misterman101

In Chinese libraries there are sanitization boxes that everyone runs their books through after check out.

Seemed like it was just UV, though I didn't ask.

What's worked for me every time I get in that routine is to force myself to do one to five push ups every time I think about switching tabs.

During that time I think about what it is that I really want to be doing. After a while I automatically skip to this step without having the desire to refresh HN.

The difference is that the company is not paying (and therefore not tracking costs) for client code, so it has less incentive to fix things.

The extra engineers needed to make a Java/C++ backend need to eat/sleep/consume and have their own environmental cost.

$$$ is a good first-order proxy of environmental cost, and lower server costs probably don't make up for engineering salaries.

> I think it can win more than half the time, because it can gather roughly how likely the same choice is to be played in a row.

With a random choice, the chance of playing the same choice in a row is 1/3. This does not give you any advantage over having no information (where each choice has a 1/3 chance.)

I think the misunderstanding is in > a randomizer has pretty even distribution

Having an even distribution over a long time does not make any specific choice less random. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy

I went to a high school that had a college-like schedule with the campus covering a few buildings in downtown (small city). Attendance wasn't mandatory, grades were exam/deliverable based.

The freedom was great for high-achievers. Normal students showed up to classes like normal. Almost-dropouts didn't go to class and waste everyone's time (eventually they were transferred to regular high-school).

I learned valuable life-lessons compared to the hand-holding and babysitting done in other high schools, and highly recommend the model.

In some European supermarkets, you can borrow a scan gun and scan things as you put them in your bag. Then you use the self checkout machine for payment. Sometimes you get flagged for verification, and an employee has to scan X random items. It's very smooth, especially with card-only terminals.

Good tip, but I still cannot search for a page to get to that timestamp and then scroll up/down in time to find something.

While the dictionary defines rich as "Possessing great material wealth" the real value of being rich is not having to worry about being poor (feeding yourself, affording rent, etc.). After a certain threshold, earning more does not increase happiness [0], and I would argue there is a big gap between being able to afford "a bit of consumption" vs spending money on whatever.

[0] http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q1/money-only-b...

You'd still need to get heat out. You could water cool the machine, but you'd still have fans/radiator on the outside.

The server is a honeypot run by Imperva.

This means that real attackers are attempting right now.

I used it to coordinate coffee making. Yo the coffee group when you are making coffee, and anyone could yo back to request a cup. Worked great.

To everybody interested, check out paper.js. It's also programmatic design but everything can be an object, making animations/interactivity easier, along with some other neat features.

http://paperjs.org/

Thanks for this simple tool, I'll definitely use it next time.

I broke it by putting in a non-integer number of minutes. Is this even fixable?

I started using toggl for personal time tracking this week, and so far it's working really well. For just a local android app, I used aTimeTracker before and it was unobtrusive enough to get in a habit of using it.