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by mtoledo 17y ago
I think its worth of note how most of the comments they get on techcrunch are people just coming in to say they love the service. A trend I've seen on dropbox that I can't say I've seen with too many other services in the past. I, for one,
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I have to agree with you that those that are interested in what the world values are the most blessed, but no practice 100% enjoyable. Risking misquoting him, I remember reading in one of Kasparov's books "I only love 80% of chess. I do the
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by mtoledo 17y ago
There's plenty of people that enjoy doing things but don't do it very well. Enjoying something helps you stick to it more, but it doesnt' make you better at it alone.
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by mtoledo 17y ago
And his point is, without any tool, people can still do most anything. But if the tool is particularly good, they'll do that same thing better now. People were still doing backups before dropbox. I, for one, am just doing them better now.
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by mtoledo 17y ago
Everytime I see a 'generalist' vs 'specialist' post like this, I think its wrong to compare generalists who are very good in a lot of different areas to specialists that are very good in just one of them. Ideally, you'd have to compare gene
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I'm highly inspired by Josh Waitzkin, who inspired the book and movie "in search for Bobby Fischer" and then went to win 21 national championships and 2 world championships in Tai Chi Push Hands, a competitive kind of tai chi. He explores h
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by mtoledo 17y ago
"You’ll end up spending your entire day “being productive” without actually achieving anything." Well, if you didn't achieve anything, you aren't really being productive. I think a lot of people get confused between 'what you do' and 'how y
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by mtoledo 17y ago
Thanks for the explanation. The effects of the fructose enumerated on the article, tho, are the same. I did read about the difference in proportions being the biggest propel fact too, it was mentioning a cup of tomato had about 3g of fructo
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by mtoledo 17y ago
Right, but I dont mean junk juices. I mean natural fruit juices, the one just out of the fruit. They are supposedly full of fructose and no fibers, right? So are they just as bad, on a fructose point of view (as in supposedly has the bad si
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by mtoledo 17y ago
Also, in the case of the juice, if it doesn't have the fibers that the fruit has, is it just as bad as soda then (assuming same fructose proportions, of course)?
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by mtoledo 17y ago
If anyone can help me understand: what is the difference between eating a food with a certain fructose percentage on HFCS, and a fruit which has the same amount of fructose? And what is the difference on drinking some artificial drink with
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by mtoledo 17y ago
Did I not understand it right or does it show 79 public repos on the left, and 83 on the right?
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by mtoledo 17y ago
Just to be clear, I was already a qwerty touch typist before, so I just moved for the layout efficiency. I don't dislike the r and l placement on the right hand. I do sometimes feel p should belong on the right hand tho.
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I've recently moved from qwerty to dvorak for similar reasons. Even though it's not yet been 2 months of dvorak training, I score around the 60wpm in typeracer. One of the reasons I decided to try it was the same 8hrs a day excuse. I now ha
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I remember evaluating this with dropbox when I was after a backup solution. Ubuntu one was the same price for 10GB as dropbox was for 50. Since I had well over 10 in photos, I didn't go any further in research. Seems ubuntuone has the same
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I tried using NX to do desktop sharing among multiple users (2 in this case) like a common use case for VNC, but with no success. Doest NX work only as a way to control a desktop remotely from just one computer, with no sharing? Or am I mis
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by mtoledo 17y ago
like someone said, "flag" is associated with "report to admin" so its a bad idea as many users already have this association. I, too, think that star is more of a 'I read this and liked it' than a 'I want to mark this to read later' like yo
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by mtoledo 17y ago
It is a great book, with a very disciplined method of reading. It makes reading take too long though, and you'll get frustrated with how little books you've read and start skipping steps and adapt your own reading method. Well, that's what
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by mtoledo 17y ago
Vi's learning curve is very steep too. As an emacs user, I sometimes use vi when pairing with a vi colleague. I've tried to learn some more advanced vi functionalities, but I always think the learning curve is not worth leaving emacs behind
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by mtoledo 17y ago
Because you can't know that you'll never ever click on the ads for sure. The ads change, and people change too.
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I don't use the mouse except for interacting with flash inside the browser. For the browser I usually use a mix of firefox's "mouseless browsing" and search with ' key. The shell is bad for copy/pasting with only the keyboard. Even if ctrl+
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by mtoledo 17y ago
The truth on the software industry is: 1) Nobody makes software with a plan on when to replace it. They just assume the time will come and they'll know in the future. 2) Rewriting software is usually a bad idea, although there are some su
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Watch out for using ActiveRecord’s update_attributes on dirty objects(marcostoledo.com)
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by mtoledo 17y ago
well, I do make some mistakes in english. Still, sometimes I express myself better in english than in portuguese (My native language) rather than the other way around, and I can understand the Eminem songs (although haven't heard many of th
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I only browse using the keyboard with firefox+mouseless browsing. It's got to a point where its faster than the mouse in 80% of the situations, and acceptable in other 15% of the situations. In 5% of the situations I still have to grab the
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by mtoledo 17y ago
You shouldn't be making your decision on how much money they are saving, but on how much value you are getting.
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I used to have a hard time trying to concentrate at work. I would work for 9 hours a day but not get so much work done as I expect. So I kept looking for ways to fix it: stay away from the internet, track time working vs resting in minutes
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by mtoledo 17y ago
I totally agree with their perspectives.. (maybe not going as far as not using a web browser, but I'm sure concentration is not his only reason for this). If you have a cellphone on which you received calls from people you follow on twitter
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by mtoledo 17y ago
As long as you are not able to keep your concentration because something is not being of use that's actually great. Most of the people complain on not being able to keep concentrating on tasks they do find of use tho, but which need long pe
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by mtoledo 17y ago
no. Learning and difficulty is not linear where the most impossible teaches the most. After a certain challenging level you learn less. Like in weight training, piano, math, etc. Learning a piano piece you cant play wont make you a good pia

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