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The Web Ahead

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5 Strategies for Tackling Tough Conversations

Many of us choose avoidance as often as possible. That uncomfortable feeling (in your gut, your hands, in the back of the throat) is a warning sign: tough conversation ahead. In the book Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen, the authors write, “Our anxiety results not just from having to face the other person, but from having to face ourselves.” The Best Time to Buy Anything During the Year.

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The Janki Method Shortens the Time It'll Take You to Learn to Code

(The same is true for people who work in gaming.) If you pick some project thats performs a function or service that you care about that's small. And develop it into a finished product worth using, you will learn almost all you will ever need to know about programming. The process of problem solving while building an app that you are interested in forces you to solve the suite of related problems that make an up an application. And it's the understanding of that totality of problems that makes a good developer. I learned how to code in order to write games.

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The Mind Of Google: Why Larry Page Argues That Thinking About Competition Is Silly

“How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing? That’s why most companies decay slowly over time.” Page’s fascinating interview with Wired is a comprehensive look at why Google spends millions on moonshot innovations, encourages all of its employees to innovate, and how the media may have created a false narrative for the tech industry. Page sums up his approach in this nugget of a rant: “I worry that something has gone seriously wrong with the way we run companies. The "10 Rule" Helps Keep Your Spending In Check. How the hell are people not getting this?

The "10 Rule" Helps Keep Your Spending In Check

It obviously applies primarily to discretionary spending, you morons. OF COURSE keeping yourself alive with food is worth 10 times the price—but you know what? If I had to spend $50 on every meal, I'd be sure every meal freaking ROCKED, completely eliminating fast food from my diet and taking that money instead to the grocery store and buying the best ingredients I could and making my own badass meals instead. And hey surprise suddenly by taking this advice I'm 1) cutting down my restaurant bills and 2) eating healthier food and 3) improving my cooking skills. So I'm saving money, healthier, and bettering myself. Rise of the Chromebook: Lenovo is the latest to challenge Windows laptops. Should the lowly Chromebook — once a laughing stock of the PC world — have Microsoft worried?

Rise of the Chromebook: Lenovo is the latest to challenge Windows laptops

Google first announced its Chrome operating system back in mid-2009, before shipping the first Chromebook laptops with the software preinstalled two years later. At the time the idea of just a web browser for an OS seemed confusing to many, coupled with Google's promise to target netbooks without the necessary functions and features. Nevertheless, Google shipped a developer device in late 2010 and the initial Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung went on sale in June and July in 2011 at $349 and $299 respectively. They weren't huge sellers, but recent models could change that, and a new addition from Lenovo appears to strike at the core of Microsoft's Windows and Office empire even further. Lenovo aside, other Chromebook manufacturers are starting to see success.

Lenovo enters the Chromebook market with the $429 ThinkPad X131e. Lenovo's ThinkPad lineup has been one of the best and best-known series of Windows computers over the last two decades, but it looks like Lenovo's expanding the brand: the company has just released the ThinkPad X131e Chromebook, its first computer powered by Google's web-based Chrome OS.

Lenovo enters the Chromebook market with the $429 ThinkPad X131e

There's already a Windows-powered X131e, and it looks like Lenovo hasn't changed much besides the operating system. The world's premier mobile industry event. CHIN DILDO starring H. Jon Benjamin - Movie Clip. Graduate Academic Policies. ​A.

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How cheaters in Japan thrive with Fujitsu’s ‘infidelity phone’

Japanese men who love to juggle girlfriends or have secret relationships on the side love their Fujitsu F-Series phones, and it’s due to one specific feature — a privacy option that can make your secret communications near-invisible to the untrained eye. It hides texts, calls and voicemails from numbers that are designated as private, so anybody snooping around your phone would have no idea. Japanese blogger Bakanabe tells The Wall Street Journal: “Women may want to check my phone for strange emails or calls when I’m not around. Lena Dunham says she's skinny for Detroit. Lena Dunham arrives at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday Jan. 13, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Lena Dunham says she's skinny for Detroit

(Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) DETROIT, MI - It-"girl" of the moment Lena Dunham took a swipe at Detroit on Thursday during a call-in to the Howard Stern Show. Dunham and the radio show host had a minor running feud over Stern calling her a "little fat chick" during a rave review of her HBO show, "Girls. " Valley mom questions dental procedure. PHOENIX -- A Valley mom took her daughter in for some routine dental work, but the mom said there was nothing routine about the procedure. At first, Alecia White thought a mistake had been made so she tried to get some answers. When White didn't, she contacted 3 On Your Side. Mother dismayed when 4-year-old goes to dentist for routine procedure, kid comes back with every single tooth, top and bottom, capped with stainless-steel crowns. : offbeat.

Cops Kick Driver 5 Times - suffering from diabetic shock. The chains you see under school buses are part of a system call Onspot and are used for traction control activated with the push of a button. Ever wonder what the chains under school buses are for? : videos. Cop kicks man 5 times in the head thinking he was drunk (like that's alright). Turns out he was in diabetic shock. : videos.

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