your box still seems to go the same speed in all directions).

My issue with the article is that it agrees with that but then claims people are disturbed by small accelerations - and my contention is that you also can't detect small constant accelerations. As another poster wrote, a small constant linear acceleration is indistinguishable from the floor being slightly angled.

If you get back in your sealed train carriage and I accelerate it very gently forwards, you can't actually tell whether you are accelerating or simply at a slight angle. A small enough acceleration might not be noticed at all, just as a small angle of the floor would also go unnoticed. But if I change the acceleration - stop accelerating you or increase the acceleration - you will notice. It might be perceived as motion or the carriage rotating but it will be perceived.

Note that I'm not making the strong claim that you can't tell there is a net force acting on you. I'm only making the claim that you can't tell the difference between an accelerating force and being stationary in a gravitational field. And I'm claiming that when the net acceleration is close to 1g, your body can't tell at all that there is anything other than gravity acting on you. Higher g's are of course readily attributed to movement.

Obviously when a building sways, though, the acceleration is changing, switching between + and - a fraction of a g, not constant. And it's my contention that it is the changing acceleration - the presence of 'jerk' - that people detect and react to, precisely because the accelerations involved are too small to be perceived directly. You feel like you must be accelerating (or the floor must be tipping) because you perceive a change in the net acceleration you feel - a change in the direction you sense as down. You feel the jerk not the acceleration itself.
I'm sure you have all the facts available to you when making such an assessment of dentists. However, I would argue that the world is not black & white; and what you perceive and what is factual are not always one in the same. Which isn't to say that there aren't going to be lazy dentists out there, of course.
Definitely, I won't suggest to anybody to work in Italy, however the education is GREAT
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There are various reasons, some of which will require time to checkout. One is that soy is a phytoestrogen [1]. So the studies show there could be some issues with men eating soy at high levels. Googling provides a lot of arguments founded in reasoning for and against.
Another issue is that soy requires heavy agriculture and processing [2]. This can harm the environment in much the same macro ways as beef production. The chemicals used in processing soy into tofu and other products can be bad. Again, processing arguments go both ways (though soy is poisonous in its raw form [3]).

So right now many, myself included, advocate minimizing soy. You can't get away from it. Thanks to several US administrations soy is huge business. Just watch it. It might be that its good for you. Right now the soy debate is much like the egg debate of the 80s. I leave you with Lewis Black's commentary on food nutrition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXS5GBuk-GQ

1 - http://blog.zocdoc.com/does-soy-feminize-men-fact-vs-myth/
2 - http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/soy/im...
3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean#Nutrition
AFAIK most people use Noscript for privacy/security reasons, there's no way it makes the web more usable considering how prevalent javascript is these days.
> $\dot y = 1/y$, whose solutions have graphs lying on straight lines through the origin

Oops! I mentioned this as an example of an easily soluble, non-linear equation—which it is; it may be solved by solution of variables—but the solutions are not at all what I said (I was thinking of $\dot y = y/t$).
Being from the UK: It's a bit unseemly. Mind your own fucking business. Get permission. Don't be a twat... etc
The brain does not read linearly from left to right, letter by letter. Unless you're 3 years old, you see a word and parse - or rather, pattern-match - it as a whole. And the matches depend heavily on whatever is in your head (that's how context and anchoring work).

I too, initially, read it as "startup pranking", even though there's only one "p" in the domain name.
I can't remember a time where the finality of death and the pointlessness of life hasn't struck me. I can't remember a day past the age of 16 where I didn't think about the fact that everyone I know, literally every single thing I've ever experienced will die, or wither away.

Even the sun. One of the most powerful entities my mind can possibly comprehend. The entire reason for everything we know. The source of nearly every tiny bit of energy we consume. It's temporary. It'll be gone one day and when it is, it'll be like it was never there.

Accepting these things is one of the most terrifying, difficult, powerful and freeing things I've done. It's very powerful to be able to step back and assess my situation in the context of "will this matter in 50 years when I'm on my deathbed?" In so many difficult decisions, it's made the answer clear: "in 50 years, will I remember feeling good because I took my parents' advice and didn't move and didn't upset them? Or will I look back with regret on the opportunity I didn't take across the country."

I really like this article. It's very important to remember that everything we think is so strong and foundational can go away in the blink of an eye.
At least these days the updated food pyramids doesn't suggest stuffing yourself with grains but balance it a bit more.

That being said, people still will.
I'm not that familiar with PCRE, but I think that this engine is used in a variety of programming languages -- but not Perl's, as it's used to provide Perl-compatible regex. PHP's Manual for PCRE links to pcre.org, so it seems that at least PHP is vulnerable.

http://php.net/manual/en/intro.pcre.php

Edit: Here's a copy of the actual CVE, which demonstrates the vulnerability using PHP: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/01/6

The CVE mentions that PCRE is used in Flash, Apache, and Nginx.

Edit2: Could a mod change the article url to the openwall CVE? It seems that securitytracker.com is not the most responsive website. Sorry, I should have linked to the CVE directly.
Why MapD? The possibilities of 1000X faster data exploration with GPUs
...Because Klout was such a wildly-popular success?
zsh: http://www.zsh.org/
These two sentences were not parseable:
"What if we head to Rockville and buy Daniel a beer or 2. May you fetch me a bottle of water?"
How do the people there manage the cognitive dissonance of being extremely inefficient with time and productivity with being a poor country dependent on the EU to keep economy from collapsing?
A beautiful reminder of the relativity of it all.

Paul's closing remarks remind me of a bit that the late Bill Hicks used to sign off with:

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
I guess a good starting point would be to get a job in a startup, building a product in the area you're interesting to dive in, and start learning from there.
SF, or NYC, may be some great places to be (because a lot of startup start from there, and the VC climate is impressive), but not the only ones (I personally chose Beijing, for some irrelevant reasons).

Good luck :)
Evidence in the context that Baidu "cheats". I agree, it's not a bad thing. But from my experience it seems they copied Google's interface (which is functional and pretty) but had a complete misunderstanding of how to implement it. A lot of features that worked well with Google's implementation felt awkward or forced with Baidu's.
Sounds like a good idea... Does not fix everything but at least it should make it harder to exploit it without direct access.