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Re:Ask HN: What Do You Do In The First Hour of The Day? on Saturday September 08, 2012 @06:02PM (#4494153)
Snooze the alarm for 30-45 minutes, leap out of bed at last minute, put on matching clean clothes, tie hair back and dash out to work. If I have extra time I'll put on some makeup.
Re:Automatic 'ls' after 'cd' in the Terminal on Thursday September 06, 2012 @06:23PM (#4486600)
I think I'd get disciplined for 'hacking' if I even tried to add this at work.

mmm maybe ls could be piped into more to stop an infinite screen scroll..

Re:How Healthy Is Your Office? on Friday July 20, 2012 @05:51PM (#4273039)
In my office they pull the blinds up fully which causes a huge glare on the computer monitors!
Re:How Healthy Is Your Office? on Friday July 20, 2012 @02:00PM (#4272045)
"10. Allow Pets in the Office"

Wouldn't having dogs/cats/miscellaneous animals roaming the cube farms be in breach of health and safety regulations? Think of all the lovely 'surprises' people would find on the carpets.

Although, how about training all the dogs to bark whenever upper management start talking?

I think it's a good idea. The problem with Tumblr is that you're encouraged to theme your blog, e.g. fitness, hunger games or whatever, so you end up having to make different blogs for each topic you're into because people that follow you aren't going to want to see workout logs mixed in with hunger games gifs.

It is a nifty idea to just be able to toss down some random idea on to a blog with no other pressure. With tumblr there is the pressure of having to blog regularly, queue up posts to publish every hour and keep to a theme etc.

Re:How Depressives Surf the Web on Sunday June 17, 2012 @12:00PM (#4123171)
How does increased amounts of online chatting lead to a diagnosis of depressive symptoms? To be honest, my brain is so slowed down by depression, I can't muster much energy to chat or comment excessively online.

Besides, in my opinion, having 20+ tabs of news and information etc helps stave off depression. It sure beats sitting staring blankly at a wall or wallowing in it by reading self-help books.

Re:Opportunity - A Better Way to Consume Facebook? on Sunday June 17, 2012 @11:32AM (#4123122)
I've been browsing userscripts.org to find something to remove the sponsored advertisements from FB. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/131326 seems to work for now.

If you use Chrome you can install the script natively to the browser, otherwise use GreaseMonkey + Firefox.