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My points:

1. No one stops you from keeping "zone" feeling during lockout, you can just drink something (what actually helps to think a lot is to drink regularly) or sit for a while with closed eyes thinking about problem, etc.

1a. I sincerely think that regular breaks actually help solving problems (at least in some cases).

2. Schools use timed breaks and in rare cases of interesting classes they do not discourage students to learn. Of course schools should be optimized more, I'm not arguing that.

3. Timed lockout is not target, invented just to prevent illness, it is also a method. Method to teach self discipline, even to begin teaching self discipline in some cases. No one will tell you how to optimize living when you'll grow up, that is why we read a lot of articles about people who burn out on a job.

Later it is insanely hard to go from super lazy, undisciplined student to focused worker.

You are solving the wrong problem. What you are doing, is searching for an environment for a person unfamiliar with computers. This should be a second step really. The first step should be (I think) "what should I buy for 10 YEAR OLD". First of all - I think that netbooks AND notebooks (from 7" to 20") for a child is a bad idea. Netbooks (7" to 10") is especially bad idea. You should consider her eyesight - small, high dpi display very close to the eyes is bad. Consider scoliosis probability - because keyboard is fixed right below the screen and can't disconnected (except 1-2 special rare big notebooks). Consider RSI (repetitive strain injury) to hands, neck etc., hands especially. This can be caused by bad keyboard (all notebooks I think), screen keyboards (on extended use, like writing code, essays etc.), even bad mouse (cause hand position on the mouse is unnatural, it is a 90* turn from ideal position). Developed hand RSI is unbearably painful, considerably limits keyboard usage and heals very, very bad. This is just what I would consider. Ask a medic and he'll tell you more.

tl;dr No notebooks and probably tablets for 10 year old. Buy adjustable table, adjustable chair, classic desktop with some ergonomic keyboard and mouse (both with wrist support). Set up timed lockout on the PC, like 10 minutes every 1-2 hours. Lockout after 24:00 and lockout on total uptime per day. After that choose OS from your experience, it doesn't matter really (I think).

I promise, she'll thank you 15 years later.

But opening unknown URL IS dangerous. It's like URL shorteners that plague internet since Twitter - you never know where link will take you and what scripts etc. will run in your browser.

Can't reply to the comment below. About "tattooed" word - this is usually called irony. And it is a common phrase about "remembering things", I don't see what's so bad about saying that.

This is called "natural selection". You are currently observing an app-store customer in the wild, seeing its habits and preferences. You can't get another, domestic, customer because they die out in the cages from severe ADs overdose, so you are left with only two choices: 1. Do nothing new; 2. Learn how to interact with existing, wild, customer population, who, oh blasphemy!, doesn't like IAPs.

Your apps. Your choice.

15$ for quality product is ok. Chaptered games/applications (iWork etc.) are ok. ADs are not. IAPs are not.

This should be tattooed on every single iOS dev.

PS: I actually wish there would be at least few 30-60$ games in the store. And not those crappy ports of gamepad/mouse games (shooters etc.) with unplayable controls. Or some good, but very old, not so polished ports of ports of classic games (FFT). It would be nice to play some great western RPG, with interesting story (not that boring save the world stuff), it should be turn based to adjust to device controls, some good graphics (not like those Top games from store) - look up Bastion on the PC, THIS is how AAA iPad games should look like. And no sequels. Please.

Many powerful social positions in our society are occupied by not qualified enough people, who only have it through connections or inheritance or just conforming to overcomplicated modern social rules. Basically unquestioning conforming to any relevant authority until a person grows higher in power than it. In Sheldon case it was his new boss, who fired him for a reason than Sheldon did not bow to him (meaning that he should not ever question qualification of a more powerful person). In the essay, this behavior was shown on the example of a psychologist or psychiatrist, who also can develop a tendency to negatively evaluate anti-authoritarian people because they themselves have an opposite character type and are in a more powerful position. This especially concerns me because there are evidence of such abuse of power in cases of children, who can be put on medication just to be kept in the boarding school indefinitely (not sure if this a right name in English).

Where did that number came from? I think that such a percentage is exactly the same for pro-authoritarian people. Should they get authority for themselves they became anti-social in an instant.

And I think that really this percent is not 99%, not even 50%, closer to the single digits really. It's just that these anti-socials impact pro-social people much more that other pro-socials.

PS: pro-social is just an opposite for anti-social. Nothing complicated.

During reading I always thought about Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory, in one of the first series when he was sacked from his job. And when he comes to apologize with his mother, he says "I've called you an idiot during our first meeting. I'm sorry... for pointing that out.".

I suppose it's the same with many doctors who stamp "mentally ill" diagnoses on people. "If you disagree with me, then you should be treated."

Why do I need sign a cable TV contract? On a paper? Requesting some people to make a draft and fetch me it with a decoder, 3 day before I can actually watch anything? What's a decoder anyway? Why do I need to BUY it? Even though I already have a brand new TV? What do you mean a GOOD decoder is 2-3 times more expensive? And it is forever bound to a certain cable provider? Why, it's just some generic hardware? Why is it SD? Do you aware that we have FullHD stuff for a decade already? Oh, you do have HD? 2-4 channels out of 130? And my decoder doesn't apply? What, even GOOD decoder doesn't apply? So I need this card which is more expensive than GOOD decoder? And card only fits about 20% TVs on the market?

Etc. etc. The list goes on indefinitely...

> A service manager then informed him that “it’s a brick” and that the battery would cost approximately $40,000 to replace. He was further told that this was a special “friends and family” price, strongly implying that Tesla generally charges more.

> $40,000 (or more) to fix his car

> full $40,000-plus cost

> At the same time, the Model S pricing starts at $49,900 (after US tax incentives), broadening the market to households of far more modest means than the owners of the $109,000 and up Roadster. This in turn makes it even less likely that Tesla buyers will have the necessary tens of thousands of dollars to spare if they ever allow their battery to fully discharge. ("Implying that battery cost will be the same as for Roadster, car that costs 2.5 times more")

Statements like this are generally bad for an article that tries to operate with facts.

Governments are just scared to even slightly question their own actions. If some laws from 1952 were inhuman and oppressive, then what chance of some of the current laws being the same? No way they are going to diminish their power. Never.

I have it still but never login. Deleting is pointless because they delete nothing from their DB, and also some times its nice to have thing. Like login to stupid website which only accepts social networks login or identical "tons of info" registration. Or to "connect" facebook with Steam or some other platform for whatever reason (why they want it in the first place I wonder?).

At least that was Swedish court. Had it been in the USA they could have faced 4, 6 and 10 years of imprisonment, and $6.8 trillion damage to the RIAA and MPAA.

We don't commit new code to whiteboards. We commit it to VCS. You know, with such electronic thingies, called computers. And when my interviewers wanted to collaborate they didn't find it too difficult with paper. Even sitting opposite of me (and that is why large tables in conferences are evil).

Person who decided that HDReady should be 1366x768 was a little bit insane.

And personally for me I have even more crazy problem because of that: When I transfer signal through HDMI from 1280x720 notebook to HDReady TV it actually thinks that the signal IS HDReady from 1280x720 and stretches it by that 6% of difference and crops it by 6% and stretches again.

tl;dr As a result I have something around ~1210x660 center part from original 1280x720 signal stretched to 1366x768... Can't find any solution yet.