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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 d…

(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…

(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…

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 ...…

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 …

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 ba…

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…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 a…

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…

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 ta…

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…

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 expl…

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 reg…

> 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 …

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 mos…

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_…

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 wr…