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Being mindful about the nature of aggressive, intimidating, and controlling people can help us de-personalize the situation, and turn from being reactive to proactive. One effective way to de-personalize is to put yourself in the other person’s shoes, even for just a moment. For example, consider the offender you’re dealing with, and complete the sentence: “It must not be easy…” “My friend is so aggressive. It must not be easy to come from an environment where everyone was forced to compete…” “My manager is really overbearing. It must not be easy to have such high expectations placed on her performance by senior executives…” “My partner is so controlling. It must not be easy to have grown up in a family where he was told how to think and act in every way…” (How to Successfully Handle Aggressive and Controlling People | Psychology Today)

Install Titanium Backup, get a backup of the Memo program, extract the files (Memo.db is the one you want) and use something like SQLite Database Browser to view/export your data. Source » (Note: you need root access)

Let’s say you download a movie from the Internet, and in that folder, you have two files: filename.avi and filename.srt. Let’s say for download you’ve used a program which doesn’t allow you to rename files. If you download another subtitle from the Internet, whenever you play the movie, the filename.srt has priority. How to automatically open the subtitle, without deleting the original subtitle, and without copying the movie in a new location? Simple – rename you new .srt file into filename.sub. BSPlayer will give that new subtitle a higher priority, even if the format of the file is .srt.

Imagine this: you go to the seaside, you’re a bit hot from the Sun, while the water is a bit cold. How to enter? After some practice, I found out that the best solution for this is to first enter the water quickly, close to the shore, lower yourself into the water so that you are fully wet, and go outside. Stay in the sun & wind for a while, and you’ll feel very cold. Stay like this for a minute or two. Go back to the sea. Now you will not feel the sea as cold as before.  

A few tips on taking photos at an event: Use the camera / smartphone from a high position. Try to raise your arms in the sky and photograph the audience like this. The most important take – the one which shows the number of participants plus the speaker. Another important shot is with zoom on the speaker, a close one. I use ex-Google’s Picasa for editing the photos. For promotional purposes, the most important task is tagging persons in the photos. When you add description to an album, add the link to your web site, so people can get easily from the photo to your web site. On Facebook, tag the location. People want speed – do live photos and a quick follow-up. It’s not much help if you put the photos 3 weeks later from the event. It’s fine to use live a wifi card, or photos from the smartphone.

Let’s say you have a folder with files, and you want to save the full list of files in a text file. The solution is to open Command Prompt (Win + R, cmd, enter), and type this: dir /s /O:GNE >output.txt This will result in the full contents of „Olivian Breda” folder being listed in the file „output.txt”, which is created if it doesn’t exist, and overwritten in case it already exists. Do you want just the current folder, not the subfolders? Just remove „/s”. dir /O:GNE >output.txt Do you want the listing to be displayed on the screen, as opposed to in a file? Remove „>output.txt”. dir /s /O:GNE Cheers!

Fractals of Change: Why a Great Programmer is Worth Fifty Good Ones: If you’ve ever had a superstar working for you, you’re probably used to leaving him or her behind in the office when you go home – if you’re the CEO of a startup you don’t go home that early – and finding him or her in the office when you arrive.  If it’s a him, the stubble’s a giveaway; women cover up a little better.  A superstar prefers to work in at least twenty-four if not forty-eight or even seventy-two hour spurts. Again, it’s the interfaces: it’s very expensive to put something down, go home, sleep, wake-up, and then recover all the loose ends. The first half of writing a program creates almost all loose ends; the second half is tying them back up.  Like surgery. If a programmer has the skill and physical stamina for marathon gulps of creativity, then there are many fewer times when the non-productive work of putting stuff away neatly (mentally) and picking it up again has to happen.  For similar reasons, one-person debugging is best done when you can crawl inside the code and stay there until you’re done. Now, unfortunately, this kind of endurance is a young person’s game.