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cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: Meditations

If I may diverge from the main topic but to your point. I'd venture to say that the act of putting reminders and thinking about smoking is the reason you failed.

I stopped smoking with the same book but the it worked (as I understand it now) is that it breaks down every excuses you gave yourself to smoke while it actually encourages you to keep smoking while reading. At the end of the book you just have no reason left to smoke. What happened for me when I closed the book is that I just continued my life as if I was not a smoker, never actually thinking about it. No withdrawal of any kind but I didn't remind myself that I used to be a smoker, never. I know it but it's not something I think about

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: The desktop and the developer

That's hibernating you're describing. Suspend wakes less time than it takes to open the lid and the laptop is directly usable.

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: The Reykjavik Confessions

Strangely I came to comment because I had the opposite reaction. I couldn't read the article because I find the presentation way too noisy (and in general can't stand vertical scrolling much.)

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: Know your NeRD: What submariners can expect from their new e-readers

Fixed selection of titles with no possibility of putting one's own content... Indoctrination much?

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: When a bad day gets worse – getting hacked twice in one day

How about a commit hook that warns when it looks like you're about to commit a secret key?

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: April Fools: migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo

I'd say of you have to give hints for a joke then the joke's not good.

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out

Given the number of Bentley, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and cars in general roaming the streets of Hanoi I'm not sure that's a valid point.

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21

Who's your 'us'?

I'm coding in Ruby full-time for some months now and it's the most friendly language I've encountered, everything feels natural.

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: De La Soul to Make Entire Catalog Available for Free

"Error (509) This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!"

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Paper

Is it just me or the perspective of that image looks very wrong?

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: Nexus 5

Have you tried https://google.com/ncr ?

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done

In my experience only people who think they know something about computer have problem with Linux. My wife and my mother are Linux users without even knowing what it is and they have exactly zero issue with it.

cycojesus | 12 years ago | on: Why America's Outdated Morals Won't Let Porn into Mainstream Business

legitimize != legalize

cycojesus | 13 years ago | on: Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression

I want to believe it yet every shorten night sends me to lengths of hellish angry letargious time.

cycojesus | 13 years ago | on: Children should be allowed to get bored

Depression in a nutshell.

cycojesus | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, etc

It's running right now on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emac...

It's even 24.1. I only have patchy wifi now so I haven't been able to finish the install yet on my tablet but it installed and ran M-x tetris just fine on my phone.

cycojesus | 13 years ago | on: Google: Introducing The Endangered Languages Project

And yet there is no Vietnamese version of Windows (or any other Microsoft major product as far as I can tell.)

cycojesus | 14 years ago | on: Microsoft Pulling Free Development Tools for Windows 8 Desktop Apps

Some of us (neither students nor fat salary receiving end) are struggling to make ends meet and try their hand at app development as a way out of struggle.

cycojesus | 14 years ago | on: 31 Years Later, "Star Castle" Finally Ported to Atari 2600

"Anachronic" rather than "out of date", no?

cycojesus | 14 years ago | on: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

Reminds me of Marain, the language and alphabet invented by Iain M. Banks for the Culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Language

There's even a least one font available: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.fr/2010/09/free-font-marain-...