Filthy_casual

Much appreciate your input. I noticed the exact same thing, but it also happens when I put my keyboard in the lap. My theory is that it's due to the impact of my fingers on the keys that "tease" the flow to slow down.

I noticed that in long walks in the city my fingers swell up, so it's definitely the blood circulation. Maybe my thin fingers make it worse.

I tried googling for this but got mixed results. Shouldn't the wrists be touching/resting on the desk (the piece of desk between the keyboard and me) or are they suppose to float?

A jack of all trades isn't inherently better at all trades. There's great value to be found in a specialist.

And if you're hiring a front-end pay him as such. If you want him to know more than front-end beforehand, pay him extra.

This brings up another point in favor of "why not".

If existing players who are willing to buy new expansions whenever they are available migrate to vanilla servers, they might as well opt out of buying the expansions, since adding new content in the vanilla servers will make them non-vanilla.

Huh.

And flying cars. Jetsons lied.

Hopefully? Sorry for bursting your bubble but Windows 10 is the ONE way to go, from their perspective.

Money talks. Canonical attempted to make bank from their partnership with Amazon, yet people over the web went insane and fought tooth and nail to shift the weight to derivatives, like Xubuntu and Mint.

Naturally, this is one of their alternative methods.

You're probably thinking of ego depletion.

>These findings strongly suggest that self-control and memory encoding share common brain structures and mechanisms, and compete with each other for them

So basically, the very moment you're trying to keep yourself from acting on an urge, you're using neurons that would otherwise be used to retrieve a memory? Or am I misunderstanding something?

I did the same a week ago - First tried Mint Rafaela with Cinnamon and this week I got free time to tryout Arch. Turns out their wiki is amazing and with a little google-fu I managed to install GNOME and any other application I might need.

I honestly don't miss anything from Windows. I used to game a lot but that changed and the few games I still play can either be accessed with Play on Linux or have their own port.

And what's even funnier is that most of apps nowadays have a web version (Skype, Spotify) so I really avoid meddling with emulating Windows for a good while.

Same here. I decided to stop playing video games cold turkey and what I did was grab an Arch Linux iso and follow the beginner's guide.

Much more decent.

Are you saying that listening to what you have to say and writing what you have to say on wikipedia is the same thing?

>No less so than if your friends, family, coworkers, and society at large may be subtly persuading you in a different direction than what you would've taken if they hadn't been making the suggestions to influence you.

In spite the fact that in the case of friends, family, coworkers I can be the one persuading them in a different direction and I also know a bit about them (you cannot suggest that in the case of person-company relationship both are as strong in influencing each other, maybe in large numbers of people protesting and that's a huge maybe):

The thing is, there are 5 billion people on Earth but far less operating systems. So, when they tell you "my way or the highway" while at the same time more products support their way, you'll eventually end up stuck somewhere in the past, like the old nut in the hut living on top of a mountain, while everyone is throwing their personal data to Microsoft and friends telling me that it's going to be ok because "the functionality provided is convenient". Which makes zero sense.

As a newcomer in my 30's I can only hope that this won't be true in Europe.

Could it be because solitude back then was similar to meditation? That you had no interruptions, no internet to make your mind run around like a puppy chasing the next tasty bone, and this in turn made you listen to thoughts and ideas rising from the subconscious more often?

The problem with that is: Once you build this service, how do you give access to the impoverished people?

For instance, I would be homeless sleeping on benches if not for my parents and my computer is almost 8 years old, my mobile phone is over a decade old. I would seek people who feel like I do but they also look after themselves first, since the conditions are "eat or get eaten". There was also one guy who just surrendered to his fate and all he did was abuse the fact that his parents provide him with a soft pillow to stand, only to play video games day in and day out. The very definition of NEET.

My point being, someone else has to provide them with internet access, and even then, there is not much that you can do.

This quote reminded me of an anime/manga called Attack on Titan, where it's said that its creator draws inspiration for Titan looks from bullies that had in his school years.

>But Miyazaki had a problem: at 29, he was too old to apply for graduate positions and too inexperienced for anything else. “Not a lot of places would take me,” he says. “From Software was one of the few.”

Career switchers who are slow to find their knack in life deserve a fresh start. I say that from the position of being one. Talent does exist among the people who are trapped in mediocre, unfulfilled lives, and all they look for is their chance to shine.

I bloody love Dark Souls and Bloodborne.

I do this too. Especially if it links to a blog entry that is big. I might even bookmark a thread to check it later in case it's a new thread, just to see if there's going to be an overall positive response down the road.

Your comment really resonated with me. It's like that person who attempts to beat procrastination in order to get things done by... reading books about procrastination.

I'll follow your advice.

In which case the fault shifts to media and schools for not explaining how things are.

In Linux distribution terms, OP and the public want the stable distribution while in fact due to the nature of the field you can only get rolling updates.

Can we stop with this argument? Every time a business makes a business-oriented decision someone will pop out to call them out for being acting for their own benefit, as if it's somehow bad.

Like every human exchange, you don't have to be an altruist for your deed to be good. It's alright to do "good" even if it derives some sort of benefit for yourself or your company.

Same is true for talent. There's no shortage for talent. There's a shortage for talented people willing to work for "the price we're offering".

I'm terrified to follow the start-up route as well, because I'm 34 and I know that

a) Silicon Valley is notorious for its implicit ageism

b) Once I'm 40 and have 4 years of experience working in start-ups I'll be dismissed from either getting hired or getting funded because I'm old.

The only thing that makes this topic worthy of upvoting is because people identify a company doing things an entire culture does. Sure you can bring a lawyer and pull a company to the court (good luck proving that they discriminated you based on age) but a culture? How do you even do that? You can't.

This is why I find it hypocritical that people act appalled on the idea that a company is doing what everyone admits a culture does but for the company is punishable and "well deserved" to be punished for it. In fact, I imagine there will be some sort of standing ovation somewhere in the world when an ageism case is won against ANY Microsoft, whereas for the culture is just "how things are" and it's your job to avoid it.

Funny, isn't it?

>In case this was on your radar at all: no, you should not found a startup. Most people who "should" found a startup can't imagine doing anything else. It drives everything they do.

So you're claiming that founding a startup can only be valid if it's a purely emotional urge rather than identifying a rational opportunity? That's black and white thinking.

I felt a headache/migraine coming up within a minute and immediately closed it. I can't afford to play Hotline Miami for the screen shaking effect that adds, either.

I know one more guy who complained about Hotline Miami's screen shake: Totalbiscuit. Maybe I should try and link it to him on Twitter in hopes that he'll give me feedback.

It also depends on who is saying it. A person you know online and your manager carry different weight.

As a beginner I recall myself asking other programmers "is using pen and paper cool before writing any actual code?" and they giggled before nodding in agreement.

I had this false expectation in my head that when programmers tackle a new problem (be either writing a small program or solving a challenge) they're able to think about it for a few minutes then straight up write code and if I can't it's because I suck and this job isn't for me.

Then I realized that what I expected was unrealistic and the "no pen and paper" stage only occurs to people who already met the same or similar challenge before and can recall even the slightest hint of what they did back then.

I think spamming refresh happens not because you're narcissist but because you are eager to see if your opinion is well-received by others. That can be unhealthy. It's one thing to get feedback from multiple sources to notice things and behaviors that are harmful or unwanted (like being cocky or people feeling you're argumentative) and another if you're anxious to learn whether or not others will find value in what you said.

It's roughly like... The "nice guy syndrome", where a person is engaged with what others expect from him so much that he undermines what he personally wants. In online forum terms this might mean that you're commenting in favor of the popular opinion of the forum and not voicing your own opinion to see whether it has flaws or not. Naturally, this is one of the many reasons why a community becomes an "echo chamber".