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New comment by blue4 in "Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser"

blue4 — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:34:31 +0000

Seem to always remember this because I feel it opened my eyes to how much speech can influence, but also assist you. I'm talking about Lebron James and when he was going through his decision making in 2010. To stay in Cleveland, with the hometown team who nurtured his career and it is home, or should he sign on with Miami. For him to begin making an unemotional decision, he distanced himself from the situation; at the time he was supposedly pressured from many sides.

“I wanted to do what’s best for LeBron James and to do what makes LeBron James happy.”

New comment by blue4 in "FFmpeg 4.2"

blue4 — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:55:21 +0000

Not sure what you mean, you're able to easily just use youtube-dl to download the audio only. Is the conversion suppose to change it into a certain filetype or something?

New comment by blue4 in "You Say What You Eat"

blue4 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:37:28 +0000

He's mad about the order and the usage of important

New comment by blue4 in "'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (2017)"

blue4 — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:12:02 +0000

Off-topic reply: vestibular disorder was referenced a while back by a Val Head who talks a lot of animation on the web. https://alistapart.com/article/designing-safer-web-animation...

New comment by blue4 in "How I Run a Company with ADHD"

blue4 — Mon, 13 May 2019 11:40:47 +0000

Rewarding yourself after a boring activity is kind of cliche?, but it works. Eating a piece of candy after going to the gym for example.

New comment by blue4 in "Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth"

blue4 — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:24:52 +0000

Are we absolutely sure it's the right gas? Maybe we just read it as methane but it's something else

New comment by blue4 in "U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces"

blue4 — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:55:39 +0000

If you're working in an office you should expect some level of office noises. I'm not talking about a truck honking his horn outside your window for 8 hours is normal, I'm saying general noises - ones that have a short time on them, and are required for their jobs. I would have expected my comment to be clearer than it may have sounded.

To clarify, just because you're in a library doesn't mean it is absolutely pin drop quiet. There is basic atmosphere noise. I of course am in favor of a closed office, and cubicle farms and open environments are easily more favorable for the employer than employee, but it seems expected to have some basic noise in an open office that people love complaining about—instead of championing closed offices which is never going to happen in a lot of companies.

New comment by blue4 in "U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces"

blue4 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:11:53 +0000

I think it's hilarious there are complaints about regular office noise like talking business on phones, typing, and sniffling/cough etc... If you want to go to sleep it's a perfect to expect that...otherwise stop complaining get headphones, move your desk, change your environment or remove yourself from the equation in some way.

I don't believe that productivity is hurt because of open office sounds, I think people just love complaining.

Ask HN: How does uBlock Origins cosmetic filters work?

blue4 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:50:24 +0000

Anyone have a simple explanation on how I am able to right-click, block element, then select elements around the screen?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482892

Points: 1

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New comment by blue4 in "Ask HN: How can I learn how to paint?"

blue4 — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:42:16 +0000

- lay out a small inch grid over your favorite painting [throw a painting into photoshop on a tablet to have greater zoom]

- focus on perfecting the small squares only not the larger piece, the fun is jumping around from your favorite puzzle piece and not going in order.

- once you're done remove the grid and blend in the edges of each square to it's adjacent one.

New comment by blue4 in "People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day"

blue4 — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:48:57 +0000

yes

New comment by blue4 in "A JavaScript-Free Front End"

blue4 — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:47:32 +0000

wow this is excellent,

are good tricks

New comment by blue4 in "People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day"

blue4 — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:44:40 +0000

Sounds like some of my own work, I hypothesized that the body doesn’t need food itself, merely the chemicals and elements it contains. So, what if I consumed only the raw ingredients the body uses for energy? Soylent was the obvious choice because our bodies do not need food.

New comment by blue4 in "China’s tech sector is in the doldrums"

blue4 — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:17:46 +0000

> By one count 48 million people in China lack sufficient drinking water. The number of people facing severe drinking water shortages doubled to 5.9 million in early 2008 because of a severe winter drought. China has more than a fifth of the world's population but only 7 percent of its fresh water.

Not from the article, but if there was a startup needed and one that could jump start their sector there, a significant problem to solve is clean water.

New comment by blue4 in "Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone"

blue4 — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:13:10 +0000

Looked like those hilarious techniques taken from street magic to pull off the illusion.

New comment by blue4 in "Redesigning GitHub Repository Page"

blue4 — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:48:14 +0000

I was fine with everything until the last change, the borders are needed, visually.

New comment by blue4 in "Creeping on You in the Cold Drinks Aisle"

blue4 — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:40:12 +0000

Walgreens probably still does those late night stickers for price changes, if anything needs to be digitized it would be that. For the benefit of the employees that have to do that painful mess of a price change constantly. Next time you visit a Walgreens or similar store and see tags everywhere just consider how much waste there is to do that every week, sometimes with the same prices just a new colored sticker.

New comment by blue4 in "Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos"

blue4 — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:06:48 +0000

> Why do you need to post publicly rather than marking it as unlisted and sharing the link with people you know and trust?

Important point, still kind of weird to me, even in this day and age of Facebook and social media in general, where everyone feels the need to share every intimate detail of their lives with strangers.

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New comment by blue4 in "How to Convert a Free User to a Premium User"

blue4 — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:32:46 +0000

Make something useful that someone can trial and feel like they've had enough value from it to pay for it?

New comment by blue4 in "Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers"

blue4 — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:37:23 +0000

4. I don't want to pay for the data they are collecting, now if there was a paid option for that...