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The keyword for the problem you're talking about is the "long tailpipe theory." [1] I was just reading Wait But Why's article [2], which concluded that the overall greenhouse impac…

I really like the use of tools that make focus the default, low-motivation option. If you're not on a Mac, Firefox has LeechBlock[1] and Chrome has StayFocusd[2]. Also, if you're o…

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/lsu_privil... If this is considered "Medium" Severity, how bad would it have to be to become High?

Where did you get the piano score for the Tocatta?

Have you tried setting her up with a standard user login by default? I did that with my folks and the number of computer questions seems to have gone way down.

Vestigial structures! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestigiality

In this recent post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9447097), the author talks about CS works that seem so advanced as to be science fiction. The following quote comes up: > …

Their last blog update was 2013: http://dataliberation.blogspot.com/ And their last video was 3 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/user/dataliberation

Do you think that another danger of inconveniences is that it's easier to make an inconvenient mechanism more and more inconvenient than to start restricting something that hadn't …

We're launching a site where people can post their digital goods for sale and others can buy them. What do I need to know as far as 1) paying taxes, and 2) getting appropriate lega…

> Hidden functionality is a UI and UX anti-pattern I suppose the entire terminal, by that argument, is an anti-pattern. I feel a little better about not ever getting past mediocre …

People get outraged when you tell them how they should think, but the fact that the argument has no (obvious) logical holes causes cognitive dissonance because it's harder to phras…

https://github.com/christopherliu/standard-js This is a library I use in some of my projects. I figured I'd open source it to get some thoughts - what should we do next?

Do you do testing by hand now?

We just set up QUnit, and it was kind of a difficult Google-fest to get working. On the UI side however, I haven't touched a UI framework since Selenium a while back. What do you u…

Ooh, text adventures! Some suggestions: If you haven't played any before, your first question may be: Why would I play a game made up just out of text? The IFComp is a good place t…

> when someone gives me the "top 5", I consider it only a trailhead; it's unlikely my top 5 would be the same. That's a fair point. The important part, it seems, is identifying not…

Not that these are bad books (I've read a lot of them and they are quite interesting), but I think there's more value in compiling a list of the 5 most important books we should re…

Strict equals - it doesn't cast types. Programming distinction, and no idea why the author used that. Mostly the same meaning though, for conversational purposes.