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Re:Life is a game, this is your strategy guide by benihana on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:32AM (#7184252)
Sigh. Hacker News top comment. It's not "wow this is great!" or "nice work, great illustrations, I'll show this to my students!"

It's "I'm so irritated that I already knew what you just told me and I learned it from a better source that I want to assault you!! Why don't you read the same things I read!!?"

Re:Life is a game, this is your strategy guide by hugogee on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @12:31PM (#7185195)
Dont know bout you but im lapping up all the wonderful references to books & authors. -cheers

There is biking aphorism that comes to mind, if you stare at that stump you WILL hit it.

Re:Life is a game, this is your strategy guide by sorvalk on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @04:24PM (#7186904)
It's true and not just in biking:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation