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by prole 15y ago
I agree this feature would make for an even more enlightening experience. Color/shade the highlighting as a function of its total lifetime on the screen. Words that are typed and deleted immediately after are the darkest yellow, words that
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by prole 15y ago
(deleted and moved here because it messed up the post order) Ooh, ooh, and one more thing... 12. Advance your skills at all times [...] It's hard to say what will be popular in the software industry in ten years, but I can guarantee it won'
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by prole 15y ago
(continued) >32. Never Get Drunk At Work Parties I'd rephrase this to "know thyself". If you know you tend to show your anger/depression/lecherousness when drunk, maybe it wouldn't be such a great idea. Working for companies big and sma
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by prole 15y ago
Reading this, I was immediately reminded of why I couldn't wait any longer to start my own company. As others have mentioned in the thread, many of these 33 lessons are spot-on ...unfortunately. (I don't want to sound like I'm criticizing t
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by prole 16y ago
Luckily for them, they might benefit from having a "business" Internet link as opposed to a "home" one. Before going to China, I decided to set up a server I could securely tunnel my browsing through. There are many commercial VPN solutions
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by prole 16y ago
These points have merit, yet I know of at least one pioneering effort that was successful: The "Higher Cracking University" or +HCU for short. It ceased functioning a long while back, but at that time it didn't just meet, but far surpassed
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by prole 16y ago
Excellent links. Here's a shortcut to Professor Mitra's publications on the topic since the BBC article is minimally informative about his research. http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Publications.html
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by prole 16y ago
From the article: "Learning From Bad Things That Happen Bad things happen to everyone, sometimes because of what we do and sometimes with help from us. We all have bad bosses, bad staffs, impossible and hopeless situations, impossible task
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Neil Postman: Informing Ourselves to Death(mat.upm.es)
1 points by prole 16y ago|0 comments
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by prole 16y ago
I highly agree with the notion that one shouldn't deny one's weaknesses, and instead try to turn them into strengths (as raheemm and joshkaufman have written in this thread). This question, "Are you an information addict?" came at an opport
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by prole 16y ago
In addition to providing the original footage, WikiLeaks appears eager to directly combat the misinformation sown by the U.S. government since the incident took place. My guess is that they wanted to refute the official reports step-by-step
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by prole 16y ago
Bill Hicks offers another answer: I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country; since about 1980, oddly enough. … I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and after the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, but
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Through the Dark Forest with a Critical Mind: Evaluating Information(neutralground.blogg.se)
1 points by prole 16y ago|0 comments
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by prole 16y ago
I'll agree with nickpp to a point: that happiness is transient, and that one cannot appreciate happiness without having suffered (however much or little - it's all relative, it's all in your head). Having dabbled in Zen Buddhism, I don't li
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by prole 17y ago
It's all in the mind. Framing is essential. As you've worded it, "[I need to] buckle down and start working" sounds like the beginning a painful trek that anyone would try to avoid. Instead, thinking about the exact same thing as "[I] final
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by prole 17y ago
The blog author left out the one-stop-shop for tracing: the ISP. If your upload (comment/image/etc.) draws some heat, and your IP address is listed in that server's logs, all it takes is a subpoena to that IP's ISP to see everything you'v
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by prole 17y ago
Quite the opposite. The journalist idea of "Anonymous" is very different from the insider idea of Anonymous. In the simplest terms, Anonymous is anyone, really. It's not limited to 4chan users (there are other chans, and the users sometime
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by prole 17y ago
Exploring the linked site a little deeper, there's this gem on making applications more game-like: http://lostgarden.com/Mixing_Games_and_Applications.pdf From what the author explains in the presentation, vim violates the tried-and-true
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by prole 17y ago
Gilder's opinion piece went from nebulous to outright flamebait upon reading these back-to-back lines: It is ironic that liberals who once welcomed appeasement of the monstrous regime of Mao Zedong now become openly bellicose at various mu
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by prole 17y ago
> Now the European Union and the U.S. Trade Representative office are considering an argument that the Great Firewall violates China’s obligations to permit free trade in services under its agreements with the WTO. I feel that if anyon
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by prole 17y ago
I'm in Harbin, but location has little to do with it since this pertains more to cyberspace than meatspace. The pro-Google sentiment I refer to in the beginning was coming from mostly Western blogs and social news sites. For a Chinese netiz
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by prole 17y ago
This quote was a generalization, but aimed at ordinary users. As mentioned in this article describing Microsoft's efforts in China ( http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/... ), after years of failed attempts, MS was a
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by prole 17y ago
Disclosure: I am the author of this blog post. I previously worked in IT before coming to China almost a year ago. Currently, I teach English and enjoy reading, researching, and writing with the free time this new profession affords me. I'v
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A Deeper Look Into Google's 800-Pound Panda Problem(neutralground.blogg.se)
115 points by prole 17y ago|30 comments