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http://www.rescuetime.com/ will give you analytics for free
I've used this before as an offline app http://www.manictime.com/ (win)
Very cool--thanks, guys!
Ask HN: What are your best life hacks?
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#152* Pick an editor and stick with it. If it's EMACS, learn enough keybindings to be useful and learn elisp. Go through the phase where you run gnus for email and erc and all those silly add-ons. Get your .emacs up to 50-100k. Use that for a few years then throw it all away. Look for force multipliers/secret weapons: * Use an IDE. Yes, this contradicts the first point, but an IDE with intelligent context-based autocompl…
Keep food stashed in your car, desk, etc. A Luna/Clif/Power Bar will get you through that low blood sugar phase, or more importantly, get your partner through it when they're cranky and they have no idea how close they are to being left in a ditch by the side of the road. Wait ... is it specifically for diabetics? Then I think you should specify it. I personally am trying to maximise time between meals and not to hav…
Wait ... is it specifically for diabetics? Then I think you should specify it. I personally am trying to maximise time between meals and not to have any snacks in between. For those not having any disease, the human body is extremely efficient in maintaining blood sugar and homeostasis in general even during prolonged fasting. And intermittent fasting has significant health benefits.
Not just for diabetics, if you ask me. I'll occasionally have a "low blood sugar phase", where despite having eaten at my normal times that day, I'll just run into a complete wall and need to eat RIGHT NOW, and if I don't I start to feel miserable very quickly (faint/weak, etc.).
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#153I would say listen to Baz Luhrmann - Wear sunscreen. The song is one big life hack and one of the best ones in my mind.
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#154I wanted to listen to my music in a way that my iPod wouldn't allow. So that day, about a week ago, I wrote an app to play my music the way I wanted. It has a big button, when pressed once marks that position of the song, twice immediately loops from the first mark to the second. I felt like I had just grabbed a wrench or something and fixed a part of my life, but the wrench was Xcode.
Can you elaborate? Are you in effect creating a playlist with the "best" parts of songs. Exactly what hardware are you using for this? "Classic" iPod with a custom firmware like Rockbox? Or iPhone/iPodTouch?
I just used some of the 'classic' built in features. Nothing too fancy, just loop over whatever part of the song you choose however many times you choose.
Screenshot http://cloudedbox.com/LoopTee.html
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http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
So HN debate is now reduced to fallacy linking? This is not just from one example this among other things a series of documentaries, friends and my now 37 years. Of course there are some people who can deal with it but chances are that they are not in love. That is at least my experience feel free to counter with experiences or knowledge about successful open relationships where the people are
Hardly, but without some background or sources I'd say a majority of people wouldn't know where you're coming from.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
So HN debate is now reduced to fallacy linking? This is not just from one example this among other things a series of documentaries, friends and my now 37 years. Of course there are some people who can deal with it but chances are that they are not in love. That is at least my experience feel free to counter with experiences or knowledge about successful open relationships where the people are
Hardly, but without some background or sources I'd say a majority of people wouldn't know where you're coming from.
I am not sure I follow. Do you know of anyone in an open relationship who is in love and happy about their spouse fooling around with other people?
I know of none and I know quite a few people who did it, saw a couple of documentaries about it.
I am more than happy to be proven wrong but as far as I am concerned my point still stands and is fairly rational.
If you are in love, open relationships ain't what it's all pumped up to be.
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#157Rejection Therapy. Seriously. You meet more people, get more stuff and lose the ego. I find I'm a lot friendlier and social because of it: http://www.rejectiontherapy.com
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#158Only one hack: get the f... out of your country, go to Africa, China, India. Don't bring any survival kit, live the life of these billions of humans, you'll never need fancy lifehacks anymore.
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#159The best life hack advice I ever got was from my first internship. It was at an engineering firm and as I was sneaking out the back stairwell for a cigarette (yes, I was a smoker for a brief period, shame on me) I ran into an engineer and he asked what I was doing, so I made something up and said I was running an errand. I returned his question, "what are you up to?" Engineer: "I'm carrying a clipboard" Me looking co…
When i was younger i used a clipboard as a prop to get though the back boor of concerts...check my clipboard while walking at a fast pace worked 90% of the time....
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#160Only diet advice you'll ever need- cut out grains from your diet. Will never have to worry about weight again. Eat meat, fish, fruits and veggies. Have one cheat day during which you eat anything you want. Easy. Simple. No diets, no counting calories. Done.