zupatol

20 ms·

151.
by zupatol 18y ago
I'm not that wise. Sometimes when I have a good idea can't help fantasizing about receiving awards. Lately I've seen myself teaching young people about my accomplishments. Knowing this is completely ridiculous is not enough to stop it. So m
152.
by zupatol 18y ago
At least in the french-speaking world, celebrities have gotten used to this. Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at an authority figure, as a means of protesting against a perceived flaw (arrogance, hubris) in the target's character. and
153.
by zupatol 18y ago
I believe that I'm placed here on Earth with a purpose and a plan I stopped believing long ago, and this feeling is the one thing I miss. Ironically, perfectionism could be just the thing that drove me away from religion. I could not acce
154.
by zupatol 18y ago
That's the only thing I liked in that movie.
155.
by zupatol 18y ago
If you focus on quality, you end up with inferior quality compared to people who focus on quantity That sounds a bit simple. What about that other great bearded wonder, Leonardo? He only made about 30 paintings. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
156.
by zupatol 18y ago
My first job was in a small software company where all programmers worked part-time. Their interests outside the job were varied widely. One wrote software for chimney sweepers, another published a chess fanzine, there was a coach of an ath
157.
by zupatol 18y ago
He does not bother mentioning that it does not work with internet explorer. It would be nice if ie already was that irrelevant.
158.
by zupatol 18y ago
It depends a lot on the country you're in. In Switzerland, the last time I was unemployed, I got about 80% of my salary, and they would have paid it for two years. You have to 'prove' you are looking for a job, but not getting hired when yo
159.
by zupatol 18y ago
I just put the first one my reading list. Judging by what I see on amazon.com, Storr analyzes the life of some famous people that apparently managed to be happy through work despite 'inferior relationships'. The one I've read is 'Loneliness
160.
by zupatol 18y ago
> "This is enough of suffering for me! I do NOT need a friend/girlfriend to be happy and to feel fulfilled. If I have to, I'll go by myself just fine, thank you!" This might be realistic in the case of a girlfriend, but is hard to belie
161.
by zupatol 18y ago
Dont blame this on yourself, it has nothing to do with being narrow. There's something broken about the whole of society. One american in four has no one to really talk to. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06... L
162.
by zupatol 18y ago
I think you are giving too much importance to the kind of subjects you discuss with friends. The important thing is that you get along well, not what you are talking about. Part of what you say sounds like the trouble of growing up. There i
163.
by zupatol 18y ago
They are common. The problems they don't solve is how to allocate the assets between currencies. Also part of my money is in fixed income papers. So even when not trying to beat the market, there are some decisions I would like to leave to
164.
by zupatol 18y ago
I think lots of people are ready to forego higher returns for higher security. That's what I ask from my banker. For a short while I was looking for a bank that would just have a portfolio that follows the market instead of trying to beat i
165.
by zupatol 18y ago
That reminds me of a drawing by Robert Crumb. http://www.bookpalace.com/acatalog/CrumbLife.jpg
166.
by zupatol 18y ago
I trust David Byrne. http://www.davidbyrne.com/radio/ For some reason I stopped listening to new music around 1990. Recently I tried to find new stuff on the internet. I made my favorite discoveries on David Byrne's playlist. He posts a n
167.
by zupatol 18y ago
There are so many ugly buildings I wish would not last. There is so much ugly undocumented software not getting scrapped because no one knows what it does exactly. Sometimes it's even built on top of frameworks no one finds valuable anymore
168.
by zupatol 18y ago
If I remember well, his change of outlook was to recognize that every project he undertook for his own interest had failed. He then decided to work only in the interest of everyone (or something like that), without even asking himself how h
169.
by zupatol 18y ago
It might be fun to start with a specialized language like processing, which makes it easy to create interactive animations. Here is what the creators of processing say: 'Processing was never intended as the ultimate language for programming
170.
by zupatol 18y ago
To increase the number of hours a day, make a watch with hours that last less than 60 minutes. This way you will work more hours in a day. To make time flow slower, make a watch where hours last more than 60 minutes. That way you will accom
171.
by zupatol 18y ago
I upvoted you both for being so nice.
172.
by zupatol 18y ago
It's an idea for an application I would like to have, not for a startup. However, I wouldn't be surprised if there is money to be made with an application that helps users their spend money. You could try to sell it to a phone company, or a
173.
by zupatol 18y ago
I actually carry sunscreen with me at all times. I use it maybe once a year, and I can't predict when.
174.
by zupatol 18y ago
I would like a shopping list on my mobile phone. The main inconvenience I have with my shopping list on paper is that the things I forget to buy are not automatically on next week's shopping list. And I might forget less things if I could e
175.
by zupatol 18y ago
I studied economics, but I never had the feeling of understanding much about the economy. Most of economics, including microeconomics and macroeconomics always seemed to me completely detached from reality. Theories for developing poor coun
176.
by zupatol 18y ago
It's true you can't argue someone out of being upset, because his emotions are distinct from his understanding of the situation. But if his anger is fueled by his view of the situation, changing his view will help him get his anger under co
177.
by zupatol 18y ago
Maybe I'm too optimistic. If someone close is spoiling for a fight using a pretext, I believe there must be some reason that person wants to fight, other than pure spontaneous hate. The fight is an opportunity to find out what this reason i
178.
by zupatol 18y ago
It's weird how he talks about 'winning' a fight. The point of a fight is to resolve a disagreement, and when it's resolved both have won. If one feels disadvantaged at the end, both have lost, since the same fight will probably have to be f
179.
by zupatol 18y ago
Predictions are irrelevant in risk management. You don't want to know what will happen, you want to know the worst thing that could possibly happen. What you need is a theory of probability for price movements. Financial theory uses the nor
180.
by zupatol 18y ago
A former alcoholic once told me that when he stopped drinking the sight of a wine bottle was enough to make him drunk.

More ›