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Is it worth paying headspace 8 bucks a month?

>> Also, the shit your brain will make up and entertain you with once the chatter dies down is absolutely fascinating all in itself.

I had thought that the absence of chatter only helps in calmness and lessening the anxiety. What kind of stuff/shit?

Thanks. Is there a specific time of the day that this should be done? This seems really simple for what meditation has been advertised by some camps and "gurus". I can give five such minutes for the betterment.

Can people who meditate point to good resources on how and where to start? Books, videos, blogs etc.

>> What Can We Learn From windows? >>> After a lengthy development process, Windows Vista was released on November 30, 2006 for volume licensing and January 30, 2007 for consumers.

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>>> Many types of aquatic animals commonly referred to as "fish" are not fish in the sense given above; examples include shellfish, cuttlefish, starfish, crayfish and jellyfish. >>The End

I have a pet peeve. I have setup OSX to show the hidden and dotfiles. So, everywhere I go using finder (say mounted drives), I get that .DS_Store file. Is there a way to avoid seeing that in the list?

look-at-later is amazing. I use Instapaper for exactly that. Now I have made a habit of shoving everything there and going through it at a specified time in the day.

I have said this before here and I will do that again. What hurts the market is L1 visa. H1 visa holders are almost in the same boat as local talent. Why? Because there is a government dictated minimum prevailaing wage that companies have to adhere to. I am yet to meet an H1B who is earning less than his/her peers (within an area, experience, skillset and education).

However, I have met a lot of L1 visa holders (primarily from India) who come here from companies like Wipro, TCS, Cognizant, IBM, Microsoft etc. who are paid lower wages because there is no such scrutiny with L1 visas. Lumping both visas in the same category is a huge mistake.

>> Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.

Shouldn't this be changed to always use braces? Given the Apple bug?

Very interesting. How did you go about reverse engineering it? Would you mind sharing?

Actually, FastMail is an Australian company and subject to Au laws. Although, I think they do have operations in NY (or maybe NJ).

"FastMail is an Australian company and as such is subject to Australian law."[1]

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/legal/privacy.html?domain=fast...

How does Runbox compare to FastMail?

This is a tough one. I have seen Etherpad [http://etherpad.org/] being used a lot. The there is Zoho suite of apps [https://www.zoho.com/] but I am not sure if they really match your requirements completely.

For writing and other docs, I personally use Dropbox but I know that is not the same as working in the browser itself.

FastMail seems very transparent. They provide aost of the stuff that I needed from an Email hosting company, even independent audits.

I remember I started moving out of Google's claws when they started pushing Google+ everywhere. Today my primary browser is Firefox, Search engine is DDG (with occassional Google search), Email is FastMail. The dependency on Google had started to annoy me.

This fails to show up on my iPhone 5S Safari and I thought it supported Unicode.

Thanks! This, along with the other replies, was very helpful.

So, basically the whole concept of North Vs South India divide with Southern Indians holding on to this information is incorrect since Indian subcontinent is pretty uniform for about 60,000 years.

It has not been discredited, yet. It has been challenged. You should see the latest paper on this subject that used gneetics - Characterizing the genetic differences between two distinct migrant groups from Indo-European and Dravidian speaking populations in India[1]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120727/

Thanks! Did you do a fresh install or upgraded?

I actually am in the same boat. Primary machine, both personal and projects on it. It is a lot of work to do a fresh install. It eats up a day and I do not have that. I was paying big bucks to Apple to solve this for me. Don't you think so?

> All in all: Yes, both releases were shit if you ask me and that's coming from someone who loves Apple products and owns quite a few of them.

Thanks! I have similar thought and I have not even updated to Yosemite! Just the sheer amount of issues I read about online and my iOS disasters lead me to believe that Apple's entire update across the suite of products was not what it used to be. I left the Windows land to get the stable and tested products and updates. If I have to be locked down tremendously and face the issues I used to face with Windows, I might as well just use something where most of my development is - Linux.

I have faced WiFi issues on my iPhone and iPad for sure. These comments like yours are doing to make me stay with Mavericks for a while. :-/

Is it just me or do the last iOS and OSX updates look really bad? I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 8 and somehow calls started dopping (even after 8.1 and resetting the entire device twice!). The Apple help desk actually asked me to install each app one-by-one to see if that finds a rogue app! Luckily, I was within a year of warranty and they replaced my iPhone.

I have not upgraded to OSX Yosemite yet. I am afraid that there will be a performance hit. Even the new iPhone 5S I got replaced faces some lags that weren't present in iOS 7.

What are your views about upgrading to Yosemite, esp. related to dev environments?

Edit: I have faced similar lags after updates on my iPad Air too. Hence, the dismay.

So, the solution is to just not even ask? Honestly, if you are going to lose the domain anyway, what's the harm in asking once?

Actually, some owners are OK if you tell them the domain is of personal importance. I lost my domain name a few years ago and after a year or so tried to email the guy. He was kind enough to give it back to me for mere $90. I guess it depends if the domain is not as hot for them they might consider doing a favor.

Is there a certain way that languages are supposed to be learnt to maximize brain workout? In other words, does one way of learning a new language benefit more than the other?

I use Duolingo for learning new language(s).

I had the same experience and I hated it. Although, a friend sent a book to me from that list on my birthday but overall it is a disconcerting experience.

Oh lord, I could not have read this ata more apt time. I am going through such a crisis right now, professionally. I keep interviewing at these places where they just want to know if I can solve 9 ball problems or not. I almost feel like an impostor. Glad I read this.

Thanks! I will try this and let you know.

It does. No crashes if VM is not running.