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“She spoke with complete seriousness. “What is the meaning of life?” In my entire week with the Dalai Lama, every conceivable question had been asked—except this one. People had been afraid to ask the one—the really big—question. There was a brief, stunned silence at the table. The Dalai Lama answered immediately. “The meaning of life is happiness.” He raised his finger, leaning forward, focusing on her as if she were the only person in the world. “Hard question is not, ‘What is meaning of life?’ That is easy question to answer! No, hard question is what make happiness. Money? Big house? Accomplishment? Friends? Or …” He paused. “Compassion and good heart? This is question all human beings must try to answer: What make true happiness?” He gave this last question a peculiar emphasis and then fell silent, gazing at her with a smile.” - × × ×

Вот приходит какой-нибудь Лев без новопассита ядом плюнуть — ты коммент удалил, и опа, стало лучше. Ты понимаешь, что дело не в комменте, дело в яде, но яд, в общем, Лев, или там силпол, по-прежнему носит с собой, а коммент — это так, от безысходности. Возвращаешь коммент обратно, идёшь дальше, твой мир снова прекрасен. • #львянка - × × ×

"In a paper entitled Skinner As Self-Manager, his colleague Robert Epstein explains Skinner's singular ability to see his own life as one big mass of variables, some of which could be altered by tweaking others. As a child, he kept forgetting to hang up his pyjamas, so he rigged up a system whereby a sign on a string – "Hang up your pyjamas!" – blocked his bedroom doorway. Once he complied, the garments tugged on the string, pulling the sign out of the way. As an adult, he wired his desk lamp to a clock, to record his work hours. "When I was a child and came down to talk to him," his other daughter recalled, he'd "click off the desk light, spin around on his swivel chair and, with a big smile, say, 'Hello! What can I do for you?' When I left, he would turn on the light, starting the clock again." He ripped foam from his chair to reshape it to his bottom, to discourage fidgeting. Epstein writes: "He always spent a few minutes each day… searching for and analysing variables of which his behaviour seemed to be a function." • #схватил_за_мозг и #упрощение_строптивой - × × ×

"The app has been flayed not for its implementation but for its conception, often in the language of the Web, by which I mean the most hyperbolic terms possible. Derision from Cult of Mac. Disapproval from Esquire. The accusation that my goofy project has killed romance as we know it from Elle. Fifteen hundred words of high-minded arm-chair psychology and moral indignation from the Atlantic, including the comparison of the app’s users to — reductio ad absurdum — those who need reminding not to harm animals. And thousands and thousands of excoriating tweets." • #семейное - × × ×

Fuck Yeah! — “When you run Romantimatic the first time, it will ask you to select your sweetheart from among your contacts. From then on, it will remind you to stop what you’re doing every once in a while and send them a nice message. The app comes with a couple dozen pre-written texts, and you can add any number of your own, or compose something new when the reminders arrive. You can vary the frequency of the reminders — anything from twice a day to once a week — and set the days of the week and the hours of the day that the app will be active. It’s as simple as that!” - × × ×

“The Ark is built around the cacti that line the Aljibe, at the heart of the Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca. ¶ Adopting a poetic approach, The Ark gives voice to the garden’s plants, participants in the work, the beating heart of the space and an unpredictable choir. ¶ Telling their story, revealing their fantasised and fantastical character, The Ark is the mise-en-abîme of the trail. A three part audio-visual installation, it unfolds like a movie set in space, in which the wandering spectator plays the role of the camera.” • #рубрика_прекрасное - × × ×

“Petty says the trick is to treat each design challenge as a potential exception to the rule. “The major thing I learned working with Ev is that there is no secret formula to all of this. You read articles everywhere online about strict formulas you should follow about coming up with ideas or proper launches. What I learned is that there’s no one secret answer other than plain old hard work and focus. The trouble with plain old hard work? It takes a lot of motivation.” - × × ×

«Если потенциальные расхитители электроэнергии надеются найти в книге «полезные советы», они должны отдавать себе отчет, что контролирующие структуры информированы в не меньшей степени и, следовательно, вооружены для эффективной борьбы с противоправной деятельностью. ¶ Настоящая книга является переработанным и дополненным изданием выпущенной в 2005 г. книги «101 способ хищения электроэнергии». - × × ×

за три года^W^W пять лет всего один новый способ - кот от котов

кстати, забавно, на литресе дата выхода 2008, в скачанном с либгена DJVU, по обложке и аннотации идентичном данному - 2010 - кот от котов

"Out of 60,334 of these route pairs, Haque says that switching mid-route for 4,666 of them could save at least $1 together. Further, he suggests that companies like Uber and Lyft might one day play the app middlemen and allow riders to swap routes by smartphone if future tickets go digital. This, he writes, might force "monopolistic" public transit systems to become more efficient by eliminating the possibility of route swapping--like by charging a flat rate per trip, as New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority does." - × × ×

Всего четыре простых правила! • #lumosity - × × ×

“Memorize the four questions as you practice”. Вместе с оставшейся частью чёртовой совы! - × × ×

“Twitch Plays Pokémon is a "social experiment" and channel on the video streaming website Twitch, consisting of a crowdsourced attempt to play a hack of Game Freak's and Nintendo's 1996 role-playing video game Pokémon Red, by parsing commands sent by users through the channel's chat room”. • #проигры - #стайность - × × ×

“Our mission is to spread financial literacy. We've stripped away the jargon so that learning how to buy stocks can be simple and fun.” - × × ×

. - Maхx Tee

#проигры - × × ×

Tetris effect! - mindszenty

«Я недавно узнала, что у меня СДВ, начала читать книги об этом и перевела кусок текста из одной из них - для вас. Книга называется Driven to Distraction и рассказывает об СДВГ у взрослых (автор - Edward Hallowell). Прошу заметить: я - НЕ специалист по СДВ, но поскольку информации в русском интернете маловато, я решила, что надо пошевелиться и что-то сделать для других людей, подобных мне. Увы, я не знаю ответов на вопросы, я только начитаю читать по этой теме. Надеюсь, что то, что я перевела, вам поможет». • #дефицит_внимания - #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

"But WhatsApp had quietly launched a different sort of platform tool late last year. It is a simple hook that other companies can include in their own apps to help users share content to WhatsApp. This is just like the Facebook and Twitter buttons that are liberally sprinkled on content sites all over the Web. The difference is, sharing through WhatsApp is essentially private. When users click on the share-to-WhatsApp button, they are presented with a list of their contacts and groups so they can message them directly. Especially when users are on their phones, this may be simpler or easier than emailing, texting or instant messaging an article or a photo. Early testers of the WhatsApp share button included BuzzFeed and Shazam. In fact, BuzzFeed is already seeing more shares to WhatsApp than to Twitter on iOS, the company told Re/code." - × × ×

"The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack, on July 31st, 2013. It had been a little under seven months since development began and was two weeks before the launch of Slack’s ‘Preview Release’. It is presented verbatim, as written (including original pull-quotes), with two exceptions: the removal of an introductory section discussing launch logistics and replacement of a link which pointed to an internal company resource with the equivalent public link." - × × ×

«Мы заходим выпить кофе в ресторан четырехзвездочного отеля «Айвазовский». Представитель «Базэла» расспрашивает о впечатлениях. «У вас отлично получилось построить в России нероссию», — отвечаю я. И в это же самое время слегка взъерошенный постоялец, спустившийся в первом часу дня на завтрак, садится за белый рояль, перебирает клавиши, а затем выводит песню группы «Лесоповал»: «А белый лебедь на пруду качает павшую звезду. На том пруду, куда тебя я приведу. А пока ни кола, ни двора и ни сада, чтобы мог я за ручку тебя привести». Все были немного смущены». - × × ×

“ship it - Display a motivation squirrel” • #slack - × × ×

слак реально хороший, но все же заточенный под команды. для фрилансера-консалтера вроде меня, который вынужден жонглировать командами весь день, он пока не очень удобен и не факт что будет - Michael Bravo