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Male, female or 48 other varieties? Now Facebook offers users FIFTY different...(dailymail.co.uk)
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by yawz 13y ago
For the ones who require some extra motivation to remain disciplined, you can use a tool like SelfControl ( http://selfcontrolapp.com/ ) to keep you away from casual browsing. Also, FWIW, I find Pomodoro's time slicing t
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On a mac, you can display the clock widget multiple times with different time zones and access it with <Ctrl> + Left Arrow. Pretty quick feedback IMHO.
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by yawz 13y ago
Any remote-working developer who's pair-programming ? I'd love to hear about your experiences? I know there's been a few attempts at creating remote pair-programming tools but I'm not familiar with any particularly succ
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by yawz 13y ago
I've tried a few things. I find Sqwiggle's ( https://www.sqwiggle.com/ ) approach the best. You can see your team thanks to a-few-minute-apart snapshots and you're just a click away from talking to them.
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by yawz 13y ago
I don't get the "everyone is a critic these days" argument. We are entitled to our own opinions. As long as the opinions are expressed in a non-insulting manner, we have the right to utter them. We don't need a PhD, we d
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Zoo kills "surplus" giraffe in front of children, feeds it to lions(io9.com)
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> I use a waterproof notepad to write down ideas there Seriously?! Very very cool. I should get one of those.
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Unfortunately this is just one of the current oppressions in Turkey. This pro-Islamic government has limited individual freedom by every step taken, ironically in the name of "advanced democracy". Scare tactics such as putting peo
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by yawz 13y ago
I like certain regions of Bordeaux: Saint-Emilion (it has also sub regions), Pomerol, Fronsac, etc.) I also quite like Bourgogne. Good red wine. If you like white wine you should try Chablis and Macon Village. Alsace has Gewurztraminer, whi
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Mexican plants could break code on gibberish manuscript(newscientist.com)
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> ...its sorrows in a bottle of beaujolais... You'll have more sorrows after drinking some Beaujolais. It's incredible that this is one of the best known wine regions in France. At most barely-drinkable, Beaujolais is inferio
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The Most Important Moment In The Evolution Of Life(io9.com)
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by yawz 13y ago
We, as an industry, feel the need to invent catchy names to existing things so that we can sell/market our products. Big Data, Cloud, SOA, (and the worst of all) Web 2.0, etc. Then, we get to debate forever trying to fit definitions t
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Hands On With Facebook Paper(techcrunch.com)
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Michael Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is a great book that I would recommend for such situations.
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Not saying it's the same everywhere but with British Airways you can access a better lounge if you're First Class (not sure if they have meals - maybe someone can confirm that).
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What would the Earth be like if it was the shape of a donut?(io9.com)
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Six Great Ways to Engage Your API Community(blog.programmableweb.com)
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Passengers win ruling in fight over Gogo's in-flight WiFi "monopoly"(gigaom.com)
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As Ballmer leaves, a demographic shift at Microsoft?(gigaom.com)
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Inside Google's Mysterious Ethics Board(forbes.com)
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Oh man! I've been looking for a great to-do list manager for so long. I've tried many different ways and more recently many mobile apps. I'm afraid at the end of the day it boils down to, in big part, discipline. I'm al
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by yawz 13y ago
You got to love soccer (the real football :) ) for this. Eating during matches is not part of the culture. Actually it's all about watching the game and cheering for your team... nothing else. (Unfortunately soccer has other quite big
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Synchronizing a Restored Event Driven Component with its Upstream Components(blog.decaresystems.ie)
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Go Broncos!!! :)
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When I work from a coffee shop one of my concerns is the restroom breaks. You can't really leave all your stuff on the table. You can't easily take them with you either. My solution is to ask people to my mind stuff but it's
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Ask HN: How would you build a site like HN?
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> statistics ... collected from W3Schools' log-files ... I guess this does not represent a near-perfect sampling. So I wouldn't rely too much on the single-digit aspect (although it makes a nice title) of the stats but the tr
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Even in the case of rich founders, I think money is such a great enabler that one can take that incredible amount and move on to the next thing (or things). I respect one's decision to brush the money aside and move on towards the big

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