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The fact that more and more people do not have the skills to make it in America today is the most heart breaking. And with the costs of college education, the problem will only become worse with the offsprings of those affected today becoming the most likely to be affected in future.

I think education is what should be provided free or subsidized.

Not related to the topic.. The site is really well designed and kudos to NPR for a splendid coverage and presentation as usual.

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Apologize for irrelevancy of the comment. Someone needed to let squeed know.

I have this OCD tendency to clean up my place before I can sit down to work on my projects, by the time I am done with it all, I am hungry, so I cook then there are the dishes...after everything's done, I feel mentally drained even though all I did was physical activity. I am similarly OCD about working out. All of this coupled with errands and family and social obligations, the desire to please everybody (do something special for birthdays, anniversaries, help out, never saying no)...makes it very difficult to work. Usually, on weekends, it is Sunday evening before I have taken care of everything and am in a good position to work on my projects.

WHat stood out to me from the article -

"The findings also tie into research attempting to do away with sleep, such as by finding a drug that could eliminate the effects of sleep deprivation."

Every now and then I get upset with myself for sleeping too much, not utilizing all my time after work to work on side projects and learning new skills. I wish I could stay up till late AND wake up early or be able to do away with sleep altogether (and the need to eat)! How I wish I could do away with sleep!!

Recently after a few days of skimping on sleep, I had a few days where I let myself sleep enough and noticed how much more alert I felt during the day, I had forgotten that feeling! For now I have accepted that I need to make time for sleep. Side projects, new skills will just have to be done at a consistent even if a slow rate.

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Ah! Thank you for the gloves vs mittens tip. I have always found gloves futile, they never warm my hands. I will try mittens next winter.

Oh "Honey Do List" is a very funny and sweet choice of name.

+1 for a focused app. There must be several apps that will accomplish each of those individual things, wishlists, google drive, count less to-do apps....but what this does is bring together these generic functionalities for a single purpose. I feel there's lot of potential for more such focused, simple applications.

A monthly mail delivery would be better, no? I had thought of this and when I researched I think I found something like that i.e. monthly condom delivery already exists and did not think about it any more. Btw, a yearly delivery of new underwear and undershirts for men would be another thing that is needed if it doesn't already exist.

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Did anyone else feel like the gifs were overused?

SO much time and he surfed the web :/ If I could have that kind of time...sigh

You should upload the app somewhere and make it available. It seems very cool.

I want to add further to my comment that I do not oppose the idea of making the web accessible by nature, but reading so far in this post and comments, it seems hugely difficult esp considering how much of the content/elements are manipulated by javascript. How are the screen readers going to cope with that?

Why shouldn't companies (their developers) put in the extra effort needed to keep both versions up to date? They can come up with a framework for it. It may not necessarily mean two totally separate code base. You could design your framework so that both versions feed off the same backend. And don't they have to put in that extra effort to make sure their mobile versions are up to date?

Startups have a good chance to start their framework with accessibility in mind.

An MVP could ignore this aspect, because it is not the final product yet.

Shouldn't websites start having an accessible version, like they have mobile versions of their sites? These would be free of too much JavaScript fu and go directly to the meat of the matter. In fact it is possible people with no physical challenges would start preferring these simpler faster versions too. Maybe in near future, the latest trend in web will be less JS, less graphics, less animation and more matter.

Show some examples / demo please. The readme doesn't tell all that much.

I clicked through quickly, I might review in detail later. First off, nice job. You have implemented a lot. Groups, discussions, quotes, books read and to-read. How long and how many people did it take?? Is there functionality for people to rate the books they read and write reviews? I am sure there is, I just didn't see it.

The adverts are definitely distracting and make the site look cluttered. But I understand, you need to make money to at least support the operation! I have thought about creating something like this that would go with a mobile app so people can stay in touch with what others are reading, or write reviews while on the go. I wanted to do this or wanted someone else to do this because I don't like (and so don't use) the goodreads app.

Adding your site to my Clippt inbox, to review properly later.

Good luck!

Nice. I might use it on my blog when the number of posts cross 10 :).

Looks great, don't have time to go through it in detail right now, but first impression - the ui and idea are awesome.

With so much inspiration floating around (and fixed to every wall in the office), I find http://www.despair.com/demotivators.html refreshing.

TLDR:

trance - knocking on my window

"Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein’s brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary" "These may have provided the neurological underpinnings for some of his visuospatial and mathematical abilities, for instance."

NPR, Twitter

I am amazed that a human being can cover 100 miles in a day, even if on a bike. Awesome.

I feel like such a lazy bum!!

I agree, it was a very good read.

Good. I wonder if this also addresses the problem when you are replying to a long chain of email conversation, the compose box includes the entire chain while also displaying the chain above the compose box. Very unpleasant.

Nice. And prezjordan has a good question. Why is it a jquery plugin?

I felt similarly. And that first statement by Kevin Packingham made me gag. Yea, he works for Samsung and made a statement saying he was shocked to see uptick in their sales after iPhone5 release. Plus the article is fileld with too many statements from the company or description of the party.Analysis, comparison, user survey...stuff like that would have been more relevant.

Nice. I have bookmarked this to keep an eye on the storm.

Does the fact that we have to use techniques to make ourselves focus mean that we do not like what we do?

An HTML5 application. Unless you pronounce H as Haytch (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11642588).

An is for words beginning with vowel sounds. The letter the word begins with may or may not be a vowel. An umbrella. A university. An RDBMS. A SQL (if pronounced sequel), an SQL (is pronounced S Q L).

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Carrying a set of backup codes when travelling, generating a code for each app that is linked to your account...these things make two way authentication seem very inconvenient. I went with converting my gmail account to use two way authentication but after being informed to remember to carry a set of 10 backup codes when I am going to be without my phone, was a turn off and I reverted to my old settings.