Address Bar Commands in Google Chrome

Here are some useful address bar commands in Google Chrome:

chrome://plugins - Here you can enable/disable flash, java etc
chrome://extensions - All your installed extensions
chrome://history - Your browsing log
chrome://bookmarks – Your bookmark manager. Easier to sort things here...
chrome://version – Display version of chrome, webkit etc.
chrome://memory – Detailed memory consumption used by tabs and extensions.
chrome://cache – All stuff that is cached
chrome://dns – Overview over connected dns
chrome://settings – Your setting page

Why Programmers Work At Night

I think this describes my work habits:

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-programmers-work-at-night-2013-1

Trustworthy-Looking Face Meets Brown Eyes

This study is interesting to me because I have blue eyes:

We tested whether eye color influences perception of trustworthiness. Facial photographs of 40 female and 40 male students were rated for perceived trustworthiness. Eye color had a significant effect, the brown-eyed faces being perceived as more trustworthy than the blue-eyed ones. Geometric morphometrics, however, revealed significant correlations between eye color and face shape. Thus, face shape likewise had a significant effect on perceived trustworthiness but only for male faces, the effect for female faces not being significant. To determine whether perception of trustworthiness was being influenced primarily by eye color or by face shape, we recolored the eyes on the same male facial photos and repeated the test procedure. Eye color now had no effect on perceived trustworthiness. We concluded that although the brown-eyed faces were perceived as more trustworthy than the blue-eyed ones, it was not brown eye color per se that caused the stronger perception of trustworthiness but rather the facial features associated with brown eyes

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0053285

A Solution to the Debt Crisis

This cool math problem illustrates why government spending can actually reduce the debt. It is a good model for why when taxes and government spending go up, unemployment and debt goes down.

A tourist stops at a small hotel, puts a $100 bill on the counter, and goes to inspect a room.
The owner takes the bill and rushes off to pay the butcher, to whom he owes $100.
The butcher races to his wholesaler and pays off his own $100 debt.
The wholesaler hurries to the farmer and gives him $100 for the pigs he bought.
The farmer hands over $100 to the party planner who set up his bachelor bash.
The party planner heads to the hotel to pay the $100 she owes for the party room and lays the bill on the counter.
At that point, the tourist returns to the front desk, says that the room is unsatisfactory, picks up the $100, and departs. The tourist has his money back, and everyone else is $100 ahead by reducing his or her debt by that amount.

Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

Ok, not me but this guy:

http://www.emptyage.com/post/28679875595/yes-i-was-hacked-hard

Abandoning Algebra

Andrew Hacker is a bad person:

In an opinion piece for the New York Times on Sunday, political science professor Andrew Hacker asks, “Is Algebra Necessary?” and answers, “No.” It’s not just algebra: geometry and calculus are on the chopping block, too. It’s not that he doesn’t think math is important; he wants the traditional sequence to be replaced by a general “quantitative skills” class, and perhaps some statistics.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/30/abandoning-algebra-is-not-the-answer/

Productivity vs. Guilt and Self-Loathing

The not getting stuff done sucks, but the guilt and self-loathing is where you really get into trouble. You likely don't say it out loud, but you think it. You might not tell your spouse, but you think it. I suck. Man, I suck. I'm just not getting a damn thing done.


http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ProductivityVsGuiltAndSelfLoathing.aspx