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by frossie 16y ago
Just turn off the distracting notifications. That means growl notifications, dock icon badge counts, audio notifications (ding!), and anything else that might pull you away from what you're doing. So we use IM for work a lot (even within
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Yeah - thanks for pointing that out. It's not a true bidirectional sync though, like xmarks, right?
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Interesting list. I do want to highlight this one: Moving is a pain in the ass It's worse than that, at some point the physical books actually affect your willingness to move - which is just wrong, books are mean to be empowering not rest
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by frossie 16y ago
I am now going to repeat what you said, but with more feeling: We also considered refocusing Xmarks as a freemium sync business, but the prospects there are grim too: with the emergence of competent sync features built in to Mozilla Firefo
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The question is : are you dumber than a rat?(scientopia.org)
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I know, I know, it's a crime. Bad people. But... neat (literally) hack.
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French Thieves Use Vacuums to Suck Thousands from Safes(geekosystem.com)
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I came to this late, and I see most of the replies are focussing on the issues of introversion v. social skills. I just want to highlight these two lines: My social skills are going down exponentially day by day. I tend to be communicative
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I prefer the first one because it gets to the point a hell of a lot faster. The second one is not without its charms, but it doesn't seem like pitch material to me.
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It was my impression that usernames are deliberately de-emphasised on HN, and I have come to see the reason for it and like it.
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I don't see the problem here. It can be a problem because you use your favourite language/tools over and over to be productive, but then you look up and ten years have passed and your skills are no longer marketable. This is easier to see
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by frossie 16y ago
I am really curious as to the answer to this question: Of the stories that got more than 10 votes, how many of those (first) 10 votes came from upvotes as opposed to multiple submission. My theory is that it frequently takes multiple submis
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There was two other things I wanted to do - increase Patrick's profile in a positive way, and also make the point at the very bottom especially to young people in technology who are underpaid because they don't value/price their skills eno
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by frossie 16y ago
Zeus's beard. Saw the headline and thought it was an obituary. (At least until my brain kicked and thought "he can't be dead, he's posting". But sheesh.)
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If you guys can come up with a longer-than-two-year bet you can go here to broker it (and let other people join in the fun) http://www.longbets.org/
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double take Wow. The spread of the "average" column is not what i would have naively expected.
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I had a farewell lunch yesterday. Make a joke of it. If you get your job back, take all the same people out to lunch. Play up the funny side. Give a "take me back" speech, "what was I thinking" etc etc. Laugh at yourself, and the world wi
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by frossie 16y ago
One company even tried to threaten us by saying that they will get in touch with the dean at Duke to alert them to the fact that we submitted work that is not ours(just imagine being a student who had used the paper for a class!). Well,
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It made me click all the way through (I laughed at several points) and impelled me to click on his CV. It is fair to say it was marketing that achieved its purpose.
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I can't tell if you are not entirely sober or way too philosophical, but I think you are confusing timekeeping (as a socially agreed convention for referring to time) and time the physical quantity (the fourth dimension if you prefer). I ve
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by frossie 16y ago
For those who can't/won't view the video, this is a demo of a device that looks totally like a credit card that can reprogram its magnetic strip on the fly, both for security reasons and for storing multiple credit card accounts on a single
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Dynamics Credit Card Demo (video) (youtube.com)
1 points by frossie 16y ago|1 comments
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The Razors-and-Blades Myth(s)(papers.ssrn.com)
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Christmas 1982. Shiny.
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It certainly is the case that in the Paris metro I have seen crowds form around good buskers. Sure, doing this at morning rush hour assured the least chance of success, but the interesting thing is how many people reported not even noticin
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The article refers to the fate of adult autistic children when their parents die. The movie's character relates to a person in similar circumstances - his mother dies and a social worker places him in sheltered then independent accomodation
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I think part of it is flatter organizations and cutbacks in middle management. I think you're right - you need excess capacity in your senior/middle management layer that can absorb training. I would also add "cutbacks in general". Takin
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by frossie 16y ago
The real issue seems to be that he tried to create a "family restaurant" operation without the "family" (in this case him and his wife) wanting to work in the business: My wife Lily and I could work there, full-time, save on the payroll, a
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by frossie 16y ago
Reading this really makes me want to recommend the Norwegian movie Elling - it's witty, completely unschmaltzy and hints at a pretty good answer on what good care for adult mentally challenged folk looks like. http://www.imdb.com/title/t
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Childhood immunization uptake exceeds 95% in many countries. So vaccinating "most of the world" is clearly do-able. In the situation where uptake is low, the issues revolve around supply, access and parental ignorance, and not the cost of t

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