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Kahneman and Tversky, the guys who first really began to probe human cognitive errors, found in their research that there was a systematic human tendency to either under or overestimate the expected value of a reward that varied as a function of time. I'll give you an example. Do you want a dollar today, or 10 dollars in a year? Most people will say a dollar today. How about a dollar today, or 10 dollars in a week? I would take 10 dollars in a week. But does this make sense? I mean, in the first case, I make 9 dollars fewer. Yet, in the second example, I suddenly flip my preference. It turns out that human motivation is heavily influenced by expectations of how imminent the reward is perceived to be. People overestimate the value of the reward if the reward is imminent, and increasingly discount the value of the reward, the further away it is in time. In other words, your perceived utility of an outcome increases with temporal proximity.

So playing skyrim now is more valuable than an A on your paper until te

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/*
 * Infix evaluator in C++.
 * Haldun Bayhantopcu <hb@haldun.me> 10976008
 *
 * Usage: echo <expr> | ./infixeval
 * Example: echo "((8+9)*(4-6)^4)" | ./infixeval
 * Output: 272
 */
#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>

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Rails.application.assets.logger = Logger.new('/dev/null')
Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do
  def before_dispatch_with_quiet_assets(env)
    before_dispatch_without_quiet_assets(env) unless env['PATH_INFO'].index("/assets/") == 0
  end
  alias_method_chain :before_dispatch, :quiet_assets
end

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defaults write com.macromates.TextMate OakLineHeightDelta 2

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text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."

split_text = (text, max_line_size=30) ->
  sum = (arr) ->
    total = 0
    for el in arr
      total += el
    total

  words = text.split(' ')

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var split_text;
split_text = function(text, max_line_size) {
  var current_line, current_line_length, lines, sum, w, word, words, _i, _len;
  if (max_line_size == null) {
    max_line_size = 30;
  }
  sum = function(arr) {
    var el, total, _i, _len;
    total = 0;
    for (_i = 0, _len = arr.length; _i < _len; _i++) {

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import optparse
import os
import sys

import pgmagick

def main():
  parser = optparse.OptionParser()
  parser.add_option('-i', action='store', dest='input')
  parser.add_option('-o', action='store', dest='output')

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require 'RMagick'

input = 'presentation.pdf'
image_list = Magick::ImageList.new
image_list.read(input)
image_list.write('jpeg:/tmp/test_%d.jpg')

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require 'prawn'
PrawnSplitWord = Class.new(StandardError)

module Prawn
  module Core
    module Text
      module Formatted #:nodoc:
        class LineWrap #:nodoc:
          def wrap_by_char(segment)
            raise PrawnSplitWord

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Here's the command to make your laptop behave like it did Pre-Lion (courtesy of my friend):
 
sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"
 
Works perfectly for me. If it screws up your system, just zap the PRAM next boot (cmd-opt-p-r) and you'll be back to the default Lion state. Or if you can still get into terminal, this command will get you back to Lion's default state as well:
 
sudo nvram -d boot-args
 
Enjoy!