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I had severe problems with flux under Ubuntu so I switched to redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/ Everybody should try a program like this, during the night/evening it is so much b…

For this kind of stuff there should be a way to flag a submission as 'sensationalist title' or 'likely false'. I just don't have the time to read all the comments for all submissio…

I know of one mountainbike forum which from time to time put interviews with famous users (for example because of very good riding video, etc) on the main page. I think this is a g…

In a first step you really have to find out _why_ you are wasting time! I thought for a long time that I am kind of addicted to the internet and that this is the reason I am wastin…

It seems that I am one of those rare people that love the ribbon (at least in Word and Powerpoint). I don't know exactly why I like it, but after using the new Word/Powerpoint for …

Yes, profiles would be some kind of solution but I'd like to have something more dynamic where I create/delete/clone profiles/instances on the fly.

If I had one wish for future browsers, it it is: I wish there would be a good/convenient way to open several independent browser instances for different purposes. There should be a…

Thanks, that looks very interesting! I wish I would have used this years ago, but (un)fortunately I switched over to Python (and some C for extensions).

I use some kind of Hungarian notation in which I do not describe the type of a variable in its name but instead its unit . Since I do a lot of medical image processing I have to de…

> Stop looking for a cause Actually I stopped looking for the cause a few years ago because I found it ;) For me, finding the cause was very important, because for years I only kne…

I totally forgot about this: This whole military thing itself was just the result of procrastination. Getting in the military was not the problem. Not getting drawn and doing somet…

"[...] therefore making the saying "just do it" or "suck it up" an appropiate response, which as you rightly discovered, got lost on modern parents" I had a discussion with my moth…

I think there are some reasons for this: - I am always very lucky. Even if I put almost no effort in any kind of project it always comes out at least ok. - My bachelor course was m…

This is not true for myself at all! Actually I think in my case all the stuff you read about procrastination does not really aplly to my procrastination: I think I am one of the wo…

Yeah, I could, but such a laptop would not fit my favorite backpack ;) Actually I'd like to own a laptop with a 1400*1200 screen, because I spend a lot of time reading articles and…

> The location bar has to go. It has many problems. For one, it’s always visible and constantly takes up a large amount of space Not a problem on my old 4:3 laptop screen but I dre…

I'd like to see something similar: Lately I have thought about a filestorage like this which consists of two parts: 1) some kind of database in which you can put binary files and a…

> That said, what really interests me is the mechanisms behind addictions. Why do smokers smoke, knowing full well by now that it will kill them earlier than non-smokers? Why stuff…

Yeah, thinking of the exp() part as a spirals in three dimensional space (the imaginary plane + the time/space line) finally helped me to understand what's really going on with the…

No it's definitively not an outrageous amount of money. I have a 3 year old Thinkpad T61p with a still decent Core 2 Duo and 4 GB of ram. After three years it felt kind of slow so …

Yes, in the worst case it's a full day of work, but your computer will be much faster for _every_ day afterwards so the invested day is more than worth it. Just give it a try, I'm …

It might be a stupid question, but: Is there an example of a hyped "whatever killer" that actually killed "whatever"? I have the feeling that all those Google, Facebook, Microsoft,…

The grading system in Germany is quite complicated. We have one were 1 = "very good" (this is the classic system of Schulnoten which is used quite often) and one were 0 = "the wors…

The german magazin "Stiftung Warentest" (a _very_ respected organization) did some extensive vacuum testing a few weeks ago. You can see the ranking here (unfortunately in German):…