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> 3) Movies: you should watch them with subtitles in the spoken language. I can't believe I never thought to do this. Great idea, thanks!

Reminds me of a real-life version of something from Pynchon's Bleeding Edge -- inching toward parody, but still believable. (In this case, unlike in the novel, because it's actuall…

Also works great in XFCE, in my experience.

I don't even have a LinkedIn account, I've never had an account, and I still receive their emails. It's mystifying...

What kind of "technical minutiae" do you put in your Anki deck? I use Anki for Japanese study, but I've been thinking about doing more with it. Wasn't quite sure how to make useful…

This is awesome, thanks! I've always assumed that PPAs were Ubuntu-only magic for some reason.

Some literature really does need to be "decoded" in a similar way, however. (Speaking as someone who recently finished Ulysses ...)

Alternative method: click the big on/off switch for online search results. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not defending Ubuntu. I think it's gross that they include this at all, and ext…

Did you read the linked article? It doesn't matter what it looks like you're copying/pasting, or how it's explained in the site you're copying/pasting it from.

Yeah, I guess I should have qualified the above by saying that I've only used it with PHP/xdebug (so far). Still, if you're trapped in the DBGP world for whatever reason, vdebug is…

Didn't even have to think about this one: Eloquent Javascript , by Marijn Haverbeke. He's an amazing writer and a brilliant all-around guy. Technically it's geared toward new progr…

I highly recommend vdebug ( https://github.com/joonty/vdebug ) if you're looking for a great Vim interface to DBGP debuggers (for PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Node, etc.). Really nice,…

There's a really fun exhibit at the Exploratorium in SF that demonstrates this. Not quite so fancy, but if you can shove some kids out of the way it's still pretty cool to play wit…

So I have to manually fix gmail's incorrect assumptions about how I want my mail to be filtered rather than manually put my own correct filters in place? Doesn't seem right for me,…

This has been true since the beginning of film's history, with rare exceptions. Spectacle sells, even going back to the point when the technology of film itself was the spectacle. …

Is this different than folders? Or labels? Is the primary benefit here that these categories are more prominent in the UI?

I've had great luck with this, actually. At the very least there's a chance you'll find some dummy address that forwards to a real address, and get a response that way.

Just don't give up if you don't hit your date! I edited technical books for four years and never once had an author actually hit their target date. But do set a new target date if …

Great explanation, thank you!

It's interesting to me that the Hacker School "rules" post, that essentially boiled down to the same thing (Don't Be a Jerk), is filled with positive comments: https://news.ycombin…

I'm seeing the same thing. This is my first real Mac experience, got it from/for work, wasn't sure if something like this was "normal". (I'm a long-time Linux user, so I'm used to …