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Hack your life

Did you ever think it would be great to have a tool, just like the ones on your computer, to squeeze the little extra performance out of your life, to clean the registry, or even fiddle with the setup?
Well, that don't exist, friend. But at www.lifehacker.com, you get the tips 'n tricks, the how-to's and walkthroughs you need to do just that. Hack your life.
My recommendation: put it straight in your feed reader, and you will get a hack a day (or so).

On an almost completely unrelated sidenote, and just because I didn't know where else to put it, if you just thought "well, what's a hacker anyway?", the "How to become a hacker" guide on Eric S. Raymonds website tells you just that. BTW: Although I disagree with the author in many ways not regarding these documents, I do like these documents.

As we know now what a hacker is, the following tells you how to ask favours from them:
For many people, Internet, technics an' all that is a bit much. That's ok, everyone has majors and minors. There are people out there who can help you. Sometimes they are called hackers, sometimes customer service representitives, sometimes "John_Doe73", when you happen to look in a forum. Whatever you call them, they all pretty much work with the same rules: be polite, be informed, be helped. Rules of communication needed to be Helpdesks/hackers favourite darling shows How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.
And please note: RTFM has many faces.


Talking about smart questions, here is another interesting link explaining why programmers should best be lazy and dumb.

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