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Quitting the internet? How is that any less ridiculous than someone in the 1980s saying he's going to quit using the phone and reading the newspaper because he feels addicted to ca…

I don't use Twitter myself (either to follow anyone or to post my own stories), but I work for a large tech company, and I fundamentally disagree with the article's first assertion…

It could be that my estimation of other people's elbow angles are incorrect. When I place my hand above the numeric keypad, my elbow angle is about 100 degrees. When I move it abou…

> I'm now trying to retrain my hands to keep the mouse closer. I find that I naturally end up keeping the mouse in about the same place as always, far to the right of the keyboard.…

Very good point. I was about to jump into the prescriptivist-bashing fray - in fact, I upvoted subwindow's comment, and I can't take it back, since I don't have enough karma - unti…

Very good point - in the dinner examples, if the parties involved agree with the proposal, everyone involved "wins" in some form or another: The person paying builds up "you'll owe…

The "ridiculous reason" scheme works, and Cialdini would probably agree, because people are always looking for the easiest route to a decision. If there's a situation in which they…

I wonder if the researchers know about Dasher and have considered combining the two interfaces to make text entry even faster? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher Or is the issue t…

30 to 40 minutes a day, 7 days a week. 4 days a week: cardio. 3 days a week: weights. For cardio, it's most often the stationary bike in my condo gym. I pedal as fast as I can get …

A biz dev guy from Wolfram gave me a walkthrough recently (no NDA required, which was nice) - he had a big text list of queries that he ran through it, and although I didn't try to…

After coming back to the light background of the Hacker News web site, I have a mutation of my eye sockets. I know this is completely irrelevant to the linked article, but using wh…

Strong candidate for worst infographic ever. Can't imagine how a simple text list wouldn't be better in almost every way, except in terms of providing a graphic designer several ho…

Satire's usually more effective when it's not immediately obvious, as in this BMJ article: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/329/7480/1447?ehom

> Onko joskus tullut eteen tilanne, jossa olisit halunnut siirtää osan ikkunasta toiseen paikkaan? Homma ei onnistu ilman oheista Basic-laajennusta. Se lisää QL:n käskysvalikoimaan…

I used to use Basecamp as part of an eight-member team for web projects. After a few weeks, it had so many rabbit holes of data in it (each one created by different users who creat…

I do my work in the "interstices of [my] mind-wandering." That quote (see http://tinyurl.com/454tao ) is going to stick with me for a while.

What happened to consistency? You people disappoint me. I clicked on this comment thread expecting disdainful sneers, not cautious optimism.

Upvoted for the obviously intentional meta-irony.

"The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR," by Al and Laura Ries.

"Influence," by Robert Cialdini - although it's not necessarily packaged as a marketing book.

IE 6 gets my vote because of the three browsers (IE6, IE7, FF2) that are most popular on the site I work on and therefore have to have installed, it allows for the smallest amount …

Hi, is this the line for bitching about all stuff related to 37signals? If so, my complaint goes back a couple of years - when someone on my team suggested using Basecamp for manag…