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Focus, geekiness and meditation - a parable(blog.binarybalance.com.au)
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by gaelian 15y ago
So despite the oversimplified title, the value of this article for me lies in the last two paragraphs; which speak to me off a balance between practicing 'critical visualization' when we need to achieve and 'positive fantasy mode' when we n
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by gaelian 15y ago
My partner of nearly 10 years is German and while I do feel that I've had a fairly long history of exposure to their culture through her, nor can I say that I am able to speak authoritatively on all Germans or all stratas of their culture.
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by gaelian 15y ago
Here's a couple of articles on the Netherlands and Sweden: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/408927_5 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070318/26sex.htm The original link of this thread, which talks about the sex ed classes o
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by gaelian 15y ago
"This Section of our site is currently undergoing maintenance We appreciate your patience while we make some improvements Please check back shortly" Page under heavy load?
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by gaelian 15y ago
Very much agreed. But I also think we're looking at the problem in a somewhat more isolated context than would be required to effect true improvement. By which I mean, if we are to achieve a safe, controlled environment to have open and hon
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by gaelian 15y ago
> The fully generalizable things you can teach would be communication, consent, and respect. Agreed. But this is rather a different kettle of fish to what it appears the grandparent comment was suggesting. > People would think they'
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by gaelian 15y ago
I find myself somewhat agreeing with the general sentiment of your final paragraph. But "I think it's about time we standardized it" is really rubbing me the wrong way (honestly, not pun initially intended). Either you don't mean that how i
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by gaelian 15y ago
I have experimented with Pomodoro, but for me it was actually more because I thought it might be a good way for me to remember to take breaks. I don't usually have the problem of not being able to sustain focus for long periods. Sometimes I
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by gaelian 15y ago
Well said. Your second paragraph expands well on what I was thinking when I said we forget that beginners have a different idea of what 'trivial' means. The MVC concept (for example) might be trivial to those who get it, but it's likely see
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by gaelian 15y ago
It really depends on the beginner I guess. It seems like what kemayo is saying is that there are beginner programmers and then there are people who don't want to be a programmer at all really, but might like the idea of having a dynamic yea
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by gaelian 15y ago
> It is awkward because Javascript is asynchronous and you want to make sure the user interaction stays responsive without devolving into spaghetti. This is exactly the feeling I've been getting recently as I foray into writing my first
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by gaelian 15y ago
My experience so far has shown that if you're looking for an exact one-to-one duplication of the FF experience, then yeah, Chrome's not there yet and possibly never will be. Coming from FF I had this funny moment when I opened up the Chrome
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by gaelian 15y ago
I felt the same way as you. But a few weeks ago I moved to trialing Chrome as both my development and everyday browser. After close to 4 weeks now of trialing Chrome, I'm 99% certain that I won't be going back to FF for development and cert
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Learn C The Hard Way(gitorious.org)
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Shrinking device makes objects appear smaller than they are(physorg.com)
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by gaelian 15y ago
> It's funny. It really took me committing something to some open project to realize that all those programmers out there are actually all people like me. My experience has been very similar. It's like I knew this intellectually, but it
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How I've started to contribute to open source(blog.binarybalance.com.au)
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The designer, the developer and the devigner(blog.binarybalance.com.au)
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by gaelian 15y ago
Identifying myself as something of a developer/designer, I'm always interested to see what others are doing. There's no info in your profile, got a blog or something?
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by gaelian 15y ago
From the PDF: "Soon they decided to try the bucket drop, a technique Dad had developed to deliver and retrieve items from missionaries who had no airstrip. He circled his plane overhead in tight circles while a long cord with the goods atta
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by gaelian 16y ago
I took a minute to title this one because as far as I can see you're right, it's not storing anything in or on your body but I didn't want to say anything in the title that wasn't on the page. So I added the "conceptually" bit from the page
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Sparsh - "your body is your USB flash drive ... conceptually"(pranavmistry.com)
5 points by gaelian 16y ago|2 comments
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by gaelian 16y ago
Going back about 10 years, there was a community that made a pseudo-sport out of this kind of activity and similar online masquerades, it was called baiting.org. The site is still up, though inactive.
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by gaelian 16y ago
My experience of visiting there very much agrees with yours. I particularly remember walking down a dark ally in Kyoto one night, half way down the ally there's this brightly lit vending machine shining like a beacon, in perfect condition,
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by gaelian 16y ago
I can't claim to be an expert, but I visited Japan last year and found that you can get away with eating very cheaply if you want to. Lawson 100 yen shops, Za Watami and Watamin Chi FTW! We found this awesome Tonkatsu place (it was a chain,
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by gaelian 16y ago
Yeah, I had to get a German to lookup what "ᵊ" really means in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It was only then I found out that of the two listed pronunciations on Wikipedia[1], the first actually is the usual Australian pronunciation
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by gaelian 16y ago
You got it. Canberra[1], the bush capital. Come for the CDSCC, stay for the relaxed prostitution and pornography laws. 1. Despite what Wikipedia says, it's actually more commonly pronounced "Can-bra" because Australians are lazy.
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by gaelian 16y ago
Minor correction: Canberra and the CDSCC are in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory), not New South Wales. It's OK though, everyone forgets about the ACT.
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by gaelian 16y ago
Ask and ye shall receive: http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/google_chrome_logins_bookmar...

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