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I've never heard this term before: "black tongue comments." Wondering what's its origin?

Someone in the comments linked to this Chrome extension: https://makemediumreadable.com/

I tried it, and after turning on all the extension's features, it pretty much solves the problem.

I also like to Google everything, even individual words or proper names I already know the meaning of, just because I can. I use the Google Dictionary Extension for Chrome. Just double-click anything on the web and it pops up. Pretty awesome stuff.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboac...

Here's the TED talk version of this article: "Connected, But Alone?"

http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html

I think "Gentlemen Learning Code" would be a great name for such a workshop. And we would wear monocles and brown tweed. It would be both educational and ironically hip!

In all seriousness though, LLC is doing some great stuff, and I'm glad to see it getting some recognition here.

True, though I'm not sure that's the generally accepted definition of "joker." I think this screed could be better summarized by the catchphrase "Git 'r done!"

Ironically, said catchphrase was created by one Larry the Cable Guy — a noted comedian, or professional "joker."

They probably only insisted because they assumed it was an impostor who happened to have the same middle name as the famous author.

There was a great article in the New York Times last year that partly attributed Italy's stagnation to its unusually insular, family-oriented culture.

"The suspicion of Italians when it comes to extra-familial institutions explains why many here care more about protecting what they have than enhancing their wealth. Most Italians live less than a mile or two from their parents and stay there, often for financial benefits like cash and in-kind services like day care. It’s an insularity that runs all the way up to the corporate suites. The first goal of many entrepreneurs here isn’t growth, so much as keeping the business in the family."

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/business/global/01italy.ht...

Meditation breaks are great, as is occasionally disconnecting from the matrix. But I'm not sure clicking through text on a website is the most effective way to accomplish this.

I'd say you're better off stretching for a minute or doing some light callisthenics. Perhaps while blasting doom metal.

An earlier Hacker News discussion on this article can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815457

Perhaps "poo work" or "feces work" would have been more apropos.

I've always liked this approach, even if it comes with some controversy. This could set in motion a number of exciting discoveries.

Somehow I doubt a public relations agent on Dropbox's payroll wrote up a piece specifically from David Pogue's point of view, in the unique writing style of David Pogue, so that David Pogue could simply submit it to the New York Times, claim it as his own, and collect two paycheques.

I'm all for healthy skepticism, but not purely speculative conspiracy theories.

It would also solve obesity, because they'd all be human-powered. I actually imagine a future where we could basically have gigantic power generation stations stocked with complex exercise machines.

I'm a big fan of the Readability bookmarklet (readability.com/bookmarklets), which lets you set the page's font, size, colors, etc. As a bonus, it nukes most of the clutter such as ads and sidebars.

I don't actually see it. But, you might want to check out the Awesome Screenshot add-in for Firefox and Chrome. It lets you capture the whole page, as well as crop, annotate and blur.

I'm sure there are, but I'll bet not so many that this inquiry will reach all of them.

Maybe set up something more permanently on meetup.com?

Like many of the commenters, I'm not crazy about the changes. But I do notice one marked improvement, though I'm not sure how many others will share my experience.

I've been using this Delicious bookmarklet for Chrome (http://www.techlifeweb.com/2008/09/11/delicious-bookmarklet-...) and noticed that about a year ago, it was displaying only the five suggested tags, instead of all the recommended tags for that site. To make things worse, they didn't even seem to be the most relevant five — nearly every site was tagged "inspiration" or "design," undoubtedly by web designers looking for ideas.

Now that it's relaunched, the suggested tags are back to normal! I know I should just enter my own tags, but it kind of defeats the purpose of tapping the wisdom of crowds.

Now it's time to go back and re-tag a year's worth of bookmarks...er, links. A delicious prospect indeed.

Watched the whole thing. For some reason, I couldn't look away.

Working on a startup was one of the contributing factors to the decline and failure of my relationship.

When we were supposed to be spending "quality time" together on weekend afternoons, I kept thinking about how much work I could be getting done. I had to bail on vacation or event plans to spend more time on my project. I kept saying "just another couple weeks, then we launch." But the project dragged on and by then, it was too late.

At the time, I wasn't single, but I wasn't married or cohabiting with kids either. Not sure if that's considered "dating" or not. Anyway, I'm sure many people are capable of balancing their work and their romantic life, but in my case it as untenable. Depending on what kind of relationship you have, what your personalities are like, and what kind of work you're doing, it can really hurt you.

This makes sense. If you work yourself to the bone just to be successful and putting yourself in the position to compete with other "alphas," you're going to be stressed. And you're not going to fight your competitors to the death over a job or female baboon — you have to play by society's rules, which attempts to equalize us to some degree.

Human civilization, of course, is far too complex to reduce people to just alpha or beta. But some people still like to think of it that way. Which is why I'm thinking of starting a "beta pride" movement: We're less stressed, we rarely end up in prison and we still manage to find mates once in a while.

Who's with me?

Interesting, something of a successor to the classic Paul Graham essay, "How to Be Silicon Valley" (May 2006): http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

According to the study cited in this article, the answer seems the be a fairly firm "probably not."

"The findings of the survey clearly show that consumers are frustrated with the traditional online registration process and will favor brands that make it easy for them to be recognized."

I personally find registration annoying and tend to avoid it, so it's nice to see my bias somewhat validated.