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Re:Creative People Say No on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:08PM (#5918767)
wonder what the ideal amount of time spent on work is. tim ferriss seems to recommend 4 hours (surprise, surprise...) of "real" work.

what's your "Time and attention management" like?

Re:The Biggest Thing Since the Light Bulb on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @06:47AM (#5330643)
i think the balancing he talked about happened far earlier than the bans. or what bans on what kinda incandescent lightbulbs are you talking about?
Re:Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @11:34AM (#5325441)
it's down. :( what is it? just drowning out distracting sounds or magic productivity noise?
Re:JS roguelike game: The Royal Wedding on Monday March 04, 2013 @02:36PM (#5320271)
so i dropped my weapon to pick a flower and then i went into the dungeon unarmed... great
Re:It’s the Sugar, Folks on Friday March 01, 2013 @07:16AM (#5303873)
that doesnt mean there's a better option though. what else are we gonna do, have some committee tell us which toothpaste to use?
Re:DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @08:20PM (#5289864)
looks like the a-team is helping the rebels
Re:Only Apple and Google are skating to where the puck is going on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @10:21AM (#5286058)
can't one just install a different OS? or is the chromebook pixel using some weird hardware?
Re:Bullying has to stop, now. on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @06:14AM (#5284968)
uh, all im seeing is a quote about some piece and it fades out until i move the mouse again...??
Re:TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language on Sunday February 24, 2013 @05:47PM (#5276269)
looks like you can put string arrays and int arrays into the same array though.

"data = [ ["gamma", "delta"], [1, 2] ] # just an update to make sure parsers support it"

so in a static language it would be like: Array<Array<???>> not sure this makes any sense

Re:25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:06PM (#5270688)
it's not like it's a good thing for hackers if their OS doesn't "just work".
Re:Bret Victor's live editable game in ClojureScript on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @02:00AM (#3642211)
hmm, when you unpause, the player just falls straight down rather, ignoring the velocity it should have.

also, in the talk the player's path was projected into the future, iirc, not just showing the past

huh, i think i just gave him kudos; what the hell was that?
Re:The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: It's evolution, stupid on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @06:19AM (#3589560)
you ignored the problem i saw with it. if there's no public component to it and people would only share with their friends, the availability of piracy would be severely limited.

and if there is, the content industry could still get their "spies" in.

Re:The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: It's evolution, stupid on Monday February 13, 2012 @06:01PM (#3587721)
i may be out of the loop, but... none of the popular ways of piracy are generally encrypted are they? if all the unencrypted ones were to be shut down, would it be possible to replace them with safe ones?

i mean with public p2p filesharing, you can always "spy" on the sharers. i mean it has the be decryptable for you to download it, right? and youll know who sent it.

and with stuff that hosted somewhere, whether it's some usenet provider or megaupload, you can always shut down the hoster.

people could still pirate by directly sending each other encrypted files, but you'd always have to know someone personally who has what you want. which would make piracy much harder.

why am i wrong? ;)

Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:15PM (#3587560)
i don't see what the problem is, to be honest
Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever on Monday February 13, 2012 @04:44PM (#3587456)
what's ST:FU?
Re:Modern Language Wishlist on Friday February 03, 2012 @06:50AM (#3546756)
thanks :)
Re:Modern Language Wishlist on Friday February 03, 2012 @02:10AM (#3546171)
hmm, what exactly does he mean by data-oriented programming?

iirc that's something where you don't store data chopped up into objects, but have arrays that keep all the data of one "aspect" of all "objects"... or something like that. something game programmers would use, helps avoid cache misses.

is that what he was talking about? if so, what does it have to do with macros?

Re:This is why I don't give you a job on Saturday January 07, 2012 @03:07AM (#3436533)
> but you sure can't fire someone based on gender or age anywhere in the United States—and he opens with his desire to do just that.

i think his desire was to be able to fire people who don't do their job or dont do it well

what are smart-ish jeans?
i wish he'd do it in clojurescript
Re:Fexl - a Function Expression Language on Friday July 01, 2011 @11:06AM (#2718596)
i dont understand the identity function that uses just C and S. :(

C x y = x

S x y z = (x z) (y z)

\I = (S C C)

so uh... that would evaluate to (\z (C z) (C z)), right? and then to (\z z z)? but then you got z twice. what does that even mean? applying z to z?

Re:Sitting for hours can shave years off life on Monday June 27, 2011 @03:36PM (#2702667)
i have had a standing desk for a while and i dont like the hurting feet at all. gotta fix this somehow. :(
Re:Please, make yourself uncomfortable on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @08:37AM (#2682816)
just bring them to antarctica maybe
Re:A pulse no longer necessary for life on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:23PM (#2657747)
maybe you're just always getting increased oxygen, making you a superhuman. :)

i wonder what it feels like to have no pulse.

i've been using a standing desk for quite a while now. first i used a small table that i put on my desk, now i use a board on the wall and the sreen is screwed onto the wall above it.

one problem i have is that it seems like all gel mats only ship to the us. amazon.com would ship to germany, but i dont have any way to pay there.

anyone know of a way to get a gel mat in germany?

Re:"A JVM Does What?" on Thursday April 07, 2011 @03:18AM (#2418556)
i was wondering about that too. he later mentioned that the format is bad and that .net bytecode has a better format, so i think maybe he didnt mean bytecode in general but the format of jvm-bytecode.
Re:Exercise More to Hack Better on Thursday November 04, 2010 @11:08AM (#1869180)
what do you do in winter?
i was surprised they save my search history. :naive: is there even any legitimate use for that?

any ways to prevent that without making googling less easy?

Re:Compared to you, most people seem dumb on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @04:19AM (#1833458)
now im curious. how does texting someone back on the iphone work?

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