akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Rethinking Sleep
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akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Rethinking Sleep
not entirely randomly, but processing stuff that's been "on your mind" and not packed away in long-term memory.
I imagine it (non-scientifically) as the brain's trash compactor, finishing up all the half-completed thoughts of your day, not necessary in any sort of logical way, like mashing the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together regardless of how well they fit, to get something that just barely fits together at a glance.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Contactually landing page resembles 37Signal's HighriseHQ landing page
Contactually has a creepy mannequin, though.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Ubuntu 12.10 proxies users' file searches to Amazon in plaintext
I'm fairly certain that Shuttleworth is coming to realize he'll never recoup his investment in Canonical, and his goal is to drive Ubuntu into the ground so he can close up shop and stop hemorrhaging funds.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Meeting A Troll
You credibly describe the flaws of the prison system, but you don't offer any alternatives.
Frankly, given the choice of a rock and a hard place, it is better to have a criminal in jail half his life and terrorizing society half his life, then terrorizing society for his entire life.
We aren't looking at Jean Valjeans here.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Myspace previews complete redesign
To quote the patron saint of Hacker News, patio11: If you don't like it, maybe you aren't in their target market.
Do you think you are in MySpace's target market?
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Myspace previews complete redesign
"Hey friend, it looks like you are using Opera. Beware, pal, that we don't go to the opera down here on the ranch, so there may be rough-riding ahead! Try one of these nifty browsers buddy, or sally forth into the unknown. OK, pardner?"
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: The Pendulum Swings, Again
Ctrl-Shift-C in Chrome, or Ctrl-Shift-J in Firefox,
will give you a programmable computing environment more powerful and expressive than a 20-year old Atari, Commodore, or Apple.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Nigerian scammer gets a laptop from me
Those are different. Phishes strive for perfection, because they win as soon as you log in to the fake site.
These "long con" 419 scams need to rebuff intelligent/savvy people and only attract rubes.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before
I get that deployment is easier when it is vendor hosted, but this really should be a local app using local storage, withe maybe transient server-side storage for syncing between machiens.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989803
"Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online"
May 2012
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In
What's not their ambition?
http://cloud.google.com/products /compute-engine.html /cloud-storage.html /big-query.html /more-products.html
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In
It is ACID. It is a DBMS. It's not a Relational DBMS.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design
In order to keep it to what purpose? To make money.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design
Wow, so the trains don't run on time, so they make the time run on the trains?
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Google Maps' advantage over Apple Maps
How does Google get satellite view data without suppliers?
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: We Need a Warby Parker for Mattresses
With strechy jersey sheets with deep sides, it doesn't matter if you apply them 90-degrees rotate.
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: We Need a Warby Parker for Mattresses
Why is it obvious that memory foam is cheaper per cubic inch than a spring assembly?
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Bash redirections cheat sheet
`man bash` , search for "<<" see the "Here Strings" section.
You can also search https://www.google.com/search?q=bash and follow links to "Documentation"
xargs echo <<EOL
> line 1
> line 2
> EOL
line 1 line 2
$ cat <<EOL
> line 1
> line 2
> EOL
line 1
line 2
akldfgj | 13 years ago | on: Bash redirections cheat sheet
Aha!
In zsh "=(cmd)" does that, but "=" doesn't work in bash. "<(cmd)" works everywhere... why did zsh trick me with "="?
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> Employees at Google, for instance, are offered the chance to nap at work because the company believes it may increase productivity.
What percentage of employee-days at Google actually involve a nap? 1%? 0.01%? Is it any higher than the traditional comic practice of "curl up under your desk"?