I think programmers as a group are as fallaciously prejudiced as any other group of people, if not more so in some surprising ways.

I don't believe there's a shorter way to do it in ruby, though I'd like to be proved wrong. You can do it with zip too, which semantically expresses the idea of interleaving slightly better, but using transpose is shorter, and still clear if you imagine matrix operations. The interleaving part, though, is specific to this problem and not to map -- i don't see why you'd think of doing an operation to every list item as "interleaving" in the general case.

Not directly interleaving, but whatever is close to it. Just a failure of vocabulary.

I just want to say how ****ing useless UPS is. I work from home at a window directly overlooking my front door. I have a dog that barks whenever she hears someone at the door. And yet some how they claim that they tried to deliver my package and I wasn't home and now I have to wait an extra day and drive 15 minutes to their distribution centre to pick up the package between 9-6pm. Grrr....

I think I'll just see if I can get what I want from a B&M store for the same price and then return the package.

/ totally pointless rant.

I think UPS just stops wherever their GPS says then knocks on the closest door. I have found my packages delivered all over the neighborhood. Many go to my neighbor's place when it's clearly marked 'B' right on the front door and the package and my door are both clearly marked 'A'. I am sure they often don't bother to read apartment #s. Their motto should be "Close Enough!"

I can't wait for the day when a drone can drop off my packages.

Of course, it'll probably just end up in a pile of dog crap in my neighbours back yard.

Apartment I just moved into has 24/7 concierge so I can go down and get my packages whenever I want, easily the most elite perk for living conditions.

Just wait UPS will drop your package off at the wrong building soon enough.

I'm thinking next time I'm taping a big sign to my door that says:

I AM HOME. RING DOORBELL.

And I bet it still doesn't work because I don't even think they came to my door.

Maybe I'll tape signs to all my neighbours' doors too.

Not only that but also lol at measuring productivity short term which is pretty much done all the time. Oh look he cranked out functionality X,Y,Z in n units of time...yay. You can probably make a decent guestimate once people that never saw the codebase start working with it. Before that I'm fairly meh on the entire concept.

I judge programmer quality purely on code aesthetics and reasoning process (which is obviously flawed as well) and on an ordinal scale.

Yeah this tilts me hard. Same over here with UPS (and Hermes). On top of that they seem to arrive all over the place time wise. I hate it when I don't know in advance who delivers stuff. I'd certainly pay more to get DHL every time. I know exactly at what time they arrive in our neighbourhood and they actually ring and then try to drop it of next door.

Yep, UPS doesn't ring my doorbell. I think they don't want to walk to the package to the door, wait a few mins to see if you come, then walk it back to the truck. Fair enough I guess.

A few months ago I got the UPS slip on a friday and it showed the next delivery attempt would be tuesday because monday was a holiday. I decide to wait until monday night to put up the slip so it doesn't get blown away & I really want this package. When I go to put up the slip on monday night I see 2 more slips, one from saturday, and one from monday & it says the package is now being returned to sender because 3 attempts were made. I always use the garage exit so didn't see them...

Fedex on the other hand is awesome and their tracking site actually works.

This does indeed sound awesome. On a related note...how common is grocery delivery in the US? We're slowly getting there and it's not even all that expensive alas the excessive extra packaging tilts my inner hippy.
Amazon+grocery place+concierge would be an elite combo.

heh. Oddly enough, FedEx updated their tracking of my package on Saturday ~6am saying it was "Out for Delivery". The next update on the tracking occurred sometime between 8 and 10am this morning, saying it was delivered at 3:47pm on Saturday. I haven't received it yet, but maybe it'll be sitting there when I get home.

It's not fair enough! They're a delivery company - if they don't actually deliver the package they're no better than a B&M store. In fact they're worse because here they do one attempt and then you have to pick it up during work hours.

I cancelled the order and reserved it at Best Buy for pick up tonight. It's about the same distance away but at least I have until 9pm to pick it up.

Maybe UPS should make it so you can print your own UPS slips to sign & put up on your door. It does seem like their unofficial policy is to just deliver a slip on one day and the package on the next. Maybe they don't even actually have your package when they put up the slip?

One of the benefits of a small company is getting stuff shipped there. Better than waiting at the apt for late delivery bs.

hahaha! jjshabado!

This is one of those things that is tempting to keep to myself, but that I think sharing makes me a better person:

and now i need a jumbo sized heart icon....

haha yep better person indeed. own your mistakes. apologies to UPS

Where I am you can get everything delivered.

Some guys I grew up with are competing in the crowd-sourcing delivery space, and just raised some solid funding, we'll see if this takes off. I don't know any of the metrics running the company, but it seems like it might be tough for this to work out long term, again I am totally clueless tho.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/favor

It seems like all of these delivery service startups hinge on a steady supply of people who don't realize how much using their own car deletes from what they actually make. I drove my own car for a delivery service for a couple weeks. At some point I did the match on depreciation and realized I was making about half my take home pay. And on top of that I had a gust of wind downtown swing my door open so hard it bent the hinges. Luckily my stepdad was a Chrysler mechanic at the time or that would have cost me.

We do grocery delivery every week but its just us 2. Grocery shopping is miserable and a giant waste of the sparse free time we get. We pay a $10 delivery charge and its well worth it.

I just stop by Trader Joes and Albertsons a couple times a week on my way home from work. I'm in and out pretty quick and I kind of like it. It's definitely better than the big trip to the store every week or two. Also with the drought half our fruit comes from Chile now so it only lasts 3 days anyway.