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blue4··on Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
Seem to always remember this because I feel it opened my eyes to how much speech can influence, but also assist you. I'm talking about Lebron James and when he was going through his decision making in 2010. To stay in Cleveland, with the hometown team who nurtured his career and it is home, or should he sign on with Miami. For him to begin making an unemotional decision, he distanced himself from the situation; at the time he was supposedly pressured from many sides.

“I wanted to do what’s best for LeBron James and to do what makes LeBron James happy.”

blue4··on FFmpeg 4.2
Not sure what you mean, you're able to easily just use youtube-dl to download the audio only. Is the conversion suppose to change it into a certain filetype or something?
blue4··on You Say What You Eat
He's mad about the order and the usage of important
blue4··on 'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (2017)
Off-topic reply: vestibular disorder was referenced a while back by a Val Head who talks a lot of animation on the web. https://alistapart.com/article/designing-safer-web-animation...
blue4··on How I Run a Company with ADHD
Rewarding yourself after a boring activity is kind of cliche?, but it works. Eating a piece of candy after going to the gym for example.
blue4··on Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth
Are we absolutely sure it's the right gas? Maybe we just read it as methane but it's something else
blue4··on U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces
If you're working in an office you should expect some level of office noises. I'm not talking about a truck honking his horn outside your window for 8 hours is normal, I'm saying general noises - ones that have a short time on them, and are required for their jobs. I would have expected my comment to be clearer than it may have sounded.

To clarify, just because you're in a library doesn't mean it is absolutely pin drop quiet. There is basic atmosphere noise. I of course am in favor of a closed office, and cubicle farms and open environments are easily more favorable for the employer than employee, but it seems expected to have some basic noise in an open office that people love complaining about—instead of championing closed offices which is never going to happen in a lot of companies.

blue4··on U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces
I think it's hilarious there are complaints about regular office noise like talking business on phones, typing, and sniffling/cough etc... If you want to go to sleep it's a perfect to expect that...otherwise stop complaining get headphones, move your desk, change your environment or remove yourself from the equation in some way.

I don't believe that productivity is hurt because of open office sounds, I think people just love complaining.

blue4··on Ask HN: How can I learn how to paint?
- lay out a small inch grid over your favorite painting [throw a painting into photoshop on a tablet to have greater zoom]

- focus on perfecting the small squares only not the larger piece, the fun is jumping around from your favorite puzzle piece and not going in order.

- once you're done remove the grid and blend in the edges of each square to it's adjacent one.

blue4··on People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
yes
blue4··on A JavaScript-Free Front End
wow this is excellent, <details>/<summary> are good tricks
blue4··on People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
Sounds like some of my own work, I hypothesized that the body doesn’t need food itself, merely the chemicals and elements it contains. So, what if I consumed only the raw ingredients the body uses for energy? Soylent was the obvious choice because our bodies do not need food.
blue4··on China’s tech sector is in the doldrums
> By one count 48 million people in China lack sufficient drinking water. The number of people facing severe drinking water shortages doubled to 5.9 million in early 2008 because of a severe winter drought. China has more than a fifth of the world's population but only 7 percent of its fresh water.

Not from the article, but if there was a startup needed and one that could jump start their sector there, a significant problem to solve is clean water.

blue4··on Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone
Looked like those hilarious techniques taken from street magic to pull off the illusion.
blue4··on Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
I was fine with everything until the last change, the borders are needed, visually.
blue4··on Creeping on You in the Cold Drinks Aisle
Walgreens probably still does those late night stickers for price changes, if anything needs to be digitized it would be that. For the benefit of the employees that have to do that painful mess of a price change constantly. Next time you visit a Walgreens or similar store and see tags everywhere just consider how much waste there is to do that every week, sometimes with the same prices just a new colored sticker.
blue4··on Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos
> Why do you need to post publicly rather than marking it as unlisted and sharing the link with people you know and trust?

Important point, still kind of weird to me, even in this day and age of Facebook and social media in general, where everyone feels the need to share every intimate detail of their lives with strangers.

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http://pleaserobme.com

blue4··on How to Convert a Free User to a Premium User
Make something useful that someone can trial and feel like they've had enough value from it to pay for it?
blue4··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
4. I don't want to pay for the data they are collecting, now if there was a paid option for that...
blue4··on Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/101-minka

This podcast episode is all about getting rid of nursing homes and it sort of talks about the way it should be. Communal, and a split of ages.

blue4··on Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS
From my perspective, I think I'm seeing the big debate about this whole front-end dev.a[html/css/ux] vs front-end dev.b[js/programmer], is not that people in the know, know that CSS is a powerful language for designing doc/ux/ui and fear it will go away.

- It's that, the notion of HTML/CSS is being considered to be entry level knowledge, so you can diminish its value/quality and to have a front-end job, focus on Javascript Framework-XYZ and disregard their significance yourself.

With that said, some people are just meant for more of a design/visual front-end dev, and some are more in it for the code.

blue4··on Theranos CEO Says 'I Don't Know' 600+ Times in Deposition
Related, The Dropout is available on Spotify [1]

[1]: https://open.spotify.com/show/7lrJqILWfMuQhqDHJEFUK6

blue4··on A Matchmaker Who Flirts on Dating Apps for You (2017)
can this be an adultswim or comedy central short or something. he only loses the case because his law-ai.biz subscription, lapsed.
blue4··on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree
I think it's common for people to want to tax people that have more, especially when the wealth gap is only widening. The state of things is the ever increase of the poor unable to break out of their class and the rich only getting richer.

Maybe it would be a good idea to provide the ability to have an option to suggest where/how the funds will be used based on some of the nation/state level priority needs.

blue4··on Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
I think this is perfect for people that have experience and just don't know the path forward.

Also I enjoy seeing cross overs that you can compare such as you could make a transition into dev ops if you choose an appropriate back end, scripting language.

Everyone here is too critical, I think it's a lot of information, but it's very useful to see the goal and steps in front of you.

blue4··on Big ol’ ball o’ JavaScript
It seemed like a normal discussion until this random buzz topic popped up; albeit, sure we need to solve the ills of this, treat all types of people normally. ~ Wtf does Gender Bias have to do with React not being good because if you like/write css and dont know js you're fucked?
blue4··on Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia
> the internet is ruled by

no one is what i think they are getting at

blue4··on Stop Datamining Me
subscription based lawyers
blue4··on The “Arcade” Workprint, 90s Cyber-Cinema Without Music or Sound Effects
Would be interesting to see an entire movie mixed with different scores like this
blue4··on RefactoringUI Book
Design talent is more their experience of constant manipulation and testing of what works in certain situations. It's sort of like a UFC fighter and their counters - "if my opponent throws a kick I will check it with my own leg so I don't have the impact of the entire power." Experience is significant here because they wouldn't know what to do in the moment when it matters.

A designer is the same way, say you need a page designed, and they've been through this task so many times they know what works and what doesn't. The lack of knowledge and experience in this area only adds to the time it takes to create & finish something.

And so you're usually not paying a designer to throw a colored rectangle, you're paying them for the years they've invested in testing everything else.

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