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Exactly. There should be no foul play in the headline. Purely descriptive. The writing itself is what is supposed to draw you in or repel you.

This title is way better. Designer + Man of Mystery are completely vague. His name, + his role, + his organization drew me to the headline.

I like guns. I like mystery. The CIA is inherently mysterious.

It has the opposite effect for me, the more ambiguous, the less likely I am to click it for fear of time wasted.

>This certainly does not match up with my experience with my hobby of book consumption or the experiences of my friend who is a wine sommelier

I could not think of someone I'd get along with less. You must be much older than me. This is exactly what I'm talking about. I'd never want to listen to someone tell me about the history of something, that's boring, that's regurgitation, I can google that. If you've made wine before though, that's definitely interesting.

Something where you create tangible value. Video games, movies, collecting, etc are all consumer hobbies. Leather making, coding, music, knitting, etc, are instigative. The main difference is it's difficult to relate to other people about consumer hobbies unless you consume the same things. With instigative hobbies you can teach people and talk about them to others who know nothing about it. I'm not saying either is better than the other, it's just harder to relate to people when all you do is consume.

That's why I refuse to do a single minute of overtime even if it is paid. I've told employers to fire me if they feel like I should be staying longer and none of them have yet. If I ever need to make up time or do extra work, it's usually because of mismanagement and crappy deadlines as 8 hours of solid work a day is a lot, nothing should be "late".

Free time is absolutely the most valuable currency. If you can practice an instigative hobby and augment that hobby with the good money you make, then you've got it made. I have a bloody ton of hobbies and I can't wait to get out of work to work on my own stuff.

Seeing my days/life in two parts as stability (day job) being fuel for my hobby has helped me deal with my identity crisis when I got completely turned off from coding. It was also my hobby so I was always coding, but once I lost that I didn't know what to do and I hated my job. Once I saw it as fuel, no matter what day job I have, is now in context of a hobby.

A different claim, same bullshit "science".

" According to the CDC one in five Americans have ADHD, anxiety, or depression.

Impacting productivity, focus, and mood.

We can help, with ThinkSuite!"

Chemicals can't even help me, how would ThinkSuite? If I could cure this crap with a site, I would, but we can't.

There's something precious about the currency of sleep in the work place. It's non existent. You've never felt like you're dozing off for a minute and would kill to be in bed at that moment?

The same reason we're teaching African refugees JavaScript.

Because we can.

I use this [1] to do a simple full-text search of my personal knowledge base.

[1] https://github.com/slashdotdash/jekyll-lunr-js-search

Nothing will ever beat the accessibility of What.CD for me.

I've lost the ability to focus on a single task for hours at a time like I used to as a kid. Even if it excites me. My attention has been completely ruined by social media and I don't know how to recover.

Always some sort of chat or something in the background. I really don't know what to do, should I get counselling or something?

I consider it a worthwhile life skill. There's always a chess set somewhere.

I don't want to take the time to have to look for a function that should be a default.

Deleted my FB and Twatter for this reason. I don't understand why someone can't just build a simple product and leave it be.

I entered that obsession. Then I realized just how long it would really take me to even get decent and stopped. Now I simply respect chess from a distance.

"And even better, it lives in the cloud".

Lost me here. I just want a solid desktop app that isn't a web wrapper or lives in the browser. I can't stand web apps to be honest. It's almost there, but it always feels like a cheap copy of what should be a proper desktop application.

With that mentality, I should just stay home in the fetal position because it's better than anything since I won't be spending a dime. Honestly, it's cheap as fuck. Have you met a regular person? Regular people go shopping every week for different shit, its unbelievable. I have friends that buy bags for $2k each, hats for $200, etc. Just because I literally only bought a few sweaters, a jacket, and boots a decade ago does not in any way make me inefficient. I am also not burning money by buying $50 sweaters.

Where do you live? There's no way you live in the modern world if you think $10/sweater is a regular price for something because that's absolutely insane. Do you only wear 90's crewnecks? I can see those being $10 at the local goodwill. If you do then why are you trying so extremely hard to find the lowest prices possible? Are you living in poverty?

I like to look fashionable though. I already went through my $3/shirt, $35/outfit phase and it was great, but I've moved past it now.

Those prices already are cheap. That's a $40/year jacket. I mean I guess I could hunt and wait for deals but I don't have the brainpower to track yet another "thing" you know? I only spent a few hundred on clothing in the past decade with the majority of my main purchases being at the start of the decade. Shaving off $50 here and there from that would do virtually nothing for me. If you shop frequently then by all means hunt for deals but I wear the exact same thing every single day (this is where I makeup the money I lost on expensive items by not getting them on sale).

Please don't pretend like the prices that you are posting are in any way normal. Fit, quality, and style are greatly sacrificed for price. I can't even remember the last time I saw a $10 t-shirt that wasn't on sale or clearance.

Summer or Winter? My argument is about Winter because it's Winter where I am.

My boots were $250 that I've had for 7 years now. Jacket $600 (going on 8 years), sweater 50, glasses 500 (going on 5 years), pants 50, other random shit. I rather buy super expensive quality items every decade than constantly shopping for small crap.

Only stuff I've bought in the past half decade is maybe like a few t shirts and socks/underwear. Everything else lasts.

Absolutely no clue what you wear for $100 in the Winter. Summer I can understand. I guess it's the boots/jackets that really change the price as 3 piece summer outfits I agree should be below 100.

$1000 outfit is standard. Boots that don't suck, jeans, jackets, sweaters, watches, accessories add up super quickly.

That is a brilliant quote.

Doesn't matter in the context of the joke. Has nothing to do with his wife, only 'chan'.

"Chan is a diminutive suffix; it expresses that the speaker finds a person endearing. Thus, using chan with a superior's name would be condescending and rude. In general, chan is used for babies, young children, and teenage girls. It may also be used towards cute animals, lovers, and close friends. "

It's otaku humor.

If magically the urge to get laid left me, I'd be in bed laying all day everyday looking up at the ceiling.

I "portrayed" so hard that I was let go 3 months after starting because they thought I was much much better than I actually was. They judged me on my theoretical knowledge not my applied knowledge. Oh well at least I know I can talk the talk, just need to learn the stuff for real now.

We're reaching a point where all these are coming back, but only ironically for now and in small secluded pockets of the city. Haven't spotted any legit uses in the field as of yet.

Slackware only took me 8 installs vs 15 for Arch.

Does anyone know what the candidate was actually trying to do here? Is it semi intelligible? I can't figure it out.

It took me one day to get up and running and hasn't messed up for me since (3 years on a MBPr that rarely leaves home). Have 3 monitors connected and a ton of other stuff. Never had to fiddle with getting anything working. Apple support has always served me well too.