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Is this type of Yoga (Mysore) self-learnable or do you recommend to learn from someone who knows it well?

> ... a 1998 update by Martin Gardner is available from St. Martin's Press which provides an introduction; three preliminary chapters explaining functions, limits, and derivatives; an appendix of recreational calculus problems; and notes for modern readers. Gardner changes "fifth form boys" to the more American sounding (and gender neutral) "high school students," updates many now obsolescent mathematical notations or terms, and uses American decimal dollars and cents in currency examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy

Seems like a good update to a classic, but there are some in the reviews complaining about Gardner https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/...

Vimperator is the king among Vim-like keyboard shortcut enabler extensions in browsers, sadly it may not work in the future versions of Firefox because Firefox is transitioning from highly free but less safe/performing XUL based extensions to a safer but limited WebExtension model. It is very fast and smooth with lots of features.

It is slow: it takes time to create the static output, especially if you have more than a few posts. For infrequently updated sites and blogs this plugin may be an excellent solution as it allows you to access a world of WP themes.

Cars (transport) consume the majority.

If we take the US, which consumes 21% of all petroleum, to understand oil usage pattern, we can see that 47% of US consumption is from petrol (gasoline). Second is Distillate fuel (diesel and heating oil), which accounts for 21%; this is used for industrial machines and heavy motor vehicles, trains, boats etc (diesel) and for industrial heating (heating oil) [1].

These two accounts for the vast majority of consumption (47 +21 = 68%).

The percentage used by transport sector has been increasing [2] over the years:

  2013	63.8
  2004	57.7
  1973	45.4

Does not match exactly (68 vs 64), but it shows a growing trend of transport sector energy consumption. Petroleum as a raw material (plastics) seems to be slightly reducing after peaking in early 2000s.

Source: [1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_use [2] https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch8en/conc8en/oecdoi...

"FLY and DINE give you flight schedules and restaurant listings and reviews."

"POSH, a Craigslist for the wealthy"

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-coolest-functions-on-Bloo...

Banking software also use this type of codes to reach different functions: post a cheque, take a draft, print an account statement, update customer record, loan balance/amortisation/payback history; in short, they do everything with short 3-4-5 letter keywords. This type of system has very high learning curve ("Hey Alex, what's the keyword for locker rent arrears list?"); but it is a joy to watch competent people operate the program to get things done.

Many business software also work this way (SAP ERP/Oracle Financials), but none of them are likely to be as fast as Bloomberg though. AutoCAD also has some commands like this (like Emacs'/Vim's ex/M-x prompt? ":"/"M-x"). I wish other consumer software also allowed access to screens/dialog boxes and functions in this direct manner without having to click menus and buttons a thousand times.

I've moved on to Feedly and then to Inorerader, but Google Reader was a wonderful feed reader. Nothing beats its search capability.

>> I read an interesting blog post, so I clicked the author's name to go to his "profile page". I expected to see a list of his posts

Blogger does this exceptionally well, or at least used to in its earlier default templates.

It allows monthly archives to be browsed like a tree, this does not require the page to reload and there is no waiting involved. In WordPress blogs if I click on an archive month, it will load a new page with excerpts of the posts. Without giving me a list of post titles I cannot easily decide what to read. As opposed to Medium, in many WordPress blogs, I can at least use URLs (e.g.: /2012/) to see all the posts from particular year or month, but they are paginated excerpts needing multiple clicks if there are more than a couple of posts.

Blogger had this for a long time and I don't see other templates (static sites[1], WordPress) incorporating this useful feature; this is the only feature that I, as a reader, miss in other blog platforms. Medium is the worst for this type of scan-ability. It focus overtly on prettiness[2] and leaves many usability aspects unaddressed. Presentation ugliness I can deal with Readability, Clearly[3] and similar extensions; usable archive browsing needs to be done well at the server side.

Example: I am on this page (https://darcyhsu.blogspot.com/2015/09/outlining-with-excel.h...) and I can see all his posts without leaving the current page which I arrived from Google. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/9OjiVA5

[1]: Some have list pages which is great. It only requires one extra click

[2]: Not to mention the humongous page sizes

[3]: Evernote killed Clearly

I am also a TiddlyWiki user. I use it as personal note taking + bookmarking + daily reading log. The best feature it has is a Wiki feature, not any TiddlyWiki feature: backlinks. I could make the backlinks show up in the footer of every page (tiddlers) and this reminds me connections I might have forgot. Tiddlywiki is also a great system for bookmarks. If I read something written by or about,say Roosevelt, I just add [[Roosevelt]] and I click on the link and just add a one line description like: Roosevelt was a [[US]] [[president|POTUS]] <year> and it will create a nice connection to the POTUS page and the US page. This is different from restrictive categories.

I keep software links, configuration, track-list for stuff I want to track (great new product/bookmark/book/service, just add [[TrackList]] when creating that page and can see it later in the footer of my TrackList page. Most Wikis can do this, however, in TiddlyWiki it is easy—no need to edit PHP files or plugins; it has a nice filter syntax that allow anything to be queried in a myriad ways tags, date, custom fields, title and so on, I just place that filter right there in the text and get the results.

It also supports other syntaxs such as Org-mode and Markdown if you use them; in retrospect I should have chosen Org-mode as an Emacs user, it would have been easier to get the data to other programs.

Couple of problems I face:

+ No converter to convert files to other Wikis or formats:

Not a TW problem, Pandoc and other tools cannot convert this to say, MediaWiki or DokuWiki. So as a non-programmer I am stuck with this as of now. But I am slowly trying to make work a Perl module[x] to convert the HTML to wiki form.

+ Static pages has awful URLS:

It double encodes the URLs and it is filled with "%2520". I wish they make a setting to replace that with hyphens or underscores.example page:[y]

If they could get this to work I think this has the chance of being the best static site generator. Easy to use and extremely customisable (or may be I am coloured by my non-programmer experience with static site generators).

+ Duplicate titles:

'Notetaking' is different from 'notetaking', so occasionally, I link to a non-existing pages for less frequently linked pages; there should be a setting for naming policy.

+ Data corruption:

I've seen few cases where people lost their data completely. TW warns about this in their page and advice people to use backup (I backup it to Dropbox). Example:[z]

[x] http://search.cpan.org/~diberri/HTML-WikiConverter-0.61/lib/... [y] http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Introduction%2520to%2520filter%... [z] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/bgcRqKGQ2...

Community is friendly and helpful; I stole most of my customisation macros, code and notetaking ideas from the TiddlyWiki Google Group where helpful ideas and solutions are plenty. Nice bunch of people.

Auditors cannot provide other services—mainly tax and IT—to audit clients for auditor independence (SOX in the US, Combined Code in the UK and similar laws are in application worldwide).

All Big4 firms had to shelve their IT consulting to separate divisions or into new companies which most later sold:

Arthur Anderson formed Anderson Consulting which later became Accenture.

Ernst Young - Ernst & Young Consulting which was acquired by Capgemini

PriceWaterhouceCoopers sold to IBM Global Services

Deloitte retained its consulting division I think

KPMG - KPMG Consulting - Bearingpoint?

None of them have any features in addition to what we get from Google/Bing/Yahoo/Yandex.

Searx seems to have categories such as music, science, news, social media and so on which is better than nothing.

What I currently do is: (site:blogspot.com OR site:livejournal.com OR site:wordpress.com) <query>

Blog search gives me pages written by people: fans, amatuers and sometimes professionals; I miss such pages and perspectives when I do a general web search in Google. Above search, however, excludes self-hosted blogs and other hosting services. For forum search I just add something like phpBB|vBulletin|Invision to the query which is a hit or miss. I also have Google CSE created from my 500+ RSS feeds which gives very good results.

Earlier Google used to have both these features and it is annoying to see they remove useful functions. I just hope someone comes up with a search engine for blogs and discussion forums.

Earlier they had a blog search option which I used a lot to find pages written in a personalised style, but they shelved this. Now there is no way to find such pages under the current system other than trying yor luck with searching for site:blogspot.com and site:wordpress.com; but these two blog hosts are not even half the universe of all the blogs out there.

What I do now is to create a Google Custom Search Engine with all my RSS feed subscriptions; it resembles this earlier feature as I feed it lots of personal blogs that I read, but it is not even close to the earlier blogsearch.

Similarly there was a discussion/forum search which was also useful; that too was removed.

How would one go about starting neurofeedback training? Can this be done at home by ourselves, if so what equipment do we need and what are its cost? Can you give any further pointers/links?

When this goes live, China will gain access to an Indian ocean port in Gwadar. This project runs through Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir; these are contested/disputed territory between India and Pakistan. China and India already have boundary disputes in Kashmir and in Arunachal/Tibet

More than an Indian ocean port (which could be blockaded by India in case of a war with either of Pakistan or China), this will connect China by road with Middle East Asia and other Central Asian states; China hopes this connectivity will boost trade in the future.

This project is undertaken with the intent to engage the excess capacity of the engineering firms that have grown and matured over the years with China's economic surge in the last three decades. These companies have the expertise, technology and project management expertise—to build roads, dams, bridges, tunnels, rails, trains, engines, steel, cement and myriad other things—but doesn't have any takers as they had earlier because of the economic slowdown in China.

Another reading is that China has lots of Capital which it can invest abroad but not at home. With the overheated economy at home it is wiser to redeploy it in countries with friendly disposition to Chinese investments.

If all goes well China can get a new avenue for its products. Even if none of it works it is not too bad, as China will get the host governments indebted. Sri Lanka[1], with its Hambantota port project, can be considered as an example.

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/11/17/sri-lanka...

Which one, please elaborate.

I've seen Ford shorthand system which replaces alphabets with easier to write variants. It could also be used to write faster and provides some obscurity from the uninitiated.

http://www.fordshorthand.com/

Yes they are nice. I always become indecisive when it comes to assigning keys with keychord.

Also, Sticky keys are system-wide as it is an OS provided feature. It makes life very easy, for example, to select text, just click where you want to start selecting and go to end of your selection, tap shift and click mouse, selected. I wish more people give it a chance.

Can you tell what other resources you've used to learn, what practices were helpful in studying grammar, what was not helpful in your study of grammar?

> Carpel tunnel syndrom (cts) is a real thing, but, IMO, poor posture is more likely to give you health problems than cts

Also, use sticky keys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_keys)

I use all software with sticky keys enabled and I can't go back to a state without sticky keys. I wonder why others also don't use it. Stick with it for two or three full days and I am certain that you will love not having to press shift to capitalise text or how easy it is to press the Ctrl keyboard shortcuts in general. Not to talk about how easy it makes Emacs usage.

For exampe, to paste the URLs above, I pressed Shift with my left pinky and pressed Insert with right pinky one after the other, easier than contorting (it feels so now, after using sticky keys for some time, earlier it was okay) hand to press Ctrl-V. Also, to open and close brackets is real easy, tap Shift then press 9.

>I recommend trying out sticky keys if your OS supports it, because your hands really feels better. It takes a while to switch mindset e.g. from M-x to M x (pressing one after the other), but it’s worth it. No less effective and less stress in the hands. - https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/StickyModifiers

In Windows I place the sticky key icon in taskbar where I can see it instead of placing it inside the tray so that I can see the state of keys so as to avoid any confusion.

Just looking around, I found a programmable calculator from the same developer with BASIC support - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visualisat...

Seeing different keyboards in Android makes me think of the faith Google had in their developers compared with how little faith Apple had in their developers. The competition among keyboard applications and improvements brought by such a 'simple' application segment is truly boggling.

Before Android, I would have thought Google's way as the Winodws or *nix. I was wrong. Google was able to bring something new in terms of application development and ecosystem freedom that even Apple is forced to adopt.

I am of the belief that writing could be improved by editing. The trouble is getting the idea down on paper so that it could be improved later. First drafts are just that, first drafts, they need to go through many iterations to improve.

Writing has the function of tangible thinking as well, it is when one is writing that we realise we think in certain ways or that we don't know certain things as we imagined.

For me, this would help in forcing me to write something without waiting for the perfect sentence to form in my mind.

This looks good. Especially the gaming mode (sprint). That should result in output from reluctant people/perfectionis.

I may be wrong on the specific case of Pentadactyl. But as a user I am happy to be wrong in this case. I love that extension

However, there are many extensions that won't be possible in the new extension environment and they will die a silent death as they don't have cheerleaders who can force Mozilla to accommodate them in the new webextension plans; I know one or two such extensions myself (don't use them personally, so I may be wrong, may be not). This forced euthanasia of extensions make FF ecosystem poorer, and FF just another Chrome wannabe.

The point is, Mozilla should show the traits of leader; criticism still has merit whether Vimperator work or not.

We can move tabs to new window. In that the task switcher will be able to go to the window directly.

The capability of addons are being gutted in the name of progress. The new trend towards addons as a toolbar button started by Google Chrome has been disastrous. Extensions like Vimperator/Pentadactyl, that makes deep changes to the way Firefox operate would not be possible under the new system. I think they don't know who their ideal users are any more.

It feels like Mozilla has no imagination left. In the browser space I can see Chrome following its ideals and moving ahead. Recently Vivaldi has been making great strides with original thinking on what a browser should be. Oh, and Mozilla? We'll ape Chrome here and there and loose our identity and alienate our users. If I want Chrome, I would use it myself, I don't want bits and pieces of Chrome in something I've been using long before Chrome came.

Copy features and implement them like how Android and iOS copy each other; they keep their core identity intact with the changes and features adopted.

It is sad. Just look at what Microsoft has been doing to get an addon community like Firefox, and look at Mozilla throwing away all their working addons and the community to the streets.

Clearly extension on Firefox also grabs the text from 'next' page(s) content into the readable view. The built-in reader in Firefox can not do that. It is a very useful feature to have.

edit: While looking for the addon at addons.mozilla, I find that it has been discontinued by Evernote: 'This add-on has been removed by its author.' https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearly/

Anyone know of another addon that works similarly?

Do you've more information on this? Wikipedia says his mother is Dora Johnston, that doesn't sound like an Indian name.

Looking at the compose window, I feel there is scope to simplify it by removing some infrequently applied elements. Who creates h1, h2 h3, h4 and h5 headings in forum posts. In the order of frequent use, it is link, quote, bold, italics, picture, and attachment buttons that are frequently used. Other buttons could be hidden or even removed without creating friction.

It looks really pleasing. I especially like that it doesn't give too much space to display avatar and user information such as join date, user category, posts and so on like many traditional forums that always used more vertical space than many one or two sentence replies, eating up vertical space.

The low tech solution tried in India is to have a paper trail on the electronic voting machines itself.

>> ... will be fitted with a printer that will have a drop box to store the paper trail of the votes cast. This is expected to alleviate concerns — expressed earlier by the opposition led by BJP — over possible tampering of EVMs to favour a certain candidate.<<

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/2019-ge...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/EC-ready-with-new-a...

I don't get why other search engines (not just DDG, even Bing) don't introduce useful features Google has withdrawn. The Google search is getting better but as users we really are losing control of the results, I feel. I would loce to see the return of:

1. a good blog search 2. a good forum/discussion search

Google apparently don't find them much useful.