Excerpt from Secrets Of America’s Happiest Companies. Happy employees don’t stay in one role for too long. Movement and the perception of improvement create satisfaction. Status quo, on the other hand, creates burnout. There is a strong correlation between happiness and meaning; having a meaningful impact on the world around you is actually a better predictor of happiness than many other things you think will make you happy. A workplace is far likelier to be a happy place when policies are in place to ensure that people regularly get acknowledgement and praise for a job well done. ...

My macbook pro has been slow on waking up. I noticed because it sometimes “hibernated” (borrowed from window). After a little googling I found out that the time-to-hibernate time on my system was only 70 mins. So if I close my lid for longer than 70 mins, the deep sleep will occur. To verify, issue the following command on a terminal. pmset -g You will see something like the following ...

Just learned this trick from here. If you want to quickly get a text editor on any system, just type data:text/html, in your browser’s url bar. Click the following link to get a bare text editor in your browser, and start typing! ;) Open a text editor document.getElementById(‘my_text_editor_link’).href = ‘data:text/html, ‘; It’s pretty much like a rich-text editor, with the usual copy&paste. And in the end, you can even save the file as an html file. ...

This happened to me last night. All of a sudden I lost internet connection. After checking everything possible on my laptop, I moved onto checking up on my router. And after checking everything on my dd-wrt, I ran out of things to check. Then I realized maybe comcast was down. I then quickly grabbed my phone (thanks to 4G) and checked, sure enough it was comcast. Here is the page to check for your comcast status. You will need to login using your comcast user/pass. ...

Now that I have used both, my feeling is mixed. I recommend to watch these two videos so you will have a good idea what are the major differences between the iphone5 and the S3. It’s true that some of those reasons illustrated in the videos may not concern you, but I bet you will find a few features that are directly related to how you use your smart phone. Have an open mind and enjoy the show! ;) ...

I found this method with my osx and gmail. Keep reading if this applies to you. 1. Sync all your contacts from your iphone to osx’s Contact. You can do so by using iTunes or iCloud. 2. Export your contacts to vCards. Open up your Contacts application on osx, then scroll and make sure you got all your contacts. Then do a select-all, then file->export->export vCard. This vCard file will contain all your contacts. 3. Import to your gmail. Now log into your gmail account. Then click on the Gmail dropdown on the top left hand corner to get to Contacts. Then click on “More”, then “import”. Then you should have all your contacts there after importing. 4. Clean up. Now you may end up with lots of duplicates. Now click on “More”, then “find and merge duplicates”. This will help you merge most of the duplicates. 5. Now, go to your android phone and sync with your google account. You will then see your contact list there. ...

[youtube &w=640&h=360] It’s interesting to see different kinds of ideas we are subconsciously picking up from movies we watch.

Sometimes you have a few series in your chart and you want to turn off some of them, maybe because they are too big thus skewing the rest of the data. See below for example, the green bar is just too long compared to the other two. We know that mouse-clicking on a legend item can turn series on and off. Here after clicking on the green legend item, we see: ...

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee… His first memory is an execution. He walked with his mother to a wheat field, where guards had rounded up several thousand prisoners. The boy crawled between legs to the front row, where he saw guards tying a man to a wooden pole. ...

Postgres’ sequence is similar to MySQL’s auto increment IDs. Once in a while, you may get this error: duplicate key value violates unique constraint “your_primary_key” Basically, that means postgres is trying to insert a new record to a table, but fails because there is already a row having the same new ID. But how can that be? You may ask. Chances are that your insert statement doesn’t even have the auto-increment ID! ...