GreenNight

1) Perhaps is because of what we are used to, but I read much better with page turn than with page down.

I read a book in the computer, and I read it scrolling down. It didn't feel fulfilling. It was like reading a web-page.

But having read a couple of books in my phone (with the kindle app) it felt natural again, I enjoyed much more the books that way.

And no, the quality of the book was not the question. It was a free download (by the publisher) and a year or so later I've bought it on paper and read it again. It was much more fulfilling this way.

Perhaps in half a generation or so people will feel more natural going down than sideways, right now I prefer the later.

Great book, it's a shame it doesn't have sequels...

P.D. Yes, it has sequels, written by a different author with a focus that seems the opposite than the one on the first book. Not recommended.

>Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time.

You can do it manually. Activate the game to play, alt-tab to Steam. Library, view the downloads. The download will be suspended, pause it and then you can unpause it and it'll resume downloading. Alt-tab back to the game.

Lots of work, but it works (or at least I think it did when I last tried it).

For me it depends.

On programming searches DDG goes better for me (than Google) because it uses the English data. Google insists on using Spanish data even though I disallow results in other languages than English or Catalan.

For other searches, mostly local information but if it's something recent too, Google goes better. So I use DDG at work, and Google at home.

With friends we do the same when we meet to LAN play. We copy the games into a USB stick and pass it around. It's waaaaay quicker than downloading from steam, and quicker than copying through the local net.

If you know the right folder you just copy it there, buy the game if you didn't already have it, and just wait a little for it to check the integrity of the install.

This article has me almost wishing to start a data courier service. Flying around the globe transporting data.

Even if it's "bigger" than just placing the [turn right] it's faster if you do a:

if not wall right then turn right

instead.

And it's already corrected in there:

>One way we save energy is by keeping the temperature on our server floors at a warm 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

Either that or I'm seeing a different one.

Not for me. For me that's a brand new old car.

Yes, it has all the parts of the old car, and only those pieces, but it was assembled anew from zero.

A more difficult dichotomy would be: what if we exchange parts between two cars until each one is the other one. That's hard to decide.

You have an old car, and you want to renew it. If you buy it brand new and toss the old one, you are destroying the old one. If you keep changing pieces of it, testing them to see they work, and keep going until you have replaced the whole car, it's still the old car, just brand new.

There's not much difference at the end, except that you can consider that the second way of doing things will let you still use the old car, only it'll be new.

I too thought about their car technologies, but to me it doesn't mean drive like a floppy disk drive, it means drive as in hard disk drive (HDD).

Google Storage would have been a more descriptive name, but it'll be a while until we get rid of our C: and D: drives.

Could be useful IN a startup, but not AS a startup.

AFAIK YCombinator is for creating startups, not for letting outside people be a part of one.

You want to prove your will? Ask your neighbours, parents, friends, people you find in the street, ask them for what troubles them, what little things they have to do what would rather not. Find a way to solve it, charging money, low enough that they would rather pay, high enough that you cover costs.

Then you either have a nice startup of your own or at least you have some experience that you can share here. Repeat until success or bust.

It's been in Steam for years, I bought it long ago.

And while it's a great game I don't think this brings anything to the discussion (at least unless you elaborate).

"page 867" means nothing, but so does scrolling down for half an hour. And the first one is faster.

You pay for designs, not for the final product. It's not different than buying programs for your computer.

Of course at the beginning the products will be sold assembled from shops with 3D machines for rent.

Timezones are not an ugly hack.

When you travel to a different timezones you just have to adjust your clock and, without asking, you know that shops open at 8~10am until 4~8pm with or without a midday stop for lunch (12~3). You have dinner at 18~22, and breakfast at 8~10. All the divergences depend on the country you are in but you can get good aproximations that work for 90% of them (breakfast 9, open shops 10, lunch 13, close 17, dinner 20).

But, if you go for an universal timezone, you've got to learn the different times for the different activities again and again and again. You change a one step correction (change time on your watch) to a constant struggle.

With universal timezone: You wake up when travelling, it's 17:30 and you don't remember the country unless you do the mental effort to wake up, it's time to get up or not? You start to calculate and... too late to decide, you are already woken and could not get back to sleep even if you wanted.

With different timezones: You wake up when travelling, it's 2:30 and you don't remember the country unless you do the mental effort to wake up, it's time to get up or not? No, time to sleep some more.

No, I don't think so.

I love what I do (my hobby - swing dancing). I do it for 3-5 hours a day (after work). I would improve much faster if I danced less, spent most of the time doing hard work (cleaning my moves, learning more moves, more cardio, ...) and rested more.

Right now I'm always on a tired state, and improving quite well, but finding myself lacking in a lot of ways. When I take a break my improvement is greatly enhanced.

It depends. A shooter? Yeah, piece of cake. An RPG? Sorry, but depending on the country no that many people could understand it well enough to follow the story.

TV Series do get around the moment they get on a torrent site, but many many people can follow them thanks to the subtitles provided by fellow viewers. If not they would have a harder time following them.

Or it could also be that people that were eating less salt where the ones that had a history of heart problems (their own or their parents) so it had nothing to do with the sodium intake.

Kudos to him. Only 1 year and 5 months to reach 2000 hours! I'm impressed.

I began dancing Lindy Hop on 31st August 2009 and have been counting my hours (swing classes and dancing, not just lindy but also related styles) and I am not yet at the 1000 hour (almost there). I'm one of the most active dancers in the local scene and at 2nd or 3rd tier of the local dancers, the first being really good, so I have still lots of room to improve (not counting that I also go abroad).

He does about 4 hours a day of practice, that's 28 a week. Only in the most intensive workshops I have made those hours, and that wasn't deliberate practice.

I'll have to follow him just to motivate myself a bit more :D

They could add google groups to the google+ environment.

Create a minecraft group with only the manager being able to post there but that anyone can see and you have what he wants.

Create a minecraft group with open/moderated subscribership and you have a typical forum.

Create a minecraft group with private subscription and you have your private channel.

For this groups should be both a persona and a circle. The group persona is who you follow to read, the group circle is who will have access to the information (like in the google groups).

Now it recognises the groups and gets the images from there if you add one, but there's no place in the group to add "accept posts from google+", and no place in google+ to "read from the groups I'm subscribed".

Sometimes you discover things you love "late" in your life.

I always have loved dancing, but only did that in discos and partying, taking no classes. Then I started going to some classes (bollywood dancing) in 2008. That wasn't it yet.

September 2009 I started doing lindy hop, I love it. If I could devote even more time to it I would, but it's hard to do with a full-time job that pays for the dancing and some family debt. I was 34 then, and some time later I started keeping an approximate account of how much have I done, classes and social dancing, to have an idea of how much it would take to get to the 10k hours to be really good(yeah, I heard of it too).

Now I have about around 694 hours of lindy-related dances (287 classes, 309 social, 91 solo charleston and some tap, blues to the side) and I'm starting to be good enough to recognise most of my failings without help.

It's not as impressive as what he does, but it's about 11 hours of dancing a week this year, while keeping a full-time job, being a bit sleep-deprived because of night parties, and trying to live as frugal as I can in order to have money for classes, international workshops and parties almost every day of the week.

Yeah, this means that if this (10k hours) is true I'd need a bit more than 20 years to get to be exceptional. Well, at least I will get good at this thing I love.

It's not Catalonia, it's Catalan.

Catalan is spoken in these regions: (spain) Catalonia, Valencia, Mallorca, some of Aragon in South-Eastern France a town in Sardinia (Alguer / Alghero) Andorra (a small country)

For the rest of cultural/linguistic TLDs... have they asked for one?

And when entering the subway if there's a crowd to enter at your door let them enter first or go to another. I saw someone getting pickpocketed this way in Barcelona, and a friend was pickpocketed like this in London.

This has bothered me from time to time for a long time too. It usually affects me most when I get to make other people do things I though they would not do for me. I've got no cure or definite answer for it.

On the other hand I felt the same of my dancing abilities (and still do) but being praised(+) a lot by lots of people, some of them being international dancing figures, and one of my teachers - whom I find an excellent dancer - asking me to enter into her (not truly professional but important to her) dance company has made wonders to improve my self-image. Even though I feel clumsy from time to time, once a dance or so ;)

So I guess trying to improve more in what you feel you do badly until everyone praises that aspect of you can help it.

(+) I've got to say the praises where not about my technical level, but more about energy, fun and all the things that make a dance alive.

It reminds me of: http://tiki.oneworld.net/sustain/tourist.html

In the version I read, before finding this one, it talked about playing with the kids, sleeping with the wife and drinking and playing guitar with friends instead of laying in the sun.

Quite inflated still, it'll be a long time until they go down or a longer time until wages catch up (in the opinion of some, me included).

The problem here is that you cannot return the house to the bank and be debt free. If you give your house back to them they sell it, and whatever is not covered by the sale you still owe to the bank.

And if you still owe 200K€ to the bank but your house valuation has gone under that you have a hard time, because you have to put up with the extra value with some other possessions you have.

So it's not very pretty.

I have not understood most of it (economics is not my strength and I've got a cold or a flu that gives me a headache) so I'll have to ask.

Could the divergence (or some of it) be explained by the off the books economy that is quite strong here in Spain?

There's plenty of stories of people being "unemployed" but having a job, and employed people with other ways to increase their capital (off-the-books renting, hidden side-jobs, non-declared extra hours,...).

Thanks.

I complain because it has changed, while I was typing, one or more of the words I typed, resulting in a loss of time, having to go back to those (now) wrong words and replacing them with the right ones.

I tend to know better than Google Instant what is the precise search term I need to use to give me the results I want, be it either because it is technical or (some other times) because it's in a not very big language.

My bad, 7D roguelike, or making a rogue-like game in 7 days. Still too sleep deprived after two weeks of dance classes + parties and coming back to work. Three coffees a day are the bare minimum.

Totally agree on the abandoning of goals (and the rest of your comment is also gold).

People here tend to be too goal oriented, and that's perfect when you have a goal that you want to attain in an area that you love working. But the truth is that it seems that having all the basic needs fulfilled you don't find enough attraction to the higher needs (in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs) that you have in mind. It probably is because the goals you've set aren't really the ones you crave for.

I was, more or less, like you, high twenties, nor happy neither sad, bored with everything. Now, mid thirties, I'm full of energy and will to live to the fullest with the things I love to do. What I did was to start doing activities after work, stuck with the ones I liked (longer the more I liked them) and discarded the ones I didn't like much.

Different martial arts, guitar playing, vegetarian dishes, ... I started to do whatever I felt the desire to do and could be done in a short course (3 months of 1 weekly hour). Until I found my passion (dancing). Now I devote most of my free time to it, I even have left WoW because I have no time for it.

Try things, in a short time scale (i.e.: 7D RPG, NaNoWriMo, weekend kayaking, ...) , and keep with what you have the most fun. Life is worth living, don't waste it all on external goals or in doing things because they will look good on your resumé (unless that's what you love to do, of course).