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I have the same experience as you and the author. Chrome extensions with timers such as StayFocusd have not worked for me. I just disable it or use firefox or something. What if th…

You are being needlessly modest. Your posts are always insightful and often valuable. I personally would not mind if you built a bot to spam the front page with your old articles.

As I read I thought, wow this dude sounds just like my friend Phillip from high school. Glad to hear you're doing well. -Frank

Dear Craiglist, please let Padmapper continue to scrape your data for free because I find Padmapper super useful and much better than your shitty site. I'm not going to address you…

This is something I always wondered about. I get FAR more tired running 2 real miles than 2 "miles" on a treadmill. On a treadmill, both of your feet are in the air for a significa…

I walk into a restaurant. They charge me $10 for a meal. Yet they only paid $2 for the ingredients! Now I don't know a lot of math, but even I know that 2 goes into 10... FIVE time…

Blabber is a short story, Vinge's first foray into the Zones of Thought Universe, and features several cameos from A Fire Upon the Deep: http://books.google.com/books?id=txBNZiQw2G…

Because when Marco Polo returned from China, he brought with him fantastic stories of meat pies, mythical pastries with the meat INSIDE of the bread. How did it get in there? Nobod…

Isn't Intel having another go at it by acquiring Infineon? http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/08/30/intel-acquires-infine...

All of those magazines should pay her for cleaning up their sloppy work.

When your SO is paying you they have a name for that as well.

"Genius" is 10,000 hours of constant improvement. Spending 10,000 hours on something is incredibly common. Everyone spends 10,000 hours on multiple things. But we coast. It's what …

There are some things that you cannot help BUT teach your children. It's part of who you are, your daily habits, your aspirations, your worldview of what a parent should be. Just b…

Yes, I have a recommendation. Get 10 packets of 8.5 X 14 printer paper. (8.5 X 11 works too, but not as well) Make a tower for your keyboard. Make another tower for your mouse. Til…

Compared to me, most people ARE dumb, in my area of expertise. What's that you say? Step out of my area of expertise? No.

For pg, diversification would be to take that $1M and plow it into 30 promising startups.

This is like saying that car designs should be more "mechanic friendly" and less "closed" because every car owner is a potential mechanic, and mechanics learn by working on their p…

The author met the prerequisite for getting lucky, which is several tens of thousands of hours of failure and iteration. Sure, if he were more mature, or wrote more coherently than…

What are you going to do personally to address this evil that you seem so outraged by? Nothing.

My boss was doing an internship at Intel, and didn't have time to verify the floating point unit because he had to go back to school.

Isn't there overwhelming logic that heavier objects fall faster? After all, force = mass * acceleration, and if there's more mass, there's more force. Isn't it LOGICAL that the imm…

Those things are inherent to the human condition. They are hard wired into our DNA. Where we go, so will they.

You know how most people decide when someone is telling the truth? I agree with him = he's honest. I disagree with him = he's lying. Very few people care about object evidence that…

I use Firefox on a Windows box. Page 1: Looks interesting. Download or Start Reading? I'll Read. Click. Page 2: Stop. Do something unexpected. Cool. Okay, how do I go to the next p…

Being smart about trying to get rich includes getting the right people to help you. Obviously. Think about the richest person you personally know. Was it really "at the expense of …