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The sentencing blows my mind too. Like you said, the information was out there for anyone to see.

I like the idea of writing content in markdown and thus keeping presentation separate from content. Hope this takes off. If I were someone who presented a lot, I would definitely consider purchasing this.

Are the gift options limited to roses, gift cards and cards? This would be an awesome service if one could select a gift from say Amazon. In fact, Amazon should offer something like this. They do let you create wish lists for friends and reminds you to send a gift on their birthdays. But an automation like this would be very cool.

When I read the title of this post, I first thought 'Oh okCupid's website breaks in FF and instead of fixing the site, they are asking their users to switch to another browser'. Then the comments here completely threw me off. Took some digging to figure out what the real issue was.

The okcupid link in the title (at least on mobile) just goes to their login page, no message about ditching FF there.

Sent you an email!

That's exactly how I felt. And they wrote such a detailed email with helpful links and everything.

It is artists!

This is very interesting. I like the idea of having an app where I can go and relive any day of life. But I guess it could be a treasure trove of information for people with malicious intent - stealing your identity, learning your secret passwords and such?

I am the kind of person who feels the need to record what is happening in my life and more importantly how I am feeling at that point in my life. So it is kind of attractive to have an app where I can go back and see what was happening on any given day.

Yes, you are right. I expected the downvotes. :)

You can continue downvoting this comment, but I stick by it because it is an honest expression of my feelings.

I am sorry, I have a video game addict in the family and he is not very social when it comes to real life.

I know HN is not the place for this type of comment, but social and gamer in the same sentence, ha ha!

All the answers here give me hope that my BF might one day tire of the games.

I feel like they are a 'waste of time' as well since I could be using that time to become better at my programming skills. But my BF is addicted and it seems the only way I would be able to spend time with him is by playing video games with him and his friends, but my whole being resists it.

One of the causes of procrastination is perfectionism. The fear of not meeting your own high standards probably affects HN readers more than anything else.

I think macs make working with keyboard shortcuts very difficult for various reasons. - Command and Control are confusingly named. - They use most of the function keys for windows related things - bring all windows to front etc. - There is no key for right click like those offered by Windows keyboards to bring up context menus. - You can Command-Tab to an application but not to the individual windows of that application. You must use Command-Tilde for that. - Apps offered for mac don't have a consistent behavior for the close button. Some apps will close the window, but stay in the dock. Others will quit. - On Windows, if the first letter in the menu bar items is underlined, you can be sure you can just do Alt + that letter to open up that menu item. You could even move windows using one of the menu item options and arrow keys.

My biggest issue on switching from Windows to Mac was losing all those keyboard shortcuts. On Windows I could do a whole lot more without ever touching the mouse.

I know you can remap your keys etc. but then you usually end up acting all awkward anytime you have to use someone else's computer. So I want the defaults to be good instead and I think Windows got theirs better than Mac.

Don't hate on me for this. I know both operating systems have their pros and cons.

I have always felt bad about fresh produce going to waste in my fridge.Between my buying the produce and it going bad, there is always a point where I know I am not going to be able to use this stuff and in 2-3 days it will be unusable. I have looked for services in my area where I could take these items to. Something like soup kitchens who can then incorporate them into their cooking. But all the organizations I found took only canned goods and prepared food from large scale organizations like restaurants.

I had even thought it would be a great program for a charity register homes that are willing to give away soon-to-go-bad food. Then have volunteers stop by these homes on a predetermined schedule (once a week or so) to stop by and collect anything that the home might want to donate.

Awesome!

Thanks for your comments. I am the non-obsessed party. I am glad to hear your points of view @drone and @meerita. I am sure my bf feels similarly.

Great idea and product. I will gladly pay for it. One of the biggest issues I had when transitioning from pc to mac was the lack of meaningful shortcuts. This would have eased the pain greatly!

I could not figure out how to click an element when using . to highlight all elements.

After working in a cube partitioned off from everyone else on the team for 7 years, I will disagree with the title of this post. I long for a more interactive workspace. I find myself depressed, not motivated and alone. My instincts tell me it would be nice to have a little more human contact. At present I can go days without speaking to others on the team. And without much of a social circle, I think the scenario is quite a big contributor to my depression and lack of motivation.

Yea :D

I read Rocket Boys recently so it was kind of cool finding Homer Hickam in news.

Damn.

This is what we should be talking about instead of why there aren't enough women in Tech (there isn't much talk about about why there aren't enough men in sewing). Women can choose to go into tech or not, that's their prerogative. Tech is not the issue, the problem is the demands that society and culture put on women which restricts their growth in any industry, not just tech.

I did not know about Catatumbo, thanks for posting. Very interesting.

I am trying to become a web designer/developer after years of working mostly in the backend. And the inelegance of solutions, the spider weblike creep of the code is a big bother. But it is a nice challenge too. To write an elegant, readable, maintainable code for a beautiful and pleasing UI/UX. There might be compromises that would have to be made in the UI/UX end in order to maintain sanity of the code. Finding the optimum balance could be an enjoyable challenge.

Sometimes I wonder if I am at a disadvantage because I don't smoke! It would be nice to be able to call on the clear and lucid feeling when I sit down to work or need to think something through.

agreed

I wouldn't decry the article addressing mostly women, because IMO, work life balance is more an issue for women esp those of us who harbor carrer related ambitions.

In spite of men treating women as equal and sharing responsibilities, in my experience, most of the time women carry the greater part of the daily load related to running a household and tending to children.

Women feel an unspoken pressure from society to have a clean beautiful well run house. Add to that the pressure to look good, be in a good shape and dress well.

They are bombarded with images of professional women in business attire and women in aprons cooking gourmet meals with children frolicking around. They are constantly struggling to be both these type of women.

On the other hand, society and media don't put out so many conflicting images of men. Men have been consistently expected to be bread winners, be successful in their professional life.

I am not saying, men don't understand that with a working wife, they have to lend a helping hand at home, but from what I have seen, women end up carrying most of the daily brunt and they feel like they must because of what they see on tv and thousands of years of history.

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I don't get why this is made to be a big deal. Gender or race shouldn't matter in choice of speakers, it should be their talent, track record, relevance of their work etc. What woman would want to be invited to speak if they knew it was because the organizers want to be representative of both sexes.