happimess

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by happimess 13y ago
> If you can have a 32 character password it is more likely to be forgotten. I disagree. There are many long passwords that are easier to remember than a short password. Just to make up an example, I might use "WakeGrindTampInfusePourS
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by happimess 13y ago
It's not a tautology. If the brain's benefit from "branch prediction" is low, then some other factor (e.g. length of code) could overwhelm the effects of predictability. So they're making a genuine claim, which is that expectation-congruenc
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by happimess 14y ago
I'm curious, would you elaborate on your reasons to avoid "to be" verbs?
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by happimess 14y ago
I just spent a few minutes looking through the Indianapolis missed connections. It seems that a lot of them aren't "missed connections" in the sense that I would expect, but rather, "I'm tired of walking into an empty home," "When I was wit
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by happimess 14y ago
> The GPL is about giving freedom to the users. > If it's my library you do as I say or you don't use it. That sounds more like giving control to the developers than giving freedom to the users.
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by happimess 14y ago
I think that the qualifier "At the start" is important, here. I've known many good leaders who, at some point, got frustrated and took charge. I've also known a lot of jerks who wanted to be in charge of things as soon as they heard that th
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by happimess 14y ago
According to etymonline[1], it comes from Arabic through Swahili. [1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&s...
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by happimess 14y ago
"What many PC gamers today consider to be one of the most burnt out genres was at that time new, fresh and completely unknown to most gamers." Is this true? Are RTS games considered played out by the general gaming public?
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by happimess 14y ago
I have to ask: what is your ideological objection to browser extensions?
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by happimess 14y ago
I do it in more or less the same way that I idly thumb the corner of a book I'm reading, or repeatedly open and close a pen while I'm reading code. It's just something tactile to do while my attention is otherwise occupied.
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by happimess 14y ago
When reading PDFs on my Kindle, I change the orientation to landscape. It's not a perfect solution, as diagrams are sometimes broken in half, but it works well enough for me.
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by happimess 14y ago
If you felt like you could have gone longer, then I'm sure you could have gone longer. Two things worth noting, however: First, it's good to have a minimum amount of time in mind for a meditation session, and stick to it. You can always sta
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by happimess 14y ago
This is a link to the second page of the article. The single page version is here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
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by happimess 14y ago
This is an excellent reason to be a bicycle mechanic.
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by happimess 14y ago
There are some good ideas here, but putting each sentence into its own paragraph makes for choppy prose. Split them out and consider each one on its own, but once each sentence is as tight as it's going to get, why not combine related ones
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by happimess 14y ago
You're right about the difference that lowering your body mass makes. It's the easiest way to drop the weight that you have to pedal around. I have a cyclist friend who loves to claim "I just took a $1000 shit," the joke being that that's h
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by happimess 14y ago
The movie Requiem for a Dream is, to me, a perfect example of a high quality movie that I will not watch twice. The acting, directing, cinematography, pacing, and sound design are all excellent. However, the film is such a grueling emotiona
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by happimess 14y ago
This is an exciting idea, and I can't wait to see what turns up on it. As for feedback, please give me the option to load as many items on a page as I want.
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by happimess 14y ago
OT, but this seems like an appropriate place to ask. I'm a competent computer programmer who hasn't done any front-end web development since 1999. Does anyone have a link to a good explanation of how to avoid these "obvious" mistakes? Most
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by happimess 14y ago
In my experience with reddit, displaying the score of a comment leads to bandwagon voting, which adds easily avoided noise to the sorting process. It also leads to a certain amount of karma fetishization, which results in easy jokes and flu
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by happimess 14y ago
The problem is that you're forced to speculate. Your interpretation sounds pretty reasonable to me, but I don't know any more about it than you do. I'd rather have an unambiguous explanation.
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by happimess 14y ago
Do you have any links for the other hacker spaces in Berlin? I'll be travelling there in the very near future, and will likely need a space to work while I'm there. I'll be there for a month, and don't mind paying a membership fee. I alread
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by happimess 14y ago
Think of the difference between learning to cook and becoming a cook, or learning to golf and becoming a golfer. One refers to picking up some skills for any of a variety of reasons. The other refers to embarking on a career.
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by happimess 15y ago
Maukdaddy says that "it depends on the type of personality you're dealing with," and I think that's very true with regards to immediate-and-public versus later-and-in-private. With many people, an embarrassing confrontation in front of the