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I'm poorer than Zimbabwe

It's not about doing something you love, it's about not doing something you hate.

The way I hold my phone, there's no "hard to touch" place (I keep it loose over my right hand fingers, though I use two hands when typing).

I asked my friends to hold theirs and touch all four corners of the screen. It seems that the top left corner is harder for all of them (they're all right-handed).

The final number is 233 deaths.

judging by his comments, it seems to be Brazil. I don't know if we have 1/3 of the world lawyers, but I know we are the country with the greatest number of law schools. And you won't find anyone around here who doesn't know at least one lawyer.

I can live without my smartphone, but I don't need to. Life is better with it. And I can't see why people consider "I’ve started calling people more" a pro instead of a con.

Why do people think that a person immersed in a gadget is a bad thing? I wouldn't be doing anything better without it. I would be bored to hell, as it used to be before I got my first gadget.

Just to be clear: neither I nor any of these friends I talked about had real cases of depression, we would just feel depressed sometimes and it would sometimes makes us think our life wasn't worth it or something like that.

I've tried to kill myself twice when I was a teenage. It was really silly. The first time I was in my bed, trying to sleep, when I tought : "Why don't I kill myself?" I don't remember what kind of problems I had at the time. I was 15 and that was the best year of my life up to that point (ages 10 to 14 really sucked and I would understand if it had happened at that time). I didn't do anything special, just covered my head with my pillow cover. After a few seconds I realised that wouldn't work, dropped it and went on to sleep. I don't remember when or how the second time happened, all I remember is that I tried a second time that same year. Many times I caught myself thinking about using gas to end it all, but I would not do anything that would cause trouble to my family (even though I had no reason to like them at the time).

A few years later, I got really depressed after a party and, on my way home, I stopped in a bridge, looking to the river and thinking. I knew I would never have the courage to jump, but I stood there. Then, from the other side of the bridge, came an old crazy friend, he was really drunk and hugged me real hard, leaving me with the stench of cachaça (brazilian rum). He kept going and I went home.

I never had any suicidal thought after that. On contrary, sometimes I feel that I now am "immune" to that kind of thing. Even if I feel depressed, it all goes away after a good night sleep. And I even became a person that is really good at talking to people with suicidal thoughts. I'm 24 now and, in the last five years, I've had a few friends come to me saying they were thinking about killing themselves and I somehow made them feel better.

I think that the most important thing when talking to people about this is: never say "don't to it". I usually say: "it's up to you, but.. have you considered this and that?" If you just tell them no to do it, they will ignore you, because they will think you don't understand their problems. And they are probably right about that.

I liked the idea. How long will you keep the offer up? I'm currently moving to a new place and won't have time to do it right now, but would love to accept the offer in about two months.

His own words:

"Recent Articles in the press have said that I think Mars is for veggies only. Not so! Am in favor of freedom of diet"

I wonder if, as a laptop, I would not prefer to turn it off when I'm not using it. That way the battery would not really be a problem.

" I'm starting to get the strong sense that no one on a Windows Phone ever actually used maps.google.com."

Probably nobody did. Nokia Maps it's actually even better than google maps. I don't know why somebody would want to use maps.google.com.

No, they scream about people using the -webkit- prefix for stuff that works fine without the prefix.

The sad thing is that I asnwered everything and nothing happened. I didn't want to sign up to send a question.

at least brazil wasn't overrated again.

Half of these predictions I don't really care, but the other half I would not like to see happening. It may be a sad year for me.

I'm still 24 and I have no intention of ever having a kid, but one year ago, I thought I would never want a girlfriend again either. I still don't want a girlfriend, but my best friends started some really serious relationship and they can't be with me all the time anymore, so I had to start thinking about dating again. Maybe some day something will happen and I will need to think about having children too.

Tried to use it, but even if I type all IMAP and SMTP information, it did nothing after showing the "Inky is trying to discover your settings" message.

I have some people like that on my life, but I would never tell them that kind of stuff, even though I think the same. I just ignore them. I have them added to my facebook, but unscribed from their posts, have them on my "restricted list" (who can not se what I post) and out of my chat list. To all effects, they think I just don't use my facebook.

So, don't talk to you about your PhD at all? I understand someone would expect his close friends not to ask those questions, but you can't seriously hope the average people will know what to tell you. You could just ignore the "wrong" question and answer it properly:

a) When are you going to graduate? - I can't know for sure, but I hope it will be in two years or so. b) Do you have such and such holiday "off"? - No.

And no matter what you tell me, I can not accept you saying that "you must be so much smarter than me" is offensive. Even if I don't like hearing that myself.

I worked for 7 years with the same language and tools, but lately, I can't tell which language I'll be using next week. And I love this.

But if I hadn't been a specialist in something at some point of my life, I don't believe I would be writing good code in those new languages. And I still think it's better to have at least some specialists on the team too, because sometimes you get some bizarre bugs that someone that knows the language for some time may be used to.

Yeah, the mobile internet here is bad, but not to that point. Most services still work fine. On a bad day, you would need to wait a few seconds for each request.

Me too.

When I first heard of this "your/you're" confusion two years ago, I didn't believe it. Now I see it happening every single day.

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 17, after many years of living with it. I decided I would not take drugs for it. I was afraid I would lose my creativity and that kind of stuff. I started rescheduling my tasks so the most boring ones would get the time of the day I would me most inspired. It helped for a time, but I couldn't stay in the same place for too long. After some years frequently changing jobs, friends and hobbys, I finally found my place. I've been programming since my childhood. Sometimes, ADHD helps (giving ideas on how to solve problems), some other times, it gets in the way, making me lazy to solve some repetitive problems. After 4 or 5 different jobs, I found one where it doesn't get repetitive. I work in projects that last around six months. Each project uses a different language, with different teams and tools and routines. It's been like heaven. After I started working here, my whole life improved. I stopped growing tired of people and could finally keep the same friends for a long time. I even started a serious relationship.